Vic would often consult with Frodeku about the ability to foresee the Future Sight Observation Haki, as it was very helpful in actual combat. However, Frodeku's Future Sight was innate, and he didn't know how to help Vic cultivate it to a higher level.
Vic could only try to understand Frodeku's feelings when Future Sight, but the results were unsatisfactory; Vic still couldn't grasp it.
While Vic's body possesses a talent similar to proficiency, allowing him to gradually accumulate skills and Haki, and slowly enhance his Devil Fruit abilities, this is contingent upon the absence of any bottlenecks.
Once a bottleneck appears, the talent becomes useless. Vic himself must break through the bottleneck for the innate proficiency to be activated and strengthened again, just like the advancement of the Six Powers, the advancement of Haki, and the Awakening of Devil Fruit abilities. This is something that talent cannot do.
So when Vic saw that Katakuri's Observation Haki was on the verge of advancement, he became interested. He couldn't get useful experience from Frodeku, but here it was right in front of him.
Therefore, Vic decided to fully unleash Katakuri's Future Sight before killing him, to see if there was anything worthwhile about this breakthrough process, and whether it could help him break through as well.
As for what will happen after Katakuri learns to Future Sight? Will it turn the tide? Vic isn't worried at all; Future Sight isn't invincible!
Frodeku can also Future Sight, but he's no match for Rebecca. Being able to see the opponent's attack moves and trajectory in advance doesn't mean you can dodge them.
With so many flying swords from Rebecca, even if Frodeku could dodge a few or a dozen, he couldn't dodge hundreds attacking at once. If Katakuri were a true Logia Fruit user, he might have been able to escape this deadly situation with his Observation Haki that allows him to see the Future Sight, but he isn't!
So Vic ignored Smoothie and pressed forward against Katakuri. He needed to find the right balance in his next move, not going so far as to kill Katakuri outright.
He couldn't just make a move without making him feel threatened. That's how Observation Haki; the stronger the sense of crisis and the stronger the emotional fluctuations, the easier it is to Awakening. As he thought this, Vic's Great Grade Sword was already raised.
Katakuri looked at the Dark Dragon attacking him, its eyes cold and filled with intense killing intent. He knew that Dark Dragon's murderous intent was growing stronger, and he guessed that it was largely related to his earlier Future Sight.
This was an attempt to kill him before he fully mastered Observation Haki allowed him to Future Sight, to prevent any unforeseen circumstances. He knew that without Haki that Future Sight, he and his siblings would surely die today!
He carefully recalled his situation when he Future Sight, trying to recapture that state of mind, his thoughts racing.
He considered two factors: his opponent was Dark Dragon, who put immense pressure on him, so he activated his Observation Haki to its maximum and dared not be careless, otherwise he would not have been able to react to Dark Dragon's attack!
Then Dark Dragon's sudden abnormality gave him a very bad premonition, causing a huge emotional upheaval and worry about his sister's safety. It was only by combining these two factors that he saw a glimpse of the future!
Katakuri's eyes lit up. His Observation Haki was on the verge of being fully developed, which was the most crucial factor for breaking through to the point of Future Sight. Emotional changes and a sense of crisis came next, the latter being the triggering condition!
Katakuri had a vague realization, and he quickly suppressed his excitement, determined to focus intently on the upcoming battle.
Thus, under Vic's deliberate control, Katakuri suffered many wounds, all inflicted after narrowly escaping fatal attacks.
If he couldn't avoid it, he would really die. That intense life-or-death crisis constantly stimulated his Observation Haki, allowing him to see more of the future, enabling him to escape fatal crises time and time again, and making his Future Sight more and more stable, until he had complete control over it!
During the battle, Smoothie tried to come and help, but Katakuri. For Katakuri, this battle was both a crisis and an opportunity; capturing him would allow him to enter another level, so he didn't want to be disturbed.
" Future Sight! Complete control? Is it truly fate? What's meant to be yours will inevitably come to pass, sooner or later! Now, I'm really going to strike!"
Looking at Katakuri, who had already mastered the ability to Future Sight, Vic felt a pang of emotion. Katakuri had learned to Future Sight of time thanks to his intervention.
He had witnessed everything unfolding before his eyes, and had already formed some suspicions. Next, he was going to eliminate this future vice-president who had just Future Sight.
"What did you say?... Smoothie! Watch out!"
Vic's words surprised Katakuri. What did he mean by "really going to kill"? Wasn't he really going to kill just now? But he didn't have time to say anything. The scene he saw with his Observation Haki, Future Sight, made his heart skip a beat and his face change drastically. He quickly reminded his sister, who was still watching the show.
No sooner had Katakuri spoken than Vic swung his sword, unleashing a massive Sword Gang towards Smoothie. The Sword Gang, guided by the Wind Conception, moved with astonishing speed, reaching Smoothie in an instant.
Fortunately, Katakuri reminded her, Smoothie managed to block with her sword. However, Vic's Sword Gang aura was too powerful, and Smoothie had no good place to use it in mid-air. She was directly pushed far away by the Sword Gang and disappeared from sight in an instant.
After unleashing his Sword Gang, Vic ignored Smoothie and vanished from his spot with a light step. When he reappeared, he was already in front of Katakuri, holding up the Bloodthirst Blood Wither wrapped in Armament Haki.
Vic's goal was to separate the two to prevent Smoothie from interfering with him, and then kill Katakuri in a short time. Katakuri, who has the ability to Future Sight, is obviously a greater threat. If he has a master like Smoothie to cooperate with him, the battle will not end in a short time.
Katakuri saw the future, but Vic was too fast. He was distracted and had to remind his sister. Although he turned the flesh and blood at his waist into glutinous rice paste, when the Black Blade first cut into his waist, it was still flesh and blood. It was only after being cut open that it was urgently separated into glutinous rice paste.
In other words, Katakuri was still injured by Vic's attack, but he managed to stop the damage in time and was not cut in half.
Katakuri, who had been cut in half after his pseudo-elemental transformation, stared solemnly at Vic before him. Glutinous rice paste grew from the middle of his two halves, pulling his upper and lower body back together.
His ability to Future Sight, coupled with the fact that his Devil Fruit power isn't invincible, means that if there's any interference, he might get injured if he can't immediately turn his body into a sticky mess. His Haki is completely ineffective against it, so he doesn't dare to use Haki to directly withstand Vic's slash and can only dodge by pseudo-elemental transformation.
Seeing that Katakuri had only suffered minor injuries, Vic did not stop his attack. He immediately came close to him again, slashing with his two Black Blade, ready to kill Katakuri!