Baron Tamago's Eggache

"Sister Brulee, you're very talented at developing your Devil Fruit ability, but direct combat isn't your forte. It's unrealistic to train until no one can catch you." Mousse had never expected Brulee to become an invincible monster like their mother. His suggestion still focused on the Mirror World. "But if you can move at high speed within the Mirror World, or even teleport, then even the strongest opponents will find it hard to restrain you."

Charlotte Brulee immediately shook her head. "Teleportation? That's impossible. Although I created the Mirror World, I'm not omnipotent within it. Otherwise, I could simply defeat anyone trapped inside."

"Then can you instantly move the mirrors inside the Mirror World? That way, you could escape whenever you wanted." Mousse was not discouraged and immediately came up with another idea.

"That is possible, but if I did that, the positions of all the mirrors in the Mirror World would be thrown into chaos. There are so many of them—how could I remember which ones correspond to which places in the real world?" Brulee nodded, but this method had its own problems.

Previously, although Brulee could not remember exactly which mirror corresponded to which mirror in reality, they were arranged in order, so she could roughly guess their locations. But if the order was scrambled, she would be completely lost and would have to inspect the mirrors one by one.

"Then don't control so many mirrors! For example, you could set it so that only mirrors large enough for people to enter and exit are included in the Mirror World. Those little mirrors aren't much use anyway." Mousse immediately offered another suggestion.

Well, this was actually something Mousse had complained about when reading the manga in his previous life. On one hand, a mirror had to be large enough for people to pass through it; on the other, even a broken shard remained in the Mirror World. In other words, most of the Mirror World's power was being wasted.

"That's right! Why didn't I think of that?" Brulee's eyes immediately lit up.

Seeing how delighted she was, Mousse truly could not bear to make any more snide remarks.

But what needed to be said still had to be said. Mousse then offered Brulee another idea she would surely be eager to hear. "Also, it's far too inconvenient if you always have to be present to let someone through. It would be great if you could directly grant people permission to enter and exit. For example, Brother Katakuri could be given permanent access!"

With an excited look on her face, Charlotte Brulee ran off somewhere to fantasize about her private space with Brother Katakuri, while Mousse still had others to advise.

However, after hearing Fourth Brother Oven explain the "Heat-Heat Fruit," Mousse finally understood how absurd the saying, "There are no useless Devil Fruits, only useless people," really was. This Heat-Heat Fruit was utter trash from start to finish!

It turned out that the "heat" in Charlotte Oven's Heat-Heat Fruit specifically referred to the heat of hot food. Put bluntly, it was a translation issue. The Chinese name of this fruit should really have been the Baking Fruit. In reality, it could only heat things to a few hundred degrees Celsius.

Even if it was only a few hundred degrees Celsius, as long as the heating speed was fast enough—and the Heat-Heat Fruit was quite good in that regard—it could still injure the vast majority of powerful opponents.

But the problem was that its limited temperature ultimately restricted its power. Even if Oven made direct contact with his target and achieved the full effect, he would still need to maintain contact for a certain amount of time before raising their temperature high enough to inflict severe injuries.

And that created a problem. If Oven could stay pressed against an enemy long enough to heat them up, that meant his Body Techniques completely overwhelmed theirs. Wouldn't it be easier just to take them down directly?

But if his Body Techniques were not enough to restrain his opponent, then the heat generated in the brief instant of striking or blocking would, against experts of the same level, at most burn a layer of skin.

Of course, even if it could only burn a layer of skin, it could still interfere with an enemy to some extent in battle. It could not be called entirely useless.

But developing a Devil Fruit required time and effort. If years of painstaking development could only produce that much interference, it would be better to give up on fruit development and focus entirely on strengthening his Body Techniques and Haki.

After all, Oven was Katakuri's full-blooded younger brother and had the tallest, strongest physique among his siblings. Even if he had not eaten a Devil Fruit and had only trained his Body Techniques and Haki, he could still have reached the strength he possessed later in the original story, without the weakness of fearing seawater and Seastone.

By that calculation, Charlotte Oven had truly gotten the short end of the stick by eating this fruit—perhaps even worse than Katakuri, who had been severely held back by the Mochi Mochi Fruit.

But he had already eaten it, so regret was useless. He could only make a temple in a snail shell and excavate as much of its limited value as possible.

Yet even with Mousse's intelligence, after racking his brains, he could only come up with one idea that he was not even sure would work. Then, with the attitude of treating a dead horse as if it were alive, he proposed it. "Brother Oven, if you really want to develop your fruit, I have an idea, though I don't know whether it'll work. Don't heat your enemies—heat yourself. With the protection of your Devil Fruit ability, a higher body temperature shouldn't harm you. If you can still speed up your metabolism dramatically like an ordinary person under those conditions, it would significantly strengthen your Body Techniques. But it's only an idea. I can't guarantee it'll work."

Compared with his brothers and sisters, the outsider Baron Tamago had eaten a fairly decent Devil Fruit.

Unfortunately, limited by his own strength, even more than twenty years later in the original story, he still had not caught up to the Charlotte Oven who had been held back by his fruit. Although Tamago's bounty was higher, Oven was clearly stronger based on their performances, if the gap in intelligence was ignored.

Therefore, when Baron Tamago followed the trend and came to seek Mousse's advice, Mousse's reply was rather blunt. "You should focus on building a solid foundation first. You haven't even awakened Armament Haki yet. Your fruit's effects simply can't be brought out at all!"

Baron Tamago already had a bounty of over a hundred million Berries at this point, but when faced with criticism from a six-year-old brat like Mousse, he could only lower his head and accept it.

The BIG Pirates could practically be equated with the Charlotte Family. Someone like him, who came from outside the family and had not yet married into it, could hardly hold a high position. How could he dare talk back to the young master most favored by Mama within the family?

Besides, was Mousse wrong?

Baron Tamago's current strength truly did not do justice to his rather excellent Devil Fruit!

The Egg-Egg Fruit had displayed an extremely miraculous ability in the original story. After Baron Tamago suffered a fatal wound from his archenemy Pedro, he did not die. Instead, he turned into an egg yolk. After incubating for a while, he became Chick Baron. Not only were his injuries completely healed, but his strength had clearly increased as well.

Since he was still no match for Pedro, Chick Baron was soon killed too. He then turned into egg yolk once more and later hatched into the even stronger Rooster Baron, whose injuries were likewise completely healed.

And even if Rooster Baron was killed, he would not die. He would revert to Baron Tamago and repeat the cycle endlessly. As long as he was not killed while in egg-yolk form, he could never die.