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

Jiger's expression remained unchanged. This was what he should do given his status.

The golden guard kneeling in the first place slowly stood up. Judging from the style of her armor, she was a woman, and the only woman among all the guards.

She slowly came to Jig, raised her hand and took off the heavy golden helmet on her head, and her long black hair spread out like a waterfall. She looked at Jig and said softly,

"Master Jiger, I am the captain of the third team of the Figalando family guard. Lucia, do you still remember me?"

Jiger was stunned for a moment, and began to search his mind for his previous memories, while looking at the woman in front of him named Lucia.

She didn't look very old, and even the heavy armor could not hide her exquisite curves. The skin above her neck was as smooth as white jade, and her delicate face had a pair of large amber eyes.

But if you look closely, you can see a tiny scar under her left eye, and it is this scar that reminds Jiger of her.

That was before Jiger was taken to Gulandra for experimentation.

Before the age of six, he lived a pampered life in the palace like other Celestial Dragons, while Lucia was a slave that Garin bought at an auction during a trip to the Sabaody Archipelago.

Garin didn't have any special hobbies. He was attracted to Lucia because the host introduced her as a princess.

Lucia's original country was a non-member country, and because it was too weak, it was destroyed by a group of pirates.

Except for Lucia, almost all the members of the royal family were killed by pirates. After she was found hiding under the bed by the pirates, she and some treasures were sold to the auction house by the pirates.

Born into a royal family, she stood out among the slave children of the time. Garin took a liking to her at first sight and bought her as a present for Giger's fourth birthday.

The family tradition of the Figalando family is much better than that of other Celestial Dragons, and Ziger was only four years old at that time. What bad thoughts could a four-year-old child have?

At first, Lucia was very afraid of this boy who was three years younger than her, because she had heard from her parents about the brutality of the Celestial Dragons since she was a child. In their eyes, even the so-called king was just an ant that could be crushed to death with ease.

However, Zig never treated her as a slave at all. He had been imprisoned deep in the tribe by Gulando since birth, and it was with great difficulty that he met a child of similar age, so he naturally cherished her very much.

He would make Lucia sit next to him at mealtimes, and would often ask Lucia to play childish games with him that she had heard from the nanny.

Jiger remembered that he played house with Lucia at that time. Since there were only two of them, they simply pretended to be a couple.

At the beginning, Jig often called Lucia "sister". Lucia was more mature than Jig, and she knew that she couldn't let Jig call her like that.

If this matter were to get out, no matter how good their relationship was, someone would make this lowly slave of her disappear from Jiger's side forever.

The two spent two peaceful years together. Not only did Lucia not suffer the inhuman torture she had imagined, but under the influence of Giger, she gradually opened her closed heart.

She even thought that it would be nice to stay with Jiger and be his slave for the rest of his life.

But things did not go as she wished. One day when Jiger was six years old, Gulando suddenly came to Jiger with a guy with a huge head and strange appearance.

Jige was listening to Lucia reading to him at the time. When he saw Gulando, before he could call him father, Gulando grabbed him by the waist and took him away with a dazed look on his face.

Lucia hadn't seen Jig for a long time since then. After losing Jig, she was suddenly overwhelmed by fear.

Only then did she realize that the huge Figalandu family was a prison to her, and she became the little girl whose country was destroyed and her family was ruined.

Jiger had always been her light, but now that light was gone.

She was in a daze and her only hope every day was to suddenly see Jiger coming back. Then she would hug Jiger tightly in her arms and tell him her fear and longing.

But she waited day after day, and Jiger still didn't come back. Even the news about Jiger seemed to have become a taboo in the Figalando family.

But she didn't give up until one day, two strangers in white coats passed by her while she was cleaning the yard.

The two men were dressed the same as the strange man who was standing next to Gulando at the time. Lucia immediately approached them calmly and vaguely heard what they were talking about.

"Alas, the child has just been injected with a gene and it has turned out like this. I don't know how long the child can last."

"This is already a miracle, okay? That child is also a celestial dragon. I really don't understand what's going on!"

"Stop talking. This is not our business. We are just two assistants. We just need to do what Dr. Vegapunk says."

"Snapped!"

The broom in Lucia's hand fell to the ground. She ran up with all her strength, blocked the two of them, and asked in a trembling voice,

"Are you talking about Saint Jiger?"

The expressions of both men changed. One of them glared at Lucia fiercely, then pulled the other away quickly.

Lucia stood there in a daze until the head waitress came running over to urge her.

She suppressed her fear and continued to work despite the scolding from the female official. When it was time to finish work at night, she did not return to her residence with the other servants, but found an excuse to run away.

Normally, her only activity area was where Jiger used to live. She groped in the direction the two men had walked during the day until a pure white building appeared in her sight.

She hid behind a flower bed and dared not move forward because there stood two guards in golden armor. But when she turned around to leave, a heart-wrenching cry suddenly came from the white building.

"Let me out! Father, why are you doing this to me?!"

The voice was already extremely hoarse, but Lucia was able to recognize it as Jiger's voice at the first sight.

The two guards at the door were already used to it. One of them laughed and said casually,

"Our Lord Jiger has started again. Judging from the sound, it seems that the dose injected today is a bit large."

"Hey, I won't be able to hear you soon. A child can actually survive such an experiment until now. Should we say that he is worthy of being the bloodline of the Fegalando family?"

"Wait a minute, did something just run over there?"

When the two guards arrived at the flower bed where Lucia had been hiding, it was empty, with only a few drops of water on the ground that were almost drying up.