One Piece Confirms Law's Powers Don't Make Any Sense (And Never Will)
Warning: spoilers for One Piece chapter 1038 ahead!
There are many bizarre powers in the world of One Piece, thanks to the existence of the mysterious Devil Fruits, but none of the abilities shown in the 24-year run of the best-selling manga make as little sense as those of the Ope Ope no Mi, possessed by the pirate captain Trafalgar Law. Trafalgar D. Water Law, nicknamed «the Surgeon of Death,» is the captain of the Heart Pirates and one of the main allies of Luffy and his Straw Hat crew. Introduced as one of the Eleven Supernovas, or the «Worst Generation,» a group of rookie pirates with bounties of over 100 million Berry, Law quickly gained fame and prominence in the New World, reaching a bounty of 500 million.
Law is one of the many One Piece characters with a tragic past. Law was the only survivor of the kingdom of Flevance, destroyed by the neighboring countries and the World Government, with only three years to live due to poisoning from a rare mineral when he met Donquixote Doflamingo and his «family,» who took him in. One of the pirates, Corazon, was actually an undercover marine, and he ran away with Law to find a cure for his illness. This ended up being a Devil Fruit that Doflamingo coveted more than anything else: the Ope Ope no Mi, a «surgical» fruit that allows its user to use a wide range of medical-based abilities.
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This Devil Fruit grants the ability to cure almost every kind of disease, injury, or illness, although it still requires a certain extent of medical knowledge to be used effectively. Its greatest power, which earned it the reputation of being the «Ultimate Devil Fruit,» is to grant another person eternal youth via the
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