Marianne woke up in an unknown wooden house.
When she heard biting sounds, she became alert, grabbing her brush and paint palette.
'Mr.3... Is he really dead?' She thought: 'I must report this!'
"Crack!"
The sound of wood breaking echoed, and soon she saw a panther.
She remained calm when she saw what it was, and by dipping the brush in ink, she drew something on the floor and stepped back.
**
Caleb was in no rush to leave the island.
Even with the Eternal Log Pose of Alabasta, he wasn't in a hurry to leave Little Garden Island.
This was a great place to train and had plenty of good food.
Of course, he had another plan.
He had another reason for letting Marianne go besides the fact that she was a child... When she woke up, she would report what happened, and when Crocodile found out, the chances of him sending more people with bounties on their heads were pretty high.
While he thought about this, he took a capsule from the 'card book,' and after pressing the button, he threw it forward into the open space he had cleared.
"POOF!"
Saeko and Chun-Li's eyes widened at the sight of it, while Harribel didn't even blink.
"I'm starting to get tired of being surprised every time Caleb does something like this," Chun-Li murmured.
At this point, no one disagreed.
"Is it really a special room capable of increasing gravity from 1 to 500?" Saeko was very interested in this.
She wasn't the only one.
"Yes. But don't even try to set it to 500." Caleb said, looking at Saeko in particular, warning: "Actually, even at 100 times you'd be completely crushed — your body and bones couldn't handle that force."
"I know my limits, don't worry." Saeko said with a small smile.
100 times Earth's gravity was something not even Chun-Li could endure.
Even Caleb, without using Haki, would barely be able to stand.
"Let's start with 5 times," Caleb said.
Chun-Li and Saeko agreed.
Opening the door of the gravity machine, they entered.
"Wow! It's bigger than I thought~" Saeko hummed.
"Yes, it's quite spacious in here." Chun-Li agreed.
Then, Caleb walked to the center. He had received all the instructions and knew how to operate it.
It was basically a computer system, with a keyboard and settings for increasing gravity among other options he planned to explore later.
Quickly, he set it to 5 times the normal gravity and clicked Enter.
"This is it!"
When the gravity was increased to 5, it felt like constantly carrying the weight of five bodies identical to your own.
Even walking became difficult.
"God, with this my progress will skyrocket!" Chun-Li could already imagine how things would be after coming out of this room with increased gravity.
"No doubt about that, especially with us eating dinosaur meat which is very nutritious, speeding up our progress," Caleb said. "Besides, I intend to officially start teaching Haki to you, although I've already explained the basics, it's time for real training."
"I can't wait~" Saeko licked her lips in a predatory way that was quite seductive, by the way.
Meanwhile, Saeko could barely walk with the gravity increased to 5 since she wasn't using the suit this time.
Chun-Li was doing better than Saeko. She could still move and throw some blows, though not very fast.
As for Harribel... Well, it had almost no effect on her.
"Alright, let's start from the basics," Caleb said. "The Armament Haki, as I explained before..."
**
After teaching them the basics, Caleb left.
Walking toward where the ship was, Caleb got distracted by his thoughts of future plans.
"Huh?"
"Roar!"
When he saw a tyrannosaurus almost swallowing his head, Caleb looked strangely, activating the ability of his left eye, 'Pregnancy Gaze.'
The instant this ability was used, Caleb's left eye shone with a strange golden light. The light was emitted in the shape of stars. Anyone who saw this strange light had no way to dodge the ability if their strength was inferior to Caleb's.
"ROARRRR!!"
The fierce expression of the tyrannosaurus vanished as its ferocious eyes almost rolled back, roaring loudly in pain; the tyrannosaurus couldn't even move.
Caleb went around the tyrannosaurus and continued walking toward his ship.
When he got very close, his eyes grew grave.
'As I suspected, there are some unfortunate ones here...' He thought, seeing some large animals, many of them prehistoric.
Some were fighting, others biting at the carved meat of the Island Devourer.
"Hey!" Caleb shouted, drawing everyone's attention to him.
Soon, several pairs of fierce eyes were directed at him.
Assuming a fighting stance, Caleb exhaled steam from his mouth as his left eye glowed strangely.
When the glow was seen by those few giant animals, they began to writhe.
Surrounded by crackling blue lightning, Caleb moved in a Z-pattern as the Tessaiga in his hand turned black with a golden aura around it.
His first target was a saber-toothed tiger three times Caleb's height.
The Tessaiga in Caleb's hand cut through the saber-toothed tiger's neck while on the left, he cut off the head of a massive green snake.
As soon as his foot touched the ground, he made an abrupt turn, but without losing speed, jumping and spinning, ending upside down as he cut off the head of a velociraptor.
Still upside down in the air, he 'stepped' on the air with his feet covered in lightning, shooting downward vertically, cutting off the huge head of a 9-meter-tall triceratops.
He continued moving in a Z-pattern, cutting off the head of each one of them.
When he stopped, he slowly returned the Tessaiga to its sheath, and soon the sound of slicing echoed, followed by the sound of water faucets opening.
"Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!"
One by one, the large animals dropped, making loud noises as the sounds of birds flying echoed loudly, stirring the forest.
Turning and looking at the fallen animals, he saw that even without their heads, their bellies kept swelling.
'This ability is really abnormal...' He thought.
Trying not to think too much about it, Caleb went to the meat of the Island Devourer. Taking his D-Dial, Caleb stored all the meat.
Then, he went to the ship and also stored it in the D-Dial.
"Let's go back..." Caleb murmured.
**
Using trees and dinosaur bones, Caleb began building a small mansion with 5 bedrooms using Modeling.
When he finished, he felt a bit overwhelmed.
Using too much of this ability required a lot of concentration and calculations.
Even with Sage, it still wore him out, mentally speaking.
'It was a bit challenging to do something like this for the first time, but I must say, it didn't turn out bad...'
The house had two floors, with the first floor being the living room, bathroom, and kitchen. On the second floor, the bedrooms.
He could've made it more elaborate, but since it was something for them to use for a few days, it should do.
Going to the newly created wooden table, Caleb pulled a chair and sat down.
Grabbing his D-Dial, he wanted to eat a fruit while resting a little.
When he thought of picking a pear, something with a similar shape appeared in his hand in a pale color covered in S-shaped spirals; clearly, it wasn't a pear.
The top part of the fruit looked like it was melting, even the green part connected to the fruit shaped like a hook looked like it was melting.
'A Devil Fruit and by the melted appearance, I assume it's from... Mr.3?'
It was too much of a coincidence to be true.
'Is there a chance this happened because I placed his body in the separate dimension of the D-Dial?'
This was really something revealing.
For a moment, he thought about going around like Blackbeard, hunting the best Devil Fruit users and stealing them...
However, he went against that idea.
It was fine if the targets were enemies or pirates he didn't like who crossed his path, like the case of Mr.3 whom he felt repulsed by. But he wouldn't do that to someone he had nothing against just to steal their Devil Fruit.
'If it's really possible, at the very least I should try to get Enel's Devil Fruit.' He thought.
Someone like Enel, he wouldn't feel a bad taste in his mouth if he attacked to kill.
Storing this Devil Fruit in his D-Dial, at the same time, he wanted to pick another pear.
This time it came correctly.
Biting and savoring the pear, he ate until only the core remained.
Holding the core in his hand, he calculated with the help of the "Sage" and tried to teleport it.
His intention was to teleport it to the wooden trash bin he created that was a few meters away, but it ended up appearing halfway there.
"Thud."
'A little, but it's already progress.' He thought: 'It wasn't a miscalculation, but rather, because I haven't assimilated enough to strengthen this ability.'
The most bizarre part was that, because of his left eye, he managed to see the three-dimensional space when he used this ability.
'This eye surprises me more and more...' Caleb thought with a happy smile.
One thing was to feel and calculate before teleporting X thing, but with this eye, besides sensing the three-dimensional space, he was also able to see it.
The only thing truly missing was strengthening the ability by assimilating Shirai Kuroko.
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