The Pirate Princess Becomes Queen

Vivi is starting to research now, but not only is there not enough time, she doesn't even have the basic knowledge. How could she possibly surpass Vegapunk with just a concept of a gene from her previous life? She doesn't believe she has that much ability.

She knew she couldn't catch up with him using scientific methods, so she had to find another way.

You have science, I have superpowers! She uses her Devil Fruit abilities to study Devil Fruits.

Vivi brought Diamante to the mansion of the Magic Duck and left the mangled, but still breathing creature aside.

"Kill me if you dare! I will not betray the young master!" The voice was weak, but Diamanti's tone was resolute.

Vivi, who was preparing to mix the medicine, glanced at him: "Superficial. History will remember your contribution today..."

Vivi's experiment must be kept absolutely secret. She didn't call Brook, whose thoughts are hard to predict and who might jump ship at any time, nor did she inform Perona. Today's experimental assistants are only Duck Karu and Old Fan.

Karu the duck picked up the scissors and gently cut Diamanti's shadow. Diamanti was seriously injured, and the shadow was also weak and powerless.

Old Fan then wove a scarecrow on the spot and stuffed it into Diamanti's heart.

Diamanti: "???"

What are you doing? What am I supposed to do? What are you trying to do?!

Shouldn't we interrogate them about the Don Quixote family? This is putting me under a lot of pressure!

Vegapunk's side uses the bodies of Paramecia-type Devil Fruit users as a base, and the abilities of Logia-type Devil Fruit users as their means of attack.

Why this combination? Vivi doesn't know yet, but she plans to follow suit.

Paramecia-type Devil Fruit users do have excellent physical abilities and can withstand a lot of hardship, which is why they had the idea of ​​capturing Diamante.

Vegapunk used Bartholomew Kuma's body as the basis for his experiments, and it must be said that the body was incredibly strong, greatly increasing the margin for error.

Vivi doesn't have such good conditions. She currently only has two Paramecia-type Devil Fruit users who seem to have strong compatibility as basic templates: Wapol, who ate the Gluttony Fruit, and Buggy the Clown, who ate the Chop-Chop Fruit.

Wapol's ability to absorb other abilities is extremely effective when combined, but his attack power is a weakness. Vegapunk chose Kizaru's laser instead of Aokiji or Akainu, which was definitely not because Kizaru was always slacking off, but because they had made a detailed comparison.

Logia-type Devil Fruit users are indeed very powerful. Since Vivi doesn't have the three Admirals to choose from, there's only one Logia-type Devil Fruit user she can find, and that is... Crocodile!

She wanted to find someone else, but given the circumstances, there was nothing she could do...

With her powerful Observation Haki, she searched the former Thriller Bark, now known as the Magic Duck Mansion, and found a lot of solidified Crocodile blood. To her, this blood contained Crocodile cells, which could be used to extract abilities.

The Gluttony Fruit is the best vessel, but Wapol cannot be used directly for experiments. His physical condition is too poor, and he might explode if not careful. We must first find a test subject to test the extent to which Wapol's cells can phagocytose before we can carry out further experiments.

Chapter 220 Desert Guardians

Theoretically speaking, the ability to devour is the best trait for compatible Devil Fruits. Buggy the Clown's Chop-Chop Fruit is also very strong, but it still seems to fall short in terms of compatibility.

Extracting this substance is not difficult; the problem lies in how to use it.

First, there's the question of whether an ordinary person can directly implant the phagocytic properties of Wapol cells. This isn't a blood transfusion; there are too many unforeseen complications. Vegapunk can scientifically predict most of these complications, while Vivi is completely clueless, relying entirely on intuition. She died? She deserved to die... Another question is, if ordinary people can't handle this property, can Paramecia-type Devil Fruit users? Wouldn't it be mistaken for eating two Devil Fruits, causing an explosion? Vegapunk has contingency plans, but she has none; it's all down to luck.

She needed to conduct some preliminary experiments to find the answer. Ordinary people were easy to find; there were plenty of pirates at the World Expo, but Devil Fruit users were hard to find. Diamante just happened to appear in front of her at this crucial moment.

Vivi began using her superstitious research methods.

"Let me do a divination before the experiment... Hmm, the card that came up is The Fool... Everything is in secret, and the chance of success is only 33%..."

"The odds are pretty good, let's take a gamble! Here we go, buddy, bear with it, it might hurt a bit later."

Ignoring Diamanti's struggles, Vivi pushed the Devouring Properties extracted from Wapol's body into a syringe. It was less than five milliliters, which she had purified using her vampire abilities for three whole days. Now, she found Diamanti's vein and carefully pushed the medicine in.

"What the hell did you inject me with?!" Diamanti felt like she was in a nightmare. Who's the bad guy here? I must have been blind. Why did I end up killing you?

The Devouring property reacted extremely quickly; he felt his muscles, bones, and blood dissolving at an unbelievable speed.

The five-meter-tall, robust body of the native chief suddenly became skin and bones.

Vivi carefully observed his reaction, explaining as she watched, "You should have heard of this term, bloodline factor! Isn't that surprising? Of course, this is something I developed myself, and it's different from Vegapunk's... Ouch!"

Before he could finish speaking, Diamanti's heart exploded from his chest cavity, somewhat like an alien bursting out of its body. His sternum flew up and smashed into the ceiling, while his chest lining and some lymphatic tissue splattered in all directions, and blood gushed up more than a meter high like a fountain.

"Old Fan, Karu!" Vivi moved swiftly, pouring a bottle of life-energy-filled potion into Diamanti's mouth while calling out.

Old Fan made a gesture, transferring some of the explosive force to another unfortunate soul who was possessed by a substitute doll.

The Straw-Straw Fruit can harm people, but it can also save them. Hawkins wouldn't do that, but that doesn't mean the fruit doesn't have that ability.

Old Fan wouldn't transfer the explosion to himself, but he could easily control it to transfer to another stand-in.

The duck stuffed the previously cut-off shadow back into Diamanti's body, thus restoring some of his life force. Vivi also ordered Isis to give the guy a blood transfusion again, while she herself quickly performed a suturing operation without an operating room, assistants, or experience.

To her, the atria, pericardium, and endocardium are all the same thing. Your heart just exploded, and I've already stitched it back up! It's that simple. Want to live to be a hundred? Forget about it. You should be grateful you've even survived.

Thanks to the damage reduction from the substitute doll, the shadow that the duck put back in, and Vivi's healing, Diamante survived.

However, he is still unconscious.

Vivi drew his blood six times in one hour.

In the fourth test, forty minutes after the experiment, Diamanti's blood showed a noticeable change.

"The Fluttering Fruit within him has disappeared," Vivi said, delivering the bad news first.

Wapol's lineage factor possesses the devouring properties of the Gluttony Fruit, which is equivalent to a Devil Fruit user eating another Devil Fruit.

Diamanti exploded on the spot.

Theoretically, this person is doomed. Saving others is a matter for later. From the perspective of the Float-Float Fruit, the host died when the explosion occurred. The Devil Fruit extracted the power, and the host has most likely been reborn somewhere else.

What does this mean? It means that Devil Fruits lack self-awareness; their behavior is highly mechanical, with its own set of judgment mechanisms. Blackbeard likely grasped some kind of pattern, which allowed him to recklessly steal Devil Fruits from users.

Old Fan asked curiously, "Can this bloodline factor really replace a Devil Fruit?"

Vivi looked at it more carefully: "Actually, it can't be considered a Devil Fruit. It only has a small part of the characteristics. I think it's right to choose Wapol as the foundation. Wapol's bloodline factor has now fused with Diamante to some extent. Although the Devil Fruit is gone, Wapol's bloodline factor, relying on the characteristic of devouring, has retained to some extent the physical qualities that were originally enhanced by the Devil Fruit. The ability of the Flutter-Flutter Fruit is gone, but these enhanced physical qualities are still there. This test subject is more valuable than I expected."

She also used the term "bloodline factor" on various occasions, without explicitly mentioning the concept of genes. There was no need for it; it was just a word.

In her view, the modification of Devil Fruits is divided into three steps.

Physical enhancement, gene implantation, and finally, granting abilities.

After the host dies, the process is reversed. The Devil Fruit first extracts the power, then the information in the genes, and finally the enhanced physical attributes. Now Wapol's devouring ability can intercept the last step of physical attributes, which are also essential substances for adding new abilities.

Vivi also tried using fish-men for experiments, but found it didn't work. Fish-men are very strong, but that kind of strength is completely different from the strength of someone who has eaten a Devil Fruit.

"Record this: At 3:20 PM on February 15th, 1519 of the Sea Calendar, our 'Desert Guardian' prototype completed the injection of the Devouring trait. The reaction... the reaction was fairly good. Apart from the heart exploding, the test subject had no other major problems. In one hour, I will continue to inject the bloodline factor with the Sand-Sand Fruit's characteristics..."

Vivi looked down at the changes in Diamanti's blood, her hands covered in blood. Old Fan occasionally offered her advice based on his assassin knowledge, while Duck Karu helped her take notes.

Chapter 221 Desertification

Several zombies diligently cleaned up the bloodstains at the scene, and Diamanti, the experimental 'Desert Guardian', also woke up.

Vivi snapped her fingers, did some calculations, and after the success rate exceeded 30%, implanted the sand-transforming properties of the sand crocodile into Diamanti's body.

Like needles clashing with wheat, the two abilities collided again, resulting in another explosion. Fortunately, this explosion was much smaller than the one when the Float-Float Fruit "angrily ran away" before. Diamante's heart was blasted open with three bloody holes, which Vivi quickly stitched up, and that was considered healing.

"Is that about right?" she asked Lao Fan and Ya Zi, turning around to look at them.

"A strange fate, I'm really looking forward to what will happen next."

"quack!"

Vivi nodded knowingly: "...Hmm, I'll take that as agreement. I don't think this guy can actually use the sand-transformation ability, but he can store some sand in his body and then use it through his ability. Hmm, I'm already looking forward to that scene, hehehehe—"

She fed Diamanti a lot of suggestive messages, then had the duck take him out and dump him in some random corner of the Expo, where someone would then send him back to Dressrosa.

Old Fan waved goodbye and left, while Weiwei continued to study various data and ability combinations.

Watching anime, you might think that Devil Fruit users are everywhere, but in reality, they are extremely rare. In such a vast world, with the limited number of Devil Fruits, the number of people who can obtain Devil Fruit abilities is extremely small, and even fewer can combine their abilities.

She thought that the guy under Doflamingo who ate the Stone-Stone Fruit would be a good match for Crocodile's sand-transforming abilities, but that guy was too conspicuous, and it would be very difficult to capture him quietly and without attracting attention.

......

Three days later, Diamanti awoke in the royal palace in Dressrosa.

Looking at the familiar ceiling, he breathed a sigh of relief, finally waking up from his nightmare.

Doflamingo values ​​his subordinates highly, especially the four top executives: Clubs, Spades, Diamonds, and Hearts, who are his most trusted confidants.

As soon as Diamante regained consciousness, Doflamingo came to visit his subordinate.

“Young Master… my mission has failed…” Diamanti said dejectedly.

Doflamingo listened quietly, waiting for him to continue.

"It was Crocodile Sand. I was about to kill that blue-haired woman when Crocodile Sand stopped me. I was captured... After that, it seems like..." He covered his head, his memory of the rest of the story very blurry.

He was too weak; the hints he could have banished in the past kept creeping into the depths of his memory. If it weren't for his thirty years of loyalty to the Don Quixote family, who knows what he would be like now.

Doflamingo's Observation Haki was far inferior to Vivi's. He felt that something was off about his close subordinate after she was rescued, but no matter how he investigated, he couldn't find anything suspicious.

Logically speaking, Crocodile captured Diamante, beat him up, and then released him without any consequences? Does anyone believe that? Doflamingo doesn't think Crocodile was that kind; there must be a conspiracy involved.

But he couldn't find any suspicious points. The voice, appearance, daily gestures, and language habits were all fine. This Diamanti was his subordinate and definitely not someone impersonating him. In these turbulent times, if he were to become suspicious of his most important subordinate, it would be a fatal blow.

Perhaps this is Crocodile's plan? To destroy the trust between himself and his family's executives? How insidious!

"Fufufufu, get some rest. That Ms. Wednesday is just a nobody. We can kill him anytime. No need to worry." He patted his subordinate's shoulder forcefully while carefully observing Diamanti's eyes.

Still unaware of the problem, Diamanti's eyes were focused, a trust that could only be seen between family members.

"Young Master... I've been unconscious for several days?"

"Three days."

"What about the World Expo?"

"It's still in progress, and everything is fine."

Diamanti slapped her thigh in frustration: "Damn it, if only I had killed that woman! It's all my fault, I underestimated her. If I had said less nonsense, maybe..."

Doflamingo comforted his subordinate, instructing him to take good care of his injuries, as they were quite serious and required rest.

Not long after Doflamingo left, Diamante noticed something was wrong with his body; he was so hungry that it was unbearable.

In Dressrosa, the four executives were second only to the emperor, and with a single order, the kitchen would be busy preparing food for him.

"I'm starving!"

"I'm so hungry!"

"Hurry up! Stop cooking! I want to eat roasted house! Huh? What am I saying...??"