Fire Fist of the Rebirth Pirate Comes to the World

"Have you seen enough?" Ace was so angry that he just backhanded Akatsuki out, he seemed to understand a bit of what Yuna had just done, and the bastard in front of him did possess strange mannerisms that made people inexplicably angry, it was unbearable.

"Hey, don't get mad." With a flick of his hands, Akam actually used his fingers to live clamp down on the blade that Ace was chopping at.

Although the act of pulling out Akamu wasn't intended to be a real killer, Ace had some confidence in his own strength, at least, no one would dare to be so big as to go and take a hard slash from him with the fingers of two hands, even the big bear was limited to the palm of his hand.

Now that he saw his attack being taken so simply, Ace frowned slightly as he realized that the other party didn't use his dominance.

"Well, since you guys want to know, I'll tell you word for word." Akam smiled dewy-eyed and slowly released his fingers, Ace didn't bother to freeze with him any longer, returning the Akatsuki to its sheath with a grunt, while placing his palm on Yuna's raised revolver and motioning for her to drop it first.

"Most people go through their lives without their noticing, but the world is full of untold secrets." Arkham waved his hands and spoke loudly as he walked towards the lab, as if he was drawing his beautiful blueprint, suddenly he turned and leaned down to the two, "For example, the Devil's Fruit."

The lab wasn't very big, and with Arkham leading the three to where they had first come in, Arkham gently brushed past the nauseating culture tanks that held a single one, Yuna held Ace's hand tightly and turned her back not to look at it again, in fact Ace was a little tempted to vomit when he saw it again, but in the end managed to endure it.

"Wonderful isn't it? Legend has it that the secret treasure of the sea, if you eat it, you can gain demonic powers, you can do anything, unleash all those evil desires that are suppressed in your heart, anything you can think of, it all sounds so wonderful and all you have to pay for it is just the small act of not being able to go into the sea for the rest of your life."

"Well, that's not enough of a device for them, and power out of thin air won't do any good except to warp these people's minds." Ace sneered, this was a common occurrence on the Great Voyage, he'd encountered countless of them, not to mention the fact that nine out of the eleven supernovas, including Bonnie and Luffy, in those two years after the original were all capable.

As War once said, "Because of Roger's 'Age of the Great Pirate', just about anyone with a modicum of power on the ocean now wants to be a pirate king." The general behavior of people after they got power could be seen from this.

"Yes, yes, those shallow people aren't even qualified to enjoy this supreme power." Probably a researcher's disease, after learning that his opinion was agreed upon, Akam was like a parent who had been praised as a child's parent, smiling and hanging on with pride and pride, though it all looked funny on his face with his monocle gold glasses hanging from it.

"Why, exactly, is it that when you eat the Devil's Fruit, you gain immensely powerful abilities, but your body can no longer touch the water, I have done a detailed investigation."

Arkham rummaged around in the so-called file box, stirring everything up, then took a document wrapped in vellum from it and showed it to Ace with an excited face, and pointed to the data on it, "You see, the so-called 'ability can't go into the water' actually refers to the fact that The contact between the ability's body and the water, the 'water' here, isn't just seawater, lakes, rivers, even the clean water we drink everyday, they can all be an ability's nightmare, but there's a prerequisite for that."

"The area of contact with the body is sufficient." Taking all the data on the file into his eyes, Ace coldly threw out this sentence.

"Bin hook! That's it!" Arkham was busy nodding his head, then he closed his eyes as if he was wallowing in something, "It is the woe of those who have demonic abilities but are hindered by the sea, this rule has been spread to the four seas for centuries and people believe in it, 'demonic fruit'! 'The name is becoming more and more accepted, but none of the people behind all of this have bothered to find out what it's all about, the idiots! If you don't know, think."

As Arkham growled, the look on Ace's face grew more and more shocked, indeed, as he said, people nowadays were bouncing around almost all day in their quest for the power of the fruit, even Ace himself hadn't given any thought to the source of this demonic fruit. Or was it the inferiority of those who got the power?

"The fruit, the fruit! The Devil Fruit looks just like a normal fruit, and aside from its strange abilities, if it were really just a fruit, would what works for plants work for it as well? For this reason, it took me and a few like-minded people countless hours to finally, be found by us!"

"It's just a fruit, yes, everyone is deceived by its appearance, a mere fruit, how can it give people all sorts of strange abilities, and it's never the same, even if two people eat it at the same time, only the first person to eat it will get the ability, while the second person will get nothing."

"I know all of this, but what you came up with, that's what I really want to know." Ace thought of something vaguely, but could never find a clue, but for some reason, his mind was now creating an inexplicable emotion his body, shaking.

Arkham smiled wryly and put his hand on the only piece of lens on the bridge of his nose, "That's certainly the activation of dormant cells, and re-aggregation!"

Chapter 62 - "The Key" and "The Lock"

Activation of dormant cells, with repolymerization

Ace and Yuna looked at each other, both reading the suspicion in the other's eyes, what was Arkham's intention with this statement?

"The demon fruit ability fears the sea, but the fruit itself is derived from the sea, and for mortals to call it 'punishment' for betraying the sea is foolish!" While doing his best to despise those he called "mediocre people", Arkham continued to talk at length to the two Aes.

"Perhaps, we can make a hypothetical hypothesis that the Devil Fruit does not possess those terrifying abilities because it comes from the sea, perhaps, instead, because of its special nature of being inhibited by the sea, the fruit appears in the sea, thus creating the illusion that the fruit comes from the sea."

"Then, the conclusion we've reached is that the power of the Devil Fruit is actually man-made."

Is the devil fruit really just a fruit? At least, its fruit tree had never been discovered, in other words, even the "fruit" itself, named only for its shape, might have been an illusion.

"That's your conclusion, ludicrous." Those astonishing discoveries of Arkham's, however, made Ace's lips curl up in a gradual laugh, "Unfounded suspicions, self-righteous proofs, scientists seem to like to flaunt their intelligence."

"For those things that are known, you call them science, for those things that are unknown, you call them unrealistic fantasies of self-righteousness, do you really think you can do this anymore?"

Arkham paused and frowned, the murderous look in his eyes fading, and then his mouth swirled with a mocking smile, "The ignorant are always jealous of the wise."

"Never mind, I can't tell you, and I'm not interested in all that research of yours, but now that that's the case, give me a good explanation as to why an ability can't touch seawater." Ace shrugged his shoulders slightly, looking bored, feeling the weight of all that Arkham's hard work as heavy as a little after-dinner joke.

"You "Arkham's forehead blossomed with several tiny veins, but mindful of the difference in battle power between the two sides, he eventually hid it, "I've made it so simple and straightforward, don't you understand? The Devil's Fruit, it's just a façade, the ones who really have the power are the ones who take the fruit, ah."

"Oh?" Ace slid his right hand across his chest and a small golden flame ignited at his fingertips, small in size, but the surge of heat was still horrifying, "You say I had the flame to begin with? That would be awesome of me!"

Ace's tone of genuine surprise caused Yuna, who was behind him, to laugh lightly, and the two of them sang in unison, making Arkham even more annoyed.

"Your idea is interesting but nonsensical, according to you, there are an unknown number of people around the world who could have the same ability, so wouldn't that violate the iron rule of 'never two of the same fruit'?"

"That's why I said 'activation of dormant cells, with re-aggregation' ah, haven't you ever heard of the gene chain?" Arkham was like a touchdown, unashamedly shouted, "I tell you, usually human flesh will automatically add restrictions in order to avoid injury, or even, out of some unknown self-protection mechanism, most of the body tissues simply play the opposite of the clamp counteraction human beings after tens of millions of years of reproduction and rest, itself has evolved to the point where An unbelievable level, those so-called 'abilities' you call 'abilities', perhaps humans have already mastered them or maybe no, definitely mastered them! Now you're just releasing it again."

"This sea is the most wonderful place, humans, fishermen, giants, air islanders, sea kings the sea breeds all kinds of species, although over time, the species migrate and the relationship between the races become more and more delicate, but it is undeniable that millions of years ago, all the species were still just a single cell, but development today, a small cell and yet it holds the mystery of the world for millions of years!"

"Although the genetic information on the genes will gradually decrease as the cells divide, but this is not yet a way to remove the dross, in other words, everyone can have endless abilities, the human body, originally, is a treasure trove of countless treasures, only, it is now asleep, and sleep, for millions of years, if you want to wake it up, you need a key, and that key is."

"Devil's Fruit." Ace and Yuna both echoed the reply.

"Bin hook!" Arkham laughed out loud, so wantonly, "Everyone has a unique 'lock' inside them that matches their own characteristics perfectly! Behind the 'lock', naturally, is the hidden 'talent' that belongs to you, and the source that opens the lock, also can be said to be the 'key', and only one will appear! "

"But the same ability has appeared in history, and it's been recorded." Ace replied coldly, it wasn't a coincidence that the Demon Fruit Atlas recorded thousands of known demon fruits and that the Atlas even depicted what the fruits looked like!

"As I said, that is the 'key' that best matches your 'lock', there have indeed been similar abilities throughout history, but they will never be identical, there are no weak fruits, only weak abilities because they are not The matching 'key power' is not enough to 'open' your one and only 'prison lock'!"

"Okay, sort of reasonable, so I'd like to ask a few more questions." Ace heard a stirring within himself and after a moment of deep thought asked again, "Ask what the person who ate both fruits would not be able to take it and die, and why only one of the two people who ate the demon fruit at the same time gained it? Lastly, and most importantly, why does seawater incapacitate the ability?"

"Of course, with pleasure." Seeing that the two seemed to have some conviction of what they were saying, Arkham put that wry smile on his lips once again and immediately answered Ace's question in a big way, "First question, this is simple, can you put two keys in one lock at the same time?"

"The second problem, as I said, the cells have been activated and they will re-polymerize their exclusive abilities, i.e., revert to the state they were in when the thousands of races set a single cell, even if the other side has also taken the fruit, as long as you match this 'lock' more than the other side, you will become in control of all of this exclusive ability, that's re-polymerization ah"

"As for the third question, yes, that is indeed the most important, why does seawater incapacitate an ability, an answer that I haven't actually come up with yet."

"Hey, hey, hey, what's that look in your eyes?" Arkham opened his mouth depressingly, he was clearly depressed by the "so you didn't know either" looks the two handed him.

"That said, I have researched something even more remarkable, that would be a masterpiece" Arkham turned his head in the direction of the cultivation tank, filled with relief, he then took two steps back towards the two Aes, and bowed deeply.

"Thank you both for taking the time to talk with me in high spirits, Arkham has benefited greatly." At this moment, Arkham buried his head low, so that no one could see his expression, if Ace and Yuna could see it, they would be very familiar with it, because the look in the other's eyes was called "conspiracy".

"Watch out!"

Ace suddenly shouted loudly, and a loud roar roared inside the narrow chamber, two shadows that had attacked from behind were smashed out and shattered, and upon closer inspection, it was two giant black birds, but with a bizarre color flowing between their feathers.

These were two strange birds with steel bodies!

And then Arkham had already retreated to a spot in the corner, he laughed strangely and flicked a switch on the top, the secret doors on the four walls of the chamber slowly opened, the black giant birds flew out in a steady stream, surrounding the two of them in the center, and all of a sudden, the chamber was filled with the hovering figure of the steel giant birds with wings.

"What the hell?" Ace just drew his blade and cut it off, but there was a huge recoil when it touched the body of the giant bird, the autumn water in his hand emitted a burst of clarity, Yuna was equally bad, she just fired a dozen shots in a row, but she didn't even shoot down a single giant bird.

"Look what a small part of my research got me." Akam incidentally covered the body of a giant bird, who actually seemed to be unconscious, floating quietly in the air and not attacking, in contrast to all the giant birds on the field.

"Using the active cells to erode the lifeless steel, they would acquire life as if they were newborn babies, and then, through the properties of re-polymerization, they would take on their own forms you have no idea how difficult it is to give life to a steel, just parsing the re-polymerization of the demonic fruit abilities would be an impossible task. "

"What a bad character, you're going to silence me when you know your secret?" With a somewhat amused skim, Ace pulled out the Kikuichi Fumijozon along with it, both knives in hand, already ready to break out with Yuna at a moment's notice.

"No, no, no, you misunderstand me, I just discovered a new research topic, such as yours, flames." Arkham stared at his opponent's arms with a deadly smile, and his fiery gaze was like melting Ace's entire body.

Chapter 63 - Artificial Devil Fruit

The birds of steel were raging over the entire room, shooting like lightning in all directions, and with the small size of the room itself, the two of them were trapped in a cage under the cover of the black light.