One Piece: The user of the Nen-Nen Fruit, who overturned the sea.

"Meeting adjourned!"

Everyone stood up.

Footsteps, chairs being moved, discussions, and Barrett's loud voice mingled together, creating chaos in the conference room.

Roy looked at the group of people, a slight smile playing on his lips.

The era of legions with multiple Devil Fruit abilities begins today.

After the meeting, the conference room on Beehive Island was bustling with activity for quite some time.

Barrett, holding two fruits, walked with a swagger, muttering things like "100x boost" and "White Tiger Gundam," which made Tesoro next to him shake his head.

However, Tezzolo himself wasn't much better off—

The golden fruit spun around in his palm, golden arcs of electricity occasionally shooting out from his fingertips, coating the fruit's surface with a layer of flowing golden light.

Burgess held the Tremor-Tremor Fruit in both hands, walking carefully as if he were holding a newborn baby.

His rugged face wore an extremely serious expression, as if he were afraid of bumping or bruising himself.

Savi walked up from behind and slapped him on the back, almost making him stumble.

"Relax, the fruit isn't that fragile."

"This is the Tremor-Tremor Fruit—Whitebeard's fruit—how can I not be careful!"

Bages held the fruit protectively to his chest and glared at Savi.

Savi smiled and shook his head, tossing the Repulsion Fruit in his hand; its pale blue peel shimmered under the light.

Cyrus walked alone at the very back.

He held the Great Entrance Form in his left hand and the Floating Fruit in his right, his steps steady and his expression calm.

As he passed the window in the corridor, he paused, gazing at the scattered lights of the harbor outside.

He looked down at the floating fruit in his hand, lost in thought.

"What are you thinking about?"

Roy's voice came from behind him. Cyrus turned around and bowed slightly.

"Captain, I was just wondering if Shiki the Golden Lion—after eating the Float-Float Fruit—could also stand at that height and overlook the entire ocean."

"Maybe."

Roy walked over to him and also looked out at the sea.

The moonlight spilled onto the waves, shattering into a shower of silvery-white fragments.

"Shiki's life was full of ups and downs, and in the end, he was buried on an unnamed deserted island."

His luck ran out after Eitwall, but he fought a great battle in his last fight—at least that's what he said.

Roy patted Cyrus on the shoulder.

"Don't feel guilty. With your current potential, the Floating Fruit will definitely show a different kind of brilliance in your hands."

Cyrus was silent for a moment, then nodded solemnly.

"I understand."

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Late at night, on the back hill of Beehive Island.

The daytime hustle and bustle had long since dissipated, and the training ground was deserted.

Roy stood alone in the center of the training field.

He was holding a fruit in his hand.

The fruit's surface shimmered with a pale blue glow, appearing particularly eerie in the night.

"Soul-Soul Fruit".

Roy murmured the name to himself.

Big Mom dominated the New World for decades with this fruit, and used her soul to create the entire Homie army of the World Kingdom.

Those singing trees, dancing teacups, talking doors—

She created them all by extracting soul fragments from others using the Soul-Soul Fruit's power.

But she went in the wrong direction.

Roy always thought so.

The essence of the Soul-Soul Fruit is not about creating toys, but about absolute control over mental power.

What is the soul?

It is the embodiment of a person's spiritual strength.

The Soul-Soul Fruit can extract other people's souls, which means it can directly affect other people's mental strength.

In the hands of someone who truly understands the power of the mind, this ability is far more than simply creating a few Homies.

Roy's Nen-Power Fruit is essentially an external projection of mental power.

Manipulating matter with mental power, creating barriers, and perceiving everything around us—

These are the basic uses of the Nen Fruit.

After awakening, he was able to directly interfere with the structure of matter and energy within the realm of telekinesis, and control everything within that realm.

However, the Nen-Power Fruit has a natural limitation: the strength of one's mental power.

The Soul-Soul Fruit's ability—soul manipulation—is part of the same system as the Nen-Power Fruit.

The combination of the two might not be addition, but multiplication.

Roy held the fruit to his mouth and took a bite.

The nauseating taste unique to Devil Fruits exploded in his mouth, but Roy's expression remained unchanged.

He chewed a few times, his Adam's apple bobbing, and swallowed the fruit.

The second heart—contracted suddenly the moment the fruit entered my stomach.

Then a surge of powerful spiritual energy exploded from the second heart.

Roy closed his eyes and used his Observation Haki to look inward at himself.

He could clearly "see" the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit taking root in his second heart, distinct from the main heart where the Psychic Fruit resided, and they did not interfere with each other.

There was no exclusion, no conflict.

Roy could feel his mental energy expanding at a visible rate.

That feeling was extremely mysterious.

It was as if a door that had always been closed in his mind was suddenly pushed open by the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit.

Behind the door lies a whole new dimension—

His perception range was expanding rapidly, covering the entire back mountain, the port area, the residential area, and then continuing to extend outwards.

The breath of every plant, the chirping of every nocturnal insect, the conversations of every person still awake—

All the information flooded into his senses, as clear as looking at a map with a magnifying glass.

He could "hear" a sentry on duty in the port area complaining to his companion that the sea breeze was too cold that night, he could "smell" the smell of leftover food wafting from the kitchen in the distance, and he could "feel" the scales of a sea monster foraging for food hundreds of meters below the surface.

He could even vaguely sense everyone's emotions—the weariness of the sentry on duty, the exhaustion of the cook in the kitchen, and the loneliness of an insomniac old man in the residential area.

This is the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit, which caused Roy's already enormous mental strength to surge even further.

Roy took a deep breath, forcibly withdrawing his spreading senses and refocusing them on the training ground to begin testing the Soul-Soul Fruit's abilities.

With Big Mom as his predecessor as a template, Roy quickly mastered the Soul-Soul Fruit's abilities.

Next up is Roy's long-considered use of his ability—multi-threaded control.

Roy closed his eyes, activated the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit, and divided his mental energy into four parts.

The first strand of mental energy maintains Observation Haki that covers the entire island. The port area, residential areas, training grounds, weapons factories—information from every corner of Hive Island is clearly visible under the monitoring of this mental energy.

The second mental control psychic barrier.

He erected a semi-transparent wall of telekinesis at the edge of the training field, and then controlled the wall to continuously change its shape—square, circle, cone, hemisphere.

The third portion of mental energy experimented with various techniques from the Nen-Nen Fruit, employing gravity manipulation, object control, and mental attacks in succession.

The fourth part of Roy's spiritual power, which is Roy's main body, is the awakened domain that begins to unleash the Nen-Nen Fruit.

Four spiritual powers, four tasks, operating simultaneously.

Roy's forehead was covered in a fine layer of sweat.

This kind of high-intensity multi-threaded control consumes a huge amount of mental energy, but his eyes are getting brighter and brighter.

Four streams of spiritual energy are operating simultaneously.

This means that Roy's attacks will become more diversified in the future.

Each soul performs its own function, and the various abilities of the fruit of thought are exerted simultaneously.

Roy doesn't need to be distracted at all.