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Spring Time (A Bellamy SI)

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Getting more into the shounen part of one piece,good. Its an actual way to powerup. Probably the best way, honestly.

Not my favourite way to get a powerup,but still good.
He needs this if he ever wants to unlock stronger haki,and i suspect it will help with his devilfruit.
 
Narasan said:
Getting more into the shounen part of one piece,good. Its an actual way to powerup. Probably the best way, honestly.

Not my favourite way to get a powerup,but still good.
He needs this if he ever wants to unlock stronger haki,and i suspect it will help with his devilfruit.
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Despite being guilty of it in the past, I'm not a very big fan of having my MC gain new powers mid-fight to win. So Bellamy's power up this time won't be anything really new, but merely a reorganisation of everything he's learned so far. The consequences of his fight however will be further power ups later down the line in the downtime. Examples could be stronger haki (not conqueror's) or his DF.
 
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Chapter 108: Creativity New
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    • – Bellamy –​
    "I'M NOT LOSING EVER AGAIN! NOT TO YOU AND NOT TO ANYONE ELSE!" I declared loud enough that the seas answering my call shifted the surroundings ships away. "I'M GOING TO BE THE STRONGEST MAN ALIVE!!!"

    If my declaration of intent impressed the old veteran, he didn't show it. Neither did I care if I'd impressed him, for that statement had not been meant for anyone other than myself.

    "Big dreams, squirt! BUTO!!"

    "RAIKEN!"

    It was a simple articulation of fact, an assertion of my will and the proclamation of the reality I was going to create.

    Let's pause here for a moment before going any further, shall we? Imagine that you were watching a movie or an anime or whatever flight of fancy that your mind decided to turn my life into for your twisted sense of entertainment. And then imagine that someone pressed the PAUSE button just as the big guy and I were about to enter into round two. Just for a moment so I can point out something rather important in case of any potential misunderstandings. Won't even take a minute, I promise.

    Well.

    It'll probably take a fair bit longer depending on your reading speed but I don't care.

    So, here's the thing.

    Me dying from embarrassment aside; my big, dramatic declaration didn't have the sort of effect that some may have expected. I didn't suddenly find new reserves of strength; I didn't suddenly get better at using my devil fruit nor did I suddenly think of a more intelligent plan to win this duel beyond punching Chinjao repeatedly in the face until he stayed down.

    And I definitely did NOT unlock conqueror's haki.

    Anybody who cared enough to dig a little deeper into the mechanics of my current universe should know that conqueror's haki was a bullshit power. At first introduced as a way to enforce your will upon another and knock them unconscious, we soon saw hints of other effects such as the clash of wills (and blades) between Shanks and Whitebeard cleaving the heavens asunder. But until this point, conqueror's haki – while powerful – was still clearly a separate and distinct tool with specific use cases that people could do without. Those with sufficiently strong willpower could resist it and fight a wielder of this third form of haki on a relatively level playing field.

    Apparently Oda didn't like that.

    Which is why he introduced the concept known as Conqueror's Coating/Cladding that made armament haki essentially obsolete. How did Kaido put it again after Luffy failed hurt him in any meaningful way? Right. ADVANCED. EMITTED. ARMAMENT HAKI was too SHALLOW to make it through Kaido's conqueror's cladding. Yeah. Let that sink in for a moment. Yes, Luffy had learned that technique only hours prior and was probably no master by any stretch of the imagination, but still.

    In the same arc that Oda introduced the advanced form of armament, he nerfed it into oblivion. Meaning that if someone wanted to fight the Yonko or even some of their more senior officers and most of the admiralty on an even footing, the hereditary form of haki was no longer a nice ace to have up one's sleeves but the entire deck that one needed to play the game instead.

    Three guesses for which form of haki I happened NOT to have and the first two don't count.

    Don Chinjao on the other hand, very much did. Sure, Luffy took him down without too much difficulty during the Dressrosa arc but that would only be after another year of severe depression reduced Garp's former rival into a dried-out husk. However, unlike his future counterpart, my Chinjao was still fully capable of mustering up the will needed to infuse his body with conqueror's haki.

    Which all went to say that I was doing a remarkably little amount of progress in fixing his conqueror's coated head.

    My Raiken, for lack of a better word, bounced off of Chinjao's thick skull. It also sent the man careening past me and through one of his own ships, but sadly that provided only a pale comfort because not long after disappearing from sight behind a cloud of dust and splinters, the old man resurfaced with an armful of cannon balls which he began flinging at me with a surprising amount of gung-ho.

    "Oi, that could have hurt!"

    "It was meant to, you stupid brat!"

    Obviously, he'd picked up a trick or two in his decades long rivalry with Garp. I easily deflected the first with my spring shield, only to realize that turtling up was only going to encourage the man to pepper me with more. A lot more. Thus convinced I caught the next one, my arm stretching as I extended the cannon balls deceleration over the span of a dozen meters to reduce its impact. Those same meters then served to catapult the projectile back towards the original owner with all the strength I could muster.

    "Then let's see how you fucking like it!"

    "Hah!"

    The sound barrier was broken in an instant, the metal surface glowing red hot as air friction got to work in turning the black sphere into a veritable comet. Chinjao backhanded it out of his way in an almost negligent manner…not that I'd expected anything else from my opponent.

    "That all you've got, you little squirt?"

    "You wish!"

    If I could deal with his cannon balls, it stood to reason that he could do the same to mine. However, in briefly occupying Chinjao's arm it had more than fulfilled its purpose. Taking advantage of the opening, I bodily drove my feet into the largest part of his anatomy, which wasn't protected by his currently limited conqueror's haki. His rotund gut. While I did get clapped across the head by a conqueror's coated hand for my troubles, making my brain bounce around painfully within my cranium, this did mark the first time I'd scored a solid hit on my opponent.

    In light of these circumstances, maybe shaking my head to clear it hadn't been the brightest Idea I'd ever had, but I nonetheless made to pursue as soon as I was able. Consequently, by the time Chinjao had stopped bouncing painfully across the waves and regained his orientation, I was already on him with one hand outstretched and holding a familiar object.

    "REJECT!"

    Unfortunately, dizzy as I was, I was slightly too slow to prevent Chinjao from interposing his arms between my dial and his fragile abdomen. Thus, instead of seeing the aged pirate puking up his guts, I merely sent him crashing through three battleships. Considering that their owner's head was harder than their hulls combined, this meant very little in the grand scheme of things, proven when Chinjao returned with his white beard billowing menacingly around him.

    "Childish tricks." He scoffed. "If that's all you've got, then you have no chance of claiming Whitebeard's throne."

    "Says you."

    "Reality doesn't change because you don't like it. You can't even beat me in my current sorry state and you don't have conqueror's haki either, whereas Whitebeard was someone who fought his way to the top amongst a legion of conquerors." Chinjao's voice, as angry as it was, almost took on a hint of pity. "Give up. Becoming the strongest man alive isn't something a brat like you should dream about."

    For some reason, that pity hurt me more than anything else.

    "You're not half bad for a brat. Find a more realistic goal instead of longing for something that's impossible to reach."

    "Can you give up on your treasures, Don Chinjao?" I asked, looking down upon him from on top of a mast.

    "Of course I can't!" Chinjao snapped, the pity disappearing. "How dare you ask me that?"

    "Neither can I give up on my dream so easily. It wouldn't be called a dream otherwise."

    "Then you're a fool."

    "I know."

    My fist met his with the sound of rumbling thunder again and again, my strength straining against his own and my haki against his. And slowly, I began landing more blows than he, at first an extra one every so often but soon two or even three to one of his. Perhaps it was his advancing age, but for whatever reason my opponent was beginning to flag. His speed slowed down noticeably and his breath became increasingly uneven. Yet, throughout it all his blows lost none of their vigor and his defense had all but turned into an iron wall.

    Whenever I failed to perform a perfect parry, his conqueror's haki unerringly messed up my insides and my arms groaned with every strike he blocked in turn. I lost myself a little bit in that furious exchange, letting go of every superfluous thought. I couldn't afford not to. All notions of fixing Chinjao's noggin became a luxury as did the intention of ending this battle in an amicable way. Instead, all my cognitive computational power was redirected towards one thought and one thought only.

    How was I going to beat the guy standing in my way?

    Perhaps this was the Zone that some people talked about, a state of hyper focused concentration that pushed everything to the wayside which wasn't immediately conducive to obtaining victory. Punches had to be crisper, my steps more efficient. Waste and excess I hadn't known I had, shaved away in search of an ideal state. In hindsight, the resulting change hadn't been anything massive, but it was enough to make Chinjao reconsider his current course of action.

    Unsure of the outcome should he continue to engage me in a battle where I held the initiative by virtue of my faster speed, the aged veteran chose to flip the board. Like I'd done previously, Don Chinjao disengaged, diving towards the ocean beneath us when I gave chase. The wave of water he splashed in my direction was easily dodged, this very move having been one I'd been wary off for the entirety of our duel. I hadn't been prepared for Chinjao to take a page out of my book and come barreling through the wave to shoulder tackle me into the sea.

    Had I not created a platform beneath myself out of one of my springs, he may have succeeded. As it was, I managed to roll to my feet before attempting to jump away and regain some distance. Alas, before I could escape a meaty hand struck out faster than a viper and trapped my ankle in an iron grip.

    "Oh shit!"

    "Gotcha!"

    My head made a beautiful ringing sound once Chinjao smashed it into my own platform. He'd likely have done so multiple times like the Hulk did to Loki in that one movie, if I hadn't dissolved the leg he was holding into individual springs and reformed the appendage once I was out of his reach.

    "Tricky little bugger, that's what you are, Springtrap-kun."

    "…spring hopper."

    "And stubborn too."

    One jump, two jumps, three jumps, four.
    Five jumps, six jumps, seven jumps, more.

    "You're fast, but do you honestly believe that's enough to overcome a lack of conqueror's haki?"

    Geppou. Coil Chassis. Thunder Cloak.

    "Squirt, you're a hundred years too early to covet Whitebeard's throne."

    Tekkai to harden. Armament to strengthen. Lightning to pierce.

    "And I'm going to make sure that lesson sticks."

    Everything I could think of; everything I'd accomplished packed into a single fist.

    "Drill-less Dragon Drill-less Nail!"

    And delivered to my target via quantum's tunneling effect. Bypassing the protective layer of haki cladding the exterior of his head. All the force I could muster being applied straight to his bony cranium like a lightning strike from god.

    "Mjölnir!!!"

    I felt something give way. And it wasn't my hand.

    "Hrrk?!?"

    A majestic peak arose once more in the lands of Kano.

    – Ross –​
    Myskina Alcier was a genius. How else was one supposed to describe someone who'd solved a centuries long impossibility to save his daughter's life? While like most geniuses, Alcier was lacking in areas of general common sense due to their skewed perspective of the world, there was no doubt that he was a genius when it came to matters of alchemy.

    Ross was not a genius. He was, however, a rather paranoid person as he'd so often stated himself. And if there was one thing a paranoid person was good at, it was at finding problems and dangers around every corner before coming up with over-the-top solutions to deal with those dangers. The more paranoid someone was, the stronger this tendency became. While certainly debilitating if left unchecked, this part of Ross' character had honed another aspect into a very sharp blade.

    Namely, his creativity. And when one combined those two qualities inherent in these two individuals, it resulted in something wonderful.

    "Come down and fight me!"

    "I will if you stop using your big pointy stick!"

    Mind you, Ross wasn't talking about his new Jet-dial Emission Torrent Propelled Anti-gravity Carrier Kit. Or JET PACK for short. As useful as it was in keeping Ross beyond the range of Sai's naginata, it wasn't anything truly original. Laki had created something similar for Fuza nearly a year ago to forcibly increase the old bird's upper speed limit.

    No, that honor went to Ross' new gauntlet.

    "Hewitt, I need a minute."

    "Gotcha."

    More specifically, the material composing said gauntlet. From the moment that Alcier had been introduced to Skypiea's dials, the man's inner scientist had been hooked like a junkie to the world's most fabulous drug. Dials didn't obey the classic rules of physics, at least according to Bellamy, and had opened a new horizon of potential research for the alchemist. Thus, when Ross asked if creating a metal alloy with the shock absorbing properties of impact dials were possible, Alcier had grinned (maniacally) and said, "Let's find out!"

    Many months after Alcier began his new project, it turned out that yes, it was possible. Once the material was created, forging the Vibranium into a gauntlet had been a trivial task after that. While nowhere near as efficient as the impact dials they were based on, Ross' new equipment had been more than sufficient to negate Sai's family trick. It was unfortunate that despite everything, the vice commander of the Happo Navy was better at pure fisticuffs but that was where the gauntlet's ranged options came into play.

    "Ok, I'm ready!" Ross called out to his crew mate, who – more or less successfully – was keeping their foe trapped within a whirlwind of chains and knives. Periodically a spray of metal fragments would scatter about the place whenever Sai shattered a segment of his encirclement, but for now he hadn't been able to break out. Not that it stopped him from trying, as the man continued to destroy Hewitt's chains almost as quickly as he could renew them.

    "About time! This guy's annoyingly persistent!"

    One open palm pointed at his target, the other grasping his wrist for added stability. His jet pack's setting configured for further support. The focusing device centered on his gauntlet began glowing white.

    "Have a taste of the-move-which-I-haven't-named-yet!"

    "What kind of shitty name is that?!?"

    What was released wasn't composed of physical matter, no matter the visual similarities to one of Laki's plasma bolts. Had it been, then Sai's attempt to block it may have been more successful. Unfortunately for the commander, what Ross unleashed upon him was the sum total of every scrap of force the gauntlet had experienced since its creation. A not insignificant portion of which had been contributed by Sai himself.

    "Upon my honor as the vice commander of the Happo Navy, I swear I SHALL NOT FALL!!!"

    Still, Sai hadn't been appointed to his post for nothing. Upon realizing that his naginata wasn't going to halt the incoming blast, the officer made the split-second position to brace himself for impact. And true to his word, by the time the smoke cleared, Sai had not fallen. Bruised and battered he may have been, but he stood tall and defiant with his naginata bearing only a minor 99% of his weight which his legs no longer could.

    "Seriously, go take a nap already!"

    When Bellamy popped over not long after that with an unconscious Don Chinjao dangling from his grip, Hewitt mercifully put Sai to sleep before adding his voice to Lily's call for the Happo Navy's surrender. Which they eventually did once it became clear that the entirety of their senior leadership had been put out of commission and was being held hostage.

    But…Ross would probably never understand why Hewitt felt it necessary to knock Sai out with a headbutt.

    Why?
    Author's note:

    Ok, so some people may have already read this from my comments, but I am aware that the last chapter and this one would have been a very good time to have Bellamy unlock conqueror's haki. However, I made a very conscious decision not to because not giving Bellamy every tool he could need forces Bellamy to become more creative in how he deals with future challenges. While it worked for Luffy, I am not confident in my ability to write an interesting story where the solution to every problem is to simply hit harder. Bellamy is going to hit harder as time goes on and he'll learn advanced armament soon as well as advanced observation but not having conqueror's is a limitation I hope to maintain until the end of the story.

    That said, Bellamy's awakened DF is my answer to an otherwise unsurmountable gap between the Yonko and Bellamy. Once he masters his awakening he can bypass Kaido's haki defense or at least decrease its effective thickness, meaning it makes the problem of "shallowness" less of an issue. While in effect it may be similar to just giving Bellamy conqueror's, in this way Bellamy's DF plays a far more important role in measuring Bellamy's combat effectiveness. Of course, unlike Luffy or other conqueror's Bellamy's method does nothing to boost his own defense against Kaido's own attacks but that's a problem future me has to figure out.

    Now about Bellamy's new move/power up. Mjölnir isn't a new power. It's simply a reorganisation and combination of everything he's learned until now. And if he learns advanced armament, it'll just get stronger. The same if he learned other martial arts he can add onto it such as hasshoken (though I'm tending more towards having Hewitt learn that one) or increased the base power of his coil chassis by using a better metal alloy (vibranium has already been mentioned).

    I do probably need to give Bellamy one more "gear" if I want to maintain parity with Luffy but that's something for after Dressrosa, probably.

    That said, thank you for reading and hope you enjoyed. If you did, do please consider leaving a like and a comment because your feedback makes writing this story infinitely easier. Not only because it motivates me but also because your opinions have a noticeable impact on my decisions when I plan out the chapters. For Pete's sake, I was browbeaten into writing an entire new chapter early on because someone commented that the story felt rushed.
     
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    • Ok. This was not what i was expecting. At all. Its great!

    I stopped reading one piece after wano, want to read everything once its done, so i didnt notice how important conq. Haki has become.

    I thought it was luffy being a beginner in stage 3 in armament, and stage two in conqueror,
    against master stage 3 in both
    (+ 2. strongest defensive devilfruit)
    for kaido was the reson he couldnt harm him at first.

    Its too bad oda made becoming pirate king something you have to be born for.
    Im glad you went in a different direction.

    Also like the vibranium glove.
    I dont like the name,feels cheap when si's do the names based on other ips, and the creators ( ross and alcier) could make a more setting fitting name.

    The attack-i-havent-named-yet, however, is perfect.
     
    Does conquerors have a defensive aspect? The impression I got (& I thought I remembered Luffy saying?) was that it could be "emitted" for extra punch like armament, but was there a mention of such defense I'm forgetting(that maybe Luffy wasn't using, as I seem to recall Kaidou disappointed in how "little" of a fight there was after Luffy learned Conquerors emission), so I thought the "too shallow" was more a comment on Kaidous freakshow durability (& I guess still setting a difference between coc & coa)?

    But anyways, this fight is more or less what happened with Luffy v Kaidou. Sure, conquerors absolutely helped Luffy win, but despite Kaidou's claim of haki's supremacy(I recall someone saying he was more talking about literal strength of will, but for this point I'm talking about the emitted will-spirit stuff), he still ultimately lost to someone with superior use of their Devil Fruit and haki weaker than his. Conquerors may be a big fuck-off gun, but I don't believe it's an end all.
    So yeah, I appreciate you didn't & won't cheapen it by just throwing in conquerors, good show man.
    • Semi-related to the subject, I remember my rough idea of a fanfic where one oc also tried emitting conquerors (their logic being "I can do it with this one, let's see what happens"). Idea back then was "Tyrant Shock," thinking that with how it normally works, such emission would be a "willpower killer" that would let you potentially beat down and keep down real stubborn types. With what Shanks did to Aramaki, might still be a thing.

    Also, with the thing of "haki improves by fighting those with stronger haki," I keep having something scratching at my mind wondering if (& find myself inclined to believe that) someone can do a "Katakuri v Luffy 'training session'" to sharpen their armament against someone's conquerors to eventually rival it( and gain one hell of a defensive upgrade in the process), as it is supposed to be so damn strong. Would be hard as all hell, but feels theoretically feasible to me.
    Though would probably take longer and require serious staying power.

    Edit: Oh yes, and I assume the future version of Mjolnir will also incorporate (the basic properties of) Shigan (much like Fukuro did) & Soru to push it further?
    It would probably be better to leave it as is for now and add those on via training, as it feels real that a person might forget such other supposedly "not directly damaging" things in the heat of the moment.
     
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    Hum, ok assuming that you hold your self imposed limitation on not using conqueror haki wich is "a decision" and fully with your remit as the autor i would want to workshop how you mesh it together.

    First let star laying on the table what the MC do have.

    1-Enhanced physical stats into a superhuman level: The most basic baseline on one pice that almost all active combatants have, people are just built different there and you can go a long way just pulling up iron.

    2- The rokushiki: This is represent martial mastery and fighting ability, the Rokushiki are a series of techniques that allow for someone relatively normal to achieve some form of superhuman combat and devil fruit like abilities. Them being.

    2.1- The ability to unleash burts of speed.
    2.2-the ability to use air itself as leverage
    2.3-The ability to hardening one's body increasing defense at the cost of flexibility.
    2.4-The ability to project cutting waves of force and send flying slashes through waving motions
    2.5- the ability to send piercing waves of force trough trusting motions.
    2.6 The ability to bend one's body in a way you deflect force.
    2.7- the final ability to created a Concentrated force projectile from what is seemingly a stationary position.

    3-Haki, haki is the most explored and straight forward power on the series and the ways of progression are very much already in the sight's so there's nothing much to talk about it.

    4- His Jailbroken as hell devil fruit.
    Like really the amount of rule lawyering Bellamy here in elevated what amounts to the worse version of the gum gum fruit into something that is horrifically overpowered and can match Nikka's sheer absurdity due the fact it pretty much can do just about anything you would want in a fight, let's go trough some bullshit he can do.
    4.1- Messing with the definition of what qualify as a spring it shifted from a very specific spiral construct to basically any material or material assembly that can be compressed and and store elastic force, wich means while it won't cover complex assemblies his springs can pretty much be made of any material include bullshit metals that vibranium and the spring can be microscopic in nature. Essentially as long the material have some elasticity Bellamy can turn his body into anything (do note that now Hewitt could achieve similar power with the chain fruit but he lacks the capacity to store force within him a spring has).

    -4.2- By finagling his springs he is able to creat electrical current asentially acting like a generator, and while he could do a similar process to create heat, the electric current also allows him to create a magnetic fields on a body that is largely made of metal, meaning he can create even more force with it.

    -4.3- Another results of finagling with electromagnetic currents is the ability to have his spring body to act like a special logia disassembly and reassembling itself into something that could grow to be a nanite swarm, in the current form is more like microbots but it also give bellamy a tangible ranged option with his coilgun.

    The addition of Vibranium is probably way more bullshit that one would expect because it allow you to store any vibrational force, not just blunt and price Kinect vectors but things like heat and electrical current too, a vibranium spring or chain is essentially a small potential battery.

    -5- His bullshit wakening. Put it simply up until now his wakening is to big tricks, the principle of the uncertainty and the principle of quantum tuneling. The principle of uncertainty essentially can work in so many ways that it's not funny not only it can guarantee you a hit, allow to creation of paradoxical clones but can just have Bellamy never had been on that place to receive the blow on the first place. It pairs extremely well with future sight. The principle of quantum tuneling is similar in a way that allow teleportation, translocation of an target and punch trough someone's defenses. With ryu-oh you really have something that is ruinous.

    Now taking it all there's also how i kinda read Bellamy's style as "Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."
    Or in longer term the way he fights is about constant accumulation of and release of energy, (the longer he goes, the harder he pushes, the faster he goes and the harder he hits) there's some allowance to plans and strategies but in the end of the day it's still about delivering the hardest possible blow into the enemy weak point.

    So breaking down everything this is how i would go for a power up:

    1- Regarding for the physical strength Bellamy and his crew have remarkable gadgetting capabilities so i would prupose something like a resistance belt, not only make you feel like you are in a gravity chamber on weight but also make the air feel more viscous on anything assigned than breathing it.
    Would make for a extremely taxing workout that could be done on a ship. But also a great way to boost stats.

    2- By mastering the Rokushiki wou could add some lethality to some moves like a coilgun projectile that shoot a tempest bullet. Or allowing you stack Kami-e with the electromagnetic disassembly special logia skill and observation haki to make sure some atacks just past trough bellamy. But the real kicker would be understand the principle of the Rokiogan allowing Bellamy instantly turn potentially into sheer force.

    3- Haki is again straight forward advanced observation to dodge atacks you cant dodge or absorb. Advanced armament to infuse into the force and eletric blasts to increased destruction and ability to make the really hard punch work on logias.

    4- Now this is the meat and potatoes of the advancement because while knowing the awakening is good it's kinda skip some steps, but with all we put until now.
    (Supernatural conditioning, ability to turn potentiality into sheer force, ability to shape this sheer force, ability to be turn your whole body into a bullshit metal that can store and unleash force, supernatural senses and control of one's body, the ability to turn your body on what essential is a nanobot mass where each nanobot is a force battery,the ability to infuse willpower to booster de destruction of your blows, the ability to create electromagnetic field to boost yor blows into even more power) you can have what I would call the gear 4 equivalent but way beyond gear 4 actually can do:

    -Coil chassis, Ironclad murrder-
    By turning his whole body into a collection of interlocking vibranium springs controled by a mix of devil observation bolstered fruit mastery and eletromagnectical fields the ultimate iteration of coil chassis takes on any waste energy that would be expended as heat, noise, or being inflicted into Bellamy by enemy blows or even the reactive forces of his own blows and store it into the countless Vibranium springs and used to futher power the forces of Bellamy's own moves.
    That create a early effect where Bellamy body doesn't react like one would expect connected blows fail do move him, punches have the tendency to push trough any obstruction as well as any elastic movement is stopped by the energy being stored into the supernatural properties of Vibranium, would a blow overcharge his body or ignore the natural defenses of what his body offer, and is detected by his observation Haki the structural assembly of springs can wave itself in order to let the atack pass trough the Bellamy body without consequence.

    5- With awakening you just add the ability to teleport, make clones, ignore Haki based defenses and turn intangible on top of that and well you get to be the able to take the title of the strongest in the wrold. Kaido for isntance is not being able to defeat that.
     
    That is the plan, and it's probably easy enough convince him to exclude luffy and dragon from his grudge against garp now he got his pointy head back.
     
    Alright, that was very cool. I liked both Bellamy's declaration and how he doesn't have Conqueror's Haki but manages to overcome that limitation through his DF and skills. Feels very fitting, and I just generally like it as a progression path (the whole Conqueror's is used to hit people harder was kinda disappointing for me, felt like it just took everything away from Armament and kinda doesn't jive with everything before that; like Whitebeard didn't die because someone out Conqueror'd him, he died because he got hit a bunch of times by far weaker enemies, a thousand cuts wearing him down)
     
    MrRobot said:
    Hum, ok assuming that you hold your self imposed limitation on not using conqueror haki wich is "a decision" and fully with your remit as the autor i would want to workshop how you mesh it together.

    First let star laying on the table what the MC do have.

    1-Enhanced physical stats into a superhuman level: The most basic baseline on one pice that almost all active combatants have, people are just built different there and you can go a long way just pulling up iron.

    2- The rokushiki: This is represent martial mastery and fighting ability, the Rokushiki are a series of techniques that allow for someone relatively normal to achieve some form of superhuman combat and devil fruit like abilities. Them being.

    2.1- The ability to unleash burts of speed.
    2.2-the ability to use air itself as leverage
    2.3-The ability to hardening one's body increasing defense at the cost of flexibility.
    2.4-The ability to project cutting waves of force and send flying slashes through waving motions
    2.5- the ability to send piercing waves of force trough trusting motions.
    2.6 The ability to bend one's body in a way you deflect force.
    2.7- the final ability to created a Concentrated force projectile from what is seemingly a stationary position.

    3-Haki, haki is the most explored and straight forward power on the series and the ways of progression are very much already in the sight's so there's nothing much to talk about it.

    4- His Jailbroken as hell devil fruit.
    Like really the amount of rule lawyering Bellamy here in elevated what amounts to the worse version of the gum gum fruit into something that is horrifically overpowered and can match Nikka's sheer absurdity due the fact it pretty much can do just about anything you would want in a fight, let's go trough some bullshit he can do.
    4.1- Messing with the definition of what qualify as a spring it shifted from a very specific spiral construct to basically any material or material assembly that can be compressed and and store elastic force, wich means while it won't cover complex assemblies his springs can pretty much be made of any material include bullshit metals that vibranium and the spring can be microscopic in nature. Essentially as long the material have some elasticity Bellamy can turn his body into anything (do note that now Hewitt could achieve similar power with the chain fruit but he lacks the capacity to store force within him a spring has).

    -4.2- By finagling his springs he is able to creat electrical current asentially acting like a generator, and while he could do a similar process to create heat, the electric current also allows him to create a magnetic fields on a body that is largely made of metal, meaning he can create even more force with it.

    -4.3- Another results of finagling with electromagnetic currents is the ability to have his spring body to act like a special logia disassembly and reassembling itself into something that could grow to be a nanite swarm, in the current form is more like microbots but it also give bellamy a tangible ranged option with his coilgun.

    The addition of Vibranium is probably way more bullshit that one would expect because it allow you to store any vibrational force, not just blunt and price Kinect vectors but things like heat and electrical current too, a vibranium spring or chain is essentially a small potential battery.

    -5- His bullshit wakening. Put it simply up until now his wakening is to big tricks, the principle of the uncertainty and the principle of quantum tuneling. The principle of uncertainty essentially can work in so many ways that it's not funny not only it can guarantee you a hit, allow to creation of paradoxical clones but can just have Bellamy never had been on that place to receive the blow on the first place. It pairs extremely well with future sight. The principle of quantum tuneling is similar in a way that allow teleportation, translocation of an target and punch trough someone's defenses. With ryu-oh you really have something that is ruinous.

    Now taking it all there's also how i kinda read Bellamy's style as "Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."
    Or in longer term the way he fights is about constant accumulation of and release of energy, (the longer he goes, the harder he pushes, the faster he goes and the harder he hits) there's some allowance to plans and strategies but in the end of the day it's still about delivering the hardest possible blow into the enemy weak point.

    So breaking down everything this is how i would go for a power up:

    1- Regarding for the physical strength Bellamy and his crew have remarkable gadgetting capabilities so i would prupose something like a resistance belt, not only make you feel like you are in a gravity chamber on weight but also make the air feel more viscous on anything assigned than breathing it.
    Would make for a extremely taxing workout that could be done on a ship. But also a great way to boost stats.

    2- By mastering the Rokushiki wou could add some lethality to some moves like a coilgun projectile that shoot a tempest bullet. Or allowing you stack Kami-e with the electromagnetic disassembly special logia skill and observation haki to make sure some atacks just past trough bellamy. But the real kicker would be understand the principle of the Rokiogan allowing Bellamy instantly turn potentially into sheer force.

    3- Haki is again straight forward advanced observation to dodge atacks you cant dodge or absorb. Advanced armament to infuse into the force and eletric blasts to increased destruction and ability to make the really hard punch work on logias.

    4- Now this is the meat and potatoes of the advancement because while knowing the awakening is good it's kinda skip some steps, but with all we put until now.
    (Supernatural conditioning, ability to turn potentiality into sheer force, ability to shape this sheer force, ability to be turn your whole body into a bullshit metal that can store and unleash force, supernatural senses and control of one's body, the ability to turn your body on what essential is a nanobot mass where each nanobot is a force battery,the ability to infuse willpower to booster de destruction of your blows, the ability to create electromagnetic field to boost yor blows into even more power) you can have what I would call the gear 4 equivalent but way beyond gear 4 actually can do:

    -Coil chassis, Ironclad murrder-
    By turning his whole body into a collection of interlocking vibranium springs controled by a mix of devil observation bolstered fruit mastery and eletromagnectical fields the ultimate iteration of coil chassis takes on any waste energy that would be expended as heat, noise, or being inflicted into Bellamy by enemy blows or even the reactive forces of his own blows and store it into the countless Vibranium springs and used to futher power the forces of Bellamy's own moves.
    That create a early effect where Bellamy body doesn't react like one would expect connected blows fail do move him, punches have the tendency to push trough any obstruction as well as any elastic movement is stopped by the energy being stored into the supernatural properties of Vibranium, would a blow overcharge his body or ignore the natural defenses of what his body offer, and is detected by his observation Haki the structural assembly of springs can wave itself in order to let the atack pass trough the Bellamy body without consequence.

    5- With awakening you just add the ability to teleport, make clones, ignore Haki based defenses and turn intangible on top of that and well you get to be the able to take the title of the strongest in the wrold. Kaido for isntance is not being able to defeat that.
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    Dear lord, this is a treasure trove of ideas. Some I had already, others are new.

    This is really helpful!

    Probably will need to think about the implementation a bit but geez, I can definitely use this.




    Ok, let's workshop.



    1-3: not much to say on this point apart from yes, that's basically what Bellamy has available and that he's going to use it. Though Rokushiki is more of Nero's thing so it'll be just bits and bobs to boost his DF abilities.

    4: I love the nanobot idea. They wouldn't be anything as versatile as Iron's man's nanonbots but with a lot of potential as force batteries is a really good idea. If he walks around in his coil chassis form, he'd be able to store force for weeks/months to unleash it in one battle. Of course, in order to do that Bellamy would have to keep coil chassis active (at least in some parts of his body) all the time.

    The point about blows being unable to move Bellamy is a good one, especially if he turns his base material into vibranium as it would absorb the force and hence leave little to move the whole body. Of course, I did say that it's nowhere as efficient as an impact dial but it would definitely boost his defensive power by a lot.

    And yes, I have worked very hard to turn Bellamy into a pseudo-logia when he uses observation in conjunction with his coil chassis. It requires a lot more concentration to use than a regular logia and he can't regenerate as much but with practice...?

    5. About awakening. Teleportation via Quantum entanglement is an option. It would be limited to 1 location/marker he'd have to set up beforehand but that's something. Clones I'm not so sure of because that's Moria's thing and I'm not too certain how I'd justify it.
    I was also told by another commenter elsewhere that I'd misunderstood conqueror's cladding, because apparently it doesn't boost defense. Not such a problem with this scene because all Chinjao did was parry with his coated head which is allowed, but it's apparently not the sort of armour I thought it was. I'll probably resolve this later. But bypassing armament armour is definitely possible as proven.

    When I first thought about awakening, I chose quantum mechanics because of 2 reasons. a) the ability to bypass haki defences and b) the ability to guarantee a hit at a cost inversely relative to the likelihood of success. Like you said, I think once mastered, Bellamy is going to be able to show anybody a really bad time.
     
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    Of course, in order to do that Bellamy would have to keep coil chassis active (at least in some parts of his body) all the time
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    There's also the question of stamina usage on this use case.
    Bellamy already would be burning trough it to keep things active so he would be able to slowly charge one atack that would already charge a lot faster when he is fighting on the mode.
    In general the idea that sticks to my mind is that mode would kinda be astetically the opposite of nikka.
    Instead of a bubbly force of chaos that bounces and plays around it is something more "dense" all unnecessary movement, sound and even heat being funneled away into the cycle to keep that engie going and running everything at the same time even when master would require intense consecration.
    So... Strictly a combat mode since is not something you would want in your day to day living.
     
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    And yes, I have worked very hard to turn Bellamy into a pseudo-logia when he uses observation in conjunction with his coil chassis. It requires a lot more concentration to use than a regular logia and he can't regenerate as much but with practice...?

    5. About awakening. Teleportation via Quantum entanglement is an option. It would be limited to 1 location/marker he'd have to set up beforehand but that's something. Clones I'm not so sure of because that's Moria's thing and I'm not too certain how I'd justify it.
    I was also told by another commenter elsewhere that I'd misunderstood conqueror's cladding, because apparently it doesn't boost defense. Not such a problem with this scene because all Chinjao did was parry with his coated head which is allowed, but it's apparently not the sort of armour I thought it was. I'll probably resolve this later. But bypassing armament armour is definitely possible as proven.

    When I first thought about awakening, I chose quantum mechanics because of 2 reasons. a) the ability to bypass haki defences and b) the ability to guarantee a hit at a cost inversely relative to the likelihood of success. Like you said, I think once mastered, Bellamy is going to be able to show anybody a really bad time.
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    Can Logia regenerate? I only remember the "disperse to avoid damage" thing, but I also remember someone else somewhere also claiming regeneration, so did I miss something in one of the Logia fights?

    I mean, I'm not familiar with quantum mechanics, but practically speaking I'm pretty sure that if you're trying to put your Devil Fruit through hard scientific limits, then you're gonna end up nerfing your potential. But more immediately, for how you could justify clones, I read (via a quora thing of someone asking for quantum superhero ideas, and that was more about flying via not-teleportation, but still) there's a thing about existing in multiple places at once, and the image that gave for me (specifically here) is making "static clones;" like, they are copies, but having them snap into existence with a set pose and maybe the force of a hit. The closest thing I could think of for an example would be The Mouth of Sauron from LotR Conquest, who has an attack where he has "Orc spirits(?)" bursting forward from his body to deal one hit and then fade away.
    Also, seems more interesting than trying to explain why your clones don't have your full abilities &/or don't instantly curbstomp pretty much anyone with said abilities.

    So I'm kinda dumb, so I do wanna confirm I'm understanding your "inversely" bit right; so while in your Awakening, you can do a Fate-type thing, and make it so the less likely you'd normally succeed at landing the blow is made more likely here? Or is the bit about "cost" meaning it's more taxing to do things like bypassing a complete defense like a solid wall, i.e. armament?
     
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    Of course, in order to do that Bellamy would have to keep coil chassis active (at least in some parts of his body) all the time.
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    If nothing else he could turn some of his tendons, which are biological springs, into prepped coils for later use.

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    Rather then a single location, maybe he can teleport to the springs that are scattered around an area. They are all technically him, so it wouldn't be impossible for him to try and pull himself to another location rather then pull the spring back to himself.

    Ooh! Maybe with enough springs in another location he can shift parts of himself into them for surprise attacks, like a jack in the box with a fist in the middle!
     
    When I said teleportation is more with the tuneling principle on my mind. Think as making a tuneling effect oppen a portal and drag bellamy X meters in a direction.

    While clone (singular because those should no be easy) are uncertainty base. Basically Bellamy body is in 2 places at the same time and he chose wich interation is the real one. So more a speed clone than a shadow clone.
     
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    So I'm kinda dumb, so I do wanna confirm I'm understanding your "inversely" bit right; so while in your Awakening, you can do a Fate-type thing, and make it so the less likely you'd normally succeed at landing the blow is made more likely here? Or is the bit about "cost" meaning it's more taxing to do things like bypassing a complete defense like a solid wall, i.e. armament?
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    Basically, the less likely it would be that he'd land or evade a blow the more taxing it is on his body and the more severe the side effects. Basically, his paralysis would be more extensive and take longer to wear off.
     
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    • – Bellamy –​
    There were usually two sides to every coin. Likewise, most situations in life were not as simple and straightforward as they may initially seem, their multifaceted character only coming to light upon closer inspection. And as the truth would have it the relationship between the Happo Navy and Kano's royal line was much more complex than that of a powerless king struggling to wrest back control over his kingdom from the various gangs.

    Mind you, everything that King Miso told us was true in one fashion or another. Much like his predecessors, the aged and weathered monarch had lived the life of a puppet, one that could not even generously be described as a ceremonial figurehead. The gangs had ignored his authority and taken over de facto control of the entire nation, with terrible consequences for the average citizen. And if Aisa's emphatic ability was to be believed, King Miso's earnest desire to improve the current state of things was genuine as was his concern for the general well-being of his nominal subjects.

    But.

    But that wasn't the whole truth.

    "Can't really blame old Miso for that one. It happened way before his time during the reign of King Tonkatsu." Chinjao sighed, ruefully rubbing his newly recovered drill. "My many times great grandfather made sure the royal family forgot everything."

    "He made sure they…forgot?"

    "They made it rather easy for him to be honest. They only kept a few hidden records here and there and the most important details were passed down via word of mouth from each king to his chosen successor. It was probably meant to safeguard secrecy but such a thin chain is very easy to break."

    "…regicide." I breathed out in realization. "Your ancestor committed regicide."

    "He also set the royal library on fire and reduced every mural depicting the kingdom's history to rubble."

    "Do forgive me for asking this, but why?" I couldn't help but ask. "Why go that far?"

    In response Don Chinjao's face hardened with his lips set into a grim line.

    "Because King Tonkatsu betrayed us first."
    Now under normal circumstances I probably wouldn't have been privy to a secret worth killing a reigning monarch over, but these were unusual times. Trivial things such as a centuries old family secret carried far less weight when compared to the unexpected recovery of the riches, dreams and his very identity itself, which had been denied to Chinjao for decades. Admittedly, that too was a side effect of the influx of positive emotions and momentary gratitude overwhelming the man's common sense and sound judgement, but in either case… the 12th​ hereditary leader of the Happo Navy had been all too eager not only to agree to anything I proposed, such as accepting King Miso's pardon, but also to satisfy my curiosity.

    "The Happo Navy traces its origins all the way back to Kano's Royal Navy when one existed as such." Chinjao told me over a cup of green tea. "Our founder served as the First Lord of the Admiralty and was considered to be one of the kingdom's two pillars. The former being a position my family had occupied for centuries."

    "…" Robin and I elected to say nothing, simply sipping on our tea as we waited for him to explain further.

    "Wealth, power, influence… all of those things were already his in abundance. And why wouldn't they be? At the time, the First Lord of the Admiralty answered to no-one except the king and was considered to be the third highest office in the land." Chinjao further explained while gently caressing his cone-shaped head. "I tell you this because I want you to understand what my ancestor sacrificed in exchange for dishonor."

    "You're claiming it wasn't a simple power grab." Robin said. It was as much a statement as it was a question.

    Tensions arising between a monarch and an influential military commander was a fairly common occurrence, at least historically speaking. If the king had feared a rebellion was imminent, it stood to reason that the king would have moved preemptively to stop it. It wouldn't be odd if the Chinjao family classified that as a betrayal and all subsequent decisions a matter of self-defense.

    "If he'd wanted to take over the nation, there were easier ways to go about it." Chinjao continued, shaking his head. "There wouldn't have been a need to plunge Kano into a century of chaos by tearing down all of its supports."

    "And the other pillar…just stood by and watched him do it?"

    "No. Chancellor Nigiri tried to prevent what he deemed to be the greatest tragedy the nation would ever know. The moment it became clear that the navy was marching on the capital, he gathered what troops he could and tried to mediate between my ancestor and the king."

    "I'm taking the chancellor didn't succeed."

    Obviously, because if he had managed to achieve his aims the Happo Navy in its current form probably wouldn't have existed. Neither would King Miso be in the position he was now.

    "He may very well have if the leader of the Niho Mafia hadn't opened the gates." Now, where had I heard that name before? "The rest is history, you could say. With the king dead and the chancellor going missing in the commotion, the capital and subsequently the entire nation descended into a state of utter anarchy."

    "Your ancestor wasn't interested in keeping order?" Robin asked, raising one delicate eyebrow. My expression probably mirrored hers.

    This was perhaps the most puzzling part of the whole story, in my opinion. Why overthrow the king and take control over the capital…only to do nothing with that political advantage? One of the first things the leaders of a coup usually did was crack down on all possible dissidents and establishing military law. Otherwise, they risked being seen as weak and opening themselves up to counterattacks from around the country.

    "No. We know that after securing Kano's most important treasure, he left the capital with the entire navy in tow." Chinjao said, shaking his head. "In his memoirs he admits that he lacked the ability to both lead the nation out of the chaos he'd damned it to and fulfil his hereditary duty at the same time. As you can no doubt guess, he chose to focus on the latter."

    "By which he left a giant gaping power vacuum." And power hated those.

    "Yes. With the navy gone and the army in shambles, criminal elements like the Niho Navy began rushing to fill the void he'd left behind." Chinjao kept rubbing his drill. "We…mostly left them to it and they eventually began restoring a semblance of order. It was only during the time of my great great great great great great grandfather that the Happo Navy returned out of its self-imposed exile and carved out our own piece of territory."

    That did explain the kingdom's current state. The royal family had likely been too weak and disorganized in the critical early years to offer much resistance to the takeover. By the time they'd gathered their wits about themselves, it would have been too late. The Happo Navy rejoining the game as a player could have been an opportunity to play the gangs off against each other, but it seemed that Chinjao's ancestor had skillfully navigated that potential pit trap.

    "A lucrative decision, I'm sure."

    And gained enough riches to fill a glacier in the process.

    "Very." Chinjao briefly grinned before returning to his serious mien, his hand never moving from his drill. "However, our foray into piracy was less about gathering fabulous riches but more about throwing off suspicion. Don't get me wrong, I love my treasure and so did my predecessors, but that was…somewhat secondary."

    "You keep referring to some sort of higher cause and that it, whatever it was, forced your ancestor's hand. All without actually saying what that something is." I said, holding up one hand in question. "Whatever could be so important that it was worth essentially destroying his homeland for? What cause did King Tonkatsu betray?"

    "A Poneglyph." Beside me, Robin let out a small gasp. "Kano was entrusted with the protection of a Rio Poneglyph and King Tonkatsu wanted to sell it to the World Government."
    King Miso's reaction to being told Chinjao's side of the stoy had been a lengthy silence, spent with the monarch's face buried in his hands. His aide on the other hand, who turned out to be Miso's nephew Ramen, had likewise looked very uncomfortable. At least he wasn't overreacting anymore like he had when the Happo Navy turned up at the palace gates in force. The tall, thin man had barred the gates and threatened to blow Chinjao's head off with a handheld cannon if they didn't leave immediately, shouting at the top of his lungs that the royal family of Kano would not surrender the crown and their duties without a fight. A bit ironic when one considered what Chinjao had come to talk about.

    Ramen had calmed down a bit when I assured him that the Happo Navy was not here to harm his uncle but had accepted King Miso's offer of a pardon instead. Oddly enough, the relief had been very short-lived before he'd begun to look rather constipated. That had only worsened as more and more details were revealed about Kano's hidden history, but I chalked it up to a feeling of guilt and responsibility.

    "Regardless of why your ancestor did what he did, the fact that he committed an act of treason is undeniable." King Miso finally stated, staring Chinjao down, who looked slightly conflicted before bowing his head in acquiescence. "If this were any other nation, his head would have been displayed on a pike and you would have never received the chance to be born."

    "I suppose so…King Miso."

    "However, in light of what you've told me, I am willing to…be lenient in his case." Miso's tongue stumbled slightly, the words resisting his brain's commands to be spoken. Yet, he brought them out into the world with a herculean mobilization of willpower. "If his oath of fealty had been…conditional as you claim, upon the loyalty of my predecessors to their common cause…then the blame can be considered to be… shared. His crimes against my family are pardoned."

    Nobody missed that Miso had only pardoned the 1st​ commander of the Happo Navy. Boo's hands tightened into balled fists. Chinjao on the other hand wasn't ruffled, patiently waiting for King Miso to continue.

    "Yet, the crimes of his successors against the people of Kano remain. While it is true that the Chinjao family has not dabbled in detestable practices such as the drug trade or the trafficking of slaves, you are not blameless in prolonging the misery of my citizens."

    "The Happo Navy has never harmed innocent civilians, you damn senile shi…"

    "Shut up, Boo!" Sai's hand swiftly gagged his brother's mouth. "He didn't accuse us of that. Shut up and listen."

    "I have already granted you and yours pardon. This has already happened and it will not change, for a king's word is bond." Miso said, his eyes unflinching. "But know that like the pact of our ancestors, this too is conditional."

    "Aye. So I've heard from the top hat wearing fop over yonder." Chinjao pointed at Sabo with a lazy thumb.

    "Then, by the authority vested in us by our crown and our blood, we command you thus." King Miso spoke, using the royal we for the first time and rising to his full height of three entire feet. However, his diminutive physical size could not detract from his bearing, which in that moment could only be described as…royal. "March against those who'd feed themselves on the blood of our people and bring an end to the age of chaos your ancestor began. This is the least you can do to repay Kano and her children for the centuries of suffering they endured."

    "It shall be done…" Don Chinjao replied, bowing in a manner befitting the royal court and showcasing that despite the generations spent as a pirate, his family had never quite forgotten. That they had been ready to return and had only needed the right king. Their king. "…your majesty."

    Well, they had also needed a bit of physical prompting from yours truly, but all is well that ends well, no?

    "Furthermore. The royal line of Kano shall shoulder the burden and the duty of safeguarding the Rio Poneglyph once more." King Miso continued.

    Aaaaand the tension was back. Chinjao had not risen from his bow just yet, but I could see his muscles beginning to twitch and his beard starting to move.

    "Yet, we acknowledge that our current means are limited and our knowledge incomplete to properly do our duty due justice. As such, we shall designate a guardian who shall act as an extension of our will in seeing to its protection." Ah, I saw where he was going with this. Clever. "Thus, we ask you this. Is the Chinjao family willing to take up the mantle of the First Lord of the Admiralty once more?"

    King Miso had no feasible way of forcing Chinjao to part with the Rio Poneglyph. While he could have asked Sabo and I to fight the Happo Navy again, that would have one, run contrary to why we'd wanted to recruit them in the first place and two, forced King Miso to essentially renege on his promise to pardon them. Not to mention that in pardoning Chinjao's ancestor, Miso had denounced King Tonkatsu and declared the mission to be sacred.

    Simply leaving the Poneglyph in their hands was tantamount to abandoning his family's mission for a second time and thus striking a blow to his own legitimacy. It didn't matter if most of the public would never find out about this. He knew and the Happo Navy knew. That was enough. But, by officially entrusting the Happo Navy with protecting the Poneglyph, Miso was acknowledging their self-imposition of duty as legitimate while taking on most of the responsibility at the same time. Not the work itself, mind you, but only the responsibility.

    There was no way a veteran like Chinjao wasn't going to recognize an olive branch when he saw one. Which was probably why his next words were more sincere than any he'd spoken since entering the palace.

    "It would be our honor, your majesty."

    "What aid we can provide shall be yours. Mr. Sabo, we trust we can rely on you to aid us in this matter."

    "Of course, your majesty." Sabo replied and Miso allowed himself his first genuine smile.

    I had been a bit premature earlier, but now I could confidently state, "All is well that ends well."

    "Eh, about that." Ramen interjected, wringing his hands nervously. He'd been silently standing in the corner for most of the conversation, so most of us hadn't really paid much attention to him. However, now that I looked at him again I could see that the king's nephew was sweating profusely. I would even go as far as to say he looked a bit ill. "I wouldn't quite say that everything is resolved. Not yet anyway."

    "Nephew?"

    "Well, when Mr. Sabo and Captain Bellamy first suggested talking to…the Chinjao family, I hadn't expected them to actually succeed." Ramen said before turning in my direction. "I believed that the new lord admiral would be more…resistant to the idea of a pardon and impossible to convince in a peaceful manner. Instead, I was certain that it would come to a fight and no offense, but…there were a thousand of them and only a dozen of you."

    Ah, we hadn't actually told them how we'd convinced Chinjao, had we? Considering that I'd had to beat some sense into my opponent before he was willing to listen to me, Ramen's judgement of Don Chinjao's character wasn't that far off. Just, he'd logically put two and two together to get four, without accounting for One Piece ridiculousness deciding the answer would be seven instead.

    "Nephew, what did you do?"

    "I feared the Happo Navy would harm you, uncle, for calling in outside help. So…I let it slip to the marines that Mr. Sabo was here trying to recruit the Happo Navy and requested they provide you with protection." Ramen answered. "They said, yes."
    Author's note:
    How many of you expected a Poneglyph?
    When planning out this story I wanted to explore the history of the void century a bit, especially as the source material is somewhat sparse on the details. I immediately ran into the problem of where to find the Rio Poneglyphs and how to have Bellamy stumble across them in a semi-believable manner. As you guys already know, the islands swallowed by Bonbori had been one place where I thought a poneglyph may have been hidden. Chinjao's vast treasury was another because we don't know what was all in there.

    The story of Kano's royal family and Chinjao's ancestor is the result of this idea and my desire to create a situation where neither side could claim to be completely in the right. I hope you guys found my take as fun as I had writing it.

    As always, if you've enjoyed do please leave a like and a comment. It really provides a lot of motivation and do have a noticeable impact on the story. For example, one comment on another site pointed out that I slightly misunderstood how conqueror's cladding worked so that issue will be addressed in a future chapter.
     
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    • Sooo.
    Are you stating canon of one piece as of right now is what it stays? Or will you change your story if odas next chapter contradicts this?


    Its not a problem, i just want to know what the plan is.


    Because i believe the void century wil be explained at some point.


    I do like the characters and how they act. Feels like one piece.
    Except there wasnt anyone zo say WHAAAAAAT!? when they got the news about the navy.

    But thats just the strawheads.
     
    ?
    Why do you keep saying I told you about conquerors (though it was more of a question, on the chance I was wrong) somewhere else when I mentioned it here, on this very page?
     
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