The Lance of Longinus

"Oh yooooo ~ Commodore Longinus' faith is pretty scary!" Borsalino doesn't continue to stop him, but he's done his duty to warn anyway, and what happens next is none of his business.

"I see." Even Borsalino was no longer going to stop it, and Vegapunk was even less likely to say anything more, "What form of devil fruit item do you want? Or what item do you plan to have the power of the Devil Fruit attached to?"

"A bracelet it is, it will also make it easier for me to be able to acquire power as fast as I can in a fight." Longinus said with a slight sigh.

"I will create a bracelet from the finest alloy to prevent it from being damaged in battle." Vegapunk nodded, ending with a reminder, "Unlike devil fruit items with half-life traits made from Zoan, devil fruit items made from Paramecia do not have an autonomous will."

"In other words, it's your own will that has to drive you to use that power."

"My will?" Longinus smiled, "Not coincidentally, I have some confidence in that regard."

In a world where even wills could be transformed into supernatural powers, manipulating wills was naturally not that difficult for strong people like them.

"That would be best." Vegapunk nodded slightly, "It will take a total of about a week to transport the fruit from the marine headquarters, plus build the bracelets and incorporate the fruit."

"If you're willing to wait, you can have a tour here, but if you're not, I'll have it delivered to you when it's finished."

"I can still afford to wait a week."

Vegapunk nodded and turned towards the lab, "Caesar, the two of them are yours to entertain."

"Bastard Vegapunk, what do you take me for?" Caesar freaked out and shouted, "You must be jealous of my intelligence to deliberately kill my time in this way!"

"I'm not falling for that ..."

"Dr. Caesar, give us a quick tour." Borsalino said with a hand on Caesar's shoulder, ignoring his frantic shouts.

"Bastard, would you listen to me properly ..."

"Oh ~ is Dr. Caesar reluctant?" Borsalino asked with a crooked mouth, slightly surprised.

"Shuu... Shurororororo!" Caesar only felt stiff and decided to follow his inner choice, "I'm just kidding, just kidding."

"Dr. Caesar sure is funny!"

...

The week passed quickly.

In a large laboratory;

Longinus held a silvery-white bracelet and asked, "Can I use this when I put it on?"

"Yes, try to drive it with your will."

Longinus put on the bracelet, seeped into the will, and soon perceived a restless flame that seemed to burn all the evil in the world.

"If you can tame that kind of violent power and combine it with the fruit ability, I'm afraid Commodore Longinus will catch up to me!" Borsalino had his hands in his trouser pockets and was thinking this when he suddenly noticed a purely energized spear appear in Longinus' right hand.

"What kind of violent power? Was it a taming failure?" Borsalino's eyes narrowed, "But why, can you control it to appear as an energized entity?"

His Kusanagi Sword was an energized entity constructed purely of photons, but he based it on the fact that he had the power of Pika Pika no Mi at his command.

"It looks like my justice is granted for now!" Longinus chuckled softly; it was indeed the best fruit for that personality of his.

"Not choosing to tame, but to fit in and adapt, I see that you, Commodore Longinus, are the most fearsome monster in our marine!" Borsalino naturally didn't know Longinus's deepest secrets and thought he was a perfect man who indeed had no evil thoughts at all.

Or rather, monsters!

A man who never believes he is at fault is either a real saint or a thoroughly paranoid devil.

He knew one such person, too.

That's Sakazuki.

Also, a monster who is never influenced by the outside world stays true to the justice he practices throughout.

"It's only temporary, and prolonged use is hard for me to get past the inner torture." Longinus "explained".

Hearing Longinus' explanation, Borsalino was much relieved and asked, rather curiously, "But why the lance?"

Like his Kusanagi and Kuzan's Ice Saber, most of the strongest men on the sea preferred to use their swords as carriers.

"It's easier for me to throw it."

"Throwing?"

"I do have some confidence in my close combat, but I'm relatively weak in my long-range attack methods, and this lance is a perfect way to make up for my shortcomings." In the end, Longinus added another sentence, "And it will also mitigate the fruit's reaction against me if thrown for a short period of time."

"I see." Borsalino was not one to get to the bottom of things. It was only the fact that Longinus was interesting that he paid a little attention, but now that he had figured it out, he naturally lost interest quickly, "We've been bothering here long enough, so let's leave now."

"Shurororororo!" Caesar cried out with joy, "Is Vice Admiral Borsalino going to leave?"

"Dr. Caesar looks happy?" Poluzalino asked with narrowed eyes.

"Yes! Yes!" Caesar instinctively nodded his head a few times, then quickly reacted to change his words, "No ... I mean I'm happy for the Vice Admiral to get out of this godforsaken hellhole!"

"Actually, my heart is very sad to see the Vice Admiral go!" Caesar tries to act sad, but his poor acting looks like he's laughing maniacally anyhow.

"I didn't realize Dr. Caesar was so reluctant to leave me behind, so why don't you come with us."

The "sadness" on Caesar's face is completely frozen. He wants to leave Vegapunk, but that doesn't mean he wants to go with this joker!

He's going to die!

"Just kidding, just kidding, Dr. Caesar, I'm a good humorist, aren't I?" Borsalino smiled with a yawning smile.

"Shuu... Shurororororo!" With tears in Caesar's eyes, this must be fate's test for him!

A genius like him will always go through a lot of hardships.

To the indifferent eyes of Vegapunk and the grudging gaze of Caesar, they left the base and returned to the surface in a submarine.

The soldier still on duty on the warship was first startled by the submarine's movement before the two visible men stepped out of the submarine.

"Vice Admiral Borsalino, Commodore Longinus, will you now begin the return journey?"

"You've worked hard, let's sail back."

Soon, the warship reentered the fog.

"The discomfort is gone, is it really this undersea base that's depressing me?" Longinus stood on the deck, looking down on the deep sea, which was why he rarely spoke these days.

"Commodore Longinus, what's on your mind?" Borsalino came from behind.

"Nothing," Longinus said as if nothing had happened, "Just reflecting on this amazing experience."

"There will be more opportunities ... later," Borsalino was saying when suddenly, the warship shook wildly with a violent shock.

"Ah! What's going on? Sea King class?"

"Calm down! Calm down! The Vice Admiral and Commodore are on board, and the Sea King class is nothing at all!"

Listening to those soldiers' panicked cries on the warship, the two of them became even paler.

"No, it's that guy!" Borsalino said quietly.

Longinus walked to the front of the deck and looked deeper.

Beneath the dark depths of the sea, a white dragon was tumbling wildly.