And so, another three months passed. By now, Luo Sa had been in this world for half a year.
On the beach, Luo Sa stared intently at the horizon. His long black hair was tied back with vines and hung casually over his shoulder.
"Has it really been half a year?"
Luo Sa looked at the marks carved into the piece of wood beside him, a helpless look in his eyes.
He got to his feet and walked toward the forest, looking back every few steps. It was time to hunt again!
"Ugh, at this rate, I'll eat every animal in the forest!"
As he walked, Luo Sa began checking the Transformation Energy inside him. His expression gradually grew bitter.
By his estimate, he now had between 269 and 270 points of Transformation Energy.
In other words, over the past three months, his Transformation Energy had only risen from 210 to 269—an increase of just over fifty points!
In the three months before that, he had first transformed into Caterpie, then accumulated 210 points of energy. That was more than 400 points altogether!
"Looks like 200 points is a bottleneck. Before 200 points, the rate of increase was more than twice as fast as after!"
Luo Sa muttered to himself, then darted into the forest.
Three months ago, he'd had to rely on stealth to ambush his prey. Now, he could take down ferocious beasts head-on!
Dragging the prey he'd just caught, Luo Sa returned to the beach.
But just then, a sound like a motorcycle engine suddenly rang out.
Luo Sa's heart leaped with excitement. He quickly turned toward the sound, but his expression changed the next instant.
A jet ski sped across the surface of the sea. At the handlebars sat a giant wolf in a black jacket. Every so often, he leaned forward and sniffed the air.
"That's... Jabura of CP9, the Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Wolf user!"
Luo Sa named him grimly.
Thanks to the Wolf Clan's powerful sense of smell, CP9 had finally tracked him down!
"So they've finally come for me?!"
Luo Sa sighed helplessly to himself, dropped his prey, and ran toward the forest.
There was no way he could beat Jabura in a head-on fight. His only chance of escape was to take advantage of how well he knew the terrain!
"I finally found you, little mouse!"
Recognizing the familiar scent, Jabura stuck out his tongue and licked his dry lips.
In the blink of an eye, the jet ski reached the shore. Jabura jumped off and looked at the beast on the beach, its blood still fresh. His vicious grin widened.
"Ready, little mouse?"
He sniffed the air, and his figure vanished in an instant, leaving a few drifting leaves behind.
Hearing the loud noise behind him, Luo Sa knew Jabura was catching up. He took a deep breath and crouched beneath a large tree, where there was a hole.
"Transform: Stone Form!"
As he spoke, Luo Sa's body began to turn to stone. Before long, he had become a rock, indistinguishable from the others around him.
He'd developed this ability over the past three months. Ditto's information had said, "When Ditto sleeps, it turns into a rock to protect itself from attacks."
That was what gave Luo Sa the idea for this hiding trick. It was undoubtedly much more effective than hiding as Caterpie.
He'd also discovered that once he completed the transformation, he really did become stone, and his defense increased considerably.
At the time, Luo Sa had thought of Pica, the Supa Supa no Mi user who served under Doflamingo.
But it had only been a passing thought. He could turn into stone, but he couldn't control it.
Once he had turned into stone, he sank into the hole, leaving only part of himself exposed.
Luo Sa had almost stopped breathing entirely. When he couldn't hold it any longer, he carefully breathed through the hole he had dug by the tree's roots.
Only a few minutes after Luo Sa finished preparing, Jabura came rushing over at full speed.
He sniffed the air, and by sheer coincidence, stopped right beneath the tree where Luo Sa was hiding.
"Damn it. His scent is so strong here that he's left it everywhere!"
Jabura frowned. Things weren't as simple as he'd imagined.
"If you won't come out, then I'll destroy this whole forest. Let's see where you can run then!"
"Rankyaku: Lone Wolf!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Under Jabura's Rankyaku, whole swathes of trees began to fall. Even the massive tree beside Luo Sa was cleaved in two by one of his kicks.
Luo Sa was badly startled. He had no confidence that his stone body could withstand the Rankyaku unharmed.
After clearing the open area, Jabura walked over to a tree with a cold laugh and rubbed his claws together.
Sparks flew, and in an instant he set the whole forest ablaze.
"Hmph! Let's see how you run now, little mouse!"
With a smug grin, Jabura casually sat down on a rock and waited for the fire to burn out. Then he would go in and collect the little mouse's corpse.
Meanwhile, Luo Sa's expression had turned extremely strange.
By sheer coincidence, Jabura had sat down right on the rock Luo Sa had transformed into!
In that moment, countless thoughts flashed through Luo Sa's mind before coalescing into a single, firm resolve.
Jabura had tracked him to the island and set fire to the forest where he was hiding!
Even if he survived this, there was no way he could last much longer on this deserted island!
Besides, turning into stone didn't mean he no longer needed food and water. When he couldn't take it anymore, he would either starve to death or expose himself.
Either way, he was going to die. So why not seize this rare opportunity and take a chance?
In his previous life, he'd been an orphan with no one to rely on, and he'd faced death countless times. He was no stranger to risking everything!
"I'm going for it!"
Luo Sa roared inwardly, and the rock beneath Jabura began to change silently.
A sharp spike slowly formed beneath Jabura.
"Ha! Thousand Years of Death!"
With a furious shout, Luo Sa's finger turned into a stone spike and thrust sharply upward!
The next instant, he felt it strike something. A large amount of red liquid spilled out.
"Ah!"
A roar that pierced the sky rang out. Jabura's body shot high into the air, and his blood traced an arc through the air!
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