One Piece: Honey Badger Speedruns the World

"Shh! Keep your voice down! While those old men are taking their afternoon nap..."

Nami tiptoed down the ventilation duct, looking around cautiously like a wary kitten.

After confirming that no one was around, she excitedly waved, "Come on down! There must be a lot of new weather technology in here!"

Goss followed slowly behind, hands in his pockets.

Compared to Nami's enthusiasm for the blueprints and instruments, his attention was immediately captivated by something in the center of the lab bench from the moment he entered.

It was a container sealed with multiple layers of specially made glass. The container was mostly filled with a purplish-black liquid, which was still bubbling slightly.

But in Goss's eyes, the translucent color, the slightly flickering arc of electricity, the alluring magnetic field it emitted...

"Glug." Goss stood in front of the container and couldn't help but swallow.

His Adam's apple bobbed up and down, and a large amount of saliva quickly welled up in his mouth.

"Hey, Nami."

Goss pointed to the container: "This stuff looks pretty thirst-quenching, is it drinkable?"

Nami, who was looking through the sea charts, didn't even look up and casually replied, "Don't touch it! That's a high-concentration sample of 'liquid thundercloud,' supposedly extracted from the clouds by these old men over three years..."

boo.

A crisp popping sound from a cork interrupted Nami's explanation.

Nami turned around stiffly.

Goss had already skillfully unscrewed the thick, sealed cap and was about to pour the purplish-black liquid, which exuded an aura of destruction, into his mouth.

"Are you crazy?! You can't drink that!! People will die!!"

Nami was terrified and lunged forward to snatch it.

But it was too late.

"Gulp, gulp..."

Goss tilted his head back, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down. The high-pressure liquid lightning that was originally incredibly violent and capable of instantly carbonizing a person was now as smooth as silk, sliding down his throat and into his stomach.

Goss even smacked his lips twice because the taste was so good.

"Ah—that feels so good!"

After drinking the last drop in one gulp, Goss put the empty glass jar back on the table and wiped his mouth with satisfaction.

"You, you..."

Nami slumped to the ground, pointing at Goss as if he were an alien creature, stammering, "You...drank it? That's lightning!"

"The taste is good, but the portion is a bit small."

Goss touched his burning stomach and suddenly felt a tickle in his throat.

belch--!!!

He opened his mouth and let out a long burp.

With that burp, a purple spark mixed with black smoke shot out of his mouth, burning a large hole through the solid wood lab table in front of him.

He could clearly feel the lightning capsule located deep in his throat, which was originally only responsible for storing static electricity.

At this moment, having absorbed an excessive amount of liquefied lightning plasma, it became incredibly heavy, resembling a high-temperature lead ball saturated with magma.

"Gurgle... It sank..."

Goss clutched his chest, his pupils contracting sharply.

It was like a living, self-aware creature that forcefully pushed open Goss's muscles, carrying scalding heat as it slid down his chest cavity.

Pfft!

A dull thud resounded inside his body.

The falling thunderbag finally came to rest in one place—the heart.

Then, something truly chilling happened.

The sac filled with purplish-black lightning paste did not compress the heart. Instead, it spread out instantly like melting asphalt, extending countless tentacles flashing with electric arcs, tightly wrapping around the violently beating heart!

Sizzle sizzle—!

The moment the two came into contact, a terrifying electric current instantly pierced through the heart muscle.

The thunder sac and the heart completely merged into one under this energy.

Thump—Sizzle! Thump—Sizzle!

Goss's chest heaved violently, emitting a strange heartbeat he had never heard before.

The sound was no longer just the rhythm of flesh and blood; it was mixed with a deep roar like a high-voltage current overload, like an engine starting up.

"Huff... huff..."

Goss gasped for breath as the first powerful pump of the raging heart sent a torrent of heat, almost like fire, rushing through his veins.

That was blood that had been completely fused with lightning.

Just then, hurried footsteps and the sound of old men talking came from outside the door.

"I think I just heard an alarm go off?"

"Go check the samples!"

The door was pushed open. Haredas and several other scientists rushed in.

They immediately spotted the table that had been burned through, and on the table... an empty glass jar that was cleaner than a face.

"Empty...empty?!"

"You...drink it?" Haredas asked incredulously.

Goss looked at Haredas with an innocent expression.

The laboratory fell into complete silence.

Several scientists stared at Goss as if he were a monster, both at the vanished liquid lightning and at the unharmed Goss.

All of this contradicts their common sense of science.

Haredas lunged forward and grabbed Goss's wrist.

Ignoring the stinging static electricity on Goss's skin, his eyes suddenly flashed with a chillingly fanatical light:

"Quick! Don't let him leave! Turn on all the testing equipment!"

Without giving Goss a chance to refuse, several old men who were already struggling to walk suddenly unleashed astonishing speed and strength, and as if they had discovered a new continent, forcibly pushed him onto the analysis table.

……

"Incredible...it's a biological miracle!"

A group of long-bearded meteorologists surrounded Goss, who was sitting on the testing table, their instruments beeping erratically, their faces filled with a look of utter shock.

At this moment, Goss's bare upper body was covered with various sensor patches.

Haredas shakily picked up a metal probe connected to a high-voltage generator.

"Young man, it might feel a little numb, bear with it. This is a test current of 2000 million volts."

Sizzle—!

A blue-white arc of electricity struck Goss hard in the chest.

The electric current, powerful enough to turn an ordinary person into charcoal, vanished the moment it touched his skin, like water droplets falling into a sponge.

Haredas stared wide-eyed at the motionless hands on the dial, his mustache bristling.

"No response! The current didn't pass through his body; instead... it vanished into thin air?"

"Increase the power! 5000 million volts!"

Another scientist shouted.

Boom! An even stronger current of electricity slammed into Goss.

"Still zero!"

Haredas tossed aside the probe and, his voice trembling, drew his conclusion:

"No...this is not a simple insulator like rubber."

"This kid's body structure has completely changed..."

"The conclusion is: it is not only 100% immune to any form of lightning attack, but it can even capture it directly and convert it into its own bio-energy!"

"In other words..."

Nami stared blankly at the guy picking his nose and swallowed hard.

The terrifying figure that had once filled her with despair involuntarily surfaced in her mind—Enel, the only "god" of Skypiea.

That monster who possesses the Logia-type Rumble-Rumble Fruit and calls himself a god... Luffy was only able to barely subdue him because of his rubber body's insulation.

Rubber simply neutralizes lightning.

But this freak... he ate lightning like it was food!

If that arrogant Enel were to encounter this guy...

The thought of that scene sent a chill down Nami's spine. She then looked at Goss with the eyes of someone staring at a monster, muttering to herself, "So striking him with lightning was...charging him?"

"That's right."

Haredas looked at Goss as if he were looking at a priceless treasure: "In this world, apart from the legendary Logia-type Devil Fruit users, no creature has ever been able to do this."

Listening to the old men's analysis, Goss jumped off the testing table and ripped off the patches on his body.