Pirates: Trainer on the Straw Hat Ship

Chapter 323: Awakening of the Animal System (asking for monthly votes~)

"Why hasn't Red come back yet!"

At the lively banquet, Luffy, who was sitting at the main seat, immediately showed a listless look as he looked at the Straw Hats who had already started eating and were about to continue training after eating.

This time, he was not playing Jinbei with the Straw Hats, but was really crying for the delicious food in front of him.

After fighting for ten days and ten nights, he was already starving.

Although good medicine can restore physical fatigue and injuries, it can't make up for Luffy's desire for food.

Maybe he was not acting just now, but he really couldn't wait to eat a lot!

"Calculate the time, it should be two and a half hours, right?!"

Hearing Luffy's noise, Franky also looked in the direction of the cabin of the Merry in confusion.

Although Red entered the Pokémon world in the open space of the Sea Forest, they certainly would not leave Red alone in the wilderness. Naturally, they took him and the unconscious Nika Will and placed them in Red's own bedroom.

At this time, Usopp on the side also showed doubts:

"It stands to reason that if it is just to transform the fruit will into Pokémon, it shouldn't take so long, right?"

"Did Red forget Luffy's party physique and didn't expect us to hold a party directly!?"

"How is it possible?" Nami leaned back, put her hands on her chest, and then explained in a calm tone:

"Among us, Red knows Luffy best. How could he not think of these..."

"You still understand me, Nami."

Just as Nami's voice fell, a sunny male voice suddenly sounded from behind her.

At the same time, Red's figure suddenly appeared behind Nami and chuckled apologetically to everyone.

"Sorry, I kept you waiting."

"You're finally back, Akane!"

Hearing Akane's voice, Luffy instantly raised his head excitedly, and even took the initiative to help Akane pull the chair next to him away.

Because there were outsiders present this time, and members of the Straw Hat Pirates also attended the banquet, the seating arrangement was a little bit particular.

As the vice-captain, Akane was naturally arranged to the position closest to the captain.

And as the main guest of this table, Jinbei was directly arranged on the other side of Luffy, showing the respect of the Straw Hat Pirates for him.

This is also one of the open plots of the Straw Hat Pirates!

Although they have only been together for a few days, Nami and others have already figured out Jinbei's character.

For a righteous and loyal person like him, all your kindness to him will be firmly remembered by him.

So even if there is no opportunity to invite Jinbei to join the Straw Hat Pirates, Red has already reminded the Straw Hat Pirates to be friendly enough to Jinbei...

Maybe one day in the future, when he feels that he can no longer repay the friendship of the Straw Hat Pirates, he will use his life as a bargaining chip and entrust it to the Straw Hat Pirates.

Just like in the original timeline, he was willing to turn against the World Government for the friendship of Whitebeard protecting Fishman Island.

However, the protagonist of today's banquet is destined not to be Jinbei.

Because at the moment Red sat down, a ball with pink light also flew out from the cabin of the Merry, came to Red and rubbed him intimately.

Red stretched out his finger and let Little Nika fall on his fingertips.

"Let me introduce you to everyone. This is the fruit will in Luffy's body, Little Nika."

"But now it has become a completely independent individual, so there is no need to worry about it causing problems to Luffy's soul."

"Luffy..."

After sitting down, Red turned his eyes to Luffy and said with a smile:

"How about letting Little Nika be our partner in the future and go on adventures with us!?"

"Of course!!!"

Luffy immediately raised his hands in agreement when he heard Red's proposal.

Then, under the eyes of everyone, he stretched out his palm and smiled at Little Nika:

"Little Nika, we two can be said to have known each other through fighting. From now on, we are partners on the same ship!"

"Welcome to join us!"

"Ni~?"

Little Nika tilted his head and was stunned, somewhat unable to understand the meaning of Luffy's words.

After all, it has only been two and a half hours since it had independent consciousness.

However, feeling the "kind" aura emanating from Luffy, it inexplicably developed a good impression of Luffy, second only to its trainer Red.

After looking back at Red, and getting a positive look, Little Nika immediately stretched out an energy arm about the size of Luffy's palm from the light ball, and then shook hands with Luffy in the same way.

Nika is a free spirit!

The reason why it maintains its current state is entirely because it has been like this since its "birth", so it just treats it as a normal form.

And freedom is an undefined word!

If possible, Little Nika can transform into any form in a minute, including various Pokémon or creatures in the world of pirates!

It can be said that except for not being able to use all Pokémon moves, its transformation ability is no different from the Mew in the Pokémon world.

Of course, if you want to become a being that is too large, it will still put a certain amount of energy consumption pressure on Little Nika.

But that's all.

With the improvement of Little Nika's level and strength, Red believes that it will soon become a real "dream"!

Luffy and Little Nika put aside their past grudges and "formally established diplomatic relations", which also completely determined the theme of this banquet.

Luffy, who couldn't wait any longer, immediately picked up the drink on the table and laughed:

"Guys, to celebrate Little Nika's joining..."

"The banquet-officially begins!!!"

"Oh-~!!!"

The joyful atmosphere instantly swept the entire main table.

The Straw Hats, who had also been hungry for a long time, started eating immediately.

Of course, during this period, everyone's attention has never left Little Nika.

The role of the banquet was fully reflected at this moment.

As everyone introduced themselves one by one and communicated with Nika, the little guy who had just been born not long ago became completely excited.

Perhaps in its view, being able to make friends with more people is more interesting than learning combat moves and techniques.

Even the ship spirit of the Merry, Little Merry, showed up on her own initiative because of the appearance of Little Nika.

After the level was upgraded, the ghost form of the Merry could already leave the ship at a certain distance to carry out activities.

Although this distance was only about ten meters, it was no different from not having it.

But this made it possible for Little Merry to attend the banquet.

After all, it was impossible for the Straw Hat Pirates to hold every banquet on the deck of the Merry, even if the deck of the Merry was large enough and there was no problem even if it could accommodate hundreds of people.

But for Merry, this was enough.

Anyway, her companions would not forget her at every banquet.

After everyone had eaten and drunk enough, Luffy and the others would definitely run to the vicinity of the ship and perform all kinds of funny and funny dances.

In this way, an ordinary and extraordinary banquet slowly ended with the laughter of everyone.

But after the banquet, Jinbei and King Neptune, who were invited as guests, seemed to have their brains focused on too much information, and their expressions were stunned and could not let go for a long time!

A pirate group that dares to challenge the authority of the World Government, a combat force so strong that even Jinbei, a Shichibukai, is terrified, forcing the fruit will out of the human body and turning it into a partner, and a ship spirit that suddenly appeared and participated in the banquet...

All of these things are more outrageous and shocking than the last.

Even until Jinbei followed Neptune back to Ryugu Castle in a daze, and suddenly remembered that he still had the task of teaching the Straw Hat Corps and Robin Fishman Karate, they had not recovered from the shock.

In just a few days, the Straw Hat Pirates brought them too many shocks.

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However, things that seemed extremely outrageous to outsiders were already commonplace for the Straw Hats.

The next morning.

The Straw Hats seemed to have forgotten what happened yesterday, and immediately devoted themselves to their own training again.

After agreeing with Luffy to take him to challenge Mewtwo tonight, Red, who was with Little Nika, directly called Chopper and Usopp and took them to a quiet room.

"Red, what's the matter?"

Usopp, who was studying the Zerg breeding formula, entered the room and immediately asked curiously.

Little Chopper, who followed behind him, also showed a puzzled and cute face and walked into the room.

"Sit down first."

Faced with the two people's questions, Red calmly pointed to the two chairs opposite him and said:

"I called you here today mainly because I want to discuss two things with you."

"One good thing and one bad thing."

"Bad thing!?"

Usopp didn't say anything polite to Red, and sat down directly, and then the puzzled look on his face became more intense, and he hurriedly asked:

"What bad thing!?"

No wonder he was so anxious.

After all, it can be called a bad thing by "Almighty Red", so this thing must be big!

"This matter is actually related to little Chopper." Red did not keep the secret and spoke directly:

"You all saw the process of Luffy's fruit awakening yesterday."

"I believe you can also realize... the process of awakening the ability of the animal fruit may not be as simple as we imagined!"

"It is very likely a result of the fusion of the soul of the ability user and the fruit will!"

"So..."

Red turned his eyes and looked at Chopper who had just jumped on the chair.

When Chopper heard this, his face suddenly changed.

Usopp frowned instantly.

"Red, you mean that as Chopper's strength increases, when he reaches the stage of awakening the fruit ability, he will also face the same crisis as Luffy!?"

"But... haven't you and Brook successfully solved the problem of fruit will fusion?!"

"Just repeat the same trick and catch the fruit will in Chopper's body!?"

Usopp, who has seen Red's success case with his own eyes and has absolute confidence in him, obviously can't understand why Red is so nervous about this matter.

However, Chi Hong immediately shook his head:

"It's different!"

"You may not have noticed that for the ability of the animal-type fruit, the fruit will is the absolute factor that truly affects the ability!"

"Luffy was able to awaken smoothly because he happened to awaken the fairy attribute at that time. With the assimilation of the fairy attribute, he was able to force out the true power of the devil fruit again."

"But... Luffy can use the fairy attribute to draw out the power of Nika, but it does not mean that Chopper can use the same method to draw out the power of the human-human fruit."

"Ah, so dangerous?!"

As Chopper's mouthpiece, Usopp quickly asked again:

"Then... wouldn't it be better if we just let little Chopper not awaken the fruit?!"

" Anyway, we have so many means now..."

"But the problem lies here!"

Before Usopp finished speaking, Red interrupted him directly, and then looked at Chopper and said:

"According to my guess, the awakening of the animal-type fruit ability may not be something you can refuse if you want to!"

"Unlike the superhuman and natural types, the animal type is an ability that directly acts on the body, so when your body becomes stronger, the animal-type ability is also getting stronger..."

"Over time, Chopper is likely to suddenly awaken the fruit ability one day, or directly awaken under certain specific conditions!"

Red said word by word, seriously.

Although this is just a guess of his, he has sufficient reasons and evidence.

For example, in the original timeline...

Lucci and Kaku used the awakening of the animal-type ability at the same time!

In terms of talent, Lucci is the "strongest CP9 member in the past 800 years" designated by the World Government!

In terms of time, Lucci has eaten the devil fruit for many more years than Kaku, and it is impossible that his training of the fruit ability is much worse than Kaku.

In terms of strength, Lucci has shown a combat power far beyond Kaku, whether in Judicial Island or Egg Point Island.

But in terms of the training of fruit abilities, Kaku successfully awakened his fruit abilities in just two and a half years...

This is the important reason why Red suspects that the awakening of the animal-type fruit ability is likely related to its own strength.

In addition, the fact that so many jailers in the city failed to awaken their animal-type abilities fully illustrates the uncontrollability of animal-type awakening!

Red doesn't doubt that Chopper's fruit awakening will fail, but the Human-Human Fruit...

Although this is an ordinary animal-type fruit without any extra suffixes, anything related to the broad concept of human beings will not be that simple.

Especially if all animal-type fruits have fruit wills, then Red thinks that the fruit will of the Human-Human Fruit will definitely be the strongest among ordinary animal-type fruits!

To be on the safe side, Red must take a 120% attitude and take this matter seriously.

"So, I must take the initiative to cultivate the opportunity to awaken the fruit power like Luffy..."

"And give up the power of awakening the fruit with the help of you, Red, so that I won't face the same danger as Luffy!?"

After listening to Red's explanation, little Chopper raised his head nervously, and asked Red with slightly moist eyes.

Although the awakening of the fruit power was not included in his plan, the inexplicable addition of a hidden bomb in his body still made the young Chopper feel uneasy.