Chapter 24: Lock-Lock Fruit

After putting in a lot of effort to shake off the pirates chasing him, Kado ran to a small inn and booked a room, planning to carefully study the mysterious uses of the Devil Fruit.

Sitting cross-legged on the wooden bed, Kado calmed his mind and realized that he could clearly feel a noticeable change in his body.

It seemed as though a strange energy had appeared inside his body

He tried to control the energy inside his body and moved the energy to his hand.

Kado looked at his hands, which seemed unchanged, just like before.

"What's going on? Why is there no change? Could it be that the Devil Fruit only works for people in the One Piece world?" Kado thought for a moment and felt that it was unlikely. After all, the structure of the human body should be the same. Perhaps his ability had some other mysterious use.

Kado tried to transfer the energy to his hand, then placed his hand on the bed sheet.

A miraculous scene occurred. The bed sheet, which had been swaying with Kado's movements, suddenly stopped moving, as if the space in that area had been frozen. A specific part of the bed sheet became completely still, motionless.

Kado widened his eyes in surprise. Sure enough, the power of the Devil Fruit was truly remarkable. There were all kinds of abilities. This particular power was clearly something Kado had never seen in the anime.

"To be able to imprison a piece of space, what kind of ability is this?" Kado continued to experiment with the power in his hand.

As the power in his hand moved, everything that came into contact with Kado's right hand froze, completely stagnating.

"In the anime, Trafalgar Law's ability creates a personal domain within a certain spatial range, where his power can appear anywhere inside that domain. The Supernova Capone Bege's ability forms a space within his body, shrinking everything and storing it inside. CP9 Bruno's ability is the Door-Door Fruit, which allows him to create doors anywhere he touches. In scientific terms, it's like opening one space and creating another in a different place, essentially space traversal."

Kado carefully thought about the Devil Fruit abilities he had seen in the anime from his previous life. The abilities of the people mentioned above were somewhat similar to his own, so Kado couldn't help but compare: "These people's abilities are all related to space. Could mine also be related to space?"

As Kado watched everything in his hand stop moving with his actions, a thought flashed through his mind: "Could my ability be to stop a certain piece of space, in other words, to imprison space?"

"Isn't this the complete opposite of that supporting character Bruno's Devil Fruit ability? His is the Door-Door Fruit, which opens a space, while mine locks a space. Isn't this ability exactly the Lock-Lock Fruit?"

Kado felt a bit frustrated. Although Bruno's strength seemed somewhat terrifying to him right now, after the protagonist Luffy grew stronger, he would be able to defeat Bruno with a single blow. The fact that his own Devil Fruit ability was so similar to Bruno's made Kado feel like his ability was just useless.

"Ugh, oh heavens, I'm supposed to be the legendary transmigrator! Why would you give me such a Devil Fruit? Couldn't you have given me a Logia-type, even a weak one would have been fine..."

After wailing in frustration for a while, Kado thought for a moment. Since he couldn't change the power of his Devil Fruit, there was no use in being upset. It would be better to carefully study his own Devil Fruit ability. Perhaps Bruno's ability seemed weak only because he didn't fully understand it.

In fact, Kado had been very envious of Bruno's ability in his previous life. As a professional thief, who wouldn't want the power of the Door-Door Fruit? You could open anyone's door, take anything you wanted, and even open a spatial door to launch a surprise attack. It was so convenient—just open a door behind someone and attack however you pleased.

"Damn it! Even if you gave me the Door-Door Fruit, that would be fine! Instead, you gave me the Lock-Lock Fruit. Am I supposed to become the head of security at a gate or something?"

Kado muttered angrily. Even Bruno's Door-Door Fruit would have been better, allowing him to expand the Thieves' Guild!

"That guy Bruno can open doors in space, so can my ability lock space?" Kado thought for a moment, then pulled a cigar from his pocket, lit it, and exhaled a smoke ring. Before the smoke ring could dissipate, Kado quickly placed his hand over the area where the ring was.

Sure enough, the smoke ring was frozen in place, completely motionless, as if the smoke itself had solidified.

"Ha ha, it really can freeze space!"

Kado extended his hand and reached toward the smoke ring. It seemed as though a transparent barrier had appeared near the smoke ring, incredibly solid. Kado pressed his hand against it, and suddenly, an idea popped into his mind.

Kado directed the power of the Devil Fruit to his right foot. He lifted it and tapped the air. Then, Kado placed his foot on the area where the space had been frozen by his Devil Fruit ability. He tested it, and sure enough, once the space was locked, it became immovable. Even when external force was applied, it had no effect.

When Kado stepped onto that frozen space, his whole body seemed to be suspended in mid-air, standing in the air.

"Ha ha, this is basically flying!" Kado was overjoyed. In the anime from his previous life, Bruno could also open a door in mid-air, and half of his body would float. However, because his ability wasn't powerful enough to open doors too far from him, the height he could float wasn't very high. But even if it wasn't high, it was still flying! Flying was every human's dream.

"Wait a minute, this can't really be called flying. It should be called walking on a ladder in the clouds. By freezing a piece of space, I step upward, and it really feels like there's an invisible staircase in the air, with each step leading higher."

Kado couldn't resist testing his ability, so he lifted his left foot to a higher spot, intending to freeze the space there.

Crash!

Kado suddenly fell to the ground. "Damn it, I knew it! There's no such thing as an invincible ability. Every ability has its weakness."

It turned out that when Kado froze the space beneath his left foot, the space under his right foot returned to normal. Caught off guard, he hadn't stepped onto the frozen space yet, and without a foothold, he fell straight down.

"This ability is pretty similar to the ones in the anime," Kado muttered to himself. "They can only affect a single area of space. Trafalgar Law's domain, for example, can only cover one space at a time. Bruno's ability also seems to only allow him to open one door, or maybe two connected doors. So my ability can only lock one space, meaning I can only have one lock at a time."

Instantly understanding the nature of his ability, Kado continued, "Hmph, stupid reaction. Instead of waiting for the other space to dissipate, I can just place my foot on another piece of locked space, right? That way, I can still fly!"

Thinking it through, Kado couldn't resist trying it out. With his effort, he was indeed able to take two or three steps in mid-air. He believed that as long as he mastered his Devil Fruit power, walking on a ladder in the clouds would soon be a piece of cake.

After floating in mid-air for a while, Kado's excitement began to subside, and he started to experiment with other potential uses of his ability.

"The Door-Door Fruit can open a door on Luffy's body. Can my ability work on my own body?"

Kado activated his power. Unfortunately, while the Devil Fruit power could move through different parts of his body, his body itself showed no signs of freezing.

"Hmph, I can't freeze myself. Maybe I can freeze someone else's body. But since I don't have anyone to experiment on right now, I'll try freezing the space around my body instead."

Kado tried to freeze the space in front of his chest where his clothes were. Sure enough, the clothes on his body became frozen, as hard as a piece of iron.

Kado flicked it with his hand, but there was no sound. However, the pain in his fingers told him that the hardness of this space was definitely extraordinary.

Kado took out a small knife and stabbed it toward the frozen space on his chest.

The knife seemed to hit an iron plate, unable to pierce through, sticking to Kado's skin.

"Ha ha ha, I've struck it rich! This ability—doesn't it mean I can directly use CP9's Moon Step and Iron Body?"

End of chapter

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