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"The Rumble-Rumble Fruit is mine." Law's eyes gleamed.
"I wonder if I can reach the Admiral level before graduation?" A smile played on Law's lips. "Those record holders are still waiting for me to break them."
The sea journey was boring and lonely. No Marines bothered Law. Although they were confused why a Marine ship was needed for such a grand escort of a mere recruit, they could never defy an Admiral's orders. Ten-odd days of boring sailing passed swiftly as Law trained his Devil Fruit abilities.
"Mock Town reached. Do you need to dock?"
"Here?" On the deck, Law looked up at the sky. Ten thousand meters away, too far. His naked eye couldn't see Skypiea, hidden by white clouds ten thousand meters above.
"The position must be a bit off, but with Skypiea's immense size, a slight deviation doesn't matter." Law spread his right hand: "ROOM."
"You wait here. Don't leave until I return," Law said sternly. His ROOM space instantly expanded, exceeding a thousand meters in diameter.
"Bang!"
He drew his gun and fired vertically into the sky. A bullet shot upwards at extreme speed. As it pierced the top of the ROOM space, Law instantly vanished, swapping positions with the bullet, appearing a thousand meters high in the sky the next moment. Geppo manifested, steadying his body in the air. He manifested ROOM again. The gun fired bullets. In a short time, Law was already several thousand meters high in the sky. The Marines on the ship could no longer see Law's figure.
"He disappeared? Disappeared into the air?" Even the Rear Admiral's eyes widened, his mouth agape, looking as if he had seen a ghost. He actually charged into the sky? Is he crazy? And he actually has such an ability? Is he really a new recruit? These Marines suddenly understood why a Marine ship was needed to escort a mere recruit. They were certain this new recruit was extraordinary.
Whoosh! Relying on such methods, Law's distance from the sea grew further and further. Looking down, he could no longer see the sea, which was covered by clouds.
"ROOM." After more than ten repeated uses, and a final position shift, Law finally appeared above the thick cloud layer. Skypiea was reached! "Skypiea, huh?" The god-like Skypiea was enough to make any first-time visitor dumbfounded.
"It's indeed very far off course. It's several thousand meters from Upper Yard, and even further from Angel Island." Law manifested ROOM space again, quickly approaching Upper Yard. Skypiea's beauty couldn't capture his attention. He only wanted the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
Whoosh! Law appeared out of nowhere in a spot on Angel Island. His gaze casually swept over the Angel Island residents walking on the street. Like ordinary people, they simply had an extra pair of white wings on their backs.
"He's the one." Law instantly vanished. At the same time, an old man on the street also instantly vanished. This bizarre scene caused a great commotion on the street.
"Old man, don't be nervous. I'm not being hostile," Law said apologetically to the frightened old man. "I'm just here to ask a few questions."
"You're from the Blue Sea?" Perhaps sensing no malice, the old man calmed down after his initial tension.
"Old man, do you know where Birka is?" Without much difficulty, Law obtained the direction and location of Birka. It was some distance from Angel Island, over a hundred li (approx. 50 km). For a hundred li, Law could only rely on Skypiea's unique mode of transportation, made from Wind Dials. Although his Devil Fruit abilities allowed for fast movement, they consumed too much energy. Climbing from the sea to Skypiea, he used his object transfer ability more than ten times, and it was a long-distance transfer. These ten-odd transfers had already consumed three or four tenths of Law's current stamina; a monstrous ability consumed monstrous stamina.
Two hours later. A small island appeared in the sky. It had a city, but it couldn't compare to Angel Island. "Is this Birka?" A small sky island town with only about a hundred people. Finding one person was simple. After a few inquiries, Law found his target.
"Are you Enel?" Law looked at Enel, who had no cloud wings. He looked more like a Blue Sea person than a Skypiean.
"You're like me?" Enel stared at Law in surprise. He also has no wings on his back? As the only original inhabitant without wings in the original story, Enel was an anomaly in others' eyes, a monster. He was bullied by his peers and rejected by others since childhood. His somewhat pathological personality in the original story might have been caused by this. He even personally destroyed his hometown, Birka, which was also a form of revenge.
"Target confirmed." Law instantly vanished. The next moment, a gravity-enhanced punch landed on Enel's abdomen. With a scream, Enel vomited blood and was sent flying backward. "No naturalization. He hasn't gotten the Rumble-Rumble Fruit yet." After confirming this, Law breathed a sigh of relief. Naturalization didn't need to be actively used; it would automatically manifest upon receiving a physical attack.
"Damn it." A ferocious-faced Enel looked around, trying to find Law, seeking revenge.
"How do I find the Rumble-Rumble Fruit now?" Law quickly pondered in secret. The original story didn't explain how Enel obtained the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, so he couldn't know its current whereabouts.
"Birka isn't large. I'll search it thoroughly first. If I can't find it, my only option is the last resort: secretly monitor Enel until he coincidentally obtains the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, then seize it." This was Law's plan. However, the second method was like "waiting by the tree for a rabbit." Although simple and the safest, it required time, and he didn't know how long he would have to wait. Although Enel in the original story obtained the Rumble-Rumble Fruit around this year, it might be a month later, or half a year later.
Whoosh! Law secretly followed Enel back to his home. He silently knocked Enel out, then searched carefully, missing no details. Nothing! No Rumble-Rumble Fruit. Then Law quickly searched the city, almost every place where a Devil Fruit could be hidden. Nothing! Finally, Law's gaze fell on a small forest outside the city.
"The forest should be the most likely place to find the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, right?" Law quickly went to the forest. It was already dark. Dusk had fallen, making the forest even harder to search. Plus, there was no precise destination; he could only conduct a carpet search, not missing any detail.
Nothing! Still nothing! Still nothing! He had searched almost every part of the forest, but there was no Devil Fruit at all. Is the Devil Fruit not here either? Must I rely on crude methods, secretly monitoring Enel? Law was unwilling to secretly monitor for months or even longer: "With Enel's current strength, he couldn't have gone far from Birka. The Rumble-Rumble Fruit should be near Birka. I've searched everywhere. Why isn't it here? There must be an oversight somewhere."
He turned. Law searched the forest again. Where hadn't he searched? "Here?" Law came to a small cliff face. The cliff was very short, only ten meters high. On the bare rock face, there were only a few vines, making it clear at a glance that nothing could be hidden there. And a Devil Fruit wasn't small.
"It's just that this area hasn't been searched inch by inch. Is it here?" Regardless, Law wouldn't let it go. He quickly pulled out all the vines with both hands. As he pulled out the third vine, Law's eyes lit up. A crack actually appeared in the cliff face, a two-finger-wide crack. But Law discovered there was a hidden world within. He had missed it earlier because it was covered by vines and he hadn't searched carefully.
"Could it be?" Law punched the cliff face. Rocks shattered, and the crack collapsed into a cave entrance. Indeed, there was a hidden world within—a mountain cave, its interior space about the size of a house. The craftsmanship was astonishing, creating a miraculous hidden grotto. Unfortunately, Law's gaze and attention had already been drawn away. On a stone platform inside the cave, a purple-silver patterned Devil Fruit shone dazzlingly—it was the Rumble-Rumble Fruit!