One day later.
At the entrance to the Grand Line, Twin Cape.
The scorching sun hung high in the sky, and the azure sea sparkled, reflecting the towering Red Line. Amidst this intertwined world of blue and reddish-brown, a figure hovered mid-air, silver-white long hair fluttering in the wind.
Adams looked down at the figure lying on a deck chair reading a newspaper, his eyes devoid of any fluctuation. He carried a bulky pack on his shoulder, and the huge double-edged sword on his back emitted a cold gleam in the sunlight.
After dropping Ginny off at the nearest island, he did not return immediately, instead coming here.
Through the previous battles, he deeply understood that without Conqueror's Haki Infusion, he simply could not deal with God's Knights' immortal bodies; therefore, learning Conqueror's Haki Infusion was already a matter of extreme urgency.
The awkward part, however, was that the Kaido duplicate conjured through Hanafusa's memories had not mastered Conqueror's Haki Infusion, leaving Adams with no choice but to find himself a new teacher.
He had come here precisely to read Crocus's memories and replicate Roger to help him practice Conqueror's Haki Infusion.
Crucially, Padong's Tanuki Fruit ability relied on how deeply one understood the target; the better the understanding, the more faithful the replicated individual's strength would be. Unless the target copied themselves, there would always be a gap.
With Roger already dead, the person who knew Roger's physical stats inside and out was undoubtedly Crocus, who had served as the ship's doctor.
Just like a phrase Adams had seen in his past life, a person could not earn money outside their cognition, and Devil Fruit users could not accomplish things outside the user's cognition.
Therefore, the Roger replicated through Crocus's memories was the closest to the original. For Adams,