Self reflection
To the surprise of Ken, Enel didn't ask for more information and released the people who had been toiling on making his legendary golden ship that could fly, the Maxim. Maybe Enel's ego was too high, and he didn't want to acknowledge Ken's words and thus left.
Of course, Enel wanted to destroy the whole Angel Island before leaving, but seeing the eyes of Ken, he knew that the ship had sailed and hurting any resident of any part of the Skypea would only result in him getting beaten.
He was still very salty about the fact that his lightning had no effect on the two brothers. Both Luffy and Ken were immune to it, and Enel wondered if the brothers were born as his nemesis. It was good that he didn't know of Ace, or else he would be more surprised to know that Ace was a level higher and could even eat the lightning and charge it for his own attack later. (the lightning fire mode that Natsu used once he ate Laxus's lightning attack)
After Enel left, Nami called the previous god Ganfall and asked him to mediate between the two tribes that had been fighting for a long time. When Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji were fighting, people from both tribes witnessed the long-standing fight and how Enel had stepped down.
By that time, both of the higher levels of the tribes got to know the power of the outsiders, so in fear, both of the tribes came forward.
"You both will accept a truce and not fight anymore." Ken didn't bother providing any sugar-coated words and gave his final verdict. Of course, the tribe of the actual Jaya island was very uncomfortable. It was there when Cricket came forward and spoke of his ancestry with Norland. The Jaya tribe was surprised when they learned this. They had read about the history of Calgara and Norland and even seen some images.
The Jaya tribe, at the end, accepted the truce, and Ganfall had happy tears in his eyes. His lifelong goal had been achieved. Meanwhile, as Ken settled things on Skypea, others were more interested in the surroundings.
Especially Robin, who chose to explore more.
"Zoro, you have the character of Yoriichi; it's time you act like him. He was someone who could unleash 1500 moves in the shortest amount of time and you still can't achieve half of that. Sometimes it's not about a single attack, you need to be more flexible. You are too emotional when you fight. You need to let go." Ken started giving advice after the fight. Zoro had made great progress on Inosuke and Zenitsu, but somehow he was lacking when it came to Yoriichi's character. It was probably because Yoriichi, when fighting, could let go of all his emotions and just deal with the enemy.
This gave him a huge edge over his enemy, or, in his case, Muzan. Ken wanted to see if Zoro could progress in his character if he let go of his emotions while fighting. Zoro, of course, was intelligent enough to understand the words of Ken and thus accepted the advice and promised to be more serious when it came to the completion of Yoriichi.
"Sanji, it's time you embrace your lineage and use the hysterical strength instead of avoiding it."
"What? What does it have to do with my lineage?" Sanji was confused.
"You believe that you are a failed experiment. You are not. You are better than your brothers. It's time you use the power that has been hidden inside you." Ken said.
"I will never be like my brothers." Sanji was incensed and roared out.
"You believe that you will lose emotions like your brothers. But have you seen any change in your emotions after using fire?" Ken asked. Ken was right. All this time, Sanji was holding back because he felt using more power would make him like his brothers. But now that he thought about it, nothing of the sort happened.
"But what if I turn into them in the future?" Sanji was still scared of that.
"You won't. We will keep an eye on it. Release your potential. Apart from Luffy, you are the only one among us who has the greatest potential. Don't waste it. Have faith in yourself and us. go all out." Ken said. Sanji puffed his smoke and just dazed himself while standing. Ken turned to Luffy, who had ended up sleeping while eating. Chopper was tending to him. Though he wasn't as injured as Zoro, he had lost a lot of stamina and had bruises in many places. Especially when he was seared by hot gold on his arms.
The scar seemed to have struck his hand permanently as Chopper bandaged him. Ken went and slapped Luffy to wake him up.
"Ah Ken... I was having such a great dream about food. You broke it." Luffy seemed frustrated that he had been woken from his meat dream. Ken didn't care, and just out of nowhere, he brought out a long gray stick and placed it on Luffy's hands.
Luffy, who had been dozing off, instantly became alert when he saw the long gray pole in his hand. He knew what it was.
Ruyi Jingu (a.k.a. Yeoui or Nyoi-bo)
One of the three sacred weapons of Jin Mori, or the Monkey King. This staff could clone itself and have massive alteration powers, which could be done in both size and weight; its actual weight was 80,000,000 tons, and it was said that only the Monkey King would be able to pick it up.
Luffy was ecstatic to hold the staff. He had been using Enma with more speed and efficiency, and now he had the ultimate weapon to use it with.
"Keep this. Practice with Enma." Ken only said those words and not a word more. Luffy didn't really need any improvement; he was doing fine by himself. Ken just hoped that with the Ruyi Jingu, he could be more powerful than he was now.
Ken had a feeling that from now on their voyage wouldn't be as smooth as it had been.
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