One Piece: Under the Throne

Leo held the railing tightly with both hands to make sure he would not be thrown out after the boat turned over. Will seemed to be free, and if Leo hadn't warned him with his eyes, the fat fish seemed to be planning to let go.

"Will...gulu...please...gulu...don't let go...gulu" Leo said with all his might while spitting out bubbles.

This state did not last long, and Leo and Will felt dizzy. When they came to their senses, the boat turned over again. But the following scene shocked them so much that they were speechless. At this time, the sky and the ocean were completely turned upside down. The white clouds seemed to flow quietly under the boat, while the sky was constantly surging with waves.

After checking Captain Fanny and tying her up again, Will excitedly asked Leo, "Brother, what is this place? Where are we going next?"

Leo tried to activate his ability, but he seemed to have turned back into an ordinary person. However, even if he was still a person with the ability, he could not control the waves to push the boat, because they were not sailing on the sea at all: "I don't know, maybe this is a gap in the world, let's wait and see."

They didn't have to wait too long, the laughter in Leo's mind started again: "Hehe, welcome to my home..." Just as Leo listened carefully, the voice stopped again, but then the boat moved, as if it was pulled by some force, and began to move forward on the sea of ​​clouds.

"Who is it, who is talking?" Leo's big eyes kept darting around while he asked. It was quiet, so quiet that even the sound of the wind seemed to have disappeared. This world gave people a very strange feeling, seemingly dreamy but actually lacking vitality.

Just when Leo was about to give up, the voice sounded again: "I'm in your heart..."

"Heart? Heart...what's going on? Huh? Devil fruit? Are you a devil fruit?" Leo suddenly remembered the information about the devil fruit. If a person eats a devil fruit, the devil will reside in the heart of the person with the ability.

"It's not a devil fruit, please call me Jesus." The voice of this devil fruit is like that of a child, and it seems to have a strange habit of speaking.

"Yeah...Jesus? Why did you bring me here?" Leo wanted to continue asking, but the voice no longer answered, and no matter how Leo called out, it was useless.

"Brother, what are you doing? You have been frowning since just now."

"Don't make noise, I'm talking to the thing in my heart."

Will's expression suddenly became terrified: "Brother, please don't scare me. Why is there a voice in my heart? Are we seeing a ghost?"

Bang! Before Will could finish his words, Leo slapped him on the head: "You've encountered a ghost, a coward. How can you, a little fat fish, have such a rich imagination?"

Will stopped talking after being scolded by Leo. He just sat beside him and looked at him with resentful eyes. After a long time, he began to doze off, and his head nodded as if he was about to fall asleep.

The boat moved forward slowly, and Leo sat on the deck with his legs hugged. The quiet environment and the lonely figure of the boy formed a cold picture. I don't know how long we sailed, I just felt that the fog in the air became much lighter, the vision in front gradually became clear, and a black shadow that penetrated the sky and the earth appeared in front of me.

Leo could clearly feel that Will's breathing was getting heavier behind him, and the little fat fish was also frightened by the situation. He patted Will's belly to calm him down, then Leo stood up from the boat. No matter what the black shadow was, he had to face it calmly.

The boat sailed straight towards the black shadow, and the mysterious veil was gradually lifted. It was a towering tree with its roots inserted in the sea of ​​clouds. The crown of the tree seemed to be connected to the ocean above its head. The trunk was also very special, as if several vines were twisted into a braid, with four branches on each side of the trunk. There were no leaves on the branches, but they were bent into a ring at each top.

The more Leo looked at it, the more familiar it looked. It looked a bit like the Baraka Tree of Life. If his guess was correct, there should be two more rings at the root and the top of the tree, plus the rings on the branches, a total of ten. It is said that it is the residence of the archangels. And the number of roots under the sea of ​​clouds should also be 22, symbolizing 22 meditation journeys. Thinking of this, Aoto laughed at his own fantasy. What on earth was I thinking? How could there be another tree of life in the One Piece world... Shit...

Before Leo could finish his wild thoughts, he was interrupted by a vision: his body was actually glowing.

"Ah! Brother, you are glowing. Are you also a robot?"

"Hey, stop talking nonsense, stay away from me and find a cover to protect your body."

At the same time, the voice in my heart sounded again: "Hehe, welcome to the heart of the world, young man, you are the first creature to arrive here."

"Jesus, it's so rude of you to say that. Do you think my little brother Will is nothing?"

"Hehe, don't let it hear the following conversation."

"Wait, what are you doing?" Before Leo could stop him, he heard snoring behind him. It turned out that not letting it hear it meant that Will would fall asleep.

Suddenly, a vine that was larger than the boat they were riding in rose from below. The thinnest tip of the vine kept shaking, as if it was hooking its finger at Leo to signal him to climb onto the vine.

Without a doubt, Leo stood on it. After he stood up, the vines began to rise slowly. Leo looked around curiously, and kept complaining in his heart: "The Tree of Life is really considerate. I thought I had to climb up like an ascetic monk, but they provided an elevator."

The vine carried Leo all the way up, and finally stopped in front of the circular branch at the top of the tree. Before he could react, a ball of blue light suddenly floated out of his body, slowly flew towards the circular branch, and finally hovered in the middle of the branch.

"Hey, hello, young man. Welcome to the Heart of the World. Thank you for sending me back to my mother."

Leo was completely confused at this moment. He didn't hear a word of what the light ball said. There was only one thing on his mind: "My demon ran away? Then am I still a user with special abilities?"

Leo trembled and said, "Jesus, are you the devil living in my heart? If you leave, will I become an ordinary person again?"

"I've already told you that it's not a devil fruit. It's just something you humans call it. As for the power... didn't you pray to me that you didn't want to die in the sea? So I signed a contract with you."

"Qiudou Madai, you don't mean that I have a human-shaped devil fruit, do you?" Leo felt confused. The devil in my heart came out and turned into God. He also said that he had fulfilled my wish and gave me the power to control the sea. The most terrifying thing is that God actually signed a contract with me, but what was the price? Was it a contract to sell my body?

"That means even if you leave my body, I can still use my abilities, right?" Leo was still a little worried, so he carefully confirmed with Jesus.

"A human-shaped devil fruit? Interesting. The power I give you is yours. You won't be unable to use it just because I'm out of your body. And you don't have to worry that I'll take it back. My ability is to create. I can have any power I want. I've also given a lot of power to my brothers."

"You created the Devil Fruit?"

"Hehe, that's right."

"What about the contract? You are so powerful, is there anything you can't do?"

"It's simple. Help me find all my brothers. My mother is dying, so I can't leave her side."

"Your brothers? Devil Fruit? Oh no...I...what should I call them?"

"It's up to you. Since you like to call them demons, then call them demons."

"But what am I going to do?"

"Use the power I give you to suppress my brothers. You can also forcibly extract this power from the host. When the time comes, you only need to throw their souls into the sea. The extra power will be a reward for you."

Hearing this, Leo's eyes lit up: "You mean I can plunder other people's fruit abilities, then wouldn't I be able to gain many kinds of abilities?"

"You wishful thinking. After you absorb those abilities, they will be assimilated into your original abilities. The more you absorb, the stronger your ability to control the sea will be, but you will not gain new abilities."

Leo was slightly disappointed, and then secretly cursed himself for being greedy. Being able to absorb the power of others to improve himself was already incredible, and he was too greedy to want to get more.

"Will it be possible to awaken after the ability is improved to a certain level?"

The ball of light flickered, and suddenly Jesus' appearance changed, becoming a question mark in front of Leo's eyes: "What is awakening?"

Leo obviously didn't expect Jesus to ask this, so he answered subconsciously: "Ah? It's probably that you can assimilate the things around you, or greatly enhance your own abilities, that's about it."

Jesus thought for a while and suddenly realized: "I understand what you mean. You are not talking about awakening. And how do you know this news?"

"Ah? I've only heard that some people can use the power of the fruit to assimilate the things around them."

“Hehe, the situation you are talking about is actually just my brothers waking up. They will automatically fall asleep after entering the host’s body. Only a few hosts can achieve spiritual synchronization with our brothers and wake them up.”

"Mind synchronization? You mean that the minds of people whose fruits have awakened will slowly be taken over by your brothers, right?"

"Well, who knows. After all, the host is just borrowing the power. How can he use it compared to the owner of the power?"

Jesus' explanation made Leo sweat coldly. The final result of overdeveloping the devil fruit is to be assimilated by the fruit? If these speculations are true, then it is definitely the biggest secret in the pirate world.