If you didn’t know any better, you’d think Akainu had eaten a Logia-type Magma Fruit, but honestly, you might as well believe he’d eaten a Mythical Beast-type Devil Fruit.
I mean, hell, I almost thought it wasn’t Akainu fighting Whitebeard, but Kaido instead.
And in the manga, it seems like it’s the opposite—it’s not Akainu sneak-attacking Whitebeard, but Whitebeard sneaking up on Akainu.
I don’t even know what to say anymore.
Just an Ordinary Group Owner: “The anime is still okay. Dad pulled off a smooth combo, and all Akainu did was bleed without any real damage. But in the manga, Akainu’s the one showing off—he jumps up to hit Dad’s head, but then Dad punches him in the waist.”
Just an Ordinary Group Owner: “And some people say that Dad is the strongest of the previous era, while Akainu is the strongest of this era.”
Just an Ordinary Group Owner: “I mean, seriously!”
Just an Ordinary Group Owner: “Kaido, Big Mom, Garp, and Sengoku are from the previous era, but isn’t Shanks from this era too?”
Just an Ordinary Group Owner: “Is Akainu even a match for Shanks? Could he beat Shanks to death?”
Whitebeard was Su Yunqing’s idol now. Setting aside everything else, just that Angel-form Devil Fruit alone made her want to call him her adoptive father.
There’s no way she’d let that bastard Akainu taint her dad.
Child of Nature: “This argument isn’t even necessary anymore.”
Child of Nature: “From now on, the strongest of this era is named Monkey D. Luffy.”
Just an Ordinary Group Owner: “Does your world even have One Piece? Oh right, your world does have One Piece.”
Just an Ordinary Group Owner: “So? So? Has Luffy become the Pirate King yet?”
Su Yunqing suddenly got excited upon hearing Bai Xuan’s words and immediately asked.
Naruto and Luffy were both part of her childhood.
Now Naruto had already become Hokage and even had kids.
All that was left was for Luffy to become the king.
As for Bai Xuan saying that the strongest of this era was Monkey D. Luffy, she thought that was perfectly normal. After all, he was the protagonist. If Luffy wasn’t the strongest, then who would be?
Akainu?
Child of Nature: “Not yet.”
Child of Nature: “I haven’t read it myself. I just heard it from others.”
Child of Nature: “Apparently, Luffy was beaten by Kaido and awakened. But it wasn’t the Gum-Gum Fruit awakening—it was the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Beast · Nika Form.”
Child of Nature: “He has four abilities: rubber, lightning, fire, and smoke. There might be more, but I don’t know.”
Uchiha Dance King: “???”
Just an Ordinary Group Owner: “???”
The Worst Evil Spirit: “???”
Boil Daigo into Soup: “???”
Undefeated of the East: “???”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “What the hell? Nika? What is that?”
Just an Ordinary Group Owner: “So, after all this time shouting ‘Gomu Gomu,’ it should’ve been ‘Nika Nika’?”
Just an Ordinary Group Owner: “I thought the rubber ability was just something the author made up for fun. How did it turn into Nika? Facepalm.jpg”
Just an Ordinary Group Owner: “Wow, so of all the Human-Human Fruits, only Chopper got the plain flavor.”
Just an Ordinary Group Owner: “I used to naively think Zoro could beat Luffy. Now I realize I was just dreaming.”
Su Yunqing couldn’t help but cover her face. She never expected that Luffy’s fruit had completely changed in type.
Didn’t people used to say that there were no bad Devil Fruits, only bad users?
She always thought Luffy would rely on his rubber abilities to defeat his enemies.
Would Enel on the moon be angry about this?
After that, the chat group started getting noisy again. One by one, they pestered Whitebeard with questions about the Nika Fruit.
Bai Xuan, meanwhile, ate the python dish while watching their chats, and he also munched on a rabbit head.
From time to time, he checked online for information.
If it hadn’t been for the morning’s news about the Nika Fruit, he probably wouldn’t have gone online on his own.
Back in the day, that would’ve been impossible. Almost every modern person finds it hard to leave their phone. But after awakening his abilities and getting the chat group, he suddenly lost all interest in novels, games, and anime.
Aside from making phone calls, he rarely picked up his phone anymore.
After that, Bai Xuan’s life was pretty fulfilling.
Apart from necessary physical training and hardening his Busoshoku Haki, he would head to some mountains to gather ingredients when his food ran out.
And then he would experiment with developing [Nature’s Authority] to create even more interesting abilities.
As for the tasks he needed to complete as a member of the Spiritual Energy Bureau?
He was the exception.
Unless it was an extremely important mission or one where he absolutely had to be deployed, no one bothered him with anything else.
“Phew…”
Bai Xuan took a deep breath and walked out of the hot spring. He wasn’t wearing anything on his upper body, just a pair of shorts.
Water droplets trickled down his muscles, making your gaze unconsciously linger on his strong physique.
The perfect curves of his muscles made it easy to see the explosive power hidden within his body.
The only pity was that his skin was far too fair.
If possible, Bai Xuan would have preferred a bronze complexion.
But with his current physical condition, he could sunbathe until he died and not get even a shade darker.
He raised his right hand, and with a gesture, the water on his body flew to the side, leaving his skin completely dry.
Lying down on the sofa, Bai Xuan turned on the TV and flipped through channels casually. Then, as if he saw something interesting, he furrowed his brows slightly and put down the remote.
“A certain village in the North Sea has been hit by a rat tide. Several espers tried to fight it off but didn’t last long.”
“During the defense against the rat tide, multiple casualties were reported.”
“According to sources, the authorities have quarantined the area and dispatched professionals to handle the situation.”
If it were just that, Bai Xuan wouldn’t have been alarmed. What surprised him was seeing Fire Plume in the footage.
As terrifying as a rat tide might be, it wasn’t something that couldn’t be dealt with—especially since technology was still effective. If Fire Plume was involved, an ordinary rat tide like this should have been resolved quickly without needing more people.
But why were there so many people in military uniforms in the video?
“Training the espers in the military district by using the rat tide as a reference, in preparation for possible beast tides of mutated beasts in the future?”
That was certainly possible.
Because China’s top-tier espers are limited. There won’t be many with talents like Fire Plume or Qin Tian. They will be the country’s top combatants in the future, and they will have to deal with the most powerful mutated creatures.
What about the other mutated creatures? Naturally, others will have to handle them.
Even though there’s an anomaly like Bai Xuan, they can’t rely on him too much.
Not to mention whether Bai Xuan would even be willing to be assigned to deal with all the beast tides formed by mutated beasts—they themselves wouldn’t make that decision.
What if it annoyed Bai Xuan?
Who would take responsibility?
Bai Xuan’s status is like that of a nuclear bomb. He wouldn’t be deployed unless absolutely necessary.
And just because you have a nuclear bomb, does that mean you stop developing other weapons? Do you stop optimizing them?
No, you don’t.
Because they know that the nuclear bomb is their trump card—one that can’t be easily used unless there’s no other choice.
