Awakening and Will

Chapter 32 Awakening and Will

The sea remained calm and still.

On the clear blue sea, the midday sun shone on a dilapidated pirate ship.

The pirate ship was riddled with dents and craters, clearly indicating that it had been through a fierce battle.

But at this moment, the pirate ship was completely silent.

Suzuki has already dealt with the remaining small fry pirates.

The Black Beast Pirates, who had been roaming the West Blue for who knows how long and had a total bounty of 40 million Berries, were completely wiped out!

The corpses of those lowly pirates were still lying scattered on the deck of the pirate ship, with so much blood that it flowed down the deck into the sea.

Meanwhile, Suzuki was dragging the body of Captain Black Pig - Adno Abumovich - into the iron box.

Although this black porpoise captain doesn't bathe and smells terrible.

However, Suzuki was only slightly displeased by this, after all, it was not a good habit for prey not to be hygienic.

Soon, Suzuki stuffed the black pig into the large iron box.

Fortunately, after the Black Beast Pirates captain died, the Devil Fruit's power seemed to instantly become ineffective.

The black boar, Adno Abumovich, also changed its size from over seven meters tall in its humanoid form back to about three meters in its humanoid form.

Although it is still very tall, a two-meter-long iron box can still be squeezed in if you really want to.

Looking at the corpse of Captain Black Pig, who had successfully entered the iron box, Suzuki wore a slightly satisfied expression and casually tossed away the severed leg in his hand.

Then, Suzuki opened his mouth wide and swallowed the iron box.

Sensing the lingering stench in the air, Suzuki frowned, then began the experiment expressionlessly.

He used the power of the Gluttony Fruit on himself, swallowing himself as well, leaving only a gluttonous mouth on the deck of the pirate ship outside.

Upon entering the interior of the Swallow Fruit, one is greeted by a vast, still dimly lit space.

Suzuki narrowed his eyes, and then, as if teleporting, appeared next to an iron box not far away.

The metal box doesn't need to be opened by hand, or even opened at all.

Suzuki merely had a thought, and dozens of fruits immediately emerged from the box as if floating on the surface of water.

The hard steel was so strangely soft that it seemed to become softer than paper.

Then, Suzuki had another thought, and a large iron box appeared out of thin air in front of him.

Inside was the body of the black porpoise, Adno Abumovich, which he had just stuffed inside.

Still showing no intention of opening the box, Suzuki stuffed dozens of fruits back into the large iron box using the same method he had used to take them out of the iron box before.

After that, tens of tons of metal blocks suddenly appeared around Suzuki, and these metal blocks spread out like water.

It surrounded the large iron box, then transformed into a spherical shape, restoring its hard nature.

One minute

Three minutes.

Ten minutes.

Soon, half an hour had passed.

A smile suddenly appeared on Suzuki's lips, and his eyes were filled with curiosity and interest.

Because he noticed something very interesting.

Suzuki waved his hand, and the thick, round metal block immediately became like flowing water, and then a strangely shaped fruit appeared.

Yes, this is a Devil Fruit, and it's very likely a Zoan-type Boar Fruit!

The Devil Fruit slowly floated to Suzuki's hand. Holding the fruit in his hand, Suzuki found it quite interesting.

"I never expected that we could actually keep this Devil Fruit!"

"During the Marineford War, after Whitebeard's death, Blackbeard successfully stole Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit power using his Dark-Dark Fruit. Was that a similar tactic?"

"No, it should be different."

"The Dark-Dark Fruit is somewhat similar to gravity; it must have forcibly held back the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, which was about to shift."

"And my Swallow-Swallow Fruit trapped this Zoan-type Boar Fruit in this alternate dimension."

"This has forced this Devil Fruit to find a host only in this space!"

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Suzuki's lips, and he thought of something even more interesting.

So, Suzuki picked up the Devil Fruit in his hand and held it in front of his eyes, recalling the scene from the original work, a strange light flashing in his eyes:

"The Five Elders once said that the Nika Fruit seems to be deliberately avoiding them."

"When Luffy transformed into Gear Fifth, Kaido asked him who Luffy really was at that moment?"

"Imperial Guard Beasts are a group of failed Zoan-type Devil Fruit users in Impel Down, and they spend their days in a daze."

"Normally, Devil Fruits are transferred to another Devil Fruit shortly after the host dies."

"But this Wild Boar Fruit made me wait for over half an hour in this alternate dimension."

A strange smile appeared on Suzuki's face as he looked at the Devil Fruit before him, speaking softly as if he were conversing with someone:

So~

"You're avoiding me, aren't you?"

Suzuki knew, of course, that the Zoan-type Boar Fruit could not respond to him.

Aside from the Sun God Nika, which may contain fragments of the will of the previous Devil Fruit user's host, "Joy Boy," most other Devil Fruits are unlikely to have any initiative or ability to act.

Unless it has been developed to the point of awakening!

Devil Fruits are interesting, but awakened Devil Fruits are even more interesting.

Suzuki speculated that all Devil Fruits, after being developed and awakened by a certain host,

Even if the host dies, the Devil Fruit's power will still retain some traces of the awakened host, even if it is transferred to other fruits.

That's perfectly normal.

In any case, once a Devil Fruit is developed to the point of awakening, it basically means that the person has completely mastered the power of that Devil Fruit.

Therefore, it is perfectly reasonable that there are traces left in Devil Fruits!

In that case, it's easy to understand what kind of state those Impel Down jailer beasts are in.

Those jailer beasts were originally human, but when they reached the awakening stage,

They couldn't withstand the marks left on the Devil Fruits, and their own will was completely eroded!

But if you are a person with a strong will, then you don't need to worry about this kind of thing.

It is possible that the life and will of a Devil Fruit originate from its former host.

This subtlety, so minute it can hardly be called the will of a living being, possesses virtually no intelligence other than a tiny instinct to escape and relocate.

Putting his thoughts aside, Suzuki didn't waste any more time.

With a calm expression, he took the Boar Fruit and slowly walked towards an exquisite iron box, where he placed the Devil Fruit inside.

Then they returned to the outside world, looking at the still blood-soaked deck of the Black Beast pirate ship.

He calmly walked past the pirates' corpses and arrived at the cabin of the pirate ship.

After finding some useful and valuable items in the cabin, Suzuki returned to his small wooden boat.

Then, the small wooden boat turned around and went around the large ship, continuing its journey towards the western summit.

Behind the small wooden boat, a raging fire was burning fiercely on the vast, boundless blue sea.

Thank you to the two great authors, Liuyunxinhun and Erciyuanhuajijun, for the monthly tickets. The author promises not to abandon the story, to continue updating, and to steadfastly guarantee the completion of the work!

(End of this chapter)