Chapter 95: The Power of I Think Therefore I Am

In the New World waters, the Giant Yacht.

The entire Morning Star Pirates crew had gathered on the giant yacht’s deck, as large as a square, enjoying a rare moment of peace.

Jin Ni sat on the shoulder of Daxiong, staring at the newspaper in her hand and sighing.

“Big Bear, the Marines’ efficiency is too slow—more than a day has passed and they still haven’t updated the bounties. I was hoping to see how much our rewards are.”

Daxiong smiled silently, continuously handing Jin Ni skewers of meat roasted by the captain.

Mihawk and Tenghu sat nearby, discussing sword insights while debating the hundred and eight ways to mix red wine with iced black tea.

Xilou had wanted to discuss cigars with Jinshizi, but upon seeing the news in the paper, Jinshizi nearly went berserk and stormed off to confront the captain.

“Barzab Seven, when did I ever agree to join the Morning Star Pirates?”

“Nani?!”

Barzab Seven, acting with perfect sincerity, sliced the sea king into portions suitable for the giant race while asking in confusion.

“Senior Shiki, if you’re joining the Morning Star Pirates, I’m naturally thrilled—but you never told me about this!”

Jinshizi placed the newspaper before Barzab Seven.

“Look—it’s written clearly: the legendary pirate Jinshizi, subdued by the Emperor of the Sea Barzab Seven, has joined the Morning Star Pirates.”

Barzab Seven shrugged helplessly.

“Senior Shiki, Morgans the birdman tells at least six lies out of every ten sentences. They’re in the business of propaganda—mixing truth with falsehood, where the important things are almost always fake, and the trivial ones are true.”

With that, Barzab Seven made a suggestion.

“How about we go back and ask Morgans to reprint the news, saying you never joined the Morning Star Pirates?”

Jinshizi hesitated. “You didn’t ask Morgans to write this?”

The moment Jinshizi saw the newspaper, he instinctively assumed Barzab Seven had ordered Morgans to publish this fake news.

Yet it turned out Barzab Seven didn’t know?

“Of course not—I’m Barzab Seven, known across the seas as the Honest and Trustworthy Young Master. How could I do something so absurd?”

“Besides, everyone on the sea knows you, Senior Shiki, have never bowed to anyone. Precisely because I know that, I never even asked you to join the Morning Star Pirates.”

Jinshizi smirked proudly. “You’ve got some sense after all, kid.”

After a brief pause, Jinshizi asked again.

“Are you planning to take over Hive Island?”

Barzab Seven signaled Dongli and Buloki to place the sea king meat on the grill before speaking to Jinshizi.

“Senior Shiki, technically this is an internal decision of our pirate crew, not meant for your ears—but given how smoothly our cooperation went, yes.”

“We came to the New World specifically to seize Hive Island and turn it into the Morning Star Pirates’ stronghold.”

Jinshizi fell silent for a moment before speaking.

“I’ll handle Wang Zhi.”

“No problem,” Barzab Seven nodded.

“Who better than you to deal with a traitor of the Rocks Pirates?”

“But only Wang Zhi’s life is yours—every single treasure on Hive Island must remain.”

Cooperation is cooperation, business is business.

Turning Hive Island into the Morning Star Pirates’ stronghold isn’t just words—it’ll cost money. Fortifications, artillery emplacements, cargo docks—all require funds.

“Hmph,” Jinshizi snorted.

“I don’t care about Wang Zhi’s pitiful scraps. You brats have no idea how much wealth there was in the God Valley back then.”

After the Rocks Pirates disbanded, Jinshizi’s first fortune came from treasure chests looted from the God Valley—each chest held ten billion Berries.

Captain John died because pirates attacked him over those God Valley treasure chests.

Jinshizi turned and left. Barzab Seven continued cooking the sea king meat; with four giant crew members, preparing food was an enormous task.

Fortunately, Barzab Seven was no longer the same man he’d been aboard Roger’s crew—his strength, swordsmanship, and stamina had far surpassed his former self.

Otherwise, he’d have collapsed from exhaustion just cooking.

Due to the presence of the four giants, the entire Morning Star Pirates crew had temporarily moved to the Giant Yacht, while the East Sea Emperor was being towed by it.

Finally, after spending the entire half-day,

Barzab Seven finished preparing the banquet food, bathed, changed into fresh clothes, and stepped onto the open-air banquet deck.

“Everyone,” Barzab Seven raised his cup.

“Welcome Dongli, Buloki, Oymo, Kasi, Tezolo, and Yuzhi Xilou to the family!”

“Cheers!”

“Cheers!”

From now on, the four giants would retain the name Giant Soldiers Pirates as the First Division of the Morning Star Pirates, operating independently.

Division One captains: Dongli and Buloki; members include Oymo, Kasi, and the remaining giant crew from the Giant Soldiers Pirates.

After helping Barzab Seven seize Hive Island, Dongli, Buloki, and the other two would board the Giant Yacht and return to Elbaf, having left their homeland nearly a century ago.

As Barzab Seven quietly watched his crew singing and dancing, he suddenly sensed a familiar presence approaching.

Light slowly coalesced into a figure; Kizaru immediately held up the round, bulky package in his hand.

“Barzab Seven, someone asked me to deliver this.”

Barzab Seven smiled and invited him.

“Kizaru, sit down for a drink?”

The moment he heard this, Kizaru shook his head vigorously: last time he sat down for a drink, this kid blackmailed him with photos—would he still be a Marine Admiral if he did it again?

“Got work to do. Farewell.”

He placed the package on deck and left without looking back, as if the ship were crawling with monsters.

Seeing this, Jin Ni casually opened a door, reached out, and grabbed the package, handing it to Barzab Seven.

“Here you go, Captain.”

“Thank you.”

The moment he opened the package, Barzab Seven’s expression turned wildly complex: a Devil Fruit, and a letter.

Inside the envelope was only one sentence: Barzab Seven, compensation for the Enies Lobby operation.

“Hohohoho—ha!”

Barzab Seven laughed. Who said the Five Elders were cold and heartless? They understood human nature perfectly—this is the value of a name without a “D,” isn’t it?

Why was he so certain it was the Five Elders?

Who else could make the current Marine Admiral Kizaru personally deliver a package? Even Admiral Sakazuki might not have that kind of clout.

After burning the note with a fingertip flame, Barzab Seven studied the Devil Fruit—its shape was extremely peculiar.

“Would you like to consume the Paramecia… Suisui Fruit?”

“No.”

Barzab Seven hadn’t expected the Five Elders to offer compensation—he hadn’t even considered retaliation. Better to spend that energy improving himself and his crew’s strength.

As a high-ranking pirate, being targeted by the World Government and Marines is normal; not being targeted only means you’re a low-tier pirate.

The Marines don’t even bother with you.

Besides, he’d kidnapped Celestial Dragons twice and successfully extorted the World Government.

But what he hadn’t expected was that the gift was the Paramecia: Suisui Fruit—the “I Think Therefore I Am” Fruit.

In the original timeline, Satan Saint had fed this fruit’s extract to Baby Bonney.

The Suisui Fruit’s ability…

How to put it? The ability stems entirely from imagination, and by firmly believing the imagined possibility to be real, it twists the future.

The user can transform themselves or others into any future form they can imagine.

The strength of the effect depends on how firmly the user believes in the possibility—the more aware the user is of reality’s limits, the fewer and weaker the possible transformations.

In short, it’s a bit sinister.

For Bonney, the Nika state may have been the absolute limit of what she could imagine and believe.

After all, Bonney had been locked in a church since age five; her knowledge of Nika came only from Daxiong’s stories and her own limited observations.

But who is Barzab Seven?

A transmigrator washed clean by the internet, aware of legends from countless worlds, possessing a system.

In terms of imagination, theoretically limitless.

If Barzab Seven could consume the Suisui Fruit, why bother leveling up? He could just leap straight to the final battle at the Flower Garden of Pan Gu City.

The Three Pure Ones and Four Sovereigns are too overpowered; Erlang Shen and the Great Sage are too OP—transforming into Xiao Zuan Feng alone would sweep the pirate world.

Others like the Chaos Four Merchants, Emperors, Super Saiyans, Idealistic Superhumans, etc.

If possible, Barzab Seven could imagine and believe in every great being from countless worlds.

But considering the case of Dream Heart, which was downgraded from a divine artifact to a Super Supreme Grade Sword, the pirate world does have a dimensional limit.

Beings beyond that limit cannot be fully manifested in the pirate world.

Meaning, even if he consumed the Suisui Fruit, he couldn’t manifest as the peak form of Xiao Zuan Feng—he’d likely be a weakened version.

All of this requires Barzab Seven to test it himself.

But the prerequisite is: he must first find a way to consume a second Devil Fruit.

In the pirate world, Devil Fruits are products of collective human desire or imagination, representing the yearning for evolution.

Sometimes Barzab Seven wonders—could the system have chosen him because of his intense childhood desire?

As the saying goes: if you keep thinking about it, the universe will respond.

Following this line of thought, Seven silently prayed.

【Omnipotent System, your devoted host now wishes to consume one more Devil Fruit】

Before obtaining the Sui Sui Fruit, Seven most desired the Piao Piao Fruit, to gain absolute strategic advantage and mobility.

For instance, making the East Sea Emperor ship fly.

Or, using the Piao Piao Fruit’s power to move several islands from the ocean onto the White Sea, expanding territory for the Sky Island, and so on.

After obtaining the Sui Sui Fruit, Seven changed his mind and decided to gamble on the An Xun Si power.

The choice between the Piao Piao Fruit and the Sui Sui Fruit is essentially choosing between absolute strategic advantage and infinite growth potential.

The core advantage of the Sui Sui Fruit lies in its limitless growth ceiling; its power depends on imagination and belief.

Its weakness is that its strength relies too heavily on the user’s belief, leading to instability.

Moreover, Golden Lion is currently acting strangely; there’s a thirty percent chance Seven could trick him into joining the Morning Star Pirates, so the Piao Piao Fruit is automatically ruled out.

As for the other three—Teleport Fruit, Swamp Fruit, and Bao Bao Fruit.

With the Thunder-Thunder Fruit already in hand, the Teleport Fruit is merely icing on the cake, and the Bao Bao Fruit’s power is far inferior to the Thunder-Thunder Fruit’s offensive capability.

The Swamp Fruit? List it on the trading platform.

…

East Sea, Konomi Archipelago.

Emperor Fist Dojo.

“Big Head Brother, it’s bad! It’s really bad!”

A thin, monkey-faced figure rolled and scrambled into the Emperor Fist Dojo, gasping for breath as he slammed a newspaper onto the table.

“Big Head Brother, White Hair kidnapped a Celestial Dragon—will the Marines retaliate against us?”

Big Head, a muscular man with a bulky frame, wore a look of helpless despair, unable to cry even though he wanted to.

“That White Hair guy came back last time and beat us for months, then specifically told us before leaving: if anyone asks about him, say we drove him out of Hou Sha Town.”

“Now I see—he’s terrifying.”

“Quickly notify the villagers… we’re moving.”