Chapter 364: Pluton's breath, just waiting for the right time!
[Time-Time Fruit]
[Parsed]
[Fruit Essence · Wish · Time]
[Fruit Effect—Can manipulate time, allowing oneself and others to travel through timelines]
[LV3: Has obtained all fruit effects. Can manipulate surrounding time, performing "time acceleration" or "time deceleration" to a certain extent, but cannot perform "time reversal". Acceleration range is 1~30 times.]
[LV4: Deep development of the fruit. Can briefly peek at fragments of the "future". The specific future time peeked at cannot be controlled.]
[LV5: Fruit Awakening · Time Travel. The ability to peek into the future is enhanced, allowing for brief and controllable foresight of the future, and can instinctively activate this ability to avoid misfortune when facing life-and-death danger. Can teleport oneself or other creatures to future timelines. The specific time and location of the travel cannot be controlled, and they can only be teleported to a "key node" in the future world. The control and perception of time are extremely strong. Even in environments where observing and perceiving the outside world is impossible, the passage of time can be accurately sensed.]
"To think there was such a thing..."
Looking at the information displayed within the Fruit Encyclopedia right now, Roy's expression also carried distinct surprise: "To think this fruit is here."
Time-Time Fruit—he of course knew of this fruit.
Even to Roy, who had now seen countless fruits and mastered countless fruit powers, this fruit was still a very special existence.
Not only is it one of the rare time-type fruits in the entire pirate world, but it is also the only known fruit that can allow oneself and others to undergo complete time travel.
Even to Roy, who now controlled the Source Energy of Lineage Factor, this kind of ability was something difficult for him to achieve—although the Source Energy of Lineage Factor could be considered omnipotent, performing time travel required collecting the corresponding "wish" and "cognition", which itself was an extremely difficult task.
"Is it because of Lady Toki's will?"
After brief surprise, an answer also arose in Roy's heart.
He knew that the previous owner of the Time-Time Fruit was none other than the "wife of the previous Shogun" of Wano Country—namely, Kozuki Oden's wife, Amatsuki Toki.
This Lady Toki was herself a person from the Void Century eight hundred years ago. After traveling through time, she arrived at the era Kozuki Oden lived in and formed a bond with him.
According to the content of the original work, the reason Amatsuki Toki traveled through time seemed to be to ensure the opening of Wano Country and to ensure that "Joy Boy's" dream could be achieved.
She was also one of Imu's enemies.
And following Kozuki Oden being boiled to death by Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi, Oden Castle, where Amatsuki Toki was, also suffered an attack from the Beasts.
At that time, after using her ability to send her son Momonosuke and the retainers away, Amatsuki Toki died in the sea of fire, leaving behind the prophecy of "Nine Shadows Cast by the Moon".
Looking at it now...
"That Lady Toki's development of the fruit wasn't bad—she could make people travel through time, and that prophecy should be the effect of 'peeking into the future'. Her fruit should have been awakened."
"Perhaps exactly because of this, after her death, her will affected that fruit... causing this fruit to grow here."
Roy knew very well.
After the original ability user dies, a Devil Fruit should be reborn anywhere in the world, through any object with the concept of "fruit".
For it to coincidentally grow in Wano Country, and coincidentally grow inside Pluton—this probability was unbelievably low.
But now this had clearly happened, making Roy couldn't help but make some guesses.
Perhaps it was the influence of that Lady Toki's will before her death that caused this fruit to be born here.
"Pluton exists inside the 'Old Wano Country', at the bottom of Mount Fuji—for it to leave here, it must chisel through the inside of the mountain and blast flat the 'enclosing walls' surrounding Wano Country."
"In other words—the time it emerges is the time Wano Country 'opens its borders'."
"Perhaps Amatsuki Toki couldn't let go of this obsession even until her death."
Even though she was already dead, she still wanted to see with her own eyes the scene of Pluton setting sail and Wano Country opening its borders.
Thinking of this, Roy couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Even though Amatsuki Toki and Kozuki Oden's plan to open Wano Country's borders failed.
But that resolve and sacrifice still carried their corresponding weight.
However, fortunately...
Their wish wouldn't be waiting for too long.
"..."
"..."
Rabbit took a deep look at the location where that Devil Fruit was earlier.
Subsequently, he didn't linger any longer, following the passage and quickly entering the interior of Pluton.
Ultimately, what appeared before him was a massive piece of machinery.
It was a smelting furnace of an absurdly exaggerated size—the structure of the smelting furnace presented quite an ancient and mysterious configuration, with countless pipes and gears connecting it to various parts of the entire ship's hull.
And as someone who had seen the blueprints of Pluton, Rabbit knew... this was the "power source" of Pluton.
"When the flames in the smelting furnace burn fiercely, the strongest warship that destroys everything will set sail."
That was what was recorded on the blueprints of Pluton.
But at this moment, the flames in that smelting furnace had long been extinguished for countless years.
That was also the reason why it had been quietly docked here for so many years.
The flame needed to ignite this warship was clearly not an ordinary flame.
"Eternal Flame..."
Rabbit was very clear about this—only that mysterious, ancient flame that could be considered a source of infinite energy could restart this warship.
Coincidentally...
"I don't have the Eternal Flame, but..."
While whispering softly, Rabbit gently raised his hand.
From his hand appeared a box that looked highly technological at first glance.
Written on the box were the words "Vegapunk - No. 0".
Click.
As Rabbit opened it, the clump of flame contained within a ring-shaped energy containment device inside the box instantly became clearly visible.
That was strikingly...
"I do still have the Mother Flame."
While muttering calmly to himself, Rabbit gently took out that clump of flame.
He extended his arm forward, and that ring-shaped containment device aimed precisely at the center of the massive smelting furnace.
Subsequently...
VMMM!
Rabbit saw that clump of Mother Flame being sucked into the smelting furnace, floating inside the furnace like a miniature sun.
Then...
Rumble!
A low and grand humming sound instantly echoed through the entire control room, even penetrating the thick hull of the ship.
A faint glow appeared in front of Rabbit—inside the entire Pluton warship, the glow radiating from countless ancient engraved patterns seemed about to illuminate the entire "Old Wano Country"!
Rabbit understood what that symbolized.
That was the "Ancient Weapon" Pluton—the first breath this behemoth, slumbering for eight hundred years, let out upon being awakened.
It was already yearning to declare its existence and power to this world once again.
But... right now, Rabbit didn't choose to completely activate this ancient warship immediately.
He merely confirmed that "Pluton" could indeed be used, and a sharp look appeared in the depths of his eyes.
"Very good, then... the preparations are just about done."
Feeling the low pulse coming from the hull beneath his feet, like the reviving heartbeat of a slumbering behemoth, that faint light flowed in the gloomy passage, illuminating his calm face.
He slowly raised his head, looking upwards, as if he could see through the cover of Mount Fuji, see the Flower Capital, see Onigashima, see... this world.
"Next, I just need to wait."
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