Water Attribute Arrives

"Water Gun!"

Muttering those two words, Luo Sa's eyes gleamed with fervor.

If he could gain the power to control water, he would absolutely be able to roam the seas!

"Then let's give it a try! Behold my Water Gun attack!"

Winged Gull opened its beak, and Water Attribute energy began to gather there.

Suddenly, a wave of weakness welled up inside it, and the energy gathered at its beak dissipated instantly.

Thump!

With a soft sound, Winged Gull suddenly crashed to the ground. It lay there, utterly drained, and couldn't get back up for a long time.

"Is this... the sea's suppression of Devil Fruit Users?!"

Luo Sa narrowed his eyes slightly as a sense of foreboding crept over him.

"This..."

"You've got to be kidding me!"

"Water Attribute energy from the Pokémon World turned into something like Seastone after coming to the One Piece world?"

Unwilling to give up, Luo Sa tried several more times. In the end, he could only resign himself to the fact that Water Attribute energy was equivalent to Seastone.

"Fortunately, besides its Water Attribute, Winged Gull also has the Flying Attribute!"

Luo Sa had no choice but to console himself with that.

Besides, based on another guess of his, Flying Attribute moves might well be this world's Wind Attribute!

If that was the case, he might be able to master the power of wind!

Thinking of the Wind Attribute reminded Luo Sa of Luffy's father, Dragon. Many people speculated that Dragon had a Logia Devil Fruit with the Wind Attribute!

Furthermore, Winged Gull could learn a great many Ice Attribute moves. Although they weren't as powerful as its innate Attribute, they were still worth developing!

After thinking it all through, Luo Sa felt much better. He knew this wasn't the time to dwell on it. His enemies could come looking for him at any moment!

"Then..."

"Let's proceed with the plan!"

Luo Sa took a deep breath and turned, entering the forest behind him, which had been reduced to a charred wasteland.

The next day, in a rare patch of woods that had survived, Luo Sa held a wooden board in his arms and carried a huge bundle on his back. He looked ready to set off.

"I've prepared food for the journey. If I ration it, it should last three days!"

After tightening the bundle of provisions wrapped in a huge leaf like a lotus leaf, Luo Sa began the next step of his plan.

"Next, I'll take on the identity I prepared long ago!"

He murmured to himself, and the last bit of Transformation Energy inside him suddenly began to surge.

In an instant,

an unbearable pain flooded his mind, making his whole body tremble violently.

As he continued to shake, his face began to twist in a bizarre manner, turning into streaks of pink liquid.

When the liquid reformed into a body, his face had become someone else's!

At the same time, the hair on his head changed too, gradually turning from black to blond.

Most bizarre of all, his body seemed to have been compressed, shrinking from the height of a sixteen-year-old boy to that of a ten-year-old child.

If Luffy had been there, he would surely have let out a yell and asked, "Ace, what are you doing here?!"

Luo Sa now looked exactly like a younger version of Ace. Aside from his blond hair, even the freckles on his face were about seventy percent alike.

This was the skill Luo Sa had been most proud of developing during this time: using Transformation Energy to alter his physical features!

However,

this Gene Recombination ability came at the cost of damaging his genes!

One mistake could completely shatter his genetic chain!

He had only realized this after the fact, and even now, he still felt a lingering fear.

"Phew."

"I finally did it."

"The pain of Gene Recombination is more than anyone can bear!"

"But luckily, I pulled it off."

Luo Sa touched his body after the Gene Recombination and let out a quiet sigh of relief.

The next moment, his body once again turned into pink liquid, gradually returning to its original appearance.

Then he repeatedly switched back and forth between the two bodies. Only after confirming there were no problems did he finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"From now on, I'll be called..."

"Portgas D. Luo Sa!"

That's right. The person Luo Sa planned to impersonate was Portgas D. Ace's older brother, someone who couldn't possibly exist in this world.

As for why he wanted to become Ace's older brother, Luo Sa had thought it through carefully.

Right now, he was completely penniless and had no one to rely on in this world.

There were only two paths to gaining great strength.

The first was to join a pirate crew.

But pirates lived by the sword, and Luo Sa felt his current strength was nowhere near enough to protect himself.

The other path was to join the Navy. Only in the Navy could a rookie like him grow as quickly as possible.

You heard that right. He had been a Celestial Dragon's slave, and yet he was planning to join the Navy!

His confidence in daring to join the Navy came from the identity he had taken on.

His target was Luffy and Ace's grandfather, Garp the Hero!

As for whether he could get in touch with Garp—or whether he could successfully fool him as Ace's fake older brother—he would have to put his acting skills to the test.

As a transmigrator, he knew everything about Pirate King Roger and Garp, Garp and Ace, and Ace and his mother!

Luo Sa had decided that his new identity was as a brother one year older than Ace.

As for why he was one year older, he knew from the original story that Ace's mother, Rouge, had carried him for twenty months and died of exhaustion after giving birth.

But who said Rouge couldn't have given birth to him first by accident?

As for why he hadn't been by Rouge's side, he could simply explain that, to protect him, she had asked a friend to take him away first.

Though that explanation was full of holes, there was no one left to contradict it!

Besides, only Roger, Garp, and Rouge knew those hidden details Luo Sa was aware of!

On top of that, Garp had taken Ace from birth and entrusted him to the bandit Dadan. No one could possibly know what Ace looked like, so Luo Sa's appearance was the best proof!

All things considered, he was completely confident he could convince Garp.

With Garp as his backing, the road ahead would be smooth sailing.

Even if Jabura recognized him by his scent, as long as he couldn't produce evidence that would convince Garp, Luo Sa was confident Garp would protect him with everything he had!

Besides, Portgas D. Luo Sa wasn't the only identity he had prepared. He also planned to use Winged Gull's power to impersonate a Bird-Bird Fruit User.

Everyone knew it was common knowledge that no one could eat two Devil Fruits at once!