"Left and right, it's just a fruit. Its value lies in being consumed by someone," Rosse placed the Brain-Brain Fruit into Sora's hands.
Just as he said, the Brain-Brain Fruit was useless in his own hands, it ultimately had to be given to someone he trusted.
Rather than giving it to someone uncertain, it was better to have Sora consume it.
Even if, after eating the Brain-Brain Fruit, Sora's scientific research talent only reached Judge's level, it would still be enough for Rosse.
"I understand," Facing Rosse's encouraging gaze, a warm current surged in Sora's heart.
'This feeling of trust, how many years has it been since I last experienced it? I have nearly forgotten.'
No matter what, she didn't want to let down this trust.
Raising the Brain-Brain Fruit, Sora took a big bite.
With just one bite, a painful expression appeared on her face.
Though she also knew that Devil Fruits were like this, she knew this was the taste.
In order not to let down the fruit, Sora forcefully endured the discomfort and ate the entire Brain-Brain Fruit.
Within less than a minute of consumption, Sora's originally bright eyes suddenly became dull.
"What's going on?", Gion slightly furrowed her brows.
Although she had eaten a fruit before and had seen Rosse consume a fruit, she had never seen someone in Sora's current state.
"After eating a Devil Fruit, in the short term, there will be various reactions depending on the fruit's ability. The Brain-Brain Fruit is related to the mind. Sora is probably adapting to the fruit's power," Rosse understood it clearly.
This state lasted for nearly ten minutes before Sora snapped out of the daze.
As soon as she came to, Sora excitedly hugged Rosse tightly, "Your Highness, I succeeded!"
"Congratulations," Rosse smiled and returned the hug, gently stroking her back.
Although both he and Sora knew that eating a Devil Fruit wasn't dangerous, and there wasn't really a concept of success or failure, since Sora was emotional, it was best to go along with it.
Sora was excited for a while before letting go of Rosse, a bit thrilled as she began introducing her ability, "The Brain-Brain Fruit allows me to have photographic memory and store all knowledge I've seen into my brain, and extract it with zero delay. At the same time, the Brain-Brain Fruit also allows me to enter a kind of supercomputing state."
"In that state, my thinking speed will increase by 100 times. But it consumes a lot of stamina. I can currently maintain it for only 10 seconds at most," Speaking of the duration, Sora was not very satisfied.
Although inspiration might strike in an instant, 10 seconds of supercomputing was still too short.
"In that case, don't rush to memorize information yet. Starting today, you'll train your physical stamina with Gion. She'll arrange resources and a training plan for you," Rosse didn't hesitate. With Sora's current ability, building a good foundation was more valuable than diving straight into research.
"Right, the Brain-Brain Fruit can also be used in training. Gion, give Sora all the family's materials on training powerful individuals, see if she can make any improvements."
"Okay," Gion readily agreed, though she didn't think Sora would be able to improve anything.
Improving physique came down to two things: eating and training.
After so many years of research by the World Government, they already knew which Sea King meat was most nourishing and easily absorbed.
As for training, there wasn't much mystery to it either. Individualized training plans, by the time someone reached her level, could be judged at a glance in terms of suitable training volume.
Still, Gion didn't think science was useless, just that using brainpower on something as simple as this wasn't worth it. It should be applied to things like lineage factors, as Rosse and Sora had just mentioned.
That stuff sounded high-level, and once it got deeper, she couldn't understand it. It seemed like something only brainy people could handle.
"By the way, there's one more thing," Rosse looked at Sora and asked, "The Brain-Brain Fruit should allow for autonomous memory addition and deletion, right?"
He thought of Vegapunk's future image. His head many times larger than a normal man's, grotesquely terrifying. He didn't want Sora to become a big-headed doll.
"Yes. After consuming the Brain-Brain Fruit, I can access and edit all memories in my brain. And if given time, I can rewrite those memories," Sora pursed her lips as she spoke. She was very averse to rewriting memories, but if it was Rosse, she was still willing to inform him.
"Don't study that too deeply. It's best not to touch it at all. Scientific research may cross many bottom lines, but there are some lines that must never be crossed," Rosse's expression flickered, then quickly returned to calm. In a very stern tone, he warned Sora.
Memory rewriting sounded tempting.
But this kind of thing was like Pandora's Box, once opened, there was no turning back.
Change one person's memory, and you'll end up changing countless others'.
Alter an enemy's memory, and soon you'll alter subordinates', then even those around you.
In this cycle, even if no one betrayed or overthrew him, the rest would be no different from robots.
By that time, Rosse wasn't sure whether he would go mad or slowly lose all humanity.
If this world lost all surprises and accidents, and he ceased to be himself, then even eternal life would be meaningless.
So, in Rosse's heart, there were a few red lines. No matter how evil he became, he would never cross those few boundaries.
"I understand," Sora lightly nodded, her pretty face carrying a light smile.
Rosse hadn't disappointed her, 'He truly is different from Judge.'
"Back to the previous topic. Based on what I know about the Brain-Brain Fruit, if memory is stored excessively, it will cause the brain's size to increase," Rosse didn't finish the rest of the sentence, but both Gion and Sora could imagine the consequences.
Some people might abandon their humanity for power, but neither Sora nor Gion wanted to enhance their abilities at the cost of worse appearance or physique, they hoped to improve both.
Just imagining the side effect of an enlarged head gave them chills.
"That kind of side effect is terrifying," Gion instinctively looked at Sora, imagining what she'd look like with a big head. No matter how she imagined it, it wouldn't look good.
Sora, on the other hand, suddenly had a vacant look in her eyes, it seemed she had entered a supercomputing state.
But this state lasted only one second before Sora actively exited it.
She gently shook her head, a bit puzzled, "It shouldn't be like that. According to my calculations just now, even if I recorded all of Judge's knowledge and experimental data, it wouldn't take up one ten-thousandth of my brain, not even counting the duplicate parts."
"By that calculation, you'd have to load in an ocean of knowledge to fill the entire brain. Only then would expansion be necessary. Probably only if you tried to store all the knowledge in the world."
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