One Piece: Who still has dreams?

"What's so good about it?"

Nami coughed lightly, "Let's get back to the topic, Gertz, the gravity training of this bracelet..." She explained the capsule bracelet, Bulma, and the various uses of gravity training to the Female Titan.

Goltz, in high spirits, set aside the two giant axes and summoned Bulma through the capsule bracelet, requesting that the gravity be gradually increased starting from twice the normal level.

When the numbers increased fourfold, Gertz clearly felt the strain.

When the gravity was increased to 7 times, the capsule bracelet emitted a prompt from Buma: "As Mr. Redio suggested, you should fully adapt to the corresponding gravity environment before increasing the gravity multiple... Ms. Gertz, based on the data such as your heart rate and blood pressure monitored by the bracelet, I suggest that you switch back to 6 times gravity for training for now, is that alright?"

"OK, all right."

Gertz wasn't so stubborn; a fine layer of sweat beaded on her forehead as she smiled and agreed. When the gravity number on the bracelet returned to 6, she indeed let out a sigh of relief.

Nami whispered to Redio, "Goltz is stronger than me, so how come she can only adapt to 6 times gravity?"

Reddio's ears were tickled by the hot breath, and he said, "How old is he? How old are you? Are you even the same person? Why are you hitting me?!" Suddenly, he was elbowed in the chest.

"I feel like there's something ambiguous in what you said..." Nami scoffed. "Low-class!"

"I didn't say anything, how is that low-level?" Redio retorted with disdain, "Childish!"

"what?!"

Nami was furious. Redio had already escaped, so she took off after him, even using Moonwalk, which vaguely resembled the shaving technique... Goltz watched with a blushing smile. The two adorable little people chased each other and played around, making them doubly cute.

……

"Clap"

Redio clapped his hands, calling over the two men, one with green hair and the other with freckles, who were sitting silently in front of the game console, their heads in their hands, deeply disappointed.

"Let's skip today, the intensive training will officially begin tomorrow."

Zoro, Nami, Ace, and Goltz sat in a circle, while Redio stood in the middle. He casually flipped through four identical notebooks, seemingly out of nowhere. "The main training content, of course, is Haki. This book contains the theory of Haki. Take these and read them on your own. A clearer understanding and knowledge of Haki will make your training much more efficient."

"In the future, we will train together and record our own insights and experiences in cultivation. We will pool our wisdom and learn from each other's strengths to make up for our weaknesses. Everyone's valuable experience can be added to this book."

When the booklet was handed to Gertz, Redio grunted and said, "Nami, you can make a larger version of it for Gertz later."

“No problem.” Nami flipped through the “Haki Manual”.

Ace suddenly raised his hand.

Redio asked, "Young man, do you have any questions?"

"You wrote here... that each type of Haki has a 'basic characteristic' and a 'binding characteristic'. What does that mean?" Ace pointed to a page in the "Haki Manual".

Chapter 88 Entanglement Characteristics

[Chapter Introduction Series: Executive Vice President Miss Quan, Sunday, Chapter 37: "Sorry, Mom, I still have things to do."]

[On the shore of Peach Island, Dragon, Sabo, and other members of the Revolutionary Army came to see him off. Robin and Olvia embraced in farewell.]

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"I will divide the cultivation of 'domineering' into two parts."

Redio snapped his fingers, and Bulma unleashed a beam of energy that materialized into a small blackboard—or rather, an electronic screen—next to him.

"Domineering 'strength' and 'technique'."

As he spoke, the AI ​​Buma automatically displayed two columns of text in different fonts on the blackboard screen, with headings indicating categories of strength and technology.

The people who were originally sitting around him all moved to the front of the small blackboard.

To make it easier for Gertz to see, Reddio snapped his fingers, causing Bulma to enlarge the blackboard screen by 3 times. Then he patted his forehead, having Bulma scan the "Haki Manual" and materialize a manual magnified 10 times using energy particles, placing it in Gertz's hands.

"Thank you, Captain." Gertz smiled gently.

“Let’s start with the ‘technique’ part.” Redio nodded, and as he spoke, the intensity column on the electronic screen faded out. “Personally, I divide the techniques for using Overpower into five levels from high to low: ‘Extreme,’ ‘Master,’ ‘Skilled,’ ‘Beginner,’ and ‘Initial Understanding.’”

On the small blackboard, the leftmost vertical line displays five "technical levels" in sequence from top to bottom.

"【First Glimpse】, which means just beginning to understand the basics. This is when one is just able to sense the power of Haki. However, one is still clumsy in using it. Its biggest characteristic is that it is 'sometimes effective and sometimes not.' Sometimes one can grasp the feeling of using Haki, and sometimes it feels wrong. It's like waking up after a nap and suddenly forgetting how one used it yesterday."

Ace stroked his chin: "It seems like there was a phase like that..."

"Above that is the 'beginner' level," Redio continued. "Compared to a beginner whose Haki works intermittently, my definition of beginner-level technique is 'controllable control.' Ace's Conqueror's Haki awakened a long time ago, but he himself didn't have a clear understanding of it, so for a long time he was at a beginner level of proficiency. It wasn't until recently, after he really trained, that he was able to truly use Conqueror's Haki and reach the beginner level, being able to control it freely."

"There's also 'Conqueror's Haki'?" Zoro asked in surprise.

Redio said, "Beyond the beginner level is the [proficient] level. There is a very significant characteristic in applying domineering aura to this level—I call it 'semi-automatic'."

“Semi-automated, huh…” Ace and Zoro nodded with expressions of understanding, then asked in confusion, “What does that mean?”

Nami glanced sideways, speechless. If you didn't understand, don't pretend!

Redio smiled and said, "Take the proficient level of Observation Haki as an example. A person who has mastered Observation Haki to this level can automatically predict the approach of an attack even without actively using Observation Haki."

"..." Ace paused for a moment, then scratched his head and said, "It sounds a lot like my Flame-Flame Fruit." He raised his hand, which had turned into flames. "'Elementalization' seems to be the 'semi-automatic' state that Redio mentioned. Normally, it doesn't affect my daily life, but if someone suddenly flies over and kicks me, I don't need to sense the attack in advance and actively use elementalization. My body just automatically turns into flames..."

"Like this, right?" Nami suddenly punched Ace in the chest, the punch going right through him, but she ended up getting burned... wait, it was a little hot, but it didn't hurt much? Nami looked at her hand, which was only a little red but had no burn marks, with a puzzled expression.

“And Conqueror’s Haki is another example.” Redio gave another example. “The semi-automatic performance of a skilled Conqueror’s Haki is even more astonishing… Even if a person has been knocked unconscious by a blow, their Conqueror’s Haki can still be released automatically to intimidate villains.”

Gertz squatted down to the side with his knees drawn up, and laughed, "I've heard that our king in Elbaf once possessed this power!"

Nami raised her hand and asked, "What about 'Armament Haki'? Isn't that for fighting? How can something used for fighting be 'semi-automatic'? If you're going to use it, you have to use it actively, right?"

Zoro laughed and said, "Armament Haki can be 'hardened'. When danger comes, you can use this power to defend and block without thinking. That should be the so-called 'semi-automatic' level."

Ace said, "You haven't even mastered Armament Haki, yet you talk about it so fluently!"

"I can kill you even without Armament Haki, believe it or not!" Zoro said, enraged.

"And the next step beyond the proficient level is [Mastery]."

As Redio spoke, the words "sometimes effective," "effortless control," and "semi-automatic" were added after "beginner," "introductory," and "proficient" on the small blackboard screen. "By wrapping and concentrating the domineering aura, you can achieve the [mastery] level."

He was proficient in the empty space behind this layer, and the word "entanglement" came to mind as he spoke.

“You may know, or you may not,” he pointed to his black eyes, “I can transform into a state of white hair and blue eyes. When I am in that state, I can see the domineering aura with my naked eye and observe its deepest and most essential details.”

"There is a diagram in the manual that shows you that when you awaken and activate your domineering aura, it is actually composed of countless tiny energy vortices that radiate out of the body naturally, like sunlight."

"Observation Haki has the longest natural radiation range, followed by Conqueror's Haki, and Armament Haki has the shortest range. Armament Haki can usually only radiate a few centimeters above the human body surface. Therefore, Armament Haki is the easiest of the three types of Haki to entwine, which means it is the easiest to cultivate to the [Mastery] level."

However, even within the realm of mastery of Entanglement Haki, there are differences. In Kuja, it is directly divided into three levels: 3 snakes, 6 snakes, and 9 snakes, corresponding to the Entanglement Hardening, Flowing Use, and External Release of Armament Haki.

Nami and Goltz flipped through the "Haki Manual" and found the diagram Redio had mentioned: three simplified human figures radiating outwards from densely packed small vortexes of varying sizes.

"..."

Ace and Zoro pondered for a moment, then asked in unison, "So, according to you, Conqueror's Haki can also 'entangle'?"

Redio said, "But because the natural radiation of Conqueror's Haki has a longer wavelength and a range that can be hundreds of times greater than that of Armament Haki, Conqueror's Haki can certainly entangle, but it is hundreds of times more difficult than entanglement with Armament Haki."

Nami exclaimed in surprise, "If Conqueror's Haki is hundreds of times harder to bind, then what about Observation Haki, whose radiation range is even farther than Conqueror's Haki? It'll be impossible to even reach the heavens..."

Gertz was even more surprised than her, his surprise tinged with doubt: "I've never heard of Observation Haki being able to entangle someone... at least not in Elbaf..."

“I did it,” Redio said calmly. “In that white-haired transformation state, I could entangle myself with Observation Haki. Didn’t I say that that transformation not only allows me to observe Haki with extremely fine detail with the naked eye, but also allows me to control Haki with extremely fine precision? It is precisely because I have experienced it firsthand that I am certain that the three types of Haki can correspond one-to-one and are completely consistent in terms of the level of skill used.”

He wasn't trying to show off to his own people, so before Ace and the others could even marvel at the power of Gojo Satoru's transformation, he continued, "So, this brings us back to the question Ace raised at the beginning, the [basic characteristics] and [entanglement characteristics] of Haki that I summarized..."

"The most basic characteristic of Observation Haki is 'perception'. Whether it is perceiving the existence and aura of other people or things, predicting the actions of others' attacks, or even when Observation Haki is strong enough to briefly foresee the future, it does not deviate from the scope of the most basic characteristic of 'perception'."

"But when Observation Haki becomes intertwined, a new characteristic emerges, which, in my personal experience, is 'interference with perception'."

Redio said, "When I wrap my Observation Haki around my body, others will no longer be able to predict my movements using Observation Haki, and it will be difficult for them to even sense me."

Chapter 89 Spell Penetration

[Chapter Introduction Series: Executive Vice President Miss Quan, Sunday, Chapter 38: "Give my regards to Redio"]

[Robin sat on the back of the giant tortoise, gazing at his mother waving incessantly at the front of the crowd on the shore of Pink Island, until she could no longer see him.]

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Goltz muttered to himself thoughtfully, "'Foreseeing the short-term future,' huh... I've heard people in the village say that a notorious pirate who frequents our village tavern can do that! So that's the effect of Observation Haki?"

She was so large that even when she was talking to herself, everyone present could hear her.

Red hair, right?

Reddio, understanding the situation, said, "That's why I divided our Haki training into two parts: 'intensity' and 'technique.' Beginner, beginner, proficient, and master—these are matters of skill. Those with high comprehension can progress rapidly. My hope is that in six months, all of us…"

He paused, "They must have at least mastered Armament Haki to the proficient level to be able to wrap it around so skillfully." He extended his right hand and gently clenched it, revealing jet-black Armament Haki.

Hey! Why did you pause and look at me for a second? Nami rolled her eyes at him.

Zoro stared at Redio's jet-black right fist and suddenly realized, "The 'entanglement' property of Armament Haki is 'hardening'..."

“That’s right,” Redio chuckled. “Ace, you should know this all too well. Your Armament Haki isn’t quite capable of binding yet, is it?”

Ace muttered, "Yeah, I was wondering! When Sanda and Mary use Armament Haki, they seem invulnerable, but I just can't do it. I thought I had some fake Armament Haki..."

Redio said, "The basic characteristic of Armament Haki is that it 'counters Devil Fruit abilities.' When it is wrapped around, it will gain a new characteristic called 'hardening,' which can harden fists and feet, as well as swords. Some people have said that as long as Armament Haki is strong enough, any sword can become a black sword."

Upon hearing this, Zoro was about to get fired up!

"It counters Devil Fruit abilities..." Nami clapped her hands and said, "No wonder you were able to grab Ace's fiery body with your bare hands!"

"That's right,"