After leaving Onigashima, El flew directly toward the White Sea—an area located at an altitude of seven thousand meters.
Passing through the massive hole torn open by his Float-Float Fruit ability, El sat upon a jelly-like cloud. He gazed at the moon, still visible through the White Sea, as if waiting for something.
A few hours later, a medium-sized floating island slowly appeared before him.
"Nii-san!"
Before El could fly toward the floating island, a blue and white lightning bolt tore through the dark night and materialized before him out of thin air.
El watched as the three girls, who had entered their Asura form, appeared before him. A second later, they separated and threw themselves into his arms. After a moment, Carina raised her head and asked El with a smile.
"Hehehe, Nii-san—you called us just two days after leaving! You brought us here on purpose, didn't you? Did the Beasts Pirates wrong you? Are we going to war?"
Nami and Kuina didn't speak, but faint smiles had completely replaced the worry on their faces.
"The alliance formation went very smoothly."
El gently touched Nami and Kuina's heads, speaking with a smile. "I called you here this time because I suddenly remembered something two days ago, and I need your help."
"By the way, did you bring Violet?"
Nami nodded slightly. "Violet and Monet are on Pegasus, parked on the island."
"Nii-san, you specifically instructed us to bring Violet. Do you need to use her Devil Fruit ability to find something?" Carina couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Yes..."
El nodded. "I'm going to use Violet's Devil Fruit ability to locate a Devil Fruit on the island below."
"I see..." The three girls were momentarily stunned.
"Nii-san, is it a Paramecia or Logia this time?" Carina immediately asked in anticipation.
As for El knowing there was a Devil Fruit on a certain island—except for Perona, who joined three years ago, and Robin, who had just joined recently—the other girls had personally accompanied El to find the Flame-Flame Fruit. They had witnessed him locating that Devil Fruit with their own eyes. El returning with the Munch-Munch Fruit and Rumble-Rumble Fruit had made the three girls accustomed to such things.
A Devil Fruit that El took seriously enough to bring them and Violet here on purpose was definitely no ordinary Zoan.
If nothing else, it should be a top-tier Paramecia or Logia. El's following words confirmed her guess.
"It's a Paramecia—specifically, a rule-type ability like mine and Perona's. The name of this Devil Fruit is the Paramecia-class, Millet-Millet Fruit."
"Millet-Millet Fruit?" Carina raised an eyebrow and complained, "What a strange name. Its ability wouldn't happen to be making dumplings, would it?"
"You guessed right."
El nodded. "The Millet-Millet Fruit's ability is indeed to create dumplings. However, the power of these dumplings is like one of the legendary Three Ancient Weapons—Poseidon. It's utterly unreasonable..."
"Any animal that eats the dumplings made by the user becomes extremely docile and obedient, regarding the user as their master and obeying all commands."
"Hiss..."
Carina and Nami couldn't help but gasp. Carina's voice trembled as she asked, "Is this ability also effective on Sea Kings?"
"...I don't know about that yet. But we can give it a try when the time comes."
Answering this question, El's tone also became somewhat uncertain. Because if he remembered correctly, there were different kinds of Sea Kings.
Ordinary Sea Kings were no different from animals. However, some Sea Kings were just like humans—they could communicate freely and possessed wisdom beyond their kind.
El wasn't sure if those intelligent Sea Kings, upon eating dumplings created by the Millet-Millet Fruit user, could be tamed. If it worked on intelligent Sea Kings as well, then it would simply be an alternative Ancient Weapon.
The Millet-Millet Fruit's ability was just as incomprehensible as El's Float-Float Fruit—which could lift any object permanently—or Sugar's Hobby-Hobby Fruit—which could turn countless people into dolls and erase their existence from people's memories.
The Millet-Millet Fruit was just like the Hobby-Hobby Fruit. As long as the user had stamina, they could continue making dango—dumplings.
Therefore, the number of animals that could be tamed by the Millet-Millet Fruit user was the same as the number of dolls Sugar could create—theoretically, infinite.
As long as the Millet-Millet Fruit was obtained, not only would a third rule-type ability appear in El's fleet, but they would also gain power comparable to an Ancient Weapon—complementing their space-based weaponry.
When meteors in outer space were covered by the Float-Float Fruit's ability, and Sea Kings were controlled by the Millet-Millet Fruit's ability, then El's group would become the strongest force across sea, land, and sky.
The Millet-Millet Fruit was shown in the Wano Country Arc and had been eaten by Tama. What El had told Carina and the four girls before setting out was that he would bring back a solution to deal with the beasts on the island—and that solution was the Millet-Millet Fruit.
However, during these few days of sailing, while trying to remember some unimportant plot details that had become increasingly blurred, El suddenly realized: it was only 1515. Tama seemed to have only just turned one year old not long ago.
At this time, the Millet-Millet Fruit had not been eaten by her. It was still hidden somewhere in Wano.
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