The pirates sat and forgot, and they really believed the nine truths and one lie.

Regarding the mythical beast-type animal-type devil fruit, it is superior to the ordinary animal-type devil fruit from the beginning. It is what it is, a dragon-type is a dragon-type. Even if it is preceded by the word "fish-fish fruit", an intelligent creature will only turn into a dragon after eating it.

After eating the devil fruit, Kozuki Momonosuke turned into a pink dragon, just like Kaido turned into a blue dragon after eating the mythical beast fruit. But today, the boy actually turned into a fish, which surprised the audience. The return to nature potion created by Orochimaru could actually achieve this effect, turning a particularly powerful mythical beast fruit into a particularly rubbish ordinary one.

The boy turned into a pink carp and kept flapping on the ground. It was difficult for him to adapt to this change. He didn't want to become a useless fish. Apart from swimming in the sea, fish have no other fighting power. Compared with dragons, there is simply a world of difference.

"It's the effect of the potion. I am a dragon, not a fish. Change me back quickly."

Kozuki Momonosuke was really anxious. He was deceived by the bad guy again. He knew that Buggy the Clown would not come up with any good ideas. It would not be so easy to turn back into a dragon.

"The devil fruit you ate is most likely a replica made by Vegapunk based on Kaido's bloodline. If you want to avenge your father and defeat the original with a replica, you will need to put in more effort."

Buggy the Clown pointed at the artificial kilometer-long waterway. This was a game facility he specially made for Kozuki Momonosuke, a training game called Carp Leaping Over the Dragon Gate. As for whether he would die in this game, that was not something an adult should be concerned about.

If Kozuki Momonosuke did not pass the screening of Buggy the Clown, then the boy was not worthy of standing next to him, let alone the Kozuki clan he was waiting for. They did not need a weakling and even less a piece of trash.

The man can only use such violent means to force growth. He does not have more time to wait for Kozuki Momonosuke to grow. He needs to compress this growth process. If he is not made for it, then he will be wasted.

Because the next thousand years are about to come, if this critical node is missed, everything that Buggy the Clown has prepared will be wasted. If waiting for the next thousand years is too long, even if he can live to that time node, the man's ambitions will be wiped out, and he will become a conservative person who does not want to make progress, just like other old monsters.

Through the other party's words, Kozuki Momonosuke roughly understood the content of his training. Buggy the Clown wanted the boy to become a fish swimming in the sea and climb up the infinitely steep waterway, but was there any reward for reaching the top? There was only a bare artificial rock wall above, and it seemed that there was no benefit in training this content.

"Are you really kidding about the carp leaping over the dragon gate? The steepness of the waterway is close to ninety degrees. What kind of fish can reach the top and swim up? It simply doesn't exist, okay?"

After the boy finished speaking, he released the ability of the devil fruit from his body and returned from the beast state to the human state. Orochimaru's potion did not target this. Kozuki Momonosuke's mythical beast fruit degenerated into an ordinary animal fruit. If he still maintains this mentality, he will remain in this state for the rest of his life.

Buggy would not give him the right to choose. In the territory of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, a man of a fallen country had no right to negotiate. The Joker laughed contemptuously and said, "Since you don't want to go down, I will send you off. Let the fishy smell on your body stay away from me and return to the embrace of Mother Ocean!"

The man made a snapping motion with his right hand, and a powerful splitting ability swept accurately under the boy's feet. Before Kozuki Momonosuke could react, the ground under his feet instantly separated from the main island and fell down with him.

"Ah... do you want to kill me? There's an ocean below."

There was nothing around Kozuki Momonosuke to hold on to, so he could only scream while feeling his rapid fall. Once a devil fruit user comes into contact with sea water, he or she will instantly become powerless and sink to the bottom of the sea.

In desperation, the boy activated the ability of the devil fruit in his body, and the moment his body was about to approach the sea surface, he turned from a human into a pink carp. Seeing this, Buggy the clown couldn't help but teased: "Be smarter than your dad and know how to adapt. Turn into a fish to cross that chasm."

A pink fish struggled to float to the surface, and Kozuki Momonosuke almost thought he was going to die, but the current crisis was not over yet, although the Fish-Fish Fruit gave the boy the ability to breathe and swim in the sea.

But the sea is still a jealous stepmother. Kozuki Momonosuke has to consume twice as much energy to keep his fish body floating on the sea. If he swims a little, he risks sinking to the bottom, not to mention participating in some entertainment facilities like the carp leaping over the dragon gate. What Buggy the clown has created is to make him risk his life and practice with his life. If he fails, he will die.

Buggy the clown who was staying on the shore bent down, picked up the stone under his feet, and threw it at the pink fish in the sea. However, he was careful not to aim too high, and the stone caused a wave when it fell into the sea, but did not hit Momonosuke's body.

"From now on, this is your training program. If you can't finish it today, you'll have to do it tomorrow. If you can't finish it tomorrow, you'll have to do it the day after tomorrow. I will only give you half a year at most. Once you exceed my limit of patience, you'll be like a drowned fish forever."

After saying this, Buggy the Clown handed over the surveillance task to Douglas Barrett, the cadre beside him. He had other things to do and had no time to play here with the son of Kozuki Oden. He also had to study the permanent pointer in his hand.

The other party left without looking back after saying a word. Kozuki Momonosuke kept calling the name of Buggy the Clown in the water, but no one responded to him. As the time spent in the sea gradually increased, the male sea man's physical strength was consumed faster and faster. He needed to move now. Only by moving his fish body and consolidating his physical strength could he survive in the sea.

"If you stay still in the sea today, you will sink to the bottom and no one will come to rescue you. You must take the first step to have a chance to defeat the goal set by the captain."

Barrett was not a gentle man either. He imitated Buggy the Clown's tactics, bent down, picked up a stone and threw it into the sea, hitting the ugly pink fish.

Two finger-sized stones came through the wind and instantly hit the body of Kozuki Momonosuke's fish. The boy screamed in pain and fell into the sea. A trace of blood was left where the pink fish disappeared. At least dozens of fish scales were knocked off by this blow. Barrett really did not hold back at all.

After facing the reality, the injured pink fish tried its best to float on the sea again, flapping its fins and swimming towards the steep cliff, but this thousand-meter waterway would not be so easy to cross.

The carp that can swim through the Dragon Gate are the chosen ones of heaven. Most of the runners-up will only become food for higher animals. This is the cruelty of natural selection.