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Chapter 28: Hot Topic, The Proud Byakuya Kuchiki
The world war was over. Marineford had just gone through a battle, and the wounded soldiers were arranged for treatment.
Kizaru and Aokiji woke up one after another. After they awoke, the power of their Devil Fruits became more restrained.
Previously, even if Aokiji didn't actively use his abilities, he still gave people a cold feeling. This was because Logia Devil Fruits radiated power naturally, even if the user refrained from active usage. The fruit's ability was always in play.
But now, Yuichi couldn't feel that aura from Aokiji. Aokiji seemed to have turned into a normal person. If Yuichi touched Aokiji, he would find that the man's body was actually warm.
For Aokiji, previously, anyone other than himself touching his body would feel he had no temperature at all. These were some of the side effects brought about by Logia abilities—uncontrollable elemental changes. But it seemed different now.
As the world evolved, the power of Devil Fruits also began to be continuously sublimated and refined.
After Yuichi felt the change between the two Admirals, he was even more tempted to find a Devil Fruit to eat.
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The Next Day.
Sengoku was urgently summoned by the Five Elders to the Holy Land of Mariejois. Although it was unknown what the Five Elders thought about the fusion of the two worlds, Yuichi felt something was wrong with this emergency call.
Currently, Yuichi was in Marineford and didn't notice that he himself was being discussed by people all over the world.
Under the live broadcast of the light curtain, Yuichi's battle had been shown globally. That perfect, art-like combat style... Few people were unaware that there was such a powerful and terrifying monster as Yuichi in the Marines.
So elegant and noble while fighting. Even the battle was full of aristocratic atmosphere. There was now a whole legion of Yuichi fans all over the world.
Besides discussing the Marine monster Yuichi, there was another topic everyone was talking about.
"World fusion! The two worlds fight each other to decide who is stronger, and let the weak world become the food energy for the evolution of the powerful world!"
"If we lose the battle, then our world will cease to exist, right?"
"Haven't we already won?"
"Idiot! In my opinion, yesterday's battle should be like a test match. It's just a general test of the strength of both sides!"
"Is it just a test? I thought we had already won!"
"Winning is winning, but not completely winning. With the strength of two worlds, it is impossible to determine the winner with just one battle!"
This was logical. Just like a sport: Test matches, qualifiers, group matches, semi-finals, finals. If you really want to pick a stronger player, you naturally have to conduct diverse and complex competitions. Only in this way can you test in detail who is truly stronger.
In different places, at different times, and under different conditions, the results of a fight between the same two people will vary greatly.
"I don't know if one day we will have to kill our way directly into the other world!"
This topic made the people who were discussing it suddenly pause.
"Indeed... there is such a possibility!"
"If yesterday was just a general test of the strength of the two worlds, then obviously the so-called 'God' want to select a stronger world, and they will conduct various tests!"
"Individual power, group power, comprehensive power... the pros and cons of different powers in each world need to be compared!"
"Then doesn't it mean that we may one day enter another world and fight each other on their turf?"
"You're dreaming. It's not your turn to play. You should say the representatives of our world will go to someone else's world!"
"Will people from other worlds also come to our world?"
"Uh... that possibility cannot be ruled out!"
People all over the world were discussing in full swing. There was no helping it; no matter who you were, as long as you paid attention, you would find a huge change between today's self and yesterday's self. Such changes were common to all.
In other words, this was indeed a major event involving all living beings in the entire world. Even ordinary people were extremely concerned. Even as non-participants, they seemed to feel they should have a say.
In reality, whether the world would be destroyed or not was decided by the group of people standing at the top of the pyramid.
While the world discussed these matters, Akainu, an Admiral of Headquarters, returned to Marineford.
Then, the Marines issued an order to summon the Seven Warlords of the Sea (Shichibukai).
Following that came more shocking news. In the New World, the Four Emperors were gathering their crews and scattered subsidiary pirate groups. The Four Emperors all made the same move at the same time.
For a while, it seemed that all forces began to gather their hands. The world was brewing a storm.
And Yuichi, who was staying at Naval Headquarters at this time, didn't know these things yet. He was working on his own Character Template System.
After poking around all day, Yuichi found a lot of hidden things in the System.
First of all, in terms of character awakening tasks, it seemed they had always been there, but before Yuichi achieved Bankai, Byakuya Kuchiki's character awakening mission would not open.
In terms of the System, different characters had different trigger methods. Byakuya Kuchiki was a genius Soul Reaper and a noble. Perhaps because Yuichi couldn't even reach Bankai, he couldn't trigger the awakening task for such an arrogant character.
The triggering of awakening tasks was random and referred to the personalities of different characters to a certain extent.
In addition to the character awakening task, the System required reaching 80% awakening on the first task before opening the second character template. Similarly, when the second character's awakening degree reached 80%, the third character template could be opened.
After figuring this out, Yuichi felt very helpless.
If he had chosen a character template other than Byakuya Kuchiki—someone not so arrogant—maybe he would have already triggered the character awakening task.
It was agonizing to be stuck for ten years! Why?!
Now, Yuichi seemed to visualize Byakuya Kuchiki standing in front of him, looking at him with utter indifference.
I won't bother handing over my power to you, a failure who cannot even achieve Bankai.
But ten years were not in vain. At least Yuichi had practiced for a decade, and his own strength had increased significantly. The Six Power (Rokushiki) were perfected by Yuichi, and his Haki also surpassed the three Admirals.
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