One Piece: Under the Throne

Perhaps it was just a brief moment, Leo felt as if time had stopped, until the cold sea water poured into his mouth, bringing him back to reality.

Gulu...Gulu Gulu...

Leo just felt cold all over and breathing became extremely difficult. At this moment, there was only one thought in his mind: I don’t want to die!

Woohoo...

Leo finally stopped struggling, exhaled his last breath, and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea. Before his consciousness completely fell into darkness, he seemed to hear a cheerful laugh.

"Hehe, my lovely host, I will fulfill your wish..."

Oh...seagulls fly across the sky, and the clear sea reflects the sky.

There was a little boy lying on the sea, his golden hair shining in the sunlight. As if stimulated by the light, the boy's eyelids twitched a few times, and then he subconsciously raised his hand to cover his eyes, and then slowly opened his eyes. His originally golden eyes turned into a dark blue, and after looking at them for a long time, it seemed as if there were endless waves surging.

Leo stared at the back of his hand, and it took him a while to regain consciousness. At this moment, two lines of tears flowed across his eyes.

"Mother."

Leo lay motionless on the sea, with the back of his hands against his eyes, sobbing softly and then crying loudly. The only thing left in his mind was his mother's gentle expression.

"Why? Why did the invincible mother die in the battle... Wuuuu, what should I do?" Leo was almost emotionally collapsed by the sudden change. The impression of Susanna's invincibility had long been deeply imprinted in his heart. He always believed that he would grow up safely under the protection of his parents.

Since traveling through time, Leo has always regarded Sphinx Island as a novice village, and his parents are his novice guardians. It was not until today that Leo realized how wrong he was. This is not a fake world, and there are no travelers who can defeat everything in a second since childhood. Leo, who has never been in awe of this world, has finally recognized the reality.

Then he remembered his mother's words: "In this world, ordinary people don't have time to heal their wounds." Thinking of this, Leo suddenly sat up, and then he realized that he had been lying on the sea. This result seemed to have nothing to do with buoyancy. Leo felt that the sea at this moment seemed to be a part of his body.

So he began to try to concentrate, then raised one hand. As he raised his hand, a bulge appeared on the sea surface, and then turned into a small wave about 5 meters high, standing there quietly.

Leo couldn't help but ask, is this my devil fruit ability? I am finally a power user, and then he showed a bitter smile, and then punched the sea. Damn, why didn't I awaken earlier? If I had mastered this power earlier, my mother would...

Leo suddenly fell silent. Yes, there are not so many ifs in the world...

Hiding his sadness deep in his heart, Leo stood up firmly, glanced at the recording pointer to confirm the direction, and then walked on the waves towards the Sphinx Island.

While walking, Leo accidentally touched the dagger on his waist, which was the one Susanna had put on his waist before she threw him out of the pirate ship. Touching his mother's dagger and feeling the coldness from his fingertips, Leo secretly vowed to save the Sphinx and then avenge his mother.

The speed of controlling the waves was very fast, and Leo returned to Sphinx Island in just one hour. On the way back, he found many of his lost companions. Seeing that Leo had mastered a strange power, everyone regarded him as their backbone.

"You guys hide here. I'll sneak back to the village to check out the situation. Don't come out before I come back." After instructing the children, Leo dived into the sea again. He planned to go back to the beach battlefield from the bottom of the sea.

After a while, Leo arrived at the destination. He quietly poked half of his head out and found two large ships docked on the shore, one of which was the ship of the Buffalo Pirates.

There were many busy figures on the shore. Judging from their attire, they were also a group of pirates. They were carrying corpses. Seeing this, Leo frowned secretly. Did his father and his men fail?

After realizing this, Leo felt even more depressed, so he decided to get closer to confirm it. But just as Leo was about to move, he was interrupted by a roar.

"Who is in the sea?"

The shout scared Leo so much that he turned around and tried to run away, but unfortunately the other party was faster than him. Before Leo's head was completely submerged in the water, he was grabbed by the collar and lifted up.

"Brother Marco?"

"Are you Leo? Why are your eyes..."

After awakening the ability of the fruit, Leo's pupils changed from gold to dark blue, and for a moment Marco almost made a mistake.

Marco, transformed into a phoenix, flapped his flaming wings and brought Leo back to the shore. Normally, Leo would have been very excited, but now he was in no mood.

"Where have you been hiding? Dad has been looking for you for a long time."

Leo did not answer Marco's question, but instead asked about his father: "Brother Marco, where is my father?"

Marco was speechless for a moment, and looked at Leo with sympathy: "Uncle Rick...he died in the battle."

"Uncle was a great warrior. When we found him, there were more than 30 bodies lying at his feet, including that bastard George. Uncle died in battle."

After saying that, Marco suddenly thought of something and continued to ask: "By the way, Leo, is Aunt Susanna with you?"

Hearing this, Leo remained silent, but the tears in his eyes said it all.

After half a day of counting, only one in ten people survived on the entire Sphinx Island. Now there are only more than twenty elderly people and a dozen children left. After knowing this result, Whitebeard's anger seemed to overturn the entire ocean.

More than 30 years ago, there were only a dozen children left on Sphinx Island, and Newgate was one of them. At that time, pirates often visited here. Seeing that everyone was about to die, he decided to go out to sea to survive. Thirty years later, Newgate became successful and famous, so he wanted to protect his hometown with his own name, but a similar tragedy still happened. It seems that nothing has changed in these thirty years.

A day later, on the cliff of Sphinx Island, Leo knelt alone in front of the grave. After finding his father's body, he buried his parents here together. Since Susanna's body could not be found, he could only use a cenotaph instead.

Leo stared at the tombstone with lifeless eyes. His long life as a stay-at-home in his previous life made him unfamiliar with family affection. But this unfamiliarity was made up in the other world. At this moment, after the sadness, Leo was left with only confusion.

Suddenly, a heavy sound of footsteps came from behind, and Whitebeard's huge body came to Leo. He put down a bottle of wine in front of the tombstone and sat down next to Leo.

After a long silence, Whitebeard said the same words again: "Leo, be my son, and from now on, carry my name and travel the sea."

Leo thought carefully for a while and said, "I'm sorry, Dad, I still can't agree to your request. Although my mother is gone, I still have to follow her teachings. I will definitely go to sea in the future, but not as a pirate."

Whitebeard looked at Leo deeply for a long time, and suddenly laughed: "Gulala, you are really a strong-willed child. But you don't have to reject the kindness of your elders. If you really encounter difficulties on the sea, just report my name. You must remember that being alive is more important than anything else."

"Yeah! Dad."

The days that followed returned to peace, the only difference being that there was a new pirate group patrolling the surrounding waters.

Since Leo confirmed the power of the fruit, he has spent most of his time every day developing his power. He knows that more is better, so in order to improve the efficiency of development, he set himself a development task, with the goal of developing one move each for attack, trapping the enemy, and escaping.

The first skill to be developed was the escape skill. Since Leo had already experienced the feeling of walking on the waves, this skill was much easier to develop.

Leo tried to let the waves push the fishing boat, and soon succeeded, but this alone could not achieve the effect of escaping. So Leo controlled the sea water to form a hollow water ball to cover the boat, and then controlled the water ball to dive. He practiced until the diving depth reached 100 meters before this trick was considered complete.

After completing the moves, it was time for the naming stage, which is the favorite part of middle school boys. After rejecting dozens of names, Leo finally chose a name that had a very similar feel to his hometown in his previous life [Shenzhou].

The successful development of Shenzhou gave Leo great confidence, and the second move he created was the enemy trapping move. The principle of this move was also very simple. With the ninjutsu water prison technique as a reference, Leo decided to use the method of throwing water balls at the enemy to complete the control.

Leo raised his hand and summoned a stream of water, then tried to control it to fling and spit. After experimenting, he found that he could shoot the water like a water gun. However, because the amount of water shot was too small to be controlled, Leo failed, so he had to continue trying to control more seawater.

During this process, he found that controlling with both hands was much easier than with one hand. In addition, Leo vaguely remembered that he seemed to hear words like prayer when he gained the ability. So Leo suddenly had an idea and put his hands together, as if he was really begging the sea for strength. Then a magical scene appeared. Seven or eight thicker water streams were summoned, and the radius of the launched water bombs exceeded two meters.

In this way, Leo not only completed the development of the water prison technique, but also had a crowd control effect. Even when facing a large enemy, he was not afraid, as he only needed to let the water bombs focus their fire.

When naming this move, Leo recalled the feeling of powerlessness when he drowned for the first time, so the move was named [Abyss Cage].

Finally, there was the attacking move. Leo had made many attempts to develop this move, such as using seawater to form various shapes to attack, or making a pistol gesture to fire water bullets. However, the power of these moves did not meet Leo's requirements. Just when he was at a loss, Leo thought of Susanna's dagger.

When he saw the dagger, Leo's eyes lit up. Maybe this would be the solution. Leo attached the sea water to the dagger and then made a slashing motion.

At first, there was still too little water to attack, until he began to try to compress the seawater onto the blade. When he felt the weight of the dagger increase significantly, Leo swung the knife again. A two-meter-long dark blue water blade composed of seawater was formed, and the water blade could continue to expand during the flight like splashed water.

After repeated tests by Leo, it was found that the maximum flight distance of this water stream is 20 meters, and the maximum spread is 10 meters. If it still fails to hit the target after reaching the limit, it will gradually dissipate in the air. Within the effective attack range, this move can easily cut off a wooden fishing boat. Leo also tested its power on a reef, and even on hard rocks, it can leave obvious scars.

Leo finally nodded with satisfaction and named this move [Deep Blue Blade].

At this point, the capabilities of the Rio Project have been fully developed, and five years have passed.

One morning in the year 1495 of the Haiyuan calendar, three young men stood in front of an old wooden house.

Lina, the only girl among the three, suddenly grabbed Leo's arm and looked at him with sad eyes: "Do you really want to do this?"

Leo turned his head and gave Lina a comforting smile, then moved her hand away. When he turned his head and looked back at his home, only determination remained in Leo's eyes.

Throwing a torch through the door into the house, the flames were instantly ignited, and the old house seemed to be crumbling in the fire. The blazing flames not only ignited the house, but also all of Leo's memories in the Sphinx. But he did not want to cut off the past, but instead deeply imprinted these memories in his heart.

In the light of the fire, Leo pulled out Susanna's dagger. The difference from before was that Don't forget 3 OCT.10 was engraved on the handle of the dagger.