The Rumble-Rumble Fruit Is Mine

Elsewhere, Luffy's fist was still held in the position from which he had thrown it.

After the enormous golden ball slammed into Enel, it sent the self-proclaimed god flying backward.

Enel crashed into the Golden Bell, then was thrown to the ground by the rebound. His chest heaved violently, his face was deathly pale, and blood covered the corners of his mouth.

He had not turned into lightning, had not vanished, and had not airily evaded the attack as he had before.

After landing, Luffy tilted his head and looked at his fist, then at Enel lying on the ground.

"Huh?"

His face was full of confusion.

"Why didn't he turn into lightning just now?"

Zoro frowned.

Usopp's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

"Hey, hey, hey! Didn't that guy turn into lightning? Weren't we unable to hit him before? What happened just now?"

Nami was stunned as well.

She had witnessed Enel's terror with her own eyes. The power to casually call down lightning was simply not something humans could resist.

Yet now, that monster had been knocked flat by Luffy's punch.

It was not due to a counter, nor was it luck. Enel's power seemed as though something had suddenly drained it away.

Just as Nami was about to speak, a faint pattering sound suddenly came from beside her.

She looked down.

At some point, a scroll had appeared on the ground.

Beside it was a pale blue crystal.

The crystal was only the size of a thumb. A faint blue glow flowed within it, as though a ball of energy had been sealed inside.

"What is this?"

Nami instinctively stepped back half a pace.

Usopp immediately leaped up in fright.

"Don't touch it! Something that fell out of nowhere like this looks dangerous no matter how you look at it!"

"But it seems..."

Nami stared at the crystal, and her heartbeat suddenly quickened.

It was not fear, but a very strange pull.

As if that thing was meant to be picked up by her.

Nami gritted her teeth and reached out to pick up the scroll anyway.

The moment the scroll entered her hand, the writing on its surface began to twist.

The unfamiliar symbols gradually changed, finally becoming something she could understand.

"Chakra... Refinement Technique?"

Nami softly read out the words, her face full of confusion.

But before she could open it and examine it closely, the pale blue crystal suddenly rose into the air and stuck directly to her palm.

"Ah!"

Nami jumped in fright, but it was already too late to shake it off.

The crystal turned into a strand of blue light and burrowed into her body through her palm.

Usopp's face turned white.

"Nami! Are you okay? Don't scare me!"

Nami stood rooted to the spot, her body stiff for several seconds.

Then, a flood of unfamiliar information rushed into her mind.

Physical energy and spiritual energy could be combined to refine a power known as chakra.

The contents of the scroll were no longer merely words, but had turned into a complete cultivation method.

She could even clearly feel a faint seed of energy that had appeared within her body.

The sensation was faint, but it was undeniably real.

Nami's breathing abruptly quickened.

She raised her hand and stared at her palm as the panic on her face gradually turned into delight.

"This thing... can make me stronger?"

Usopp froze.

"Stronger?"

Nami clenched the scroll tightly.

She knew exactly how dangerous the sea was.

Arlong, Crocodile, Enel—each one was more outrageous than the last.

Her navigation skills could lead everyone in the right direction, but when facing monsters like these, she often could only hide and wait for others to risk their lives.

If she could cultivate too.

If she could possess power that truly belonged to her.

Then when danger came again, she would not have to place all her hopes on others every single time.

Nami looked at the scroll, unable to stop the corners of her lips from rising.

"This is a treasure."

At the same time.

Inside a small house in Konoha, Fang Xu saw everything happening on Sky Island.

It was as though he stood outside the image.

The Golden Bell, Luffy, Enel, Nami, and the Chakra Refinement Technique scroll that had appeared out of thin air were all perfectly clear.

What concerned him most was not Luffy's punch, but the item he had exchanged.

"What I gave away was a ball of chakra."

Fang Xu stared at the blue light that had vanished into Nami's palm, his brows tightly furrowed.

"How did it turn into a crystal?"

And there was that copied scroll.

He had clearly used Konoha script, and its contents were also the chakra refinement method from the Naruto world.

Yet once it reached Nami's hands, the words on the scroll had changed on their own into something she could understand.

This was definitely no ordinary exchange.

"Could it be that the exchange talent specially processes traded items?"

Fang Xu's heart pounded.

If that was true, then its value was immense.

What he had sent out was not merely chakra and a scroll. His talent had transformed them into extraordinary keys suited for that world to absorb, comprehend, and cultivate.

He had originally worried that the rules of different worlds might be incompatible, and that the chakra system might not work properly when sent over.

Now, it seemed his talent was even more powerful than he had imagined.

"This first exchange can't possibly be a loss."

The moment that thought surfaced, the image of the myriad worlds before Fang Xu began to fade.

The chime of Sky Island's bell still echoed, but the image gradually scattered away.

The next second, his palm grew heavy.

A blue fruit appeared out of thin air.

Its surface was covered in swirling patterns, with fine traces of lightning between them, like miniature bolts clinging to the peel.

Fang Xu stopped breathing for half a beat.

"The Rumble-Rumble Fruit..."

He recognized it at a glance.

This was no ordinary Devil Fruit.

It was the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, one of the absolute best among the Logia types.

Speed, destructive power, elemental transformation, long-range attacks—it had it all.

If he had previously merely been an ordinary ninja academy student with relatively weak chakra reserves, then this fruit was something that could send him soaring to the heavens in a single step.

At the same time, a notification appeared in his mind.

[Exchange complete.]

[Obtained: Rumble-Rumble Fruit.]

[Notice: Talent has proactively removed this fruit's original weaknesses.]

[Notice: Enel's lifetime of fruit development insights have been included.]

Fang Xu's fingers clenched tightly.

Its original weaknesses had been removed!

In other words, the Devil Fruit's weaknesses to seawater, Seastone, and the like were all gone.

This was no longer merely a Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

This was a flawless Rumble-Rumble Fruit!

Even more absurdly, it came with Enel's lifetime of development insights.

Though Enel's personality was arrogant beyond measure, his development of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit was absolutely not lacking.

Thunder Bird, Thunder Beast, Thunder Dragon, El Thor, Raigo, elemental transformation, lightning movement, electrothermal power, metal smelting...

These were not things one could automatically master simply by obtaining the fruit.

An ordinary person who ate the Rumble-Rumble Fruit could at most release electricity.

To develop the fruit to Enel's level required immense amounts of time and combat experience.

But now, all that experience had been delivered directly to Fang Xu.

"I struck it rich."

Fang Xu's throat went dry, and only those three words remained in his mind.

Without hesitating, he opened his mouth and bit down.

He had long been mentally prepared for Devil Fruits tasting awful.

But after the first bite, Fang Xu froze.