Powerful Photosynthesis

"You're so difficult to deal with~"

Borsalino, in a photon form, flashed past the wooden spear that had pierced through his feet, and reappeared twenty meters away, still shaken.

In that instant, he felt a chill in his heart, a sense of impending doom if that wooden spear touched him.

Vidal also sighed inwardly in regret. That was a well-planned attack, with the position and timing predicted for a long time before thrusting out that wooden spear imbued with Haki.

If it had actually hit, Borsalino would have been severely injured and near death, but one of his legs would certainly have been temporarily rendered useless.

This was basically enough to determine the outcome of the battle. It was just a pity that although the predicted location was accurate, the speed at which the wooden spear was thrust out was still a bit slow!

However, this gave Vidal a great idea: why not shut down Borsalino's foothold?

He glanced at the surface; the magma had cooled into igneous rock. Since that was the case...

He clapped his broad palms forcefully in front of him and shouted, "The Nativity of a World of Trees!"

The next moment, the scorched earth seemed to regain its vitality. First, clumps of lush green herbaceous plants sprouted up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Meanwhile, the saplings grew rapidly in the wind, and in just a few breaths they grew into towering trees seven or eight meters tall. In the blink of an eye, a dense forest with a radius of more than 100 meters appeared in the center of Z Island!

Unfortunately, Borsalino used his speed to fly into the air, giving Vidal no chance to create a closed space.

Everyone saw the result of the previous Dragon.

However, this means Borsalino will have to carefully consider whether to come down and fight in close combat again, which can be seen as a limitation in this regard.

As for long-range bombardment, Vidal also has some interesting ideas and looks forward to the results of the upcoming tests.

In the air, Borsalino was also having a headache. "This is so troublesome, that power called Haki..."

What he found troublesome was not the trees and plants, but the Haki that could strike his physical body.

After all, without the support of Haki, trees and the like wouldn't be able to contain someone who can transform into elements.

Although he also realized that Vidal's Haki couldn't Haki the entire forest with it, he couldn't withstand a sudden and brutal attack if he wasn't careful.

Who knows which of those tree attacks actually has a Haki effect?

Therefore, for Borsalino at this moment, the lush and beautiful forest below was a dangerous place teeming with terrifying dangers.

[BIU----]

Since that was the case, he could only raise his finger and aim it at Vidal. Actually, he didn't want to either; he'd been firing too many Glint-Glint Beam and such today, and he was tired of it.

But rather than getting injured, I'd rather be a boring laser turret!

[Call out!]

A Glint-Glint Beam shot out from the fingertip, streaking across the unobstructed sky, drawing a perfect diagonal line that seemed to slice through the heavens.

"Are you here?"

"Shave!"

Vidal moved instantly, appearing in mid-air from a tree trunk in a flash, and then made a strange move.

He stretched out his right arm, then opened his palm, Coating in a layer of green light, and grabbed the golden beam of light!

Yes, that's right, pinch it.

Logically, this beam of light should have exploded after being strongly obstructed; after all, everyone has a temper, right?

But this time, something astonishing happened, leaving Borsalino utterly dumbfounded.

The Glint-Glint Beam was incredibly obedient, flowing into Vidal's palm without any movement. Everything happened so naturally, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"So it really works." Vidal looked at his palm against the ground, though he wasn't entirely sure about the outcome.

However, the thought of failure only means getting hit by a bomb, which won't hurt me much, but success would be incredibly meaningful!

Yes, it's done now.

What did he just do?

It's very simple. First, Coating a layer of Haki around his palm so that he can grasp the intangible Glint-Glint Beam.

At the same time, it uses its Haki and Photosynthetic Energy to counteract the high temperature above, and finally uses the ability of Photosynthesis to absorb it into its body and transform it into Photosynthetic Energy that belongs to it.

This is what happened in just a split second.

Vidal had this idea before: since his Forest-Forest Fruit can absorb light, why not Borsalino's Flash?

It seems to be working now, and after checking the conversion rate, I was pleasantly surprised to find that this flash is even better than sunlight!

Perhaps it's because they are both products of Devil Fruits; he could only guess that in his heart, since he didn't have Vegapunk's advanced technological knowledge.

"What... what did you do?!"

Borsalino was so shocked that his mouth almost popped out of his head, and he didn't even notice that his small round sunglasses had come off his nose.

"It's nothing, do you understand Photosynthesis?" Vidal said with a cheerful smile. "If you do, then I don't need to explain. If you don't, I'm too lazy to explain. After all, it's a rather profound thing."

Photosynthesis.

Borsalino's face darkened. He had grown up in a relatively wealthy and happy family, and reading was his greatest hobby, so he certainly knew the meaning of that term.

"Ha ha!"

Vidal couldn't contain his excitement and burst into laughter. "Looks like you understand now. I never imagined there was such a restraining relationship between our fruits. How interesting!"

This is practically like Sakazuki's Magma-Magma Fruit, a natural counter to his ability to grow plants.

Borsalino's Glint-Glint Fruit is equally ineffective against him; in fact, the more Glint-Glint Beam Borsalino emits, the better Borsalino's condition becomes!

"What a pity. I should have tried to capture you earlier and see if I could directly absorb the light source of your body." Vidal grinned and stabbed the other's bleeding heart again.

Hearing this, Borsalino was terrified. Yes, if he were captured, could Vidal simply absorb him?

The mere thought of it sent chills down his spine!

What to do now? Close combat is absolutely out of the question, and ranged attacks seem like giving the enemy free supplies. But if I don't use my Glint-Glint Fruit ability, I might as well just surrender.

Yes, you can surrender.

Borsalino didn't find surrendering shameful; if he couldn't win, he would just surrender. He wasn't particularly enthusiastic about victory.

As for saving face, he doesn't need that kind of thing.

However, he was quite intelligent, even remarkably so. He quickly recalled his knowledge of Photosynthesis and suddenly had an idea.

Do it now, don't hesitate. If it still doesn't work, then consider giving up!

[BIU----]

The next second, Vidal saw him raise both hands at the same time, and his two long index fingers emitted a dazzling golden light.

"Have they been blinded by resentment?" Vidal raised an eyebrow.

[Whoosh! Whoosh!]

Two beams of Glint-Glint Beam shot out, and just as Vidal opened his palms to absorb them, they collided with each other in front of him.

[Boom--]

The flames and shockwaves of the double explosion swallowed Vidal whole, and a huge, ever-expanding fireball appeared in the sky above the forest!

When I'm writing, a lot of interesting ideas, or you could call them inspiration, always pop into my head. So I feel really bad if I don't write them down and show them to you. So please understand if you think my progress is slow; I really don't want to rush things just for the sake of rushing.

By the way, I have a question I'd like you all to discuss: what would you like to see Chaton Tokikake's Devil Fruit ability?

1. Special Paramecia Soil-Soil Fruit; 2. A certain pig-type Zoan Devil Fruit with specialization in physical combat. Just choose one of these two; don't make it too complicated.

Everyone can share their choices. When the time comes to use it, I will return to this chapter to count which one has more supporters.

A disclaimer: I hope those who weren't chosen for their desired Devil Fruit ability won't be too disappointed. Just enjoy the experience and don't take it too seriously. After all, Chaton isn't a very important character. Please don't impulsively drop the book! It's really not that bad!

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Finally, I'd like to ask for your recommendation votes, thank you, thank you.