An Ton's Journey

Instead of talking that I expected, I received a shot in the head.

This shot was made by almost dead marine who had his lower part destroyed by an explosion. How can he aim in his condition?

Without considering much, I killed him with psi energy, melting his brain.

Not willing to talk with me, I saw five old men arriving at the scene, initiating a talk with Golden Buddha, who I didn't kill. He was not the worst Marine, and without strength Pirates would become too unruly. So, some questionable people were left alone.

But these five guys couldn't just be left alone.

Aiming at them with [BL 9.001], I activated strongest mode, chose water ammo, and shot at them.

At 90 km/s, and firing speed of once per second, I unloaded water hell upon their position. Only Buddha man managed to feel me and evade before I began, five elders decided to just fight with haki and devil fruit abilities.

It didn't work well for them. Not even blood mist was left after first shot, forcing four other elders to run from me, prolonging the inevitable.

" Stop! You can't do it! " Shouted damaged Buddha that ran at me.

I knew that someone or something stood behind elders, but I didn't really care. Imagine being scared when above you, you had around two hundred observers with different weapons.

Why observers? They were the smallest and had the best radar systems. They were literally the best ȧssassins.

They could fly, observe, search, destroy. And they could do it all while being unnoticed. Who expects flying invisible drone appearing for a fraction of a second to shoot? And only if weapons are energy based. Physical weapons would just shoot, making projectile appear from nowhere.

Don't even speak about bombs, and self destruction capabilities. They were the ultimate spies and ȧssassins.

Looking at them running, I jumped up, synchronized my glasses with observers, and just shot through buildings, while weapon's aim correction helped me by calculating where I should aim at.

Hmm. I should install backpack and make it a double BL 9.001 on artificial hands that would aim instead of me.

Why not?

Obviously, I could just use some advanced tech, but It is not fun. I want to be part of my life. I don't want absolute efficiency. I want to ...

What do I want?

Not have to do? Want.

I have to run, as system said. But I don't really want to.

I want to survive. But why?

I never really cared about my life before, and after reincarnation I began caring?

Is it because I never felt danger in my human life?

For this, I need to get stronger. Much stronger. How do I get strong fast?

What do I have?

I have my durable and strong body.

I have psi energy.

I have magic.

I have force.

I have AI and technology.

I have Hive.

What could I get in this world?

Haki.

Anything else? I don't know.

Even Devil fruit need to be researched. I can't just take it. I am not a part of this world. I don't know what could happen.

Not caring about finished war that was translated live, I went away. I realized that it all didn't matter. What matters is how could I get stronger by using thus world.

I shouldn't care about others. I have my own problems, and they are not small.

Finally finding what I always missed in my life, determination and understanding of what should I do now, I looked around and thought.

Why did I even disrupt this war? Why would I do such an annoyingly unnecessary thing?

I could've just looked how Luffy would be trained at Haki, or Hired some kind of knowledge person. I might've even just hired Rayleigh.

Was I too excited after seeing Luffy?

Now, I should find out if devil fruits could be used to strengthen myself.

" AI, get all observers to search for devil fruits and their users. Try to obtain as much fruits and users as possible. Don't touch good or normal people, but anyone bad Should be captured or killed. " I said, getting to my two captured boys. Yes. they are still here.

They stopped trying to get out.

Getting to their prison, I saw around ten people.

" AI. When and why did you capture them? " I asked.

" Sir, you ordered it. " AI replied.

" Did I? I don't remember. Well, must've slipped my mind " I replied.

" AI, what is the result of experiments and observations on test subjects? " I asked.

" Sir. All test subjects react differently, but they have common points. " It replied, listing them.

Physical weapons react as expected.

Some kind of energy exist in their bodies.

They become weak while in contact with sea water or sea stone.

Energy still exists while they are weakened.

They all strive to become stronger or better in some way.

They think of their lives before and after devil fruit.

They feel instinctual fear towards sea water.

They can distinguish sea water from simple water just by looking.

Their abilities can't directly affect sea water.

These are all current similarities found. All are based around the devil fruit in some way.

All my prisoners were devil fruit users. Mostly not strong ones. But definitely not good people.

Next few days I spent using my abilities on prisoners. Obviously, I say prisoners, but I kept them in clean rooms, allowed them to eat good food. They could walk anywhere inside their building, and even outside. Obviously, their outside part was protected by shield and all of this was hidden by invisibility.

But news birds still kept delivering news, so I created a mail receiving platform, where I fed those birds and also placed trackers inside them.

Obviously, every news bird was under observation after visiting me. So, currently I knew that no pirate knew how to follow them.

Beast pirates were searching for their crewmates, and were closing in to my position in their search, but they wouldn't find anything here. Only small personal villa of mine, Yacht, and cannons buried and invisible all around the island.

Alls I had ability to look at the whole world live, I began creating observers for more detailed observations, like following news birds.

Obviously, their main target was to have all types of vision and be unnoticeable. They were my main concern.

Devices for self destruct system were hard to create, even using fabricator. Why? Mostly chemicals required for instant implosion. Not everything was mechanical, as it should work even if it gets locked. If certain things stop working, chemical will begin it's interactions with a certain part of bomb, making it disintegrate and implode on itself affected by chemical.

there were many other things, but chemical that was in there was extremely unstable if left alone.

Well, things aside, AI finally created gravitation based engine that would work in the sea, below it's surface.

Now, hunt for sea kings and other biological matter would begin, allowing more fabricators to be used at once, as more materials would be available.

Leaving the lab after trying to fry a certain zoan's hand, I breathed normal air, as for some reason, me psi energy affected him more than before.

After this experiment, I began suspecting that changes in my body or adaptation to the world changed my psi energy, so I had to go and test myself.

Results were intriguing. Psi energy, while not getting bigger, but smaller in amount, became denser. It couldn't be used as far as before, but it became stronger.

Source of the change is not certain, it might've been my excessive eating session, or psi energy adapting to the world, so I decided not to eat much for a while, and monitor myself daily, recordings changes.

obviously, it all would be done while I would look at Luffy being trained.

Getting another portable pylon in storage, I apparated right to the Rayleigh's bar.

" Hi there, man " I said, changing my way of talking. I already knew that he was more comfortable that way.

" Anton? Where were you last two weeks? " Rayleigh asked, as Luffy looked at me from the table that he was sitting behind.

" Anton? Long time no see! Shishishishi " Luffy laughed in his interesting way.

" Luffy? What's up? How have you been? " I asked, ignoring Rayleigh's questions for now.

" Some things happened. I heard you've made a lot of chaos in Marineford battle? Almost killed all the generals and even marine elders " He replied, as now knowledge about elders somewhat spread.

" Hm? Almost? I definitely killed some " I said.

" You didn't. They were damaged to an extreme degree, but survived. Most of them " Rayleigh replied, sitting behind the table.

" But I definitely killed them " I said, looking a little confused.

" I believe you. But it is a fact. They are alive, mostly. " Rayleigh said, being interrupted by me.

" I see, well. I will look into it. Thanks. So, Luffy, why are you here? " I asked.

" I'm here to become stronger! I almost lost Ace! I need to get stronger! " He replied, making serious face at the end.

" And how would you get stronger? " I asked, looking at Rayleigh.

" Well... I will teach him about Haki " Rayleigh replied, avoiding my eyes.

" Why didn't you teach me, after half a year ? Even if I constantly asked you to teach me? " I asked, looking him in the eyes that he moved away.

" I didn't trust you. " He replied, looking at my eyes.

" I see. So, am I trustworthy enough now? " I asked, annoyed l, but understanding his reasoning.

" Yes, I learned a lot about you. " He replied.

" So, we will be learning together Luffy!! " I said, excited as Luffy always lifted my mood. He was infecting me with good mood, and I had nothing against it. I had no reason to.

After that, we went to an island where Luffy trained and became stronger, while I learned to use haki. I was strong enough just with my body to clear this island, but haki was different.

I was constantly affected by it, to feel it. Rayleigh came to know that I had other energy inside me, and it made it hard for me.

~ Year passed ~

I finally understood how to use haki in a simple way. The thing is, it seems that by living in this world, spending psi energy for eventual jump, my energy was changing. Psi energy and magic were being depleted, and restored.

Cycle of depletion and restoration allowed it to change. And change was not really expected, but not outside of my range of acceptance.

Haki, as people call it, is an energy. It have connection to will, and I, having pretty weak will, had troubles in learning it. The thing is, I underestimated my own will and determination.

Also, it seems that in my case, haki, psi energy, and magic energy were partially connected. By using one, I took little bit from other sources, making my haki black, but a little bit transparent while it is thin.

It was interesting, how all the energy except for force were connected.

What I found about Force, is that Rayleigh and Luffy, just like all my prisoners, couldn't feel it at all. And as haki was added to my arsenal, Force grew stronger.

Yes, as I was recordings my parameters every day, I noticed that the moment I first used haki, FORCE strength spiked.

And the stronger I was at using haki, the stronger force became.

Currently, I think Force was my strongest point in this world, as it was unnoticeable and couldn't be countered.

Feels strange, I didn't really use it except for observation.

~ After another half a year ~

Rayleigh and me are departing from an island.

I noticed that I began forgetting things sometimes, even though it was rare and not important things. I should be unable to forget, but it seems that inability to forget had it's limit. huh.

Currently I was covering my whole body in weak haki protection, as any stronger I could apply only to certain parts of my body.

When I say weak, I don't speak about being able to be penetrated by bullet, I'm talking about being damaged by cannons of this world.

My skin is tougher, but haki is not just about protecting, its also about concentrating all your power in one place.

Like fist.

Or leg.

Or Dick... if you can't make it hard the usual way...

Leaving Rayleigh to his own things, I returned to my island.

Obviously, I visited this place once a week, but now I'm finally here for a long time.

In the time I was training and laughing at Luffy's antics, I came to know that reward for me reached 7 billion.

And it was not just dead or alive, it had lines about escape and don't provoke.

I had a talk in the last year with Marines, and we came to an agreement of not interfering.

I wouldn't actively interfere in their business, basically don't attack them on sight, and they would keep their sight away from anything I do.

Obviously, there were things that were about my interference if I see what I didn't like.

Obviously this agreement was not limiting by law, it was agreement to make both of our lives easier.

For me it was just not to spend months killing everyone. And I had no reason to kill some who were abiding the law.

Yes, there were law abiding marines. And kinda a lot, but mostly not as officers. And I was not cruel enough to order a massacre of these innocent people myself.

Finally arriving back at my prison facility, I enjoyed how around twenty prisoners were enjoying their leisure lives while playing some games on PC's.

What? I just didn't think that it is worth keeping them in bad place. Yes, they are bad people, but they wouldn't be able to leave this place, ever. So, I just allowed them to enjoy it between experiments and tests.

As For compatibility of me and devil fruit, It is kind of concerning. My body would easily adapt to it, but what concerned me is that it might affect mind. Yes, all the results showed that it definitely changes people.

How did I know? Well, not all of them survived and not all of them had abilities when they appeared here.

Also, it seems that prolonged exposure to sea stone or sea water makes them a little bit more resistant to it's effects, but by extremely small amount. It was bȧrėly noticeable, but still noticeable.

Most of them were kept without any sea stone cuffs, except for some of the more dangerous types.

Oh, they tried to get out... but it was useless, so they mostly began creating their own society and rules inside. They don't know that I could see everything that was happening. But it is not the point.

What everyone tried to do, was attempts at getting stronger. They trained, experimented, or just used ability at their daily lives.

Even people who hated to train were doing it.

Well, it could be accounted to being inside prison, but they looked fine with their lifestyle. mostly.

All the results were final, and nothing new could be achieved by Keeping them. All tests were done, so they were put to sleep. To the eternal sleep.

As they died, My observers were seeing as devil fruits grew all around the world. after collecting them, as I saw them all, I now had 23 devil fruits.

Now, I didn't really want to experiment with previous guys as they were getting stronger and stronger, and I didn't need any risk.

Now, I began trying to force two or more devil fruits at once, or one after another.

Nothing worked, all I achieved was the necessity of getting them back from far away.

I didn't find process at which they grew again, but AI is looking into it.

I want to eat devil fruit.

But it's dangerous.

I don't know what to do...

Getting away from these thoughts, I came to another project of mine. I tried destroying the outer shell of the world, but not a scratch or a ripple was made by using physical or energy means.

I tried using magic, nothing. Haki- nothing. Psi energy? Nothing.

But the moment I used force, it just passed through it with no resistance. It didn't break, just passed through the shell around the world.

The moment I felt what is outside, I cursed at my own curiosity. Outside, I felt overwhelmed. The feeling of dread and danger filled me, as I tried to move it back, but it was too late. Something noticed me.

How do I know that? Well... It caught eye of my force power and didn't let me escape, while I felt gaze that was weaker than one at HP world, it still overwhelmed all my senses.

As it looked at me, I saw a hand moving through the world's shell, reaching towards me.

I tried Warping out, but it disrupted me, not allowing me to warp.

I tried apparating, but I couldn't.

I tried flying away, but I was limited by something.

I could escape, only to see how huge hand was approaching my position. At that moment, my head was thinking about what I could've done. All my memories didn't really pass through my head at once, only more memorable ones.

And as it approached me it...

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