Chapter 852: Inhuman
The hot water dripped from the shower head and poured over the four people.
The spacious bathroom was filled with hot steam, and some scenery was vaguely visible.
Robin created two extra clones, each holding a towel and gently scrubbing his own and Lynch's backs.
The small amount of water in the shower would not prevent her from using the ability of the Hana-Hana Fruit, nor would it affect her control.
Of course, this is nothing compared to the fact that Lynch was able to swim very fast in the sea despite having the ability of the Float-Float Fruit.
"So, how did you do it? Use the ripples to cover your entire body, isolating it from the seawater?" Robin opened one of his tightly closed eyes, raised his head and asked curiously, letting Lynch's big hands rub the shampoo foam on his head. The flower clone behind Lynch whispered, "Arm."
"Not with waves." Lynch raised his arm and let the flower clone behind him scrub his armpits and ribs. He could dribble the ball with one hand. He rubbed Robin's head. It was not difficult to scrub her hair. He rubbed vigorously, and Robin gave him a look. Then he grabbed the spray head and washed the foam off her hair. He smiled and said, "Miss Robin, I'm afraid I can still be considered a human being now."
Robin was surprised, she looked him up and down and confirmed: "Are you talking about humans in a broad sense, or in a narrow sense? The narrow sense refers only to those who do not have long arms, long legs, fishmen, giants, etc., but ordinary humans like us. - Legs." She reminded the flower clone behind Lynch.
Lin Qi spread his legs carelessly, thought for a moment and said, "Well, it's hard to say! For now, it's the latter, but I don't know in the future."
So, he explained a little to Robin about what happened during the battle with Golden Lion outside the atmosphere.
"Autonomous modification of bloodline factors..." Robin thought of this at the first time. He grabbed Lynch's hand, rubbed his fingers unconsciously, and pondered, "The will controls the body. This is essentially the category of life return. You liked to compare life return with domineering before, but this time it is more like the 'awakening' in the devil fruit ability system... Well, according to Dr. Vegapunk's information, the devil fruit was originally the result of the research on bloodline factors. Through the combination of a specific devil factor and the bloodline factor, a certain fragment of the bloodline factor is permanently activated, which manifests as various devil fruit abilities of the superhuman, animal and natural systems. If applied to your example, that is to say..."
She raised her head and looked at Lynch, "You used your own will to replace the role of the demon factor in this."
Lin Qi laughed and said, "If that's the case, then wouldn't I have two devil fruit abilities at the time? My body should have exploded."
"It's just an analogy." Robin said angrily, pressing his palm on Lin Qi's little face. "After all, the devil fruit is a ready-made 'product' made by others. The transformation of one's own bloodline factor is mechanical and cannot be compatible with variables. When two devil factors with such characteristics enter the same bloodline factor, it will obviously tear the person's bloodline factor apart and cause it to collapse. But your...'Life Return Awakening' level of bloodline factor transformation is conscious, with adaptability and self-regulation capabilities. It is the result of the transformation based on the combination of your bloodline factor with the Floating Fruit factor at that time. This will certainly not cause factor conflicts and cause the collapse and disintegration of the bloodline factor level."
Lynch rubbed Robin and said with a smile: "I'm really awesome."
Robin laughed, but the smile gradually faded, and his fingertips slid across Lynch's cheek.
"What's wrong?" Lynch asked.
"Don't be too weird." Robin said softly, with a rare hint of playfulness, and smiled, "If you do that, we won't be able to play together."
Robin still held his hand tightly and didn't let go, looking at him straight.
Lin Qi smiled and hugged her into his arms, "Don't worry, I can't bear to leave you."
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After cleaning up and changing their clothes, the two went to the library and quiet room of the Sunny.
Three walls were filled with bookshelves. On the cushion in the middle of the empty room, there was an energy ball suspended above the black armor's head. Compared with the number that was enough to fill the entire Den Den Mushi castle when Lynch left the prison a year ago, at this moment it was only half the size of a fist, wrapped in colorful light, floating around, and the bottom turned into pure gray energy, which was gradually integrated into the body of "BIB".
Sensing the arrival of the real body, the narrow eyes on the visor lit up faintly.
"Now the question is," Lin Qi said, stroking his chin, "Can we still take out the Floating Fruit chip safely?"
When Robin heard him say this, he realized that there was indeed such an unknown risk.
The ability of Lynch's stand is to seize and grant the factors of the devil fruit, and it is extremely perfect, without any damage to the bloodline factors of the target whose ability is taken away. This is probably the reason why the so-called Im is so obsessed with Lynch's stand.
However, can "BIB" take away the Float-Float Fruit factor in Lynch's body without any harm?
Lin Qi said, "Just take it after the combination." 'BIB' said, "Just take it after the combination."
Speaking almost in unison, Lynch and his stand-in shrugged their shoulders at each other, and soon the black ghost-like armor calmly walked towards the main body, overlapped with Lynch's figure, and merged into it.
Robin put his hand on Lynch's arm, feeling the slight twitching of his muscles.
Even though he was already so powerful, he still felt uncomfortable every time he merged with his stand. After all, the strength of his stand followed his original body. The stronger the original body was, the stronger the stand would be. The stronger the stand was, the more tired he would feel after each recovery. If Lin Qi released his stand for a day, even if he did nothing but just hung up, if his teenage self, or even his self ten years ago, was to recover it, he would probably be crushed to death by the unimaginable pressure.
“Huh!” Lin Qi exhaled, raised his palm, and a colorful energy ball emerged from his palm. “That’s all I have left. Keep up the good work.”
As he spoke, a dark phantom walked out of his body, took the energy ball from his hand, raised his left hand covered with blue flame patterns, pressed it into his chest, and under Robin's observation, slowly took out an identical Float-Float Fruit chip. Lin Qi said, "It seems to have no effect."
"It's amazing." Robin commented, "No wonder it's so coveted." She was referring, of course, to Lynch's stand ability.
"BIB" floated back and sat on the cushion in the middle of the room again. The narrow eyes on the visor dimmed, and a colorful ball was floating above his head...
Robin could easily guess why Lynch did not retrieve his Stand for the second time this time: when Lynch had the power of the Float-Float Fruit, he retrieved his Stand and released it again. At this time, "BIB" was equipped with the power of the Float-Float Fruit copied from Lynch. According to Lynch's previous habits, he would try his best to choose "BIB" without the power of the Devil Fruit to adapt to various emergencies...
But now, even if Lynch is a user with special abilities, he will not be affected by the sea water. The same is true for "BIB", which has copied everything of Lynch in this state. Even if it now has the ability of the Float-Float Fruit, it can freely shuttle through the seabed and will not be disturbed by the devil fruit factor on its body.
"If you think about it from another angle," Robin suddenly said as they left the quiet room, "Aren't you now in the same situation as Hancock's 'fusion'? The difference is that you haven't removed your identity as a 'power user', so your stand can still take out the chip."
Lin Qi put his arm around her shoulders, closed the door and walked out, smiling: "So there is still a difference."
"Yeah." Robin nodded.
The two walked out of the cabin and stood at the fence on the second floor. They saw Luffy, Chopper, and Sanji kneeling on the deck, bending forward in frustration, with black lines of low air pressure on their heads.
Even Zoro was squatting on the side of the ship, holding three swords, with an unhappy look on his face.
“I really can’t learn it…”
Looking at these people mumbling to themselves in low spirits, Usopp and Brook each brought a chair from somewhere and sat with their legs crossed in the same posture. They also picked up a cup of coffee and took a sip in sync.
Usopp raised his index finger and smiled, "I really don't know what you guys are thinking. Instructor Lin has already said that we probably can't learn it, but you still don't believe it? Yo ho ho ho..."
"Mr. Usopp, that's my laugh." Brook was shocked, "My characteristic..."
Nami poked the two guys' foreheads with her finger, "Why are you gloating over other people's misfortunes? You didn't try to learn it because you haven't practiced the ripples yet, right? Tsk!"
"Nami, why are you so angry?" Usopp suddenly realized, "Oh~~ You tried it too, but you didn't learn it, right?"
"I'm a nature-type person and can fly naturally. I don't need to learn any aerial techniques!" Nami blushed and turned hostile on the spot.
"Help! Nami is angry!"
"Stop! Let me electrocute you!"
"Who will stand still when you say that?"
"Alas, I really can't learn it..." Luffy sat on the deck, "Forget it, if I can't learn it, then I can't learn it! Hehe."
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Chopper rolled over, stood up with his hands stretched out, and stroked his chin as he pondered, "If you want to learn this move of flying, the prerequisite is to practice the ripples to the level of being able to create a clone outside the body... This is so difficult! Just mastering the ripples is not easy."
"Forget about it. This approach is not suitable for us." Sanji twisted his bow tie. "For Lynch, a genius who can restore life and the founder of Wave, creating a Wave clone may be very simple. But we need to spend a lot of energy to get to that step..."
Zoro held the three swords and said, "Instead of doing this, we should focus on improving our own strength. The time spent on the 'Ripple Clone' is enough for us to break through the fighting methods and techniques we are good at several times. Mastering the ripples is more than enough for us at this stage, so there is no need to lose sight of the main goal."
"That's the truth." Lynch snapped his fingers.
"Sanji! I'm hungry!" Luffy started yelling after he had finished his trouble.
"Okay, I'll go get ready..." Sanji rolled up his sleeves and walked towards the cabin kitchen, "Where are the others?"
Zoro said, "As long as I have wine, that's fine."
"Meat!" Luffy yelled.
Usopp and Chopper raised their hands and said, "Sweet ones are fine!"
"Any cakes?" Brooke asked. "Ah, Mr. French isn't here."
"Anyway, he must want Coke!" The thunderclouds hovering in the air said with a smile. The Thundercloud World Tree looked at a loss. This is the line I want to complain about my boss! Merry, who was sitting on it, covered her mouth and laughed.
Nami smiled and said, "I'll have some salad. Where's Sister Robin?"
"A cup of coffee." Robin turned and looked at Lynch.
Lin Qi waved his hand and said, "As long as it's edible!"
Everyone was ashamed. With the monster level of this man now, he could probably digest iron balls and copper juice. What else could he not eat? Robin smiled and shook his head, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a news bird hovering in the sky.
She waved her hand, and the hesitant news bird finally flew over bravely, flapping its wings and landing on the railing of the ship's side.
"Wow~" The news bird saluted with its wings.
Nami was surprised and said, "Your attitude is very good, what's wrong?"
Usopp wiped his nose and chuckled, "I'm sure my heroic deeds as Captain Usopp have frightened people so much that they dare not get close! Hehe, hahahaha!"
"Eh, is that so?" Chopper was shocked, "Usopp is so awesome!"
Zoro said: "It should be because of the incident in Wano Country. Wherever we go, the Four Emperors will die. It really seems scary."
"Why are you smiling so evilly?" Nami glanced at him speechlessly, "Do you think of yourself as a villain so consciously?"
Over there, Usopp got the newspaper and asked the news bird for the latest wanted posters. He flipped through them excitedly, and when he turned to his own, he let out a scream that sounded like the tears of a sad listener.
"My bounty...hasn't increased at all?! This is impossible!!!"
Usopp once again bent forward in frustration, kneeling on the deck with his butt sticking out, tears streaming down his face, "Wow, wow, wow, I can't accept this!"
Chopper came over and patted him on the back of his head, comforting him: "Usopp, it's okay, this must be because of your transparent fruit, probably no one saw what you did..."
"Are you comforting me?!" Usopp fell to his seat, raised his head with his hands and cried.
Lynch glanced at the newspaper in Robin's hand, "The World Conference hasn't ended yet? Ha, even though Kaido is dead, they can still grab the news page of the World Conference..."
There were indeed only news events related to Kaido and the founding of Wano Country, but no news about Red-Haired Shanks, the last of the Four Emperors on the Elbaf Island they had just left.
Come to think of it, from their arrival at Elbaf to the duel between Red Hair and Luffy, and the battle between Lynch and Golden Lion, all took place at 10,000 meters or even outside the atmosphere. They started unknown and ended silently... Although Red Hair has a lot of face, he has not been able to occupy the recent news pages like Kaido, Big Mom, and Blackbeard.
The Sunny continued to sail towards Shuixianxing Island, the intersection point of the Grand Route's magnetic route indicated by the permanent needle. On the other side, on the distant red earth continent Marijoa, the long-lasting World Conference was actually gradually coming to an end. The royal families reached a consensus and began to disperse.
(End of this chapter)