Noah gently comforted the slightly dim-witted, somewhat naive, and arrogantly weak queen.
He didn't continue discussing Garp with her.
His mind was on a bigger issue—how to make the Goa Kingdom stronger and more powerful.
With Goa's prosperity, paying the Heavenly Tribute was no problem.
But that didn't mean Noah felt no pressure. After all, crossing into this world, defeating Imu and the Five Elders, that's practically the main storyline for any transmigrator.
However, now that Noah had taken the shortcut by becoming ruler of the Goa Kingdom, he had to start thinking seriously about what to do next.
Toppling the Celestial Dragons would have to be a matter of dialectics—pressuring from the front, the side, from above and below, step by step…
He'd pay the Heavenly Tribute for a few years first. Later, he'd find the opportunity to reclaim everything in one sweep.
Just thinking about his Devil Fruit ability, Noah couldn't help but imagine a future where he slowly became a Celestial Dragon himself, then found the chance to banish Imu into a far-flung future and seize the throne entirely.
Overthrow the Celestial Dragons, become a Celestial Dragon, and then surpass the Celestial Dragons…
By the time Imu "returned as king" countless years later, Noah might already be unimaginably powerful.
He had already usurped the throne of a kingdom. Next, he planned to usurp the entire world and become its king.
Of course, all that depended on whether he could develop his ability to the point where he could actually banish Imu. If he could banish even Imu, then the Five Elders, the Four Emperors, even the Sun God Nika—
None of them would be able to escape.
Anyone who stood in his way, he would banish.
This world would be his to command.
Yes, the ability Noah had obtained during his brutal struggle for survival in Edge Town was the Paramecia-type Time-Time Fruit.
The same Devil Fruit once wielded by that foolish woman, Toki of the Amatsuki Clan.
Noah never imagined that the powers of three deceased Devil Fruit users from Wano would all reincarnate in the East Blue.
The Clone-Clone Fruit of Kurozumi Higurashi was eaten by Bon Clay, who also hailed from the East Blue.
Noah had heard of this flamboyant transvestite who had made a bit of a name for himself.
That guy had already headed for the Grand Line.
Noah even suspected Bon Clay had met Ivankov in the East Blue, which might explain his intense obsession with becoming a queen.
The Barrier-Barrier Fruit of Kurozumi Semimaru had been eaten by Bartolomeo of Loguetown in East Blue.
And the Time-Time Fruit once wielded by Toki… appeared in Edge Town of the Goa Kingdom, falling into the hands of transmigrated Noah.
At first, Noah thought this flawed Time-Time Fruit was extremely weak—just like Toki's ability, only allowing time travel into the future, not the past.
What use was that?
He even thought Foxy's Slow-Slow Fruit was more useful.
But in reality—
Noah had been too quick to judge.
It wasn't the Time-Time Fruit that was weak—it was that foolish woman Toki who was weak.
How could someone take such a powerful ability and develop it so poorly? No wonder Noah had such a low opinion of it from the beginning.
Toki truly was a naive woman from the Wano of 800 years ago, lacking all perspective.
Even without the ability to reverse time, the Time-Time Fruit was immensely powerful. Noah preferred to call its group time-travel function "Temporal Banishment."
And now, his control and development of the fruit's powers far surpassed Toki's by countless times.
Toki could be off by decades even after trying to jump 800 years forward.
What a waste.
Not only was she blind—falling for a man like Kozuki Oden—but also stupid enough to turn the Time-Time Fruit into something useless.
She deserved to die with Oden.
Now, Noah had already developed a technique similar to Kamui using the Time-Time Fruit.
He could leave a time-space shadow in place, banishing his true body into a future moment.
No one could touch his real self.
Most importantly, he could come back whenever he wanted. The only downside was that it consumed stamina and didn't allow for spatial movement.
Compared to Obito's Kamui dimension, it was a bit inferior.
But it was still an excellent escape technique.
The greatest threat would be a powerful enemy camping at his shadow's location.
But Noah had ways around that. Against strong enemies, he could simply dismiss the time-space shadow and jump straight into a future time point.
He didn't believe anyone could camp there for years waiting.
If they did, he'd just wear them down.
During time travel, Noah's lifespan wouldn't change.
That was the biggest flaw of the Time-Time Fruit—it couldn't handle spatial movement while affecting the user.
But now that Noah had developed a Time Domain…
He could banish enemies in time, freezing them while moving freely himself—that was basically relative teleportation.
That's how he was able to banish soldiers and have them "refresh" one after another, only to be killed as they reappeared.
They were banished to a future time point, and to their eyes, Noah would seem to have teleported right in front of them. This manipulation of time gave the illusion of teleportation.
Trafalgar Law's ROOM could swap objects and perform spatial movement instantly.
But Noah's Time Domain banished each enemy to a different time. From their perspective, Noah was teleporting.
In reality, he was just fighting normally.
At its current level, the Time-Time Fruit still had many limitations.
Noah had to grow stronger and rely heavily on all three types of Haki to survive in a world filled with monsters.
This version of the Time-Time Fruit was most likely a flawed one—it only accessed future time, not the past. Of course, it might also be because Toki had been weak, and Noah hadn't yet discovered how to unlock its past capabilities.
After all, traveling to the past would create huge butterfly effects and require immense karmic compensation.
A Devil Fruit alone couldn't bear the weight of such a force.
Traveling to the future caused fewer ripples. Even so, this incomplete Time-Time Fruit was still extremely powerful.
Its most unreasonable function?
Long-term banishment.
If Noah banished an enemy to years or even decades in the future, by the time they returned, they'd be facing a fully developed and godlike Noah.
The power of the Time-Time Fruit was incredibly advanced.
Even in its early stages, it couldn't be broken without advanced Haki—it enforced forced banishment.
Just like the Barrier-Barrier Fruit, which had insanely high durability from the start—only top-tier Haki could even scratch it.
Likewise, most strong enemies couldn't withstand Noah's temporal banishment. It was a higher-order ability than Law's Ope-Ope Fruit.
Enemies Law couldn't move, Noah might be able to banish.
Law's ability had many functions—too many, and not specialized. But the Time-Time Fruit was pure and elite.
Time reigns. Space rules.
That wasn't just a saying.
As that pervert Blackbeard once said—between him and the Pirate Empress, it was either he killed her instantly, or she killed him instantly.
Whoever struck first, won.
High-level Devil Fruits were just that absurd.
Maybe even Garp the Fist, if caught off guard and without Haki defense, would be sent decades into the future by Noah.
Even Emperors like Big Mom couldn't resist awakened magnetic abilities forcing magnetism upon her body. Even Kaido's body could be turned to rubber by the power of the Sun God Nika.
If Noah could develop the Time-Time Fruit to the point where he could banish even top-tier emperors into the future…
That would be a true game-changer.
Anyone who messed with Noah?
Banish them all.
Even the Navy and the Celestial Dragons would pay.
God Knights? Five Elders?
They wouldn't be spared either.