Chapter 8: The American-Style Devil Cells, Power of a Glutton
Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, is known as Marvel's smartest man.
Rozi had no doubt that as long as he could inherit Reed Richards' brilliant mind, no one in the pirate world would be able to threaten him.
At that point, just inventing a few weapons at will might be enough to conquer the pirate world.
As Rozi was thinking, the venue changed again, and the three of them returned to the dark space.
"Huh, it's over already?"
Luffy blinked, looking around with lingering interest.
Just now, he was only drawn for an instant by Reed Richards' rubber ability; the rest of the time, his gaze had been fixed on all kinds of advanced facilities inside the laboratory.
"Reed Richards' rubber ability doesn't have much demonstration value, so the showcase was brief."
"Even so, there's still the last one: the glutton trait, Toriko. Keep watching, Luffy."
Rozi said with a smile.
Just like Luffy, Rozi also felt a bit disappointed.
The demonstration hadn't shown Reed Richards' inventions at all, which very likely meant that even if Reed Richards' Heroic Spirit template was inherited, scientific knowledge might not be inherited—only the rubber ability.
"Alright."
Luffy nodded slightly and reached out to slap his palm onto the only remaining name, Toriko, under the Glutton trait.
The scene changed, and Rozi, Luffy, and Nami arrived inside an extremely luxurious restaurant.
In the center of the restaurant was a round table with a diameter of over five meters, covered with exquisite food.
With that much food, only one man—a nearly two-meter-tall man with blue hair—was eating.
In the blink of an eye, he stuffed enough food for ten people into his mouth.
"Meat!"
Luffy shouted and lunged toward the table.
"Hey, Luffy—did you forget what I said?"
"Those are all projections. They're not real."
Rozi grabbed Luffy by the back of his collar and hurriedly said.
But when there was meat in front of him, Luffy couldn't listen at all, struggling nonstop in Rozi's grip.
Left with no choice, Rozi let go, allowing Luffy to pounce at the table—only to pass straight through it and land on nothing.
"So weird. Those things clearly look so real."
"I can even smell them—why does Luffy's body pass right through the food?"
Nami sniffed the air and muttered in confusion.
Even though she wasn't as over-the-top as Luffy, the aroma of the food in front of her still stirred her appetite.
"A true illusion doesn't just deceive the eyes—it deceives the sense of smell too."
Rozi explained.
"So that's how it is. What a strange power."
Nami gave Rozi a long, deep look.
Even without seeing Rozi truly fight, and without knowing whether Luffy could really inherit a Heroic Spirit template—
At this moment, Nami realized just how strong Rozi was.
Creating an illusion like this was not something an ordinary person could do.
"A glutton, huh? That guy ate everything on the table."
"His belly got so round—what's his body made of? Is he rubber too?"
"Rozi, that guy is Toriko, right?"
Nami turned back to Toriko and asked.
"That's right. Like this, he really is a glutton."
Rozi chuckled and snapped his fingers.
The scene shifted—Rozi, Luffy, and Nami, along with Toriko, arrived on a wilderness plain.
In front of Toriko stood a mammoth more than ten meters tall, like a small mountain.
"S-So big! A giant monster!"
Nami grabbed Rozi's arm in terror.
Even though she knew this was only an illusion, the mammoth's vivid presence still startled her.
"It's really huge. Its meat must be delicious, right?"
Luffy drooled, staring wide-mouthed at the mammoth in front of Toriko.
"Stop dreaming, Luffy. You can't eat that mammoth—didn't you just learn your lesson?"
"What you just saw was only Toriko's glutton trait."
"Now you're going to see Toriko's real power, so watch carefully."
Rozi pressed a hand on Luffy's shoulder and, this time, had no intention of letting go.
As soon as he finished speaking, the mammoth let out a furious roar.
Then it swung its enormous trunk down, smashing straight toward Toriko's head.
Bang!
Toriko raised his arm and threw a punch—his fist, ridiculously smaller than the trunk, blasted the trunk away.
Even the mammoth's body couldn't help but stagger back a step.
"S-So strong! Even stronger than a fish-man's strength!"
Nami's beautiful eyes went round as she said in shock.
"He still hasn't truly shown his power. Keep watching."
Rozi said.
As Rozi's words fell, Toriko let out a roar like a devil.
No—an actual devil's roar.
Behind him, a gigantic crimson demon suddenly appeared from thin air, and its blood-red form was so menacing that even the mammoth took a step back in fear.
"The Gourmet Cell Demon—a monster living inside Toriko."
"Likewise, that monster can also provide Toriko with power."
"As long as he eats food that's good enough, Toriko can become even stronger."
As Rozi spoke, Toriko suddenly formed his left hand into a claw and thrust at the mammoth.
"Fork!"
In an instant, a huge silver-white dining fork shot out from Toriko's hand and pierced the mammoth's body.
Before it was over, after the fork flew out, Toriko swung his right hand in a horizontal slash at the mammoth.
"Knife!"
A powerful surge of energy turned into a gigantic dining knife that cut across the mammoth's body.
Struck by both fork and knife, the mammoth's body was launched into the air.
Before the mammoth could hit the ground, Toriko leapt up and drove a heavy punch into its abdomen.
"Tenfold Nail Punch!"
Bang! Bang! Bang…
The mammoth's body was blasted upward by Toriko's punches—yet even after it had already flown out of his reach,
a booming impact kept sounding from its body, as it continued to be struck by the punch force and battered without stopping.
Soon, its body soared more than twenty meters into the sky.
"Fork, Knife, and Nail Punch are all Toriko's signature techniques."
"Using his body to create Fork and Knife—those attacks are even harder than steel."
"And when he uses Nail Punch, he can throw multiple punches in an instant. The consecutive blows hit like nails, creating a piercing, drilling kind of destructive force."
"Depending on how they're used, Fork, Knife, and Nail Punch can show different forms."
"So then, how will you choose, Luffy?"
As those words fell, both Toriko and the mammoth turned into golden light and vanished.
In front of Luffy, the three Heroic Spirit names appeared once more.
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