One Piece: Who still has dreams?

"It's nothing, it's just raining."

Reddio smiled at Nami, then said to Gertz, "It's alright, just a quick favor. I'll be right back."

Watching him and Koushirou's backs, Ace and Zoro tilted their heads in confusion. The sky had been clear all day, so where did the rain come from?

……

The mission of providing much-needed rain during a long drought has been completed.

【任务奖励：50088精粹；真实格斗游戏机x1；24500精粹；15677精粹；系统背包格x1】

[Remaining Essence: 579840]

【系统背包（4/6）：御厨子x1；伏魔x1；精灵球x3；大型帆船x2；（空）；（空）】

……

Chapter 84 Upgrade

[Section Headline Series: Executive Vice President Miss Quan, Sunday, Chapter 33: "The Dragon's Ship"]

[Robin was admiring the various adorable, oddly shaped transvestites running along the shore when Olvia pointed to the distant sea, where a black dragon ship was sailing towards them.]

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【Slot 1: Artificial Sukuna Finger (★)】

[Slot 2: 300 Common Quality Swords]

Slot 3: (Empty)

Redio followed Koushirou to his family's kendo dojo in Shimotsuki Village. In the warehouse, he found a bunch of "ordinary iron" swords. He picked and chose 10 qualified and cheapest ones (using the three-in-one module to estimate their value), then copied them all at once to make a total of 300, and threw them into the synthesis system along with Sukuna's finger.

"..."

Koushirou was already used to this; the warehouse still contained the defective products that Redio had played with a couple of years ago using his peculiar abilities. The "synthesis" results were completely random, and most of them could hardly be called qualified swords; some were even crooked and the blades were reversed.

The best-quality sword resulting from the synthesis, named "Master Chef," was of comparable quality to the Wado Ichimonji, a heirloom from the Koushirou family. Redio gave the two next-best swords to Zoro.

Zoro paid the price by later "selling himself" to Redio...

Upgrade successful

【Artificial Sukuna Finger (★★)】

The demonic fingers with their distinct mechanical hinge structure fell into Redio's palm.

He checked it out and found that the usage was similar to before, but there were more strength options. Great, even after upgrading, he could still choose a 1-star strength slash.

As for the energy source of this thing?

Stop kidding, the gravity chamber uses infinite energy technology, and this is just the technological capability of Capsule Corporation in a parallel future Dragon Ball universe.

This artificial finger doesn't even have a "charging" function...

Redio threw Su Nuo's finger into the three-in-one device again. This time, a message appeared: "[Adding 100 fast-quality swords will upgrade the finger's strength to 3 stars.]"

It's great that you don't have to do 300 upgrades every time.

Grateful (clasped hands).

Reddio breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that the chef's skill with the Great Sword was worth more than six thousand essences, and the Demon Subduer was worth more than nine thousand, almost ten thousand.

According to the system's rules, the essence of the Supreme Great Sword probably requires at least five figures.

If I were to throw in 100 Supreme Grade Swords in the future, I'd truly become a servant to this damn system and these broken fingers...

Redio rummaged through the warehouse of the Frostmoon Sword Dojo and found four cheap, fast swords that the system could barely collect. He spent 2016 essence to copy them and make 100 of them. He then combined them with the Sukuna Finger again and upgraded them to obtain the [Artificial Sukuna Finger (★★★)].

[Investing in 30 swords of the "Good or Fast" quality will raise your finger strength to 4 stars.]

There are no usable good-quality knives left in this warehouse.

The Frost Moon Sword Dojo isn't so extravagant as to let a fine sword gather dust in this dilapidated warehouse.

"You need to go find Zoro." Koushirou smiled elegantly. Having seen Redio busy for so long, he was not completely unaware of Redio's peculiar abilities, and he naturally figured out what Redio was doing.

"disturb."

Reddio weighed Su Nuo's fingers in his hand and tossed them into his system inventory.

"What are your plans next?"

Koushirou walked along the quiet path in the bamboo grove, accompanying Redio as he left. He gathered his wide sleeves and asked in a friendly manner, "Are you really going to take Zoro with you to the Grand Line to become pirates?"

Redio laughed: "It's not that I want to be a pirate. Anyway, if I go out to make my way in the world, I'll be labeled as one sooner or later. I might as well be straightforward. We'll train together in the mountains for half a year, and then we'll officially set off."

Koushirou nodded: "I have a feeling that you knew from the very beginning... how vast the world is."

"Just a little bit!"

Redio gazed at the sky. "It's precisely because I don't know everything that I want to go to the 'end' to see! After all, time is running out."

Koushirou did not understand his meaning.

It's been less than three years since Nikka and Luffy set sail, and in about two more years after that, it's highly likely that Nikka will be facing his "final battle"...

If we can't clear the game before then, wouldn't bringing Robin, Nami, and other original Straw Hat crew members onto the ship just be a waste of their time?

Redio's fighting spirit ignited. He smiled slightly, waved goodbye to Koushirou, and strode into the dense forest behind the mountain. Then he remembered that Black Cat's ship was still at the seaside, so he took a detour to go there again and put the ship into his system inventory as well.

……

What's wrong with you all?

As soon as Redio returned to the "spherical spaceship" hidden deep in the mountains, he saw Ace and Zoro squatting at the entrance with their heads in their hands.

The low air pressure could be felt even from hundreds of meters away.

Redio looked up with a puzzled expression at the giantess who was teasing the strange bird on her shoulder.

Gertz shook his head, puzzled. "They've been like this ever since they came out. They won't answer when we ask them, and they've become very depressed! What's inside this 'house'? We can't see anything when we look through the windows. It's really strange..."

"Caw!" The strange bird flew away, circling before landing.

It looked like an ordinary vulture on Gertz's shoulder, but once it landed in front of ordinary-sized humans like Redio, Zoro, and Ace, it resembled a giant, ferocious bird of prey. Flying over the East Blue, it would probably be able to devour any ordinary pirate ship it encountered from head to tail...

"It's Nami..."

Ace held his head, saying weakly, "She... also tried the gravity training on the bracelet... she..."

Zoro looked up, his eyes shadowed by heavy darkness, a look of displeasure mixed with helplessness emanating from him. He stared at Redio with a brooding expression, as if his worldview had collapsed. "Where did you find this woman? Is she... really here to be a navigator?"

That's not surprising, that's not surprising at all.

Reddio chuckled and ruffled Zoro's hair: "Being surpassed by a woman, you should be familiar with that feeling, right? The familiar feeling is back, aren't you happy? Haha, hahaha..."

Laughing, he slipped into the gravity chamber before Zoro could draw his sword in a fit of rage.

Behind him came Ace's voice, asking Zoro, "You often lose to women?" followed by Zoro's sharp retort, "You can't beat Nami either?"

"I've never lost before!" "Why don't you compete with Gertz if you dare?"

"I've already told you I've never lost to a woman before, are you trying to pick a fight?" "Want to fight?"

"You stinky bird, get lost! I wasn't talking to you!!" x2

Bang! The sound of the strange bird being punched was accompanied by Gertz's light laughter from the side.

……

Redio entered the gravity chamber and saw Nami doing a handstand, doing push-ups with one hand.

"Isn't it amazing?" Nami looked up and smiled at Redio, who was walking towards her upside down. Redio tilted his head and glanced at the capsule bracelet on the hand she was holding out for balance—"30g."

30 times the force of gravity!

Good heavens, no wonder Zoro and Ace were so badly hurt.

Everyone trained like crazy, and even Zoro could only handle the 6x gravity range with ease. But when Nami came in, 6x gravity was just a tickle, and 10x gravity was barely a feeling...

Redio could imagine the look of utter disbelief and existential dread on Zoro and Ace's faces as Nami repeatedly told Bulma "not heavy enough," "not heavy enough," "too light," "too light," and kept increasing the gravity.

Who wouldn't love Yu Yu?

"Let's go out first, this thing needs an upgrade."

Redio patted Nami's taut, raised thigh.

"upgrade?"

Nami pushed off the ground with one hand and landed lightly, showing no sign that she was experiencing 30 times the force of gravity. "Is it that finger?" She had obviously already heard Zoro's explanation.

"It's this gravity chamber."

"Oh, it's this gravity chamber..." Nami followed Redio out while Bulma turned off the gravity, then suddenly realized, "What?"

Chapter 85 Black Flash

[Chapter Opening Serial: Executive Vice President Miss Quan, Sunday, Chapter 34: "Now, We Are Comrades"]

[A large ship with a black dragon head docked at the shore of Pink Island. Dragon, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Army, met with Olvia and her daughter Robin, shaking hands with them.]

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