"Positive emotions: 655411"
"Negative emotions: 5621451"
Genichi watched his emotion counts rise quickly, the numbers changing every second. Judging by the data from the Nine Tails incident, once the news spread, the positive emotions might break a million, and the negative emotions might grow by at least half again.
"Looks like it won't reach ten million…"
He said it with a bit of regret. If it had reached ten million, he could have drawn a character card of the ten-million tier, which would give him a top-level fighter right away.
He suspected that the higher the tier, the higher the growth cap. Only a one-hundred-million emotion card could break the limits of the One Piece world, since that represented a level that no native could ever reach no matter how much they trained.
For example, if the world's ceiling was originally at Yonko level, with Genichi's interference—through things like the Shikon Jewel shards or the Nine Tails' flesh—that ceiling could be pushed higher. With that, people's strength would naturally rise, and the ceiling would increase faster. Right now, Toguro was already close to his own limit. His only choice was to set a new stage as his next goal.
To raise strength again, it would take years or even decades to noticeably lift the ceiling. But a ten-million tier character card's potential would definitely be higher.
Since he hadn't reached that tier, he didn't push it too hard. After all…
There was still plenty of time.
This era was just the setup. To truly reach one hundred million emotions, he might need the help of this world's chosen one, Luffy. After all, it was already so hard to raise emotions once they hit a million. Reaching ten million would be another wall.
Thinking this, Genichi decided to draw cards again.
For now, Toguro's value had run out. He couldn't keep relying on just one person to stir things up. That would only cause boredom. And since he had created a monster faction, he needed more people in it. Otherwise it would just look like an empty shell.
A card draw with one-hundred-percent negative emotions. Genichi took a deep breath, full of expectation. He hoped for someone powerful in strength or ability.
"Makima: from the world of Chainsaw Man. The Control Devil. She has the power to control all living beings that see themselves as beneath her. The controlled obey her every word. Even people she kills can be controlled by her. And as a devil, Makima can form contracts with humans."
???
Genichi froze. He never thought a random draw would bring out someone like her. Devils were supposed to be genderless, but Makima…
She had the form of a woman!
Makima was the main villain of Chainsaw Man's Public Safety arc, the devil of control, feeding on human fear to grow stronger. In that sense, she was similar to Genichi, except Genichi was broader—he could collect not just fear, but all emotions.
But there was a bug with her existence. Devils never truly died. After death, they simply returned to Hell. But the One Piece world had no Hell like in Chainsaw Man.
As for drawing Makima with a one-hundred-percent emotion card, Genichi wasn't too shocked. Though she was powerful, that was only because she had developed over so many years.
She had a contract with the Prime Minister, shifting her injuries onto the people of Japan to make herself effectively immortal. Then, as part of Public Safety, she spent years collecting devils and fiends to control, until she became nearly unbeatable.
In the world of One Piece, she basically has nothing—no contracts with powerful figures, no army of demons she gathered over the years. If she showed up in her current state, it would make sense that Genichi could summon her now.
"If... if Makima made a contract with the Five Elders, wouldn't that mean she could make everyone from the World Government's allied nations her shields?"
The thought suddenly hit him, and his breathing sped up. If that were really possible, wouldn't that make her unstoppable?
But in this world, the power of control would definitely have limits. Even in her original story, Makima had to use tricks to control other strong devils—she couldn't just control anyone she saw as lower than herself without any restriction.
Especially since...
This world has something called Conqueror's Haki. Genichi figured that this ability might strongly resist Makima's control, because Conqueror's Haki only awakens in people with extreme willpower. Such people would never allow themselves to be controlled!
"But once they're dead, that's a different story."
Genichi smiled, because he knew something...
Not long ago, someone had just died!
Rocks!
Just a few days ago, he was the strongest pirate in the world. But after the battle at God Valley, he sank into the sea. In the end, he used the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit to almost pull the entire island into the ocean, trying to drag Roger, Garp, and the others down with him. But in the end, he pathetically failed to kill any of his major enemies.
Finally, he sank beneath the sea. In this world, the ocean is the enemy of any Devil Fruit user. Only people like Roger and Garp, who don't rely on Devil Fruits, can truly conquer it—but they would never bother digging up a corpse.
So the sea as a burial ground isn't bad... as long as you're not fish food.
But now...
There's Genichi!
Good thing I had Toguro keep an eye on Rocks, Genichi thought with relief. Makima can control dead devils, make them her puppets, and use their powers through chains.
But who knows if that will work on the strong people of this world.
Another important point: after Rocks is controlled, can he still use the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit? After all, when a Devil Fruit user dies, the fruit's power is reborn in another fruit.
Rocks is already dead, so the Dark-Dark Fruit must have left him. If that's the case, will he still have the fruit's power after being controlled?
"But even without the fruit, with Rocks' top-tier mastery of all three types of Haki, he's still one of the strongest fighters in this world."
The more Genichi thought about it, the more tempting it sounded...
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