After eting Issho, the rest of Sherwin journey was relatively peaceful...
Well, if you didn’t count the little troublemaker Felynes on the ship.
"You little brats! You drew on my face again!"
An exasperated Hunter chased several mischievous Felynes as they burst out of the cabin.
"owhahahaha! Sister Baby-5, help Klee ow block brother Sherwin, okay ow?!"
"Happy to be of service! Sorry, Master Sherwin! Weapon Transformation: Shield Girl!"
"You dummy, don’t join in on the chaos!"
Sherwin delivered a hand-chop to the forehead of Baby-5, who had already transford into a shield, but she gritted her teeth and held her ground.
"Little sister Klee ow just asked for my help! Even if it Master Sherwin, I won’t back down!"
The dimwitted maid shouted with full montum.
"Then I’m asking you to move out of the way right now, okay?!"
"...No!" After hesitating for a mont, Baby-5 still refused. "Master Sherwin and Sister Robin both said I have to learn how to say no!"
"..."
Sherwin was nearly driven mad by this idiot maid.
Now you decide to listen to ?!
To make matters worse, the little troublemaker Felynes who had just committed the prank were fanning the flas from the sidelines.
"That right! You must never yield to a dummy like Sherwin ow!"
Haibara ow, who was most likely the culprit, shouted and bragged to Sherwin triumphantly, "The paint this ti was made by imitating the Celestial Dragon mark. If you want to remove it, you can only use a similar thod ow~"
The style of this little black-bellied one remained consistent as always, with one sche following another.
"It just so happens that I can also test if the mushrooms picked from your body can be used for cooking ow!"
Sanji ow looked at the graffiti on Sherwin face with great interest, seemingly considering which part of the body would produce better-tasting mushrooms.
"Eh? Today lunch is mushrooms grown from Brother Sherwin body ow? But Klee doesn’t really like eating mushrooms... and since they were picked from Brother Sherwin, it feels a bit strange ow."
The little Ragdoll cat scratched her head in distress she had an intense curiosity about these mushrooms, yet she couldn’t bring herself to eat her "Brother Sherwin."
Fortunately, Klee ow distress did not last long, because the actual captain of the Dodo Advance, the pinnacle of power in the Felyne Investigation Team, the nesis of naughty cats, and the maintainer of order—Lord Huai—finally stepped forward!
"You lot! Have you had enough trouble ow!"
(=`ー=)
Huai ow held her sheathed longsword and smacked each of them one by one, not even sparing that airhead maid Baby-5.
"S-sorry! Lord Huai!"
Baby-5, who had looked persistent just a mont ago, instantly gave in, reverting to her human form and standing obediently to the side.
As for the other little naughty Felynes, they imdiately struck a well-behaved pose, as if the ones making a fuss just now weren’t them at all.
Sherwin: "..."
The Hunter was long used to the Felyne reactions, but Baby-5, why are you so practiced at this too?! Where was that stubborn attitude you had when dealing with just now?!
But once he rembered that the one Baby-5 was yielding to was Huai ow, Sherwin felt it was perfectly reasonable again...
After all, even he, the Hunter, had to bow before the majesty of Lord Huai it was only natural for Baby-5 to react this way.
Well, thinking about it like that, the Hunter—who possessed no majesty to speak of—felt much better in his heart.
In the end, the Hunter-brand mushrooms weren’t eaten. According to Sanji ow assessnt, the mushrooms sprouted from eating the "Body-Sprouting Mushroom" had no nutritional value and no flavor whatsoever, making them completely worthless for consumption.
Sherwin was actually a bit curious if mushrooms growing on that Warden in Impel Down who ate the Venom-Venom Fruit would turn into poisonous mushrooms.
This question of his seed to spark a new idea in Haibara ow. For the following period of ti, the kitten mostly hid in the laboratory tinkering with her potions, which actually gave Sherwin quite a bit of peace.
Aside from the smooth sailing, other matters within the Investigation Team were also progressing very well.
Under the repeated persuasion of Shirahoshi and Baby-5, Dellinger was now able to communicate relatively calmly with Klee ow, Kaido ow, Jinx, and the other Felynes who were close to Shirahoshi or simply had high charisma and social stats...
It was just that his foul-mouthed personality led to him getting beaten up by Jinx quite often.
As for Baby-5, although she was still a bit eccentric, she no longer agreed to every random person request like before. Most importantly... she finally had a bit of an awareness regarding secrets.
To confirm this, Sherwin specifically took Baby-5 to et the Klabautermann of the Dodo Advance in private. He deliberately did not demand that she keep it a secret, only ntioning that the Dodo Advance itself didn’t like seeing outsiders.
Then, he had Jinx purposely leak the fact that "Baby-5 knows a big secret of the Investigation Team" to Dellinger and egged him on to try and pry the secret out of her.
In truth, Sherwin did not want to test his companions in such a manner, but Baby-5 bizarre personality was simply too peculiar, and the Investigation Team truly held a few too many secrets, so he was forced to do so...
Of course, the fact that Sherwin later treated it like a grand performance—watching Baby-5 struggle with her conscience and scramble under Dellinger interrogation, and then watching Dellinger various attempts to coax, trick, and pry the secrets out after failing the direct approach—was another matter entirely.
Regarding strength, after Sanji ow Armant Haki successfully broke through its bottleneck, his combat power still couldn’t match the dedicated combat Felynes like Hiko Seijuro and the others, but he was no longer as defenseless as he had been before.
As for Ace, whom the little yellow Felyne cared about most, it was impossible to determine a winner without a real fight, but at the very least, Sanji ow now had the confidence to face Ace in battle once again.
After Purah ow ate the Snow-Snow Fruit, she also enthusiastically began to develop her fruit abilities.
Unlike Aokiji Ice-Ice Fruit, the core ability of the Snow-Snow Fruit is the creation of snow lowering the temperature is rely a secondary effect of producing that snow. Therefore, Purah ow could not "instant-freeze" people or even the seawater the way Aokiji could.
While she could have simply beco an ordinary "Snow Woman" like Monet, that clearly didn’t fit Purah ow status as a genius scientist.
Thus, the little researcher quickly found her own path of developnt.
The snow created by her ability could move freely according to her will, which was equivalent to having an infinite source of power. Furthermore, the hardness of compacted snow blocks was not inferior to solid ice with the boost of unscientific Devil Fruit powers, surpassing the strength of steel was not difficult. If Purah ow needed it, she could even have Suika ow help further increase the density.
So...
Purah ow could entirely use her abilities to create snow-golem versions of Guardians, where the internal components and power sources could be replaced by Devil Fruit powers.
This ant the snow Guardians made by the little researcher were even more intelligent than the fla golems and lightning clones produced by Klee ow and Shermie ow, who had already awakened their fruit abilities.
Of course, it wasn’t without its drawbacks. Since they were made of snow, the heat rays and railguns typically powered by Klee ow and Shermie ow energy were out of the question. Due to the limitations of the Snow-Snow Fruit power, there were no freeze rays either the only long-range attacks the snow Guardians could release were ice spikes and frost blades molded by her power, or freezing tornados laced with snow.
However, that was already enough. Purah ow main combat power still manifested through her chanical ball and standard Guardians the Snow-Snow Fruit was primarily used to enhance the little researcher own survivability...
As well as providing the Felynes with snow for building snown and having snowball fights.
Additionally, after obtaining the Snow-Snow Fruit, the Eagle mode of Purah ow chanical ball received a further boost.
Previously, because the chanical ball had the assistance of Shermie ow and Klee ow abilities, the Cal and Lizard modes were more powerful in terms of raw combat strength, while the Elephant mode—which stored seawater—was a specialized mode for countering ability users. Now, with the addition of the Snow-Snow Fruit power, the gap between the four modes had finally narrowed.
Once Purah ow awakens her fruit ability in the future, the Investigation Team will be able to forge ice-elent equipnt to go along with their fire, lightning, and blast-elent gear.
When that ti cos, the "Yubashiri" used by Hiko Seijuro will be able to live up to its na as a "Snow-Strider,"
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