"What's wrong?"
Seeing Shinobu's hellish expression, Kahn's natural observation Haki already knew the answer. But on the surface, he deliberately looked at Shinobu with curiosity.
"Gulp..."
At this time, Shinobu's smooth forehead and beautiful cheeks were covered with sweat. She swallowed hard, looked at Kahn, and asked in a trembling voice, "Mr. Carl, what's going on with your body?"
"Why was my energy sucked up by you in an instant when I just used the fruit ability?"
"Did it fail?"
Kahn pretended to ponder for a moment, then asked cooperatively, "Did it fail?"
"Yes," Shinobu nodded and explained, "Once my mature woman transformation technique is used on people and things, it consumes a certain amount of physical energy. The more years of ripening, the more energy it consumes."
"Just now, I helped your four maids, Lord Carl, ripen their biological age to eighteen, which consumed nearly half of my energy."
"But helping you, Sir Carl, to ripen your biological age drained all of my physical energy in an instant, and it didn't work at all."
"How powerful is your body...?"
If it weren't for the fear of being impolite, Shinobu's last sentence would have been: What kind of monster are you?
"I see," Kahn nodded suddenly, feeling slightly regretful.
It seems that he can't exploit this loophole!
Yes, Kahn came to Wano Country not only to help Robin and the others grow but also to see if the Paramecia Ripe-Ripe Fruit would work on him and if he could accelerate his own age development.
If he could also age himself, he could take advantage of the loophole and reduce his efforts for a few years.
But unfortunately, the ability of the Paramecia Ripe-Ripe Fruit could not take effect on Kahn.
Because... Kahn's body is too strong.
The Paramecia Ripe-Ripe Fruit can ripen people and things, and the effect is irreversible. There is no doubt that the Ripe-Ripe Fruit is also a kind of rule-based ability.
Rule-based abilities are the most unresolvable and troublesome category in Paramecia.
As far as Kahn currently knows, there are only two methods to resist rule-based abilities.
One is Haki, which is like a panacea. As long as Haki is strong enough, it can resist and ignore rule-type abilities.
The second is attribute mutual exclusivity. There is no perfect Devil Fruit in this world; any Devil Fruit will have something that restrains it. This is true even for the unique Nika Fruit.
Rubber is not afraid of blows and guns, but it is afraid of sharp objects. Similarly, every rule-type ability also has something that restrains it.
The most classic example is Perona's Paramecia Ghost-Ghost Fruit, which can instantly kill the strong-willed Luffy and Zoro but has no effect on Usopp, who is always negative. Even a strong person will become negative if touched by a negative ghost, but inherently negative people can ignore the ghosts of negativity.
Similarly, Kahn's body can ignore the existence of the Paramecia Ripe-Ripe Fruit. Not only the Ripe-Ripe Fruit but many other abilities will be ignored by Kahn's body because his physical fitness is so strong that he has various resistances and characteristics.
These resistances and characteristics are amplified to the greatest extent by the Zoan Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Phantom Beast Model: Azure Dragon.
Just like Shinobu said, eating the same phantom beast fruit takes a long time for him to grow.
As soon as Kahn ate the Phantom Beast Fruit, he could immediately transform into a full dragon form. With the physique of a natural destroyer, every year of his growth marked a huge improvement.
To make a monster whose physical strength itself is as vast as the sea become stronger would require something extraordinary. Unless someone like Charlotte Linlin or a giant ate the Paramecia Ripe-Ripe Fruit, it would have little effect on Kahn. In short, the Ripe-Ripe Fruit wouldn't ripen Kahn.
Returning to the matter at hand...
Although Kahn felt a bit regretful that he couldn't accelerate his age, he quickly calmed down. He looked at Shinobu with a smile and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you this time, Miss Shinobu."
"No, it's fine..." Shinonbu quickly waved her hand and said gratefully, "Compared to the information and gifts you brought, I just consumed a little physical energy. It's not worth mentioning at all, and I regret not being able to help you mature your body, Mr. Carl."
"Anyway, thank you very much. I may come to you, Shinobu, for help in the future. I hope you don't mind then."
"No, no, you can come to me anytime," Shinobu replied, waving her hand again.
After exchanging a few polite words, Kahn suddenly sensed several auras outside. He nodded politely to Shinobu and said, "The gold outside. I hope you can melt it yourself or find someone trustworthy."
"I understand," Shinobu nodded with a serious expression, grasping Kahn's meaning.
"Master, we have changed our clothes."
At that moment, four girls in ninja costumes came in from outside. Kahn felt a slight weight on his back and a pair of slender arms stretched out from behind, hugging his neck and pressing his head against a certain generous area.
Hancock, hugging Kahn from behind and taking advantage of her height, said with a smile, "I've been dreaming about such a scene for a long time, and today it finally came true."
"Master, you have to be like us in the future, drink milk obediently every day, and grow taller!"
"Pfft...hahaha!"
Hearing this, the other three girls couldn't hold back and burst out laughing. Robin and Sonia covered their lips and snickered while Mary laughed outright, not caring about her image.
"..."
Kahn, who was enjoying the world's most beautiful pillow and feeling a sense of accomplishment, suddenly had a row of black lines on his forehead. He regretted letting the four girls mature to eighteen. He should have stopped at sixteen.
Now, at 1.85 meters tall, he was only two centimetres taller than Mary, almost becoming the shortest in the group. Even more frustrating was that he wouldn't be able to perform head-to-head kills on Robin, Hancock, and Mary in the future.
Fortunately, Kahn was only fifteen years old. His height would continue to skyrocket while the heights of Hancock and Robin were now fixed.
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