Wang Shi comforted his somewhat dim-witted, innocent, and haughty weakling queen.
He didn't continue discussing Garp.
He was thinking about how to make his Goa Kingdom bigger and stronger.
Given Goa Kingdom's prosperity, paying the Heavenly Tribute was no problem.
But that didn't mean Wang Shi had no worries.
After all, taking over this world and defeating Imu and the Five Elders was the basic objective of every transmigrator.
But now that Wang Shi had taken the shortcut of ruling Goa Kingdom,
he needed to think carefully about what to do next.
Overthrowing the Celestial Dragons was a dialectical process.
Push from the front, from the side, from above, from below, step by step...
He'd pay the Heavenly Tribute for a few years first, then find an opportunity to take it all back in one fell swoop.
Thinking of his Devil Fruit ability,
he even wanted to gradually become a Celestial Dragon, then find a chance to banish Imu to the distant future and take over everything outright.
Take down the Celestial Dragons, become one of them, surpass them...
By the time Imu made a "king's return" countless years later, Wang Shi would be unimaginably powerful.
In any case, Wang Shi had already seized the throne and become king. One day, he would seize the world as well and become the King of the World.
Of course, that depended on whether he could develop his ability enough to banish Imu.
If Wang Shi could banish even Imu, then the Five Elders, the Four Emperors, Sun God Nika...
Not one of them would get away!
Anyone who stood in his way would be banished.
Then wouldn't the whole world be his to do with as he pleased?
That's right!
The ability Wang Shi had obtained amid the desperate fighting in Terminal Town was the Paramecia Toki Toki no Mi ability.
It was the former ability of that foolish woman, Kozuki Toki.
Wang Shi hadn't expected the Devil Fruit abilities of all three people who died in Wano Country to reappear in East Blue.
Kurozumi Higurashi's Clone-Clone Fruit ability had been eaten by Bon Clay, who was from East Blue.
Wang Shi had heard of this okama, who had made a bit of a name for himself in East Blue.
By now, the guy had set off for the Grand Line.
Wang Shi even suspected that Bon Clay had met Ivankov, the Okama King, in East Blue back then. That might have been why his dream of becoming an okama was so unwavering.
Kurozumi Semimaru's Barrier-Barrier Fruit ability had been eaten by Bartolomeo of Loguetown, East Blue.
And Kozuki Toki's Toki Toki no Mi ability had somehow appeared in Terminal Town, Goa Kingdom, East Blue, where it had been obtained by Wang Shi after his transmigration,.
At first,
Wang Shi had thought this flawed Toki Toki no Mi ability was useless. It could only send someone forward along the timeline, like Kozuki Toki, and couldn't turn back time.
What good was that?!
It was practically worse than Foxy's Slow-Slow Fruit ability.
But the truth proved otherwise.
Wang Shi had been too hasty in his judgment.
It wasn't that the Toki Toki no Mi ability was lousy. Kozuki Toki was just an idiot who'd spent eight hundred years transmigrating only to die on her first try.
How could she have developed such a powerful Toki Toki no Mi ability so poorly?
She'd made Wang Shi look down on it from the start.
Kozuki Toki really was a clueless fool from Wano Country, eight hundred years in the past.
Even though the Toki Toki no Mi ability couldn't turn back time, it was still incredibly powerful.
Wang Shi preferred to call its ability to send groups through time "Time Banishment."
Wang Shi had developed and mastered the Toki Toki no Mi ability with a precision a thousand times greater than Kozuki Toki's.
When she traveled eight hundred years into the future, she could be off by decades.
That level of development was truly pathetic.
She was not only blind—falling for Kozuki Oden—but also too stupid to use the Toki Toki no Mi ability properly.
Kozuki Toki deserved to become Kozuki Toki and die alongside Kozuki Oden.
Wang Shi had already developed a move with the Toki Toki no Mi ability that was similar to Kamui.
He could leave behind a Space-Time Phantom and banish his real body to the next moment in time indefinitely.
Nobody could hit Wang Shi's real body.
Most importantly, he could come out whenever he wanted.
The downsides were that it consumed a bit of stamina and couldn't move him through space.
It was a little less useful than Obito's Kamui Dimension.
Still, it was a divine skill for dodging damage.
The move's greatest weakness was that a powerful enemy could camp his body.
But Wang Shi had a solution for that too. When facing a powerful enemy, he could disperse the Space-Time Phantom and travel directly to some point in the future.
He refused to believe anyone could camp him forever!
And if they really did, he'd simply outlast them.
After all, traveling through time didn't change Wang Shi's lifespan.
That was also the biggest flaw of the Toki Toki no Mi ability: when used on himself, it couldn't move him through space.
But once Wang Shi developed the Time Domain,
banishing the opponent so they couldn't move while he could—that was basically teleportation by comparison.
That was how Wang Shi banished those soldiers, then had them "refresh" one by one at different times so he could cut them down.
The soldiers had been banished to some point in the future. The moment they reappeared, Wang Shi came at them, seeming to teleport right beside them from their perspective.
It was a change in time that produced the effect of spatial teleportation.
Trafalgar Law's ROOM Space could swap the positions of enemies, instantly changing their locations.
Wang Shi's Time Domain, on the other hand, banished each enemy to a different point in time, making Wang Shi seem to "teleport" from their perspective.
In reality, Wang Shi was simply fighting normally.
For now, the Toki Toki no Mi ability had major limitations.
It forced Wang Shi to keep growing stronger and rely heavily on Three-Color Haki if he wanted to survive in a world full of powerhouses.
This Toki Toki no Mi ability was most likely a flawed version of time manipulation. It could only affect the future, not the past.
Of course, Kozuki Toki might simply have been lousy at using it. For now, Wang Shi couldn't develop any moves involving the past either.
After all, traveling to the past could trigger a butterfly effect and incur immense karmic consequences.
A Devil Fruit ability like the Toki Toki no Mi simply couldn't withstand that kind of power from the world.
Traveling to the future had less impact.
Even so, this incomplete version of the Toki Toki no Mi ability was still extremely powerful.
It had one particularly unfair ability.
It could banish someone for a long time.
If Wang Shi banished someone years or even decades into the future, they would emerge to face a fully developed, complete, and strongest-ever Wang Shi.
The power of the Toki Toki no Mi ability was truly on a higher level.
Even at Wang Shi's current beginner level, it could forcibly banish people, and only advanced Haki could break them free.
It was just like the Paramecia Barrier-Barrier Fruit ability. Its starting potential was incredibly high, and even advanced Haki might not be enough to break through its barriers.
Only Haki of an extremely high caliber could possibly shatter them.
Likewise, most powerful fighters couldn't resist Wang Shi's Time Banishment either.
It was more advanced than Law's Op-Op Fruit ability.
The enemies Law couldn't move might well be banished by Wang Shi.
After all, the Op-Op Fruit ability had many different functions, making it broad but not specialized.
The Toki Toki no Mi ability, by contrast, was pure and advanced.
Time was king and space supreme—that wasn't a joke.
As Blackbeard Teach, that lecher, had said, when he and the Pirate Empress faced off, either he would instantly defeat the Pirate Empress, or she would instantly defeat him.
It all came down to striking first; the one who acted second would suffer.
That was how ridiculous advanced Devil Fruit abilities could be.
If Fist Garp wasn't paying attention and forgot to defend with Haki, Wang Shi might even banish him years or decades into the future.
Even someone as powerful as Four Emperors Big Mom could be affected by the awakened Magnet-Magnet Fruit ability, which forcibly gave her body magnetism.
Beast Kaido's body could also be turned into rubber by Sun God Nika's ability.
If Wang Shi developed the Toki Toki no Mi ability enough to forcibly banish Emperor-level powerhouses to some point in the future,
that would be fun!
Anyone who crossed Wang Shi would be banished!
Even if the Marines or the Celestial Dragons provoked Wang Shi, he wouldn't spare them!
He didn't care whether they were Holy Knights or members of the Five Elders!