Guess mr Garp would come soon with an answer to my inquiries in the meantime let's try doing what i always wanted to do Soru i vanished and then reappeard at another location in the lab almost hitting the wall my legs ached me for a second or two but thanks to my Zoan devil fruit the pain left as soon it came i'm delighted in the success and thrilled at my speed when using Soru but i guessed it might even increase if used with the my moa moa power but for now i will need to get familiar with it so not to embarrass myself or worse get hurt now let's try using it a few times more .
I kept appearing and disappearing inside the lab while also increasing my speed in kicking the ground even more and it did wonders i find myself adapting pretty easy to the increased speed of my movements my reflexes and senses is now out of the human category and more superhuman like but i wasn't able to notice Garp using Soru is the gap between our use of Soru that big that i wasn't even able to sense it at all .
Now to my second most anticipated move from The navy rokushiki Geppo i wasn't lasing around in the past 2 years well i was but not by choice and my brain was sometime active and when it was i used to try to brand this move into it as i did with Soru and even saw how that guard used this move he was now able to kick the air 8 times before being forced to land and his other coworkers praise his progress and told him that he has talent to be a Cipher Pol don't know what is that but maybe a promotion of some kind let's see how many we can do .
I jumped in the air and with the same concept in Soru i straightened my back and kicked the air beneath me and it pushed me upward again and again until i reached the ceiling . woahhh so that's the feeling of flying so is how Nika felt when flying an absolute freedom i counted that i kicked for 18 times i guess i could join the cipher pol too not that they would accept me with that mark on my back hahaha .
oh i need to really take it easy my body began itching again so i landed nervously by ceasing my kicks and i almost crashed to the floor but then i kicked one last time and learned to not mess around with gravity i was able to land safetly but can't say the same about my legs they became sore and even saw some bruises appearing and after i landed i took some deep breaths not that i'm tired but it's just my body trying to adapt to the change of the atmosphere as it was his first fly after all and it's just starting to wake up from its deep slumber oh right can i use moa moa no mi to increase my healing factor let's try a 20 times increase .
So cool i felt my legs healed up in just a second or so , can i use this power on my still weakened body let's try another 20 times i touched my body and wanted to enhance the insides of my body and it worked as i felt more strand places began to loosen up one after another i increased my nerve system by another 10 times so it's now enhanced by 30 times over and i felt as if something broke inside my body then the feeling of my whole body became lighter came again .
And my body began to swell up so much that i felt my skinny face and body became full again i removed the gown i'm wearing and saw a well toned muscles on my chest , arms and legs not very obvious but compared to before it is a world different i stopped the moa moa no mi power and started to look around me for something reflective i want to see how i look right now in my 10th year of age .
Who is that i was flabbergasted by the reflection in the full sized mirror now in front of me I have a long white hair with bangs covering my blue like the sky colored eyes my face is normal i guess the hollowed marks from the needles already healed and left no scars luckily , my body is lean but got a bit of muscles here and there to some extent i'm quite tall i'm guessing i'm already 150 cm yet again i find it difficult to measure my height but comparing with other kids my age i'm pretty tall for a human kid and with enough good nutritions i might get taller .
I wished i had sword i could have used some of the sword move i learned and improved in my mind but i guess it will have to wait until my parents and me are out of here why mr Garp is taking so long can't he just ask the other slaves about if they saw my parents in the mansion or not i gave him their names but i don't know if their appearance changed it has been a long time since i last saw them after all and a second chance to leave this cursed place together came so i hope mr Garp can help us with that .
At the mention of his name he appeared looked at me for a few moments as if not recognizing me but then looked at my collar while holding the keys needed for removing my collar , right couldn't i just use the moa moa power to just increase the size of the collar so to loosen them from my neck at once but what if they exploded alerting all the nobles and guards in the vicinity no need to make such a risky move so i took the keys from him then before i unlock my collar i heard him saying that my parents fate is unknown and even the people in the mansion didn't know or heard anything about them .
My heartbeat rate is already accelerating that i felt the veins on top my head appearing and widened my eyes at his said last part oh right kid are your name Ryuu i found what looked like a weird like junk box next to the keys and it has your name on it , he said and handed me a small box it's really more or less some junk pieced together in the shape of a box .
I woke up from my trance and looked at the box in rested now in my hand i tried to open it but it won't budge no matter how i tried i used clairvoyance and the moa moa no mi on it and found that it actually contain a letter envelope on top of the envelope only two words FOR RYUU so i stopped my ability and looked at the box in front of me more closely it looks familiar to a game or more like a trick my dad used to show to me all the time .
i began rubbing my hands and increasing my hand speed more and more until i felt it was enough then proceed to put my hand on the box my hand velocity created a huge amount of static electricity which appeared like a blue crackling light on my hands at the moment of contact with the box its parts disintegrated in front of our surprised eyes luckily the charge didn't pass through the box as it could have burned the letter inside as well now no doubt about it this is really a letter from my parents .
I opened the envelope and there it was i opened the letter and began to read what was written but the first thing that surprised me was that the letter was written in red where could they got red ink from the letter began with :
Dear Ryuu , our little genius dragon your dad stumbled by the place where you hid the keys after you left and suggested that we leave you a message if one day you decided to come back for the keys , we are really sorry for letting you live in this harsh and cruel world we wanted to give you the whole world but if not for that incident you wouldn't be burdened from your first day of birth if you find this letter don't worry about us and if there a chance for you to leave this cursed place just take it fearlessly and always remember to follow your heart we believe in you after all you are our little well mannered dragon always be courageous in anything you do , leave my son and don't ever look back to these days the world is so big that you will definitely find other people out there who care about your well being and your happiness and always always remember that you are the best thing that ever happened in our lives and that we will always with you and we will always love you our little dragon .
I'm in tears at the end of the letter it hurts it really hurts dad , mom my heart and eyes are aching just from reading your letter how can i just go and leave you here after getting this letter i love you too much i can't bear to leave you here and go you are my only tie to this world how can i live in this cruel world without you supporting me .
Listen kid i know it's hard but try to calm yourself whatever your parents did was all for your sake you are throwing their sacrifice away like that they wanted for you to live a good life and they already said in the letter that they support whatever choice you make so you still have time to save them mr Garp said trying to stop me from crying while he was tearing up himself .
Thank you for your help mr Garp i also hope you can help me finding my parents don't worry about it leave it to me let's get you to somewhere safe he mentioned for me to follow him but i stood there rooted in my place he looked at me as if inquiring why i didn't follow him , i bowed in a sincere apologize to him and told him that i can't move from here before we can find my parents as they could do anything to them as a consequence of me leaving you know how important my existence to them now .
So what are you going to do kid let them imprison you again for life i will take you with me even as a corpse if that what it takes .
I punched the crazy man in front of me again saying how can turning me to a corpse be considered as saving me you old man he said yeah you are right forgot what i just said i found the interactions with this old man are bad for my heart but still find it a tiny bit amusing he still asked looking at the cracked door frame and the guards that were still unconscious so what exactly are you going to do .
(Scene change)
An hour later the lab was filled with guards as the original knocked down guards woke up founding my body on the ground in a pool of blood so they immediately called the doctors and saint Rosward who only a moments later were on their way i was using the moa moa no mi power for this life and death gamble as if my act wasn't good enough not only i'm getting imprisoned here for life but maybe also saying goodbye to ever seeing my family ever again as well i didn't dare to use clairvoyance as i didn't know if its activation will be noticed by anyone here but i still sensed two people approaching my laying down on the ground body while talking :
What happened here doctor
We still don't know sir the guards said they were knocked unconscious and didn't see who hit them and the video snails were shut down as well the only one that could explain what happened here is the investment .
I guess it's finally my turn to shine , i acted as i woke up from a terrified dream and finally found my savior in the picture of saint Rosward as i said : oh dear venerable Rosward sir there were some masked people that barged into the lab and tried to kidnap me i fought one of them and sprayed the other one with my blood as after they removed my chains i felt that i awakened another power that was hidden in me i find it's the ability to freely increase the speed of moving my blood in and out of my body when they didn't succeed they choose to escape after i began to scream i didn't want to leave your highness service , at the last part i began to tear up and sobbed and bowed on the ground again and again until he mentioned me to stop .
And how did you get so big , investment ?
So big , i acted surprised after i saw my body when did i get that big and opened my mouth wide in a surprised manner .
What do you think of what he says doctor ?
Maybe it was the sea prism stone limiting some of his Zoan ability transformation and i do believe what he said about his second ability being awakened as we really don't know anything about that artificial devil fruit but if that second ability is true then your highness goal will be achieved sooner than it was initially anticipated .
But who would do such attack must be bold attacking a supreme being mansion and even trying to steal his investment i will need to talk to the gorosei about this and do the necessary preparations doctor and your new focus will be entirely on the new ability of the investment and make sure the lab is more secured from now on another mistake and Charlos birthday is coming soon .
Everything will be as you wished your highness .
Rise up investment you did a good job i will even reward you with a new position and gave you some clothes instead of your bloodied gown be grateful that you are serving me .
You have my deep gratitude your highness i don't want to serve anyone but you for the rest of my life , it worked i said to myself quite interested in how the things here are going to change .
The next day i wasn't strapped to the bed or anything like that anymore i wore a new gown that what that bastard meant by new clothes anyway i also wasn't pierced through by the needles like a hedgehog now i'm more like connected to some weird device that keep sucking blood from the tip of my 10 fingers and i even begun to get a night rest after work with minimum amount of food and drink but i can proudly say that my life conditions got elevated all of a sudden the only problem was that the room i'm now in was being surveyed by a huge sum of surveillance snails and that i was handcuffed in sea prism stone during my rest time it is still giving me a bad taste in my mouth especially because i just begun to taste freedom but at least i'm not super weakened like before so a few exercises won't affect me much .
hey kid are you there came the voice of mr Garp from the infiltration snail he gave me yesterday before we part he still wasn't happy with my plan he even wanted to destroy the whole facility but after some arguing he finally begrudgingly agreed but gave me this unnoticeable snail and said it will be our way of communication luckily these surveillance snails can't record sounds how did i know i already used my clairvoyance to hear about it from those who installed them , i answered carefully yes sir i'm here .
Kid do you really understand how mad i'm at you right now i know you are doing this for your parents but isn't by you doing this you are already putting yourself in the danger way and that's something i'm sure your parents won't approve of , sorry mrGarp but if there were another way or any way other way than this way i was going to absolutely take it but there aren't me and my parents are hostages here until one can know the whereabouts of the other person .
Silence was creeping on both of us but i decided to ask about how many days would he stay stationed here he said he would have left today but now he is staying for a week then he will need to report back to the navy headquarters (marineford) and said that he will try to stop the marine involvement with saint Rosward business but i told him not to do this our conversation went like this :
So why would you still allow the marine to exploit you like this kid ?
mr Garp i'm in no position to say no to anything but i'm just wanting to know does my blood really help in healing injured people .
Yeah it does a great job but why are you asking .
Nothing in particular but as long it helps people in need i don't feel that bad about it and you are even helping me in finding my parents and my last reason would be with all due respect saint Rosward is just exchanging my blood for authority and more recognition so he would have if he didn't already find another client so don't worry about it treat it as payment from me to the navy for helping me find my parents .
You are such a good kid now i really want to go home and beat those ungrateful grandkids of mine .
Now i really wanted to know about those grandkids of yours are they older or younger than me
Luffy is 11 years old his big brother Ace is 14
Garp then began to tell me all about his grandkids and how have he beaten them countless times because they said they want to be pirates even about Luffy telling him that he not only wants to be a pirate but that he wants to be like Gol.D.Roger the king of the pirates when they grow up and that he was scared that because of his job he will clash with them or worse he may be ordered to nullify them and he already know that he can't do it but being a hero to the navy he is held in high regards and even as a role model to other marines and if he hesitate or waver then his own and the others justice as well will be affected .
I found myself laughing so hard that the guards came inside my room to check on me at first then the whole conversation tensed when he mentioned the death of one of the three sworn brothers sabo when he was 10 years old by the hands of a celestial dragon who sankhis makeshift pirate ship just because it was on his way then it got even darker when he mentioned why he didn't want them to be pirates so i tried to assure him with my own reasoning and told him that i believe as my parents letter mentioned that doing what your heart wants and being true to yourself is what really matters and told him that i very much could be wrong as i'm only 10 years old but i feel that everyone that have a dream must try dearly to achieve it and should have the freedom to do so if by achieving this dream he isn't usurping other people right to achieve theirs too i hope to get an answer or a roaring reply but he just fell asleep damnit he is even snoring .
A week had passed in my new life in a blink of an eye and then came the sad news on the sad day of mr Garp leaving he told me he didn't found any news related to my parents other than apparently they were given to either one of the two Rosward children Charlos and Shalria and that he is leaving tomorrow and won't be back for a long time i told him farewell and asked that if he returned to his home that he shouldn't be too hard on his grandkids and if possible tell them good things about me as i'm very much hoping to meet them someday .
I hope that they at least fell in the hand Shalria cause i can't even bear the thought of them falling in the hands of that pig Charlos even while i'm thinking he is punishing a slave by making him chose to either staying in the firepit for 10 minutes or jump in the piranha fish tank and staying in there for 5 minutes he is forcing him to choose between two deaths i guess this man really didn't like the idea of Charlos toying with him as he dashed towards him but his head exploded when he started to dash Charlos is the most sadistic celestial dragon i had ever seen he even ordered his servants to ready the dead man to be skinned before adding him to his collection but it was about something he said when asked where to put this new piece of his and he said put them in the Skinning Garden the scum have a garden for those who skinned i tried to see where that man gonna take the body to but my room is even below the laboratory and it's even harder to see with the sea prism stone handcuffs in my hand might try to see it more clearly tomorrow .
I trained according to Garp given pointers for some time then went to bed as trying not to be suspicious i didn't want to sleep but it's a must as it is not the time to start my escape yet the next day as always i was awakened by an alarm then led to the weird device for a new boring day but i remembered to use my clairvoyance and even increased it to 40 and looked at the place i saw yesterday and a one look was all it took to make my stomach and mind to go berserk i know it was bad but to this extent bad i saw many tubes filled with a green liquid and inside every tube is a body and sometimes two there were too many to count i only took a glance but another con for having a good memory and all of those bodies has a tablet on top of their tube giving silly description of what inside some even had their skins sticked to the tupe i closed my clairvoyance and sat there feeling overwhelmed by just how much can their cruelty go .
A bad year had passed and May 5 came and i'm now 11 years old and why was it a bad year it's because since that day i saw the skinning garden i kept having nightmares of finding my parents there every night to the point that i began to close my eyes and just pretend that I'm asleep but it didn't work as i keep remembering the shape of their bodies or their faces on top of one of those tubes i tried to contact Garp for advice but he still wasn't in the area and i didn't use my clairvoyance because i'm afraid i'm really afraid to find my parents there so i just hoped that by ignoring these nightmares they will vanish on their own in a while but they didn't matter of fact it kept getting worse as if these nightmares were meant to torment me .
In the end of my 12th year i'm daunted that i'm already losing my mind as i began to see those nightmares in real life and as if they were ghosts and if i'm possessed or haunted and Garp still didn't come back but the two brother and sister came to visit and the pig wasn't pleased about my new treatment but Shalria again warned him by mentioning how important i was to their family and their father's plan but what he said in his way out is what really enraged me he said hey Shalria you keep protecting him just because you want him to be your toy but i already got my father promise he will be mine too after he is no longer useful and his sister said it is not like that and asked him if i become useless what is he going to do with me he said : i want to complete my collection while reuniting him with his parents .
And i stood up and looked in that cursed garden direction of his and began filtering through the bodies until i saw it my dad skin sticked to the front of the tube and my dear mother sticked to the back of it and then i just lost it completely .