Future Troubles

Though he was filled with doubts, Yota did not give up training.

Moreover, after eating the Munch-Munch Fruit, he discovered that his physique had undergone major changes as well. Though neither his strength nor speed had increased on the surface, the Yang nature transformation of the Chakra within his body had suddenly improved severalfold!

An increase in Yang Release Chakra greatly boosted the body's healing speed. Likewise, a substantial increase in the body's vitality would also cause Yang Release Chakra to grow to a certain extent.

To verify his conjecture, Yota set aside his Chakra training over the past few days and began training his physique instead.

With the physique of a ten-year-old child, even though the potential of people from the Naruto World far surpassed that of ordinary Earthlings, without using Chakra, he had at most been comparable to an ordinary adult.

But now, after a single training session, he could feel his strength increase dramatically. No matter how hard he trained on the first day, as long as he slept, he would wake the next day full of energy and able to continue training without the slightest aftereffect. That was when he knew his body had indeed changed.

The strength of this body was gradually being unleashed as he continually challenged its limits.

After throwing ten thousand punches, throwing another ten thousand punches would become easier. After sprinting tens of thousands of meters, sprinting again would become easier as well. As long as he kept training, as long as he persevered, and as long as he had enough energy, he could grow infinitely stronger.

Naturally, his appetite grew along with it.

The food in the Pirate World was vastly different from that in the Naruto World. It was nutritious and delicious, but most importantly, it contained a power almost like Yang Release Chakra.

Even before the Munch-Munch Fruit changed his physique, Yota had already discovered the benefits of this food. Relying on its nutritional supplementation, he had even been confident that he could double his Chakra reserves by adulthood.

But after eating the Munch-Munch Fruit and having his physique begin to approach that of people from the Pirate World, he truly realized that only when paired with their physiques could the food of the Pirate World bring out its true potential.

There was no other reason for it: people in the Pirate World simply had bigger appetites!

After every training session, he now ate more than ten times what he used to, and his appetite was still growing.

At the same time, his digestive ability had become astonishingly powerful. If he had originally been able to extract twenty percent of a food's nutrients, then now he could extract more than ninety percent from nearly every meal.

The Munch-Munch Fruit might have played a role in that, but the physiques of the Pirate World had definitely helped a great deal too.

"Perhaps Devil Fruits are fragments of the rules of the Pirate World to begin with, so after eating one, a person's physique also starts to move closer to the One Piece World?"

That was the only guess Yota could make. No matter what, it was a good thing for him.

Especially after he discovered that the Munch-Munch Fruit could absorb and store vast amounts of nutrients. He could even eat food several times heavier than his own body weight, then train all at once and greatly strengthen his physique.

Of course, when he had used the Munch-Munch Fruit for that eating experiment, he had also exhausted all three chefs in the restaurant until they collapsed for the first time. If he had not paid double the price, the restaurant would probably have listed him as its least welcome customer from then on.

A week later, when Yota returned to the clinic, he found Jack and Ruth packing up their bags.

"What's going on, Doctor Jack?" Yota asked, looking at them in confusion.

Jack glanced at Yota and sighed. "You came back at just the right time, apprentice. Pack your things and come with us."

"Master, have you gone stupid? The clinic's doing perfectly well. Why are we leaving?"

Jack did not answer. Instead, Ruth's face darkened with anger. "Isn't it because of that newly appointed King? He actually issued some bullshit law about hunting doctors. There's no way we can stay in this shithole called Drum Kingdom any longer!"

"I really want to pour 'bleep—' into that dog-'bleep' brain of his, so that his 'bleep'-like 'bleep'..."

Sister Ruth launched into a furious tirade, practically cursing out eighteen generations of Wapol's ancestors. Only after quite a while did she finally calm down.

Yota scratched his head, only then recalling the wonderful deeds of that idiot King Wapol from the original story.

Right, the Old King is already dead! The current King is that idiot. How could I have forgotten that?

At the thought, Yota frowned. "Master, I'm afraid I can't leave with you."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" The tall Jack frowned and looked Yota over, then asked curiously, "It feels like you've grown quite a bit taller in just a few days."

Though only a few days had passed, under that kind of training, Yota's raw physical strength had nearly doubled. How could he not have grown taller? And if Yota took off his clothes, Jack would probably discover that despite his young age, he already had a body full of sleek, beautiful muscles.

"I'm not talking nonsense." Yota shook his head. "And I think you should stay a few more days too. I believe things will change very soon."

Ruth froze for a moment and gave Yota a worried look. Jack immediately said, "Little apprentice, don't do anything foolish."

Though they had only known each other for a few months, Jack and Ruth had both realized that Yota's background was far from ordinary. Doctors were among those who understood the human body best, and the traces of training on Yota's body could not possibly be hidden from a professional doctor.

The calluses on his palms, the distribution of his muscles and tendons, the tiny scars—these signs all revealed that although Yota was young, he had definitely not been an ordinary person before.

In Jack and Ruth's eyes, little Yota had probably been either an assassin or an agent in the past, likely a child who had escaped from some dark organization.

Still, the two of them were not entirely wrong. If an organization like Konoha existed in modern society, or even in the Pirate World, it would probably be considered a dark organization. In the Pirate World, any organization that sent seven- or eight-year-old children onto the battlefield was undeniably a dark organization.

And the nature of a ninja's work was not all that different from an assassin's or an agent's.

Seeing the concern on their faces, Yota felt both warmed and amused. "Don't worry. For me, this really isn't difficult. Drum Kingdom is only an ordinary small country, after all."

As soon as he said that, Jack and Ruth exchanged looks. Yota did not explain any further. His figure flashed, and he vanished before their eyes, leaving them staring in stunned disbelief.