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Old 2013-02-06, 22:07   Link #67
golgo13
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Originally Posted by marvelB View Post
^Thing is, the DF encyclopedia was something we've known about since the very first chapter. Lucky Roux (the fat guy from Shanks' crew) even showed Luffy a picture of the rubber fruit from that book shortly after the fruit in question was eaten. And that's not to mention that Sanji even said he read the encyclopedia himself at one point (it was during the Thriller Bark arc, when he told Absalom that he knew about the invisibility fruit through that book). So yeah, it's clearly been indicated that the devil fruits were already being thoroughly researched by the time the series began. Perhaps Vegapunk helped speed up the process sure, but those fruits were most definitely already being studied for quite some time.....
I actually use to think one of the reasons Shanks valued that fruit was because he knew it was the gomu gomu fruit and that was Roger's old fruit. Hence why after seeing Luffy eat it and express himself like Roger did why he gave him the straw hat... But the message Roger left in Skypiea etched in the old language really indicates some crazy haki or a fruit ability so I wasn't so sure anymore..

Incidentally its interesting to note that Shanks his crew where likely developing their skills while having their base in Luffy's hometown before heading out for their journey to the new world...that was their "2 year" time skip...
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