"That guy!"
As they drew closer to the port of Cotton Candy Island, Vinsmoke Ichiji rode on the Singing Ship.
Katakuri, tall and somewhat cold-blooded, tightly fixed his gaze on the red figure on the opposite ship, and his face sank.
"Whoosh!"
A blood-red radiance flashed.
The scarlet figure instantly traversed dozens of meters, directly appearing at the bow of the ship where Katakuri was located.
"Ah!?"
"In just the blink of an eye, he..."
"So fast!"
From another ship in the distance, Tamago and the pirates on the Singing Ship all couldn't help but contract their pupils sharply, somewhat disbelieving, and a chill went straight to their spines.
"Vinsmoke Ichiji?"
Even Katakuri couldn't help but stare suspiciously at this guy who was much younger than he had imagined, yet gave him a tremendous sense of crisis.
"Is Big Mom going to make you beat me half to death before taking me back to see her?" Looking down at the tall, seemingly composed Katakuri, Ichiji asked with a light laugh.
"Mama did say that. Are you going to fight me right here?"
Katakuri glanced at the Singing Ship, then stood there with his arms crossed, staring directly at Ichiji at the bow of the ship. He asked indifferently, not in a hurry to make a move.
"You're not afraid that I'll destroy half of this Cotton Candy Island? I wouldn't mind it either, but after all, this is to negotiate with Big Mom. It would be a bit unreasonable to destroy your island here..."
"To me, whether on an island or in the open sea, it's all the same!"
As his words fell.
Katakuri suddenly sensed something. His entire being retreated violently like lightning!
"Swish—" In an instant, the scarlet figure, swift as a ghost, appeared in his original position.
"As the rumors say, his observation haki has reached an unbelievable level. He actually 'foretold' my intentions in advance..."
Ichiji, with his right fist clenched, looked at Katakuri, who had retreated several meters away. His gaze carried a playful hint. "No, perhaps it should be said he 'foreknew' the 'future', to be more precise."
The next moment—
"Swish swish..."
Endless darkness continuously spread out, engulfing the entire Singing Ship at a speed visible to the naked eye, and ceaselessly expanding towards the violently surging sea surface.
"What!?"
"What is that thing..."
"The Singing Ship is engulfed by darkness, even the sea surface..."
Black smoke billowed, as if even light rays were being swallowed. The entire sea area suddenly plunged into darkness.
The dark earth seemed to emit endless suction, attempting to directly devour and engulf people, causing countless pirates and anthropomorphic Chess Soldiers to show expressions of horror and unease!
But it didn't directly activate a dark hole to devour the ship, nor did it seem to intend to directly destroy it.
"How is that possible!?"
Standing in the spreading darkness, Katakuri, who had "foreseen" certain "scenes," instantly changed his expression wildly, showing an unbelievably shocked look.
Without another word, his entire body suddenly leaped up fiercely, actually flying straight towards Cotton Candy Island.
Mid-air, his right hand suddenly transformed into a sticky Mochi-like form, continuously extending, wanting to rush towards Cotton Candy Island!
"A special Paramecia type, not only possessing a superhuman body, but also possessing a sticky substance?"
Ichiji's expression remained unchanged upon seeing this scene. He directly raised his right hand, his finger hooked upwards. "This arm's length, it's almost comparable to Luffy's, right?"
Generally speaking, Paramecia Devil Fruit abilities can largely be divided into several major categories. Such as superhuman abilities that can emit shockwaves, control gravity, etc.; superhuman bodies that transform into rubber, steel, etc.; and creation types that can directly create wax, cream, biscuits, etc....
Luffy's Gum-Gum Fruit, a BUG-level type, can actually also be categorized under superhuman abilities. But basically, no one has been able to simultaneously possess two or more characteristics of a Paramecia type.
At least until today, Ichiji had never seen it. Katakuri was the first, almost equivalent to a Logia-type ability.
Although the Paramecia - Mochi-Mochi Fruit sounds a bit strange.
"Creak—"
The entire sea surface covered by darkness rippled.
In the eyes of countless horrified onlookers, the darkness directly transformed into a ferocious chimera, its bloody maw wide open, biting at Katakuri in mid-air!
"No way? BON!"
From another ship, the heavy man widened his eyes, his jaw almost dropping to the ground. "What kind of ability is this?"
In mid-air, Katakuri's face changed drastically. His right leg, covered in Haki, violently kicked the ferocious chimera.
"Bang!!"
The ferocious, gloomy chimera was forced back by the impact.
"Hmm?"
But at the moment of contact, Katakuri's heart skipped a beat in an instant, but because he instantly separated from that bizarre darkness, he immediately recovered his ability.
His right arm uncontrollably lengthened and stuck to the port of Cotton Candy Island. His body rapidly contracted, and his entire being flew directly towards Cotton Candy Island.
"Just now..."
Katakuri, having landed at the port, had a shifting expression. He believed that wasn't a hallucination! For that one instant, his ability couldn't be used. His sticky body almost lost control, almost directly retracting.
"Swish—"
But in the blink of an eye, in Katakuri's sharply contracting eyes, darkness surged like waves, continuously spreading, directly engulfing the entire port!
"Oh!"
"Since you want to start a war on the island, then let it be as you wish..."
A savage chimera, looking up at the port of Cotton Candy Island. At some unknown moment, the red figure had already appeared above its head, looking down at Katakuri in the port: "When the time comes, don't say I didn't give you a choice!"
His entire being was shrouded in dense black smoke, carrying wisps of evil aura, like a demon from the abyss, making people tremble with fear!
"You can actually prevent ability users from using their abilities..."
Katakuri opened his mouth in shock, his face completely sinking.
Being in the darkness, he could clearly feel his state: the Mochi-Mochi Fruit's ability simply couldn't be used.
In this world, there was actually such a bizarre ability! If he hadn't experienced it himself, he simply wouldn't believe it. No wonder a lone figure dared to barge into Big Mom's territory and even claim to meet Big Mom face-to-face. This wasn't arrogance, but confidence in his own strength.
"What!?"
Tamago, not far away, cried out in disbelief: "Impossible! BON!"
Making Devil Fruit users' abilities ineffective, isn't that a bit too exaggerated?
"Did you find out?"
"Heh, heh..."
The ferocious and unparalleled giant chimera, tens of meters tall, its thick, large claws shaking the ground, directly caused the port to sink into darkness: "Then, did you foresee your own death?"
...
[P.S.: The original setting in the manga was that Katakuri's Devil Fruit was a Logia-type Mochi-Mochi Fruit, but later Oda might have felt that forcibly making it a Logia-type conflicted somewhat, so he changed it to a special Paramecia-type, but it still possesses properties similar to a Logia-type fluid.]
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