"What Devil Fruit ability is this? The flutter-flutter fruit and Gravity Fruit already have owners. Is this the Attraction-Attraction Fruit?"
"No, the trajectories of all the meteors bouncing back were almost identical to their falling paths. If it were the Attraction-Attraction Fruit, it wouldn't behave like this... Could it be some sort of Repel-Repel Fruit?"
"As for what protected the Red Line... is it the Logia-type Earth-Earth Fruit, or something else... a Steady-Steady Fruit? A Solidify-Solidify Fruit?"
That's the trouble with Devil Fruits—any bizarre ability can appear. There's nothing they can't do, only things you can't imagine. Vegapunk hadn't expected his ultimate move to be countered so easily.
While it certainly caused significant damage to Mary Geoise, it was far from his expected result—at the very least, half the Celestial Dragons should have died to justify his triple strike!
Most importantly, he didn't seem to have probed any of Mary Geoise's true trump cards; at most, an attack capable of shattering the meteor in the sky was revealed, which was likely a product of some technology.
Now it all depended on his final bomb... However, even after two hours, Vegapunk still hadn't felt the bomb explode, causing a look of confusion to appear on his face.
While Vegapunk was pondering, a CP0 agent in a white suit and mask walked out, holding his specially made bomb. However, the bomb had turned black and white, like an old photograph, frozen in the air.
"This... the Still-Still Fruit? Truly an astonishing depth of fruit users, but how did the World Government find the bomb?"
Vegapunk thought of Imu's actions in the Room of Flowers, shredding photos and extinguishing lights, and his brows furrowed:
"Is this... predicting the future?"
"Is it a derivative ability of Observation Haki, or some peculiar Devil Fruit power? If it really is Observation Haki, then Imu's Haki cultivation is absolutely insane!"
This isn't just predicting an opponent's next move in battle. To stop an operation like the one he planned using future sight, both the timeframe and the scope of the prediction would have to be incredibly vast.
Combined with the performance in the manga... this guy's future sight is probably measured in years, and without any range limitations.
"I wonder if Red Hair's 'Observation Killer' Haoshoku could deal with it if it really is Observation Haki... Probably not, the gap is just too large."
"Perhaps with Hancock's current insane level of Haoshoku, once she learns the 'Observation Killer' technique, she could block the opponent's Observation Haki—assuming this ability really is Observation Haki."
"But... if not directly opposing the World Government, the ability to predict the future shouldn't be able to detect it."
As Vegapunk analyzed, the CP0 agent outside slowly carried the bomb to the sea, cold sweat dripping from his forehead.
Whatever the Devil Fruit ability was, it clearly wasn't easy to suppress a bomb on the verge of exploding. Especially one made by Vegapunk—though not large, once it went off, an entire island would basically evaporate instantly.
If the agent's Devil Fruit ability didn't last long enough, he probably wouldn't even be able to escape the blast radius.
But just then, the surrounding air vibrated, and an air door was opened on the spot. A burly man with a hairstyle resembling a pair of bull horns stepped out.
Seeing the air door open, the CP0 agent's face lit up with joy, and he threw the bomb inside. The man with the bull-horn hair immediately closed the air door. After a slight ripple in space, there was no further development.
"That's... Blueno, the Door-Door Fruit user! I didn't expect them to block my super bomb with that move."
Looking at the situation, Vegapunk couldn't help but shake his head. The World Government's depth of Devil Fruit Users was truly profound, and they thought quickly. With preparation, most unconventional tactics probably wouldn't work.
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