One Piece : Bounty Hunter King! Chapter 22: Rasengan?

Despite saying that, Cyrus had no imdiate plans to leave Shimotsuki Village.

After all, he had already paid.

Wouldn't it be a loss to leave now?

"Is what you're describing really possible?"

...

Several days later, Koshiro looked at Cyrus with a pained expression.

He had seed so composed before, so why had he suddenly beco so eccentric?

Controlling a ten-million-degree heat and wearing it like a coat, or covering a sword with it?

What kind of sword could withstand such a high temperature?

Besides, how could there possibly be flas that hot?

"That's why I'm asking for your guidance!" Cyrus said to Koshiro with a serious expression.

Hmm?

Koshiro took a deep breath, suppressing his exasperation.

"I'm sorry, I can't comprehend what you're talking about either. But I can tell you that the 'Slicing Touch' you ntioned is indeed possible. Many Swordsn on the sea can imbue their blades with Haki and unleash powerful slashes. Such slashes might be similar to what you call a 'Slicing Touch'."

After hearing Koshiro's words, Cyrus scratched his slightly overgrown hair, sighed, and stood up.

"Thank you, Master!"

"No need for thanks, I didn't help you with much. However, I can try to demonstrate the 'Slicing Touch' you ntioned. Of course, it definitely won't have the power you described."

With that, Koshiro stood up and left. A mont later, he returned holding a sword with a pure white scabbard and hilt.

"Let's go, it's not convenient here!"

Koshiro turned, and Cyrus followed.

Soon, the two stood on a cliff on the other side of the island, looking out at the boundless sea.

Koshiro took a deep breath and assud a stance. His right hand rested on the hilt of Wado Ichimonji.

The next mont, Armant Haki covered his hand and spread along the blade of the sword.

Cyrus watched in silence.

In an instant, a drawing slash combined with an extrely fast strike appeared, followed by the sound of the sword being sheathed.

The flying slash cut a gash over a hundred ters long on the sea's surface, which vanished in an instant.

"No, according to your description, it should be a vertical slash."

Koshiro shook his head slightly.

His slash had actually been diagonal.

"That's enough, I think I understand now," Cyrus called out to Koshiro, who was about to try again.

Different worlds, different effects for the sa moves.

In the other world, old man Yamamoto's flas, which could reach tens of millions of degrees at a whim, were far too difficult to achieve in this world.

Especially since he had to rely on his Devil Fruit ability to reach that level.

Of course, if he could really achieve such high temperatures, he wouldn't need any special moves at all.

No matter who it was, they wouldn't be able to withstand tens of millions of degrees of heat.

No, he wouldn't even need tens of millions of degrees.

A temperature of a few hundred thousand, or even tens of thousands of degrees, would be enough that no one could withstand it.

Even the Magma-Magma Fruit, the superior version of the Fla-Fla Fruit, only produced magma at one or two thousand degrees.

A temperature of just a few thousand degrees would be enough to vaporize magma.

However, the flas he currently controlled were only five or six hundred degrees.

Of course, by adding other controls to the flas, he could raise the temperature.

Since it was the Fla-Fla Fruit, the focus of its developnt should be on increasing the temperature.

Cyrus sighed.

All those moves were useless if the temperature wasn't high enough; their power would be very limited.

Thinking of this, Cyrus's gaze fell on the data panel that appeared before him.

[Fla-Fla Fruit (Fully Mastered): A powerful Logia Type fruit ability, granting the user the ability to beco and control fire; continuously enhances the body; fruit drawbacks have been removed (weaknesses and parasitic soul); current fruit developnt (25%)]

Fully Mastered?

So the thod he was thinking of was correct?

Seeing the change on the data panel, Cyrus had a realization.

But the developnt was only at 25%.

It was still just an idea, and he hadn't even found a specific thod to increase the fla's temperature, yet it was already "Fully Mastered."

Perhaps this "Fully Mastered" wasn't what he imagined it to be.

Cyrus was a bit confused.

Koshiro, who had relaxed his stance, saw Cyrus frowning in thought and left quietly without disturbing him.

Cyrus noticed Koshiro's departure but didn't break his concentration.

The change in the panel sent Cyrus into deep thought, and he began to ponder how to increase the temperature of his flas.

Compression!

That was the simplest thod.

By compressing the flas, their temperature would surely beco extrely high.

Cyrus raised his hand, and a waterlon-sized fireball floated above his palm.

How to compress it?

With Haki?

Cyrus looked at the fireball on his palm and tried to cover it with Armant Haki.

But the result was not what he had hoped for.

The Armant Haki and the flas on his hand couldn't touch.

After several attempts, Cyrus flicked his wrist and extinguished the fireball.

Either Haki couldn't cover sothing like fire, or his current Armant Haki training was insufficient.

If it were a tangible Elental Transformation, perhaps he could cover it with Armant Haki.

Like the Swamp-Swamp Fruit, the Magma-Magma Fruit, or the Ice-Ice Fruit.

But the Fla-Fla and Glint-Glint Fruits, strictly speaking, had no tangible form after Elental Transformation.

However, the Mochi-Mochi Fruit, which was very similar to a Logia Type, could be coated with Armant Haki after creating mochi arms.

If that thod didn't work now, was there another way?

An idea struck Cyrus.

In an instant, another fireball appeared in his hand.

When he had just eaten the fruit, he had once controlled the flow, or rather, the rotation of the flas to speed up the roasting of bird eggs.

Accelerating the flow would absorb more oxygen and speed up combustion, or rather, it would make the plasma that ford the fla more active, creating a higher temperature.

The fireball in Cyrus's hand began to flow, then to rotate.

Streams of orange-red fla, or plasma fluid, ford several blade-like ribbons.

The orange-red color of the fla faded, and as the rotation speed increased, a ball of pure orange-yellow fla, with a core of white-hot fire, appeared in his hand.

'Damn!'

'Isn't this a freaking Rasengan?'

'This works too?'

White flas ant the temperature was at least over a thousand degrees, which ant the thod was a success.

However, the rotating fireball in his hand now looked exactly like a Rasengan infused with fire.

Thinking of this, Cyrus threw the fireball toward the sea.

Then, the spectacular scene he expected didn't happen.

After flying just a dozen ters, the rotating fireball completely burned out.

Well, it's a long road ahead.

Cyrus wasn't disappointed.

He didn't try again and turned to head back.

And on the data panel, another change had occurred.

[Fla-Fla Fruit (Preliminary Control)]

And the developnt level had changed to 31%.

Was this an advancent?

So, as long as he found new ways to develop the Fla-Fla Fruit, the progress would lead to "Proficient Control" and "Complete Control," and then what?

'Could it be an Awakening?'