91 chapter 91

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"Where did you get that sword from, captain?" Byron asks as we make our way down the reverse mountain's northern waterway. "And what's that golden box in your hand?" he adds, looking confused.

"This is my new sword, Triton," I reply with a smirk. "And this is a devil fruit," I add, opening the box's lid.

"But I just saw you use your Katana a couple of minutes ago," Byron remarks, looking even more confused. "And I don't remember us finding a new devil fruit," he concludes, causing everyone who hasn't noticed already to nod while looking at me strangely.

"That's a secret," I replied while shaking my head. "I might tell you guys about it later, but not today," I explain, easily shrugging off the matter.

"That's good enough for me," Wilson remarks from the side while sipping from some alcohol bottle.

"I'm somewhat curious, but I can wait," Laffite said with a smile as he returned his attention to steering the black pearl.

"I don't care," Bob said while shrugging his shoulders, causing everyone to roll their eyes at his predictable answer.

Elly, Byron, and Kozue still seemed curious, but they let it go, merely shrugging their shoulders.

"So, captain, what kind of devil fruit is that?" Elly asks while looking at the watermelon-like fruit sitting inside the box in my hand.

"It's the Mishu-Mishu paramecia type devil fruit," I remarked as I threw away the box, holding the fruit in my hand instead. "It allows whoever eats it to control the density of his body and whatever he touches," I added with a smile.

"So it can make people you touch fat?" Wilson asked with a blank expression, scratching his head. "Isn't useless then?" he concludes, nodding his head.

"Rehahaha, no, it doesn't work that way," I reply with a laugh. "By increasing the density of an object, you make it heavier and more durable without changing its size," I explain while raising a finger.

"And by decreasing its density, you make it lighter," I added as I raised a second finger. "And if you can lower the density of an object low enough, the object can even phase through other solid objects," I concluded, lowering my fingers.

"That sounds useful," Elly said with a smile. "You have no idea!" I replied, an even broader smirk on my face.

Basically, anyone who ever read a superhero comic of any kind or looked through superpowers on the internet should know about the endless possibilities of manipulating density.

It's so enticing that I began considering eating it as soon as I laid my eyes on it. When I first came to this world, I had intended to take Enel's thunder fruit or even Whitebeard's tremor fruit, but now..., now, I've changed my mind.

"What are you going to do with it then, Johnny?" Wilson asked, still looking uninterested in the fruit.

"I'm going to eat it, right here and now!" I replied, cutting the fruit in half and scraping as little off as possible from its core.

I then promptly swallow the small piece without chewing and wince in disgust at the foul taste that lingered in my mouth, despite not chewing the damn thing.

Suddenly, I feel heat in my stomach, and that heat begins coursing through my veins, spreading all over my body and changing it in the process.

The heat reaches my left prosthetic arm, slowing down, but that only lasts for a second as a metallic, spherical lump forms on the back of my hand, falling to the ground as the heat engulfs my entire arm.

It doesn't take long for the heat to reach my head, and I feel a surge of instinct-like information in my head about how to use my new power.

The heat then covers the rest of my body, finally settling down inside my heart.

"Now then, let's what we have here," I remark, taking a big mouthful of whisky, rinsing my mouth with it, and spitting it out to get rid of the devil fruit's taste.

I begin by lowering the density of my body, and it responds, slowly becoming more and more weightless. "Woah!" I exclaim as my body suddenly begins floating in the air.

I began increasing my density again, but my lack of control caused me to overdo it and fall towards the black pearl's deck with enough weight to put a hole in it.

I react quickly by pushing myself to fall into the water instead of the ship with Geppo steps and promptly crash feet first into the seawater.

"Quick, someone go and get Johnny. He ate a devil fruit, so he can't swim now," Wilson exclaims while pointing at the seawater.

"Calm down, big guy," I say as I launch myself out of the water with Geppo, which was a lot more difficult because of my increased weight and adjusting my body's density back to normal.

"Why aren't you drowning?" Wilson asked with an incredulous look on his face that the rest of my crew shared with him. Even the usually stoic and uncaring Bob seemed to be surprised as well.

"You guys know how devil fruit users are cursed by the sea, so they can't swim or use their abilities underwater?" I ask with a smile, causing everyone to nod while looking at me with wrapt attention.

"Well, I can't be cursed because the sea fucking loves me," I explained with a shameless smile. "I still can't use my abilities while underwater, but I can still swim," I concluded.

"I don't buy it!" Wilson said with a scowl, promptly jumping into the sea to see if we were pranking him about the fact that he can't swim or something.

"Mistakes were made," Wilson said with a downcast expression as his body hit the water and he began feeling weakened.

I merely chuckled as I swooped in and picked him up, tossing him back into the ship. "Like I said, I'm loved by the sea, so don't try this at home, kids," I remarked with a shit-eating grin while looking at the depressed Wilson.

"It looks like I'll need some practice to get used to this new power of mine," I say with a sigh as I land back on the black pearl's deck.

'I should focus on changing the density of objects instead of my body, for now, to avoid hurting myself or breaking the black pearl,' I think to myself with a sigh. 'I'll begin learning to change my own density when we reach land, I guess.'

"Someone get me a couple of cannonballs, but not the exploding ones," I say with a thoughtful expression, causing Byron to go into the lower decks, coming back with four cannons rounds.

"Here you go, captain," Byron said, handing one of the cannonballs to me while placing the others on the ground.

I hold the cannonball in my hand and turn to look at the walls of the reverse mountain, promptly throwing it at one of them, and nod as the cannonball lodges itself inside, creating a circular hole in the process.

I picked up another ball and began increasing its density, promptly throwing it when it became a little too heavy, watching as it impacted the wall, creating a gigantic crater. Still, the projectile was a lot slower this time, which means someone can easily dodge it.

'I'll need to adjust the object's density right as it leaves my hand to achieve the same amount of speed without compromising weight,' I think to myself as I pick up another cannonball and do just that.

I watched as the cannonball impact yet another part of the wall with decent speed, creating a smaller crater on contact because I wasn't fast enough to increase its density to a sufficient level.

"Get me all the cannonballs we have,"