Sengoku smiled, and Garp also smiled.
There was really no need to ask Vegapunk's question.
If Garp backed down here, then he wouldn't be Garp at all.
"A self-aware arm?"
Garp grinned. "What kind of Devil Fruit is it?"
Hearing Garp's question, Vegapunk was a bit disappointed. "A rather failed Devil Fruit."
Hearing "failed," Garp's heart skipped a beat. Could it be the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Mud Man, Lackey Form?
Vegapunk sighed and said, "When we captured Kaido before, I extracted some lineage factors from his body. I used that part of the lineage factors to create a Devil Fruit."
"Kaido...?" Garp thought for a moment, recalling the person in his mind. The kid on Rocks' ship, pretty strong.
He heard that Kaido was now causing trouble on the seas of the New World and was currently a major target for the Marines.
But Kaido's body was a bit tricky. The Marines had caught him before, but he escaped.
"His Devil Fruit... I remember it's the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Azure Dragon form, right?"
"Mythical Zoan?" Sengoku wasn't very familiar with the pirates on the seas these days. He retired not long after Kaido ate the Azure Dragon Fruit, so he didn't know much about it.
"Yes, it is a Mythical Zoan," Vegapunk said. "Unfortunately, my replication failed. As expected, completely identical abilities can't exist in this world."
"Failed?" Garp was a bit curious.
But Sengoku said calmly, "Don't worry, Punk's failure is different from ordinary people's failure."
"No, failure is failure. There's nothing different about it," Vegapunk said. "The dragon Kaido turns into is blue, but this replicated fruit can only turn into a red one. It's completely a Red Dragon Fruit!"
In fact, Vegapunk originally needed twenty years to study Kaido's Azure Dragon Fruit to replicate one, which is the one Momosuke ate. But now, Vegapunk has been involved in the field of life for a long time, so he understands a lot more about this knowledge.
Moreover, the Devil Fruit he wants to replicate isn't really for someone to eat, it just needs to be fused with an arm.
To say that he used Kaido's lineage factors to create a Devil Fruit is more like transferring the Azure Dragon Fruit power from Kaido's lineage factors into this arm.
Coupled with activating it with modified human cells, the arm is completely formed.
But precisely because the Devil Fruit used wasn't very successful, it contains a considerable wild devilish consciousness, which will be much wilder than normal Zoan Devil Fruits.
But what other Devil Fruit can compare to a Mythical Zoan?
The World Government would never use a real Mythical Zoan or Logia as fusion material, because one such fruit could create another top powerhouse.
He told Garp this, and Garp immediately laughed. "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Anyway, it's my arm next, I'll take good care of it."
Speaking of this, he asked again, "But, this arm won't affect me, right? I mean, it won't make me unable to swim like Devil Fruit users, will it?"
"No, no!" Vegapunk said immediately. "Because even if the two of you fuse, only this right arm will have eaten the Devil Fruit. Its ability won't be connected to you, so you can still swim. It's just that your right arm will be weak after you go into the sea."
"And because of the modifying effect of the devil cells, it's not so afraid of seawater."
"I see."
Garp said impatiently, "That's great, I can't wait. When do we start the transplant?"
"I think, anytime is fine."
Vegapunk said confidently, "Unlike Shadow Cut, the conflict between the two of you will only appear after the fusion. The main thing is to fight for control of the body."
"But, you don't need to worry too much. Even if you fail, your consciousness won't disappear. It will just be suppressed by the right arm, but you can still have a chance to regain the upper hand."
"That means this guy won't disappear either?" Garp was very confident in himself.
"That's right, because possessing a soul is the basis for this arm to be activated." Vegapunk thought for a while and said, "You have to be careful. The Devil Fruit consciousness contaminated by devil cells is very fierce."
Garp nodded. Actually, he had seen Shadow Cut and knew that it was a very strong sword, and basically only Ann could control it.
Ann had been living with Shadow Cut for years, and only in the past year had she barely gotten it to acknowledge her. This arm must be even more terrifying than Shadow Cut.
A Zoan Devil Fruit, especially a replicated Mythical Zoan, the consciousness after being contaminated and activated by modified human cells must be extraordinary.
"But you also injected the Super Soldier Serum, so it shouldn't be a big problem."
Vegapunk said this and pressed a button. A mechanical arm fell from the sky, picked up the right arm, and approached Garp.
Garp was looking forward to it. He didn't move, he just watched the arm get closer and closer to his severed arm. Finally, a layer of sticky liquid seeped out of the mechanical arm, connecting the right arm to him.
At the moment of connection with the right arm, Garp's pupils dilated, because he felt a sound that only he could hear, like a monster's roar. He saw a huge, crimson dragon head rushing towards him.
"Behave yourself!"
Garp grinned, and his powerful Armament Haki covered his left fist. With a bang, he slammed it on the crimson dragon head. For a moment, the two forces fought equally.
In fact, at the moment of fusion, he and the right arm were already considered a whole. Their essential battle was himself fighting himself, so their strength was naturally equal.
In the outside world, Garp's fused right arm instantly changed. The entire hand turned crimson, and it seemed as if a dragon was engraved on the arm. Dragon scales appeared, vaguely like clouds and fire.
The next moment, it seemed to completely turn into a dragon, then turned back into the original arm.
Just like a Zoan Devil Fruit user going through the three forms of 'human form', 'beast form' and 'human-beast form'.
"That Garp..."
Sengoku, watching Garp's changes, but Garp himself not even moving, muttered to himself.
"He found a good arm."
An arm that ate a replicated Azure Dragon Fruit, and it won't affect him from swimming in the sea. That Garp...
He should be able to go to the New World again to find those pirates soon, right?
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