Arceus's Pirate Journey

Chapter 12: Chapter 12: How Can a Pirate Do Without a Ship?

The Tropius form of Queen’s Brachiosaurus was even larger, which meant the bananas were also larger. However, for those who eat by the barrel, these three bananas just barely whet their appetites.

The first thing Queen did with his new ability wasn’t anything else but researching how to cultivate bananas. After several unsuccessful attempts, he turned his attention to Arceus.

Since he was the one who created this ability, he must know some of the details.

Queen approached with a fawning, ingratiating smile on his face.

Human transformation was one of his favorite things, and in this regard, Arceus’ ability had reached its pinnacle.

This ability was tantamount to direct genetic modification. If he could figure out the intricacies of this power, he, Queen, would undoubtedly become a genius in this field.

Not to mention the incredibly sweet mystical bananas.

”Hey, hey, you definitely know how to cultivate bananas with this power, right?

And how exactly is this transformation accomplished...”

”Show some respect to the great sage, you scoundrel!”

The approaching Queen was faced with Shaina’s flame-encased hands. Allowing such a perverted fat man to get close would be an absolute dereliction of duty for Shaina.

After gaining new abilities, Shaina hadn’t deactivated hers, instead keeping them active the whole time.

In the Human-Beast Form, Blaziken’s original head traits formed a mask. Shaina was quite fond of this crimson mask that concealed her face.

She and King were destined not to show their true faces for a long time in the future, so she kept this form, with only a small portion of her chin exposed. Her limbs were wrapped in a special bandage-like material, and her back wings had turned from black to crimson.

The Lunarians Race naturally had incredible stamina and resilience, and this was further enhanced by Shaina’s new abilities, so maintaining this form for her was not taxing at all.

Her powers were entirely derived from Arceus’ strength, and though similar to Devil Fruits, they were fundamentally different, consuming much less stamina to maintain the form.

King was also in his enhanced form now, but Aerodactyl was different from Blaziken, lacking an inherent mask, so his head was entirely in pterosaur form.

This was another distinction of Arceus’ ability.

Bird-type Zoan fruits had a feature where, unlike other Zoans, the transformation affected their wings instead of the head, merging the wings with arms while keeping the legs and head appearance.

When the toothless pterosaur King turned into an Aerodactyl, his Human-Beast Form also changed, with his hands preserved, his head taking on a pterosaur appearance, and his black back wings turning into pterosaur membranes.

Plus, there were two tiny hands on the wings, which made it so he could roughly be considered to have four hands in this form.

Nonetheless, his disguise was still less effective than Shaina’s, and he thought he’d need to switch to a hooded outfit in the future.

Although King’s abilities were derived from fruit modification, the consumption was still lower than regular Zoans.

King and Shaina couldn’t perceive this difference, but Queen, being an existing ability user, could sense the change.

In his transformed Tropius form, the ongoing consumption was much less than that of the previous Brachiosaurus state, and though not an Awakening, the enhanced abilities could indeed be called immensely powerful.

To be honest, Queen was pleased that Arceus possessed such formidable power.

Since he helped release Kaidou, indirectly leading to the lab’s destruction, there was no turning back for him, and only a few knew about this matter now.

If something happened with the Hundred Beasts Pirates in the future, and the World Government learned of it, he feared he’d be completely erased. While he didn’t know the exact policies of the World Government, they seemed to have a loosely indirect control over The Sea and an approach to shift contradictions.

Those who violated the World Government’s taboos would become targets for complete destruction. For instance, the Navy had even teamed up with pirates to eliminate Rocks, and this wasn’t the only occurrence.

No one wouldn’t covet Arceus’ power. If they accidentally fell into the hands of the World Government and let it learn of his identity, compounded by the Lunarians Race issue, getting into the Undersea Prison might just be a wishful thinking for Queen.

Thus, he naturally hoped the Hundred Beasts would grow stronger, whether for his future research’s convenience or other reasons, this was the best outcome.

Though not a Lunarian himself, Queen now stood on the same front with the Lunarians.

So he still wanted to know how to cultivate bananas, unwilling to believe they were a one-time deal.

Confronted with Shaina’s obstruction, he made a rather simple change.

”Great sage, could you tell me how to use this ability to cultivate bananas?”

A change in address didn’t matter to him.

Seeing Kaidou’s excitement earlier, practically ready to swear brotherhood with Arceus, changing the address didn’t affect anything.

”Eat more fruits; those bananas absorb sugars from consumed fruits. The normal yield is twice a year, and no matter how many fruits are eaten, it just increases the sweetness of the next batch of bananas.”

Upon becoming Arceus, he had a plethora of knowledge about Pokemon in his mind, including species, traits, abilities, preferences, habits, etc., with the growth cycle of Tropius bananas among them.

Hearing the twice-a-year result felt like a bolt strike to Queen. Waiting six months for such tasty bananas was pure Hellish torture. He shouldn’t have eaten them all; had he known, he’d have tried planting them.

By now, he had resolved to find a tropical island to cultivate bananas when the next yield comes.

Of course, that’s for later. Right now, they needed to leave. Since there was information about the Plate, he wasn’t interested in waiting any longer.

”Kaidou! Stop drinking and hurry to find that John in your mouth!”

”Wugulugu, you’re really impatient, but we should set sail. Queen, where’s the ship you prepared?”

”Over here, let’s head out, but it might be a bit cramped.”

Queen indeed had prepared a ship, but it was only intended for him and Kaidou. There was no shipyard here, and though Queen’s skill level was decent, he wasn’t a miracle worker who could just pull out a ship. It was merely a large fishing vessel with an upgraded engine.

Adding Jhin, Shaina, and Arceus left hardly any extra room on the ship, making turning around troublesome.

”Don’t you all know how to fly... why are we crowding on this tiny boat?”

In Arceus’ perspective, the simplest method would be Kaidou sweeping them away with flame clouds, yet who knew Kaidou, upon seeing the tiny boat, would eagerly board.

Compared to the small boat and barrel King Luffy set sail in, and Blackbeard’s raft, this fishing boat with an engine was indeed much more advanced, but its speed couldn’t outpace flying.

”This is the first voyage of the Hundred Beasts Pirates; what’s a voyage without a ship? Big ships will come in due time; for now, let’s set sail! Wugulugu!”