Nox brought Baccarat to Yumaz's laboratory. Baccarat was very curious about the various high-tech things she had never seen before, her eyes darting around, but her little hand still clutched Nox's clothes, not letting go.
"Congratulations, Captain, on conquering the South Blue and defeating the World Government!"
"Captain, is this another little princess?"
After Yumaz saw Nox bring Baccarat here, he thought this was another of Nox's daughters.
"This is Baccarat, a younger sister I picked up. She is a Paramecia-type Fortune Fruit ability user. I heard you have a problem that you haven't been able to solve for a long time, so I brought her here to see if she can help you solve that problem."
Nox said.
"That's right, Captain. Now all the signals within our Limitless Pirates' sea territory are under our own management, and those den den mushi and such are all under our surveillance. With just a word from you, we can destroy all the den den mushi within the Limitless Sea."
"Now I have started researching satellite signals according to the plan you gave me before."
"The problem we are currently facing is that after the satellite exceeds an altitude of 50,000 meters, the signal becomes difficult to accurately locate and transmit. We have tried strengthening the signal and increasing signal transmitters, but we still cannot solve this problem."
"Next, we will try methods such as changing the signal frequency and lowering the altitude to conduct experiments."
As soon as Yumaz started talking about experiment-related matters, his words immediately flowed like a flood from an open gate, unstoppable.
"Alright, I understand. Just arrange the specific experiment steps and process yourself, you don't need to tell me, I only look at the results."
"Baccarat can increase your luck, allowing you to perhaps have a flash of inspiration during your research and think of a way to solve the problem."
"Baccarat, transfer all the luck you absorbed from those prisoners to this uncle."
Nox said, stroking Baccarat's little head.
"Okay, Big Brother!"
Hearing Nox's words, the moment Baccarat touched Yumaz, she transferred all the absorbed luck to Yumaz.
Absorbing, storing, and transferring luck are all basic abilities of the Fortune Fruit.
"Luck?"
When Yumaz heard Nox say this, he was momentarily a bit confused. He was a scientist; although something like luck was ethereal and intangible, it was somewhat unreliable for his experiments. After all, science pursued truth, and luck was not within the realm of truth.
"Okay, Big Brother!"
After Baccarat transferred all the luck to Yumaz, she returned to Nox's side and grabbed his clothes.
"Alright, now go and research the problems you encountered before. Maybe you'll be able to solve them soon."
After speaking, Nox led Baccarat out of the laboratory.
Along the way, he took a few small toys from the laboratory that Yumaz had made for Asuna before.
Perhaps Asuna didn't like these toys or forgot to come get them, but Baccarat liked them very much when she saw them.
"Since the Captain said so, then it should be useful!"
Yumaz didn't think too much about it and immediately continued to tackle the problems that existed before, just as Nox had said.
But what Yumaz didn't expect was that this experiment went so smoothly. Problems he couldn't figure out before, he could now think of the key points in a flash of inspiration.
Sometimes it wasn't even something he thought of himself, but rather, after accidentally making a mistake during the experiment, it actually led to new progress in the experiment.
This feeling of being able to slowly solve the original problems through accidental blunders made Yumaz even doubt if it was real!
After leaving Yumaz's laboratory, Nox took Baccarat to the great prison to continue absorbing luck.
Then he added the luck buff to Caesar, Judge, and Soros respectively. After a while, he would know if this luck buff was useful for scientific research.
After doing all this, Nox took Baccarat back home and happened to see Asuna and Rhodes, these two little ones, were both at home.
"Father, you're back!"
Asuna and Rhodes were very happy when they saw Nox return.
"You two little ones, after growing up you always ran out to play and wouldn't come back until evening. Why are you still at home in broad daylight now?"
Nox couldn't help but smile as he looked at his son and daughter in front of him.
Fourteen-year-old Asuna and Rhodes immediately became shy when they heard Nox say this.
"Father, who is this?"
Asuna's eyes darted around, and she immediately asked about Baccarat out of curiosity.
"This is Baccarat. From now on, she will be your companion, just like Perona and the others before."
"Baccarat, this is Asuna and Rhodes. They are also my child. From now on, you and they will be companions."
Nox also introduced Baccarat, who was next to him, to Asuna and the others.
After all, they were all around the same age, peers, and should be able to play together.
"Hello, Sister Asuna, Brother Rhodes, my name is Baccarat!"
After her initial nervousness, Baccarat also became cheerful.
"Baccarat, do you like this kind of toy too? I have a lot of these toys here, I'll give them all to you to play with later!"
Asuna said with a smile after seeing the toy in Baccarat's hand.
"Alright, Asuna, Rhodes, tell me, what's going on?"
As a Father, how could Nox not know what his two child were thinking? It was just that he was too lazy to expose them and wanted them to say it themselves.
"Father, did you forget? We are already fourteen years old and haven't eaten our Devil Fruit yet."
"We already reserved the Devil Fruit before, but you haven't given it to us to eat."
Rhodes finally mustered the courage to say it.
"Oh, so it's this matter. Right, which two Devil Fruit were the ones you reserved?"
Hearing Rhodes say this, Nox finally remembered. Originally, Nox wanted to give them the Devil Fruit after they grew up a bit more, but he didn't expect to forget about it after a long time.
"Father, it's the Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Pterodactyl Form, and the Paramecia-type Karma Fruit."
"What I want is the Paramecia-type Karma Fruit, and Brother Rhodes wants the Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Pterodactyl Form."
Asuna said, pouting.
"So it was these two excellent ones. I remember Roger gave me this Devil Fruit, the Mythical Zoan Pterodactyl Form, back then. I didn't expect so many years to have passed in a flash."
Saying this, Nox took out these two Devil Fruit and handed them to Asuna and Rhodes respectively.
"Ah, so this thing is the Devil Fruit. It was so hard to eat when Baccarat ate it!"
When Baccarat saw the Devil Fruit Nox took out, she immediately remembered the Devil Fruit she had eaten back then.
"Thank you, Father!"
Asuna and Rhodes didn't care about what Baccarat said about it being hard to eat. After getting the Devil Fruit they wanted, they immediately picked them up and ate them. Without even needing Nox's reminder, Asuna and Rhodes directly ate the entire Devil Fruit.
"It really is just like what the brothers and sisters said, it's as hard to eat as poop!"
Forcing back the urge to vomit, Asuna and Rhodes felt as if their strength had been drained after eating.
"Alright, now that you've eaten the Devil Fruit, be careful to control your abilities and don't accidentally hurt anyone!"
Without hesitation, after Asuna and Rhodes finished eating, Nox directly put Sea Stone handcuffs on them and then handed them over to his subordinates for training.