The Great Voyage: The Props Master on the Straw Hat Ship

"As for Zoan-type Devil Fruit abilities, once awakened, the [difficulty level] is simple, the [danger level] is high, and the [power gained] is moderate."

"Huh? If a Zoan-type Devil Fruit user awakens their powers, is it very dangerous?!"

Chopper was slightly startled by those words.

"Hmm~"

This time, it was [Shakya] who responded, "Because the awakening of most Zoan-type Devil Fruits strips the user of their personality."

"Deprivation of personality..."

Robin thought of the several awakened jailer beasts in the deep-sea prison.

In the words of their Impel Down commander, these Jailer Beasts were originally Zoan-type Pokémon that had failed to awaken.

"So, because their awakening failed, they're always running a runny nose, looking dazed, maintaining their human-beast form and unable to return to their normal bodies...?"

Robin was pondering this matter, while Chopper slowly started snotting from his nose.

"Will I be stripped of my personality...?"

He recalled the time when he had just developed the Rambo Ball and consumed three of them in one go.

At that time, I had indeed become the Yeti that everyone talked about, and I had also lost consciousness.

Although his strength increased significantly and his size became extremely large, it brought about very negative consequences, and he no longer had control over his body...

"That must be some state of being in the [Awakening] phase, right?"

Chopper took a deep sniff, his little deer patting his chest, feeling both lingering fear and relief.

"Fortunately, my Rumble Ball has been improved and that situation will not occur again."

After consuming the modified Rumble Ball, he no longer became an irrational monster; instead, he was able to control 837's state.

If I calculate it this way, I should be considered to have successfully awakened... right?

"Of course, not all Zoan-type Devil Fruit users will experience this after awakening."

[Shakyamuni] continued to explain:

“There have been extremely rare precedents where, instead of being stripped of their personality, their original awakening was further enhanced.”

"Some Zoan-type powerhouses can condense their wild killing intent into a cloud of flames that wraps around their bodies, thereby increasing their speed and strength to a higher level."

"Of course, their wildness will be even stronger, and their killing intent will be even more chilling. At that time, they will become nothing less than weapons of humanity!!"

Chopper: "..."

Hmm, I don't have any flames or killing intent on me, so I shouldn't be one of those human weapons... right?

He thought about his gigantic state and felt quite uneasy.

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835. Nika's bloodline factor!! Mass production of the Sun God? Research and artificial Devil Fruits!!

"What if a Logia-type Devil Fruit user awakens their powers?"

Robin continued asking there.

"If a Logia-type ability is awakened, it is extremely difficult, extremely dangerous, and extremely powerful."

Vegapunk spat out three extremely high vomits in a row.

Indeed, compared to Zoan and Paramecia types, awakening a Logia type is very difficult, and the difficulty is definitely not ordinary.

However, the immense power to control the world that one gains after awakening is absolutely incomparable to that of Paramecia and Zoan types.

Unless this is a Zoan-type, specifically a Mythical Zoan, and a very powerful one at that.

"Is that so?"

Luffy, who clearly didn't understand anything, nodded as if he were being serious.

"However, I don't think awakening is that difficult."

He thought of his fifth-gear stance and couldn't help but grin, saying incredibly irritating things.

"nonsense!!"

The rest of the Straw Hat Pirates rolled their eyes in unison.

"The potion Link gave you before, and the training in the [Canned Food Workshop], if you still can't awaken your powers under those conditions..."

Usopp simply slapped Luffy on the head with a chop to the head, "Then you're really too lame, aren't you?!"

Well, even in the original version, Luffy only managed to awaken his powers after being hit three times by Guy's spiked club.

If a normal person suffered such injuries, they would have died long ago. There's no way they would still be alive and kicking there, waiting for the Devil Fruit user to awaken their powers.

It should be noted that in the past eight hundred years, the Gum-Gum Fruit has never "awakened," but now it has successfully "awakened" and is showing the form of "Sun God Nika."

The name has been changed back to [Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Nika Form].

This is also something that has attracted worldwide attention, as they do not know the reason for Straw Hat Boy's unique form.

The World Government will definitely keep this information tightly under wraps, but this cannot prevent scientists and archaeologists with various channels, as well as leaders of certain forces, from finding out the truth.

After all, for the past eight hundred years, the World Government has been trying to erase the legend of Nika from the history books.

However, many older residents have passed down Nika's name from generation to generation.

Even within the World Government, the guards in the prison where former CP9 member Who's Foz was imprisoned knew the legend of the sun god Nika.

Let Foz-Foe pray for some vague blessing.

It is evident that the legend of [Nika] is found in virtually every corner of the ocean.

It's all for the purpose of unleashing its full potential at a crucial moment in the future, so that this name can be spread far and wide once again!

"If possible...々～ ..."

Vegapunk looked sincerely at Luffy:

"I want to do some research on you~"

"Are you studying me?"

Luffy was taken aback at first, then blinked, and finally his eyes suddenly burst forth with a bright light:

"Are you also going to turn me into a cyborg?!"

He asked loudly in surprise.

"...Of course not!!"

Vegapunk looked at him speechlessly. "My transformation of Kuma into a cyborg was at the request of the World Government, and also due to the agreement he reached with the World Government as a member of the Revolutionary Army and a Shichibukai."

“I’m not like those two bastards, Judge and Caesar, who have a particular fondness for using human bodies for research. On the contrary, apart from the bear, I’ve basically never done any similar scientific research.”

"What I really want is a piece of your connective tissue..."

As Vegapunk finished speaking, he saw Luffy tilting his head and couldn't help but slap his forehead:

"I'm talking about your blood, hair, nails, and some skin fragments~"

He said somewhat speechlessly, "I'm very curious about your Devil Fruit ability, after all, it's extremely rare and hard to find."

"I am also very interested in the legend of the sun god [Nika] that has been passed down in the past."

"As you know, I am a scientist, and I have quite a bit of experience in the research of Devil Fruits."

"One of the reasons is that they are quite good at researching lineage factors."

"I want to see, compared to Kaido, how does a Zoan-type Devil Fruit, which is also a Mythical Zoan, and a legendary one at that, differ from his bloodline factors~~~"

As Vegapunk spoke, he couldn't help but rub his hands together, a burning glint in his eyes.

Kaido attacked World Government and Navy ships a long time ago for various bizarre reasons, such as being hungry, and was subsequently captured by the Navy several times.

Later, after being captured, Vegapunk extracted the bloodline factor from Kaido, a Devil Fruit user, and used it to spend twenty years of research to create the first artificial Devil Fruit.

He had truly felt the immense power contained within the Azure Dragon form of the Mythical Zoan type Fish-Fish Fruit.

Although he believed that the mismatch in the dragon's body color caused the research to fail, in reality, the artificial Devil Fruit also possessed the abilities of the true Mythical Zoan-type Azure Dragon Fruit.

If Vegapunk were to extract the bloodline factor of the Nika Fruit from Luffy again, and then research and analyze it under different time flows in the Canned Food Works, creating a completely new artificial Devil Fruit...

"Perhaps, it's possible to create many, many [Sun Gods]~"

Link stroked his chin, seemingly lost in thought.

Yes, the idea of ​​artificially mass-producing the "Sun God" using Vegapunk's science and technology also quietly emerged in his mind.

If there really were so many sun gods, appearing together on the sea...

For a moment, he thought of that scene and couldn't help but chuckle, finding it amusing.

Furthermore, he also possesses some complementary tools—seedlings.

Perhaps, this is a good opportunity to bring out the value of scientists.

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836 Let him do research on the booger~ The Devil Fruit power on the Seraph!!

"Just hair and nails? That's perfectly fine!"

Luffy, who showed no awareness of being treated as a research subject or lab rat, was quite indifferent to the situation.

Moreover, he was picking his nose with one hand, digging and digging until...

"Na!"

He pulled out a dark, lumpy thing, then held it to Vegapunk with his index finger:

"Do you want my booger? It could probably be used for research, right?"

The rest of the Straw Hat Pirates: "..."

As expected of Luffy.

Even Aokiji and Jinbe, one turned his face away and the other simply covered his head with his fish-man's paw, no longer looking.

The captain I chose truly doesn't have the bearing of one of the Four Emperors.

He showed absolutely no trace of the captain of the world's strongest pirate crew or the majestic figure of a sea overlord.

After all... no one like this would ever pick out their boogers and hand them to a scientist before, but now they have!

"Uh……"

Vegapunk's clones all reacted in different ways to this.

Edison was quite decisive; he simply leaped away from the spot.

Steam rose from Pythagoras's forehead, and he seemed about to speak but then stopped.

"You rascal~~~"

Lilith simply clasped her hands in a fist salute and stared at Luffy with a dangerous look.

[Shakyamuni] silently moved aside, trying to stay as far away from this dark, gooey thing as possible.

Vegapunk: "...Get away from me!!"

He had never seen anyone give him a booger to study before!

"Oh~"

Luffy nodded upon hearing this, and then flicked his finger in Usopp's direction.

"Aaaaaah, what are you doing, Luffy?!"

The latter was immediately frightened and ran around in a panic, inevitably causing chaos on the field once again.

Vegapunk watched this scene and couldn't help but stick out his long tongue and sigh.

Such chaos had never occurred on his island before.

Moreover, Luffy's nature gave him a premonition.