After formulating the special training plan for everyone, Luffy immediately began targeted training for them.
He first taught Chopper the essentials of Soru.
Then he taught Haki and the Ultimate Body Forging Technique to Bonney.
Afterward, he let Chopper, Bonney, Franky, Karu, and Brook train on their own.
He himself activated his heaven-defying comprehension and applied it to everyone, helping them improve faster.
Then, he found the others and began one-on-one specialized training.
Throughout the island, there were constant violent tremors and roars, accompanied by powerful energy impacts being released.
Such a huge commotion attracted everyone on the island, who couldn't help but come out of curiosity, following the noise, hiding far away, and observing Luffy's one-on-one battles with Straw Hat.
And the dazzling and powerful battle scenes completely shocked the people of the entire Nine Snake Island.
It was also at this time that they realized that when Straw Hat fought them before, they had practically held back immensely.
This commotion not only attracted these people but also alerted Empress and others in the palace, as well as Mole far out at sea, to the anomaly.
When Empress and the others arrived out of curiosity, they were deeply shocked after seeing Straw Hat's battles and became even more determined in their previous decision.
Mole, on the other hand, frowned tightly, having no idea what was happening on the island, but he was shaken by the astonishing commotion and aura.
Luffy rotated his training partners one by one.
When one person's stamina and the corresponding Haki they were trying to improve gave out, he would let them rest and switch to another person.
As for Luffy himself, when one type of Haki was almost depleted, he would switch to another type of Haki to enhance the corresponding person.
Under this cycle, after a round of special training for Uta, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, and Nojiko, Luffy had almost nothing left in his body except for some Conqueror's Haki.
After a large meal during the break, Luffy's rapid absorption ability helped him quickly recover his stamina.
At this point, he simultaneously called Usopp, Robin, and Vivi.
The others, who did not possess Luffy's incredible recovery ability, were already panting and exhausted from the intense training, sitting to the side, observing the three from a distance.
These three had started daily intensive training very early under Luffy's heaven-defying Satori, and had also experienced many battles, even confronting a Buster Call and the combined might of the Three Admirals.
With these enhancements, their current strength was already sufficient to achieve Devil Fruit Awakening.
However, just like Luffy before, the reason they hadn't awakened was that they hadn't engaged in a full-power battle that could unleash their potential.
But because Luffy possessed the convenient ability of heaven-defying Satori, he planned to help them awaken through another method.
After applying heaven-defying Satori to the three, Luffy said to them,
"Next, I will use the Devil Fruit Awakening ability, you all just focus on sensing it and see if you can comprehend the awakened state."
Hearing Luffy's words, the three all nodded solemnly.
Then, Luffy began his Awakening.
Thump-thump!
Thump-thump!
Luffy's heart suddenly sounded like a rhythmic drumbeat.
The moment she heard this drumbeat, Bonney, who was sprawled on the ground, suddenly scrambled up, her eyes wide with disbelief, staring intently at Luffy.
"This drumbeat is..."
She exclaimed, and Kuma's past interactions with her involuntarily flashed through her mind.
In the scene,
Bonney looked at the smiling Kuma with an innocent expression, asking in confusion,
"Nika?!"
Kuma nodded with a smile and said,
"That's right! He's the person I admire the most!"
"He will appear before the world, with a joyful smile, to the beat of those drums!"
"Thump-thump, pat-pat! Thump-thump, pat-pat..."
Kuma struck a running pose, making the specific drum sounds with his mouth, dancing a strange yet joyful dance.
...
Bonney watched Luffy without blinking, recalling the scene from her memory.
Luffy's body began to emit wisps of white smoke, and at the same time, his entire body began to be dyed white.
His clothes, hair, eyebrows, and everything else turned pure white in an instant.
Between his neck and armpits, a white flame cloud, like a flowing ribbon, also appeared.
When Luffy's brand-new form appeared before Bonney's eyes, her heart seemed to suddenly stop beating, her breath caught in an instant, and she became like a puppet, falling into a daze.
In her vision, Luffy struck a running pose, leaping in mid-air, displaying a joyful smile that could bring laughter to everyone.
His free and unrestrained posture, and his laughter that seemed to influence those around him, made Bonney's inner emotions grow stronger and stronger.
Seeing Luffy in this form, exactly as Kuma had shown her in her mind, tears finally gushed uncontrollably from Bonney's eyes.
Seeing Bonney suddenly cry, Uta, Nami, and the others all cast concerned glances, asking worriedly,
"What's wrong, Bonney?"
Just as everyone was puzzled, Luffy also noticed the abnormality here.
Maintaining his joyful expression, he leaped in mid-air, looking at Bonney, who was crying with a downturned mouth and a wronged expression, and asked,
"Why are you crying, Bonney?"
Hearing Luffy's voice, Bonney suddenly burst into tears and snot.
With an excited and wronged expression, she cried out loudly to Luffy,
"Of course I'd cry, you idiot!"
"I've been looking for you all this time!"
Nika was the person Kuma admired most, Kuma's dream.
And it was because of Kuma's influence that Nika became the person Bonney admired most, and also her dream.
Besides wanting to see Kuma, her other purpose in going to sea was to find the legendary Warrior of Liberation who could bring laughter to the world.
She hoped Nika could bring true liberation to her and Kuma.
But she hadn't expected that she had known about Luffy for a long time, yet she never knew that he was the Nika she had always been looking for.
Uta and the others were all very confused by Bonney's words, asking in doubt,
"You've been looking for Luffy?"
"Isn't he with you already?"
Hearing this, Bonney cried even more intensely.
With tear-filled eyes, she looked at Luffy and cried out,
"I am with him!"
"But I didn't know he was Nika!"
At these words, everyone was collectively confused.
"Nika?! What's that?"
Just as everyone was collectively confused, they suddenly saw a tall figure appear behind Bonney.
Bonney instantly felt the presence behind her, and her body trembled violently.
Even without Observation Haki, the familiar aura from their long-standing relationship immediately brought a figure to her mind.
She mechanically turned her head and looked up.
She saw Kuma, at this moment, was also looking at Luffy's figure with tears streaming down his face, just like her.
"Papa!"
Bonney choked out an extremely soft call.
And Kuma was also pulled back to his senses by this call.
Looking down at Bonney at his feet, tears immediately flowed out like a spring.
In an instant, Kuma's usually stoic face was filled with infinite tenderness and emotion, as he gently called Bonney's name.
"Bonney!"
Hearing this familiar call, Bonney could no longer hold back and burst into loud sobs.
Her body instantly reverted to its true 10-year-old form, and she threw herself into Kuma's embrace.
The father and daughter embraced emotionally, weeping profusely.
...
Seeing such a warm and moving scene, Luffy immediately gave everyone a look, signaling them to leave and give the father and daughter some space.
Soon, the Straw Hat moved to another location.
The people of Nine Snake Island also consciously moved away, following the Straw Hat's figures.
Even before Luffy and the others left, a prompt appeared in his mind.
[Your Satori is heaven-defying. Through sensory transmission, your transmitters have comprehended Devil Fruit Awakening!]
The first to successfully awaken was Usopp.
Afterward, Robin and Vivi also successfully awakened one after another.
However, due to Bonney, they all remained silent so as not to disturb her.
It wasn't until they arrived at a distant location that the three of them finally showed excited expressions.
Usopp was even more jubilant, excitedly saying,
"sugei! I feel so strong now!"
Although Robin and Vivi weren't as exaggerated as Usopp, their faces were beaming with smiles and excitement.
They could also feel that the enhancement brought by the Devil Fruit Awakening state was incomparable to their normal state.
It could be said that their combat power instantly leaped a large margin.
Seeing the three of them like this, the others couldn't help but become curious and excitedly said,
"Show us quickly!"
"What's Devil Fruit Awakening like? Is there any difference?"
Upon hearing this, Usopp was the first to demonstrate.
He moved a bit away from the others, then curled his lips and placed one hand on the ground.
The next instant, everyone saw the ground in an area around Usopp begin to swell and bulge.
At a certain moment,
Boom! Boom! Boom! (ceeb) Boom!
A series of explosions roared around Usopp, completely engulfing his entire figure.
However, as the smoke cleared, he reappeared before everyone, completely unharmed.
Only the ground around him was now riddled with a circle of large, uneven holes.
At this point, Usopp explained to everyone,
"This is my Awakening ability. I can transform everything within a certain range around me into bombs with explosive properties."
"I was just demonstrating for you earlier, so the transformation range was very small."
"And more importantly, I can control these transformed bombs at will."
"Simply put, I can transform an area into bombs, then concentrate and fuse them at one point to create an even stronger explosion in a specific location."
"And I can also use these transformed bombs for myself, concentrating and fusing them onto my body to make my attacks more powerful."
After Usopp finished explaining, he gave a simple demonstration to everyone.
He once again unleashed an Awakening of the same power as before, and this time, when he concentrated it at one point, it produced an extremely violent explosion.
The deep crater blasted into the ground even far exceeded the combined depth of all the previously scattered craters.
Then, he used his awakened state again, concentrating the transformed explosive bombs from an area around him onto his fist.
Then, he threw a punch into thin air.
Boom!
An incredibly massive roar exploded.
It was as if a railgun had fired from Usopp's fist, instantly destroying and engulfing everything within several hundred meters ahead.
Such a scene completely shocked everyone in the Straw Hat and the citizens of Nine Snake Island who were secretly watching from a distance.
Even Luffy was deeply shaken by Usopp's development and control over the Devil Fruit.
Currently, Usopp's strength had soared, even showing signs of directly rivaling Zoro and Sanji.
After Usopp finished his demonstration, Robin was the second to display her power to everyone.
She crossed her hands, forming a special gesture.
Soon, the Straw Hat members and the citizens of Nine Snake Island secretly watching from a distance saw.
Centered around Robin, all the surrounding land, flowers, and trees transformed into countless pale arms.
This transformation spread for a hundred meters in every direction.
Under Robin's control, these countless arms eventually merged into two incredibly massive hands, even larger than those of the Giant Race.
Robin controlled one of them, clenching it into a fist and swinging it violently at the ground that had not been transformed.
Boom!
As a loud bang echoed, the ground trembled violently.
The power was quite impressive.
At this point, Robin explained to everyone.
"My awakened ability also allows me to transform surrounding matter into my own ability."
"And if I merge all those transformed arms together, I can greatly increase my attack and defense."
"Even now, though my giant arm isn't covered in Armament Haki, ordinary cannon fire and sword attacks can no longer break through my defense."
Upon hearing this, the Straw Hat were already amazed by Robin's improvement.
What shocked them even more was when Robin continued:
"I haven't fully utilized my awakened ability yet; I've only transformed a small portion."
"Based on my estimation, if I unleash my awakened ability at full power, I should be able to transform more than half of the island."
The Straw Hat were stunned when they heard Robin's last statement.
Although this island wasn't a large one, it still spanned tens of kilometers.
Considering Robin had only transformed a hundred-meter radius just now, it meant she could create at least a thousand such massive and powerful arms.
Such an exaggerated range deeply shocked Luffy.
For a moment, he even thought of Hashirama Senju's ability from Naruto, the Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands.
That incredibly massive wooden Buddha statue had thousands of giant hands.
Now, with Robin at full power, she could almost reach that level.
After everyone had been shocked for a while, it was finally Vivi's awakening.
Vivi's Devil Fruit was a Zoan type, so awakening didn't bring about any special external changes.
When she displayed her awakened state, everyone saw that Vivi's form was not much different from before.
Except for a flame cloud floating behind her neck, just like the one Luffy had when he awakened.
The only difference was that Vivi's ribbon-like flame cloud was cyan.
Afterward, Vivi briefly demonstrated her flame ability to everyone.
Everyone clearly noticed that the flames she spewed, both in size and power, were stronger than before.
Then, she demonstrated her speed.
In her awakened state, her speed was almost like teleportation, achieving the kind of invisibility Sanji could reach by relying on speed.
After the demonstration, Vivi explained to everyone.
"My awakening is a comprehensive enhancement of my overall physical abilities."
"Besides greatly enhanced speed, attack, and defense, I also possess much stronger self-healing and recovery capabilities."
The visual impact of a Zoan awakening was indeed not as striking as a Paramecia type.
However, all the Straw Hat could feel the extremely powerful aura emanating from Vivi in her awakened state.
Her flame attack power was no less than Usopp's exaggerated wide-range explosions.
And her speed was almost on par with Sanji's.
She also possessed the powerful recovery and self-healing abilities characteristic of a Zoan type, similar to Luffy's.
Moreover, the most crucial point was that Vivi still had the Phoenix Rebirth, which she had never used.
Phoenix Rebirth could fully boost all her attributes, increasing them significantly.
In that state, she might be able to instantly leap and display even more incredible speed and combat power that none of the other Straw Hat possessed.
After witnessing the awakened states of several of them, Luffy called for everyone to take a break.
And during their rest, Kuma and Bonney, reunited, also came to find them.
Upon arriving near the Straw Hat, they immediately went to Luffy, expressing their excitement and joy at seeing Nika.
Afterward, at the urging of the other Straw Hat, Kuma told them the legend of Nika.
Empress and others who were nearby also heard this legend.
This further solidified Empress's resolve to follow Luffy.
It also made Niu Popo and her two sisters look at Luffy with new eyes, supporting Empress's decision from the bottom of their hearts.
After a pleasant conversation with Luffy and the others, Kuma confidently entrusted Bonney to Luffy.