Just as Sengoku was struggling with a headache...
Shining, who had just elbowed Bullet flat, felt his "scalp" itch even though he was in his "Elemental" state. A few electrical sparks flickered there.
Sure enough, York was incredibly useful.
Watching Naruto's operation proceed smoothly, Shining could not help reflecting on that.
It was not just biomimetics or mimicry.
With Sephiroth's support, the "Green Blood" research York had personally requested had also achieved preliminary results.
Of those imprisoned on the moon, only the excessively sensitive "Hobby-Hobby Fruit" had been kept out of the research.
York was free to use blood samples from Bellamy of the Spring-Spring Fruit, Foxy of the Slow-Slow Fruit, Absalom of the Clear-Clear Fruit, and Jora of the Art-Art Fruit.
There were also the blood samples for the "Swim-Swim Fruit and Wax-Wax Fruit" supplied by Babbage.
The unfinished Green Blood had little practical combat value. Implanting it only gave the recipient a weakness to seawater in exchange for a feeble ability.
But when combined with electromagnetic force for "Precision Atomization," the "Devil Fruit Factors" it dispersed were highly persistent.
They could also mislead someone's Observation Haki into sensing that another person had activated an "ability."
According to York, this "mist" produced the false impression of "being affected by an ability" on his detection equipment.
There was clearly no actual effect, yet the test results showed that an "effect existed."
After the Enies Lobby Incident, Sephiroth had dispersed quite a bit of it there as well.
"Hmph, Shining. Looks like your plan failed."
Lying on the ground, Bullet glanced in the direction where Ace and the others had broken through. His lips twitched, as though he had finally found something to mock.
Then... he found himself wondering just how strong Bondrewd really was.
According to that bastard Shiryu, the