Field Rotation, Success!

"Hey! Break time!"

"I'm calling it a day!" Gray said, putting on a lazy front, but his body was honest: the moment he sat down, he began meditating.

At this point, Gray couldn't afford to rest. Everything had to serve his training.

The reason someone as lazy as him, a modern-day man, trained so desperately was the overwhelming sense of danger he felt.

Knowing the truth about this world, he couldn't help feeling his life was under serious threat whenever he thought of those world-shattering powerhouses and the darkness of the World Government and the Celestial Dragons.

That threat to his life was exactly what drove him to train so hard.

Otherwise, how could an ordinary modern man like him find the motivation to train?

Back on Blue Star, he'd even bought a treadmill. After a week of novelty, it had ended up gathering dust in the corner.

After meditating for half an hour, Gray gave up!

He'd made some progress, but not much.

His modern-day restlessness and desire for quick results made meditation a struggle.

"Forget it! I'll do what I enjoy and keep developing Field Rotation!"

Closing his eyes again, Gray expected this attempt to be just like all the others, with no results at all.

But soon—

"What's this?" He opened his eyes and looked around, but everything appeared perfectly normal to the naked eye.

Then Gray thought of something and closed his eyes again. In his black-and-white vision, he saw it!

"So this is the 'field'?" For some reason, the word appeared in Gray's mind.

He could see all kinds of fields between heaven and earth. The closer a field was to him, the more clearly he could see it.

The farther away it was, the blurrier it became!

Gray could see them because the Fruit's will was cooperating with him to its fullest. If he had to rely on his own senses to see the fields, he'd have to wait until he awakened Observation Haki.

"Now that I can see them, I should be able to make them rotate, right?" His body moved faster than his thoughts. As he spoke, Gray used his Fruit ability to set the field around him spinning.

"Mm-hmm... It's this hard to get it turning at first?" Setting the stationary field in motion felt like starting an old hand-cranked tractor. Getting it going was always the hardest part.

Fortunately, once it began to turn, its rotational momentum greatly reduced the strain on his body.

The field spun faster and faster. When Gray's body started to feel wrong, he quickly used his Fruit ability to stop the rotation. "Hey, hey, hey! Stop, stop! Stop right now!"

As the field began rotating, a crushing force of gravity weighed down on Gray.

The faster it spun, the heavier the gravity felt. That was what his body was telling him.

His small body couldn't withstand too much gravity. If he aggravated his injuries again, Gray felt he'd die of embarrassment.

Only after the field stopped spinning did Gray breathe a sigh of relief. He began to sum things up. "Gravity?"

"This will make training easy!" The first thing Gray thought of when it came to using gravity was improving his training.

As for using it against enemies, he felt that might do more harm than good. After all, he wasn't Fujitora, a Press-Press Fruit user.

"Keep going!"

"That was a clockwise rotation, which increased gravity and created a gravitational effect."

"So if I rotate it counterclockwise, I should be able to float!"

"But I'll have to take it slowly this time. If I fly too high and fall, I'm done for!"

Gray used his Fruit ability to rotate his personal field. Once it started spinning, it counteracted the planet's pull on him, and he began to rise slowly into the air.

"Woo!" Gray let out an excited cry. No boy could resist having an imagined superpower become reality.

What's more, this was flight—the dream of humankind.

Since ancient times, people had yearned for the sky. It was that longing that had inspired the invention of the airplane.

The wonder of flying without any tools was something Gray found hard to put into words.

After floating for a while, Gray realized something was wrong. "Just floating isn't enough!"

Rotating counterclockwise only canceled out gravity. It couldn't control his direction or let him truly fly.

"No, no! I must have gotten one step wrong!" Gray slowly stopped the field's rotation and landed safely. Resting his chin in his hand, he began thinking about whether he'd gotten something wrong.

"With the Spin-Spin Fruit, the first thing that comes to mind when you want to make an object rotate easily and quickly is a circle. A circle is the most suitable and convenient shape for rotation."

"Besides, a field is already circular in itself. The field acting on me should also be a 360-degree circle!"

"So I shouldn't be thinking only in terms of clockwise and counterclockwise rotation."

"My whole body is 360 degrees. Any direction can be the starting point for rotation."

With that line of thought, Gray immediately worked out how to develop flight.

"Flying is ultimately about force originating from the feet. Using my heels as the point of force can not only cancel out gravity and make me float, but also send me flying diagonally upward."

"And that is repulsion. Clockwise rotation increases gravity, while counterclockwise rotation creates repulsion."

"By controlling the repulsion around my body, I can adjust my direction and achieve true flight." Gray was fired up and acted on the idea at once, automatically ignoring the danger.

"Field Rotation!" He first rotated the field with the soles of his feet as the point of force, creating repulsion that lifted him into the air.

Once he was two meters off the ground, he shifted the point of force to his heels. His body not only moved forward, but rose higher and higher.

He continued until he was above the roof of a two-story building. Then Gray maintained the rotation speed, neither speeding it up nor slowing it down.

"Now for the hard part!"

"Whether I can control my flight freely comes down to this!"

The point of force for the rotating field shifted from the soles of his feet to the back of his thighs. This was the control point for both floating and direction.

As he gradually set the circular field around himself spinning, his body began to drift forward.

"Great!" Gray clenched his fists to cheer himself on, then changed the point of force again.

The point of force at his thighs shifted to the left, and his body moved to the right.

"Move the force from the left to the right, and the force on the right to the left. That's how I control left and right."

"Likewise, controlling forward and backward should just mean doing the opposite."

No matter how he shifted the point of rotation, the point of force had to stay below his waist if he wanted to both float and fly.

Only then could a Spin-Spin Fruit user achieve flight.

Slowly, step by step, he adjusted the rotation, going from slow to fast. After half an hour, Gray had mastered the basics of flight.

"Whew—woo!" Gray happily flew above the rooftops, passing over one courtyard after another. His excited shouts showed just how exhilarated he felt.