Chapter 34: The Prison Demon
"The third day of the third month of the sea calendar...... It's supposed to be March 3rd, right? I'm in some trouble......"
Faced with the situation in front of him, Ziggy began to pretend that he was writing a diary.
Before recalling it, Ziggy remembered that it was the night after returning from the "ghost ship", and after finishing his training, he rested in a hammock on the deck.
After this awakening, Ziggy found himself in a ...... In prison?
And it should be a dungeon, the surroundings are cold and damp, dripping with water everywhere, and the smell of decay is gushing straight into the nasal cavity, and it seems to be no problem to say that it is a sewer, and the reason why I immediately think of "prison" is also because I have just obtained the ability of "prison fruit"!
If he had just crossed over and encountered this scene, Ziggy would have thought that he had crossed into Naruto Uzumaki!
Ziggy strengthened his courage and continued to walk inside, and sure enough, he was flanked by cells after cells......
Walking all the way to the depths, Ziegy saw a huge chair, and the figure sitting on it was much smaller—this chair seemed to be for giants to sit on, and the figure on it was just an ordinary burly.
At this time, the opponent's elbows are propped up on his knees, his fingers are intertwined, and his chin is resting - relying on his long legs, he is doing the classic posture of "Commander Ikati" on his knees.
Because the light was too dim, Ziggy didn't see the other person's appearance clearly, but only vaguely felt a little familiar.
"What people!" Ziggy immediately asked, and took up the fish-man karate pose.
"Huh."
The other party sneered, put away Commander Ikati's posture, and raised his face slightly......
After Ziggy saw it clearly, his heart couldn't help but tighten, and his back foot turned into a front foot and took a slight step back.
Originally, Ziggy had done psychological construction for a long time, and at this time, even if he saw a face covered with barnacles and sprouts sticking out of it, Ziggy would not have such a big reaction.
However......
What Ziggy saw was a handsome face—at least Ziggy himself thought so, after all...... It's his own face!
"Are you...... What? Zigger's mind was in a mess, and the "mind reader's" ability to analyze micro-expressions was completely useless at this time.
"Me? I am you, and I am the fruit of prison. The figure on the prison throne leaned back a little at this time, folded his arms in front of his chest, and raised his legs, sitting like a big man.
"Devil Fruit Ability...... The product of union with part of my personality? Ziggy asked tentatively.
"Partial personality? You're really confident......" The figure on the Prison Throne said in a sneering tone, and after a pause, he said, "It should be said that under the power of the demon, the real you finally appeared...... I am you, but you are not me! ”
"So, what is your purpose?" Ziggy asked cautiously.
At the same time, Zig's mind quickly swirled with thoughts - he couldn't imagine that his ability to absorb Devil Fruits would have so many things!
In the original work, I haven't seen anyone "out of control" because of the Devil Fruit's ability, and now the anomaly is thought to have two possibilities.
One possibility is that the means by which Ziggy obtains his ability is not a normal direct consumption, so there are some deviations that other people with abilities do not have; Another possibility is that this is a normal phenomenon, but other people with abilities do not find it, and Ziggy saw this scene because of the ability to be either a "listener" or a "mind reader" to retrieve what is reflected in his mind.
"What is your purpose?" The figure of the Prison Throne asked rhetorically.
"Huh?" Ziggy was a little puzzled, wasn't it the "he" in front of him who made him appear here? Why do you ask me?
"It's nice not to have that hateful limit of power...... Want to harness the power of the prison demons? So are you ready to be a prisoner? The figure on the prison throne looked at his palm, as if feeling the power, and then asked Ziggy with a sneer.
"No, I don't have a way to be the 'bounded'......" Ziggy said, half complaining, half tentative.
Sequence 9 of the Bound Pathway is "Prisoner", but this has nothing to do with Ziggy.
Ziggy didn't know how much he knew about this "thing" in front of him that seemed to have a lot to do with him!
Do you have any memories of before you crossed over? Do you have...... The Way of God?
"Path? You seem to have mastered a lot of interesting things, and even before you broke through the barrier of that power and heard my whispers? Then let me see what you have in your hands......"
The figure on the prison throne stretched out his hand to Zig as he spoke, and suddenly countless fence-like iron branches on his palm stretched out, quickly plunging towards Ziggy.
Ziggy hurriedly rolled out of the way, the place where he was standing had been poked out of several holes, and the iron branches were gathered, if he hadn't dodged, he was afraid that he had been caught!
Seeing this, Zigger's heart moved slightly-this is a bit of the feeling of "threshold fruit" in the original work, but logically speaking, it should indeed be considered part of the ability of the prison fruit?
Originally, I thought that the prison fruit was nothing, but from another point of view, at least there is a feeling of the upper fruit of the threshold fruit!
In a way, the Devil Fruit ability is somewhat similar to the "sequence" of the God's Path—both of which are very "symbolic" powers.
Just as the "listener" is not just a good ear, but an extension of the meaning that "listening" symbolizes.
And the ability to fruit ...... In particular, the superhuman fruit of the special ability type and the natural fruit are undoubtedly extended to the "symbolic meaning" of the fruit's ability after they are developed to the extreme.
For example, Bartholomew Big Bear's Meat Ball Fruit has completely developed the "meat ball" into the concept of "bullet", and can even bounce away the abstract concept of pain, and the rustling fruit of Klockdahl has developed in the direction of drying and withering.
Ziggy's other discovery was......
This guy isn't much stronger!
At first, Ziggy thought that this would be an extremely terrifying opponent, especially since this was the opponent's home field, and it would be crushed like the Nine-Tails against Naruto in the growth period.
However...... After the real fight, Ziggy discovered the opponent's ability, and that's it!
Although it is stronger than itself, it is also limited in strength.
Here, Ziggy is naturally unable to use the power of the Prison Fruit, but his flexible posture and dodging under the opponent's long-range and large-range attacks can still do it, and even dare to gradually try to get close to the other party!
Prison Throne figure...... Prison Demons—so call it.
At this time, the prison demon is also very helpless, normally speaking, he should have all the strength of the boarder, plus "the ability to develop the fruit to the extreme", and the boarder is here, only his own strength, unable to mobilize the power of the fruit, it should indeed be a crushing situation.
But......
However, Ziggy still has the ability of the Divine Sequence!
In this way, it is equivalent to the two of them using the same attribute panel, but the Qige body has five divine sequences, and the prison demon has the ability of the prison fruit......
Because there is only sequence eight, even if there are five types, it will definitely be stretched in the face of "fruit ability developed to the extreme".
But it's not without the power to fight back, after all...... If you deprive the five god sequences of bonuses, Ziggy's attributes are actually very low, which greatly limits the ability of the fruit.
Although he didn't have the ability to be a "mind reader", the prison demon seemed to see Zigger's thoughts and couldn't help but be annoyed: "Bastard! You're the weakest, right? You're ...... It's too weak! ”