7 Chapter 07

07

"I was right." Luffy grinned looking downwards at the weighing machine. Never in his life, he would have been so happy to gain weight. Luffy had his hands stretched out at least a couple of meters toward the ceiling, using his rubber body. Good thing the room had a high ceiling.

"So, my weight increases when I use my powers to stretch or expand my body. That means, so does the muscle density and other stuff." Luffy muttered, when training he always could exhort more strength when he stretched his limbs far.

The previous Luffy couldn't see the difference, because of having the devil fruit powers from early life. But he could clearly feel the weight difference.

Normally, one would say it is due to having a rubber body, but a rubber body shouldn't be able to increase someone's mass when stretched out. But then again later his devil fruit was revealed to be a zoan type.

Anyway, that got him thinking, and found a weighing scale to test his theory.

Luffy's gear three, giant punches were actual gigantification of his fists that would expand his everything, muscles, bones, and even weight.

And it wasn't only him, other devil fruit users experienced the same thing. Like how copper's monster point. But the question came why? Even though logic didn't seem logical in the One Piece world, there was one thing that was a universal rule. Nothing brings nothing. So where did the added mass come from?

He came to two conclusions. One was that the fruit gave a power core of sorts, that was dense and defied gravity, making it weightless. Any time a devil fruit user uses his powers they use their powers from the core that's inside, granting them supernatural powers.

While the other theory was all fruit users were somehow connected to some supernatural dimensions that granted them powers, with bodily changes.

'Then again when Luffy's true fruit was revealed it broke through all logic.' He thought, 'But that doesn't mean I have to fully follow his route. And this world was different, so I have to prepare for anything.' Awakening a fruit would take a lot of time, but he needed power fast. So that's why he was trying to learn more about his fruit's powers. Maybe then he would be close to awakening it.

Understanding how your powers worked might give him the edge he needed to gain strength in a short time. Working smart as you put it.

Luffy nodded, now he needed to test his theory out. He looked at his right hand, and concentrated his powers on his thumb, rather than making it long, he tried to make it expand its size.

It was a bit difficult, and unfimalier at first. But it worked, making his thumb look like an inflated baseball. "But I didn't blow any air into my thumb. So what's in it exactly? Extra blood and Muscles?" he looked down the weight scale, and there was a notable difference. The weight increased.

It was weird. If it was extra blood and muscles that would explain the weight gain. But that might not be the case either, unless of course, his body was in some way connected to some weird rubber dimension.

Meh, he was thinking way too much about this stuff. Just throw it as some random Anime logic and be done with it. Still he was curious. Anyway—

His endeavor was stopped by a sudden shout.

"Hey, someone broke into the Prince's room, again!!!" A guard shouted footsteps already coming from the walls.

"Well, it's time to go," Luffy said, then looking at the knocked-out prince, it was what… the third time, he broke into Sabo's brother's room and beat him shitless. Uh, fun. 

But then again... Sterry really did have a punchable face. 

The first time, he did, just for the sake of it. Bullying rich punks kinda felt good. Is that why I had bullies in my previous life. Not that it lasted of course, after I smashed in some of their teeth in.

Also, I was a broke kid, dip shit poor, so the logic doesn't add up.

Oh, he should hurry, he could already hear the foot soldiers trying to bash the door open.

Grabbing his hat, Luffy started running towards the window, before jumping with all his might. His rubber body helped to spring the jump, and when he was up in the air, he kicked the air, and it made him jump in the air.

He tried it again, but failed this time, slipping as he started his free fall. "Still, can't do it constantly." He grumbled to himself as he fell, rubbing his chin in frustration. "Oh, well. At least it's fun even doing it once."

With that he stretched his arms forward, grabbing a nearby building, fingers digging into the wall, and he used that as a means to swing himself forward.

It felt fun swinging the air this way, sure he was no spider-man. But this was the next best thing that was similar to spider-man, and it was pretty fun. Sadly it only worked on areas that had building-infested areas on it.

Finding the two towers, Luffy sent both of his arms forward, mid air. Using the tension to fling himself into the sky, as he flew, he straightened himself like a bullet flying through the sky and out of the goa kingdom. "Wohooo!!!"

Dropping down into the forest, he rolled forward, stopping himself. "This never gets boring, Shishishi…"

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A/N: Also a reminder, when I first wrote this story. The One Piece (manga) story was right Wano, the introduction of Vegapunk and Egghead, so my fanfic is a bit delayed for those that are wondering.