Chapter 164: Characters Transformed by the Transformation Leaf
Led by Pato, the Goa Empire entered the village of this remote island. Although Pato was often expelled and chased by villagers, it still liked to explore the human world and longed for human recognition. However, this talking tanuki was always regarded as a monster by the villagers. But Pato still remained kind and optimistic, believing that it would eventually find companions who recognized it. Today, it finally waited for its companions.
What it didn't expect was that this dragon-riding human was not a pirate captain, but an emperor of an empire. According to the information it overheard from the human villagers, kings and nobles didn't seem to be good people. Why was this emperor so kind, even giving it sweet candies to eat? This was clearly a good person. Bonney and Nami were also very kind, giving it biscuits and fruits to eat. They were all great people.
"Your Majesty, everything is normal. It's just an ordinary island," Issho said. His Observation Haki had scanned the entire island, finding no dangerous people.
"Let's resupply, eat a meal, and then leave," Kael said. He looked at this tanuki; this was the biggest gain from landing on this island.
During Bonney's demonstration of her ability to grow and shrink others, Pato also exposed its own shapeshifting ability, using leaves to transform into Bonney at different ages. This caused the women to exclaim. They didn't expect this tanuki to actually have special abilities, no wonder it could gain Kael's recognition.
"Mythical Zoan, Bake-Bake Fruit?" Bonney and Nami looked at the several Bonneys, their faces filled with shock. "This shapeshifting leaf, can it summon other people just through memory?"
"I'll give you shapeshifting leaves, you can transform too," Pato said, handing some green leaves to the women, a little shy. Being liked and recognized by everyone made it very happy.
"We can transform too?" Bonney and Nami were greatly surprised and excitedly took the shapeshifting leaves. The others, knowing about Pato's ability, surrounded it. Bonney immediately used a shapeshifting leaf to transform Kuma.
"Wow~, it's really Kuma!" Bonney jumped onto the shoulder of the transformed Kuma in surprise, hugging her silly father who had been away for several months.
"Belle-Mere~" Nami looked at the familiar figure in front of her, tears flowing uncontrollably. Nojiko also rushed over, her eyes brimming with tears. They knew this Belle-Mere was fake, but they couldn't help but hug her and cry bitterly.
Kaya asked Pato for 2 shapeshifting leaves, took a deep breath, and transformed her deceased parents. With tears, she embraced the 2 of them. Watching the women cry, Reiju, Baby5, and Maya were infected, their noses stinging. Baby5 could no longer recall the appearance of the mother who abandoned her, but she desperately longed for affection. And Reiju remembered her mother, while Maya also remembered her deceased parents. Robin, wearing a mask, stared at the shapeshifting leaves in Pato's hand. She missed her mother and Saul. Even Zoro's eyes flickered, remembering Kuina.
Just as everyone was immersed in this touching scene, Aramaki, with a lack of emotional intelligence, suddenly spoke, interrupting the warm atmosphere.
"Can it transform anyone? Does it have combat power?"
However, besides Aramaki, Bege and Laffitte also had this thought, but they didn't dare to say it directly.
"Little fellow, give me one," Aramaki said, walking towards Pato. Pato actually gave Aramaki a shapeshifting leaf.
"Let me see who to transform." Aramaki held the shapeshifting leaf, and images of enemies and figures appeared in his mind.
"Bang~" A sturdy blind man appeared in front of everyone. It was actually Issho.
"Hehe, let's see how strong this fake Issho is," Aramaki said, directly attacking the fake Issho.
"Gravity Blade: Fierce Tiger!" The fake Issho slashed at Aramaki with a sword, even activating his Gravity Devil Fruit ability.
"The fake one can also use gravity ability?" Aramaki was shocked when he felt the gravity on his body. However, he easily blocked the fake Issho's Gravity Blade, and a Haki vine pierced through the fake Issho. The fake Issho instantly turned into a cloud of white mist, and a tattered green leaf floated down.
"Tch, so it's just a facade," Aramaki said, slightly embarrassed for using 80% of his strength. In fact, the fake Issho's gravity wasn't strong either; he himself overreacted, thinking it was as powerful as the real Issho.
Kael also asked Pato for a few shapeshifting leaves. He remembered that Redfield's summoned fake Marine Admirals and Logia ability users like Smoker could indeed use elemental attacks. Akainu's magma and Kizaru's laser all appeared. But these fake Admirals were very weak. The fake Akainu was kicked apart by Sanji, the fake Aokiji was stomped apart by Robin, and the fake Kizaru was shot apart by Franky.
The strength of people transformed by shapeshifting leaves is probably tied to Pato, the user, rather than the summoner. If these summoned people had a few tenths of Redfield's strength, the Straw Hat Pirates wouldn't be able to deal with them in 1 or 2 moves.
"Bang bang bang" The 3 shapeshifting leaves in Kael's hand transformed into the appearance of the 3 Marine Admirals.
"Go all out," Kael looked at these fake Admirals, wanting to see their strength. The fake Kizaru blasted a large pit in the ground with a laser beam, the fake Akainu shot a ball of magma, engulfing a large rock. And the fake Aokiji froze a large tree.
"Ship-destroying level..." Kael was a little disappointed. Redfield, in order to test the effect of the shapeshifting leaves, used a fake Aokiji and a fake Smoker to destroy an ordinary Marine fleet. It's not bad for dealing with small fry, but for pirates with bounties over 100 million, it's probably a bit insufficient.
"Are these the 3 Marine Admirals?" Aramaki stared intently at the 3 figures, especially Akainu, whose iron-blooded style he highly approved of. And Robin, seeing Aokiji's appearance, instinctively took half a step back.
"Pato, you need to train more in the future," Kael said, stroking Pato's head. The strength of these summoned people was probably linked to Pato and had little to do with the person holding the leaf. After all, shapeshifting leaves are ultimately special creations transformed by the Mythical Zoan Tanuki Devil Fruit ability. However, the summoned people transformed can use Devil Fruit abilities, which is indeed a small bug.
"I will work hard, Your Majesty~" Pato nodded seriously. In fact, the animals it transformed before were not as strong as the humans Kael transformed. The animals it transformed were actually for creating chaos or using illusions to protect itself and escape. It looked at the fake 3 Admirals, carefully remembering their appearance. It also didn't expect its shapeshifting leaves to be able to transform into such powerful monsters, capable of using magma, ice, and lasers.
Pato's perspective was indeed limited on this remote island. Without guidance, its strength was very weak. Once on Kael's ship, there might be a qualitative change in the future. The summoned creatures transformed by shapeshifting leaves will grow as Pato's strength increases.
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