The sudden failure made Kenji calm down a lot. The previous two consecutive successes had inflated his morale and confidence.
However, comprehending Devil Fruit abilities is not something that can be achieved simply by having stronger momentum or higher confidence. If the conditions are insufficient and the standards are not met, then it simply cannot be done.
'Is my current comprehension limit… only up to Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits?' Kenji pondered for a moment, feeling that there might still be some room for change.
This time, he used his Future Vision ability to observe future scenes and comprehend Devil Fruit abilities.
Essentially, this still wasn't observing them firsthand in the current reality, so his Super Comprehension would be affected, and the comprehension effect would naturally be discounted. It wasn't as heavily debuffed as when recalling past scenes, but it still weakened the final effect.
However, Kenji was in no position to find someone to consume a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit on the spot and then observe their ability to comprehend it.
On one hand, he was still in combat, and while comprehending Devil Fruit abilities, he was also continuously using Conqueror's Haki - God's Domain to suppress Saturn from the distant battleship.
On the other hand, he only had three Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits in total, and taking one out just for testing was a bit too extravagant.
So, after careful consideration, Kenji decided that he still had to cheat.
'If I were to observe Mythical Zoan abilities firsthand in reality, it is indeed possible to succeed in comprehending them, but only possible.'
Kenji frowned in thought, his gaze returning to the future scenes in his vision.
'The current comprehension limit through observing future scenes is the rarer Paramecia Devil Fruits.'
'Hmm, but this is only the limit of my current trait.'
Kenji's heart stirred, and he had another idea.
'If the trait is at its limit, then I'll just keep upgrading it.'
At this moment, Kenji still held five assignable upgrade opportunities that he hadn't used. However, he didn't want to just use them up directly like this.
Five upgrade opportunities, while not many, were certainly not enough to max out both the Super Comprehension and Giant Bloodline. With limited opportunities, they naturally had to be used at crucial junctures.
The question was, what was crucial? To what rarity level did Super Comprehension or Giant Bloodline need to reach for him to successfully comprehend Mythical Zoan abilities?
Kenji couldn't be sure.
Following a normal thought process, he should continuously upgrade both Giant Bloodline and Super Comprehension. Then, naturally, he would be able to comprehend various Devil Fruit abilities and other types of powers.
But that method would obviously take a long time, and it would be somewhat 'wasteful' and costly.
Iff he upgraded the traits now and still couldn't comprehend Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit abilities, wouldn't that be a loss?
He couldn't ask the system to refund the upgrade attempts then, and besides, the damn system wasn't that kind-hearted.
So, Kenji decided to 'cheat'. He would use his Future Vision to cheat hard.
Well, it's not really cheating, the traits will still need to be upgraded eventually, it's just that the future hasn't arrived yet.
Kenji changed his mind, thinking that he wasn't really cheating. After all, the future would eventually arrive. He was just looking at some possibilities of the future in advance.
As for when the 'future' would arrive? He could only say, it would come.
As Kenji silently set the goal of 'upgrading traits'in his mind, scenes of certain traits after upgrading in the future gradually appeared in his vision.
In the first playthrough, Kenji chose to use all five opportunities to upgrade Super Comprehension, advancing it to purple rarity. Then, he tried to comprehend a Mythical Zoan ability again and failed on the spot.
He didn't pay much attention to the first failure and continued to try.
In the second playthrough, he chose to use all five opportunities to upgrade Giant Bloodline.
Then he discovered that Giant Bloodline still hadn't reached its maximum rarity. Previously, Giant Bloodline had broken through its limit, and now, the effect of its breakthrough was finally showing.
However, the revealed content was different from normal circumstances.
After five consecutive upgrades, it still remained at the red rarity stage, and it seemed likely to stay at red rarity in the future as well.
Or rather, was red rarity the true highest rarity? Would subsequent upgrades only give red rarity +1?
Kenji thought for a moment, then ignored it. After all, now was not the time to investigate these matters.
He refocused his attention on the Mythical Zoan devil fruit users in the future scene, tried to comprehend again, and failed again.
'It seems that by upgrading only one trait separately, it will be difficult to achieve the goal…' Kenji pondered for a moment, then changed his approach.
In the third playthrough, he chose to upgrade them separately, first upgrading Super Comprehension three times, advancing it to 'light purple' rarity. Afterward, he used the remaining two upgrade opportunities on Giant Bloodline.
Then, he tried again and again, attempting to comprehend each of the three Mythical Zoan devil fruit abilities in turn. Ultimately, he succeeded, but only a little.
How did he succeed?
More precisely, Kenji only successfully comprehended one Mythical Zoan ability. So, it was a one-third success rate?
The Mythical Zoan he comprehended was the one from the God's Knights, which allowed one to transform into a Cerberus. It was also the Devil Fruit ability that seemed to have the lowest rarity among the three Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits.
'That's fine, being able to comprehend one Mythical Zoan means at least I've crossed the threshold. The rest is just about continuing to increase the strength of the traits.'
Kenji was quite satisfied. Actually, he had never expected to comprehend all Devil Fruit abilities from the start. After all, [Super Comprehension] was still far from being upgraded to gold, and [Giant Bloodline] hadn't allowed him to reach the standard of an "ancient god-like being", at least, the system hadn't given any notification.
And in this third attempt to comprehend a Mythical Zoan devil fruit ability, he didn't use his abilities as freely as before, nor did he transform, otherwise, suddenly having two extra heads on his shoulders would be a bit scary.
In fact, after the previous two successful experiences of comprehending Devil Fruit abilities, Kenji could now easily determine whether a comprehension test was successful or not.
'In the end, only one Mythical Zoan was successful. If I change the trait upgrade strategy, can I make further progress?'
Kenji decided to continue testing. Actually, it was just a matter of permutation and combination: upgrading [Giant Bloodline] more and [Super Comprehension] less. Or, swapping the amount of upgrades for both and testing again.
Anyway, there were only five upgrade opportunities in total, no matter how they were arranged, there were only a few combinations.
Each test was actually very quick, it was just a matter of viewing the future trait upgrades and Mythical Zoan ability scenes, which could be done in a few screen transitions.