It's been one month.
'Well, time to put my money where my mouth is,' Amit thought to himself.
Amit got ready to jump off a tree, underneath which a very sharp spike lay. If he does it right, he will have no chance of survival on this remote island.
"Ok, here I go."
..............
The first week was nothing new.
He combed through every corner of the island. There was no drinkable water in the small island. There were only a few coconut trees and some berry trees.
He didn't dare eat those berries since he had no idea whether they were edible or not.
So, his days were spent communicating with the other two people in his head. Nothing new.
He managed to catch some fish though.
He also made tide traps for the fishes. Small puddles and small wooden traps that looked like great shelters for small fish.
He managed to find food for himself in this manner.
He also walked and slightly worked out. His body was also slowly getting stronger. He felt great. He had never grown stronger in such a noticeable manner before.
But he had no progress. The other two were also slightly frustrated.
But he didn't know how to swim. How could he risk building a raft and drowning to death?
He had a pyre ready to be lit on fire and a small fire going at all times.
He had been hoping to see a distant ship and hope for rescue.
Yet, nothing happened in the first week. All he did was be successful at surviving.
He kept thinking of their hypothesis that they were the reflections of a 4th-dimensional being. Someone who was possibly observing them.
'I know I am the biggest reflection because the brighter the light, the longer the shadow. I am the oldest by a long shot.'
He was at least 20 while the others were toddlers.
But one thing that assured him of this the most was his dreams.
Every night he dreamed about the current status of his counterparts. He also verified them. He could see their memories in his dream.
Like a Horcrux.
The memories were long and vivid.
He also saw others. People who looked exactly like him fighting using various abilities.
Once he saw himself sleeping.
That dream was a nightmare.
But he started to see it more and more. He even saw himself in angles he could not imagine.
Once in that dream he was shirtless and had three zits in his back.
He didn't know he had those. The next morning he checked and it turned out to be true. He shared this with his counterparts but they didn't experience anything like this.
The month was ending soon.
He knew that Namit would soon risk his life. They tested whether they could share age, and it turned out to be true.
So, it would be soon.
So he decided to test something.
Before going through with it, I had Namit to get close to the Konoha Hospital just in case.
He knew that whoever was watching him, was watching him closely.
So, he set it up.
A self-deletion setup.
A spiky spear with a sharp tip, underneath a tree branch.
"Hello everyone who may or may not be listening to me. You know what I want and I know what you can do.
You have two options, let me try to kill myself, or give me what I want.
You have 10 seconds. Time starts now.
Also, I would like you to stop watching me all the time, it's creepy. You're bugging me out.
I am having sleep issues.
5
4
3
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1"
Amit leaned over and started to jump.
And fell down on the ground. There was no spike where he landed.
Instead, there was a piece of paper and a fruit with swirly pattern on it.
He carefully opened the piece of paper. The other two were talking in his ears, he didn't pay any attention to them.
[Hello there.
You are wrong, it's so much worse than you think.
I see you.
This is the only time this type of behavior will be tolerated.
I gave you no power and sent you there as mercy. I was being merciful. You wanted a peaceful life, to be happy helping people, so I gave that to you. You could've helped the other two without putting yourself at risk. You could've used them as a proxy to help a lot more people.
But you had to get greedy.
I allowed you to do this because I wanted to see if you would go through with it. We both know how much of a coward you are.
You think you're so smart.
Alright then, kiddy gloves are off. I'm taking away your plot armor.
You wanted power, fine.
You can have it.
You'll also regret it.]
Amit felt chills like he had never felt before.
Something about the world felt fundamentally different.
Ever since he came into this world, in the back of his mind he felt that nothing bad would happen.
He couldn't explain it, but he also felt as if his thoughts were also being suppressed. He felt like he was becoming dumber.
The only thing he felt was truly his, his intellect, was lowering. He felt no revelations, no bright ideas after that first couple of days.
But at the same time he felt he was safe for some reason, he felt no sense of danger.
But now, his brain was moving at its full capacity.
He felt danger, instinctive danger like never before. He no longer felt like 'everything will be okay'.
"Shit, what have I done?"
In the corner of his eyes, he finally put his attention to the other thing this stupid ordeal had brought him.
A power granted to him by antagonizing a god, or a being worse than that.
A devil fruit.
He realized what it was in seconds. He also knew which ability it contained. After all, it was his second favorite in his previous life.
And also the one that complements his current situation perfectly.
Numa Numa no Mi.
Or otherwise known as the swamp fruit. Originally owned by Caribou.
A rare logia fruit.
It turned the consumer of the fruit into a swamp human, with infinite storage inside.
Ohh, I am in the One-piece world.
No plot armor huh.
This is going to be both difficult and fun.
"Ku hu hu hu....
HA HA HA HA HA HA.
YES!"
Mostly fun.
"Mark my words, I'll find you. I will touch you one day. And thank you for giving me my first weapon for that."
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AN: All of you should realize why I gave him this fruit.
It's the perfect support for this multi-dimensional body thing we have here.
Here's the wiki page for the fruit. I'm going to just copy-paste it. Feel free to read or skip it.
The Numa Numa no Mi is a Logia-type[1] Devil Fruit that allows the user to create, control, and transform into mud at will, making the user a Swamp Human (沼人間, Numa Ningen?). It was eaten by Caribou.[2]
Strengths and Weaknesses:
With the Numa Numa no Mi, Caribou can create bottomless swamps which are impossible to escape from. If someone is caught by the swamp created by Caribou, they will sink more if they struggle. The swamp also serves as a storage space, allowing Caribou to store an infinite amount of whatever he has captured inside his body.[2] The storage space can also be used to help carry a large surplus of food which remains edible over long periods of time, with Caribou noting that he has a month's worth of rations stored within himself.[3] He is able to keep several weapons within himself and bring them out when he needs them.[4] While he can keep creatures alive when they are in his swamp,[2][5] he can also use the swamp to drown his opponents if he wishes to.
Like most of the other Logia users, Caribou cannot be hit or sliced as his element is intangible, and any attacks will be absorbed into his body harmlessly. Though more like Marshall D. Teach, Caribou cannot allow the attacks to phase through his body; instead, it must be absorbed.[6] The thick liquid produced by the fruit's power is mud which is a half-water and half-earth element, found near bogs, with Franky even describing it as "mud-like".
The major weakness of this fruit is that the user cannot transform back to their normal form if they are confined in a space that their normal body cannot fit in. Due to this weakness, Franky was able to capture and seal Caribou in a barrel easily.[7] Also this fruit has yet to demonstrate offensive capabilities other than 'drowning' opponents into the swamp.[6] Also, since his mud is just basically earth that is mixed with water, this leaves him vulnerable to individuals who can manipulate water, such as Jinbe.[8] Other than that the user is affected by the standard Devil Fruit weaknesses.
Usage:
With his Devil Fruit powers, Caribou can create bottomless swamps by turning his lower body into a swamp. Via this transformation, he can capture living beings like he did when he used his powers to capture some mermaids.[2] Should his targets prove to be too large to be captured by normal size, Caribou can expand his body to increase the surface area, and wrap around the target in question to drag them in faster as he did so with Shirahoshi.[9] His "bottomless" swamp can also be used as a storage space. In fact, his fighting style consists of storing several weapons like Gatling guns and scythes inside his body.[4] He can also hide people inside his body for stealth purposes.[5]
[AN: The best part of the fruit, yet treated as a side piece.]
Caribou can also use it to choke his opponents by encasing their head in a sphere of swamp.[6] Like other Logia users, he can evade (or in his case, absorb) attacks by turning his body into the related element, which is in this case, swamp. However, his over-reliance on this defense, which he incorrectly believed to be invincible, led him to have little natural defensive power when his ability was dampened by attacks imbued with Armament Haki.[4]
By staying as his mobile swamp form, Caribou gains impressive stealth attributes allowing him to sneak away or approach unnoticed and eavesdrop on conversations by sticking to obscure or hard to see places so that he can listen onto conversations. He can also extend parts of his body, such as his ear, to aid him in his eavesdropping.[10] This ability also aided in his kidnapping spree either by laying a trap on the ground to swallow the mermaids or simply absorbing them directly into his body upon meeting them should he not have the element of surprise on his side.[2]
Trivia: This fruit's power that revolves around absorption, as well as granting the user an infinite space within the body, makes it very similar to the Yami Yami no Mi.