Charlotte had a passionate and exhausting night with several women. The next day, he walked out looking drained and weak, which is similar to the Chinese concept of 'Kidney Deficiency' (a traditional Chinese medical condition related to fatigue and weakness).
After meeting Rocks the previous day, Charlotte and Rocks only had a brief chat.
Then Charlotte left. But before he left, Rocks suddenly told him not to cause any major disturbances in the next few months and to await his orders at all times.
This made Charlotte frown, but he still nodded in agreement.
After leaving Rocks, Charlotte summoned all his subordinates to the magnificent hall in the cabin to hold a banquet.
As he listened to some of his sub - captains chatting about what had happened in the past six months, he also gave some instructions.
Then, drunk and sleepy, Charlotte led Jenny, Gillian, Alice, and Nell to a large bed.
"Oh no! This is so reckless!"
Charlotte sighed, supporting his lower back.
"Master!"
The maids passing by Charlotte all bowed respectfully.
Charlotte walked all the way to the dining room.
There he found Martha and Elena already sitting there having a meal.
"Morning!"
Charlotte greeted them and sat beside them.
"Morning? It's already noon, dude!"
Elena rolled her eyes at Charlotte's wild behavior last night.
"Huh? Is it already noon? I didn't even notice! I actually slept until noon!"
Charlotte wasn't bothered by Elena's expression. Instead, he was surprised that it was already noon.
"Yes! Young master! You worked hard last night! Have something to replenish your energy!"
Martha was as gentle as ever, picking up some dishes for Charlotte.
"Hehe! Martha is still the best!"
Charlotte smiled at Martha.
"Humph! Sister Martha, you just spoil him! You'll spoil him sooner or later!"
Elena said angrily, glaring at Charlotte again.
In response, Charlotte just smiled.
"By the way, Martha! You're due to give birth in a few days. Don't be too busy! You can have the servants send your meals to your room. This ship is so huge. I'm worried you'll get exhausted."
Charlotte said with concern, looking at Martha.
"It's okay, young master! The doctor said I can move around more. It's good for the baby!"
Martha said gently.
Hearing this, Charlotte had no other choice.
Since the ship's doctor had said so, what else could he do?
Eat! He was so weak.
After the meal, Charlotte strolled on the deck.
The ship was a hundred meters long and twenty - four meters high. It had four floors and a width of nineteen meters.
There were hundreds of rooms of various kinds. It had taken Charlotte more than a billion berries and four years to build this ship.
Originally, he just wanted to build a ship that could sail, but later he felt something was missing. So he brainstormed with others.
It had to be said that women had great talent in this area.
They decorated the ship so nicely that it greatly satisfied Charlotte's vanity.
After walking around, Charlotte still found a problem. The ship was a bit slow, still relying on sails for power. This made Charlotte, who came from the 21st century, a bit uncomfortable.
After discussing with the shipwright Rudolph, Charlotte asked him whether there were any ships that could sail without relying on wind power.
Rudolph looked at Charlotte as if he were looking at a fool.
How could there be a ship that could sail without wind power?
This made Charlotte frown slightly.
It seemed that the journey to Sky Island was a must!
After looking around, Charlotte returned to the captain's cabin.
This was his private space. Usually, Charlotte liked to think by himself here.
Moreover, all of Charlotte's collections were also here.
He took out a Devil Fruit Encyclopedia that he had made a rubbing of from the copy he got from Rocks. Then he took out the eight Devil Fruits he had obtained from this sea voyage.
Apart from the Swamp Fruit and the Fusion Fruit that he already knew about, he knew nothing about the others.
He took out those six Devil Fruits. Four of them were banana - shaped, and two were cantaloupe - shaped.
After memorizing the patterns of these six Devil Fruits, Charlotte opened the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia and started searching one by one.
The first page showed the Goro Goro no Mi, followed by the Magma Fruit, the Ice Fruit, and the Pika Pika no Mi.
These were all the top - tier Logia - type fruits.
Then he continued to search.
This Devil Fruit Encyclopedia had a wide variety of entries.
When they were dividing up the spoils with Shiki and the others, he asked Rocks for the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia. Rocks didn't think much and just gave it to them.
Then the four of them secretly made a rubbing of it respectively, and no one knew.
Charlotte quickly found a Devil Fruit that looked the same.
Taking a closer look, it was the Slow - Slow Fruit.
It was actually the Slow - Slow Fruit!
Wasn't this the Devil Fruit that the future Silver Fox Foxy was going to have?
He remembered that when he watched the anime series, this Devil Fruit was incredibly overpowered!
It might not have strong offensive power, but it could slow down anything. That's a big difference. If it were in the hands of a strong person, it'd be incredibly powerful.
Trying to hold back his excitement, Charlotte put down the Slow - Slow Fruit and continued searching. Just a few minutes later, he found another matching Devil Fruit.
Zoan type - Bird - Bird Fruit, Eagle Form!
Not bad, not bad. It was a flying - type Devil Fruit. It was very good.
He could reward it to his subordinates or descendants in the future.
Devil Fruits that allowed one to fly were rare, and in this place full of the sea, the ability to fly gave a great advantage.
He continued to search, quickly flipping through a few pages, but he didn't find what he wanted to know.
After flipping another page, Charlotte looked at the green Devil Fruit in the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia.
Paramecia - type - Scythe Fruit.
This was also a Devil Fruit that had appeared in the anime series.
It could highly compress the air that the hand passed through, producing a Slash like a sharp scythe.
The wind it generated was so powerful that it could easily cut through rocks. The faster the hand waved, the more wind blades would be released at the same time. It could even gather the wind blades to form a highly lethal tornado to tear the opponent apart.
Since the ability turned air into wind blades, the opponent couldn't see the color of the wind blades. They could only barely see the deformation of the air and then calculate the direction of the wind blade attacks.
Therefore, if the ability was used properly, one could knock down the opponent without them even noticing.
The drawback is that wind blades are only generated where the hand sweeps across. If the opponent runs behind one, it's impossible to counterattack right away.
Basically, once someone eats this Devil Fruit, they can unleash great killing force.
Just thinking about how badly Luffy was tortured by this Devil Fruit in the early days shows that it's a really great ability.
[Charlotte] put it together with the Slow - Slow Fruit and stored them away, planning to let his son or daughter eat them later.
Then he continued to rummage.
Now that the abilities of those two cantaloupe - shaped Devil Fruits have been identified and they're really great, even if the remaining three banana - shaped Devil Fruits are of poor quality, [Charlotte] won't have any regrets.
Sure enough, what you wish for comes true.
After flipping through a few pages and seeing these three Devil Fruits, [Charlotte] was completely dumbfounded.