There was no imagined foul stench, nor any disgusting odor that made one want to vomit.
The flesh carried a slight, chilling numbness, like tiny electric currents exploding on the tip of the tongue; it could hardly be called delicious, but it definitely wasn’t hard to eat.
“Even the texture was changed?”
Haruto looked at the fruit in his hand, and the more he thought about it, the more absurd it felt.
Since the so-called original weaknesses were weeded out, could it be that even the bad taste of Devil Fruits was factored in?
This talent was considerate enough.
He finished eating the entire Rumble-Rumble Fruit in two or three bites.
The instant the last bite of flesh was swallowed, it was as if a bolt of thunder was ignited deep within his body.
Crackle!
Fine electric arcs leaped from his fingertips, and Haruto lowered his head to look at his hand.
The skin was still his original skin, but inside it seemed to be an extra surging river of thunder.
Chakra still existed.
The power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit also truly integrated into his body.
The two systems did not repel each other; instead, they remained distinct.
Immediately afterwards, a massive amount of usage experience regarding the Rumble-Rumble Fruit flooded into his mind.
It was not a plain textual description, but rather personal insights of executing it countless times over.
How to transform the body into lightning.
How to compress electric currents into avian and beast forms.
How to use lightning for high-speed movement.
How to use electrical heat to melt metal.
How to judge how high an intensity of discharge the body could withstand.
Haruto closed his eyes, his forehead covered in sweat.
These experiences were too vast.
Enel’s mastery over the fruit, his understanding of lightning, and the pitfalls he stepped into while developing moves time and time again all poured into his brain like a tide.
After quite a while, he finally opened his eyes.
“Elementalization.”
Haruto raised his right hand, mobilizing power according to the feeling in his mind.
The next second, his fingers began to glow.
The flesh and blood contours scattered, turning into a section of pulsating blue-and-white electric light.
Success!
Haruto’s heart shook, and he continued to urge it.
Palm, wrist, forearm…
The electric light rapidly spread upward.
Half of his body had turned into lightning, and ordinary physical attacks landing on this state simply could not hit a solid entity.
This was the most unreasonable part of the Logia type.
Without Armament Haki, Seastone, and attribute suppression, elementalization was almost equivalent to unsolvable.
If placed in the Ninja World, the vast majority of Genin, Chunin, and even quite a few Jonin would suffer a huge loss upon encountering this ability for the first time.
But the excitement only lasted for ten seconds.
Just as the tenth second passed, Haruto’s face suddenly turned pale.
The elementalized state directly collapsed and dispersed.
His body restored its flesh and blood, his legs went soft, and he almost fell headlong to the ground.
“Hoo… Hoo…”
Haruto held onto the table, panting heavily.
Having maintained elementalization for just ten seconds, a large chunk of his stamina seemed to have been drained away.
His chest felt stuffy, his hands and feet felt weak, and even standing steadily took effort.
“This body is too poor.”
Haruto gave a wry smile.
The Rumble-Rumble Fruit was indeed strong, and Enel’s development experience was indeed complete.
But experience was experience, and the body was the body.
Enel could casually cast large-scale lightning because he had eaten the fruit for many years, and his body had long adapted to that intensity of power.
Haruto was currently just a civilian youth in Konoha.
His Chakra volume was somewhat weak, his Taijutsu foundation was average, and his physical fitness was even less possible to compare with Enel’s.
The flawless version of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit gave him a top-tier upper limit, but it didn’t directly pile up his physical body.
Forcibly discharging at high power would only drain himself dry first.
“The fruit’s ability cannot be used recklessly.”
After catching his breath, Haruto’s gaze sank.
“The physical body must be trained.”
He rested for a long time, waiting for his complexion to recover a bit before leaving the hut.
The space inside the room was too small; trying elementalization was fine, but if he really wanted to test moves, he was afraid he might accidentally demolish his own house.
Haruto did not go to the training ground.
There were too many people and eyes there, making it unsuitable to expose the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
He braced himself and came to a riverbank at the edge of the Village.
The river was not wide, blocked by nearby trees, and usually very few people came over.
Haruto stood by the river and raised his right hand.
“Let’s first test the simplest discharge.”
Crackle!
Several fine electric arcs flew out from his palm and landed on the river surface.
Ripples exploded across the water surface, and several small fish floated up with their bellies turned over.
Haruto’s eyelids twitched.
The power was a hundred thousand miles worse than Enel’s.
But to him right now, it was already quite exaggerated.
Ordinary Kunai and shuriken still needed to hit the target to cause damage, but lightning was both fast and hard to dodge.
He took a deep breath and changed his posture.
“Lightning Assault.”
Power surged within his body, and Haruto’s body instantly turned into a blue-and-white electric light, rushing forward.
The speed suddenly skyrocketed.
He almost only felt his vision blur, and his entire person had swept across a distance of several meters, the soil under his feet charred black by electricity.
But the next moment, his chest felt stuffy, and the momentum of the rush immediately cut off.
Haruto staggered two steps, almost falling into the river.
“No good, the distance is too short, and the control is also poor.”
He panted and forced himself to calm down.
When Enel moved using lightning, he looked like real lightning, while he himself right now could at best count as a short-distance burst.
For making surprise attacks and dodging, it was already strong enough.
Wanting to move long distances was still far from enough.
After resting for a moment, Haruto raised his hand again, aiming at a half-person-high stone on the riverbank.
“Thunderbird.”
The feeling of Enel executing this move emerged in his mind.
Electric currents condensed, forms compressed, lightning turned into a bird, instantly blasting the enemy to death.
But when it was truly his turn to execute it, his body immediately sent a protest.
Chakra did not move; stamina was drained away by the Rumble-Rumble Fruit first.
The lightning light in his palm condensed for a long time before barely turning into a blue-and-white thunderbird the size of a fist.
It was completely not on the same tier as Enel’s massive thunderbird.
Haruto gritted his teeth and flicked.
The thunderbird flew out and crashed into the stone.
Boom!
Scorched marks exploded across the stone surface, and debris splattered everywhere.
That stone was not blasted to pieces, but a fist-deep black pit was battered out of it.
Looking at that black pit, Haruto felt burning hot in his heart.
Weakened to this extent, it still had this kind of destructive power.
If his stamina went up and the thunderbird truly took form, how fierce would the power be?
He tried the Thunder Beast and Thunder Dragon again.
The result was even more obvious.
The Thunder Beast scattered just as a vague outline condensed.
The Thunder Dragon didn’t even form its head before its stamina was drained to the bottom.
As for the even more exaggerated large-scale moves, Haruto just thought about it and gave up.
It wasn’t that he didn’t know how.
It was that this body simply couldn’t support that kind of consumption.
He stood by the river, sweat dripping down his forehead, and fine electric arcs still lingered on his palms.
Most moves could not be executed.
The ones that could be used also had their power greatly reduced due to insufficient stamina.
But even so, Lightning Assault, elementalization, and the weakened version of the thunderbird had completely changed his combat style.
Panting, Haruto looked at the charred stones on the riverbank, leaving only one thought in his heart: Even if most moves still couldn’t be used, and even if the power of the usable ones was dragged down by stamina, his overall strength had still greatly improved.