"Mm... that really is pretty nice."
Sherwin looked at the little kitten proud expression. In the end, he still suppressed the urge to complain, reached out, and scratched under her chin as he praised her.
It was absolutely not because a certain Hunter had chickened out and was afraid Haibara ow might command her new pet to give him a dose of the Satan Potion.
Absolutely not!
"Hmph~ Why do I feel like there sothing behind your words, ow?"
(=ˇˇ=)
Haibara ow sharp senses kicked in instantly, her gaze turning piercing. "If you don’t need tasty recovery potions, then from now on I can always—"
"I need them, I need them, I need them!" Sherwin hurriedly interrupted the little scher. "What I just said was sincere praise, absolutely no other aning... Oh right, have you given this little guy a na yet?"
Such an obvious and stiff change of topic was of course impossible for Haibara ow not to notice, but since she was in a good mood after successfully completing the experint, she couldn’t be bothered to argue with the idiot Hunter.
"Hmph~ Of course not. I ca out right after finishing 2511, ow!"
2511... Sure enough, that familiar naming style again. It was hard to tell whether it referred to the White Bat Fruit itself, or the transformable potion used to carry the White Bat Fruit.
"Then do you have any preferred na in mind? If not, how about I give it one?"
Sherwin asked eagerly.
"ow?"
The little kitten looked at Sherwin suspiciously. "You’re not planning to give it so weird na, are you?"
"How could I?" Sherwin shrugged. "If you don’t like the na I co up with, you don’t have to use it at all."
"That true, ow..." Haibara ow nodded her little head, then crossed her arms and put on a magnanimous expression. With her chin held high, she said arrogantly, "Then go ahead and tell . If I think it good, I’ll use the na you gave it, ow~"
Sherwin, who wanted to play on the "winery" joke with a "Sli Legion," couldn’t be bothered to argue with the little one at this point, and simply said the na he had in mind—
"Let call it Vermouth."
Half angel, half demon, and silver-white—then of course it had to be Big Sis Vermouth.
And later, when making other mbers of the "Sli Legion," he could also use winery codenas...
Winery BOSS Haibara Ai—just hearing it sounded aweso!
"Vermouth?" Haibara ow tilted her head and thought it over for a mont.
After realizing that the na really didn’t seem to have any problems, she nodded, brought the little white bat in front of her, and said, "It sounds pretty nice. Then from now on, your na is Vermouth, ow."
"Chi~"
The white bat that had gained a new na was very happy. It let out cheerful cries while flapping its wings, flying back and forth between Sherwin and Haibara ow.
"Then next, are you planning to change Sherry main body into sothing like Vermouth too?"
Sherwin extended a finger to let the little white bat land on it, then used his other hand to tap the hexagonal salamander on top of Haibara ow head.
"Unfortunately, Sherry main body can’t be changed anymore, ow."
Haibara ow shook her head and explained, "Its main body was originally converted from Caesar poison gas.
Removing its toxicity and changing it into a universal base fluid that can fuse with various potions is already the limit.
There no way to further alter its properties, ow... unless I can find a thod to directly transfer Devil Fruit abilities."
She reached out a paw and gently patted Sherry on the head. Sherry emotions were clearly a little down, so she spoke in a tone that was half comfort, half explanation.
"And besides, although a self-regulating situation like Vermouth is very convenient, its versatility is still a bit lacking.
We also don’t have that many Zoan Fruits to carry every type of drug, so I still need a mber like Sherry, who can switch between different drugs at any ti, to deal with all kinds of situations, ow."
"Ba-ao!"
When the axolotl heard Haibara ow say that, it instantly perked up. It braced itself on its four stubby little legs, lifted its not-so-obvious neck, and let out an emotionally charged "roar," then lowered its head again and licked the fur on top of Haibara ow head.
The little white bat that had been hanging from Sherwin finger also began flapping its wings. While chirping "ji-ji," it flew a few circles around Haibara ow, then imitated Klee ow on Sherwin shoulder and landed on Haibara ow shoulder as well.
"So you already have ideas for the remaining two fruits too?"
"Of course I do, ow!"
Haibara ow nodded hard and excitedly began telling Sherwin about her plan...
(=`=)
"Besides the Recovery Drug, the only one that can currently undergo property changes is the Demon Drug.
After all, it was originally modified using that potion you called Hao Water, and later I upgraded it by drawing inspiration from the vicious drugs of Fish-Man Island.
So in theory, it should be able to switch between the characteristics of these three dicines... that is, demon, severe poison, and aging, ow! As for the other drugs, I still haven’t found a direction yet, ow."
As she said this, the little kitten who had been full of excitent let her ears droop again, pouting unhappily.
"Ji~"
Vermouth imdiately spoke up to comfort their little master.
However, Sherwin and Sherry were completely unmoved...
It wasn’t that they had any issues with Haibara ow it was simply that they had seen this kind of scene far too many tis.
After all, in scientific research, running into failed experints or monts with no ideas at all was perfectly normal.
The little kitten still had a whole pile of other projects waiting for her to tinker with.
So there was no need for them to comfort her at all—Haibara ow would recover very quickly on her own.
Knowing this, Sherwin followed along with what she had just said and guessed, "The Demon Drug series, huh... so you’re planning to give it the ability of the Tiger Fruit?"
"Nope," Haibara ow, who had already recovered, raised her little paw—round like a mangosteen—and shook it at Sherwin.
"I’m not planning to use the Tiger Fruit as a drug-based main body. That would be too much of a waste of the tiger own combat power, ow."
"So I’m planning to use solid powder to make the Tiger Fruit main body instead, ow.
Although that ans losing the ability to switch between gaseous and liquid forms, and it won’t be able to serve as logistics that apply status effects to everyone like Sherry and the others,
only a solid main body can better bring out the tiger inherent combat power, ow!"
Then the little kitten sighed again. "It a pity that Sea-Prism Stone and fragnts of the Poneglyphs can’t carry Devil Fruit abilities.
Otherwise, they’d be the best materials—and they could also restrain other ability users...
For now, I can only settle for using alloy fragnts strengthened by Sister Suika instead, ow."
"As long as you’ve got an idea, that fine," Sherwin said as he pinched her ear.
"Leave the Devil Fruit matters to . Whatever fruit you want, just say it—I’ll find a way to get it for you."
"Mythical Zoans! I want to research Mythical Zoan Fruits, ow! Of course, I won’t turn my nose up at Ancient Zoans either, ow!"
Haibara ow imdiately shouted with sparkling eyes.
Sherwin: "..."
This little scher shaless habit of pushing her luck—who on earth did she learn that from?!
And besides...
Why did what she just said sound so oddly familiar?
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