One Piece: Nico Robin Collection

Chapter 79 Black Hole Jets
The next day, early in the morning.

Caesar sat on the sofa, staring quietly at the dark purple devil fruit in front of him.

The people who were already ready to go sat around, all with curious expressions on their faces.

"Is this the Dark-Dark Fruit?"

Robin looked at the Dark-Dark Fruit and said, "Dark purple... The Flower-Flower Fruit I ate was pink and looked like a flower."

Yamato laughed: "My Big Mouth True God Fruit looks like a persimmon. By the way, Caesar, what does your vampire fruit look like?"

"It's shaped like a large, overgrown tomato, mostly purple with a dark red top."

Caesar said this, flipping his palm and the Dark-Dark Fruit instantly disappeared.

[Collection Item: Devil Fruit (Natural Type Dark-Dark Fruit)]

[Rarity: S]

【Collection value: SS】

[Comment: The bigger Nika's cheat is, the more severe the black hole's damage will be!]

[Achievement: Collect a Nature Devil Fruit]

[Achievement Reward: Masterpiece Upgrade]

His eyes fell on the achievement reward, and a smile flashed in Caesar's eyes.

This reward was not unexpected for him, because when he collected the barrier fruit two days ago, he also achieved the achievement of collecting a superhuman fruit, and the reward was also a masterpiece upgrade.

The Animal, Nature, and Superman types each reward a masterpiece upgrade, which is enough to satisfy his vision of collecting all three types of fruits.

"I never thought that this fruit would be in Hanafza's hands."

Caesar was amazed: "That guy didn't sell it?"

"Old-time pirates are all like this. Once they find a rare treasure, the first thing they do is not to sell it, but to find a place to hide it. This way, they can prepare for any unexpected events and quickly make a comeback with these treasures."

Robin said calmly, "After all, for pirates, if they lose money or something, they can just rob again. But things like fruits and famous swords are like real estate. They can be used for personal use, training subordinates, or even to exchange with other pirates for what they want. Selling them is actually the least efficient option."

"That's right, after all, that guy is a former Shichibukai..."

Caesar nodded. He thought of Crocodile. When Buggy first became one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, he had borrowed a lot of money from Crocodile.

Judging from the timeline, Crocodile had just been released from prison at that time, and he still had spare money to lend to Buggy at this time. This guy definitely has a treasure trove.

Now think about the Seven Warlords of the Sea. It seems that their economic situation is pretty good. After all, they have the certification of the World Government, so it is legal for them to do business or rob money.

Bonnie looked at Caesar curiously: "So...what is the use of this fruit?"

"Bonnie!"

Big Bear patted his daughter's head gently and said, "Don't ask about other people's privacy casually."

"It's not a secret. There's nothing I can't tell you."

Caesar smiled. He didn't mind revealing some weaknesses.

After all, what does the flaw of the Dark-Dark Fruit have to do with the Light-Dark Fruit?

Not to mention that everyone present is worthy of his trust. Even if someone really betrays him and the news gets out, he can get rid of the nail while also tricking others.

"The ability of the Dark-Dark Fruit can be understood as a small black hole. Compared to other natural fruits, this fruit has significant drawbacks, such as the inability to transform into elements like other fruits."

"Unable to transform into an element? That's equivalent to lowering the lower limit of the natural system."

Big Bear thought for a moment and said, "Although Haki can attack elemental beings, even so, this ability can give a person an advantage in battles of the same level."

"That's right..."

Caesar nodded. For the natural system, even if fighting against a strong person who possesses domineering power, the only threat is the direct attack from the opponent's domineering power.

As for damage such as explosions, impacts, and falls, they are meaningless to users with natural abilities.

Kaido would feel pain for a while if he fell from a height of ten thousand meters, but Kizaru would turn into a pile of photons, Akainu would turn into a pile of magma, and Aokiji would turn into broken ice. When the elements gather again, none of the three would be hurt at all.

Similar situations are inevitable in battle, especially in battles of the same level. Being able to ignore such damage is a huge advantage in itself.

Caesar explained, "The Dark-Dark Fruit isn't incapable of elemental transformation, but rather its elemental transformation itself becomes a black hole, passively absorbing damage from attacks. In a sense, this damage absorption ability is even better than elemental transformation. However, this ability comes at a price, and that price is a more acute sense of pain than that of ordinary people."

"Also, people's tolerance for pain and injury has limits. Once a certain threshold is exceeded, it is very likely that the user will be instantly destroyed like a building collapsing."

"So, despite so many drawbacks, you still can't forget it. What's so special about this fruit?"

Robin smiled and said, "Now that we've talked about the shortcomings, let's talk about the advantages."

"Equally restrain all those with special abilities, and be able to take away the abilities of others."

Caesar spread his hands lightly, but what he said surprised everyone.

Restraining people with special abilities is easy, as seastone can also do that, but taking away other people's abilities is something they have never heard of.

"This also means that if we want to seize that fruit in the future, we just need to find someone with the corresponding ability."

Robin's face was solemn: "Fortunately, this fruit didn't fall into the hands of the World Government."

Big Bear was also surprised. "No wonder you said that obtaining this fruit would speed up our efforts to unify the ocean. Is that the reason? You want to form an army of people with special abilities?"

"That's right..."

Caesar nodded slightly, his eyes falling on the system panel.

At this time, the Dark Dark Fruit had been upgraded, and a card with a gold-plated frame was floating in his field of vision.

[Collection Item: Devil Fruit (Light and Dark Fruit)]

When Caesar saw the name of the fruit, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly for a moment.

God damn light and dark fruit!
However, when his eyes fell on the comments below, Caesar felt that there was nothing wrong with light and darkness.

Anyone who has done it knows how outrageous the value will be when a piece of equipment is added with the Light prefix!
The vampire fruit is a good example. Normal mythical beasts only have one or two core abilities, and are not as powerful as the legend says.

Caesar's light vampires can manipulate blood, heal injuries, maintain eternal youth, be immortal, transform into elemental bats, and are immune to most diseases and toxins.

The original vampire fruit also has the ability to heal injuries, but Caesar absolutely does not believe that it can even grow internal organs and limbs like it does now.

As for the elemental bat, it has never appeared in the game. Caesar is not sure whether it can be developed, but none of the mythical beasts have shown elemental characteristics so far. Even Marco's phoenix is ​​only a pseudo-elementalization achieved through the continuous regeneration flame.

Caesar had been hiding his trump card, Elementalization, just to surprise his enemies at some point, but he never expected his father-in-law to pull it out with a single blow...

[Comment: I took the damage, I earned the energy, but the pain? It doesn't exist! Oda knows nothing about One Piece!]

"System, use the Light and Dark Fruit on me!"

Caesar's heart was beating violently, and the card in front of him suddenly turned into a stream of light and sank into his body.

A dark power surged forth, like black flames, dancing gently on Caesar's shoulder. "Is this the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit?"

Yamato reached out curiously, his fingertips gently touching the deep darkness on Caesar's shoulder.

Bang!

As soon as Yamato touched the darkness, his hand was stuck to Caesar's shoulder as if glued.

"Oh!"

Yamato exclaimed, and his whole body was attracted by an inexplicable gravitational force, sticking to Caesar like a koala.

"Didn't I tell you? Don't try to explore abilities you don't understand."

Raising his hand, he gently pinched the slender waist, and then Caesar controlled himself and let go of Yamato.

Yamato grinned: "Hey, Caesar, you won't hurt me!"

"Is this gravity?"

Robin studied the darkness dancing on Caesar.

"Ah, let me show you."

Beneath Caesar, a darkness surged out like a tide and spread under the coffee table.

crunch--

Bang!
In just a moment, the surface of the coffee table began to crack, and finally, in the astonished eyes of everyone, it was torn into countless pieces by the violent gravity and finally swallowed up by the darkness.

Caesar stared at the receding darkness thoughtfully, then suddenly turned to look at Yamato: "Yamato, no need to be domineering, just give me a punch!"

Bang!
As soon as he finished speaking, a heavy punch hit Caesar's chest.

Caesar remained motionless, as if this was not a heavy punch but a gentle caress.

"Use your Armament Haki, and throw another punch. Remember..."

Bang!
Another punch landed on Caesar's chest, and Yamato blinked, "Huh? Remember something?"

“Remember to be gentle…”

Caesar grimaced in pain, but his body remained motionless.

He immediately stood up, walked to the wall amid everyone's puzzled gazes, and gently pressed his palm on the wall.

boom--

With a loud bang and a dazzling light, the wall in front of him suddenly collapsed and melted instantly under the influence of extreme speed and high temperature, leaving a lava road more than ten meters long in the manor!

"What is this? This is it!"

Bonnie's eyes widened. "Isn't it the Dark-Dark Fruit? What does this have to do with darkness? And what's the point of those two punches?"

"Well... Mr. must have his reasons for doing this!"

Bartolomeo couldn't figure it out, but that didn't stop him from having blind confidence in Caesar.

Caesar smiled and didn't explain.

It was difficult for him to explain what a black hole jet was to these guys who had never even attended school. In fact, he himself only had a vague understanding of it, and the reason he discovered this ability was because of Yamato's two punches.

Judging from the upgrade of the vampire fruit, although the upgraded fruit has high values, the ability upgrade also requires basic logic. It is impossible to erase the disadvantage of doubling the pain out of thin air. The black hole nature of the Dark Dark Fruit also determines its characteristic of absorbing attacks, and this disadvantage cannot disappear out of thin air.

But the fact is that the disadvantage of doubling the pain has indeed disappeared, without any cost.

Not only did this drawback disappear, but even without the attachment of Haki, Yamato's damage failed to cause even the slightest harm or pain to Caesar!

Although the fist with domineering power hurt Caesar, it was just normal pain.

And Caesar could clearly feel that of Yamato's two powerful punches, the power of the first punch was perfectly absorbed by his body, and most of the power of the second punch was also absorbed. The remaining power was not enough to cause any harm to him.

The only reasonable explanation Caesar could think of was that after the fruit ability was upgraded, it became a real black hole, or was closer to a real black hole.

Judging from the original plot, the original Dark-Dark Fruit is not so much a black hole as it is a superhuman system that combines the three abilities of darkness, devouring, and gravity.

A real black hole cannot have only its hands capable of absorbing the opponent's attacks. It must also be limited to the scope of non-physical attacks.

And according to the characteristics of black holes, all external attacks will collapse infinitely the moment they approach Blackbeard and be torn into pieces by the powerful gravity.

The system's evaluation of the Dark-Dark Fruit is very appropriate. The bigger the cheat Oda gives to Nika, the more severe the damage to the Dark-Dark Fruit will be.

However, Caesar could understand it. After all, a black hole, in theory, only one cubic centimeter could destroy the entire earth.

The upgraded Dark-Dark Fruit certainly wouldn't be able to destroy a planet, but judging from the power of the black hole jet, Caesar felt that it should have real black hole capabilities.

Simply put, if a real black hole is compared to a car, then the Dark-Dark Fruit before the upgrade can only be regarded as a pull-back toy car worth a few dollars.

The upgraded Dark-Dark Fruit can be seen as a high-end remote-controlled toy car. Although it still cannot compare with a real car, it has all the basic capabilities of a car.

As for the disadvantage of doubling the pain, it has nothing to do with black holes.

After the upgrade of the Dark-Dark Fruit, no matter whether it is matter, energy, or even light, everything will be swallowed by darkness.

However, Caesar is not a real black hole after all, and cannot absorb the energy of external attacks without being injured. Therefore, this part of the energy will be accumulated in the dark space inside the body.

Of course, this ability also has its limits. Once it reaches a certain threshold, it will harm Caesar himself.

But fortunately, he can choose to release this energy at any time, and add his own strength to release it in the form of a dark jet.

After sorting out his thoughts, Caesar finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Sure enough, this dark fruit was not eaten in vain!

Even if he can't plunder his abilities, based on the characteristics he has shown so far, in a one-on-one fight, there is probably no one in the world who can be his opponent!
Top defense + top physique + top recovery + top domineering + energy absorption + ability restraint...

There may be people in this world who can cause more damage than him, such as Shanks and Hawkeye.

But Caesar felt that there should be no one in the world with a longer health bar, thicker armor, and higher tolerance than him!

"Let's go!"

Caesar took a step forward and walked into the yard through the hole that had just been blasted out.

Snow was drifting in the sky. He looked up at the sky and exhaled a puff of white mist.

"It's time for us to go... and seize the world!"

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

PS: There is no charge for adding this paragraph!

I don't know much about black holes, only a vague understanding. Regarding the Dark-Dark Fruit, do you have any good development directions that you can suggest? Also, is the evaluation and upgrade of the Dark-Dark Fruit in this chapter still within a reasonable range?
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