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Chapter 44: Devil Fruit Mastery
The Clown Pirates + snake have a party now after they found a lot of treasures & Jude also ate a devil fruit. A logia is very rare, so this is really something worth a big celebration.
"Oi Salaki, where do you want to go after this?"-Cricket
"Shyyaa."-Salaki
"..... I don't know what you are saying."-Cricket
"Then don't ask!"-Mantis have a tickmark
"She said she wants to return to her homeland on Calm Belt. She wants to find a male to mate."-Buggy
"Well, you have been living alone for years to guard that crate, so it's really the time for you to settle down and build a family I guess."-Cricket
"That's right, let's meet again in the future, Salaki!"-Mantis
"Shyaaa!"-Salaki
"Alright, let's drink more for Salaki's new life and her mission to find a male!"-Buggy
""YEAH!""-All
They continue their party until they got wasted that night. The next day, they prepare to leave the island.
The Clowns will go to explore the Archipelago and search something for Salaki. She has guarded the crate for a long time, but she doesn't get anything, so they decide to buy something for her.
"What do you want? Food, accessories, clothes?"-Mantis
"Shyaaa."-Salaki
"Necklace?"-Buggy
"Shyaaa."-Salaki nod
"A necklace with 3 meters diameter, it will be expensive & rather hard to make."-Buggy
"Shyaa shyaa."-Salaki
"Hmm, you want to use the gems that we've found?"-Buggy
Salaki nod and pointed at some oval green gemstones. The gemstones are very smooth, with a round surface. Their size varies, but they're colorful.
"Fine, I'll give you the round gemstones. Now let's find a craftsman to make it."-Buggy
They all go to an island in the Archipelago that has a town on it. They search for any craftsman that can make the necklace. They search around and don't find anyone capable of it.
"If you want to make something this big, then you should go to Crea Town. That town is the home for many Craftsman with many specialties."-Blacksmith
"Ooh, then we'll go there, thanks old man."-Buggy
"Don't mind it."-Blacksmith
The Clowns then go to Crea Town to make the necklace. Crea Town is far from Leo Archipelago, and it normally takes 3 days to reach it. So they fill their supplies first before leaving.
The Clowns then sail to Crea Town with Salaki. Buggy tells Mantis & Cricket to train their haki, while he will teach Jude to control her devil fruit.
"Alright, listen! Devil fruit didn't make you strong, you are the one who make you strong. Devil fruit will just add your abilities. You need to have this mindset so that you won't get complacent and think that you're invincible. Many people can defeat you with a finger even if you're a logia user."-Buggy
"Yes, I understand."-Jude salute like a soldier
"Alright, first, you need to understand your devil fruit power, you need to understand Ash. Learn everything about ash, its properties, weakness, strength, everything. Then you can think of techniques that utilize ash power."-Buggy
"Yes."-Jude
"Remember, you need to be creative! The thing that limiting devil fruit's power is the user's imagination. Think out of the box, and always think that you can do it!"-Buggy
Buggy teaches some more important things to Jude. He wants his crew to be strong and can protect themselves. They will go to Grandline, so they need to grow strong, or they won't survive.
Jude listen to Buggy fervently and seriously. She knows she is the weakest of the 4 of them, so she needs to get stronger. She doesn't want to be a weight in the crew and wants to help the others.
Buggy just teaches Jude the basic things that she needs to know. He'll leave her to train the devil fruit by herself. He will help her if she asks for some advice, but she needs to know her power by herself.
Buggy himself also wants to train his devil fruit now. He has focused on his haki lately, so he will raise his devil fruit mastery. If he wants to awaken his devil fruit, he needs to raise his mastery to a high degree.
Buggy sits on the front deck and he starts to split himself into many parts. He split all parts of his body into many small cubes with the size of 1 cm3 each.
This is his current limit where he can control all parts individually. If he cut too many, he will lose control of every individual cube. He can cut each 1 cm3 cube into 10 parts, but he can only control them in batch, not individually.
Buggy then starts to split the cubes one by one. He split each cube in half and try to keep control of every part. He succeeds to split almost all of the 1 cm3 cubes and control them before he loses control of the very small parts.
"Shit, just a little more, just 13 more. Come on, I can do this."-Buggy
Buggy concentrate again to gain control of the smaller blocks. He pushes himself and finally gains control, even if it's hard.
Buggy starts to split the remaining 13 cubes. It's hard, but he forces himself to do it. He finally succeeds, even with force, but he can't stop yet.
He controls the small parts individually in his control area. His control is also raised from a 20 m radius last year, to a 50-meter radius. So the diameter of his control area is 100 m now.
Buggy keep moving the small parts for 5 minutes until the burden to control them lessened. Now he has adapted to it and can control them more freely. Pushing the limit is really the key to success.
"Good, one level clear. There are still many levels after this, but this is a good step. Now, onto the next training."-Buggy
Buggy drinks some water before training the next step. Now, he just uses his left hand to train. He put his left hand in front of him, and suddenly the tip of his fingers start to disperse like sands. Then it start to spread until his palm dispersed and was gone.
But his fingers & palm aren't really dispersing like sand being pushed by the wind. Buggy is splitting his fingers & palm into the cellular level. Yes, he can do it, but only on a small part of his body.
Splitting his body to the cellular level is a lot harder than into those small blocks. He can't control each cell individually, so he controls them at batch.
He can feel the cells, but he can't control every cell individually. After all, trillions of cells made a human's body. So just his palm alone must have billions of cells, there's no way he can fully control every one of them individually.
He can only use a simple command and move them at batch. The cells are too small for him to get full control of them. Except he just split a few cells from his body. Even so, Buggy feels that if he keeps training it, he will be able to control the cells at will.
Buggy keeps trying to split his left hand to the cellular level. He's fully concentrating on this training because this will be very useful in the future.
If he can split himself at the cellular level, then he can imitate sand logia body. Buggy intends to make his body cells work like sand or ash that looks like particles.
It will disperse when get attacked with blunt things and avoid damage. Cells are also a lot smaller than sands, so they can disperse better.
Currently, Buggy can only split all his left hand to a cellular level even after he pushes himself. There are trillions of cells already in his left hand, so controlling them is really hard.
"Hmm, maybe my devil fruit will awaken after I can split all my body parts into the cellular level?"-Buggy hypothesized
"Sigh, forget it! Let's just focus on this now."-Buggy continue his training
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