195 Chapter 195

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Chopper had seen another guy the previous day when he first went on the Going Merry, but he wasn't here. Did he escape? He didn't know.

He didn't ask either… he had better things to do. Like taking care of Gin, one of his crewmates. Though, now he was back to full health. Gin had a lot of injuries from his fight against the savage Mr. 6 but his body recovered fast, due to a marine technique that he and a few others had. It was called Life Return.

With it one could make their bodies do extreme things. Something similar to how Chopper had two forms. Though Chopper could only turn into his small form and a bigger more muscular form, that was excluding the monster form he took when looking at the moon. Chopper suspected the Life Return technique had some connection to Bio-feedback.

And Luffy encouraged Chopper to learn it, and gave him the book needed to learn the said technique. It could help him get stronger, Luffy had said. So as a Mink he was thrilled to learn it.

And Chopper had a knack for the technique. Coby, along with him, was also trying to learn that technique, so both of them helped each other with what they figured out.

Coby was also cool, had cool powers, and a very moral sense of justice. He was also one of the least weird crewmates. But that was until he saw him fight. The boy was literally suicidal in how he fought.

But that was him trying to grow in mastery over his devil fruit power. Devil fruits came with all sorts of weird abilities, and so he iust accepted it.

Speaking of Devil Fruits, once Gin was completely healed and patched up, ready for training, Luffy had approached him with a particular devil fruit and asked him if he was willing to eat it.

Gin didn't even question and ate it with one bite. That was another thing, Gin was very loyal to the captain. When Luffy had asked him a question, the man had mistaken it for an order and ate the fruit immediately. But no matter, now the man was trying to get used to his new Zoan abilities.

Dragon Dragon fruit: Model Ankylosaurus

Quite Ironic since, just a day ago Gin fought the same devil fruit user, the previous owner of it. Still, Chopper was really curious about its ability.

Mainly when Luffy had tasked him to look into the Zoan type devil fruit research, as with medicine, one could technically boost its powers. It was kind of like doping but not at the same time, as most Zoans had a better immune system to flush out any negative effects from drugs. So Chopper was also trying to figure out how Gin's powers worked along with him.

Which was quite tough, as before doing his research on Zoans, he always thought that it gave the user the ability to transform into animals or other creatures. But now, he knew it wasn't the case. Chopper felt himself stupid for thinking that as genetically you still remain full human even when you 'transform' so to speak.

Zoan fruits were much more like armor, encased the user and gave them abilities. Gin said it himself, it felt like wearing animal hide over your clothes. That might also be the reason why clothes remained mostly unaffected even when the user of the fruit grew in size. The better you are with using the said armor, the more powerful you become and gain new abilities.

Like Gin, Luffy offered another devil fruit to Usopp. The Size Size fruit. But the man was doing some research before he would take it, as Wapol's Munch Munch fruit was also an option.

Miss Mother's Day, or Honey Bee's fruit seemed to have been lost on the island as even after tirelessly searching the whole Island Luffy and his crewmates weren't able to get that.

Chopper felt quite sad when it happened. That was a logia fruit, whoever got that fruit would gain a lot of abilities. And yet it seemed to be lost.

Chopper was also very impressed by Luffy and the crew, as having powerful devil fruits could help one survive the cruel sea. Chopper didn't want to think back to his past, but the one who took him away from his parents, that man also had a powerful devil fruit which he used to keep him and the other children in check.

Still, Devil Fruits weren't the only way to gain strength. The strongest man on the ship had no devil fruit at all. And that was Sabo. He wasn't a part of the crew, but he was Luffy's older brother from the revolutionary army.

He was pretty strong, stronger than Luffy, and yet was quite the bookworm, reading old books that they had in storage.

Chopper didn't know the language, the books used the language of old, which was lost a few centuries ago. But Sabo was kind enough to give him notes and pointers in learning the techniques, along with Vivi who also seemed to know it.

The crew might have been weird, but it was his crew now. And Chopper loved it. He was a pirate now!

Oh, he almost forgot about Momoo, the cow sea king of the Straw Hat pirates, who pulled the ship most of the time. The sea king was also very friendly, and calm. Kind of similar to Hatchan,

Chopper had sat on his head a few times, enjoying the breeze. He already liked the crew and he couldn't wait for the adventures they would have in the future.