Chapter 10: Obtaining a Devil Fruit?

Luffy stumbled and ran over, his face lighting up with a happy smile upon seeing Hiruma.

"Master! We've met again. Please take me as your disciple now!" he exclaimed.

Hiruma had promised to take him as a disciple the next time they met.

Luffy couldn't believe he had encountered Hiruma again so soon.

Sabo asked, "Do you know him, Hiruma-san?"

After tonight's events, both Ace and Sabo were completely convinced by Hiruma's strength.

Hiruma pretended to be surprised and said, "So it's you, you little rascal. I didn't expect to meet you again so soon."

"Of course I know him. This move is what my master taught me," Luffy said, swinging his arm forcefully.

"Gomu-Gomu no Pistol!" he yelled as his arm stretched out and punched a nearby tree.

The next moment, his fist bounced back and hit him in the face.

"Wow! Your arm can stretch!" Sabo exclaimed, as if he had discovered a fun new toy.

"Of course, I am the Rubber Man who ate the Gumo-Gumo no Mi," Luffy replied.

Ace was less impressed and said coldly, "This is called a pistol? It's weak and powerless, more like a noodle."

Luffy immediately became defensive and rushed over to argue with Ace.

Watching the three arguing, Hiruma felt a strange feeling in his heart.

In that moment, he felt the same mysterious feeling he had felt before.

It was as if he had reached a bottleneck in some aspect and was about to break through it.

Next to him, Garp, who had heard about recent events from the mayor of Fusha, including Hiruma's appearance and his indirect teachings to Luffy, instinctively thought that Hiruma had another motive for Luffy.

But then he thought again: if Shanks really had ulterior motives for Luffy, he wouldn't have known that he would come here with Luffy.

"Could it be that I'm overthinking?" Garp shook his head and looked at Hiruma. "So you are the one who taught Luffy how to use the Devil Fruit ability in Fusha Village..."

The fact that the other party was able to find the direction of development for the Rubber Fruit in such a short time really made them a qualified master.

And just now, Hiruma's defense of Ace made Garp feel that it was a good choice to entrust Luffy and Ace to him.

"Curly, I'll leave Luffy in your care. I have something to do, so I'll leave first."

Curly was almost in tears. This was a bandit stronghold, not a daycare center!

Just when she was about to refuse, Garp glared at her.

"Garp-san, please rest assured. We will take care of everything." She immediately gave in.

Garp then turned to Hiruma. "Since you and Luffy are destined to meet, please take good care of these two little devils for me. I am going now, take care!" Curly and her family maintained a friendly smile on their faces.

But in the moment when Garp's figure disappeared into the night...

"What the hell! Is that man really treating this place as a daycare center?!"

"Bandits! We are bandits... Hiruma-san, do you need a midnight snack? I will prepare it now."

Curly was angry, but suddenly noticed Hiruma's gaze, and instantly transformed from a raging madwoman to a shy and kind girl.

He couldn't help but tremble all over and said, "Ace, Sabo, and Luffy are entrusted to you."

After speaking, he turned around and entered his own room, locking the door at the same time.

Early the next morning, the three kids were already waiting outside Hiruma's door.

They were excited and didn't sleep all night.

Because they were about to have a pirate ship.

Of course, the main reason was that the three of them argued all night over who would be the captain.

....

There was no hindrance in collecting the ship of the Bluejam Pirates. Hiruma just threw Bluejam's corpse onto the deck, and released his Conqueror's Haki to scare them, causing the pirates to kneel and disembark from the ship.

Standing on the pirate ship's deck, Luffy and his friends' eyes were shining.

A pirate ship!

This was a real pirate ship!

Luffy was already crying loudly.

Sabo was also in tears.

Ace was a little better, but his eyes were already red.

"Wow! I finally have a pirate ship, one step closer to becoming the Pirate King!"

"Freedom, I feel the taste of freedom here."

Ace even raised his water pipe like a captain and said, "Comrades, set sail!"

Hiruma looked at the three excited kids, and the feeling of almost breaking through grew even stronger.

At the same time, a mysterious power slowly emerged from his body, gradually spreading throughout his body.

"I'm really going to break through!"

"So this is the feeling of breaking through with Conqueror's Haki?"

"This feeling is really intoxicating... damn it!"

The next moment, Hiruma was in tears.

Luffy looked up at Hiruma, tears streaming down his face. "Master, you're truly a man who longs for freedom."

"I don't give a damn about your freedom!"

"I don't give a damn about your pirate ship!"

"I don't give a damn about your Conqueror's Haki breakthrough!"

Hiruma was going insane.

He had an urge to burn the pirate ship right then and there because he had just 'broken through'.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully breaking through the limit of the skil: Babysitting. The skill is transforming into a Devil Fruit.]

Hiruma gave Luffy and his two friends a pirate ship, successfully allowing Hiruma to break through the limit of his Babysitting skill.

But, to his surprise, it actually turned into a Devil Fruit. Did all Devil Fruits come from someone breaking through the limit of a particular skill?

[Host]: Hiruma

[Strength]: 32

[Speed]: 30

[Physique]: 29

[Skills]: Swordsmanship lv1, Marksmanship lv2, Taunt lvMAX, Boxing lv5, Navigation lv3, Armament Haki lv1

[Devil Fruit]: Milk-Milk Fruit

...

"Pfft!"

Hiruma saw the name of this fruit and was so upset he nearly spat blood.

What the hell was a Milk-Milk Fruit!

At the same time, a message flowed into Hiruma's mind, explaining the effects of the Milk Bottle Fruit.

"System product, truly extraordinary! It doesn't even have the sea weakness!"

Because the Milk-Milk Fruit was a Devil Fruit ability that he had produced by training his own skill to the limit, rather than one given by a Devil Fruit, he was not limited by fear of seawater.

In other words, not only could he continue to produce Devil Fruits by breaking through skill limits in the future, but he could also eat eat Devil Fruits.

However, if he ate a Devil Fruit, the attribute of not fearing seawater would disappear.

After all, the side effects of obtaining power that wasn't originally his could not be avoided.

Hiruma's heart was slightly better now. "It's okay, it's okay. I was scared out of my mind, I thought the Clear-Clear Fruit wasn't meant for me."

Like most men, he had a special obsession with the Clear-Clear Fruit.

While Hiruma was learning about the power of the Milk-Milk Fruit, the other three had already started fighting.

The reason was simple: to fight for the captain's position.

"I'm the oldest, so I'm the captain!"

"I was the first one on the deck, so I'm the captain!"

"I'm going to become the Pirate King, and you guys will be my crew!"

...

Watching the three of them fight, Shanks said nothing, silently using the power of the Milk-Milk Fruit.

He directly activated the first ability of his Fruit: "Milk-Milk Fruit: The Ready Milk Bottle!"

At the next moment, the three of them, who had been fighting each other, stopped and started drinking milk from their respective bottles.