The Shandia People's Reaction

He couldn't sense Upper Yard at all.

If his mind hadn't been so powerful and his perception so keen, giving him a faint sense of being watched when that fellow's awareness reached him, he might not even have noticed the spying.

It wasn't that Enel's Observation Haki was particularly impressive. His Rumble-Rumble Fruit was simply too absurd.

Its speed rivaled Kizaru's Glint-Glint Fruit, it could turn without assistance, its attacks were powerful, it could vastly extend the range of Observation Haki, it could provide electrical treatment, and it could even power a ship...

If a modern person who understood physics got that fruit, wouldn't they wipe out the Gum-Gum Fruit in no time?

If a scientist like Vegapunk got it, wouldn't he become a true Thunder God in minutes?

After all, lightning wasn't just electricity. There was also the intense heat, electromagnetic shock, and explosions it produced!

Lightning could even cause explosions in excessively humid air!

And electrical discharges generated magnetic fields. In theory, this was an electromagnetic force fruit, too!

Putting such a practically invincible fruit in the hands of Enel, who understood none of that, really was a waste.

Surely his defeat at Luffy's hands had been entirely down to his arrogance and his failure to develop his fruit properly!

That was the only explanation Kuta could come up with.

Could rubber really counter lightning?

Hmm...

Almost forgot.

That fellow wasn't a Gum-Gum Fruit user. He was a Devil Fruit user with the power of the Sun God Nika—the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nika—a god-tier Devil Fruit user who could grab lightning with his bare hands and wear flames atop his head.

If that was the case, it explained why Luffy's rubber could counter lightning.

He was even immune to the heat and explosions lightning produced.

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