Chapter 753: Going to Heaven (5700 words)

[Chapter Heading Serialization·The Third Women's Country 5·'Haina, there really is a women's country!']

[While Haina and the other three were replenishing supplies along the way, the short old woman always followed them closely, with a look of distrust and vigilance on her face. Koyatel, Gabord, Kamui and the others did not care about such old women, but suddenly remembered something and enthusiastically talked to Haina about their previous trip to the Women's Country on Nine Snake Island with Nico Robin and the others... The short old woman nearby was stunned when she heard it.]——

A mass of black hair spread out and floated in the warm water of the spacious bathtub like black seaweed.

Hancock, who was completely immersed in the water, blinked. The voices of Lynch and Robin, speaking to her across the water, sounded farther away than they actually were, flowing into her ears like water: "...How do you feel?"

Hancock couldn't speak, but she answered with her actions.

Her long hair instantly turned into countless snakes like dark clouds swimming in the water. Her appearance became even more charming, with a circle of eye shadow surrounding her dark golden snake pupils.

Crash!

Hancock raised her head and broke through the water, her head exposed and leaning against the edge of the bathtub. She let out a long breath and said in surprise: "It's true! I still have the ability of Medusa, but I can't be restrained by water."

Even though her whole body was immersed in water, she did not feel the powerless feeling that people with special abilities had felt before when they fell into the sea.

In other words, Hancock has eliminated the biggest weakness of the Devil Fruit user.

and……

Lynch and Robin looked at each other. Lynch had been unable to remove the Medusa Fruit from Hancock before, and thought that the devil fruit ability in her body was equivalent to "disappearing", which means...

With Hancock now, even Im is afraid that he can’t use the method of creating the same kind of devil fruit to take away Hancock’s abilities from a distance.

This is undoubtedly a good thing, as Hancock's safety is better guaranteed.

But a problem naturally arises with this.

Why is this happening?

"Could it be because..." Lin Qi sat by the bathtub, touching his chin with a serious expression, "It's full?"

Bang! Hancock, blushing, punched him on the back of the head.

Dr. Robin was very professional as a researcher and shook his head, "Why is this the reason?"

Before Hancock could nod in approval, Robin continued, "It's always the same. But there hasn't been such a change before, but today..."

“Shut up!” Hancock shyly covered Robin’s face with her hands. Robin’s vague voice came from between her fingers: “And… me too… but my Hana-Hana-no-Mikoto…didn’t undergo the same changes…”

Lin Qi nodded and said, "That's true..."

Wow, half of Hancock's face sank into the water, leaving only a pair of beautiful eyes full of shyness above the water.

"Hancock, if you don't come out, the water will boil." Robin kindly reminded.

Lin Qi said: "The bath water is bubbling, is it because of a fart?"

"You're the one who farted!" Hancock poured water on them, angrily looked at the two people who were deliberately teasing her, turned her head away, and said, "Humph!"

Lynch and Robin couldn't help but laugh.

After being together for so many years, Hancock is still as timid as before and gets shy very easily... Her Majesty the Empress is thirty years old, but she still retains the innocence of a little girl, which is actually quite rare.

"I'm not totally kidding."

Robin was serious, stroking his chin and thinking, "This strange change in the Devil Fruit that happened to Hancock - the ability of the Devil Fruit was retained, but the factor of the Devil Fruit itself seemed to have disappeared and could not be taken out. Even you, Lynch, could not distinguish the 'Medusa Fruit' in Hancock. This change, let's temporarily name it 'fusion'. Even if the fundamental reason for the 'fusion' is not clear, the only one who caused this change could be you, Lynch."

"But Hancock's ability has been 'fused', but mine hasn't." Dr. Robin thought for a moment and looked at Hancock, "Hancock, has your Medusa Fruit awakened?"

Hancock said: "Of course I'm awake."

The awakening of animal-type abilities is the easiest among all the Devil Fruits. With Hancock's extraordinary talent, she has obtained this ability for more than ten years, so it is natural for her to develop it to the awakened level.

Robin nodded, "No wonder you can be with Lynch--"

Hancock pulled Robin's cheeks in embarrassment.

"If it was the awakening, and it was because of me that led to the 'fusion' of her abilities," Lin Qi shook his head and pointed at himself, "Have you forgotten that my Magnet-Magnet Fruit had awakened before? According to this theory, I should have been the first to 'fusion' the Magnet-Magnet Fruit ability."

Hancock also said: "I awakened Medusa's ability several years ago, why did it change only today?"

"So what did you do differently last night..."

Lynch said, his speech slowing down, and Robin was obviously thinking the same thing.

Hancock was stunned and murmured, "Because I bit you yesterday?"

"Because she drank your blood?" Robin looked at Lynch.

Lin Qi said: "It's still the same contradiction. If that's the case, then I should be the first to 'fuse' the Magnetic-Magnetic Fruit. Whether it's awakening or my blood, I have enough of it. If it can be fused in this way, then I would have fused it long ago!"

"Let's give it a try!" Hancock opened her mouth, her fangs turned into sharp snake fangs, wrapped in dark armed colors, she pulled Lynch's arm and bit it.

After two teeth holes were bitten, blood oozed from the skin. Robin lifted the hair beside her ear, lowered her head and put her red lips on it, licking the blood with a faint fishy smell clean - she had to hurry, otherwise with Lynch's self-healing speed, the wound would heal in a blink of an eye.

As a result, after waiting for a long time, there was no movement from the Flower-Flower Fruit in Robin's body.

She is still a devil fruit user and is still afraid of water.

It doesn't seem right to say that she failed because her ability had not yet awakened. - Lynch replaced the Magnet-Magnet Fruit and bit himself, smacking the bloody taste for a long time, but nothing changed.

"It seems that this is a coincidence and cannot be replicated."

Lin Qi was not the kind of person who would dwell on such things, so he quickly joked, "After all the unknown factors came together, you reached heaven and accomplished this miracle?"

"What heaven..." Hancock muttered with her cheeks flushed. Obviously she had misunderstood.

…………

This girl Hancock seems to be favored by fate, but this kind of thing is actually very common for her and others can't envy it.

The research was fruitless, so Lynch and Robin put the matter aside for the time being.

For Hancock, who was almost killed by Im because her Medusa Fruit was taken away from her, it is always a reassuring thing that her abilities have been "fused" and she is no longer a "ability user".

After washing and dressing neatly, Instructor Lin Da started a new day of classes.

Today is the last day of the first month of intensive training. It is also the day after the "baseline test" on the first day of training when all the trainees will use any means to defeat Instructor Lin Qi. This is the first stage of the graduation assessment.

What are the results of this month's practice?

Lynch was walking in the jungle carrying a golden iron rod, and suddenly stopped.

Huh... The cold wind blew around, and the dead leaves were rolled up.

“Hehehe,”

The gilded stick landed on the ground, and Lin Qi supported his waist with one hand, smiling, "Are you so impatient?"

In the surrounding woods, figures were lurking.

"What on earth are you doing dilly-dallying like that?!"

Sanji was the first to jump out, cursing. He stomped on the moon step and ran in a zigzag pattern in the air. He raised his devil kick and kicked Lynch in the face, "How enviable!!!"

"This idiot!" Nami complained, raising her golden staff to the sky, boom, billions of thunders were brewing.

"Flame Feet?"

Lynch made a fist seal with one hand, igniting a deep red flame, and punched Sanji's feet, "It just so happens that I also know a little bit of the Flame Fist!"

Boom! Fists and feet collided, blazing waves of fire shot out, and the grass leaves around the ground quickly turned yellow.

Bang! Sanji was knocked away by a punch. The three-sword swordsman behind him slashed like a whirlwind, and the strong domineering energy wrapped around the three black blades like running water, heading straight for Lynch.

"Gear Second: Armament Haki!" As Luffy shouted, hot white steam shot out.

Luffy was not at the forefront of the flowing steam. His speed was too fast for the steam to catch up with him. The black rubber fist and the three-sword style secret technique had already attacked Lynch.

Without seeing how Lynch moved, blue-black domineering lightning suddenly burst out from Zoro and Luffy's bodies.

"The slash is much sharper, but it's still far from enough."

Zoro seemed to be hit by a cross blade, and blood spurted out of his body.

"It's great that I can use Yi Zui Ye's stick. That's a lot of progress."

Luffy's eyes almost rolled back, his body spun around and was hit by a stick, breaking several trees.

"One hundred million volts... Lei Ying Mermaid."

As Nami pointed downwards, a ball of dense lightning with a diameter of ten meters poured down on Lynch's head, vaguely forming the outline of a giant mermaid, which opened its arms and embraced Lynch on the ground, drowning him.

In the white lightning that looked like a waterfall, a figure carrying a golden iron rod walked out step by step.

"Sure kill!" Usopp fired his slingshot, "Armament Maru!"

At the same time, Amorine, Anne, and Cavendish attacked from the flank and took the opportunity to attack Lynch.

Bang! With a loud bang, Cavendish and the other two flew off Lynch, and not far away Usopp screamed in pain. The armed bullet he shot returned to the original path and hit him on the head.

"..." Usopp touched his forehead and couldn't help swallowing. It was easy for the bullet returned by Lynch to penetrate his head, but the difficult part was... not breaking his head.

Lynch's control over strength has reached an astonishing level. When facing different targets, he can easily control the strength of his attacks.

Just like a monster.

“Roar~~!!”

A tall and mighty furry monster rose from the ground, and on the other side was a huge black dragon, slapping Lynch on the ground from the left and right.

Marian splashed paint, and a huge hypnotic array enveloped Lynch...

Brook swung his sword and slashed out a cold attack that seemed to come from the underworld...

"Wind is coming - cannon!!!"

Franky has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time...

…

This summary assessment of the first phase lasted until lunch time.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

A large area of ​​trees were broken, some of them were charred by lightning and were emitting thick smoke.

Lynch was still standing, but on the ground around him, there were people lying in a mess, Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Cavendish, Oyu...

Looking at this scene, Tulip said, "It's still a long way to go."

Rayleigh said: "This has exceeded my expectations. In just one month, Luffy and the others' strength has improved several times!"

Tulip said: "So, we are still a long way off."

Over there, in front of Lynch, the only person still standing was... another Lynch.

Lynch raised the golden iron rod and gently touched the forehead of the "Lynch" opposite him. The latter made a "woosh" sound and fell backwards like a golden mountain being pushed over and a jade pillar being overturned... Like a broken mirror, the outside of "Lynch" collapsed and turned back into the appearance of the boat elf Meili. The little guy panted tiredly and murmured, "Brother Hei is really awesome..."

At this point, the first phase summary and assessment is over.

All the students...were completely defeated.

"Overall, I'm quite satisfied." Lynch brushed the dust off his arms and looked around.

Luffy, Zoro, and Otama climbed up and sat down one after another. Nami, Sanji, Usopp and the others didn't want to move for the time being. Brook and Marian seemed to be ice sculptures and had not yet completely thawed. Franky pulled up the one-armed young man Xiangyun from his body.

Lin Qi smiled and said, "Now, I believe you all have a basic understanding of your own situation. You don't need me to give you too much advice on what to do in the next eleven months, how much energy to put into the Ripple Fist and combat power, and how much energy to allocate to your respective 'professions'. Just figure it out for yourself!"

Before Usopp, Nami and the others could breathe a sigh of relief, they heard Lynch say, "However, there will be such an assessment at the end of every month."

"That's great!" Luffy, Zoro and others were cheered up.

"I hope that in the assessment at the end of the twelfth month," Lin Qi said with a smile, carrying the golden iron rod, "I, the instructor, can be 'knocked down to the ground' by you. Don't let me down!"

"We can't stop the games every weekend." Luffy stood up on his knees.

"Of course." Zoro let out a long breath.

"Let's eat first." Lin Qi said, "We have half a day off in the afternoon. We are going to make balloons and contact the old men in Visalia. Nami, aren't you very jealous of their weather science? You already know how to practice the Ripple Fist. For the next eleven months, you can decide the amount of training you want to do every day."

"Great!" Nami excitedly flew over and hugged Lynch.

Zoro turned around and said, "Hey, perverted cook, are you okay?"

"Damn Lynch..." Sanji pounded the ground with tears in his eyes, "Why is he so popular with women..."

"Because brother Lynch is not like you who always looks so lecherous." Amorin and Marian passed by, and her words once again hit Sanji hard.

A Yu brushed the dust off his clothes, shook his head and walked towards the Nine Snake warriors who were bringing food.

…

"But what if the old gentlemen of Little Sky Island aren't free?"

While eating together, Usopp said while chewing his meat, "If there is no prior communication, the chances of the other party responding at any time are relatively small..."

That's a problem.

However, Lynch thought about it and waved to the boat elf, "Meili, come here."

"Oh~" Meili came over and after listening to Lin Qi's words, she nodded vigorously and saluted, "Okay! Brother Hei, leave it to me!"

…

After lunch, everyone who had a half-day holiday returned to the neighboring Women’s Island, Nine Snake City, in a lively manner.

In the palace, Nami helped Robin make a magnetic balloon to contact Visalia. Originally, Lynch planned to just hang a note under the balloon, but after Usopp's reminder, he changed his approach.

"It doesn't matter whether they are free or not, we can just go there by ourselves." Lynch smiled and touched Mary's little head.

The floor-to-ceiling mirror placed in the palace is on the wall of the mirror world, adjacent to the mirror stored in Shaqi's bar in the Sabaody Archipelago.

Mary touched the mirror with one hand, and quickly created another mirror out of thin air with her other hand.

In the mirror world, this new mirror was born in an adjacent position to the one in the Nine Snake Palace and the one in Xia Qi's bar.

Meli used the power of the Mirror-Mirror Fruit to shrink the newly created mirror to the size of half a palm.

"Can it be shrunk further?" Usopp's eyes widened. "What a scoundrel..."

The remaining mirror, which was only half the size of a palm, was simply wrapped and protected, then tied to a magnetic balloon and thrown into the sky. Under the traction of the magnetic force, the balloon carried the broken mirror to Visalia, a small island in the sky that was unknown somewhere in the world.

In the mirror world, the newly born small mirror still remains next to the two floor-standing mirrors, and its relative position has not moved because it is floating with the magnetic balloon in the outside world.

"That is to say, when the magnetic balloon brings this mirror to Visalia, Merry can enlarge this small mirror, and we can reach Visalia through this mirror." Nami exclaimed, "That's great, Merry! You use your abilities to perfection!" The navigator smiled and hugged the ship elf in his arms.

"I see!" Luffy suddenly realized, "It's an incredible portal!"

"That's a very accurate summary." Sanji nodded.

Lynch held Robin and Hancock on his left and right, and borrowed Merry from Nami's arms, "It's a rare holiday, let's go to Shampoo Land for a walk, how about you?"

Brooke quickly followed, "Yo ho ho, I want to go talk to Rab too! I haven't seen him for a month, I wonder how he's doing?"

"I have to go get some more materials too." Franky followed and said as he passed through the mirror, "Lynch, the Swallow-Swallow Fruit is almost ready..."

"Are you ready? Of course..."

The voices and figures of Lin Qi and others passed through the mirror one after another and went to Xia Qi's bar opposite.

Meili shook her head and stuck in the middle of the mirror to make it easier for everyone to pass. She curiously poked her head into the mirror world and looked at Cavendish and others, "Aren't you going?"

"What's wrong with you?" Marian turned her head. "You've been acting weird since training..."

Amorin snickered beside him, "That Straw Hat Luffy's progress is much faster than his, and he has been sulking all this time!"

"How could I!" Cavendish refused to admit it and rushed into the mirror angrily.

Ah Yu shook her head. Xiang Yun asked beside her. Ah Yu nodded. After all, she was the empress. It was already too much to be away from the country for a month. It was time to go back and take a look...

As for Rayleigh, he had disappeared long ago. He was probably immersed in the glamorous world of Nine Snake City, enjoying the pleasures of life.

～～～～～～～～～～～ 〖Chabaodi Archipelago——〗

A large group of people suddenly rushed out from the floor-to-ceiling mirror of the bar, scaring the few customers in Xia Qi's store.

However, when they saw the appearance of these people, the straw hat boy, the pirate hunter... especially the appearance of the devil's son on the left hand, the pirate queen on the right hand, and the terrifying pirate Lynch with the highest bounty in the world, they were so scared that their limbs were stiff and they stood there in a daze. Is this a mistake? How could so many big shots suddenly come to this deserted bar? !

"It's 'Eight-Armed Devil' Lynch! Oh my god, how unlucky I am to run into such a horrible monster while having a meal..."

"He's still in the Sabaody Archipelago?!"

"It's been a month since the 'Eight-Armed Devil' left. How come he's back again..."

Lin Qi didn't care about the whispers in the bar. Xia Qi came over and said with a smile, "'Eight-armed Devil', this is a nickname that has been circulating recently. It's much more impressive than the nickname 'Ripple Messenger' on your bounty order, right?"

"Let them call you what they want." Lin Qi said with a smile, "See you later. I'm going shopping."

Xia Qi smiled and reminded: "If you go shopping, you can take a look over there."

She pointed in a direction with her cigarette between her fingers.

Robin and Hancock recognized that it seemed to be... the direction of Marinford.

"Didn't that place already get destroyed by Lynch?" Franky passed by and couldn't help but wonder when he heard this.

Xia Qi explained: "A new commander-in-chief of the entire army, a new admiral of the navy, a series of important changes, there must be some new moves! Have you not read the latest newspapers? The navy has established a new headquarters on the other side of the Red Earth Continent. And they have not completely abandoned the original headquarters, Marinford..."

After a pause, Xia Qi smiled and said, "A huge naval training base was rebuilt around the few remaining ruins after the war."

Robin said thoughtfully: "This style doesn't seem like the style of the new Admiral of the Navy. Instead, it seems to come from that black-armed Zephyr..."

(End of this chapter)