Aro Aro no Mi

This Paramecia power lets the eater sprout arrow-shaped strips out of their body and guide them by thought, so they drift about like living bandages rising from the skin. A chopping motion snaps a strip loose, and a range of hand signs then aims where it travels. The title draws on aro, the Japanese sounding of the English word arrow, and it labels the holder an Arrow Human, which VIZ renders as Arrow-Woman.

Even as physical items, no strip yields to being smashed, and outside strength cannot shift one from its course either, so redirecting them is a privilege reserved for their maker. Robin found a blade unable to slice through them, and Nami got nowhere trying to shove one aside by hand, which shows just how absolutely the ability answers to its owner and nobody else.

Because each arrow ends in a keen point and stretches long, it opens a broad set of combat options: darts loosed from the hands like bullets, spikes that nail foes down, and coils that loop around a neck or limb before squeezing with lethal, choking pressure. Anyone trapped this way can then be hauled about by telekinesis no matter how heavy they are. Since the strips hold together like real material, they can be joined into elaborate shapes, whether a lance, giant fists and footwear, or a bird-like craft for flying passengers around.

What sets the fruit apart is its grip on motion. When the user routes her own punches along arrows placed ahead of time, she loads them with extra speed and force, and she can bounce a hostile strike back at whoever threw it using a turning arrow. Big enough arrows form slick roads that keep whoever steps on them sliding toward a chosen point. The catch is that most maneuvers get signaled by the arrows first, letting a sharp opponent read the next move, and the wielder still suffers every ordinary Devil Fruit vulnerability.

Manmayer Gunko swallowed the fruit no fewer than thirty-eight years back. Belonging to the Knights of God, she handles it with real polish for fighting and for cruelty alike, generally binding a victim in strips and crushing them with searing pressure whenever her orders are refused. Her hand-to-hand work gains extra bulk and quickness from the constructs she builds.

She can likewise puppeteer where other people walk, marching them along wherever she pleases. In the scheme to snatch the Walrus School's pupils, she teamed her power up with the gifts of two other Knights, Shepherd Sommers and Rimoshifu Killingham, to funnel the children onto a ship. One named move, Aloe, brushes a target with strips that then bend that target's own blows, first turned on Jinbe and Brook so the two hit one another. Oddly, black flames sometimes trail her power, echoing those linked to Imu and the Five Elders.