One Piece: Under the Throne

The morning light dispelled the haze of the island. Deep in the jungle, there was a pitiful girl, surrounded by three young men.

The girl's clothes were disheveled and there were traces of tears in the corners of her eyes. Helpless, she could only hug her doll tightly for comfort. The three men had dark circles under their eyes due to exercising all night and looked very weak.

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Charles was the first to break the silence: "Ahem, this girl Leo is the mastermind behind the Island of Dolls. Although it took some effort, Will and I still forced her into a desperate situation. Who would have thought that the Ghost Princess was so weak." Charles was a little proud, and raised his eyebrows at Leo after he finished speaking.

Leo glared at him unhappily: "Ha! Totally wrong, the real mastermind behind this is not this guy." Then Leo snatched the doll from the girl and shook it in front of Charles.

"Hey, stop playing dead and come say hello to everyone."

The girl panicked when she saw her doll was snatched away. She burst into tears and rushed to Leo: "Give Sister Anna back to me. You are all bad people. Please stop bullying my sister."

Ragdoll knew he couldn't pretend anymore: "Come to me if you have anything to say. It was my idea to scare you. Please don't hurt Gloria."

Leo was so angry, it seemed like we were the villains, so he pulled the doll's face with both hands and said, "Don't talk nonsense. Explain clearly that you pretended to be a ghost and scared people on the island."

Seeing Leo treating the doll so roughly, the girl Gloria got even more upset. She opened her cute little mouth and bit Leo's arm: "Stop it, you bad guy. You're going to break my sister."

Leo was full of black lines on his head: "Don't say things that make people have bad associations easily, idiot. Who taught this child to talk like that?"

He dodged the girl's little fangs and grabbed her fate by the scruff of the neck. The girl had no choice but to whimper on the spot, staring at Leo with her big eyes blinking.

"Will, keep an eye on her. Why do girls like to bite people?" Leo seemed to see the shadow of Lina in this girl named Gloria.

Will held Gloria down with a smile, took out some candies from his pocket and handed them to her: "Here, these are the fruit candies produced in Shampoo. They are delicious. When you are in a bad mood, just eat some candies and you will feel better."

Gloria sniffed it, then snatched it and stuffed it into her mouth without even opening the package. Will had no choice but to pick one for her. When the sweet taste spread in her mouth, the girl immediately showed a happy expression. Holding the candy ball in her mouth made her cheeks bulge, and then she continued to stare at Leo like a hamster.

Will also ate one, squinting his eyes to enjoy the sweet feeling, and then he saw Leo and Charles looking straight at him, so he embarrassedly gave them each another one, and the scene suddenly became weird. Everyone puffed up their cheeks waiting to see Leo torture him, only Anna's doll looked at everyone with envy.

Leo returned Anna to Gloria, and the rag doll dejectedly began to tell the whole story.

In 1489 of the Haiyuan calendar, the eldest daughter of the earl, who turned 16, was lively, cheerful and helpful, and was loved by the people. With her noble status and beautiful appearance, she was hailed as the pearl of Palam by the locals. Many people even believed that she would be the next lord of Palam.

At that time, there was a legend on Palam Island that if a girl accepted the blessing of the sea god on Moon Watching Island on the night of her coming-of-age ceremony, she would receive perfect love.

Miss Annabell longed for perfect love, so she believed in this legend. So after the coming-of-age ceremony on the night of her 16th birthday, she quietly came to Moon Watching Island alone.

Miss Annabell chose to pray on the beach. She closed her eyes and knelt down facing the sea: "Lord of the deep blue sea, god of the endless ocean, you are the father of the souls in the sea and the mother of life. Your mercy can protect hope to reach the other side. Please listen to my prayer. Under the witness of the holy moon, please grant perfect love to your most devout believer, Annabell."

The girl knelt on the beach and repeated her prayers. After an unknown amount of time, a fruit fell from the tree and hit the girl on the head.

"Ouch!" Anna cried out in pain. After she recovered, she realized that the fruit that hit her was a pineapple-like fruit with a strange appearance. Without knowing what it was, Anna thought it was a gift from the sea god. So the girl mustered up her courage and took a small bite.

Ugh! An indescribable smell filled Anna's mouth. She suddenly covered her mouth. No, she couldn't spit it out. This must be a test from the Lord of the Sea. Then she looked at the remaining fruit. She closed her eyes and swallowed the remaining fruit directly. Then Anna fainted.

Half asleep and half awake, Anna felt her body was light and seemed to be rising. Anna suddenly opened her eyes and saw that her body was still lying on the beach, but she seemed to have turned into a soul floating in the air. The sudden change made Anna very panicked, so she flew around in the air.

Fortunately, after calming down, Anna could feel the connection between her soul and body, and it seemed that she could return at any time. This discovery made Anna breathe a sigh of relief.

After the crisis was resolved, Anna became playful and began to fly in the air in ghost form, flying to the treetops, then flying through the woods. Finally, she found an abandoned rag doll deep in the jungle. Anna tried to enter the doll's body, and she actually succeeded. The doll stood up again as if it had life.

Under the bright moonlight, a rag doll jumped across the stream on stones, climbed up the tree with great effort to scare small animals, and swung from one tree to another by grabbing the vines. The rag doll giggled and was so happy. Anna, who had always presented herself as a noble lady, felt free for the first time.

After playing for a while, Anna suddenly realized that she had been sneaking out for a long time, and her father must be looking for her everywhere. The soul flew out of the doll's body again and quickly returned to the shore. After flying back to the beach, Anna was dumbfounded. Where was her body? She was lying here just now. She began to look around anxiously. Maybe it was a few days, maybe it was a few months. Anna couldn't remember how many times the sun and the moon had changed, but she still couldn't find her body. She also tried to return to Param, but unfortunately she couldn't fly over the sea in her soul state. Finally, Anna gave up completely. From then on, there was a moving doll on Wangyue Island.

"Wow, sister Anna is so pitiful." Gloria listened to Anna's story with tears in her eyes and hugged the doll tighter.

Charles looked at Leo with disdain, as if to say, look what you've done.

Leo looked at Anna with kindness in his eyes. What a good child! She seemed to have said that I was the father of all creatures in the ocean. Anna, why don't you repeat the prayer just now?

"Your question has been made clear. What about her? Where did you kidnap her from?" Leo pointed at Gloria and continued to ask.

Ragdoll pouted and said, "You speak quite dirty. When I met her, she was only about 5 years old. She was sitting stupidly on the beach. If I hadn't found her early, she would have been drowned by the rising tide. I raised her and named her Gloria."

A gurgling sound was heard, and Gloria covered her stomach and looked at everyone aggrievedly. The little girl had been active all night and had eaten so many appetizer fruit candies, so she was now starving.

"Let's eat and talk at the same time. Will, go catch some fish, and Leo will get the kitchen utensils from the boat. You two should also stay busy, go pick some mushrooms in the forest." Charles assigned tasks to everyone in an orderly manner.

Smoke rose from the kitchen, and a big pot of fish and a pot of mushroom porridge were ready. Five people sat in a circle and sipped on them.

"Anna, we are not strangers to each other. We will send you back to Palam Island by boat later."

Ragdoll looked frustrated: "No, Leo, I tried it a long time ago, but my soul seemed to be fastened to this island and I couldn't get out of it." Is there such a thing? Leo and the others fell into deep thought.

Will said: "Why don't we find Anna's body and let her soul return to her body so we can leave the Island of Dolls?"

Charles was speechless: "It's been seven years, maybe her body has already turned into a pile of bones."

"No! Anna's body must be well preserved somewhere. If she is dead, the effect of the ghost fruit will disappear. Anna can appear in the form of a soul, which means that her real body must still be alive."

"But where is Sister Anna's body?" Gloria asked the most crucial question.

And Leo seemed confident: "Hey, maybe we should ask her brother. After all, it was little Tommy who found his sister's body seven years ago."

Huh? x5...