Chapter 62: Whoops

Chapter 62: Whoops



Cabernet was quite happy to be reunited with her best friend, the Going Merry.

She did however have some concerns about the Merry's "health".

"Merry is hurt. She's putting on a tough face, but I can tell." Cabernet said, while hugging the mast.

"I also wanted to bring that up. We need to have the Merry properly repaired by a shipwright. Fortunately we have all this gold on hand, so money won't be an issue." Nami said.

There really was quite a lot of gold here. Easily over a billion Beri worth.

Naturally Cherry had her own personal stash hidden away in Cabernet's hold.

The crew had a brief discussion and came to the decision to spend as much gold as necessary to fix up the Merry.

Cherry thought they were being somewhat naive, but she didn't say anything to them. It was better they came to their own realizations.

"By the way, Cherry, what's with the white box?" Usopp asked, pointing to the cloud iron box. "Hm? Oh, there's a devil fruit inside. And no, none of you can eat it, it's mine." Cherry stated, leaving no room for bargaining.

"Don't you already have a devil fruit power?" Chopper asked, looking as cute as ever.

"Yes, but I have other uses for devil fruit. Well, you can try to steal it from me, but if one of you eats it, know that I can cut out your still beating heart and it will serve my purposes just as well." Cherry said with a dark smile.

"That sounds neat." Robin said.

The others weren't of the same opinion and made their mental notes not to steal the box. "Let's go, Chopper. I want to show you the new medicinal reagent I found on the sky island." Cherry smiled sweetly. She had missed the little reindeer and wanted to chat with him.

Cherry explained the properties of the Soul Snaring Tree taproots to him, which was met with many questions. Then Cherry let him watch as she made new cultivation pills including the taproot.

These new cultivation pills were the best she could hope for at this stage of her cultivation. Cherry's cultivation speed skyrocketed. In fact she was certain she could reach the peak of the Spirit Root Realm before reaching the next island and be ready to use the Rumble Rumble Fruit to perfect it.

The time at sea passed quickly. Cherry passed the time cultivating (she told the Straw Hat it was meditation), theory crafting with Chopper, and training Robin.

Some of the others also expressed interest in the training regimen. Mainly Zoro who was a gym rat, Sanji who just wanted the excuse to spend time with Robin and Cherry, and surprisingly enough, Usopp.

Usopp wasn't entirely sold, though. He IS a massive wimp after all.

"You know, since you've chosen to use slingshots muscle strength is going to be important for your future. The stronger you are, the more powerful slingshots you can use." Cherry lured him in.

That was all he needed to hear and he decided to join in.

Now Cherry had most of the ship (Nami refused and it was sort of pointless for Chopper and Cabernet) doing the exercise equivalent of torture. She had them right on the edge of their capabilities for the whole duration of her "classes".

"You can bend further than that, Luffy! You're made of rubber for heaven's sake!" Cherry reprimanded.

"If you can spare the focus to ogle Robin, then I apparently haven't made things hard enough for you, Sanji." Cherry said darkly.

"You're not going to become a great warrior of the sea if you can't even stretch these bands to your full wingspan, Usopp!" Cherry encouraged.

She stabbed the sword into the Rumble Rumble Fruit and began to merged it's power into the

blade.

A huge energy surged into it, far greater than any that came before. Which made sense, this was the power of lightning after all.

Cherry pulled the excess into herself and used it to put the finishing touches on her fourth

realm.

"Phew..." Cherry let out a long breath. It was finally over, now all that remained was to break through. She saw no reason to wait and began immediately.

*CRACKLE*

Suddenly Cherry's sword transformed into lightning and shot into the sky.

"Huh?" Cherry was flabbergasted at the turn of events, but remained focused on breaking

through.

*RUMBLE*

Thunder echoed across the plains. Great black clouds, dark as the void formed overhead.

"Aw, fuck..." Cherry's eyes widened. She realized what was happening, as well as why it was

happening.

"A tribulation..." She sucked in a breath.

She belated realized just how badly she had fucked up here. She thought there just wouldn't be

any tribulations in this world, after all she hadn't faced any while breaking through before

now.

But now she had literally created the mechanism by which this world could create a tribulation for her to face by combining an object attached to her cultivation with the raw

power of lightning.

Moreover, she hadn't faced a tribulation as strong as this one in her last life until she was

breaking through to immortality.

Cherry braced herself to brute force her way through this tribulation. It wouldn't be easy by

any stretch of the imagination. This would be a life and death struggle, and the odds were in

the grim reaper's favor.