" Tokikake! You didn't eat Devil Fruit, did you?" Vic asked.
Tokikake appears very little in the original work. Vic only knows that he is a candidate for Admiral, just like Gion. It is not clear whether he has Devil Fruit ability. Vic did not see him use his Devil Fruit ability in this battle, so he is probably not a Devil Fruit user at this time.
As for whether Vic ate Devil Fruit when he became a candidate for Admiral more than ten years later, it's unclear. After all, there are still more than ten years to go, and it's hard to say what might happen in that time. But there are also those who are cunning and don't use their Devil Fruit abilities normally, but when they do, they kill everyone who knows about them.
"Yes! I'd say I'm a master of hand-to-hand combat, and I don't have any plans to eat Devil Fruit right now." Tokikake didn't know why Vic asked that, but he answered honestly nonetheless.
"That's good. To heal Gion's remaining injuries, she needs a lot of nutrients, so could you go down into the sea and catch a Sea Kings? Sea Kings ' flesh and bones are quite nourishing."
The fresh Sea Kings meat remaining in Vic's Dimensional Space has been used up, and he can no longer dive underwater, making it less convenient to obtain Sea Kings flesh and bones than before.
Therefore, among those present, Tokikake, who hasn't eaten Devil Fruit, is suitable in all aspects, and there's no possibility that he wouldn't be able to defeat Sea Kings in the sea.
As for the others? Gion could move before she was injured, but now she can't move at all. Rebecca is also a Devil Fruit user, Wendy and Frodeku might not be able to defeat Sea Kings in the water.
"Why didn't you say so earlier? Wait for me! I'll be right back!"
Tokikake heard what Vic said, he blamed him for being too late. After he finished speaking, he took off his hat and threw it aside, then plunged into the sea.
Rebecca, who was next to her, also wanted to jump, but Vic grabbed her and said, "Have you forgotten that you're also an ability user? If you go into the sea, you'll have to come up in the water."
Seeing that Tokikake the water, Vic ordered the warship to stop. Chasing a warship while dragging such a massive Sea Kings along? How many could do that? They could only wait where they were, otherwise Tokikake would get lost.
An hour later, a huge black shadow rose from the sea next to the warship, a size larger than the warship itself.
The dark shape quickly surfaced; it was the Sea Kings that Tokikake had shot down and brought back. It looked somewhat like a whale, with a large red bump on its head, which Tokikake must have made underwater.
This Sea Kings is only average; its size and Primal Spirit content are both average. Vic can't use that many at once, and the people on the warship will definitely need to eat them too. So this treatment won't completely heal Gion. However, with Vic here, it's only a matter of time before Gion is healed. It's just another chance.
Vic took some good pieces of meat and big bones and started making soup in the pressure cooker. Everyone else was helping to divide the meat. This time, such a big prey could not be wasted. The warship would store as much as it could, and the rest would be made into food, like a feast. Anyway, we would not waste anything, as this was a gift from nature.
Vic's method of making soup this time was completely different from before. In the past, when he wasn't in a hurry, Vic didn't use his abilities. This time, he was too lazy to go to the kitchen to cook, since there were ready-made cooking utensils. So Rebecca, Wendy, Ain, and several of Gion's girls were all there to watch the spectacle. Barnett and the others didn't let the girls divide the meat.
Seeing Vic seal the soup pot, then automatically heat it to simmer the soup, inflate it into a sphere, and finally release the pressure, left them astonished. Could soup really be simmered like this? And could it be ready in such a short time?
They didn't believe the soup was ready until they saw that there wasn't a single piece of meat left in the soup pot, only bones. The girls from Gion, in particular, kept marveling at how convenient the Rumble-Rumble Fruit was, seeing how it could be used in such a way!
Vic didn't let Gion eat alone; he served each of the girls a bowl. A few bowls were nothing compared to the bucket that was over a meter tall.
They were practically drooling from the aroma when the gas was released; Sea Kings meat always tastes pretty good as long as it's not cooked haphazardly.
With a master like Vic handling the preparations, the flavor would be several times better, so even the steam that billowed out carried a rich aroma. Even the people dividing the meat couldn't stop swallowing their saliva, but they wouldn't come to freeload; they could only wait for the grand feast that evening.
Vic repeated his task of feeding Gion soup in the bathroom, but this time he used a real wooden spoon, mainly because Rebecca and the others were all drinking soup and there was no one to feed Gion.
Only Vic could do this; otherwise, he would never have done it himself in front of so many people. Rebecca glanced at the two of them, then turned away to drink her soup, as if to say, "Do whatever you want as long as I don't see it."
Vic blew on the thick soup in the wooden spoon to cool it down and brought it to Gion's lips, but Gion didn't open her mouth. Instead, she smiled and winked at Vic with a mischievous look, as if to say: I want to experience the way you fed me soup last time. I didn't feel it when I was unconscious last time, but I want to feel it again now.
"Shut up! There are so many people watching, what are you trying to do? Do you have to make a scene that everyone knows about?"
Seeing that Gion didn't open her mouth but winked at him, Vic could guess what she meant, so he directly used Secret Sound Transmission to send his voice into Gion's mind.
Gion saw that Vic's mouth didn't open, but she heard the sound herself. She rolled her eyes and saw that no one else reacted, so she knew that only she could hear it.
Although her eyes widened in surprise, she didn't make a sound, but instead opened her mouth and drank the thick soup from the wooden spoon.
One of them blew on the soup to cool it down and fed it, while the other opened his mouth to drink. They worked together perfectly. Gion's big eyes were fixed on Vic's face, filled with deep emotions, even more intense than Vic soup Vic had made, as if she wanted to melt him.
Vic had no time to respond to Gion's gaze; he was currently focused on sending messages to Gion's brain within her body, reporting on the extent of her injuries.
Moreover, it sends signals continuously, precisely to disrupt the brain's normal repair mechanisms and block out feedback signals from cells that have already divided.
In this way, the brain continuously sends instructions to divide cells to replace dead and damaged cells. Coupled with a large amount of energy, this can achieve a rapid healing effect on injuries, which is visible to the naked eye.
After Vic fed all the soup to Gion, all the damaged muscles in her body had been repaired, and she had no other injuries except for her bones.
Rebecca and the others were amazed to see that Gion's stomach hadn't swelled up despite drinking such a large pot of soup. That's because the nutrients in the soup had been absorbed, and the excess water had been evaporated as sweat by Vic sending instructions to his brain, leaving very little residue in her stomach.