Chapter 37 I have no interest in the Guanguan Fruit
"But I can't teach you."
Shanks finally shook his head. "I came to the West Sea on my own will, and my friends are still waiting for me on the Grand Line! So I'm sorry, Lynch, I don't have time to teach you Haki..."
"In that case, forget it!" Lin Qi said with a smile.
Everyone has their own adventure.
Perhaps only an old man like Rayleigh, who has retired and lives in seclusion, would have the leisure to spend two years to teach Luffy how to practice Haki...
"So from now on... we can only drift slowly on the sea like this?"
"It seems so!" Shanks laughed.
"It's so boring!" Lynch lay down directly, using his backpack full of banknotes as a pillow. "Come back." He hooked his finger at BIB.
The armor substitute turned into a ball of dark energy and returned to Lynch's body.
Lynch frowned and hummed twice, adapting to the "experience points" added to himself.
He took out the green Den Den Mushi from his pocket and peeled the remaining fish meat for it to eat.
"Bululu boulu..." Little Green was so lively after seeing the light of day again. He arched back and forth in Lin Qi's palm and ate happily.
Lynch continued to sort out the stand-in's memories.
From the chaos on the island, to the original plan to take Robin away from the island, and then the sudden encounter with Aokiji...
It would be much more convenient if I could know the first time I see Aokiji in the tavern at "BIB"!
Lynch thought to himself.
“Bululu…”
Lynch felt that the telephone bug that was moving around in his palm was too itchy, so he put it on the ground and let it sit next to the pile of fish bones and chew it slowly.
He then thought about it and released his stand "BIB" again.
"Huh?"
The moment the pitch-black armor appeared, both Lynch and it's expressions changed slightly.
"…"
“…”
The original body and the substitute looked at each other and noticed some changes in each other.
Lin Qi thought for a moment and said with a smile: "It seems that your growth potential is not low, is it A-level? Come on, give it a try."
He reached out to BIB.
『BIB』 touched his "ear" and actually removed a small piece that looked like an in-ear headset.
It threw the "headset" to Lynch.
Lynch raised his hand to take it, put it into his ear hole and tapped it twice with his fingers.
Buzz...
A curtain of light appeared, covering the upper half of Lynch's head.
In particular, in front of his eyes, something like a virtual screen was formed, which was presenting in real time what "BIB" saw at the moment - that is, Lynch, who was staring at the virtual screen nearby with lifeless eyes.
"Don't move, let me take control."
As Lynch spoke, he focused his attention on the virtual screen in front of him. Gradually, his perspective seemed to become unified with that of the stand armor, and part of his consciousness seemed to be injected into "BIB".
With a thought, he controlled "BIB" to rotate on the spot.
The view flickered and turned to Shanks. The red-haired man was teasing the green Den Den Mushi with a fish bone, stretching and shrinking it in a mean way... Finally, the annoyed green one opened his mouth and bit it! "Wow!" Shanks hurriedly threw the green one away, and it fell on the broken wood with a plop. He blew on his fingers, "Damn it, it's obviously a Den Den Mushi, why does its bite hurt so much?"
"..." There seemed to be a subtle overlap between the voice of Shanks heard by Lynch's own ears and the voice heard through the "earphone" of "BIB". "It seems... there is a delay?"
Just like playing games, a slight delay of tens or hundreds of milliseconds, although it does not affect the operation much, will still make people feel subjectively uncomfortable.
Lynch thought about it for a moment and felt that this flaw was still within an acceptable range.
Bang! The dark stand-in armor suddenly disintegrated.
Visors, helmets, breastplates, back armor, arm armor, leg armor... like mechanical parts, entangled with dark stand energy, they were floating in the air.
The mask with white light at the eyes floated, spun, and rotated in the air before it was finally "straightened".
"It's really hard to control..." Lin Qi thought to himself, "Would you like to try the maximum distance?"
As he thought of this, the helmet, breastplate, back armor, arm armor, leg armor... all the "mechanical parts" spread out in all directions and flew away along the sea surface.
Only the mask with white light in the eyes was floating in the same place, spinning slightly...
Shanks, who was sitting on the broken wooden board, pushed a pile of fish bones into the sea and teased the green Den Den Mushi. He noticed the sudden change in Lynch's "ghost ability" and couldn't help but let out a light "Huh".
He clasped his hands and looked around, gloating: "Oh no, your ghost has rebelled?"
"It's just a new trick I learned..." Lynch said through the visor, and thought to himself: "Sure enough, it's just like the original characteristics of 'BIB'... There is no distance limit at all!"
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Lynch felt that even if he was trapped by someone one day and could not escape temporarily, "BIB" could exist forever, and could even wander around every corner of the four seas... But if he did that, if it was delayed indefinitely, when it returned to its original body, Lynch didn't know how much suffering he would have to endure... Even if he was the stand user of "BIB", he did not have the confidence that he could withstand that level of "experience points".
Even the non-human physique of Prince Naruto could not withstand the fatigue of training a large number of shadow clones and fainted on the spot.
If Lynch didn't want to die, he would not leave "BIB" away for a long time.
As he thought about this, he controlled the virtual screen and his mind moved.
Swish, swish, swish! The "armor parts" wrapped in the dark substitute energy that had been scattered on the sea surface a hundred meters away suddenly stopped, turned around, and all flew upwards in unison.
"Can it only rise about 10 meters..."
Lynch wore a virtual screen on his head and looked into the face mask floating 10 meters in the air.
When his attention accidentally shifted from "looking at Lynch from the visor's eyes" to "Lynch looking at the visor in the sky", Lynch was separated from the state of "remote control hosting".
The visor floating in the sky shook twice, and BIB's own consciousness came online to stabilize the visor.
Lynch concentrated his attention and "re-entered" the avatar's perspective through the virtual screen in front of him. Despite the "delay", he controlled "BIB" again.
With a thought, he made all the scattered "armor parts" fly back.
Under Lynch's gaze, the arm armor covered with red flame patterns flew close to the sea surface and went straight to the ice surface, while his attention was focused on the virtual screen in front of him.
He saw himself reaching out his hand, but it brushed past the arm armor with red flame patterns...
"It's really hard to move while hosting 'BIB'. If I'm not careful, I'll be 'offline' on 'BIB'..." Lynch thought to himself, "I feel like my own 'delay' is higher than that of the avatar. What's going on..."
The arm armor with red flame patterns that flew over its head spun, turned around, and headed straight for the main body on the ice again.
Lynch took a deep breath.
It's a wonderful experience.
He felt that his perspective was split in two... He was controlling the various parts of his double while moving his own movements...
Click! Lynch's right hand slipped into the flying red flame-patterned arm armor, and his fingers moved normally.
The other "armor parts" had also flown over, wrapped in a layer of dark stand energy, floating in front of him.
The visor lowered and floated in front of Lynch himself.
Lynch watched himself stand up, and with his right hand covered with red flame patterns, he grabbed the floating breastplate, and from the inverted triangle-shaped "reactor" that glowed white, he grabbed a triangular chip covered with tubular patterns.
Take care of the fruit...
Lynch was thinking about the devil fruit ability of the leader who seemed to be "gunpowder" that he had seized from his previous stand's memory.
The right hand covered with red flame patterns grabbed the glowing devil fruit chip and implanted it into Lynch's own chest.
(End of this chapter)