Fairy Tail: Vector Manipulation

Chen Fan smiled when he heard the name of the fruit. Crocodile really knew how to come up with things. Still, Chen Fan had analyzed the power from earlier while standing on the ground, and it was quite unique. He had tried directly analyzing Devil Fruits before, but there had been no results at all. It seemed some stronger law was obstructing him, and more importantly, he simply did not understand them. Fortunately, once an ability user used their power, he could understand half of it. Since that half was pure matter, half was enough.

"Mr. Seven Warlords of the Sea, what are you doing? You don't need to destroy all the buildings just to show me how badass you are. These are the crystallized sweat and hard work of countless laborers!" Chen Fan teased Crocodile.

Crocodile merely gave Chen Fan a cold glance and said nothing. Chen Fan scratched his cheek helplessly. It seemed he had provoked the man a little too much. Crocodile's eyes were filled with killing intent. It looked like he truly wanted to kill him. Well, whatever. Chen Fan had roughly figured out Crocodile's power and more or less knew how to deal with him.

"Sha sha..." Crocodile's body suddenly scattered apart, turning into sand and merging into the ground. It had a similar effect to Chen Fan's Silent Step—no, Crocodile's move was even more sophisticated. However, it was not very effective against Chen Fan. If it had been someone else, that earlier move seemingly had not been meant to kill Chen Fan, but to create a battlefield more suited to himself.

"Whoosh... sha sha...!" A gust of wind swept past, carrying several streams of sand toward Chen Fan.

The wind's force and the sand's trajectory were all within Chen Fan's calculations. Any deviation was