I formed the El Cat Investigation Team in Pirates.

"How can it be?!"

Gladius widened his eyes and looked at Meowx, who was unharmed, in disbelief.

It is natural that he who ate the Boom-Boom Fruit would be immune to his own abilities, but why is the "Rampage Blue Cat" who ate the Bomb Fruit also immune to his own abilities? !

"...So I am the lower-rank fruit..."

With the accumulation of the Don Quixote family, Gladius naturally had some understanding of the superior and inferior fruits, but before that, he always thought that his Explosion-Explosion Fruit was the superior one.

"However, even if the Bomb Fruit is a higher-level fruit, it should not be possible to be completely immune to my ability..."

Gladius quickly calmed down and analyzed the way to break the deadlock.

Although the overall strength of the Don Quixote family is average in the second half of the Grand Line, and their personalities are rather odd, the intelligence of Tenyaksha's subordinates is still quite remarkable.

Well, of course, it’s mainly because of the contrast with my peers.

"… Let's try again."

One fight alone wouldn't reveal anything, so Gladius raised his arms again.

However, Meowx is not the kind of person who would just stand there and be attacked.

The little crazy cat grinned, revealing a mouthful of shiny little fangs: "I wanted to discuss the power of the fruit with you, but since you used the weapon first..."

"Then let's start shooting, meow! Hahahahaha!"

(=`=)l▄︻╤

Before Gladius could attack again, the little crazy cat took out his pop gun and started shooting at him wildly.

and……

"I can also make bullets explode, meow!"

"Boom boom boom boom!!!"

Compared to the petty mechanism on Gladius's arm, Meowx's bullets fired faster and in greater quantities, and most importantly...

The explosion was more powerful.

So Gladius had no choice but to flee again.

And this time, while shooting, Meowx also destroyed all the mechanisms set up by Gladius, making it impossible for him to activate the trap.

During this period, Gladius did try to fight back, and even guessed how he could cause harm to Meowx by the way she tilted her head to avoid the rubble.

However, facing the violent attack of the little crazy cat, the things he launched with the explosion were basically bounced away by the explosion created by Meowx halfway.

The few fragments that broke through the explosion defense, not to mention how much lethality they had, with Meowx's observation Haki and agility, it was impossible for her to be hit by them.

What's more, the little crazy cat also has a defensive move called "reactive armor".

"You're starting to bore me, meow!"

(In)

After letting Gladius fight back a few times, Meowx found that he only used the same few moves, and gradually lost interest in playing.

"Let me introduce you to a new friend! Fishbones, come say hello to him, meow!"

■≡(=`=)■■＞

The little crazy cat took out the fish bone and placed it on his shoulder.

"There's no need to be afraid, and there's no need to live, meow!"

A colorfully painted shell with a long tail of flame flew towards Gladius. Although he had already fled as far as possible, the range and power of the Ultra Death Missile, which had been enhanced by Klee's technical support and Suika and Meowx's own abilities, were no less than the bear paw attack that Big Bear had just used on the ring...

Even more so.

"boom--!!!"

Along with a huge explosion, Gladius, who had just run a short distance, and everything around him were engulfed in dazzling flames.

Of course, this also includes the little crazy cat who is laughing towards the sky and is almost immune to explosive damage.

“Meowhahahahahaha…”

(=`=)

"Click..."

"……Uh?"

A subtle but clear crisp sound interrupted the little crazy cat's triumphant laughter.

Meowx looked in the direction of the sound...

"Oh... this is not so meow..."

(==)

……

Sanji, who was deliberately hit by the ability of the Jora Fruit, raised his arms and looked at the square claws in front of him and the messy lines on them, which should represent his paw pads. He found them quite interesting.

Now, my appearance should have become a "work of art" similar to my claws, right?

If the timing wasn't right, he would have wanted to take an "artistic photo" of himself as a souvenir.

"Oh wow! This is real beauty! You look much better than before!"

Seeing Sanji being hit, Jorah felt that he had already won, so he proudly put his hand to his mouth and gave a standard "lady smile".

Sanji ignored her and continued to gather and increase the armament domineering in his body, trying to forcibly dispel the fruit ability attached to himself as Xie Wen said.

"How disgusting! How disgusting... Seeing you like this, my soul is shaking again!"

Even if no one paid attention to her, as an "artist" Jorah would not feel embarrassed at all. She danced with her arms raised high and shouted excitedly, like a witch performing a shamanic act.

"Endless inspiration will bloom with my heart!"

“Ahhh! The inspiration of liberation and beauty! It’s bursting out!”

Qiao La held her hands above her head, and a cloud of smoke that looked like a disturbed palette emerged from her head, and she gathered it in her hands...

"The world should be free and equal!"

Jorah grabbed the cloud of smoke and threw it to the ground. Colorful smoke burst out instantly, covering a large area nearby.

As the smoke dissipated, everything around took on various strange shapes, but overall they were all in an abstract style.

“…Has my face also become this patchwork style-nyan?”

(In)

The little yellow cat looked at the scenery around him and suddenly felt bad.

"What do you know?! This is true beauty! This is my art!"

Jorah heard Sanji's muttering and immediately retorted loudly.

"Is this your art?" Sanji curled his lips in disdain. "But all I see is an amateur who has no concept of aesthetics and only learned some abstract art concepts from somewhere, piling and patching things together randomly."

That’s right, the “patchwork” mentioned by the little yellow cat before was not referring to the abstract style itself, but to Jora’s application of abstract painting.

Although most people, whether humans or cats, cannot appreciate abstract art, Sanji is one of the few cats who truly understands it.

Although his original intention of learning about art was to improve his plating skills and date artistic female cats...

But in short, he really understands.

Then Sanji-nyan showed the same picky attitude as he did with the dishes cooked by Mr. Squid Tentacles, criticizing Jora's "art" for everything from color to composition, from lines to space.

"...Abstract art, the most important thing is self-expression, but in your works, I can't see any expression of your own, only poor imitations of other paintings, this kind of thing is not art!"

(=vv=)

After Sanji said a lot of things in a very proud manner, he gave Jorah the final blow.

“Waaaaaaaah! Impossible! My art! My art…”

Although Jora's level of artistic attainments is not that good, she is quite serious about pursuing art. So after being scolded by Sanji, she couldn't accept it for a moment, so she hugged her head, knelt on the ground and wailed.

“So… this messed up thing that can’t be called art at all… get off me, meow!”

(=`Д=)

"Demon God Wind Legs·Day Tiger Meow!"

"Hehe~ It's not that hard, right? Next time I will definitely give that idiot Ace a good beating, meow!"

(=`=)

After breaking through the power of the Art Fruit and kicking Jora unconscious, Sanji raised his head proudly.

then……

"Kaka..."

The little yellow cat shook its ears and turned its head to look in the direction of the sound in confusion.

"Hmm? What's going on?"