[U.T] Ch 17: The Ultimate Haki Hack Tool

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[Buggy]

→Traits:

 •Cannonball Mastery (Blue)

 •Chop-Chop Fruit (Deep Purple)

 •Powerful Connections (Special)

 •Conqueror's Haki (Light Gold) (Unawakened)

 •Born of the Sea (Super Gold) (Scrapped)

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A blinding golden light flashed—just as dazzling as the Sun God aura radiating from Luffy—before quickly dimming again.

Buggy's traits appeared before Luen's eyes.

Cannonball Mastery (Blue): Let Buggy create special Buggy Balls. Not bad.

Chop-Chop Fruit (Deep Purple)? Luen didn't care much. Like Luffy, Buggy could only use the most basic applications of this Paramecia Devil Fruit—splitting his body apart to attack.

Sure, it made him immune to slashing damage, but that was it. Even if fully awakened—maybe allowing him to split the environment, like slicing a warship near him into quarters. Useful in chaotic battles, but nothing Luen needed to worry about.

What did catch his eye was that Buggy, just like Shanks, had the potential for Conqueror's Haki, though it was still dormant.

Not surprising, considering Buggy somehow became a Yonko, and could shout at his crew, "What dream drove you all to sea?! Every moment you cling to life might be your last, so why ignore that screaming urge inside you?! Go take the ONE PIECE!"

Judging from later canon hints, Buggy's background might be way more special than it seems.

So yeah—Luen wasn't shocked to see Buggy had Conqueror's Haki.

Powerful Connections (Special): Former crewmate of the Pirate King. Has deep, legendary connections. Can turn disaster into fortune.

That trait? It's the exact reason Buggy became a Warlord, and later, a Yonko by sheer dumb luck.

Sure, some might say he's just lucky. But without that Pirate King crew background—and being Red-Haired Shanks' buddy—Buggy wouldn't have stood a chance at becoming either.

In the world of One Piece, strength alone doesn't get you ahead. Social clout matters.

Just look at Eustass Kid. After Wano, he had the same 3 billion bounty as Luffy. But no ties, no name, no backing. Shanks wiped the floor with him.

Before that final clash, Shanks specifically asked for info on Kid—not about his achievements or how strong his fruit got, but about his background. Who his allies were. And when he found out Kid had nothing? One Divine Departure, and boom—game over.

But none of that was what made Luen's eyes go wide.

It was the final trait:

Born of the Sea (Super Gold) [Scrapped]: Born to rule the ocean! Possesses god-tier swimming talent. Just by swimming in the sea, the user can increase their "capacity"—and with that, their Haki! (Scrapped due to eating a Devil Fruit and being rejected by the sea.)

Luen stared hard at that trait. His eyes were almost bloodshot.

A super-potential Super Gold Trait! Maybe even more broken than Luffy's Sun God trait!

No wonder Buggy was on the same ship as Shanks back in the day. No wonder Whitebeard remembered him. No wonder Rayleigh once said Buggy's swimming skills could surpass his own.

No wonder, before eating a Devil Fruit, Buggy had the audacity to talk smack to Whitebeard himself.

It was all because of Born of the Sea (Super Gold)!

In One Piece, the ocean is everything. And a person's "capacity" is key to how strong their Haki gets.

This trait didn't just give Buggy insane swimming talent—it let him increase his capacity just by swimming, thereby boosting his Haki.

Armament Haki might rely on your physical strength. Observation Haki depends on your spirit and awareness.

But Conqueror's Haki? That's different. You can't train it like the others. You gotta sail the Grand Line, take down enemy after enemy, stacking victory upon victory. Like survival of the fittest—your aura feeds on others' defeat.

But this Born of the Sea trait? It literally let Buggy upgrade his Conqueror's Haki just by swimming!

The potential here was insane.

If Buggy hadn't eaten that Devil Fruit, he might've become the man known for the strongest Haki on the seas—not Shanks.

This trait was basically a swim-to-grow, ultimate Haki hack tool!

No wonder Buggy was cocky and fearless back in the day. In a world ruled by the sea, a trait like that made you royalty.

But the same trait that made him? It also broke him.

The moment he ate the Chop-Chop Fruit, the ocean rejected him. The trait got scrapped.

What once gave him infinite potential started backfiring. And the overconfident rookie on Roger's ship… slowly turned into the cowardly clown.

It made sense now. Buggy had fought fiercely against Whitebeard's crew. But after eating the Devil Fruit, in just a few short months, at the Edd War between Roger and Shiki, he was already trying to bail from battle.

That drastic personality shift? It was the backlash from losing Born of the Sea (Super Gold).

Now, everything made sense.

Luen's eyes gleamed like diamonds. He locked onto Buggy.

He had to get that trait.

As far as physical strength went—once he fully loaded Luffy's Superhuman Physique (Deep Purple) and Zoro's Beast Physique(Deep Purple)—Luen's potential would rival Kaido. Maybe even Big Mom.

For Devil Fruits? He had the Ultimate Trait System. No worries there.

Now, if he could get Born of the Sea (Super Gold), his Haki potential would skyrocket too.

And with the trait system, Luen could use Devil Fruit powers without suffering their downsides.

So even if he did get a fruit ability, he wouldn't be rejected by the sea like Buggy was. He could keep the Born of the Sea trait active.

Physique. Haki. Devil Fruit. The three pillars of power in this world—

Luen could max them all out.

Buggy… you didn't let me down.

That trait? I'm taking it.

"You—You freak! Do I know you? Why are you staring at me like that?!"

Buggy suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

That guy—Luen, his eyes were bloodshot, locked onto Buggy like a predator ready to devour him.

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