Space Rotation: The Most Basic Entry

"Hoo~" Taking a deep breath to steady his pounding heart, Gray wiped the sweat from his forehead, marking the end of today's combat training.

"Field Rotation, activate!" Settling back into his wheelchair, Gray set the field to six times gravity as usual and rolled toward the family port.

There were no abandoned buildings in this garrison, so Shark Chili had to stay down by the docks.

Having finished his training, Gray intended to go check on Shark Chili.

Now that he had been promoted to a family executive, all his benefits had been upgraded to the maximum. He and Shark Chili were one and the same—they prospered together—so Gray planned to use a portion of his new allowance to improve Shark Chili's diet.

In the past, while Shark Chili's meals weren't bad, there simply weren't that many Sea Kings or sea beasts in the North Blue, so most of its feed consisted of livestock meat.

It only received Sea King meat twice a week, and sea beast meat every two days.

With his own benefits increased, Gray intended to use his personal funds to provide Shark Chili with more Sea King or sea beast meat, allowing it to grow faster.

As soon as Gray reached the seaside, Shark Chili surfaced and swam toward him joyfully.

"Chiumi!"

"Haha! How is it? Are you getting used to it here?"

"Chiumi~" Shark Chili swam a few happy laps, its tail splashing seawater everywhere.

"That's good!" Seeing the creature like this, Gray felt relieved knowing there were no issues.

Sure enough, Sea Kings were only truly comfortable in the ocean; keeping one on land was just too strange.

"Chiumi!"

"I just came to check on you. We have more money to spend now, so I'll have someone bring you extra food later."

"Chiumi!"

"Hahaha! Alright, alright!" After playing with Shark Chili for a while, Gray let it go back to its own fun and began to focus on his own tasks.

The work he had to attend to wasn't anything major; it was just his usual routine of continuing to develop his Devil Fruit abilities.

Currently, there were three directions for his fruit development that Gray considered most urgent—and one of them was purely for show.

First: The defensive Direction Rotation.

Four months at sea had passed, and he had finally gained some insight into Direction Rotation.

"So-called Direction Rotation is simply reflecting an attack the moment it enters the range of my fruit's ability."

"To achieve this, I must reflect the enemy's attack at the exact moment it nears me. The difficulty lies in that precise moment of proximity."

"The requirements are too harsh; if I can't complete it in an instant, the skill is meaningless." These were the conclusions Gray had drawn from developing Direction Rotation.

Having gained some insight, he still hadn't completed the technique and needed to continue deep research before he could truly master the basics.

Second: The rotation of his personal magnetic field.

Aside from the initial Soul Magnetic Field rotation, he hadn't felt the strengthening of his soul magnetic field since awakening his Observation Haki.

The reason his soul magnetic field had grown stronger was merely a byproduct of his Observation Haki's growth.

To this day, Gray hadn't realized his original vision and continued to delve deeper into developing this skill.

Third: Space Rotation.

When he first ate the Spin-Spin Fruit, the first things that came to Gray's mind were the rotation of space and time.

As someone from the Middle Kingdom, he had always kept this saying in his heart: Space is King, Time is Sovereign.

In this world, he didn't know if he could rotate time with his Spin-Spin Fruit, but rotating space should be the easiest to accomplish.

Kuma's fruit could be developed to repel space and allow for teleportation. Gray drew inspiration from that.

His Spin-Spin Fruit's ability was to make any object rotate—note, any object!

Therefore, space itself should naturally be included!

Previously, his development of the fruit hadn't been deep enough, and he hadn't wanted to get ahead of himself, but now Gray felt the time was right.

Using the Spin-Spin Fruit's power to develop a spatial skill, Gray's first inspiration was: Space is a circle.

Just as he had integrated his Observation Haki into his "small world," he could set a scene as a circle and then rotate that space.

Simply put: Gray's current position is Point A, and his destination is Point B.

The distance between Point A and Point B is the diameter of a circle. By using his fruit ability to rotate this circle, he would teleport Point A to Point B, and Point B to Point A.

This technique was similar to how Law teleported within his Room, with the only difference being that Gray didn't need stones or other objects to swap positions; he swapped based on spatial coordinates.

The mere thought of developing a teleportation skill made Gray feel incredibly excited.

He had even planned out his future "cool" moments.

When he encountered an enemy, he would teleport behind them, wearing a calm expression as if looking down on his opponent, and deliver a specific line with a specific gesture.

Imagined scene: Gray teleports behind the enemy, pressing his index finger against the spot over their heart: "The distance between us is meaningless. If I wanted to, I could take your life in an instant."

"I'm fired up!"

"That's so cool, isn't it!" Just thinking about it made Gray so excited he couldn't wait to realize this scene and become the king of cool.

If he could complete this Space Rotation technique, it wouldn't just be about achieving teleportation.

From now on, attacks could also be launched directly at the enemy in an instant.

Everything Kuroko Shirai's ability could manifest, he could achieve as well.

"With just one technique, you can become a Level 4 esper. No need for 998, no need for 98; just follow this book daily, and by the time it reaches its finale, you too can become a master of space."

"Action speaks louder than desire, so what are you waiting for?"

Ugh~ Quickly shaking those nonsensical thoughts from his mind, Gray refocused his attention.

"The potential of Space Rotation goes far beyond this; teleporting myself and launching attacks are merely the first abilities."

"If I take it a step further and rotate smaller spaces, twisting them to form Kamui, and attack enemies with the power of space itself, how many could possibly withstand it?"

"And if I develop it to its final form: could I twist and distort space to create a black hole?" This was Gray's development direction and vision for the Spin-Spin Fruit's space-type skills.

The prospect was beautiful and, more importantly, achievable. It took several attempts for Gray to calm his restless heart and suppress the urge to use himself as a test subject to develop the ability.

Once calm, Gray carefully considered the details before beginning his first serious attempt at developing his Space Rotation ability.

Spinning his wheelchair back to his living quarters, Gray enjoyed the warmth of the sunlight while taking an iron bead from his chair and spreading it across his palm.

He scanned the area, his gaze settling on a small pebble ten meters away on the ground.

Let the iron bead in my palm be point A, the pebble be the enemy, and the space beside the pebble be point B. With A and B as the diameter of a circle, I will rotate the space to move A directly to B. Having mapped out the logic, he left the rest to the fruit's power; all Gray could do now was charge ahead.