12 The Combination of the Fruit and the Will of Observation.

The next morning, John and the others were woken up early, and after changing their clothes, they began to train at Zephyr's orders.

　　For several days in a row, Zephyr put them through various training sessions, pushing them to exhaustion each day before letting them go to the dorm.

　　During those days, Zephyr taught them nothing but the simplest exercises, making them repeat over and over again until most of them could stand up, it was no exaggeration to say it was a hell of a workout.

　　With such simple but intense workouts, the gap in performance between the men got bigger and bigger, with Sakazuki and Barsolino being the most notable.

　　No matter how long they practiced, these two did not suffer at all and kept themselves in excellent shape, while the rest, with the exception of the silent Dragon, were all exhausted, and John was exhausted every day to the point of being unable to walk.

　　Initially, John wanted to learn his Devil Fruit ability, but in the last few days he had no free time at all, he was training all the time, except for training, eating and finally sleeping, so how could he even have any strength left to think about developing your ability to fruit.

　　If you want to talk about workout fatigue, John could still handle it, it's just that what he couldn't handle was Barsolino.

　　This guy is like sticky candy. He comes to their dorm to chat every day. All three of them are not stressed out with training, but it really annoyed John that he insists on chatting with them every time. P/n: (John always compares himself to them and tries to keep up with them, in nothing)

　　But John did not go unrewarded, and was inspired by his conversations with Dragon and all three.

　　Of course, Borsalino and Sakazuki were monsters, but still, their training methods were not weak, only John could only use a small part of them so far; after all, he was nowhere near as physically fit as those two.

Dragon, on the contrary, gave him more help, such as: how to train with less effort, how to recover from exhaustion, and even the technique of how to recharge with energy, which he gave to John for free.

　　I have to say that Dragon is really much better than him (GG) in this respect and it also gave John a lot of understanding. His previous exercises were much worse than what Dragon showed. This is a gap in knowledge and experience. P/n: (This is most likely due to the fact that Dragon was trained by Garp)

　　Several days passed, and finally it was time to redistribute them. Zephyr was very scrupulous and immediately announced the list of students that he would personally teach.

　　There were forty students in all, John and four of them, of course, were on the list.

　　Those who were chosen were naturally overjoyed, and those who were not so lucky were very disappointed.

　　The admiral's students received not only the best education, but also additional qualifications, and when they graduated from school, Zephyr's students were destined to become very popular.

　　John was naturally very happy to have been chosen, and although he was confident, he was not as talented as Sakazuki and the others.

　　He noticed that many students from the same semester as him were physically stronger than him, and he had been under a lot of pressure in the last few days.

　　Luckily, he was chosen in the end, which meant he made the perfect first move at Marine Headquarters.

　　After the students approved, the next day, Zephyr took John and his class to the classroom and started the lesson.

　　"From today I am your instructor and will train you for the next year."

　　Zephyr stood in front of the lecture table, looking at these young faces in the audience, and was quite content in his heart, now that he didn't have to go to the front lines to fight, it was meaningful to stay on the sidelines and teach the young people among the fleet.

　　"As elders and teachers, the first lesson I will teach you is to show you the cruelty of the world."

　　"That we are a fleet and that the duty of the fleet is to protect the sea and protect people, so we must fight evil, pirates, criminals, bandits, etc., they are all enemies of our fleet."

　　"In the battle with the enemy, along with blood and death, everyone can die in battle, including the admiral, so the world is cruel, and the only way to better protect people and keep peace at sea is to master the power"

　　"Strength, expressed not only in personal combat strength, but also in various abilities, an excellent soldier must not only have sufficient combat power, but also have rich knowledge, excellent command ability, ability to see the situation and so on, you are like the best soldiers of this fleet, that's what you have to learn." "

　　Zephyr was a man of action, and after a short speech, he immediately got down to the lesson.

　　They were all chosen from among a thousand members of the elite, and each of them carefully listened to Zephyr's sermon.

　　Zephyr did not teach incomprehensible things right away, but started from the basics, and all this was theory.

　　For the next few days, John and the others did not go to the firing range, but remained in the classroom for classes ranging from ideological lessons to knowledge of naval combat, navigation, and so on.

　　As an admiral, Zephyr was not only a strong warrior, but also excelled in other areas, and the lessons didn't repeat for several days.

　　John just lived his life doing lessons during the day and learning his fruit powers at other times.

　　After inadvertently reminding the Dragon last time, John became more concerned about the direction of his fruit and experimented with it, which ended up with significant results.

　　After finding several plants and using the ability after his physical strength was depleted, he found that he could actually draw on the life energy of plants and transform it into his own physical strength, and even repair his injured body.

　　Not only that, he also found that he could communicate with plants, listen to their thoughts, and also make them understand him when he used his "Will of Observation" aura.

　　Such an ability was the result of a combination of his fruit power and the aura of observation will.

It is not the ability to listen to the voices of all things, as he can only hear the hearts of plants and cannot understand the voices of other beings.

　　After many experiments, he discovered that before he could use his ability to communicate with plants, he could draw their life energy, but it was not as much as the life energy they gave him after communication. P / n (If you communicate with plants, they will give more vital energy than just pick up without communication)

　　It was a very strange principle, and at first John did not understand what was happening, but only after careful testing and guessing did he gradually come to understand.

　　He found that under normal conditions, although plants can make sounds, they are not intelligent and do not have the same complex thoughts as humans, as if they were single-celled creatures.

　　When John communicated with them through his will of observation and needed them, they were willing to offer their energy to John, which was more than they could get by forcibly taking the energy.

　　In fact, you can find many people who have been in this business for a long time.

　　In fact, before, John was not very happy with his own will of observation, because his will of observation is innate, but it does not have special abilities like a normal will of observation.

　　John knew that there were people who, like him, were born with their own will of observation, such as Princess Otohime, Shirohoshi, and so on.

　　These people, born with the will of observation, had special abilities.

　　For example, Princess Otohime can sense another person's thoughts and emotions and transfer the user's own consciousness(thoughts, emotions) to other people, influencing their mind and thoughts and creating strong empathy, even changing their values ​​and ideology.

　　John, on the other hand, has yet to discover what is so special about his own will of observation that he cannot influence others, see the future, or change their minds and minds, as Princess Otohime did.

　　As for listening to the voice of everything, whether it is a gift inherent in the will of observation or it is an innate ability, this is something that the anime does not have a clear answer to, and at least he does not have this ability himself.

　　Only now, after eating the Devil Fruit, he has a special relationship with plants, which can be considered a simplified version of the ability to hear everything, except that he can only understand the sounds of plants.

　　Other than that, he hasn't yet figured out what the features of his surveillance will are.

　　Although John also knew that he could become stronger by practicing it later, but in the ten years that he has been practicing it, in addition to the extended range and more accurate perception, he has not reached the level of Katakuri, not to mention the level of Princess Otohime, who, as known to have been strong in the will of observation.

　　Now that his will to observe was at last in full play, this made John very happy; the strength of fruits plus the will of observation - this may be his main focus of training in the future.