"The Tremor-Tremor Fruit's Awakening? You're saying Zesi actually developed the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to the point of Devil Fruit Awakening!"
"A deeper level of awakening for a Devil Fruit?"
"Zesi's strength is already so terrifying. With an awakened Tremor-Tremor Fruit on top of that, wouldn't he be far too terrifying?"
"The Tremor-Tremor Fruit can cause earthquakes and tsunamis. What kind of terrifying power would it have after awakening?"
"Just standing there without attacking makes everyone around him cough up blood. What terrifying power."
The members of the Charlotte Family spoke with their mouths hanging open in shock.
As for Feiluo, he stood completely frozen, his face filled with confusion.
He knew nothing about the Devil Fruit matters they were discussing.
Although Feiluo was a Devil Fruit user himself,
he had never heard of Devil Fruit Awakening.
In fact, Devil Fruit Awakening was a "secret" known to only a handful of people.
So he was utterly baffled by everything he heard.
But even though he did not know what Devil Fruit Awakening was, the shock on the faces of the Charlotte Family told him that it was an extremely terrifying ability.
Once this was over, he had to ask what exactly Devil Fruit Awakening was. After all, he was a Devil Fruit user too.
Zesi had only recently mastered Devil Fruit Awakening himself.
In truth, Zesi's greatest strength still lay in his swordsmanship.
He excelled at using swordsmanship to combine his Devil Fruit ability and Haki, attacking through his sword techniques.
Unfortunately, his blade had shattered not long after his last battle with Kaido.
Afterward, Zesi had wanted to find someone to forge a double-edged longsword, but he had never found any good rare ore or a good swordsmith, so he had yet to forge a longsword of his own.
Besides, in his later battles, few opponents required him to fight with a blade, so he gradually stopped carrying one.
If he fought with a sword, he would not need to use Devil Fruit Awakening even if Big Mom went berserk.
After all, although Devil Fruit Awakening was powerful, it consumed enormous amounts of energy and posed a tremendous challenge to his body's endurance.
"What a hassle. Still, I have to say, well done, Big Mom. You managed to force me to use this power. But I can't guarantee you'll survive what comes next!"
As he spoke, Zesi casually threw a punch from over a hundred meters away from Big Mom.
No sphere of light appeared around Zesi's fist as he threw that punch.
Nor was there any sign of the air cracking.
Yet once the punch was thrown, the space around Big Mom distorted for no apparent reason.
Then, as though struck by an incomparably terrifying attack, she was sent flying backward.
As Big Mom flew backward, she continued to suffer one attack after another, her body hurled farther and farther back until she crashed into Whole Cake Chateau.
Whole Cake Chateau immediately split apart from the impact, and Big Mom was driven inside.
Then the sounds of impacts and shattering continued to ring out from within Whole Cake Chateau.
Only after quite a while did they finally stop.
Every member of the Charlotte Family gaped in shock.
Their Mama, the Mama who had been called a monster since childhood, had actually been sent flying so easily by Zesi?
"What terrifying power. Casually triggering vibrations over a hundred meters away, tens of millions of vibrations per second, forming a force of unimaginable terror. Is this the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit?" Katakuri said in shock.
With his exceptionally powerful Observation Haki, Katakuri had already sensed the power of Zesi's punch.
Precisely because he could sense that power, he was so shocked.
"So that's how it works. Aside from affecting the surroundings and turning the air into shock waves, awakening also makes it easier to trigger vibrations, and controlling those vibrations becomes easier too!"
This was also Zesi's first time using the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's Awakening.
The Tremor-Tremor Fruit's Awakening was similar to that of other Paramecia fruits: the user's own ability affected the things around them.
Normally, whether he was triggering a tsunami or an earthquake, Zesi activated his ability with himself as the source of the vibrations.
He transmitted shock waves through vibrating strikes, ultimately producing a tsunami.
Zesi himself was the source of the vibrations.
But after Devil Fruit Awakening, he could produce vibrations directly at a location in his surroundings.
That location itself became the source of the vibrations.
Just now, for example, his punch had triggered vibrations directly in front of Big Mom.
He had formed a source of vibrations in front of Big Mom to launch an attack.
In truth, even though Devil Fruit Awakening allowed him to trigger vibrations directly at a distance,
the vibrations he triggered from so far away were not very powerful.
The energy expenditure was also relatively high.
Triggering a powerful vibration all at once from a distance truly consumed an especially enormous amount of energy.
With Whitebeard's style of attack, it really would not have been worth it.
But over the years, Zesi had constantly trained his vibration frequency.
His vibration techniques did not pursue the power of the vibrations, but their frequency and layering.
And after Devil Fruit Awakening, Zesi's control over the Tremor-Tremor Fruit had reached another level.
In this awakened state, combined with his years of training, he could actually launch attacks of ten million vibrations per second right in front of his opponent with ease.
If he generated them on his own hand, he could even unleash tens of millions, or even over a hundred million, vibrating attacks in an instant.