In the end, Nagasawa gritted his teeth and made a ruthless decision, spending 700,000 points to exchange for Luffy's Nika Fruit and Marco's Phoenix Fruit.
Top-tier Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits all cost 300,000 points, but Luffy's Nika Fruit was in a league of its own. It was the most expensive of all Devil Fruits, worth a full 500,000 points, almost equivalent to two top-tier fruits.
Nagasawa planned to give the Nika Fruit to Naruto because he felt that Naruto was similar to Luffy in certain aspects and was the most suitable person for the Nika Fruit.
As for the Phoenix Fruit, it would be good no matter who received it. It provided near-immortal regenerative abilities and the ability to fly. However, Nagasawa still felt that Guy was the best match for this fruit. After eating the Phoenix Fruit, he would probably take off completely. From then on, he could casually open the Sixth and Seventh Gates.
"Why am I not a researcher?" After deducting 700,000 points in one go, Nagasawa was extremely heartbroken. He could only receive around 170,000 or 180,000 points a month. This had just wiped out several months' worth of points.
Nagasawa greatly admired the protagonists of the transmigration novels from his previous life. Every one of them was a jack-of-all-trades, proficient in everything from dealing with people to inventions and creations. They were all versatile little experts who could develop a technology tree.
He could not do that. If he could raise the technology level of the shinobi world to the level of his previous life, the increase in Prosperity would also be quite considerable.
After all, Prosperity depended on the overall situation. It was not only a massive increase in the strength of shinobi that could bring about major progress.
It was just that because of the special nature of the shinobi villages, and because doing things that way really was better in the early stages, Nagasawa had focused wholeheartedly on developing shinobi power. After beating Kumogakure and making Konoha famous, Nagasawa had consciously begun developing comprehensively.
But even if Nagasawa wanted to develop the technology tree, he had no way to do it. Although he knew how to use phones and computers, he did not know how to build them.
So recently, Nagasawa had once again developed the idea of establishing schools. Having only the Ninja Academy was not enough. They also needed ordinary schools.
However, this was not something that could be accomplished overnight. Because Konoha was a shinobi village, everything operated around shinobi. To establish ordinary schools, they would also have to recruit teachers from outside.
Nagasawa was confident, though. He believed that he could establish a first-rate modern school in the shinobi world within Konoha.
There was no other reason. Konoha was extremely wealthy now. By monopolizing Medical Talismans, there were plenty of people who would voluntarily bring money to Konoha.
Moreover, they had to look at Konoha's attitude before they could even give it money. If Konoha did not sell to you, you could not even spend your money if you wanted to.
With money, establishing a school would be easy.
What if they lacked teachers? Recruit them!
Lacked materials? Buy them!
Arrange everything at the highest level. Would he still have to worry about not being able to establish a good school?
After thinking about Konoha's future development, Nagasawa went to find Might Guy.
When Nagasawa found Might Guy, Guy was undergoing his daily training.
Seeing Nagasawa, Might Guy stopped training and smiled at him with his brilliant white teeth.
"Teacher Nagasawa."
Nagasawa did not waste any words and directly took out the Phoenix Fruit and introduced it.
"This is a miraculous fruit. After eating it, you can gain the ability to fly and extremely powerful regenerative abilities."
"Huh?" Might Guy was somewhat dumbfounded after hearing Nagasawa's words, as though there was too much information for him to process.
"Do you want to eat it? The Eight Gates is ultimately a forbidden technique. No matter how strong your physique becomes through training, opening the Gates will still have an impact on your body," Nagasawa said.
"After eating this fruit, as long as you don't open the Eighth Gate, there basically won't be any effects."
"That powerful!" Might Guy's eyes widened as he stared incredulously at the strange fruit in Nagasawa's hand.
He could already open the Seventh Gate, but because of his physical strength, opening the Seventh Gate caused enormous damage to his body. He would probably have to lie in bed for half a month after opening it once, perhaps even longer, and might even be left with aftereffects.
But Nagasawa said that after eating this strange fruit, he could freely open the Seventh Gate from then on. Of course this shocked Might Guy.
'If I can open the Seventh Gate, Kakashi probably won't be my opponent.' Might Guy immediately thought of his lifelong rival, Kakashi.
Because of various reasons, among the small group of Nagasawa's subordinates, apart from Shisui, Kakashi was basically the strongest. Occasionally—no, now there was also Obito.
Even Dual Mangekyo Obito was not someone the current Kakashi could deal with.
Might Guy often fought Kakashi. At present, if he only opened the Sixth Gate, he could not defeat Kakashi, but the Seventh Gate was different. The higher the Eight Gates went, the more exaggerated the power became. If he could open the Seventh Gate, Might Guy was confident that even his best friend would be unable to withstand the burning youth unleashed by the Seventh Gate.
"That's right. It's exactly that powerful." Nagasawa said with a smile.
The strength of the Phoenix Fruit was beyond doubt. Its powerful regenerative ability was extremely troublesome. Marco relied on that powerful regeneration to fight against the Four Emperors and Admirals without the slightest fear, only taking on high-level battles.
"You're really giving it to me?" Might Guy could not help asking again. He was not an indecisive person, but the item was simply too precious, so precious that Might Guy had never even heard of anything like it.
"Yes. Because of the special nature of its ability, your missions will be even more difficult in the future," Nagasawa said.
After hearing Nagasawa say this, Might Guy no longer hesitated. He took the Devil Fruit and immediately bit into it.
That bite almost turned Might Guy's face green. He had not expected this strange-looking fruit to taste so terrible, so terrible that it surpassed every disgusting thing he had ever eaten in his life.
"Could this be a trial to obtain the ability? I will not lose!" Although Might Guy found it disgusting, he thought this was a trial to obtain the ability. Instead, his fighting spirit surged, and he continued taking huge bites of the Devil Fruit, quickly eating the entire thing.
Seeing Might Guy finish the entire Devil Fruit in two bites, Nagasawa swallowed the words he was about to say. Actually, one bite was enough.
"Teacher Nagasawa, I won't disappoint your expectations. From now on, just leave all the difficult missions to me!" Might Guy said to Nagasawa after finishing the Devil Fruit.
He wore his trademark smile and gave himself a thumbs-up.
"Youth should naturally be spent doing more difficult missions! I can feel my youth burning."
Nagasawa had also spent several months in the Pirate World. Seeing Might Guy's trademark pose again, he smiled and slowly said, "That's right. You really are burning."
Might Guy really was burning, in the literal sense. At this moment, blue flames were genuinely burning across Might Guy's body, making him look like a man of fire.
Only after hearing Nagasawa's reminder did Might Guy notice that he had suddenly become covered in blue flames for some unknown reason. Yet he felt no pain from being burned at all. Instead, he felt somewhat comfortable, like when receiving medical ninjutsu.
"So youth really can burn?" Might Guy said with a shocked expression.
Although he was always talking about his youth burning, actually having his body catch fire still left him quite dumbfounded.
"It's because of the fruit you just ate. It gave you the healing Phoenix Flames," Nagasawa briefly explained the abilities of the Phoenix Fruit to Might Guy.
"Also, it seems like my body has become stronger, and my speed is faster too." As someone who trained Taijutsu every day and had extremely good control over his own body, Guy immediately noticed that he had inexplicably become much stronger.
"That's also because of the fruit," Nagasawa explained.
Making the body stronger was basically a characteristic of Zoan Devil Fruits. Almost all of them had this effect, whether ordinary Zoans, somewhat better Ancient Zoans, or the rarest Mythical Zoans.
Nagasawa had Might Guy try more things, such as transforming into a Phoenix and flying through the sky.
Following Nagasawa's instructions, Might Guy tried step by step and eventually gained preliminary control over the fruit's abilities.
While flying through the sky, Might Guy's feelings were truly indescribable. The sensation of flying at high speed through the sky was simply too exhilarating.
"Konoha's Proud Azure Phoenix has been born!" Might Guy said excitedly after landing, clenching his fist.
After figuring out the abilities of the Phoenix Fruit, Might Guy thanked Nagasawa again. That miraculous fruit was even more precious than he had imagined.
"You're my disciple. I don't want to see my disciple end up confined to a wheelchair because of the side effects of a forbidden technique," Nagasawa said with a smile as he patted Might Guy, telling him not to put pressure on himself.
Might Guy nodded, his eyes becoming even more resolute. He had to train even harder to repay Nagasawa!
Might Guy had always been grateful to Nagasawa. He and Nagasawa were not related, yet Nagasawa had taught him advanced Taijutsu and carefully guided him. Now Nagasawa had even given him such a precious thing. Might Guy truly felt that even if his father were still alive, he would treat him the same way.
'Now that I have powerful regenerative abilities, increasing my training by a little bit shouldn't be a problem, right?' Might Guy thought.
'Right, there's also Kakashi. I have to let him know this good news.' Might Guy clenched his fists, wishing he could immediately open the Seventh Gate and find Kakashi for a friendly spar full of friendship.
At this moment, Kakashi, who was happily playing with his beloved daughter at home, sneezed and felt that something bad might happen.
...
Nagasawa did not directly give the Nika Fruit to Naruto. Instead, he first went to discuss it with Minato and Kushina.
After all, Naruto was still young, only three years old. This was different from Guy's situation.
If Kushina and Minato suddenly saw their son inexplicably extend his arm seven or eight meters one day, they would probably be extremely shocked and suspect that Naruto had been captured and experimented on by some evil scientist.
"Is it really that miraculous? You can obtain the kind of ability you described just by eating a fruit?" Kushina curiously poked the Nika Fruit with her finger.
"That's how miraculous it is." Nagasawa nodded, then said, "I've actually eaten one of these things too, although the ability is different."
Immediately afterward, a tiny white halo appeared around Nagasawa's finger. The surrounding air violently trembled and began to crack.
Although Nagasawa had not actually eaten a Devil Fruit in the literal sense, Whitebeard had eaten one, and Whitebeard's template had already been integrated into his body. Saying that he had eaten one was not really wrong.
"Ah, so this is the ability you obtained from eating this kind of fruit? I thought it was some kind of forbidden technique." Minato said with a smile.
Although Nagasawa rarely used the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's ability now, he had used it quite a lot before, so Minato recognized it.
At the time, Minato had been quite curious because it was the first time he had seen a technique with such an effect. He had thought that Nagasawa had developed it himself.
"Can eating a fruit really give you this kind of power without any side effects?" Kushina asked.
"There are, but there aren't," Nagasawa thought for a moment and said.
Did Devil Fruits have a weakness? Of course they did. It was seawater, but this was limited to the seawater of the One Piece World, because the seawater of the One Piece World was special and contained a special substance unique to the One Piece World. If you tried using the seawater of the Naruto World to deal with a Devil Fruit from the One Piece World, it would not work.
"There are or there aren't? What the hell does 'there are, but there aren't' mean?" Kushina complained.
"Then there aren't," Nagasawa said.
"You could have just said that from the beginning." Kushina looked at Nagasawa as if he were deliberately picking a fight.
Minato smiled and gently stroked Kushina's smooth, long hair.
"Nagasawa just wanted us to understand things more clearly."
After Nagasawa finished talking with Minato and the others, Naruto happened to return. Nagasawa waved for Naruto to come over.
"What is this? I don't think I've ever seen it before." Sharp-eyed Naruto noticed the Devil Fruit on the table at first glance.
"It's something Nagasawa brought for you to eat," Kushina said.
"Nagasawa brought it?" Naruto's eyes lit up, thinking the Devil Fruit was some kind of delicious food.
Nagasawa nodded, then smiled and said, "Eat it. This thing will be extremely beneficial to you."
As the fruit of the protagonist of One Piece, Nagasawa naturally had no doubts about the strength of the Nika Fruit. The system's unique pricing also indirectly proved how powerful the Nika Fruit was. If it was expensive, there was a reason for its price.
Hearing Nagasawa's words, Naruto did not hold back. He picked up the Devil Fruit and took a huge bite. An indescribably disgusting taste instantly exploded in Naruto's mouth.
"It's so disgusting! How can there be a fruit this disgusting?" Naruto said with an utterly despairing expression.
If this had not been something Nagasawa gave him, Naruto would have spat it out immediately. He had forced himself to swallow it.
"How disgusting is 'so disgusting'?" Kushina curiously looked at the Devil Fruit in Naruto's hand, seemingly wanting to try it herself.
"It's ten times more disgusting than green peppers. No, a thousand times!" Naruto complained.
He had never eaten anything this disgusting before.
"Naruto, don't be willful. This is something Nagasawa specially prepared for you. Eating it will make you stronger," Minato said, briefly explaining the Devil Fruit to Naruto.
Hearing that it could make him stronger, Naruto's eyes became resolute. He revealed an expression as if he were prepared to face death and quickly ate the entire Devil Fruit in huge bites.
Perhaps because he thought that short pain was better than long pain, Naruto ate very quickly. Nagasawa had just opened his mouth when Naruto had already finished eating.
Nagasawa fell into deep thought. Maybe he should simply stop mentioning that only one bite was enough. Otherwise, it would be unfair to Naruto and Might Guy.