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29.41% One Piece: Dream of Immortality / Chapter 150: Research and Development

章 150: Research and Development

"You're all crazy! Not you Cabby, you're just crazy cute, but the two of you are completely insane! Why in the world would you provoke the Big Mom pirates?!" Perona ranted at Cherry and Robin.

"It all worked out perfectly though? Robin snatched the devil fruit from the marine guy, no problem. Then while I distracted Katakuri, you hollowed Charlotte woman and her crew to snatch the fancy candies too. You helped, so that means you are guilty too." Cherry said.

"I-I only helped because Cabby asked me to! You're the one who put HER up to it! It's all your fault that Big Mom is going to kill us all!" Perona practically screamed, the only thing holding her back from completely freaking out being Cabernet's arms around her.

"She'll probably eat us, while we're still alive too." Robin joked darkly.

"Noooooooo!" Perona started hyperventilating in panic.

"What's the big deal? Big Mom might be angry, but it's just a devil fruit. She won't personally hunt us down over something so relatively small, will she?" Cherry spoke reassuringly.

"Actually, she'll probably be angrier about the candies. I've heard she has quite the sweet tooth." Robin added.

"Nobody would go on a rampage over sweets, Robin. That's ridiculous."

"Mama is going to go on a rampage, Nii-chan! What do we do?! Not even you can escape if her hunger pangs start up again!" Brulee was panicking as well.

"Calm down, Brulee. Mama didn't know about the candies, we were just going to get the devil fruit. She'll be angry that we didn't get it, but I just need to do some extra work for her and she'll forgive us. As long as no one tells her about the candies, that is. They aren't easily acquired so if her hunger pangs start up over them, she might destroy all of Totto Land." Katakuri spoke calmly, having recovered from his outraged emotions.

"Y-you're right as always, Nii-chan." Brulee started to calm down as well.

She glanced menacingly at their crew who were listening in filled with anxiety. "None of you are to speak of the candies. If Mama DOES find out about them, you'll be the scapegoats. So keep your mouths shut, understand?"

The crew nodded furiously and saluted the siblings. They didn't need to be told that. Big Mom's hunger pangs were a natural disaster and they all had family in Totto Land. They wouldn't dare risk their lives, even without being told.

"Katakuri-sama!" One of the pirates spoke up. "What about the marines?"

That was an important question that didn't have a simple answer. Most of them had already been knocked out by Katakuri's conqueror's haki when Brulee had shouted about the candies, but Sentomaru and a few of the stronger marines had resisted on account of the fact that they weren't the main target of the pressure.

Normally, they'd just kill them all and be done with it. The problem lies in the fact that Sentomaru worked directly under Vegapunk. Big Mom, as a collector of people, would not want to sour relations with the unmatched genius. Stealing one devil fruit wouldn't be a big deal, but killing a valued subordinate might be.

Katakuri looked over at the marine ship. Sentomaru overheard the question as the Big Mom pirate ship had already pulled up alongside their ship by now.

He turned to look at his still conscious crew members. "This is classified information. Speak of it to no one."

Marines were quite accustomed to being given gag orders like this, so they accepted it easily. Even more so knowing they'd die if they didn't.

Katakuri turned away and gave the orders to set sail once more, this time to return home to Totto Land. Sentomaru and the few marines heaved sighs of relief as they watched the Big Mom vessel disappear over the horizon.

"You've got your devil fruit, now. So what next? Are you going to piss off Kaido too, for good measure?" Perona said, still somewhat peeved about the whole affair with the Charlotte siblings. Cabernet had slowly calmed her down with some gentle coaxing, though.

"We can if you'd like? I don't know why you're being so timid, Perona. Didn't Moria want to be king of the pirates too? You were bound to come up against the emperors by following him too." Cherry said.

They were already back at the Kano Kingdom, enjoying a nice meal after the excitement they just experienced.

"Hmph! Moria-sama already learned his lesson in the New World and was preparing for his next attempt, before you and that rubber monkey of a captain ruined everything!" Perona complained.

"Ouch!" Perona looked back at Cabernet, whose lap she was sitting in, with a pout. "Why did you pinch me?"

"Luffy is a good boy. Don't say mean things about him." Cabernet stated simply.

"Hmph, fine…" Perona muttered, reluctantly agreeing.

"As for what next? None of your business. We'll return to Baltigo tomorrow." Cherry said rudely, earning a pinch from Robin herself.

The next morning they said their goodbyes to Chinjao, Sai, and Boo, then made their journey back to Baltigo as she said they would.

Now Cherry had a choice to make.

Would she fuse the devil fruit with either her revolver or spear, taking the chance that it wouldn't be enough to push her cultivation to the perfection of the fifth realm. Or would she risk losing the devil fruit by attempting to refine it into a far more potent pill form.

The biggest risk of the latter was whether the pill would retain the vital energy inscriptions within the devil fruit, or if they would be destroyed in the process. If it failed, she may even lose the potent vital energy that was necessary for the perfection process, let alone the abilities that the devil fruit would confer to one of her blood bound weapons.

After some thought, she decided to apply her primary focus into studying the devil fruit and devil fruit users she had access to. The chance of success could only go up with each breakthrough of her understanding of the mysterious fruit.

Luckily she had quite a few to analyze inside the headquarters of the revolutionary army.

She asked them to demonstrate their abilities for her so she could observe the changes with her Life Sense. Some were willing, but others were less so.

Still, she compiled a great deal of information and started mapping out what she knew about every devil fruit she has come across.

After a few weeks of hard work, Cherry had some decent results to show from it. Not only was she reasonably confident in creating a devil fruit cultivation pill, she even had a strong enough understanding of vital energy inscriptions to attempt to create her own. Though they would be pretty basic in comparison to devil fruit.

However, first came her breakthrough into the sixth realm. Then she could worry about making her own vital energy inscriptions.

Cherry didn't stay on Baltigo to attempt her breakthrough, of course. It would cause quite the alarm and they would be liable to disturb her.

Robin did come along to observe for herself this time, as she missed it the last time she did so on Long Ring Long Land. Perona didn't want to be left behind alone, but Cherry told her she was out of luck and ruthlessly abandoned her like a litter of puppies in a cardboard box on a rainy day.

Arriving on some random rock jutting out of the ocean, Cherry was dropped off and Cabernet flew some distance away with Robin to watch from a safe distance.


章 151: Unexpected Audience

"Is this really going to be alright? It was quite the spectacle the last time wasn't it? Cherry even came back from it totally bald." Robin asked, slightly worried.

Robin was sitting on Cabernet's shoulder in her figurehead form.

"Probably, I think." Cabernet said, eating popcorn from a bucket in her open chest cavity. "She almost died the last time, sure, but she's a lot stronger now isn't she?"

Robin didn't like the sound of that, but it was true that Cherry was much stronger now. Her defensive capabilities had increased the most from what she understood as well.

A few kilometers away, Cherry was sitting on a spire of stone jutting out of the ocean preparing her mind for the breakthrough.

The cultivation pill made from the devil fruit was prepared. Strangely enough, the pill took on the shape and coloration of the devil fruit, only smaller.

Her analysis of the devil fruit's inscription suggested to her that it was a paramecia type of some kind. Thus she decided to use it on her revolver, as the firearm was mostly a weapon she made to amuse herself, so no matter what manner of ability came from the devil fruit she would be able to accept the result.

If her spear got a trash power, she'd be pretty pissed off about it. Any devil fruit power could theoretically be mastered to a level to make you a powerhouse at the top of the world, but Cherry only had so much time in a day. She wouldn't waste time trying to master every devil fruit ability available to her. She'd just focus on her fuse fuse fruit and maybe her lightning sword since it was powerful.

Cherry embedded her sword into the stone next to her, knowing it would fly off on its own anyways in a few moments. Then she pulled out her revolver and placed the devil fruit pill against it, activating her fuse fuse fruit and fusing the two together.

The fusion went as expected and the revolver's black metallic sheen started to transform into a slightly transparent crystalline material. Cherry ignored the changes happening for now and focuses on drawing in the extra vital energy to push her cultivation realm to the perfection stage.

Her gamble had paid off, the energy was boosted by a great deal and was now plenty to push her cultivation to the peak.

A complication occurred however. Where before the devil fruit's excess energy naturally dissipated when she no longer needed it, it now remained in her body. This was the result of turning it into a pill, as cultivation pills are designed to retain the energy without letting it escape.

As a result, the energy was forcing her to go through with the breakthrough immediately without the chance to stabilize her vital energy first.

'No matter. I can handle it.' Cherry thought to herself, stabilizing her energy as much as she could before…

*Flash!*

A bolt of lightning shot up into the sky, followed by a rumble of thunder. Her sword was no longer in the place it once was.

Robin and Cabernet saw the bolt of lightning seemingly disappear into the sky above.

*Whoosh*

A powerful wind suddenly picked up, blowing their hair towards Cherry's direction.

"Is it a cyclone?! I knew she shouldn't have done this outside of an island's stable weather…" Robin said.

The powerful wind swirled around the spire of rock and soon the ocean followed suit. Dark clouds formed, swirling overhead and pitch black in color. The surrounding sky started to tinge a sickly green.

Robin noticed that the black cloud was spreading far wider than it had the last time she witnessed it. Its enormity could probably be seen for hundreds of kilometers.

The ocean beneath the rock spire swirled and swirled until it became a maelstrom just as wide. If one looked over the edge, they could spot sea kings being dragged into the black depths below, powerless to resist.

The flashes of lightning started with the cloud, a similar pale and sickly green color as the surrounding sky.

One of the streaks of lightning that Cherry caught a glimpse of looked like a serpent of some kind.

"Oh boy…" Cherry said aloud, knowing she was in for a bad time.

Roughly 30 kilometers away, on a small island cloud riding a giant bubble and with a circular rainbow floating above it.

Several long bearded old men dressed in robes were frantically running about in a large laboratory filled with strange scientific instruments.

"Change course! We have to get as close as possible to the anomalous weather phenomenon! We've never seen anything like this before, not even in the historical records! So exciting!" An old man with a graying blonde beard, wearing a blue robe and hat.

A young woman in jeans and a bikini top walked into the laboratory. Her straight, orange hair extended just below her shoulders and she carried an odd staff with her.

"Haredas, please don't get too close to that thing! It's super dangerous!" Nami protested, just the thought of getting closer to the ominous cloud sending a shiver down her spine.

"Nonsense, girl! We won't be bested by any weather and we need to get closer for better readings on our instruments!" Haredas explained calmly.

This wasn't the first time they've raced towards a dangerous weather phenomenon. Since Nami has been with them, they've purposefully cast themselves into multiple blizzards and thunderstorms and even into two of the Grand Line's infamous cyclones!

"This time it's different though!" Nami pleaded exasperatedly. "That thing is far worse than a cyclone, I can feel it!"

"Oh, and you're right to think so Nami! However, this is our lifes' work, our calling! Several months ago we detected a similar, but much weaker phenomenon. It was too far away so we weren't able to get close enough for any proper readings, but now we have another chance and we aren't going to miss it!" Haredas said, visibly excited.

"Several months ago? Did you detect it near Long Ring Long Land?" Nami asked, struck with a memory.

"Why yes, I believe we did. How did you know?" Haredas asked, with a tilt of his head.

Nami remembered how Cherry had run off just before and came back just after that ominous black cloud back then. Completely bald, no less.

'Is Cherry involved in this somehow?' She couldn't help but wonder.

Nami no longer protested against the old weather wizards. She wanted to see if Cherry was nearby after it was over. It would be nice to see one of her friends again so soon.

"Oi oi oi oi oi oi oi! I can't contain myself! How marvelous! Such erratic weather has never been seen before outside of the New World! Moreover, none of our instruments showed any indications that such a thing would happen! It's as if it simply appeared from nothing at all, unheard of!" Haredas animatedly talked to himself. The other weather wizards weren't much better than he was.

"Surely that isn't possible? Is it the work of a devil fruit instead of being natural?" Nami thought it unlikely their advanced techniques could truly have missed it entirely.

"Don't underestimate us. Weather created from a person's will via a devil fruit or technology would have telltale signs of intelligent design. No human could create a wild beast like this, not even the world famous Vegapunk could fool us in our area of expertise." Haredas spoke with confidence. "Though I suppose it's possible human actions could have set off a chain reaction, but for a weather phenomenon of this size and power, that's very unlikely."

'Maybe it's just a coincidence after all?' Nami doubted.

*ZAP! HISS!*

A streak of lightning came racing towards Cherry and bit down on her shoulder like the maw of a snake.

It was only the first of the many to come, and yet its strength was already half as strong as the final strike from her previous tribulation.

Worse still, this bolt of lightning had a vague semblance of intelligence. It was more persistent than before and tried to deal as much damage as possible.

Cherry's body was much stronger now too, though. Even the damage done to her flesh was healing at a visible rate.

'I can do this!' Cherry thought to herself, rousing her own morale. Negativity would do no good to her here, in fact it might just kill her.

*ZAAAP! HISS!*

The other shoulder was bitten, electricity raged through her body. First going for the heart, then giving up and attacking elsewhere when it found the heart was too well defended.

Robin and Cabernet had moved further away as even the ambient static was stinging their skin from where they were before.

"That looks a lot worse than last time. Nevermind, Cherry's gonna die. Wanna be in my harem with Perona?" Cabernet said, casually squeezing maple syrup over her second bucket of popcorn.

"Fufufu. I don't think so, but thank you for the offer." Robin appreciated that Cabernet was trying to improve her mood. It helped, but not by much.

'You can get through this, Cherry…' Robin hoped in her heart that it was true.


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