MM Racing 3: Long bread
3: Long bread
"It's done! Is this okay?"
A deep, booming voice came from the rooftop.
A Viking-style three-unit townhouse, as large as a castle, has been erected on this undeveloped land.
"That's enough. I'm sorry, but I kept making unreasonable demands. Without your help, we wouldn't have been able to build a house in this remote mountain area."
Sister Carmel, in her sixties or seventies, still responded loudly in her usual high-pitched voice.
"Don't worry about it, Sister! It's what we should do! Feel free to ask me for help anytime you need it! Hahaha!"
Another giant male, also working on the roof, answered loudly.
"Thank you so much everyone!"
"By the way, where did Oro go? I haven't seen him since we got on the island. It's been several days. I'm really worried about him."
Sister Carmel maintained her ever-present smile and casually posed her question.
"Auro? Oh, he was worried his younger siblings might be in danger living here, so he went to check the surrounding area. Don't worry, Sister, little Auro is brave and clever; he'll be fine!"
A small, bearded giant carrying timber answered her question, and the nun nodded with an unchanged smile.
……
"Hey kid."
"You know that such blatant tailing in the forest is both impolite and incredibly foolish?"
Longbread turned around, drew his rapier from his waist, casually slashed at a tree trunk, twirled it, and shaved off a thick piece of wood. The wood transformed into a juicy steak in mid-air before landing in his hand.
The long bread first waved the steak in his hand at Oro, then began to eat it in large bites.
"Oh my, what an amazing Devil Fruit ability! I was just taking a walk, and it was fate that I bumped into you, how could you say I was stalking you?"
Oro held an apple in his hand, looked at the neckless, cylindrical man with a childlike, innocent smile on his face, and looked completely harmless.
"Hey, what are you trying to do, you're taller than me and you're giving me that disgusting smile? Are you out of your mind?"
The long bread made a disgusted face, Oro's smile froze, and then he waved his hand:
"Sorry, sorry. I've been in Elbaf for so long that I've gotten used to acting like a child."
"Elbaf?! You bastard...!"
The long bread suddenly froze; he couldn't feel his tongue anymore!
He instinctively turned to run away, his brain sending signals to his body, but his body did not respond.
"What happened! We've been ambushed!? When?!"
The long bread couldn't even move its neck; its pupils darted around as it frantically scanned its surroundings, desperately searching for any hope of escape.
Upon seeing this, his pupils constricted sharply!
The surrounding trees and land had all turned golden without anyone noticing! Even the clouds in the sky were golden!
It was as if the whole world had turned into gold!
In the past, he would have been ecstatic, but at this moment, all that remained in Longbread's heart was horror!
"Gold...Gold-Gold Fruit?! Impossible! I've seen the world! The Gold-Gold Fruit can only control gold! How could this be..."
"Wow, you've got a quick mind, Mr. Longbread."
"!"
Oro's leisurely voice reached the ears of the long bread, and in that instant, the long bread felt its brain tremble.
"I've encountered a ghost!!!"
"A ghost? Half-human, half-ghost, a sharpshooter... uh, sorry, you've stirred up memories of my past life."
"Before he died!?!"
"Ahem, let's not get off topic anymore. Back to what we were saying, you guessed right, the basic ability of the Gold-Gold Fruit is indeed only to manipulate gold."
"However, there are no useless fruits in this world, only useless things."
"Do you understand?"
Oro walked up to the long bread, looked at its 90% golden exterior, and spoke in a flippant tone.
For so many years, Oro has never used his Devil Fruit powers in public. After suppressing them for so long, it's time to relax a bit. Showing off is good for your mental and physical health, right?
"What...what exactly are you trying to say!?"
The long bread stared intently at the devilish man in front of it, using only its eyes, the only part of its body that could still move.
"Hmm? Looks like you're not so smart after all. Hmm... how should I put it? As a chef, have you ever cooked pig brains before?"
"Brains?"
"It's about the brain—the brain of a pig, the brain of a cow, the brain of a human. When you're cooking or tasting food, have you ever paid attention to the structure of a brain?"
"I...I've never eaten brains..."
"Ah (third tone), that's a real shame, actually the taste was quite good."
"Well, when you use your brain, like right now, have you ever wondered how your brain works?"
"No……"
The long bread grew increasingly terrified of the man before him. He forced himself to answer the questions, thinking that delaying for even a little longer was always better.
"Oh, I see. How should I describe it to you?"
"Hmm... The brain is made up of many, many, many nerves. You can think of it as lines, very thin lines. These lines generate electricity, producing something called electrical signals. These signals are your thoughts, your thinking, understand?"
"I understand... I understand..."
"Very good, now let's imagine that if we take a very, very thin wire that can also conduct electricity and drill it into the brain, into the spaces between those nerves, and change the transmission path of those electrical signals, what do you think would happen then?"
"Drill?! Drill inside!?"
"Um?"
"I understand, I understand!"
"Strings! Strings! You're actually a String-String Fruit user! Isn't that right?!"
"Sigh..." Auro sighed.
"Uncle, you should read more books and study harder. Knowledge can change your destiny."
"Let me tell you, gold is a material with excellent electrical conductivity that can be stretched to the nanometer scale. Do you know how fine 1 nanometer is?"
"A human hair is about 50 to 100 micrometers wide. One micrometer equals 1000 nanometers. The width of a DNA strand is about 2 nanometers. Does that make sense?"
"Feed (micro)..."
"explain."
What is a micrometer (micrometer) compared to a meter (meter)?
"..."
Oro straightened up, speechless, and clapped his hands.
"There can't be only a handful of schools in this world, right? Never mind, let's move on to the next section."
"W-What step!? I'm very useful! As long as you describe it clearly, I can conjure up any kind of rice for you to eat!"
Oro pursed his lips, snapped his fingers, and the surrounding earth began to tremble.
The trees and clouds turning into gold was an illusion created by Oro by drilling gold threads into the brain of the long bread, but the things on the ground were not.
Gold is actually very common; it's found in animals, plants, soil, and rocks, but it's difficult to extract.
But this is not a problem for Oro. One gram of gold can stretch 3500 meters, and a little gold is enough for him to do a lot of things.
Oro manipulated the gold to drag a large basket of various plant fruits from the jungle behind him, then used a thin layer of gold to form a sphere, which wrapped Oro and the long bread. A spiral drill was formed underneath, breaking through the soil and heading deeper into the earth.
Drill bit wear is negligible for Oro, which can extract gold from its surroundings, and the deeper you go, the more gold you find.
If it weren't for the need to breathe, Oro's drill could reach the Earth's core.