Finding the problem

Timeskip: one month

[Crocodile pov:]

I finally managed to discover why my Conquerors Haki was so weak, observation and armament haki were acting normal but every time I wanted to use Conquerors Haki it welt...weird, like something was off. Then I remembered something and it all made sense.

Why doesn't Luffy kill his enemies? In the world of One Piece pirates live and die by their dreams. When Luffy is fighting a pirate or a marine he is essentially shattering their dreams. And Luffy has said this multiple times throughout the series, you're truly not alive if you live without a purpose. In Luffy's mind, killing an enemy is way to easy, when Luffy shatteres their beliefs and their dreams they're essentially just not living at all.

This is exactly what happened to Crocodile in the original work. It's also why he didn't use haki against Luffy, because he couldn't. I believe that when I transmigrated inside his body I manage to somewhat get rid of the problem, or at least lessen it to some degree, beacuse my will was still intact.

After suffering defeat at the hands of Whitebeard, Crocodile died, his dreams and beliefs were shattered, his Will was shattered, that's why when we see Crocodile for the second time in Impel Down he is a completely different person.

Why do I think so? When Whitebeard was stabed by one of his sons in the war of the best, Crocodiles reaction was extreme, if he really was the same person, the person from Arabasta, who didn't mind the means as long as he achieved what he wanted he wouldn't mind that Whitebeard got stabed, on the contrary he would have been elated.

He also saved Ace, instead of letting him be killed just to spite Whitebeard, he actually saved him. I refuse to belive that the same guy who was defeated by a rockie pirate could withstand one of Mihawks slashes, and clash with him.

My theory is that, after suffering defeat for the second time, this time at the hands of Luffy, something inside him changed. Maybe he got to meditate upon his actions in Impel Down or maybe it was something else. But one thing is for certain he got his WILL back.

After making this discovery, my Conquerors Haki improved, now it can put to sleep even some rear Admirals. Of course I can't be sure because I don't have someone to test this on, but it feels like it can do so.

I also seemed to have taken the first step in my path to awaken my devil fruit. Inspired by Luffys Gear two I also wanted to know if it was possible to make my sand hotter through friction. It was, all of my attacks became even deadlier.

Imagine getting cut by thousands of sand particles now imagine if those sand particles were scorcing, it would feel like hell. I call this Act Two.

[Haaa... it's incredibly frustrating, the fact that I'm way past my prime, i may be strong but that doesn't change the fact that I'm also old. I shouldn't think to much about this, it won't change anything. Also in five months this won't be a problem anymore, but until then I have to focus on my crew.]

[I have two candidates in mind but I don't know how two approach them, one is a slave and another thinks he is God.]

[First, in two months Luffy/Nika will begin his journey, until then I have to aquire a ship, a good ship one that is worthy to be my home. I'm a Schibukai so i have certain privileges, thanks to my title I was able to find an auction on the black market that recently aquired Adam wood. It costed a fortune, to be exact 200.000.000 berry, and that was with a discount. It was worth it though.

Hahaha...I can still remember Nami's face when she found out, she wanted to strangle me.]

On another note I was finally able to put some sense into Mr.5 head, and stop him from using his buggers as projectiles, it was disgusting.

Mr.5 also known as Gem, is one of my subordinates who ate the Bomu Bomu no mi, a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit which allows him to create strong explosions from any part of his body, or even his entire body, without harming himself, as well as rendering him immune to all manner of explosions and explosion-based attacks. He can also bestow explosive properties to his bodily secretions, such as the snot from his nose.

It truly is an incredible devil fruit ability, and I was tired to see it being wasted, so I gave him some tips.

Now he uses it similar to how Bakugou used his quirk in Boku no Hero Academia.

Somewhere in New World

[???? pov:]

Something interesting happened, I didn't expect this at all, when my subordinates told me about who bought it, I couldn't believe it. I wonder if he is planning to set sail once again? I don't see any other reason for him acquiring Adam wood other that this.

[... Crocodile, I wonder what are you planning, I thought that after you were defeated by that old man you lost all your will. It seems I was wrong about you.]

"Kukukku...Hehehehahaha... a new era is approaching!!! Did you figure it out too? Crocodile!"

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{Authors notes:}

{Yo, I hope you like the story so far and if you do help me out with some power stones.

Some people seem to be dissatisfied with the fact that I changed the Timeline. I am aware that in the original work, Crocodile arrived in Arabasta much, much earlier.

Honestly I just didn't know what to write in the time until the plot starts.

Thank you to those who supported my book and I hope you will continue to do so.}