Pirates: Trainer on the Straw Hat Ship.

"I see. So you guys are going to stay with the Revolutionary Army for the time being?"

"Come to think of it, Coby is indeed very suitable for the Revolutionary Army. Perhaps this is the right decision for his life!"

Fishman Island, Sea Forest.

After a busy day, Chihong answered the call from Yixiao at the agreed time.

Because the Den Den Mushi in the One Piece world does not have the function of missed call display, Akame made an agreement with Buggy, Ichigo, and a group of supernovas to call each other at a certain interval.

After hearing that Coby wanted to join the Revolutionary Army and participate in the Liberation War, Red was not surprised at all.

It can even be said that... he had already thought of this when he sent Yixiao to replace the Straw Hat Pirates to take over from the Revolutionary Army.

But he originally thought that Yixiao would directly join the revolutionary army.

The process deviated slightly from what he had imagined.

But this is normal.

After all, who would have thought that the most righteous organization in the world would have a close relationship with the Straw Hat Pirates! ?

Boss Dragon, the leader of the Revolutionary Army, is Luffy's biological father.

Sabo, the second-in-command and future leader of the Revolutionary Army, is Luffy's sworn brother.

Although Sabo has not recovered his memory due to Ace's death like in the original timeline so far, in Red's opinion, it is only a matter of time before his memory is recovered.

In other words, the Revolutionary Army and the Straw Hat Pirates are brothers who are as close as brothers, so even if Yixiao is asked to help, that is the right thing to do.

After briefly understanding the current situation of the Revolutionary Army, Chihong hung up the phone.

Under the pitch-black night, mosquitoes that were brought to Fishman Island by foreign ships at some unknown time were buzzing softly around the night lights on the deck of the Merry.

In the training ground in the distance, one or two shouts of the hardworking members of the Straw Hat Corps could be heard from time to time.

Everything is so prosperous, quiet and peaceful.

However, at this moment...

“I did it!!! I did it!!!”

"Wahahahaha~"

"My uncle Usopp is indeed the most genius in the world!!!"

In the quiet night, an extremely arrogant laugh suddenly came from a dense forest far away from the Merry.

Although it was a certain distance away from the Merry, due to the quietness of the night and the Red Ultraman's physical fitness, he could still clearly hear Usopp's shouting.

"It's done!?"

Red, who was originally preparing to randomly select two diligent Straw Hat Corps members to take them into the game world to practice to a higher level, suddenly stopped and looked in the direction where the laughter came from.

"Could it be that……"

A hint of doubt and surprise flashed across his calm red eyes.

The next moment, his body took a step back and stepped into the extra-dimensional cave.

When he appeared again, he had already come to a damp and dark cave in the ground.

This is the larvae training base that Usopp created specifically to breed special insects.

In order to create a variety of different breeding environments, he even specially built several energy devices with Franky that could use evolution stones to release fire, ice, lightning, and life breath.

At this time, Usopp was standing outside a huge metal door, looking at the situation on the other side of the door through the round special glass with excitement on his face.

"Was the experiment successful, Usopp?"

Seeing that Usopp didn't notice his presence, Akane stepped forward and took the initiative to ask.

Usopp was so excited that he seemed to have guessed that Red would appear. He didn't even turn his head, but waved and shouted:

"That's right! Come here, Red!!!"

"Look at..."

“This is what I created – a miracle life!!!”

"Oh?"

With a curious look on her face, Chihong walked to Usopp's side and looked into the laboratory behind the metal door with him.

What comes into view is a blazing fire!

Raging flames continued to erupt from every corner of the laboratory, as if they were going to burn everything to ashes.

On the table in the middle of the laboratory, there was a large area of ​​charcoal-like residue and a pile of large insect pupae that were burning and wriggling wildly.

These pupae have circles of flame-like patterns on their bodies, and each one is more than one meter long.

At a casual glance, there are thousands of them.

"These are the pupae of the Flame Butterfly~!"

Just then, Usopp took the initiative to introduce himself to Red.

Although most of these bugs had passed through Chihong's hands before, there were so many bugs that he had given the identity of Pokémon that it was impossible for him to clearly remember the name and characteristics of every bug.

Usopp continued, "The Flame Butterfly is a special insect that I discovered from the Black Lion Alliance base."

"The surface of this insect's body has a heat conductivity comparable to that of metal, and inside its body there is a special organ that can store heat energy."

"When it encounters an enemy, it will release heat from the surface of its body to cause damage to the enemy."

"After some iterative crossbreeding and energy transfer, I have successfully developed a group of flame butterflies that are larger in size and can store more heat energy!"

"After being stimulated to birth, the Flame Butterfly has been able to successfully release the insect powder and heat energy in its body at the same time, creating external flames to fight."

"After being granted the status of a Pokémon, its average individual strength is now comparable to that of a pirate with a bounty of several million berries!"

"These insect pupae in the laboratory today are individuals with great potential that I selected from countless larvae!"

"Before they were about to emerge as butterflies, I put them all into my body's warehouse and created an environment that reduced cell activity."

"Everything is for this final experiment!!!"

Usopp said with pride.

Being able to improve a powerful insect race in just over a month is an achievement that should be taken with pride.

Even though Usopp had to mobilize a large amount of potions and various evolution stone resources from Red in order to complete the experiment.

but……

"So...what are you doing now!?"

Looking at the insect pupae that gradually lost their vitality under the burning flames and eventually turned into charcoal residues, Chihong asked curiously.

Usopp, on the other hand, grinned in confusion.

"My original plan was to continue to optimize this population by increasing the temperature of the burning flames and cultivate a more powerful Zerg."

"It's just that just now, I suddenly realized that I don't have to wait any longer!"

Usopp's eyes flickered, and he pointed his finger at the glass.

Chihong looked inside the laboratory in the direction of his finger, and discovered that among the group of insect pupae, there was a unique individual!

Compared to other fire butterfly pupae that keep wriggling in the flames to survive, the flame patterns on this type of pupa are darker in color and appear to be more red than the flames burning around it.

The key is……

The pupa did not move at all. Instead, it stayed there quietly, its body rising and falling in large and small increments as if it was breathing.

With his extraordinary mental strength, Chihong instantly "saw" a larvae that was constantly growing and metamorphosing inside the pupae.

The terrifying heat energy poured in from outside the pupa and was completely poured into the body of the larva. Not only did it not cause burning and pain to it, but it was quickly absorbed by it and turned into special energy to supply life and growth.

Evolve in flames!!!

Seeing this scene, an idea flashed through Chihong's mind.

In fact, the special fire butterfly pupa is going through exactly this process at this moment!

From larvae to pupae, and from pupae to butterflies, isn't this the evolution that exists in nature?

"Is this... a genetic mutation?!"

Looking at the unique fire butterfly pupa, Chihong immediately became interested.

He suddenly stretched out his hand and summoned a hole in another dimension, then said to Usopp:

"Almost done... Let's move the other pupae out."

"If we train them well, we will have another powerful Zerg army!"

"Then……"

The red eyes flashed.

"Let me meet this mutant flame butterfly in person!"

……

……

Half an hour later...

boom! ! !

Accompanied by a loud explosion, a huge impact instantly rose in the entire flame laboratory.

The next moment, a butterfly with wings more than one meter long suddenly flew out from the vortex of flames, and with it as the center, a hot flame halo gushed out again.

The two huge wings were as red as if they were painted with flames, and on their edge outlines there was a golden ripple like the scorching sun.

Its body was completely charred black, and it was unknown whether it was caused by being burned by the flames for too long and damaging the surface of its body.

"Finally came out!?"

"It's actually a genetic Zerg with a flame vortex!?"

At the same time, a flying flamingo named Red, who was also in the laboratory, saw the Flame Butterfly in front of him successfully break out of its cocoon, and it also transformed itself, turned back into human form and fell back to the ground.

After his previous test, this mutated insect pupa was indeed extraordinary!

Although it was unknown what level of high temperature it could withstand, under the flames released by Red that could easily burn an ordinary naval vice admiral to death, it not only showed no signs of injury, but also grew rapidly, speeding up its cocoon-breaking speed!

"Squeak..."

The mutated flame butterfly that had just evolved successfully was suddenly stunned after seeing the red human figure.

Originally, it was thinking of thanking the big bird after it broke out of the cocoon.

How come the bird disappeared in the blink of an eye? !

Although it has successfully mutated, it is obvious that a bug is still a bug, and its intelligence and knowledge are still at a low level in the biological world.

Just as the Flame Butterfly was puzzled, Usopp, who saw the mutated Flame Butterfly breaking out of its cocoon, hurriedly walked into the laboratory.

As he released the insect energy that Flame Butterfly was familiar with, Flame Butterfly, which was originally looking for Moltres, instantly forgot everything and pounced on Usopp.

While it was attracting pure nutrients that would allow it to grow quickly, it became intimate with Usopp.

Even though Usopp is very cruel to bugs, he casually takes tens of thousands of Zerg lives for experiments.

But this is the racial structure of the Zerg.

Among the Zerg, everything the Zerg King does is absolutely right.

Even if they wanted to kill them and use their bodies as food, the insect swarm would have no choice but to obey.

After a long period of communication and commands from Usopp, the Flame Butterfly finally recognized the identity of the Red "Zerg Trainer" and regarded him as a member of its own group with a special identity.

In this way, Flame Butterfly naturally became a Pokémon and was brought into the Pokémon world by Red for some simple tests.

I don't know if I don't test it...

The result of the Flame Butterfly test actually shocked Chihong.

At the beginning, the attribute panel of Flame Butterfly looked like this:

[Pokémon: Flame Butterfly]

【Level: 12】

[Gender: Concave]

[Personality: Impatience (+Speed ​​- Defense)]

[Attributes: Insect, Fire]

[Feature: Flame Body (When Pokémon with this feature engage in contact combat with the enemy, they will release different levels of flames according to their own strength to cause additional damage to the enemy. In addition, Pokémon with this feature can emit special energy through their bodies to promote reproduction and growth of young.)]

[Skills: Sparks, Flame Vortex]

[Experience value: 0/375]

[Total attribute: 233]

Level 12, with 233 attribute points, and also comes with two genetic skills.

Although it is not a newborn, the fact that it has such a high attribute panel at this level is enough to prove that Flame Butterfly's basic attribute talent can be ranked in the upper middle even in the Straw Hat Pirates.

After a short period of training by Chihong, it grew into a level 20 Flame Butterfly, and its attributes reached an astonishing 367!

Of course, it’s not the total attribute value of 367 that’s astonishing.

Instead, the Flame Butterfly can gain a total attribute increase of up to 16.5 points after each level up!

To know……

Even for little Chopper, the attribute increase for each level up is only 16 points!

Such a scene is enough to prove the success of Usopp's "Zerg Genius" training plan!

……

……

"Is there really no problem, Red!?"

In the laboratory, Usopp was holding up a devil fruit with flaming feather patterns all over and a pair of protective wings on each side, with a nervous expression on his face.

Even though he had already brought the fruit to the Flame Butterfly, he still nervously asked Chihong again.

However, Red showed an expectant expression and smiled at Usopp:

"Don't worry! It's just a mythical beast-type devil fruit!"

"It's a waste to keep it apart anyway!"

"It is worth it to be able to feed a gifted individual like the Flame Butterfly."

"I'm really looking forward to seeing how it performs after gaining the power of Suzaku!"

A powerful talent, a strange ability to absorb flames, and the Suzaku Fruit, which is as famous as Kaido's Azure Dragon Fruit...

Red could almost foresee it...

In the future, under the command of Usopp, the Flame Butterfly will command the world with flames covering the sky!

"correct!"

Thinking of this, Chi Hong seemed to have suddenly thought of something and spoke again:

"Since this mutant flame butterfly has become an important general under your command, you should give it a new name to distinguish it from other flame butterflies."

"Name it!?"

Usopp, who finally made up his mind to hand the Suzaku Fruit to Flame Butterfly, looked cold for a moment.

He then asked Chi Hong directly:

"It really deserves a resounding name."

"Red, do you have any good ideas!?"

"Ideas..." Chihong grinned, looked up and down at the Flame Butterfly that was sucking the Devil Fruit with its long mouth, and a funny gleam in his eyes.

"Since its name is Flame Butterfly, and now it has eaten the Suzaku Fruit, which is known as a divine beast."

"Then I think we should call it..."

"Vulcan Moth!"