Lin's fingers trembled as she flipped the pages. Her eyes were locked on the young boy, Luffy. Suddenly, she saw him sitting at the bar, absentmindedly eating a strange, swirling-patterned fruit.
"That's the Devil Fruit, Luffy! Don't!" Lin cried out instinctively. Thanks to Ray's [Aura of Immersion], she wasn't just reading; she was standing right there in Party's Bar.
Back in the dusty bookstore, something strange began to happen. As Lin read the moment Luffy's arm stretched for the first time, she felt a rhythmic tingling in her own veins.
[Ding!]
[First Immersed Reader detected. Luffy Synchronization: +0.5%.]
[Extracting Fan-Interest Energy... Converting to System Points.]
Ray watched her calmly, though his heart was racing. The system was working!
"Luffy is about to discover that his body is no longer ordinary... it has become rubber," Ray said in a low, steady voice.
"Rubber?!" Lin gasped. "In this world, power is lightning and fire. How can being 'rubber' help him against a Martial Master?"
But as she continued reading and saw Luffy's newfound physical resilience against the bandits, she fell silent. She was witnessing a power system completely unknown to the Great Martial Continent.