One Piece: Nobody knows Devil Fruits better than me.

Chapter 113 The Essence-Essence Fruit, Luffy Sets Sail Ahead of Schedule!?
after one day.

Naval Headquarters, Marinevandor.

Inside the castle tower, in an office.

This office, which symbolized the commander of the detention forces and formerly belonged to Lieutenant General Bilos, now has a new owner.

The afterglow of the military exercises had not yet faded, and almost everyone who passed by this office would cast admiring and respectful glances at it.

This is the office of Lieutenant General Roy Amos, the newly appointed general candidate who recently shook the seas.

But few people know what's happening in the office right now.

"Hey hey hey"

Lieutenant General Roy, with an iced cola and a steaming pizza in front of him, was smiling without a trace of heroism.

His happiness wasn't just because it was a lovely afternoon tea time.

The more crucial reason is...
"Nearly 400 billion Berries in cash flow, two Devil Fruits, and the future operating rights to the entire Piecero Company and the assassin industry."

Just thinking about that number warms his heart.

Yes.

The gains from this action by the Dog and the Rat were considerable.

The cash alone—the treasures of Hanafuda, Cracker, and Pierre Crocker—totaled nearly 400 billion peats.

Aside from that, Roy's greatest gain was Piecrow's power as the emperor of the underworld.

A vast network of illegal intelligence-gathering channels, the 'Pierrero Corporation' which is involved in almost all of the drug trade in the underworld, resources from the assassin industry—including commissions for assigning missions to assassins and the assassins they train, plus numerous islands controlled by the powerful Funeral Parlor.

These channels alone can bring him an additional profit of at least 200 billion pegories every year.

It can be said that the money and the hidden benefits alone are enough to justify the huge amount of wealth he has invested this time.

In addition, he also discovered two Devil Fruits in Piekro's treasure vault.

Roy wasn't surprised by this.

Most of the Devil Fruits collected by Hanafuda were given to Kaido, and Cracker also handed over most of the Devil Fruits he obtained to Big Mom; the probability of him keeping them for himself was very low.

It's not surprising that Piekro, as the king of assassins, would have one or two.

Of these two fruits, one is the Monkey-Monkey Fruit - Golden Monkey Form, which is just an ordinary Zoan-type fruit.

But the other fruit had a rather good effect.

[Paramecia-type Devil Fruit - Slim-Slim Fruit]

[Analyzed, current level LV3]

[Fruit Effect: Can extract life force and essence from another person]

[LV3: All fruit effects have been acquired. It can extract and store the life essence of creatures with their consent. The extracted life essence is 'gold'. The creature whose life essence is extracted will become weak. Excessive extraction or repeated extraction in a short period of time will lead to death.]

[Life essence can be replenished to oneself; after being absorbed, it can rapidly restore physical strength, heal injuries, and greatly enhance combat power.]

[LV4: Fruit Deep Development, which allows you to create 'Essence Balls' from life essence and give them to other creatures. Requires 13 billion Berries to permanently unlock]

[LV5: Fruit Awakening - Essence Domain, can forcibly extract life essence from all living beings within a 500-meter radius. The extracted life essence is blue in color, and its effect is weaker. The stronger the target, the more difficult it is to extract. It requires 6 billion Berries to unlock.]

That's right, this is a rare support-type fruit. It has excellent abilities to accelerate the recovery of stamina and vitality, as well as enhance combat power. The only problem is that the requirements for using it are quite difficult.

The best effect is achieved when the other party voluntarily offers up their life essence.

"We can think of a way to cooperate later, okay?"

But just as Roy was pondering this, he seemed to hear something and looked towards the door.

next moment.
"boom."

The office door was pushed open, and Hans swaggered in.

"Boss! We're here!"

"Look at my new military insignia!"

His voice was loud and clear, and the 'warrant officer' badge on his chest gleamed brightly, making him look every bit the master of the place.

Mr. Roy, the true master of this place: "."

That's right.

With Roy's promotion to general candidate, he naturally gained the authority to promote his subordinates.

Hans and Far, who were his direct subordinates, had already improved their strength considerably after consuming Devil Fruits, so Roy directly promoted them to lieutenant rank.

But now Roy regrets it; how could he have been so foolish as to appoint this guy when he was being promoted?

Incidentally, at that time, Roy even went to ask Smoker, "Want to come and be my son, cough cough, subordinate?"

That very night, Smoker hurriedly left headquarters with his subordinates and headed to Loguetown to take up his new post.

"What are you doing here?" Although he was muttering to himself, Roy quickly put the last piece of pizza into his mouth, while also protecting his cola.

"We have a task, and we need your approval for a document."

Hans chuckled.

"Warrant Officer Hans, I must solemnly remind you—I am the commander! Not your approval machine. By the way, what mission? I don't know anything about it?"

Roy frowned, suspecting that he had been sidelined as soon as he took office.

"It's a detention mission in the East China Sea—we're going to Bros Island in the East China Sea to detain a criminal."

Hans naturally explained honestly, "As for why you don't know, boss, it's because I just happened to run into Brigadier General Bogart, and he casually mentioned it to me and asked me to pass it on."

"Bogart? Lieutenant General Karp's adjutant?"

Upon hearing this, Roy was even more confused: "What does the detention mission have to do with him?"

Hans sighed, looking as if to say, 'What will the detention center do without me?' 'Boss, you don't understand.'

"Can you two look at me while you're talking? I'm still here!"

At that moment, Far, who was holding a large stack of documents behind him, finally couldn't hold back any longer.

"Boss, it seems that Vice Admiral Garp's grandson has secretly gone to sea, so Vice Admiral Garp has to go back to the East China Sea to check the situation. Unfortunately, his ship is not repaired yet, so he has to hitch a ride with us and then take another ship back."

"Besides that, there's the 'Bros Island' mission that we're going to carry out."

He quickly finished explaining the situation, then hurriedly placed the large stack of intelligence reports on Roy's desk: "And this, these are all the intelligence reports you obtained from the government before, boss. Whew, I'm exhausted."

His few words left Roy almost speechless.

"Vice Admiral Garp's grandson? He's at sea?"

He said in disbelief.

"Correct!"

Far nodded, then after thinking for a moment, he whispered, "I heard that Vice Admiral Garp wanted to bring him to watch the military exercises for some reason—but his grandson didn't want to join the navy, so he went to sea on his own."

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Upon hearing this, Roy immediately understood.

He remembered it clearly—Garp did indeed return to Windmill Village before the military exercises, intending to bring Luffy along to train with him.

But it's easy to imagine that, given Nikan's personality of being "oblivious to everything else and focused solely on becoming the Pirate King," it would be a miracle if he were willing to do so.

It is said that the two had a big argument because of this, which ended with Garp punching his beloved grandson into the depths of the mountains.

And now the situation seems...
"Because of me, Luffy set sail two years earlier than expected?"

Roy felt it was absurd, yet it also seemed to make sense.

But before he could think about it further, he heard Hans's voice again: "By the way, boss—Fal and I discussed it and decided that you shouldn't come with us on this mission."

".ha?"

Upon hearing this, Roy's expression turned dangerous again.

What do you mean? You don't want to be on the same boat with him anymore, right?

But before Roy could even get ready to fight Hans, Far explained in time, "This time we're only going to detain a few small-time pirates, and Vice Admiral Garp will be with us on the way. Hans and I think that with your current status, it's really unnecessary for you to carry out this kind of mission."

"Why don't we take the Black Loyalty? It'll also give the other brothers some training."

As he said this, he smiled at Roy.

"After all, we are your subordinates, boss. We can't keep hiding behind you all the time."

Upon hearing this, Luo Yi was also taken aback.

Then, he fell silent.

Because he could sense that Far and Hans were serious at that moment.

They genuinely wanted to become stronger and didn't want to continue being a burden to Roy.

And what they said did make sense – it was really unreasonable to send the infamous 'Black Xie' to detain a few small-time pirates from the East Blue.

I'm a person of status now.JPG

so.
"Bring me the mission report, and I'll issue you a written approval."

He held out his hand: "And—be careful when you're sailing. If you break any of the Coke in the warehouse, don't think I'll let you off the hook."

Upon hearing this, Hans and Far grinned and said, "Don't worry, boss!"

They could all understand the meaning behind Roy's words.

"We won't let you lose face!"

(End of this chapter)