Chapter 18: Empty ship
"It's really a powerful ability!" Lin Fan felt exhausted, he had underestimated the Meru Meru no Mi.
When he watched Hancock use this ability, he thought that the enemies were fools, because it was just a Parmecia type ability.
But now he understood that at the higher level of power, Parmecia fruits were much more dangerous than Logia and Zoan, by a huge margin.
Zon for example, was just a transformation into an animal, it's true that animals are powerful and there are also some Zoan fruits with special abilities.
But a user of armament haki that is somewhat strong can destroy a normal Zoan fruit user.
Similarly, Logia fruits were very strong, almost invincible to normal people, take Enel as an example, Until now lin Fan didn't understand how Luffy could defeat him.
It was very illogical, as a user of a powerful fruit like lightning plus a high level of observation haki plus the fruit's ability to enhance observation haki, it was really impossible for Luffy to defeat him.
Because at that time he was almost at the level of Doflamingo.
But even the powerful Logia fruit, under the dominance of Armament Haki, is greatly weakened.
And if he is faced with a powerful Royal Haki user, the Logia fruit user is completely powerless to resist.
Because Royal Haki completely nullifies the fruit's ability and forces the Logia user to materialize.
But what about the Paramecia fruit in contrast, it was an unexpected, strange and dangerous ability.
Take Bonnie's ability, and Ain's as an example, what about turning you back into a child or turning you into an old man, this applies to time abilities.
In this situation, Lin Fan understood the scary thing about the Paramecia ability because he experienced the difficulty of undoing the transformation himself.
But for this reason, he felt afraid and cautious of the fruit related to time because he did not know what would happen to him if he returned to time as a child.
Would all his power return to that time, even if it did not return all of it, but he knew that his Haki power would weaken greatly.
Even if he could cancel the fruit's ability, it wouldn't be as easy as petrifying it, and at the same time, there was a high chance that he wouldn't have enough time.
But well, people at Bonnie's level wouldn't be able to defeat him even if he somehow fell under their fruit's ability.
Take Hancock as an example, if she had the desire to hurt him, although she wouldn't be able to break his body after he was petrified, he would be seriously injured to quickly cancel the ability.
But if it was against a dangerous Paramecia user who was also very capable, without relying on his fruit, the situation would be different.
As for the situation he was in now, Lin Fan felt helpless.
Although he could easily dodge her attack, after all, the current Hancock wasn't as strong as in the original story.
And even if she was at that level, she was still far from his level. But despite this, he chose to directly receive the attack.
As for the reason, well~
First to ease Hancock's anger, because he was really wrong, apparently~
Finally, he thought he could get rid of the petrification with ease.
But he was wrong.
After using his full power In a safe way without exhausting his haki for half an hour, all he could do was remove half of the petrification.
This lesson taught Lin Fan that he had become a bit arrogant at this time.
He thought that now that he had trained his Haki to this level, few would be able to put him in danger.
So he decided that from this moment onwards he would try not to underestimate anyone at all~.
...
Three weeks later.
On the now almost empty ship.
Hancock was watching the sea with her sisters and Ruona, happily talking and laughing without reservation, filling the empty ship with liveliness.
In these few weeks, Lin Fan helped the former slaves return home.
For the people from the nearby islands, Lin Fan himself took them to their islands one by one.
As for the people whose islands were far away, either on the other side of the Grand Line, in the Blue Sea, or even from the New World.
He left them on a tourist port island with some of the money he had earned in the past to return on their own.
But the ones who really made him feel exhausted were the ones who had no place to return to.
He didn't know what to do with them, but finally decided to let them make their own choices. After some thought, they finally chose to start their lives on a secluded island.
When Lin Fan heard their choice, he felt very sad deep down, he could understand that they were ashamed of their status as former slaves, so they didn't choose to start a new life among people.
But he didn't say a word, nor did his sadness show on his face, and he went to search for a suitable island quietly.
Finally, after searching for a whole week, he found an island that was a bit far away and safe from dangerous animals and plants, but full of life.
After helping them make houses by cutting wood and other places, Lin Fan was able to a few hours ago with Hancock and the other three girls.
Meanwhile, Lin Fan, who was able to move now, was looking at Hancock and the others who were talking happily on the other
side of the ship with a sad look on his face.
This was not how he imagined it would end!