One Piece: Three Fruits, Starting with the Dark-Dark Fruit

Ziger looked into Garin's eyes. From what Garin had just said, he vaguely guessed why Shanks was stranded outside.

Thinking of this, Jiger said tentatively,

"Uncle Jialin, I don't think I've ever heard anything about my aunt in all these years."

Jialin was slightly shocked and said,

"What aunt do you have?"

"I didn't mean nominally."

Jialin fell silent for a while, then he sighed and slowly said,

"She died a long time ago, and no one in the family knows her."

"Gurando knows, right?"

"Ah."

Jialin looked up and recalled the scene thirty-eight years ago.

......

Gulando stood in front of him with a mocking look on his face and said sarcastically,

"This is really great news. The head of the Figalando family, Lord Galin Saint, is about to have a child. The Figalando family will have a successor!"

Jialin said coldly,

"Shut up! I know what to do! That child can't possibly be the heir to the family! The one who is qualified to be the heir to the family is Jiger!"

"Oh? My dear brother, are you giving me charity? Are you really relieved to let my son be the heir?"

"Don't worry. Jiger's talent is stronger than you and me, and his bloodline is...purer. As long as you stop that damn experiment immediately and let me train him, he will be the future heir of the family!"

"Hahaha! I didn't expect that you would care so much about my son Jiger. I am so honored! Do you need me to thank you?"

Clang!

The veins on Garin's forehead bulged. He drew the sword from his waist, and red and black arcs of electricity burst out from the blade.

Gulando was not afraid at all and laughed loudly.

"As expected of the head of the Fegalando family, you are so majestic! Are you going to attack your own brother?"

Having said this, Gulando paused, the smile on his face slowly disappeared, and he said coldly,

"If you want to do it, then do it! Just like you killed your father!"

These words pierced through Garin's heart like a sharp blade. His face turned extremely pale in an instant, and the hand holding the knife began to tremble.

Gulando sneered and said,

"Galin, the most important thing you should do now is to deal with your own mess as soon as possible. You don't need to worry about Jige. The experiment cannot be stopped until his disease is cured. He is my biological son, how can I harm him? But if the scandal gets out, maybe you can ignore it, but our Figalando family will become the laughing stock of the entire Marijoa!"

After saying that, Gulando turned around and left, leaving Garin standing there silently.

Not long after, Garin's child, Shanks, was born, and Shanks' mother chose to commit suicide shortly after giving birth to Shanks.

From the moment she found out she was pregnant, she already knew her fate.

Because her identity is just a maid, and there is a deep-rooted concept among the Celestial Dragons, that is, in order to ensure the continuation of the Celestial Dragon bloodline, the parents of the next generation must both be Celestial Dragons.

Male celestial beings can take women of lowly status as concubines, with no limit on the number, but they cannot have offspring with any of them.

Once violated, the child's mother must be executed, and the child who defiled the "bloodline of the Celestial Dragons" must be exiled and left to fend for himself.

As a wealthy and prestigious family among the Celestial Dragons, the Figalando family should naturally abide by this concept, not to mention that Garin is the head of the family.

Of course Jialin knew all this, but he just couldn't bring himself to do it.

The maid, who had been instilled with the concept of "loyalty to Galin" since childhood, did not want to make things difficult for her master, so she ended her life.

In fact, Garin did not have deep feelings for Shanks' mother. Ever since he killed his father with his own hands, he had been very depressed. With nowhere to vent, he had a relationship with his personal maid.

After each incident, the maid would take some medicine to avoid the possibility of pregnancy, and everything had been fine.

But for some reason, the medicine seemed to have failed and she became pregnant.

It was not until the maid's belly grew bigger that she and Galin discovered it.

Garin did not let the maid abort the child. The shadow of killing his father had always loomed in his heart. He really could not bring himself to harm his own flesh and blood again, and he also longed for someone to rely on.

Originally, he thought that since no one knew about the child except him and the maid, he just needed to let the maid hide in the bedroom for a while and wait for the child to be born.

At worst, I could just never reveal the child's identity and let him live with me forever.

But in the end, he was discovered by Gulando.

Garin understood Gulando's character. Ever since his father passed the position of head of the family to him, family honor was nothing to him. There was no guarantee that he would spread the news when he went crazy.

And for Jialin, it is even more impossible to attack his own brother.

Even so, Jialin wanted to give birth to the child. If the news really got out, he would give up the position of the head of the family and hand it over to Gulando. Hasn't he always been upset about this? This might ease the relationship between the brothers.

In Garin's opinion, although Gulando is not a good person, his son Jiger is a good one. Not to mention Jiger's top qualifications, just emotionally, Garin also hopes that Jiger will be the head of the family in the future.

Before Jiger was six years old, Jialin would often take time to accompany Jiger. Although he never said it, he liked his nephew very much in his heart.

No matter how much of a bastard Gulando is, he will definitely hand over the position of head of the family to his son in the end, right?

As for Shanks...when he saw the cold body of the maid, Garin changed his original idea.

Perhaps because of his guilt towards the maid, Garen decided to reveal Shanks' identity.

Perhaps Shanks’ identity as a Celestial Dragon will not be recognized by other people in the Holy Land, but he must let these people know that Shanks is his son!

The hunting competition a week later would be the best time for him to announce the news.

Ironically, however, less than a week later, news of Giger's death came.

The cause of death was that Giger's "congenital disease" was too serious and he could not survive in the end.

Before Garin could recover from the shock of Giger's death, another piece of news came.

The World Government temporarily replaced one of the six devil fruits originally intended as prizes for the hunting competition.

And the devil fruit that was replaced was actually the Dark Fruit that had special meaning to the Figalando family!