Night fell.
The warship sailed smoothly through the waves. The soldiers were partying in the lower deck, the sound of counting money echoing.
Tatsuki hid alone in the toilet of the Captain's cabin, locked the door, and sat on the toilet.
He felt very empty right now. The sense of loss from having tens of billions pass through his hands only to become penniless again in the blink of an eye made him desperately need a bit of excitement to fill the void in his heart.
'System, open the panel.'
A light blue screen unfolded on his retina.
[Host: Tatsuki]
[Violation Points: 90,000]
Looking at that figure approaching six digits, Tatsuki's breathing became rapid.
Excluding the original forty-odd thousand, this trip to Germa—whether it was extortion, vandalism, or finally setting up a private slush fund, corrupting colleagues, and bribing subordinates—every single act had brought him a massive amount of Violation Points.
'Almost a hundred thousand points. As long as I draw one top-tier ability, I'll have the capital to truly protect myself in this world.'
Tatsuki grit his teeth, his eyes turning frantic. 'System, use [Lottery].'
[Ding! Warning: This is a high-risk, high-reward gamble. Confirm spending 50,000 Violation Points for one spin?]
'Confirm. Spin it. It's all or nothing tonight.'
Tatsuki felt his palms sweating.
Fifty thousand points! How long had he been saving that up? If he pulled some garbage, he'd jump straight into the sea and end it.
Following Tatsuki's thought, a massive wheel that only he could see appeared on his retina. The wheel emitted an ancient and mysterious aura, densely packed with various rewards.
The pointer began to spin.
Vroom—
The pointer flew past.
[Zanpakuto: Ryujin Jakka]... passed.
[Super Saiyan Bloodline]... slid past.
[Doraemon's Spare Pocket]... also passed.
Tatsuki's heart was in his throat as he stared fixedly at the red pointer.
'Stop! Stop! Oh crap, don't pass that one!'
The wheel's speed slowed down more and more. Bizarre prizes flickered before his eyes.
[Rokushiki: Esoteric Book]... Garbage, don't want it.
[Top-tier Observation Haki]... Somewhat useful, but not exciting enough.
[I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense]... What kind of talent is this? Get lost!
[Thank You for Playing]... The pointer wobbled toward this black slot.
'No! System! Don't mess with me!'
Tatsuki clasped his hands together, frantically praying to the air, "I'm willing to trade Sakazuki's luck with women for a lifetime for one grand prize."
It seemed some mysterious sacrifice had taken effect.
As if it had exhausted its last bit of strength, the pointer slowly and laboriously scraped past the edge of the black slot and stopped in the center of a slot emitting a pure cyan light.
At this moment, golden light filled the toilet.
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host! You've been possessed by the Emperor of Luck!]
[Obtained Logia: Storm-Storm Fruit!]
[Issuing reward...]
A strangely shaped fruit appeared out of thin air in Tatsuki's hand. It was deep cyan all over, its skin covered in white spiral patterns that looked like flowing gas. It felt light as a feather in his hand.
Tatsuki took a deep breath and clicked on the item description, his pupils dilating instantly.
[Logia: Storm-Storm Fruit]
[Ability Description: The ultimate Logia fruit that integrates wind, thunder, rain, clouds, and air pressure. The ruler of the sky.]
[Ability 1: Elementalization (The body can transform into the storm itself).]
[Ability 2: Weather Control (Not just creating wind, but also controlling thunderstorms, air pressure differences, and downpours).]
[Ability 3: Natural Disaster Descent (After awakening, it can trigger large-scale hurricanes and change an island's climate).]
[Note: Optimized by the system, removing the side effect of fearing the sea (as well as physical rule limitations like fearing rubber insulation).]
"Holy... crap..."
Tatsuki was stunned.
A Devil Fruit that isn't afraid of seawater? Is this even still a Devil Fruit?
On this sea, the greatest weakness of devil fruit users is the ocean and Sea Stone. Eliminating this weakness meant that even if he were thrown into the deep sea, he could elementalize and fly out.
"I'm rich. This time, I've truly hit the jackpot."
Tatsuki looked at the dark green fruit in his hand, his eyes shining.
If he could only rely on Taijutsu to reign supreme among the younger generation before, now, he truly possessed the ticket to step into the top-tier combat power of this sea.
More importantly... this ability is cool.
Think about it: an entrance with a BGM of dark clouds and roaring thunder, and a wave of the hand to send a tornado.
For Tatsuki, who was dedicated to becoming the benchmark of Marine justice and the king of showing off, this was practically tailor-made.
Without any hesitation, he opened his mouth wide and took a hard bite of the fruit.
"Blegh!"
It tasted like rotten canned herring stuffed into expired socks and fermented for three years.
Tatsuki's face turned green, but he suppressed the urge to vomit.
"Gulp."
As the flesh entered his stomach, that disgusting taste vanished instantly.
In its place was an indescribable sense of lightness.
Tatsuki felt his body disappear. He was no longer a physical entity composed of bones and flesh, but had transformed into a wisp of free wind.
At this moment, he could clearly perceive every surge of airflow on the sea outside the cabin, hear the air currents disturbed by seagulls flapping their wings, and even feel the cheerful jumping of electrical charges in the rain clouds hundreds of meters high in the sky.
With a thought, Tatsuki, who had been sitting on the toilet, instantly disintegrated into countless green air currents, traveling rapidly within the small bathroom before finally re-coalescing in front of the sink.
He raised his hand and without any deliberate effort, a miniature green whirlwind naturally wound around his fingertips, rotating at high speed and making a faint "zzzt" sound.
He casually swung it at the air in front of him. Without any sound, the solid pure copper faucet was sliced through as if by an invisible blade, severed cleanly into two pieces with a cut as smooth as a mirror.
"Is this... the feeling of a Logia?"
Tatsuki looked at his elementalized palm, his eyes dazed. He could feel that as long as he wished, he could easily whip up giant waves and send this warship beneath his feet into the sky.
Moreover, there was no sense of weakness from the seawater in his body. Instead, he felt that the moisture of the sea made him even more comfortable.