Training

A bullet pierced the air and hit a small rabbit right in the head. Hisoka lifted his rifle as the smoke left the barrel. It was a typical hunting rifle that he was training with. While he could imagine any food, he wanted to train by going into the jungle and hunting for his food.

He was wearing an unbuttoned khaki shirt, beige shorts, black boots and a large black eyepatch that covered his entire left eye.. Hisoka walked over to the dead rabbit and placed it in a sack that contained 4 other rabbits. He zipped up the sack and put it on his back like a backpack. He kept his rifle in his hand just in case something wanted to pop out and attack him.

He walked to the shore where he had set up all his stuff. There was a fire burning and there was a small hut. He went inside the hut and the outside didn't reflect the inside. It looked a regular apartment in the human world. It took a bit of a toll on his mind, but he disguised an apartment as a hut. He did this to deter any pirates or marines from coming to the island. The island itself was just a massive jungle that had a shore surrounding it, so no one was coming here anyway, but if someone saw a house on the shore, it would pique their interest.

He took off his sack and dropped the rabbits on the floor. He took out a knife from a hidden compartment in his boots and skinned them. He harvested their organs in a freezer. Once he had finished the process, he cleaned everything up before he went to his drawer and picked up the book on observation haki.

Hisoka had always viewed observation as the most useful out of all three hakis. Sensing, seeing where attacks will go and future sight was just a few of the things that it could give. He opened the book on the first page and read it.

The book gave many training methods and a general explanation on observation haki. Most of the advanced techniques like future sight could only be awakened amid battles. He carefully looked through the rest of the book and went outside, knowing what he would do.

He could do what Rayleigh did with Luffy and get someone to beat him with a club until he can dodge it, or he can up the ante. He imagined a baseball shooting machine and a blindfold. He wanted to evade all the balls that came out of it. This thing shoot balls as fast as 70mph so it would be an excellent way to learn because he doesn't to be hit by these at all.

He placed the machine around 100m from him and used an imagined clone to turn it on. There was a 2 second interval between the balls so it was fast. There was 10 balls in the machine.

"Please star-" Before he could even finish it, a ball hit his arm. He was certain it was broken. He tried his hardest to concentrate and fight through the pain, but all he could see was black. He could feel roughly 8 balls hit him all over his body, however in the 2 second cool-down period that the last would be thrown, Hisoka grit his teeth and put all his focus on this last ball. The ball shot out of the machine and Hisoka could make out a very faint white outline shooting towards his head. He moved his head to the left to evade it. The ball whizzed past and went into the ocean.

Hisoka after noticing that no more balls were coming took off his headband and fell to the ground. Everything neck down was covered in purple bruises. It was hard for him to use his devil fruit while he was in such pain, but he did it. The bruises and broken bones all healed to the condition they were 10 minutes again.

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Hisoka was in the shower now, he wanted a bath, but after recent events that idea was scrapped. Hisoka did what every normal human would do. He tried to rid himself of the curse of the devil fruit and his devil fruit of imagination could do this best. So he imagined that the curse didn't work on his body.

So to test out whether it worked, he got waist deep into a bath and waited to see if it worked. It didn't. His body got weak, and he felt as if every ounce of power was being sucked out of him.

This was odd to Hisoka. It meant that his power couldn't work on devil fruits at all. He scoured through Vegapunk's memories and he thinks he got an answer.

Devil fruits are just on a different plane of existence. Pure reality warping could do nothing to even effect it. If something is out of our reality, that means that the force of imagination cannot reach it.

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6 months later.

The balls flew to Hisoka, who was now equipped with his hunting rifle. He lifted it up, breathed in and fired it. He took off his headband and saw 6 balls on the floor while the rest of his body was bruised.

Hisoka had been glad for that last wish because he learnt what people would in a year in 6 months, exactly half the time.

He had figured out a new to use his observation haki. By using his scope on the rifle to magnify his field of vision. He could see about half the island through his scope, perfect to use with his X-axis power.

Speaking of his x-axis power, it seemed he couldn't use Lilles vollstandig, which was a letdown. Maybe he should have been more specific.

His haki training was going well, while observation was his affinity it didn't mean he sucked at armament far from it, actually. He got to a point where his skin could show obvious uses of armament Haki. What he wanted was to get armament haki in his bullets. The methods he used were all not working. He tried covering his entire gun in Haki, but it just exploded in his hand. So it would be trial and error until he could really do that.

Hisoka went to his hut, and it was just covered in papers. He had made a list of devil fruits he wanted when he became active in the sea. A few of them included the Gasu Gasu no mi (Which he had learned the location of through Vegapunk's memories) The Noro Noro no mi which foxy had, the Hebi Hebi no mi: Yamata No orochi and the Bomu Bomu no mi owned by Mr 5.

He was never a tidy guy, so all the papers were all on the floor. He stepped over all of it and jumped in his bed.

He slept calmly that night.