One Piece: Reborn and Skypiean

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Chapter 241

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Amon stood on top of Marshall D. Teaches…

"Gahaha!"

... The one who laughed in panic.

"The Celestial Emperor not only lived but even exceeded his reputation. To think you're gonna figure out a way to get a lot of fruit."

She added. "But really, what makes you think I have an answer to that?"

Amon ignored his words completely. A madman can keep talking at will. He was tied to a metal table, unable to move, as his hands and feet were locked under a restraint made of sea stone. The only thing he could do now was to talk, and even that would stop.

Ammon took the fruit, the devil's fruit, and walked to Teach.

"We'll see about that soon."

As Blackbeard's eyes widened, Amon stuffed the fruit into his mouth. Blackbeard fought back but it was all for nothing. He had to swallow a whole big orange. 

As the lump passed through his throat, he coughed and glared at Amon.

"Be careful, Celestial Emperor! Don't make me mad!"

Amon grinned at him and took another fruit. Without hesitation, he put it into Teach's mouth again. 

Teach grumbling, resisting, but eventually gulping.

"Stop ..." He snorted, his eyes wet. "One more, and I'll die. Believe it."

Amon nodded. "I knew. My Future Vision is sometimes useful."

He could see the near future, where he pushed another fruit into Teach's mouth, and the man burst into pieces. The explosion started in his heart.

Previously, Amon needed to use a super camera to see such a thing, but now, he himself was quite powerful. That's how far he's come.

"But why 3, exactly?"

Amon asked Teach, who growled and kept his mouth shut.

"Both are paramecia, so the limit is not something along the lines of one fruit from each category, right?"

Teach grumbling again. Amon rubbed his nose.

After a while, he walked out of the experiment room and sat in a chair in front of the Super Computer.

It's been a week since War of the Best ended. His army is preoccupied with claiming the soothing territory of Whitebeard and Dressrosa, where every toy returns to normal after Sugar passes out.

Amon has been busy with his other work over the past week, like Gaban and Marco. Recently he started to give his attention to Blackbeard.

The man was even stranger than he had previously thought.

Looking at the Super Computer screen, he asked, "Sera, so which theory is correct?"

[Those multiple DNA.]

An answer came immediately.

So it's not a double heart, even though a body explosion starts in the chest? But it can be answered in many ways. The heart is the base of the body, it pumps blood throughout the body. Maybe it did the same to the Devil Fruit power as well?

[I was astonished myself. I've never seen anything like it before. Living things should not have more than one DNA signature.]

Hearing the words Artificial Intelligence, Amon rubbed his chin. 

He did not know, as expected. But that's because he's not from the 21st century, where even if his technology isn't as sophisticated as he is, scientists are better off – at least the majority.

Amon was not surprised. 

Taking a breath, Amon immediately dived into his brain, into his memory . Now that he had unlocked more of his fruit power, even gaining more control, he could stimulate his brain to show his old memories. Memories from previous lives.

There, in the region of his mind where everything is a flash of scenes from his old life, memories of his family and time with his loved ones, Amon sighed and instead looked for something related to the problem at hand. 

It was like using [Find and Replace] in a word document.

Seconds later, he saw it — Years ago, in his old life, he found an internet article at random.

"People can have two different sets of DNA. It can happen when a woman becomes pregnant with fraternal twins and one embryo dies very early. Other embryos can 'absorb' their twin cells. They're called human chimaera ."

Interesting .

Amon returns to the present with breath.

Did that happen to Blackbeard? If so, then it's not a big surprise. If something like a "double DNA" might happen in the real world, something like a "triple DNA" shouldn't be too surprising in a Fantasy World like this.

But was he really born like this, or was this?

He hoped it was artificial, then he might be able to do it for himself as well.

But he had no answer to that until now. Blackbeard was not a person he could force to speak to within a week. His brainwashing was also unsuccessful on the creature . Most likely a feature of his many DNA.

Then again, does having a lot of DNA mean a person doesn't need to sleep? Blackbeard didn't need to sleep, as far as he knew. He also got confirmation about it. Ever since Blackbeard first woke up 7 days ago, he had not slept at all.

Why that?

Mysteries.

Amon hates the mystery that holds him back from more power.

Just like that, another week passed.

—★—

Amon reached the final conclusion with the help of Law and Seraph.

Using the OP-OP no Mi to disassemble Teach's body and examine it thoroughly, he reached the final conclusion: Blackbeard is unnatural.

Blackbeard obtained 3 different DNAs using artificial means.

It's impossible to be sure, but the OP-OP no Mi is a master at performing and checking if there's an operation or not. Law finds out there's actually a sign of surgery on Blackbeard's body.

A mark left by the same Op-Op no Mi, to be exact. That was a previous user.

So previous OP-OP users, for some reason, decided to experiment on young Teach's body?

Wh why?

Amon wanted to know, but Teach didn't want to talk.

Amon knows one thing. All of this is related to Rocks D. Xebecs.

Teach connected to Xebec somehow. Amon was sure of that. At Canon, Teach even named his flagship "Xebec". It can't be a coincidence, can it?

But that's for later. That was the main reason why Blackbeard was still alive. Killing the man and experimenting on him thoroughly would be faster and more efficient than using Law to keep him active for as long as possible and then experimenting – as he does now.

For now, he must find a way to modify his body like Teach using the OP-OP no Mi. 

Amon refused to do so.

He realized this week, Blackbeard had a double personality. Probably related to a lot of his DNA.

So, does having a lot of DNA cause a person to grow a multiple personality?

Perhaps the DNA of two others implanted into Teach's body formed their own will?

"That's not so far-fetched."

concluded Amon.

If the Will of a person can be passed down through a Devil Fruit, as happened to Sabo in the canon, why is DNA, the root of a physical being, unable to withstand their Will/Spirit/Soul as well?

That's worrisome. Amon did not want anyone else in his head, let alone his entire body. Never does.

But Law is a mindless puppet, a creature without will . His current desire is to serve his master, and that is where his Haki comes from. It wasn't strong enough to perform an operation like this.

Amon will die instead.

This means he needs to give the fruit to others. 

But it won't work either. In the canon, Law only wakes up his fruit after more than 13 years, and he fights for years because he's on the run. 

Amon needs to give someone that fruit, then wait maybe more than 13 years because it would be difficult to simulate the feeling of danger Law felt throughout his life, and then undergo surgery.

Amon refused to wait that long.

He knew the fight with Imu was coming to an end. And as powerful as the rise of the Goro Goro no Mi was, he did not believe he could win against Imu with just this. The Seraph said it last time.

He needed another way to get a lot of DNA, to get a Lot of Fruits .

And he was exactly like that in front of him.

"Why am I here?"

Raki grumbled from behind.

Amon gave her a smile. "Hey, I may die and never come back, don't you want to be present at your brother's last moments?"

Raki's face turned dark. "What's that empty word you say?"

Chuckling, Amon ignored him. He saw the real road in front of him.

A man with a serious face, wearing a hat. He had a large figure and held the Bible between his arms.

Bartholomew Kuma.

Cyborg, Kuma, guards the Strawhats at Sabaody. Kidnapping him wasn't that hard. Amon just needs to control the cyborg brain using electricity and then bring it here. He did that 3 days ago and spent 3 days listening to his orders instead of from the World Government like he had originally patched.

Now, Kuma is just a mindless puppet, who has the answers to the many fruits in his palm. Or rather, in his claws .

The Nikyu Nikyu no Mi, or Paw-Paw fruit that this cyborg eats, is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that gives it the ability to reject anything it touches.

Anything, like, anything.

Even metaphysical things like pain, which he points out directly in Canon's timeline.

In that case, how absurd would it be to say that he could expel the Devil Fruit-eating DNA outside of his body in the form of a Paw bubble?

"It's not at all fabricating."

There is another problem, just injecting one's DNA into the patient's body will not work, the DNA must be compatible. What's more, even if the DNA matches up, different personalities will most likely form inside the patient's body.

Amon had the answers to both questions in his hands.

A clone . A mindless clone who cannot think, and has no personality. The clone will also completely match its own DNA. That way, instead of having a lot of DNA, Ammon will have one single DNA that is big enough and strong enough to hold a lot of fruit because it is already filled.

Having a lot of DNA would be like placing an external memory card into the body, while an internal one is filled. This, on the other hand, will only magnify the existing internal memory using materials that will also be filled with prior information.

Like making a 128 GB memory card to 256 GB.

Thats perfect. That way, Amon will not be limited by an unknown reason which makes Blackbeard's body unable to handle more than 3 pieces.

Germa 66 is the best at making clones, and Amon has it.

Amon had ordered several clones from before, right after the War ended. He thought there would be a need for it.

Now, beside Kuma, the giant Amon stood up. A Clone. 

He had no Ammonite, so he could not control his size. This also means; while the devil fruit affects the DNA of the eater, the devil fruit is not affected by Cytokinesis, where cell division occurs. That's why clones and children eaters don't gain power.

That's not the point here. Point is…

"Kuma, if you want."

Amon tells Kuma, who moves to a corner of the room where another man is present.

Marco the Phoenix.

Marco was sitting leaning against the wall, chained with sea stones, his gaze hot like the sun.

Kuma grabbed the chain attached to the wall and pulled it out. He then buys Marco in front of Amon and drops him to his knee gently.

Marco's gaze grew sharper, and Amon commanded again.

“First, push [Devil Fruit Mastery] hers.”

Neither Marco nor Raki knew the full meaning of his words, but Kuma nodded.

He placed a palm on Marco's back, sending a pulse forward. Immediately after, a light blue-colored foot-sized bubble burst out from his body.

That was the progress Marco made with his devil fruit, his Devil Fruit Mastery. All his years of experience with fruit. This is something as subtle and metaphysical as 'Pain'. So Kuma can indeed reflect that.

Marco shouted loudly. It was more painful than her skin peeling off, something she had experienced once in her life, when she was a child.

After shouting for a minute, Marco fell down while panting. The blue bubble rested in front, and Amon nudged Raki's arm.

“Use a sword made of light to cut off his head. I feel killing before the experiment can cause my bad karma to surge and kill me due to bad luck.”

Staring at him for a moment, Raki nodded and then did so, immediately Marco's head rolled on the ground with blood coming out from his severed neck.

Marco is much easier to break than Gaban or Teach, who still survives. Marco had already revealed what Amon wanted to hear, so his death was only auspicious.

Immediately, in the fruit basket stored on the table, the ordinary pineapple began to turn blue, and a demonic fruit appeared on it.

Mythological Zoan; Birds, Phoenix Models.

Amon grabbed it and flew towards the giant Amon Clone. Splitting the mouth of the giant with great force, Amon threw the devil fruit there and forced him to chew and swallow the fruit.

With a burst of blue flames, the Amon Clone stood still again.

Amon smiled and his body began to grow. Immediately, he stood face to face with the other 30 foot giant. They looked like twins, except for the fact that he was wearing a big white jacket and pants, and the others were wearing black clothes.

Amon grabbed Kuma and placed it on his left palm and then pointed it at the Amon Clone that had eaten Marco's fruit.

Kuma put his hand on Amon's chest. 

Clones are just mindless objects, they don't have the little Haki Law has. Therefore, the Kuma fruit easily worked, and soon, a blue bubble of Paw, paler than the [DF Mastery] bubble, came out from the giant's back.

Amon took a breath and lowered Kuma. Then he walked behind another Ammon, and with his giant body, stepped into the bubble.

It was the [DNA Bubble], something that stored the DNA of the Clone Amon. In contrast to the case of Cytokinesis, this holds the DNA of the clone that holds the DNA of the Phoenix fruit.

The bubble sank into Ammon's original body, not hurting at all, and Amon even looked pleased.

Slowly, the entire giant bubble sank within Amon's body and he sighed.

Raki stared at the scene with a worried but uncaring expression on her face. The AI also remained silent the entire time.

Amon's body then began to shrink back to human size. He then walked over to another blue bubble that was shining brightly. It's about the size of a human, it's a bubble [DF Mastery].

Amon stepped into it, and it began to sink inside him as well. This one seemed to be injured based on the painful twitch on his face, but Amon still looked excited.

After a minute of silence as the light slowly subsided within him, Amon sighed with an expressionless face.

Furthermore, from his palm, a twinkling blue flame erupted like a volcano.

"Whoa, I don't think I'm dead yet."

He said with a mischievous smile on his face. 

From the beginning, he knew he would not die. It would require Ammon to gain Omnipotence for him to stop being cautious and vigilant. And that, that's way ahead. He had already experimented on 7 others before.

Raki heaved a sigh of relief. Still wondering why he's here.