One Piece: Absolute Domination; Reborn as Luffy

Chapter 5: Its Still Here!

"That's Nika."

There was no doubt what that meant.

And yet...

Luffy was utterly dumbfounded.

He felt as if his intelligence had been trampled.

"What was I thinking?"

"I really just blanked out!"

"I was so focused on converting everything to Conqueror's Haki..."

"I completely forgot about Nika!"

Luffy laughed, a bitter chuckle.

He figured he must be the biggest fool in the world.

"Sigh!"

With that, Luffy shook his head, helpless.

What was done was done. There was no point in looking back.

All he could do now was move forward.

"Just keep moving forward," he murmured to himself, taking a deep breath.

"Hm?"

Suddenly, his attention shifted to the sensation of his Conqueror's Haki.

He felt as if his world had been turned upside down.

That sensation...

It was indescribable, something words couldn't capture.

"Aha!"

Luffy felt an extraordinary lightness in his body.

It was as if everything around him had subtly changed under his gaze.

"What... is this feeling?"

"It's like..."

"Everything has transformed."

He muttered as he picked up a small, solid stone.

In the past, a stone would just be a simple stone to him.

But now...

For some reason, Luffy felt as if the stone was more than just a lifeless object—it was almost... alive.

Yes, that's right.

And it wasn't an exaggeration.

In truth, Luffy had long understood that everything in this world had a spirit, a form of life.

There was no question about it; all things have a soul.

He observed the stone closely, feeling its energy.

Gently, he raised it to his cheek.

Squeak, squeak, squeak!

There was a faint sound, like something whispering from within the stone.

Of course, Luffy couldn't quite understand it.

But...

Old Luffy would have never been able to hear something like this.

"Is this... listening to the voice of all things?"

It seemed to him that it might be something like that.

In the anime he'd watched, he always assumed Luffy would only develop this ability after two years of training.

By that time, his Conqueror's Haki had far surpassed fifty.

Yet...

Here he was, with fifty points, and he could already faintly sense the voice of all things.

And...