[One Piece] Mindless and unhappy

On the sea, Devil Fruit owners seem to be chosen by God and given special abilities, but at the same time they also withdraw their ability to touch the sea water in this world of vast seas.

Haibara Ai has been researching in laboratories in this world for several years since the beginning. When discovering active agents, she discovered the problem of activity in cell proliferation. Some cells in the body of people who have eaten Devil Fruit are particularly active, but when these cells are active, they are also lacking a gene.

She concluded that it was because the Devil Fruit had changed part of her genes, and she lost the ability to touch sea water while possessing the ability.

There are quite a few people with fruit abilities on Whitebeard's ship. She has also sought advice during every physical examination and studied the blood of these devil fruit ability users individually. Because the abilities are different, the sequence and activity frequency of the gene cells are different. They were all different. From the very beginning, she had considered researching the antidote from the Devil Fruit, so she always kept the person with the ability to regress the fruit in her notebook.

I just didn't expect that compared to the ability user who only had the ability to regress, I heard a more suitable ability user on the Wanli Sunshine at that time.

——Suspected to adjust age.

And coincidentally, she also met the other party, and the other party also had the intention to cooperate.

When chatting with Kuzan at that time, Haibara Ai just wanted to test the fruit's ability. From the beginning, she never considered relying on the Devil Fruit alone to recover herself.

She has also seen the ability of the Devil Fruit, but in her opinion, the upper limit of this ability may be continuously raised due to the talent of the user using the ability. However, no matter how high the limit is, the fruit's ability also has an upper limit in some aspects.

She is a researcher of aptx4869. If she cannot find the antidote for the medicine she has researched, then all her years of studying biochemical medicine will be quite a waste.

Maybe the Devil Fruit could directly restore her to her adult form and allow her to achieve her goals faster, but by forcing her body containing the aptx4869 toxin to undergo another adjustment, it was impossible to predict the problems that would arise in the future. She had no intention of letting herself go. Take this risk.

Hui Yuan Ai rubbed the center of her brows, took a combat shower, and then went back to her room to lie down. Although there were still a few blank pages in her notebook, the draft paper on the ship was almost used up, and the ship was abandoned by them halfway. Even if the patrol ship that was snatched bought a lot of experimental equipment during the voyage, a lot of more sophisticated equipment is needed to directly create the antidote...

While she was jotting down the new equipment and daily consumables in her mind, her eyelids gradually became heavier, sleepiness gradually surged, and she squinted her eyes...

At this time, she suddenly felt the pain from her knees.

"...Are you going to become smaller?" she murmured.

However, the age change caused by Qiao Aili's ability is different from the effect of aptx4869. When she returned to her adult appearance, she did not feel the obvious pain caused by the changes in the body's bones, so she did not take the temporary antidote when she became smaller. She was in sharp pain all over her body, and before she had time to change into clothes after she had just regained her childlike shape, the short-sleeved shirt she originally wore turned into a nightgown. However, sleepiness gradually overcame her reason, and she closed her eyes. Immediately fell asleep.

When Haihara Ai woke up again, Ace was not on the ship. Only Qiao Ellie was sitting on the small table on the deck, with a lot of delicious food in front of her.

"Do you want to eat something?" Qiao Ellie saw her coming and pointed at the table. When she stopped, she took a large chicken drumstick from the table and stuffed it into her mouth.

"...No, thank you." Looking at her heroic way of eating and the large area of ​​meat on the table, Haibara Ai, who had not eaten seriously for several days and indulged in research, felt that she didn't want to go because she had just gotten up. Try this overly rich "tonic."

Qiao Ellie was not polite to her: "You have been sleeping for a day and a half. Ace came to see you once in the meantime. You didn't wake up. He said he would bring you some food alone. He will probably arrive soon."

Hui Yuan Ai nodded to show that he understood. Looking at the two chairs in front of the table, he simply dragged out another chair, poured another glass of water, sat down, and took a few sips slowly.

"Is there something wrong with your body?" Qiao Ellie asked, "When I used my ability directly for the first time, I didn't adjust your ability according to my wishes. Instead, I needed to use the ability more carefully and skillfully before I could use it successfully. "

Haibara Ai is not surprised that she can see that these supernovas are the best among the newcomers who debuted in the same year. Their strength and brains are not far behind. It is not surprising to see these problems. On the contrary But if she didn't ask, Haihara Ai would still worry about whether she had other ideas that were not good for her.

"It can be solved."

Qiao Ellie threw aside the bone she had just finished chewing, and temporarily stopped eating: "I didn't see you in the Whitebeard Pirates during the war, and I didn't think about it at first, but how you look when you grow up It’s so similar to this.”

She casually took a tissue from the side of the table to wipe her hands, and took out a reward warrant from her pocket.

——haibaraai.

The name at the bottom of the reward notice said so.

"Your name is Xiao Ai... right?"

Hui Yuan Ai remained calm. Since the other party was still staying on the boat and talking to her, instead of leaving with this suspicion on the first day she grew older, the initiative fell into the hands of Hui Yuan Ai.

Qiao Ellie must want to use this secret in exchange for some rewards, and she only has to consider whether the other party's request is too much.

"I went to learn about the war at that time. The recovery potion that can only bring powerful endurance was developed by the person who issued the reward order." Qiao Aili said loudly, "I want two."

"One." Haiyuan Ai lowered the price. Although the cost of the active medicine was not low, she wouldn't be that embarrassed if she wanted to take out two, but how could she offer a bottom-line deal?

She was distracted for a moment, and then she couldn't help but laugh again.

Perhaps the vast ocean area of ​​​​the world has brought people enough open-mindedness and tolerance. Compared with before, she has seen too many straight-tempered people now, which made her think for a moment that maybe everyone has a bottom line when speaking?

"But I can give you a new product that I just researched. You can try it." After thinking about it, Haiyuan Ai left some room for the other party after lowering the price, and threw a small bottle to the other side, which contained only some useless things. It is a colorful potion, but the capacity of this bottle is quite small. If this bottle of potion is used to drink, it may be poured into the mouth and gone in one gulp.

Qiao Ellie neatly took the vial thrown over and looked over it: "What is this?"

"The first anti-seawater potion." Haiyuan Ai organized his words and explained: "We have only made this much for the time being, but if you apply this thing on your body, the area where it is applied will not be affected for at least three to five days. It will lose strength when it comes into contact with sea water.”

She also knew that this ability actually didn't have much effect, so she continued the second half of the sentence.

"If you take it, you can move around freely in the sea for about an hour and a half, but the fruit's abilities will also be suppressed and cannot be used."

If there was no reaction from Haihara Ai's introduction to Qiao Ellie at the beginning, her eyes lit up after she said the last sentence.

What she wanted to do was quite dangerous, and she was willing to cooperate not because of Haihara Ai, but because she knew that Ace, who was traveling with her, would not let go of Blackbeard who was tracking her, and as long as Ace could stop Blackbeard, then she would plans can be implemented faster.

She wants to restore the potion to leave a way out for herself. This powerful potion cannot be used twice in a short period of time, but if she really has no other way, it can be used as a last resort. However, the new potion provided by Haihara Ai If the potion works, then once her plan fails and she needs to run away, she can easily escape under the sea. Even now she wants to try it, and this kind of ability that can temporarily suppress the fruit's ability and return to normal has never been heard of. As long as the effect is as Haihara Ai said, there are many ways to use it.

"But with your amount, I can't even try the effect now." Qiao Ellie shook the bottle. The bottle itself was very small, not as big as her holding up two fingers. It wasn't even full, and it was still difficult to shake it. The sound of liquid colliding with the inner wall of the glass bottle can be heard.

"Although there is no finished product, I think you won't mind using the semi-finished product for testing." Haihara Ai took another sip of water.

"Deal." Qiao Ellie answered decisively.

Qiao Ellie put the bottle in her pocket and continued to stuff the food on the table into her mouth. Haihara Ai was not a warm-tempered person, and the other party was eating and had no interest in continuing to talk. They were obviously sitting at the same table. But one kept eating, and the other occasionally took a sip of water from the cup in his hand. For a while, the only sound was the sound of Qiao Ellie chewing.

"Hey, Xiao Ai, are you awake?" Ace came back just at this time. He held two lunch boxes stacked on top of each other. With his free hand, he moved the plate on the table in front of Haihara Ai. He placed the bento in front of her.

Although the green vegetable porridge and cucumber also contain meat dishes, they are not like the oily chunks of meat and bones on the table. They are a stir-fried seafood dish and a bowl of meatball soup.

Haihara Ai glanced at the bento, took the chopsticks placed beside him and started eating, but suddenly realized that Ace did not come back alone.

After Ace put the lunch box on the table, he walked back a few steps and hugged the shoulders of the person standing behind him.

"This is Sabo, my second brother!"

The other party also showed a hearty smile, took off his hat and performed a standard hat-off ceremony.

"Hello two beautiful ladies, first time meeting. I am Sabo."