One Piece: General Xuanming, Defeat the New World

Preface: This chapter contains some contradictions arising from the author’s own thinking about time travel. If you have any ideas, please express them in the comments section.

After thinking for a long time, Rayleigh spoke again.

"Roger, if it weren't for the critical moment, there's no need for us to leave Wano Country. Now that Wano Country is in the midst of a war between the two sides, the main text of the Kozuki Family's landmark history may not be as stable as it once was."

"If the historical text is stolen, we will completely lose the chance to find it. Moreover, I have heard before that Admiral Xuanming of the Navy is good at defense and positional warfare, but not at killing and chasing. Even if he encounters danger at that time, he should be able to escape unscathed."

"In my opinion, it would be better to let Brother Oden go and ask Mr. Kozuki Sukiyaki what his attitude is towards us. I can dress up as Oden's waiter, and Brother Jabba will stay here to accompany the captain. Even if a conflict breaks out by chance, with the abilities of Oden and I, we can retreat unscathed."

It has to be said that Rayleigh's idea was quite brilliant, and Roger nodded repeatedly.

"Captain Rayleigh, I think it's a good idea too. Leave it to me. Please, Mr. Rayleigh, come with me."

On the side, Kozuki Oden also praised it highly.

On the one hand, it has been several years since they last met, and Kozuki Oden also hopes to return to the Flower Capital to visit his relatives and childhood friends.

But at the same time, Kozuki Oden was also concerned about the strength of the navy. After all, he was beaten to death by Carsente's punches last time. Although several years have passed, Kozuki Oden has been unable to get rid of the nightmare.

This time with Rayleigh accompanying him, Kozuki Oden was no longer afraid. Instead, he was eager to try and challenge Carsent again with the strength of the two of them.

After the agreement was reached, Rayleigh added some details again, and then divided into two teams. Roger and others continued along the original route, while Rayleigh and Kozuki Oden changed into kimonos and secretly sneaked into the Flower Capital.

……

Naval temporary base, interior of the hall.

"Lieutenant General Carsent, since I entered Wano Country, I have always felt an inexplicable calling in my heart, but I don't know why I have explored it specifically."

Mitsuki Toki sat upright in the chair, her lavender eyes sparkling.

"An unknown call..."

Carsent frowned slightly, picked up the wine glass on the table, and took a sip slowly.

"Have you used your fruit ability to guess?"

Theoretically, the feelings in the dark are beneficial and harmless to the person himself. They are the throbbing of the domineering power that has not yet fully awakened in the depths of the soul. One's own soul cannot harm oneself.

But given the situation in Wano Country at this time, it was not safe for Kozuki to leave the naval camp.

"Since I came to this space-time, the Space-Time Fruit has lost the ability to predict the future and travel through time. At the same time, my ability to control time is also increasing."

As Mitsuki Toki said this, she gently took the cup of water and poured it onto the table. Then she gently brushed her slender hand across the table, and the water that was originally flowing in all directions miraculously gathered towards the cup.

And when all the water flowed back into the cup, the originally tilted cup inexplicably became upright again.

"The Time Fruit... if it reaches this level, it is truly incredible."

During the whole process, the observation Haki was always locked on the water cup. With the record of the deeper structure of matter, Carsen saw that when Kozuki activated his ability:

The concepts of "water cup" and "water" were temporarily separated from the space, and then the time acting on them did go back to before the water cup was poured out.

"I... Lieutenant General Carsen, be careful!!"

"Rumble..."

Suddenly, a trace of panic flashed across Kozuki Toki's brows, and almost at the same time, the restored water cup exploded instantly. The power of the explosion was no less than that of the large artillery shells of the Navy Headquarters.

"Swish!" A golden barrier enveloped the table, absorbing all the shock waves of the explosion. Except for the table under the water cup being blown to pieces, the shock wave did not dissipate and cause more serious damage.

"Can I say I didn't mean it?"

This was an unexpected incident, and Mitsuki Toki was frightened enough that he subconsciously defended himself.

"The timing doesn't match. This is a problem with your fruit ability taking effect. It's nothing. Be careful when testing your fruit ability next time."

Carsen waved his hand and did not blame Kozuki Toki for this. The time-type devil fruit was too mysterious and no one knew what would happen after it was developed, even though the explosion just now seemed to have nothing to do with the concept of "time".

"Let me give you a simple example. From this moment on, you move the cup back one stick of incense. If the backtracking is one-to-one, then while you are moving back, the time outside continues to move back one stick of incense."

"Then when you finish tracing back, the time difference between the water cup and the outside world will reach two incense sticks. At the same time, due to the unity of time and space, the time dimension of your water cup and the space where the water is located will conflict with the outside world."

"To put it simply, your space is no longer recognized by the current space and time. What was blown up was not the cup, but the space. This kind of space explosion is already considered small."

After Carsent finished his explanation, Mitsuki Toki was already dizzy, and there seemed to be countless question marks spinning in his eyes.

"My concubine, I don't quite understand."

Mitsuki Toki shook his head vigorously, as if trying to get rid of this mess from his mind.

"Devil Fruits are not scientific abilities, but based on my guesses about Devil Fruits, just like your own time travel, there have been no major problems. As long as you use enough power to activate the Devil Fruit, the Devil Fruit's ability will naturally offset this instability and achieve self-consistency again."

"But this energy comes at the cost of your physical strength, which is why users of time-space devil fruit abilities consume their physical strength so quickly."

"I just used a small ability, and I felt as if all the air in my body was drained away, because the fruit ability still needs to solve the problem of time and space stability."

Carsen scratched his head. He was not very clear about this aspect. The only reason he could make these guesses was because his observation Haki had captured that it was indeed the space that exploded, not the water cup.

It's just a guess, Carsen doesn't have that ability.

"Since your Time Fruit has been developed to a practical level, it's time to start training your physical skills. I will talk to Gion in person later, and you will train under Gion for a while."

"And your devil fruit, when developing unstable abilities, it's best to have me or Sakaski present. Don't handle it alone."

When Carsente was looking at the still somewhat dazed Mitsuki, he was already thinking about how to exploit Mitsuki's abilities after they matured... no, how to train her.