One Piece: Starting with Coercing and Enticing Nami

My mind and body gradually became peaceful and serene.

Half an hour later, when the cleaning team got to this side...

Johnny was surprised to find that, in his eyes, Thoth appeared to be surrounded by a deep, dark sea.

Joseph blinked, and the two exchanged a glance, both seeing the astonishment in each other's eyes.

Joseph stood five meters away from Toth and slowly reached out to touch the deep sea, but he touched nothing.

Nothing stuck to my hands, but I could feel that the air was quite humid.

Johnny touched it as well, then the two looked at each other. Johnny asked curiously, "A hallucination?"

"It's a visualization of momentum."

At that moment, Tote let out a soft chuckle.

Joseph's face showed embarrassment:

"Brother Thoth, have we disturbed your cultivation?"

Thoth shook his head: "Not really. I can enter that state anytime now."

As he spoke, Thoth glanced at his progress in Observation Haki over the past half hour.

[Observation Haki (Mastery Level 972→973/1000)]

Johnny breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this and pointed to the water stains at Thoth's feet:

"We've come to clean up."

Thoth was about to move to a different spot when Nami emerged from the cabin, holding a Den Den Mushi in one hand and a white one for protection against eavesdropping, and a sea-blue one that was currently connected.

"The mouse is looking for you."

Upon hearing this, Thoth and Nami walked to the side. Just as he took the microphone, the rat's cunning voice came from the other end:

"My dear brother Thoth, I've just come across some interesting intelligence. I wonder if you'd be interested?"

Thoth raised an eyebrow, a hint of curiosity in his eyes: "Tell me about it?"

Without hesitation, the rat squeaked and laughed, "I don't know, do you even know what a Devil Fruit is?"

Thoth's eyes flashed. "You have some? How many Pele do you want?"

"No, no, no, I don't have that kind of thing," the mouse quickly said, but then he chuckled.

"One of my intelligence agents overheard some interesting information today."

On Glass Bead Island, there will be an underground black market auction in three days. I heard that the grand finale will be a Devil Fruit whose specific abilities are currently unknown.

Are you interested?

Thoth narrowed his eyes slightly. "You don't want it?"

The mouse chuckled, "Don't you know? If the branch officer is an ability user, he will be forcibly conscripted to study at the Navy Headquarters' military academy."

I don't want to go there and work myself to death learning those martial arts fighting techniques.

Besides, I don't have that much money to buy that thing.

Thoth smiled and asked, "How much are you planning to charge for this information?"

The mouse's voice immediately came through:

"I don't want money. I'll give it to you for free this time. After all, if some pirate gets his hands on it, I might run into trouble later."

Thoth didn't believe him and laughed: "Later, I'll deposit two million peles into your bank account."

"Thanks this time. I'm very happy that you thought of me for this kind of information, so I won't let you leave empty-handed."

Immediately, a suppressed, joyful laugh came from the other end of the line, "Then I won't bother you any longer. I wish you success in acquiring it."

"Alright, I'll take your good wishes."

Thoth hung up the Den Den Mushi, and Nami's eyes showed both heartache and curiosity. "It's a Devil Fruit? Are we going there to fight for it?"

"Glass Bead Island is located to our north, about half a day's journey from here."

Thoth's lips curled up slightly: "Over this period of time, we now have a total of slightly over 400 million Berries. Generally, the minimum price for a Devil Fruit auction is 100 million Berries."

"Saving money is useless. Since there's an opportunity, we should naturally give it a try."

"Let's go to Glass Bead Island. It's a popular place for sending messages in the East Blue. Even if we don't get the Devil Fruit, we can still relax there."

"Okay, let's go then."

Nami was excited and eager to get started.

057. Glass Bead Island!

9 PM.

Tote's Workshop.

"Are you ready?"

Thoth looked at Nochigo, who was sitting on a single bed in the corner of the workshop.

The girl was wearing a light yellow printed tank top and pink athletic shorts.

Her fair shoulders and neck, smooth waist, and full, firm, long legs gleamed with a lustrous sheen under the light.

At this moment, Nokiko looked at the injection in the syringe in Tot's hand, which shimmered with a light green hue under the light. It was a drug that could stimulate the human senses to become extremely acute and greatly excite the body.

Side effects include some pain in the body, and varying degrees of damage to organs and muscles after the effects of the drug wear off.

For an ordinary person, this would be like taking a drastic, over-the-top drug, but for Nojiko, the user of the Smooth-Smooth Fruit...

It was a common medicine with minor side effects that aided in cultivation and improved control over the body's senses, and her perfect body could metabolize those side effects.

She would come over every three days to do this kind of auxiliary cultivation.

"Ready."

Noki smiled slightly, then turned to the side, extending her right arm toward Thoth.

Tot nodded. "Relax. Once the medication wears off, I'll give you a massage to relieve the pain."

As he spoke, he came to the bedside. Thoth's hand was very steady, and the needle was inserted in the blink of an eye. Nokiko's brows furrowed slightly as the injection ended.

Nokiko's face gradually turned pale, and cold sweat seeped from her forehead. However, her heart rate quickly increased, and she felt needle-like pain all over her body. At the same time, her mind became excited, and she could feel that her senses had become extremely sharp.

Noki took a deep breath, got up and went to the open space next to her to start doing some high-intensity physical exercises.

As various challenging movements are performed, the physical sensations of muscle stretching and the sounds of blood flowing through the body are all captured by the extremely keen senses at this moment.

Having practiced this method more than ten times, she has now become quite adept at it and can quickly enter a meditative state.

In this state, Nokigo's control over his body becomes increasingly refined.

An excited consciousness, like tentacles, senses the extremely sensitive body at this moment.

In this state, Nojiko thought about what Thoth had said about fruit development. Since Zero Friction couldn't be released externally, he would try to release it internally, consciously applying the Zero Friction Super Smooth ability to his body.

Her physical fitness and mental fortitude have been gradually transformed through this period of intense training.

Whether it was a misperception or not, today's practice gave her a strange and different feeling.

In this physical sensation, the extremely sensitive tendrils of consciousness manipulated the zero-friction, super-smooth ability to gradually seep into the skin, spread into the muscles, tendons, and blood. And when this "lubrication" was first incorporated into consciousness, Noki's consciousness quietly felt that the internal structure of her body was being keenly perceived by her own consciousness.

The difficult physical movements became increasingly coordinated and smooth. As the training continued, the flow of internal energy in the body also gradually became smoother and more free.

Thoth observed Nojiko's changes, using his Observation Haki to sense her aura frequency and resonating with the life force within her through the breath of all things.

Thoth could sense that the life force representing Nojiko himself was now becoming more closely connected with a peculiar existential force.

The subtle interplay between the two is gradually creating a resonance.

"Is it a deep fusion between the user and the Devil Fruit power within them?"

"Once a Devil Fruit is eaten and integrated into a living organism, the corresponding ability in that domain will become active."

"The development of abilities is essentially a resonance between the individual and the Devil Fruit's power. This leads to a deeper understanding and mastery of the inherent characteristics of the Devil Fruit's power in that specific area."

In Toth's understanding.

It's like one's own breath, perception, and resonance with the rhythm and pulse of all things in nature, thereby gaining an amplification of oneself, or even the power to master the attributes of nature in the future.

When Nojiko unexpectedly entered this state, Thoth's eyes flickered slightly:

"Once the resonance between the two reaches a certain level, the ability user's development and control of the ability may reach the state of ability awakening."

Awakening to the breath of all things has given Thoth a certain understanding of the laws governing the world, and with this understanding, Thoth has instinctively grasped this peculiar knowledge.

At this very moment, in Tot's perception, as his abilities were further developed, the abnormalities in the frequency of Noki's body's energy, which had been affected by the side effects of the drugs, were being revealed.

However, due to its own super-slippery properties, it is gradually being slid away and its effects diminished.

A moment later, as Nojiko finished her training and breathed a sigh of relief, she looked at Thoth with pleasure in her eyes:

"I feel that I have developed my abilities more deeply. Before, it would take me several hours to fully recover."

"Now, as the power seeps into my body, I feel that my perception of my body, my body's recovery ability, and my own strength have all been greatly enhanced."

Thoth extended his left hand to her, smiling as if he were all ears.

Nojiko sat cross-legged on the ground, smiling as she explained. After listening, Thoth also told her about his theory of "the resonance between ability users and their own abilities".

Nojiko was surprised and exclaimed, "It has to be you. Although you are not a Devil Fruit user, your understanding of abilities is more than one level stronger than mine."

I really don't know how your brain works.

But then, Noki smiled mysteriously and said, "I'll show you something good."

Immediately afterwards, she stood up abruptly, faced Thoth, and winked:

Be careful.

As she finished speaking, she lowered her right fist to her waist to gather strength. With a deep breath, her gaze suddenly sharpened, and she suddenly threw a punch.

At that moment, Thoth's eyes flashed, and he saw a powerful gust of wind burst forth the instant she threw her punch.

Ripples spread through the air as the force of the punches coalesced into a mass, which then hurtled toward Thoth.

With a snap, Thoth's right hand steadily reached out and caught the impact.