Chapter 04: The Journey is the Sea of Stars!
Yellow light flashed rapidly inside the tavern.
Every time the light stopped, it inevitably meant someone was kicked flying, resulting in several broken bones.
Because the yellow light moved extremely fast, the remaining hooligans were sent flying in different directions almost simultaneously, smashing against walls or knocking over tables, coughing up blood and wailing loudly.
"How is it? Does it feel good to be kicked?"
Ye Jia stopped. There were beads of sweat on his face, and his breathing was heavy. It was evident that even a few simple movements consumed a lot of stamina for someone who had just consumed a Devil Fruit.
"Weren't you guys acting tough just now, saying you wanted to kill me? You bunch of trash!"
Ye Jia cursed mercilessly, "Scum, dog shit! You dared to tyrannize Foosha Village, thinking no one could handle you? Today, I'll let you experience what it feels like to be bullied!"
Saying this, Ye Jia grabbed a hooligan who was vomiting blood continuously, dizzy, and unable to exert even a shred of strength, and smashed his fist ruthlessly onto the hooligan's body!
After throwing about a dozen punches.
"Congratulations, you have obtained 1 'Stamina Pill' fragment!"
Hearing the familiar sweet electronic mechanical female voice, Ye Jia finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He had kicked them seven or eight times just now without getting a single fragment, which made him anxious. Now that he heard the notification, he could finally relax.
"Must I use my fists to knock out fragments?"
Ye Jia guessed in his heart, "Or maybe, the probability of me acquiring fragments has dropped?"
To verify his guess, Ye Jia kicked many more times, beating that hooligan to the brink of death. He was breathing out more than he was taking in, basically unable to survive.
"Congratulations, you have obtained 1 'Stamina Pill' fragment!"
When the voice came, Ye Jia's guess was verified—it wasn't that he had to use fists, but the probability of drops had decreased!
Not only that, but beating this bunch of hooligans no longer dropped Devil Fruit fragments, only Stamina Pill fragments.
"In that case, I can't be bothered to waste time on them."
Ye Jia had originally intended to use this bunch of sandbags to practice his boxing and farm some Devil Fruit fragments while he was at it.
After all, to synthesize another Devil Fruit, he needed 100 fragments.
Drop rates were a matter of probability. To gather 100 fragments, he would have to attack at least a thousand times!
Without a fixed sandbag, where would he get that many fragments?
"The Stamina Pill only requires 30 fragments to synthesize, so that's cheap."
The function of the Stamina Pill was simple.
Didn't activating Devil Fruit abilities consume stamina?
Eating a Stamina Pill would restore it immediately!
It could be said that the Stamina Pill was a rare and good item for Ye Jia at the moment.
"Also, all of you, experience properly what despair is!"
Ye Jia caught the hooligans and swung his fists at them.
Even though he beat them until their flesh was lacerated and their faces looked like a dye shop had opened on them, he had no intention of stopping.
If not for Makino, a woman with a kind heart who couldn't bear to see lives lost, persistently persuading Ye Jia to stop, Ye Jia definitely wouldn't have let this group of hooligans off. He would have beaten them until even their own mothers couldn't recognize them!
"Get lost! I've broken all your tendons and bones. It will be impossible for you to tyrannize anyone ever again!"
Like throwing out trash, Ye Jia threw the hooligans directly out of the tavern.
Their bones had been forcibly broken by Ye Jia in several places. The pain was heart-rending, and their screams could be heard by almost the entire Foosha Village.
The villagers, who originally thought the hooligans were hurting or killing people again, were too terrified to speak when they saw this group in such a miserable state, letting out screams like slaughtered pigs.
"Wasn't Little Jia being ganged up on in the bar just now? How did it turn into this in the blink of an eye?"
"I just took a peek. Little Jia suddenly became incredibly powerful. It seems he became an ability user and knocked all those hooligans down!"
"A Devil Fruit user?! Heavens, no wonder those guys were taught such a miserable lesson. They ran into an ability user... serves them right! They've been bullying the villagers for more than just a day or two. It's truly satisfying that someone finally stepped up to deal with them today!"
"Look, Sifu is rushing up!"
"Sifu's dad was beaten to death by these hooligans. Before, for the sake of his family, he didn't dare to seek revenge. Now that these hooligans don't even have the strength to lift a hand, how could he not avenge his father?"
Where there is vengeance, take it; where there is a grievance, resolve it.
The hooligans had run rampant in Foosha Village for so long that they had long angered many villagers.
Once they were in trouble, the villagers immediately seized the opportunity to rush up and avenge their relatives who had died at the hands of the hooligans.
More and more villagers rushed up to strike. Even if they didn't hit them, they had to spit on them twice.
The fate of this group of hooligans was easy to imagine.
...
"Little Jia, is your body okay?"
Makino looked at Ye Jia with worry. She had just seen Ye Jia beaten until he vomited blood by that group.
"Makino, don't worry, I'm fine!" Ye Jia patted his chest, "Look, it's very sturdy!"
"It's good that you're fine, but... becoming an ability user, did you really eat a Devil Fruit?"
Makino knew a bit about Devil Fruits and understood the consequences of eating one.
"That's right, Makino. I won't hide it from you; I ate the Glint-Glint Fruit." Ye Jia smiled, "The Glint-Glint Fruit is a Logia type fruit. You know about Logia fruits, right? Dealing with those people, they weren't my match at all!"
"A Logia fruit! I heard Shanks mention them. It's said they are the most powerful among Devil Fruits!"
Makino evidently didn't know that Admiral Kizaru possessed the Glint-Glint Fruit.
After all, in such a remote little village, just knowing about Devil Fruits was already impressive.
"Shanks... Red Hair..."
Hearing this name, Ye Jia's blood couldn't help but boil.
If it were before, he would only have envy and jealousy towards Shanks because he could never catch up to him in his entire life.
But it was different now.
With the ability to load unlimited Devil Fruits, as long as he had enough time to train, his strength would become terrifying... definitely not lower than Red-Haired Shanks!
"Shanks will become the target I chase... As for the Pirate King, I won't fight for it with Luffy. I want to be... the King of this World, the true King of the World!"
Ye Jia spoke with grandiose words, his chest filled with lofty ambition.
"Makino, I've decided. I want to set sail, follow in Luffy's footsteps. I want to enter the Grand Line and charge into the New World!" Ye Jia said.
"I know. You all want to become pirates and search for the One Piece," Makino said helplessly.
"Before that, I need to train my strength first... Makino, maybe I won't be able to come see you often in the future. But I will bring back wild boars. Now that I have strength, maybe I can bring back even more powerful beasts!"