One Piece: Nobody knows Devil Fruits better than me.

Chapter 91 Military Drills: Life and Death Matter!
"boom!"

As Lieutenant General Hammer's body collapsed to the ground, Roy's figure slowly landed.

Looking at the huge, spreading crater on the ground and the broken trees all around, he nodded silently and continued walking deeper into the forest.

"The power is good, but it's still not entirely accurate."

As he walked, his brow furrowed slightly: "Where did I go wrong?"

As he murmured to himself, the scene he had just witnessed was still playing in his mind.

That was a scene from not long ago when Lieutenant General Hammer used the 'Elbaf Spear'.

At this moment, Roy could vividly recall every detail of when Lieutenant General Hammer unleashed that strike.

Changes in muscles, body movements, bulging veins, and even the reddening of the skin caused by accelerated blood flow—these details are almost invisible in ordinary humans, but are clearly visible in giants.

Of course, it's impossible for an ordinary person to remember all these details.

However, Roy could do it at this moment.

[Human-Human Fruit LV5 - Grants the mental capacity of an ordinary human to its limit]

"I never imagined that the Human-Human Fruit could be used in this way."

He muttered to himself, feeling that his previous judgment of the fruit had been a bit too arbitrary.

"Unfortunately, Lieutenant General Hammer only used it once. I need to find someone else to practice with."

But just as Roy was thinking to himself...

The countdown timer above my head kept ticking away.

[The Devil Fruit user 'Sora' has been discovered]

[The Devil Fruit has been confirmed as the 'Paramecia-type Reverse Fruit', and is currently being analyzed and stored in the 'Devil Fruit Encyclopedia'.]

[Fruit Ability - Can reverse the properties of physical objects; ineffective against living beings; the reversal itself cannot cause damage]

[Effects at Each Level]

[LV3: Gain all fruit effects, can reverse the properties and mechanisms of physical entities, turning liquids into solids and solids into liquids. Requires 5 million Berries to unlock]

[LV4: Fruit Deep Development, the concept of reversal is broader, even the taste of food and the properties of medicine can be reversed, requires 15 billion to permanently unlock]

[LV5: Fruit Awakening - Reverse Corridor, the ability affects the surrounding environment, allowing free control of objects in the surrounding environment to reverse, requires 80 billion to permanently unlock]

[Analysis progress: 0%]

"Ok?"

The voice from the Fruit Encyclopedia immediately perked Roy up.

He immediately changed his fruit to the 'Five Senses Enhancement' series, and then instantly captured the sounds around him.

"over there!"

He leaped forward and instantly headed towards the direction from which the sound came.

And just as the progress of the analysis in the Fruit Encyclopedia finally began to change, Roy indeed saw two people.

There was clearly a fierce battle going on around them; traces of the battle were everywhere.

However, at this moment, the outcome of the battle was clearly decided.

"Heh heh. He really is a good-for-nothing."

At this moment, in the center of the battlefield...

A sky islander with bandages wrapped around his body and wings on his back had fallen to the ground.

He is 'White Wing Knight' Hasmode.

The ground around him had turned into a muddy swamp, trapping his body tightly.

Beside him, the spear he relied on for battle had turned into a blob of blue liquid.

Before him, the long-tongued, gloomy man uttered a chilling mockery.

"What White Wing Knight? Just trash from a non-human race."

"How dare you, trash like you, appear before me, the great guardian of the Celestial Dragons—it disgusts me."

He spat, his words laced with pride.

Yes—he is Sora, the vice-commander of the Holy Land Guard, the 'shield' protecting the Celestial Dragons.

He is the most loyal supporter of the Celestial Dragons, therefore, he despises all other races.

"I've heard that your Space Guard has a lot of trash like you, which is why you're helpless when attacked, right?"

He scoffed.

Having said that, he continued with his sharp tongue: "Oh, it's not just you people who live in the Holy Land, everyone else is the same."

"The navy and the national guards are all trash. Not long ago, those twelve constellations stole the Heavenly Gold, which angered the great world nobles!"

In just a few words, he revealed the origin of his nickname.

"We are not."

At this moment, Hasmode struggled to speak.

Immediately afterwards, Sora stepped on his face.

"what!?"

Sora scoffed, "How could it not be? The guy who attacked you was also a Sky Islander, wasn't he? And..." He sneered and waved his hand, and the mud on the ground instantly turned into sharp blades, tearing off Hasmode's bandages and revealing the still-grotesque scars on his body, even after three years.

Those were tree-like red spots and scorch marks, almost covering his entire body.

Roy, standing nearby, immediately recognized it—it was a 'lightning strike injury'.

then
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Roy frowned, a certain guess forming in his mind.

at the same time
"Look at you—I heard that over 500 of your entire Space Guard died that day? In the end, it took a big shot from Mary Geoise to personally deal with that intruder for you."

As Sora finished speaking, Hasmode let out a low growl.

"Shut up!"

He glared angrily, his mind replaying the nightmare from three years ago.

The thunder that fell from the sky, the figure that sneered, and the fallen comrades.

But the most crucial thing is
"After making so many sacrifices, we had already caught him!"

"But the guys from Mary Geoise just took him away without a second thought, along with the guards who interrogated him and the case files, and they never came back. Bastards! Bastards!"

he growled.

They finally caught the other party and even interrogated him before they were about to execute him.

But the other party took away all the people who knew about the case and the files, so much so that he still doesn't know the other party's name!
He asked the commander of the Space Guard, but the commander did not tell him anything.

It was as if the brothers who died in that battle had never existed, as if the humiliation they, the Sky Islanders and the Sky Guard, had suffered over the past three years because of this was only natural.

"I came to participate in the military exercises to wash away this shame!"

He shouted like that.

But the next moment...
"You piece of trash!"

With a low growl from Sora, the sharp spikes pierced Hasmode's body in an instant, causing the latter to let out a muffled groan.

“That lord of Mary Geoise is someone even I am not qualified to meet. How dare you, a stray dog, call him ‘that guy’?”

Sora's teeth were clenched so tightly they clicked.

But then he sneered, "It's alright—the three-army military exercise is a matter of life and death. Don't think you can die easily just because you said such a thing."

But just as he was about to continue torturing Hasmode,
"What a coincidence."

He heard the sound.

"who!?"

He turned his head instinctively.

Just then, Roy emerged from the woods not far away.

"Loy Amos!?"

As a fellow contestant, Sora naturally recognized Roy at a glance, and her expression changed drastically.

Clearly, after the first and second rounds of assessments, most of the participants were wary of Roy's strength.

Sora was one of them.

so.
"What are you doing here?"

He tried to calm himself down: "I don't mean to be your enemy—the rule of this test is to pass three hours, so there's no point in us fighting."

He said so.

"Your 'evil tongue' doesn't sound so evil."

But after hearing this, Roy just grinned and continued walking towards Sora.

"You're right, that's how the assessment rules are, but there's nothing we can do about it—it's all just a coincidence."

Sora, of course, didn't understand what Roy meant: "What did you say? What coincidence?"

What has this guy been saying since just now?
But the next moment, he found out.

Because at this moment
"Coincidence means..."

"First of all, I happen to have a question I'd like to ask this Lord Hasmode."

Roy's hand was already raised to body level: "Secondly, I just happen to want to find something to practice my boxing."

"And you just happened to appear in front of me."

He grinned.

There was a chilling coldness in his eyes.

"You tell me—what a coincidence that is!?"

The words fell.

Sora then saw Roy's fist already thrown out.

"And you made a very good point."

"Military drills: No regard for life or death!"

(End of this chapter)