"Ugh!!"
Zeff spat the fried rice in his mouth back onto the plate. Then, he immediately kicked Sanji, who was looking at him with anticipation.
Thud!!
A dull thud sounded, accompanied by Sanji's cry of pain. He flew out and crashed heavily onto the deck.
Pushing himself up, he glared angrily at Zeff and shouted,
"Old man, why did you kick me for no reason?!"
"No reason?!"
"Are you kidding me?! If I had actually swallowed that mouthful of fried rice, I swear I'd drop dead on the spot to show you!"
"What kind of garbage did you cook?! Calling it dark cuisine would be praising it!"
"What? Didn't you learn how to make fried rice when you were learning to cook on that ship before?!"
"Old man! You're talking nonsense!! What I cooked is clearly very good! I tasted it myself!"
Sanji retorted indignantly.
"Huh~"
Hearing this, Zeff couldn't help but sneer.
"Then your standards for food are really low! How can this garbage be considered 'very good'!"
After speaking, Zeff placed the fried rice aside, stood up, and slowly walked towards the cabin. He paused just before entering, turned his head to look at Sanji, and said plainly,
"Come in!"
"I'll teach you how to make real fried rice!"
…
Some time later, Zeff walked out of the cabin again. He glanced back and couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth.
Returning to his original spot, he picked up the plate of fried rice that had long gone cold and shoveled it into his mouth in big mouthfuls, eating all of it, including the mouthful he had spat out earlier.
As a chef, he could not waste any food, no matter how unpalatable it was. Besides, this fried rice wasn't actually that bad to begin with.
What Zeff had said earlier was just to discipline Sanji a bit. The taste of this fried rice would indeed be acceptable in an ordinary restaurant, but if one wanted to become a world-class chef, it was still far from enough.
Sanji… still had a long way to go!
While eating, Zeff couldn't help but turn his gaze towards Kyle, who was lying on a lounge chair on the other side, wearing sunglasses and sunbathing.
It had been several days since they left that reef. During these days, he had seen Kyle lying on the lounge chair sunbathing most of the time.
This couldn't help but make him a bit puzzled.
Was the sun… really that good to bask in?
'350 meters away at 6 o'clock, 749 meters underwater, body length 23 meters, type… tuna?!'
A trace of confusion appeared on Kyle's face. He took off the sunglasses from the bridge of his nose.
His figure turned into purple lightning and disappeared from the lounge chair. When he reappeared, he was already standing on the railing.
His gaze looked out intently at the sea ahead, as if piercing through a great distance to see the fish he had just sensed.
These past few days, lying on the lounge chair, he was indeed partly sunbathing, but more so, he was familiarizing himself with the enhanced Observation Haki he gained after extracting the reward.
Every day, he used Observation Haki to sense the various creatures beneath the sea.
His enhanced Observation Haki could even sense the shape of creatures, something he definitely couldn't do before.
His ability was somewhat similar to Fujitora's Observation Haki. Even without using his eyes, he could use powerful Observation Haki to sense the physical forms of everyone around him, perceive their movements, and even sense their emotions.
Kyle's Observation Haki was certainly not at Fujitora's level yet. He could only sense the physical forms of these creatures, not their movements or emotions.
But now he was a bit doubtful.
In his perception just now, the shape of that fish was indeed that of a tuna, but the problem was, it seemed a bit too big!
So far, he had never seen a tuna this large.
However, he didn't think his perception was wrong. This tuna was truly that big. As for how to confirm it, it was also very simple.
Kyle slightly raised his hand and gave a light flick.
Boom!!
A clear-sky thunderclap. A thick purple lightning bolt crashed down at the coordinates he had just mentioned.
The purple lightning plunged straight into the sea. One second later, a massive explosion occurred. The sea surface was instantly blasted, sending up waves over a hundred meters high. Wave after wave crashed towards the warship, causing it to rock violently.
"Wh… what happened?!"
Sanji pushed open the cabin door and ran out shouting in alarm.
But as soon as he came out, his eyes inevitably widened, because he saw countless chains of purple lightning extending from Kyle's hand towards the sea surface not far away.
Not long after, a charred, blackened tuna was dragged out of the sea.
Just as it was about to reach the warship, Kyle gave his hand a light flick. The charred tuna was flung into the air.
Immediately after, Purple Lightning appeared in Kyle's hand.
Countless flashes of sword light flickered. The tuna in the air was suddenly split into countless pieces, falling onto the deck like raindrops.
(⊙o⊙)…
Both Sanji and Zeff's mouths opened and closed, speechless.
Is this still human?!
Aren't you a bit too overpowered?
Gulp!
Zeff swallowed hard. Although he knew from the first moment he saw Kyle that he was definitely no match for him.
He truly hadn't expected Kyle to be this exaggerated!
Was that purple lightning also a Devil Fruit ability?
At this moment, Zeff was a bit confused.
Kyle had said before that the ability to conjure a ship out of thin air was also a Devil Fruit ability. If this purple lightning now was also a Devil Fruit ability…
Were these two definitely the same ability?
Wasn't the difference a bit too big?
Or did Kyle eat two Devil Fruits?!
No! Impossible!!
Zeff shook his head vigorously. Although he hadn't eaten a Devil Fruit, he still knew some things about Devil Fruits.
One of the most basic things, besides being countered by seawater, was that one could not eat two Devil Fruits at the same time.
This was common knowledge in this world!
But Kyle's current situation… Zeff was genuinely baffled.
However, after only being puzzled for a while, Zeff didn't continue to dwell on this issue.
There was no need to think about a problem that was impossible to figure out no matter how hard he tried, because he didn't understand Kyle's situation. Any conclusion he reached would just be conjecture.
Perhaps only Kyle himself knew the specific circumstances.
Kyle turned his head, looked at the two of them, and said with a smile,
"How about a full tuna feast tonight?"
…
Somewhere in the waters of the East Blue, a small sailboat shaped like a coffin sailed slowly on the sea surface.
The hull was black, with a cross serving as the mast. At the front of the boat, on both sides, there was a candle burning with a faint blue-green flame, giving a solemn, dignified, yet slightly eerie feeling.
In the middle of the hull, there was a seat resembling a throne. A figure sat upright upon it…
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