One Piece: Kaido the Beast Playing House.

Chapter 957 Awakening Failure
"Boom, boom, boom!"

The thunder caused by Nami attracted everyone's attention, and Kuina immediately rushed over in this direction. After all, Zoro was not suitable to look for someone. (The Den Den Mushi had been hung up just now, and Kuina didn't know what was going on with Nami.)
Zoro pulled Usopp ashore, and as for Chopper and Kairi, after Usopp untied the chains for Kairi, the shrunken Chopper was easily brought to the shore by Kairi. These boatmen were also good at swimming. In other words, people living in the Water Seven City, unless they are fruit ability users, are not bad at swimming. Children of a few years old can swim easily in the water, and in some aspects they are comparable to fish-men and mermaids.

Seeing Kelly being rescued, Franky ran over with a exaggerated look and hugged Kelly, which made Kelly look a little embarrassed. Her master was really like a child sometimes.

"Okay, Master. Am I okay?"

Kairi pushed Franky. After all, it was really weird to see a grown man crying in front of her, not to mention that this man was the one she regarded as her father, and in front of outsiders. Of course, if Yamato was here, he would tell Kairi not to mind, because her biological father would do the same, but only after getting drunk, and then he would be punished on the spot by her biological mother.

"Yes, it's okay this time, but what about next time? My dear apprentice, I am useless and can't protect you. If it weren't for the help of Straw Hat Boy, Master would not be able to save you."

Franky was just shouting at this moment, without shedding a single tear, and Kelly immediately understood what Franky meant. Wow, he was trying to push her out in different ways. Suddenly, Kelly also felt like joking, so she let go of her hand, causing Franky, who was leaning on her, to fall flat on his face.

"Thank you for your help, especially you, Mr. Reindeer."

Kairi ignored Franky who fell to the ground, confused as to what was happening, and walked to the other side and spoke to Zoro, Usopp and Chopper who were discussing the issue.

"It's not a reindeer!... Uh, no, it's a reindeer, you got it right, hehehe."

Because Kelly had called him by the wrong name before, Chopper habitually wanted to correct her, but he quickly realized that it seemed that Kelly was right this time.

"No need to say more. Not to mention that you are the builder of the Sunshine Miles, our stupid captain is still thinking about letting you on board."

Zoro didn't say much about this, but frowned as he looked at Luffy who was still fighting on the other side. Is this opponent so strong? Why hasn't the fight been over for so long?

"Well, what about the Captain?"

Although she was very grateful to Luffy and the others at the moment, Kairi actually hadn't figured out what choice to make yet, so she could only change the subject.

"It's not over yet. I'm a little surprised. It shouldn't take so long to defeat the enemy this time."

Zoro said with a frown.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly Luffy appeared in front of everyone with a somewhat embarrassed look on his face, and he was currently carrying a very tall half-human creature on his back.

"I'm back, everyone."

Luffy said with a silly smile.

"What's going on? Luffy, what's going on with this guy?"

Zoro looked at the big guy that Luffy was carrying on his back. In Zoro's opinion, Luffy was carrying this guy back for a different reason than he was carrying Lawless back on his back.

"Oh, this guy, his animal-type devil fruit failed to awaken, and he became an irrational guy. It's really hard to beat him, hehe." Luffy threw Robert on his back to the ground. At this moment, Robert no longer looks the same as before. If the previous Robert still looked a bit handsome, now he just looks stupid.

At this moment, Robert's lower body still had human feet, but his upper body had completely changed. Eight spider legs stretched out from the spine and were moving unconsciously. His head had turned into a spider's head, and his eight cute ugly eyes were all spinning in circles. Snot was flowing from the two huge nostrils, which were definitely not on the face of a normal spider. He looked completely demented.

"Devil Fruit awakening failed? Hey! This is a magical thing."

Franky ran over and said with interest as he looked at Robert's expression at the moment.

"Hmm~~ Can you explain what this means? I've never heard of a failed Devil Fruit awakening."

Usopp looked at Robert on the ground, took out a wooden stick from somewhere, poked Robert's waist, and asked curiously.

"Did the Devil Fruit awakening fail? This is something that happens more often to those with Animal-type Fruits. Regarding this, you must first understand one thing, that is, Devil Fruits have their own consciousness, especially Animal-type Fruits, whose consciousness is the most complete. The hunting instinct power of those with Animal-type Fruits comes from this."

Franky took out a blackboard from somewhere and started writing and drawing in front of Luffy and the others. Compared with the so-called failure of awakening the fruit, Usopp and the others were actually more curious about where Franky got this blackboard from. It was just like a magic trick.

"When the fruit awakens, it is actually the will in the fruit and the will of the person who awakens, and neither side will give in. Because there is a saying that after the fruit awakens, the will of the fruit itself will be erased, or it will completely succumb to the ability user. I am afraid no one wants to be the one that is erased, so this confrontation will be very fierce. And if the fruit ability user is not in a good state or the right mental state at the time of awakening, it is very likely that it will not be able to suppress the will of the devil fruit itself, resulting in the failure of awakening. In the end, it will be devoured by the power of the devil fruit and become a slave to the will in the fruit. For example, although the animal-type fruit has powerful strength, speed, physique and recovery ability, it will become like a wild beast. Of course, the greater possibility is that both sides will suffer losses and become what they are now, a fool with the power of a wild beast. How to say it, it's like this anyway, it's quite sad."

Franky pointed at Robert lying on the ground and said that he was obviously awakened, but failed. He did not succeed, nor did he let the will in the fruit get the upper hand, and he successfully turned himself into dementia.

"Yeah, that's about it, but this guy is very strong and fast, and most importantly, he has a strong recovery ability. It took a long time to beat him before he completely fainted."

Luffy shook his arms and said that he knew this situation. Once when Kuzan was giving him a lecture, he couldn't understand what was going on, so he simply took him to the underwater prison on a bicycle. There, Luffy saw the prison beasts that were used as guards, and he completely understood why the awakening failed. Unexpectedly, after Robert was knocked unconscious by his punch, he strangely awakened, but he failed to awaken and became like this.

"Wait! Is the fruit awakening so scary? Then Chopper and Kuina..."

Usopp said with some concern.

"Don't worry, Usopp. A normal awakening won't be like this. Have some confidence in your companions. This situation is caused by a lack of inner determination when forcing a breakthrough in battle. Normally, this won't happen."

Luffy said, patting Usopp's shoulder with a smile.

"Is that so? That's great." Usopp nodded and said.

"Oh yeah, where's Kuina? Is she not done yet?"

Luffy looked around for Kuina.

"Here we come! Nami has some new gains, and we just happened to kill this guy." Kuina descended from the sky, holding Claire in her hand and carrying Nami on her back.

(End of this chapter)