Free Web NovelChapter 97: Chapter 97
Chapter 97
The next morning, the giant warship successfully exited the Devil’s Triangle.
Sunlight bathed the deck, and the mood of everyone on board improved noticeably.
"Ah, I’m just a massive pervert. How can I have the face to keep living in this world? I’m only wasting every grain of rice I eat."
Inside the crew training room, Rorschach knelt on the ground with a dejected expression. A heavy negative aura filled the area around him.
"Hahahahaha! Rorschach, you finally have your day too!"
Nami and Karina clutched their stomachs, laughing hysterically. Since Rorschach first set sail, they had never seen this man look so miserable.
"Ugh... As expected of a Paramecia fruit with rule-based abilities. If you don’t use Armament Haki to resist before getting hit, once you’re affected, you won’t even have the thought to resist anymore."
After recovering, Rorschach wiped the sweat from his forehead.
With nothing else to do today, he had brought Perona to the training room to practice.
Given Perona’s Devil Fruit ability, close combat wasn’t her focus. Instead, properly utilizing her fruit could allow her to develop many creative ghost techniques.
Extremely curious about the negative effects of her ghosts, Rorschach had wanted to test their power himself. The result was exactly what everyone had just witnessed.
He hadn’t used Armament Haki to defend before getting hit, and once affected, he couldn’t even think of using it to resist.
This kind of unavoidable ability could even affect Rorschach. If a Navy Admiral was caught off guard and hit by it, they would likely become negative for a few seconds too. freēwēbηovel.c૦m
Those few seconds could be the deciding factor in a battle!
Rorschach then turned to look at Nami and Karina, who were still laughing their heads off. The other girls were more reserved in their laughter, though even the usually serious Kalifa couldn’t help but smile.
Originally, Mikita had a similar personality to Nami and the others, but ever since she got "punished" the first time for teasing Rorschach too much, she didn’t dare act too wildly anymore, afraid of retaliation.
In the end, Rorschach couldn’t stand the two of them anymore. He gave Perona a meaningful look. She understood what he wanted, but Nami and Karina were now her best friends on the ship. She really didn’t want to prank her new friends.
However, under Rorschach’s insistent gaze, Perona’s body trembled. With a reluctant expression, she released several negative ghosts that passed through the two girls.
The laughing pair instantly turned into an ORZ pose.
"I should return all the stolen goods I took..." "I... will never be able to draw a complete world map..."
"Puhahahahaha! This is too funny."
The smiles on Nami and Karina’s faces didn’t disappear — they simply transferred onto Rorschach’s face.
He hadn’t expected them to say such things after becoming negative, but it really suited their personalities.
"Hey, ship doctor, are the three of them really okay?"
A drop of sweat rolled down Perona’s forehead as she looked at them with a speechless "sweating bean" expression. She turned to Kaya beside her and asked.
"Mm, this is just how they usually interact. There’s nothing wrong with their heads," Kaya explained with a gentle smile.
Perona did a tactical backward lean, staring at her in disbelief.
This woman not only understood what I meant, but she even said it so seriously. Isn’t she afraid Rorschach will hear her?
Looking at the gentle, smiling girl, Perona couldn’t help swallowing nervously.
Even though her own hair was pink, she felt like this yellow-haired girl would be pitch black on the inside if you cut her open.
"Perona-chan!"
A hand landed on each of her shoulders. Nami and Karina’s voices sounded right beside her ears.
"We’re good sisters, right? What exactly did you do to your good sisters just now?"
From Perona’s perspective, Nami and Karina had # symbols popping on their foreheads with dark lines across their faces. Their faces looked magnified dozens of times as they pressed right up to hers, demanding answers.
"Uwaaah~~ It wasn’t me! Captain Rorschach made me do it! Captain Rorschach, save me!"
Perona jumped in fright and let out a strange cry. She immediately ran behind Rorschach, crying and trembling.
After seeing Perona get scared, Nami and Karina nodded in satisfaction. They couldn’t be the only ones suffering.
"Well, Perona’s fruit is an excellent way to train willpower. If you can use your will to suppress negative thoughts, then even when facing Red-Haired Shanks’ Conqueror’s Haki, you’ll be able to remain fearless."
Rorschach pulled Perona out from behind him, hugged her, and gently patted her head to comfort her. He secretly gave Nami and Karina a thumbs-up — I’ll give you extra chicken legs tonight.
After a while, Perona pushed Rorschach away with a flushed face.
"Your Soul-Soul Fruit has very powerful effects. If developed well, it could even affect Emperors and Admirals. But your current development level is still not enough. From now on, focus mainly on developing your Soul-Soul Fruit ability. The rest can be supplementary training."
"But how do I make my fruit ability stronger?"
Hearing that Rorschach wanted her to develop her fruit, Perona was completely lost. She had no idea which direction to take.
"The Soul-Soul Fruit mainly controls ghosts for combat. You can try imagining yourself as a ghost and turn your own body into a ghost form so you can float. That way, ordinary physical attacks won’t be able to hurt you. When enemies get close, you can infuse negative power into your weapons and catch them off guard."
Perona’s eyes lit up. In her mind, she pictured herself floating in ghost form and fighting enemies. If they didn’t use Armament Haki and got hit by her negative power, the scene would be quite interesting.
The other girls also imagined Perona using the negative power of her Soul-Soul Fruit in battle and couldn’t help but shiver at the same time.
"The Soul-Soul Fruit really is a bit broken. It can even pass through my barriers. If there’s no Haki to defend against it, it’s practically an invincible ability," Karina sighed.
During these two years of training, she had sparred with everyone on the ship, but the most troublesome was Robin’s Flower-Flower Fruit, which could ignore her barriers and interrupt her techniques.
Now there was Perona, who could also bypass her barriers. She felt like her Barrier Fruit wasn’t as impressive as before.
"Indeed. Paramecia fruits are all so bizarre, and they have complex counters and synergies. It’s truly incredible," Nami nodded in agreement.
As the second strongest fighter on the ship, she couldn’t break Karina’s barriers, yet Karina was easily countered by both Robin and Perona.
After their discussion, everyone returned to training. Perona also released negative ghosts to help train them. However, they had already activated their Armament Haki to resist. Even so, they still felt a slight negative thought, though it was well under control.
Rorschach walked over to Kaya. Looking at the seemingly harmless and pitiful girl, he gently pinched her soft cheek.
"I heard everything just now, you know? When did our little Kaya become so black-bellied? Did you learn it from Robin?" freewebnσvel.cѳm
"Uuu... Sister Robin said that with a big scumbag like Brother Rorschach, I can’t be too obedient. I need to learn how to protect myself a little," Kaya puffed out her cheeks and said angrily, though she still looked extremely cute.
"I was clearly here first," Kaya turned her head away from Rorschach and muttered under her breath.
She also wanted to be close with Rorschach, but she didn’t have Reiju’s courage to ambush him at night. As more crew members joined the ship, the time she got to spend with him had grown less and less.
Looking at Kaya’s slightly aggrieved little face, Rorschach felt that this girl had finally grown up.
The apple he had raised for two years was finally ripe and ready to be eaten.
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