Recalling the combat style of the Tori Tori no Mi, Model: Phoenix, Jin felt it was indeed quite suitable for Rin. (T/N: Bird-Bird Fruit.)
Originally, this girl was a Medical-Nin, which aligned well with the Phoenix's healing flames.
Moreover, the reason Jin hadn't let Tsunade take Rin as a disciple, following Sakura's original development path, was precisely because Rin's fighting style wasn't suited for Tsunade or Sakura's violent brawling approach.
This girl's combat style leaned more towards technique, capable of both offense and defense.
The Phoenix Fruit happened to fit this point perfectly.
Besides, letting such a cute, soft girl learn Sakura's style felt like... a waste of a natural treasure.
[Newgate: @Jin, Brat! What do you think you're doing!?]
Newgate, who had been in the chat group for several years now, roared in the chat group.
No matter what Jin had done before, Newgate had basically maintained a bystander attitude, eating popcorns and watching.
This was in stark contrast to his sworn son, who begged Jin daily not to kill Luffy.
But this time, Newgate finally he couldn't take it anymore.
'Damn it, if I didn't speak up now, this brat was probably going to drag another one of my beloved sons into this chat group.'
[Jin: Ahaha, just kidding, just kidding! We're all old acquaintances, how could I target a group member's relative?]
Hearing Jin's teasing tone, the expressions of Ace and Newgate in the afterlife weren't very good.
When talking with Jin, it was hard to guess his true thoughts from his surface attitude.
This reminded Yamamoto of another man who had inflicted heavy losses on Soul Society before Yhwach.
Aizen Sosuke!
...
"Huh? Why's there such a crowd over there?"
Jin noticed the commotion coming from the right side of the street and instinctively turned to look.
A large number of Fish-Men and Mermaids were gathered there, though it was unclear what they were watching.
However, at that moment, the murmurs of the crowd reached Jin and Hancock's ears:
"Look, the Big Mom Pirates are here again."
"I remember, today is the day we deliver sweets to the Big Mom Pirates every month."
"I heard last month, a country was wiped out because the desserts they made didn't suit Big Mom's taste."
"That's terrifying... If only Whitebeard were still alive, we wouldn't need to borrow Big Mom's flag for protection."
"Shh! Keep your voice down! Do you have a death wish!?"
Hearing the words 'Big Mom Pirates', Jin's eyes instantly lit up.
He turned his head and saw that above the main entrance of the factory diagonally across from the shopping street hung a flag with a skull wearing lipstick.
The corners of Jin's mouth curled up wildly.
'Ha!'
'How could I have forgotten about her?'
Thinking this, Jin pushed through the crowd of watching Fish-Men and walked towards the sweet factory's entrance.
Hancock, who had seen the change in Jin's expression before after he noticed the Big Mom Pirates' flag, felt a strong sense of foreboding and formed a guess.
'Th-that bastard couldn't possibly be thinking of...'
Hancock felt Jin was simply a madman.
'He had just offended Red-Hair and the Marine's Hero.'
'Now he was going to pick a fight with the world's strongest female pirate too?!'
...
"Hurry up! Hurry up! Mama really likes Fish-Man Island's sweets! If we're delayed, you'll all die!"
The man standing at the front, barking orders at a bunch of underlings, was a middle-aged man with a long beard on his chin, whose entire armor seemed to be made of biscuits.
Many Fish-Men watching from afar had already spoken his name-
Charlotte Cracker!
One of the Sweet Commanders of the Big Mom Pirates.
He has a bounty over 800 million Berry!
However, few people knew that this appearance wasn't his true form, but a shell created using the power of the Bisu Bisu no Mi. (T/N: Bis-Bis Fruit)
Just as Cracker, in his Biscuit Soldier form, was giving orders to the Big Mom Pirates' underlings, the onlookers saw a young boy striding towards him.
Everyone stared in astonishment.
Several kind-hearted mermaids kept whispering warnings:
"D-Don't go over there, come back quickly!"
"Those are dangerous pirates!"
"Oh no! That child will be killed!"
When Hancock also pushed through the crowd and caught up, she saw Jin had already walked up behind Cracker.
"Hey~" Jin called out.
Hearing this, Cracker in Biscuit Soldier mode instinctively turned to look.
But before he could clearly see who it was, he only saw a silvery-white afterimage rapidly enlarging before his eyes.
Bang-
From an outsider's perspective, they saw a giant skeletal arm suddenly appear beside Jin, punching Cracker into the wall of the sweet factory next to them.
The factory wall was smashed open, creating a large hole.
Both the Big Mom Pirates' underlings carrying sweets and the watching Fish-Men were stunned speechless by this sudden turn of events.
'What did we just see?'
'S-Someone attacked Cracker, one of the Sweet Commanders of the Big Mom Pirates!?'
Hancock's expression wasn't much better than the surrounding civilians'.
Because Jin's actions were equivalent to declaring war on one of the Four Emperors, Big Mom!
"Ah, ah! It hurts! It hurts!"
At this moment, from the other side of the hole in the wall, a hand reached out from the rubble.
A figure slowly climbed out.
It was a man with a sturdy build, fierce features, and a triangular-shaped ponytail on his head.
This was Cracker's true appearance.
"Which bastard sneak-attacked me!?"
Cracker walked out, rubbing the spot on his forehead that had been hit, while cursing loudly.
Soon, his gaze locked onto Jin, who only reached his abdomen.
"You brat! Looks like you're in a hurry to die! You actually broke my Biscuit Soldier, made me feel 'pain' again after so many years! Are you prepared to die?"
Jin couldn't be bothered with this guy.
He just made a 'hand it over' gesture towards Cracker.
"Son of Big Mom, right? Let's discuss something. I want to go to Totto Land too. Can you lead the way?"
Watching Jin's actions through the live stream, Ace in the Chat Group of the Dead swallowed hard and said tremulously:
[J-Jin, this guy, could it be that he wants to...]
[Newgate: Gurararara~ Has he taken a liking to Linlin's ability? That is indeed a good ability.]
Newgate's tone was full of schadenfreude.
After all, as long as Jin's attention shifted to Big Mom, his son Marco would be much safer.
'Sorry, Linlin.'
'Even though we have an old friendship-'
'For the sake of my son's life and safety-'
'Please rest in peace.'
Ace also breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, the one who had been his guide and helped him integrate into the Whitebeard Pirates back then was Marco.
It could be said that among the living, Marco was second only to Luffy in Ace's heart.
He naturally didn't want anything to happen to Marco either.
Seeing Jin shift his target from Marco's Phoenix Fruit to Big Mom's Soru Soru no Mi, Ace also inwardly breathed a long sigh of relief. (T/N: Soul-Soul Fruit.)
[Ace: @Newgate, Hey, wait, Pops, even if he defeats Big Mom, how does Jin plan to steal the fruit's ability? He doesn't seem to have that capability.]
Reminded by Ace, Newgate and many other group members snapped back to reality.
That's right.
The reason Jin could obtain various abilities from different worlds was because they, the dead, were gathered in this group and, after reaching an agreement, gave their abilities to him.
But what about Big Mom's ability?
How was Jin going to take that?
Kill Big Mom? Then wait for her to join the group?
But leaving aside whether Big Mom could successfully join the group after death, even if that madwoman did join the group and, after being sweet-talked by Jin, gave her ability to him, the ability would only go to Jin himself.
Rin wouldn't get anything.
[Newgate: The only one who can do something like that... is Teach.]
After a brief contemplation, Newgate spoke again.
Ace's pupils constricted sharply.
To be honest, he didn't hold particularly strong hatred towards Sakazuki, who killed him.
As the saying goes, if you want to be a pirate, you should be prepared to die at any time.
If you can't handle losing, don't get into this life.
But when it came to Teach, Ace truly gritted his teeth in hatred.
After his own death, Ace had heard from Jin about Teach stealing Newgate's ability.
At that time, while furious to the extreme, Ace also fell into deep self-reproach over his own stupidity.
His own death was just his own foolishness, but he had ended up harming his Pops too, also letting that bastard Teach steal Newgate's ability.
When Ace heard about it, he was so ashamed he wished he could commit seppuku on the spot to atone.
[Jin: @Newgate, Truly an old hand, you guessed it so quickly. This matter does require using Blackbeard.]
Although Devil Fruits in the One Piece World were like the Tailed Beasts in the Naruto World… after the host dies, they would randomly regenerate somewhere else after a period of time, so naturally, if Big Mom were killed, Soru Soru no Mi would also regenerate.
But Jin didn't have the leisure to wait that long.
So, he needed to borrow Blackbeard's ability.
[Ace @Jin, Hey! You're joking, right? You're going to cooperate with that bastard Teach!?]
[Jin: I admit Blackbeard is scum, but I'm not trying to be friends with him. I just want to borrow his ability. And unlike you, Ace, I don't dislike Blackbeard that much.]
Jin wasn't lying.
He admitted Blackbeard was utter scum.
But the problem was, when compared to certain other characters in the One Piece World, he unexpectedly found Blackbeard somewhat less disgusting.
That's right, he's talking about the entire Kozuki Family.
Compared to Momonosuke, Jin even found Blackbeard had some unexpected merits.
Add to that the publicly cheating [Deserter King] and Sun God Nika, Jin felt Blackbeard was more like a model representative of the grassroots working class!
Think about it, a guy with no background, lurking on a ship for over twenty years, just waiting for a Devil Fruit he didn't even know if he'd encounter.
This was the complete opposite of Luffy, who ate the strongest Mythical Zoan Fruit as a child.
Then, to recruit powerful subordinates, Blackbeard schemed to become a Warlord, instigated the Summit War, took the opportunity to infiltrate Impel Down and recruit top criminals from Level 6 as his crewmates.
Finally, he returned to Marineford to steal Newgate's ability.
Every step was carefully planned… one misstep and he would fall into an abyss of destruction.
In contrast, look at Luffy, who is receiving help from masters all along the way, having relatives all over the world: help from his father's people in Loguetown, help from his 'uncle' and teacher on Sabaody Archipelago, help from his father's subordinates in Impel Down, help from his brother's pirate crew at Marineford...
Finally, at Onigashima, when he really couldn't beat Kaido, his ultimate Mythical Zoan awakens.
With this comparison, Blackbeard seemed even more pitiful.
He had to do everything himself.
In contrast, Luffy seemed like he didn't have to do anything… it felt as if the world revolved around him.
Even a dog like Momonosuke had a group of powerhouses swearing to protect him with their lives, not to mention gaining power comparable to Kaido's overnight.
'Damn, it felt like Blackbeard's misery could be compared to Akainu and Gin, the two biggest miserable characters in the 2D World.'