75 Unknown Fate.
In the bar.
Gray found that he can extract again and decided to act.
So he stood up and left after telling Shakky to tell the other to get ready when they come back.
Today action will be his last action on this island. And also the last island he visits in this world.
Gray can determine that after the whitebeard war, he will probably leave this world and go back to his own world again.
After greeting Shakky, Gray slowly walked into the shadow and disappeared completely.
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Gray walked in the shadow all the way and soon found the light he's searching for.
Baccarat in the street walked happily while holding a wooden box.
"Lucky... This should be helpful for Gray!" Baccarat is in a very happy mood today.
Usually every day she will use her ability to see if she could find something useful for Gray around them. And today Luck told her that there really is something.
After some search on the island alone, she found what her luck brought her.
"Baccarat..." While thinking about this, Gray voice appeared behind her and called her.
Hearing Gray's voice, Baccarat smiled even happier and turned back and looked at Gray who's already standing behind her.
"Gray look what I found! This should be useful for you!" Baccarat run to Gray's side and opened the box to him.
"Hmm? This is?" Gray looked inside the box and recognized what inside.
This is a green fruit with a stiff green pattern similar to the tree wood.
Devil fruit...
He found some fruit while hunting talent here and there before. But all of them were useless tasteless abilities.
So he wasn't so surprised about her finding a new fruit.
But from her words, this fruit should be useful to him...
With Baccarat ability, it's very nature to find something that really useful to Gray. So Gray believed her and wondered what kind of ability this fruit has.
Gray looked at this fruit and hesitated.
He has only four extracting chances today.
If he extracted this fruit now, he will only have three extracting chances today.
After thinking for a few seconds. Gray still decided to extract the fruit now. Anyway, he's only planning to extract three abilities today.
Thinking of this Gray looked at the fruit in his hand.
"Extraction"
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[Wood source]
Looking at the source, Gray smiled happily!
Wood source, not a tree, not forset. Simply wood source.
Gray saw many source names before, so he can tell what kind of source this is!
A Logia-class Devil Fruit! Wood fruit!
A fruit that didn't appear on the original!
This fruit may not be so strong against other Logia abilities, Like magma or flame ability.
But Gray knows if this fruit developed in the right way. It won't lose to any other fruit!
Gray looked at Baccarat with a smirk and asked her how did she find this fruit.
It turned out that she saw two groups were fighting for something and this box dropped around her, so she simply picks it up and left the place.
Hearing her answer Gray couldn't help but fell helplessly, it was stupid to ask this lucky woman such a question...
Seeing the unexpected gain. Gray smiled happily and took Baccarat's hand and disappeared into the shadow again.
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"Not good FATHER!, Eustass Kid, Scratchmen Apoo, Killer, and Urouge, have been defeated by two strong women not far away" A man wearing a black suit, entered the room and reported to a short man with a stocky build his appearance is somewhat similar to that of a Mafia boss.
And in fact, he's a Mafia don who became a pirate.
Capone "Gang" Bege is a mafia don-turned-pirate and the captain of the Fire Tank Pirates. Also one of the Worst Generation. And the one that happens to have the ability Gray wants.
(mafia don=mafia boss)
This guy ate Shiro Shiro no Mi(Castle-Castle Fruit) a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows the user to become a living fortress, making the user a Castle Human.
Gray is not planning to merge this fruit for anyone. But he thinks this ability will be useful in the future.
"Two women?... is it Mary and Tauriel sister?" Suddenly a woman's voice appeared in the room.
"Someone!" Bege heard the voice and looked around. But other than his crew members, he found nothing.
But suddenly on the dark corner in the room. The shadow started moving and spreading around the room.
"What is this!" Bege also panicked by the weird darkness.
Soon the entire room lost it's light and darkness washed everything.
After a few seconds, the darkness disappeared, showing a group of people laying on the ground completely lost consciousness.
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On the street, Gray and Baccarat appeared again and looked around.
Gray not interested in wasting time talking with Bege so he simply took the fruit away and left.
This guy even simple Haki impact couldn't withdraw. Which shows how weak he is...
"Move, Move!!!" Suddenly a group of Navy came and surrounded a golden statue not far away from them.
"It's really Mary's doing....." Looking at Urouge who already turned to gold. Baccarat said with a funny smile.
Looking at the busy Navy looks like this guy won't be lucky when he wakes up again.
Gray didn't care about Urouge but looked around as if he's trying to find something.
Seeing nothing around, Gray let Baccarat fix his luck and moved to another place.
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Inside Shakky's bar.
Tauriel and Mary already came back here.
"So what happened to Perona? How did she become like this?" Shakky looked at Perona who's enjoying a cup of juice and asked.
Tauriel held her head and told her what happened.
"So where is she? That other girl who did this" After hearing Tauriel's explanation, Shakky paused for a second, then asked.
"She..... OH, I finally remembered what I forgot..." Tauriel paused for a second and finally remembered what she always felt that she forgot.
She put down both Bonney and Perona on the ground before. So she can beat Apoo when he wanted to run away.
But after this, she only picked Perona... And forgot about Bonney completely.....
"Come to think of it, I don't remember seeing her besides Perona at that time," Tauriel thought and talked to herself.
Seeing Taureil's reaction Shakkey can already see what happened then she took both Tauriel and Perona into the back room.
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Area 24.
In an empty field where there is no one around. a tall blond man, with black triangle symbols on his eyebrows, red eyes, and golden hair that reaches down to his hips. He also has a black cross tattooed at the base of his throat that is at the front of his neck.
He looked at the cards in front of him with deep eyes and stayed here in silence.
After a few seconds he closed his eyes and sighed
"*step**step* But suddenly he heard a footsteps sound and opened his eyes
What came into his sight is an armored white-haired man, and a red-haired woman walking toward him.
"You are here...." The blond man looked at Gray and said with a calm voice.
"I'm here... You're expecting me?" Gray looked at the man in front of him and said with wonder.
"I don't..... But I know that I can't control my fate today... Even if I tried to run away..." The blond man was so calm and answered Gray with his real thoughts.
Hearing his answer Gray smiled.
This Hawkins, have a very useful skill, he wants.
Basil Hawkins. known as the "Magician" and the captain of the Hawkins Pirates.
One of the worst generation and Gray's goal.
Gray remembers that this guy has a good Fortune Telling skills, so he wants to copy it for Baccarat.
Hawkins's predictions seem to be accurate quite often. So with Baccarat luck, she should be more accurate than him.
After all, she can alter fate itself somehow. This skill will only be a way for her to use her ability and figure out things she wants to know more perfectly.
Who knows, maybe this will help her to understand her ability more and find a new way to develop her ability.
Gray walked to his side and put his hand on Hawkins's shoulder.
Surprisingly Hawkins was so cooperative and kept silent all the time letting Gray copy what he wants.
Inside Hawkins's D Disk. Gray found the skill he wants.
[Fortune Telling and Tarotology skill] (9 GB)
This is the first time Gray sees a skill that is not so real and active but large in size like this.
This shows that this skill is a really good skill.
Gray caught Baccarat's hand and copied the skill for her directly.
After a few minutes, the copy was done and Gray let go of Hawkins's shoulder and took Baccarat away without staying anything.
But before he leaves, he took the deck of tarot cards that belongs to Hawkins and gave it to Baccarat.
After all, to use the skill he just copied she need those cards.
Hawkins's opened his eyes and was so calm like always.
"Unknown Fay... His fate... Can't be seen.. including my fate that was connected with him...." Hawkins talked to himself while kept looking at the empty field in front of him.
This is the first time he encounters such a situation.
He tried to predict his luck and chances today. But found that he couldn't see or predict anything.
Till he saw Gray in front of him, he knows the reason.
Because his fate crossed rode with Gray whose fate cannot be predicted. Which made his fate being affected by him. But now that Gray left. His fate strings are returning to normal.
"Hope we never meet again...." After saying this he stood up and walked away.
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