22 Long Journey and Speculation on Abilities

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A ship was sailing on the azure sea.

Suzuki was the captain of this ship. Not only that, he also hired some sailors.

A few days ago, when Suzuki arrived at the port of Drum Island, he discovered that it was actually a bit difficult to leave Drum Island quickly because there were not merchant ships at the port all the time.

In order to leave as soon as possible, Suzuki directly spent money to buy a ship. The ship was not big. It was only 10 meters long and four or five meters high.

Just such a ship cost Suzuki 30 million Berries.

However, because he had already eaten a Devil Fruit, he did not really want to take a small boat anymore. A small boat could not withstand too much wind and waves. If it capsized, it would be terrible.

Devil Fruit ability users were unable to swim. Once they came into contact with seawater, or rather, as more and more parts of their bodies came into contact with seawater, their stamina and abilities would become weaker and weaker until they were completely powerless.

Even if Suzuki had chakra that could allow him to walk on water, it was difficult to avoid this negative effect.

Although chakra could also form a kind of armor attached to the body's surface, that almost materialized chakra consumed too much energy.

Chakra was essentially an invisible and intangible energy. Whether it was walking on water or climbing trees, it was all done by using the adsorption generated by chakra, which was similar to gravity.

When walking on water, the soles of the feet and the water actually had substantial contact.

Of course, Suzuki usually wore shoes, so walking on water was still possible. It was just that the risk was much higher than before.

After that, Suzuki bought some food, some metal, and hired a few sailors, spending more than a million Berries.

The weather in the sea near Drum Island was very bad. There would be blizzards from time to time.

The blizzard was accompanied by some waves. The ship swayed like a small animal that was about to fall into the tiger's mouth, but it was still struggling with the sea.

Suzuki sat on the deck of the cabin, watching the few sailors he had hired skillfully maneuvering the ship. He could not help but sigh:

"This money was still worth it. Otherwise, with my sailing skills, I would probably have capsized very quickly if I had gone out to sea alone."

Then, Suzuki looked at the snowflakes floating in the sky and reached out to catch some. He thought about the next journey and his destination:

"It's a bit far. Crossing the Grand Line is indeed not an easy thing."

The gap between the Grand Line and the four seas was very difficult to cross.

To travel from the four seas to the Grand Line, one had to cross the Reverse Mountain. If one was not careful, the ship would be smashed to pieces by the violent current and hit the rock wall.

Moreover, the Reverse Mountain was basically a one-way street. If one wanted to return to the four seas from the Reverse Mountain, one had to go against the current. This was much more difficult than directly crossing the Calm Belt.

The best way to return to the four seas from the Grand Line was actually to go to the Sabaody Archipelago and then pass through the special passageway of Mary Geoise.

This was a passageway exclusive to the World Government and the Navy, but it would also allow some merchant ships to pass through at ordinary times. However, a very high toll would be charged.

Therefore, Suzuki was not heading to the Reverse Mountain or the Calm Belt now, but to the Sabaody Archipelago.

It had been two days since he had left Drum Island, and this journey from Drum Island to the Sabaody Archipelago would take at least another month.

The long journey had just begun.

There were still about ten days before his second return, and it would take a lot of time to reach the Sabaody Archipelago. Suzuki decided to take this opportunity to experiment with and train the abilities of the Swallow-Swallow Fruit.

He got up from the stool in front of the cabin and said to the sailors he had hired:

"The blizzard is about to stop, right? Thank you for your trouble. I'll go back to my room and rest first. When you're hungry, there's still food in the refrigerator in the kitchen."

The experienced sailors looked at the blizzard that was gradually stopping and heaved a sigh of relief. They smiled and shouted at Suzuki:

"Hahaha, okay, thank you, Mr. Suzuki~"

Suzuki waved his hand behind him and returned to his room.

After closing the door and windows, he took out various miscellaneous items from under the bed. There were ropes, cement, and even plastic bottles.

Then, Suzuki opened his mouth, and it grew bigger and bigger. He spat out some of the metal he had bought at the port of Drum Island.

The Swallow-Swallow Fruit was indeed very powerful. These metals were scattered on the ground and piled up like a small mountain. In terms of weight alone, it even exceeded 10 tons.

However, Suzuki did not feel like he was carrying 10 tons of weight with him at all. It could even be more than 10 tons, and even more weight was possible.

Looking at these metals, Suzuki sighed:

"It's a pity that I'm at sea now. I can't experiment with the volume and weight limit of the swallowed objects. Otherwise, I'll be able to know how big the unknown space swallowed by the Swallow-Swallow Fruit is."

Thinking of this, Suzuki suddenly remembered that Wapol had once swallowed himself in the original work and then turned into a strange iron barrel.

He could not help but feel that he could try this method and try it first.

So, Suzuki opened his mouth again, but this time, it was not to swallow anything else. Instead, his mouth strangely wrapped around himself.

When he was completely swallowed by his own mouth, Suzuki's body disappeared out of thin air, leaving only a mouth on the spot.

"It's really magical~"

Suzuki sighed.

He was actually in a different dimension swallowed by the Swallow-Swallow Fruit. This place was dark and the space was very vast. He could not see the end of it.

However, what was even more surprising was that Suzuki's mouth was actually still outside. He was now in the alternate space with the rest of his body.

However, this state of separation of body parts did not cause him any harm. He could even speak.

Recalling that in the original work, Wapol had also left a mouth after eating himself, except that Wapol's chin had a large iron barrel, so it appeared to be an iron barrel.

Moreover, after Wapol came out of this place, his originally fat figure had become tall and thin.

This change even seemed very natural. Suzuki could not figure it out before he ate the Swallow-Swallow Fruit.

Was Wapol's ability control so good that he could only eat fat and not other things?

The change between fat and thin was so natural that there were no wrinkles after normal weight loss. How did he do it?

Now, Suzuki had the Swallow-Swallow Fruit and had even entered this strange space. He understood a little.

The Swallow-Swallow Fruit was essentially a type of spatial ability!

His mouth and body were clearly not in the same place, but he did not feel any discomfort. This was obviously very similar to Trafalgar Law's Ope-Ope Fruit later on.

Suzuki guessed:

"The Swallow-Swallow Fruit is very likely to be the same as the so-called Ope-Ope Fruit. Their names have nothing to do with space, but most of their abilities are the most perfect two fruits that control space."

It was indeed very possible. Trafalgar Law's room could almost be considered a perfect control of part of the space.

And the Swallow-Swallow Fruit was also an almost perfect control of the space in the body!