"The Mary Geoise was attacked?!"
The good news that came from the World Government, and the Marines from their victory against the Four Emperors of the pirates and many criminal legends on the sea, which firmly increased the domination of the World Government in this world, but when they thought so, unexpectedly, Nika and the others didn't hide away instead using Shiki's power, they went to invade the Mary Geoise.
By using the Fuwa Fuwa no Mi, which made anything that Shiki wanted to, to float, he directly invaded the Mary Geoise under the lead of Nika and everything, bringing a disaster, and killing many of the Celestial Dragons except for the stronger ones.
After all, the God's Knights, and those powerful ones were immortals, but facing Nika and his group, they were easily defeated until the real leader of the World Government, Imu, came out.
Yet, somehow, the work of fate worked again and helped Nika and his group to walk away.
Yes, Shinra might have taken Nika's ability, with his Eye of Usurp, but what he had taken was only the ability to return the world to how it used to be. As for the rest, he just let them be since even with all of those abilities, Nika didn't pose a threat to him, and he could become a scapegoat for many things to him, which was why he used Nika to clean up the Celestial Dragons, especially the useless ones, since one of them simply took up too many resources.
However, that didn't mean that those Celestial Dragons were all useless since, despite many of them not being as strong as others, they could easily use their connections to help someone expand their power, such as the famous Golden Emperor, Gild Tesoro, who despite hating the Celestial Dragons the most, decided to work with them, to increase his influence and wealth in the New World.
Still, even with all that, Shinra was all calm as he was enjoying his life on the leisure island on the first Grand Line. As for the problems on the Mary Geoise, it wasn't his problem as he wasn't the one who was hurt. Moreover, he had been working hard, fighting for his life, and even took down all of the Four Emperors by himself, and many powerful criminals.
If he was forced to work again, what was the use of the rest?
Did they work for the World Government to get their paycheck without working?
If so, then he might as well use cyborg or clone soldiers as his soldiers.
'Wait, isn't that the World Government's plan?'
According to what he knew, the Five Elders had commissioned Vegapunk to develop a powerful cyborg and also clone soldiers from various famous strong individuals on the ocean. Instead of using humans that could betray them at any moment when feelings were involved, it was better to use robots, machines, or cloned soldiers that were impossible to betray.
While Shinra thought that the World Government, whether it was Imu, the Five Elders, and many others, might have paranoia, he also couldn't blame them, since Nika's brainwashing ability was too powerful.
Anyone who stood by Nika's side, no matter who they were, as long as they were living beings, would be affected by him, becoming his allies despite the hatred and killing intent that they had previously shown.
What was frightening about Nika wasn't his cartoon-like ability, being able to do anything that he wished to be, but his brainwashing ability that could turn everything into an ally.
With Nika's power alone, it was impossible to overthrow the World Government, but adding the power of quantity, with all of the people that he had gathered with that brainwashing ability, he was simply an army!
"Luffy..."
Yet, Nami wasn't affected, and she just felt conflicted, especially when she felt like Luffy had changed, like he had become another person.
Robin frowned and asked, "What will happen?"
"What will happen?" Shinra saw that everyone was staring at him, waiting for his answer.
What would happen after this?
"There is nothing more or less about the war between the World Government and Nika."
"Nika..." Carina murmured and asked with doubt, "What is Nika? Why is it so worshiped by everyone?"
"It's a god."
"....." Everyone.
"You mean... that stupid boy's Devil Fruit is in the form of god?" Carina was dumbfounded.
"What's so weird about that? Isn't Sengoku's Devil Fruit also a god?"
"..." Everyone.
Which one was stronger, a Nika or a Buddha?
If it was in his original world, Shinra would answer Buddha since Buddha's worshippers were much higher and their religion had reached a cosmic level.
On the other hand, what was Nika?
Yet, in the world of One Piece, Nika is stronger.
Still, regardless, Shinra said, "So, what will happen if Nika and the World Government have a war?"
"What will happen?"
"It's either the World Government wins or Nika wins."
"Can you give us some views on what will happen?"
"Well, if the World Government wins, then nothing will change, but I will try to change it."
All of them nodded since they had heard Shinra's plan when he controlled this world, and they had agreed with him, since no matter what kind of world he planned to make, for their future, they knew that he wished the best, as they would bear his children.
"Then, what if Nika or Luffy wins? Or, rather, why did you always say Nika? Luffy is Luffy, right?" Nami asked with doubt.
Shinra hesitated for a moment, but Nami urged him. "Come on~! Tell me~!"
"...stop touching that. We're still outside."
Letting out a helpless sigh, Shinra said, "Do you know there is a state known as 'Awakening,' which means growing stronger as you master your Devil Fruit further?"
"Oh, is there?"
"Yup." Shinra nodded. "It's like Doflamingo, who ate the Ito Ito no Mi, could turn the environment into strings. That's what Awakening is, but in Zoan's case, which is my Devil Fruit, the vampire, and Luffy's Nika, it is a bit different."
"Such as?"
"Well, the awakening state is pretty simple since it only enhances or further maximizes the original ability, and increases the physical ability, regeneration, and many others, but to reach that Awakening, we, the Zoan-type Devil Fruit user, need to defeat the entity inside that Devil Fruit. Let's say that if someone eats a cow's fruit, then he has to defeat a cow if he wants to reach the awakening."
"Have you reached that state?"
"Yup." Shinra nodded. "I have defeated the vampire inside my Devil Fruit, so everything is fine."
"...so you are that strong..."
"Enough of that." Shinra was speechless when he saw Nami's eyes on his lower body. "What I want to say is, you need to defeat the entity, which means that you can also lose to that entity."
"...." Nami.
"...." Everyone.
While Nami was shocked and unable to ask anything, Carina decided to ask, "...what will happen if you lose to that entity?"
"Your body will be taken by that entity, and for your information, it isn't easy to reach that awakening, especially for the Mythical Zoan, since even Kaidou, one of the Four Emperors, and Sengoku haven't reached that stage yet."
So, what about Luffy?
Even if Shinra didn't give a clear answer, everyone knew that Luffy's body was taken by the entity inside his Devil Fruit.
In other words, Luffy's body was taken by Nika.
"....." Everyone.
Nami hesitated for a moment and said, "As Luffy has become a woman, can you help her?"
"....." Shinra.
There were many things that he wanted to say, but in the end, he decided to leave the world of Naruto and settle everything.