"I feel pretty good. I can even get stronger!"
Shane was right. After he grew stronger...
Especially with the Gum-Gum Fruit's Nika framework and the Paw-Paw Fruit's Light Palm.
The two created a positive cycle, accelerating the awakening of his other positive Devil Fruits as well.
One major reason was that the Nika Form could mobilize and enhance human potential.
The Paw-Paw Fruit, meanwhile, could compress, repel, unleash, and seize.
This gave Shane the possibility of developing his Devil Fruits at high speed, allowing him to awaken multiple Devil Fruits now.
As more of his abilities awakened, the dark demonic will, which rejected light-aligned demonic wills, fell into a disadvantage.
Even if it generated a repulsive force against Shane's power, it would ultimately be completely suppressed, allowing Shane to awaken the Dark-Dark Fruit!
When that happened...
He could completely avoid ending up in Rocks's state.
At God Valley, Rocks had ultimately lost control and let the dark demonic will take charge in an attempt to take everyone down with him.
Clearly, this was a demonic will with ambitions.
Shane would eliminate that possibility entirely. For a powerhouse who had already reached the pinnacle, it was better to take things slowly than rely on an uncontrollable power.
Most importantly...
Shane actually had a theory about Imu's abilities.
Many people believed that the powers represented by the Dark-Dark Fruit and the Nika Form were exact opposites.
But if Nika's awakened state was white mist, then all Devil Fruits that manifested demonic black flames after awakening should have a single source.
In that case, the abilities of this one Devil Fruit probably encompassed all Devil Fruits with dark attributes.
For example, the Nika Form could freely change the body's size, while there were actually two other Paramecia Devil Fruits that could make someone