Chapter 02 - First Year!

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Third Person POV.

Triangle Florian, The first half of the Grand Line.

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While the world had its own wars in conflict with different organizations and groups, time flowed and a whole year had passed since Brook came to this world. 

Returning to the fog of the Florian Triangle, the ship continued alone while stopped in those waters filled with darkness, but on the deck of the ship, there was a figure training since a year ago, every day striving and improving his strength. 

"4998, 4999, 5000!" Brook murmured as he fought against the floor and finished his training session. 

"That was great for now, I'll train again as soon as I recover the cracks in my bones." He finished satisfied, his body was cracked, as he had no skin to get hurt, this reflected in broken bones as he got hurt, but strangely, it recovered with a little time resting, returning to its original appearance with the bones healing. 

In the midst of the same fog, Brook spent a year seeing the same scenery, training 20 times a day, every day in that year without stopping, he woke up, trained, and rested countless times during the day. 

His year started slow and with little progress, but after a while, he was able to evolve more and more during this training, what before he had difficulty doing 30 push-ups with the passing months, he began to have difficulty after his thousands of times, his strength had increased a lot with the resistance of his body. 

With his Saitama-style training more intensified than he developed, he began to feel changes in his physique also in the last few months here, like Saitama, he felt the first change, he was bald! His afro had fallen, which he appreciated, not wanting to have that ridiculous hair anymore in his opinion, but it was not only his hair that fell, as well as his face along with his skinny body, now he had a face that looked much more fierce than initially, he had changed the goofy face that Brook used, to a dark version like Ainz from Overlord, this left him very satisfied, since even if he is a skeleton, he wants to have style and as a pirate, to be intimidating. 

His body went from that slender form to a more "muscular" being, with broad shoulders now, he appreciated his current form much more, he usually didn't wear clothes anymore after throwing away that ridiculous suit that Brook wore, he was always "naked" here, although he had a male organ made of bones, but there was no one to see him, so he felt very comfortable during this year on this old boat. 

After his midday training, Brook would rest at this moment, he sat in a beach chair, picked up an old newspaper he found inside the boat and opened it to play some old games like old word searches, which he developed as a pastime until his bones recovered from the training cracks. 

"This one is easy..." He murmured as he filled in the squares. 

A while later, he threw the newspaper aside. 

'I'm starting to get bored here, the newspapers are almost all filled...' Brook murmured and he raised his hand to see again his power of the Yami Yami no mi, which he had not seen since he used it a year ago. 

"Let's hurry things up... I spent a year training every day, focusing only on strengthening this body, it's time to develop my fruits, six-style techniques, and fencing!" 

He said, his body had strengthened a lot, he now hoped to develop his other areas, with boredom, he would give another year in training to develop these areas, if the Straw Hats don't show up here by then, he himself will take care of Moria and his group. 

"Only in Thriller Bark, I'll have an idea of what year I am in this world, then I can plan what I intend to do in this world..." Brook said with eyes shining red inside his skull.

He returned to the middle deck after a while, instead of continuing his Saitama training, he started with his fruit of darkness. 

"I will develop all the powers that Teach showed in the anime and even some ideas I saw in other universes, then I'll go to my fruit of resurrection..." Brook began to debate about his original akuma no mi and thought about post-timeskip Brook. 

"He had some interesting powers, especially the use of the underworld ice, but it's still not enough, I need to develop the fruit for new powers, I have a portfolio of powers in my memories of other fictional works, why wouldn't I try to develop my abilities as a hollow from Bleach, since my abilities are related to underworld issues? Not to mention, couldn't I learn soru and then transform it into a sonido?" Brook was satisfied with these ideas, he would try to transform the fruit of resurrection, which is quite harmless so far into a fruit in the disaster category as well. 

"Anyway, let's first develop the Yami Yami no mi and the two techniques of the 6 styles, then we'll focus on my original fruit!" Brook said, while he would start his training focusing more on techniques and powers than on the body itself, but that wouldn't mean he would stop training it, just dividing his time between the different trainings from that moment. 

At the beginning of his training, Brook focused on improving basic control of his fruit. He started with simple exercises of manipulation of dark energy, extending and retracting them, trying to form that energy into different shapes and sizes. The goal was to achieve fine control over the darkness, something he knew was fundamental for his future abilities. 

After mastering the basics, he moved on to more advanced techniques. Inspired by battle scenes he remembered from other fictional works, Brook began to experiment with energy absorption. He wanted to see how far he could absorb and manipulate different types of energy and objects. For this, he used furniture found on the ship, testing the gravitational power of the fruit. 

In a bold move, Brook decided to test his limits. He began to try to absorb the dense fog surrounding the ship. This task proved to be incredibly challenging, as the fog was a natural, vast, and inconsistent entity. But, day after day, he noticed small changes, eventually managing to manipulate the fog to move as he willed, an impressive feat that demonstrated his growing mastery. 

Clearing the environment at least around the ship instead of that unpleasant darkness, he was happy with the development of this fruit, as it would be his biggest weapon.