One Piece: Under the Throne

Leo and Alfu looked at Gloria kindly as she taught the little girl how to eat.

"Ahem, your name is Victoria, right? We are here to find a doctor who makes a panacea. Do you know where he is?"

"I don't know. There's no doctor here. What is the panacea?"

"Don't you know about the panacea? It was clearly sold from the lord. The panacea is a drug that looks like a mushroom. Haven't you seen it before?"

Hearing Leo ask this, the little girl looked at him warily: "Why are you asking this, are you thieves?"

"No, the sister who gave you the delicious food is poisoned. We want a miracle doctor to diagnose her. Can you tell us where the miracle doctor who makes the panacea is?"

"Ah? Sister Gloria, are you poisoned?"

Gloria stretched out her arms and made a strong gesture: "Don't listen to Leo's nonsense. I am very strong."

Leo suddenly pretended to cry and said, "Gloria, you are too gentle. Just to avoid causing trouble to others, you don't even care about your own life."

Gloria, Alfu: "..."

Hearing this, Victoria was shocked: "Sister, you are so sick, I don't want you to die, wuwu."

After saying that, Victoria suddenly took out a flower pot from the bushes beside her and placed it in front of everyone. Suddenly, a colorful ball of light appeared at her fingertips. Victoria then carefully stuffed the ball of light into the soil and watered it with a kettle. Ten seconds later, in front of the surprised eyes of Leo and the other two, the flower pot was full of red and white mushrooms.

After doing all this, Victoria clapped her hands, pointed at the mushrooms and said, "Sister, eat them quickly. The poison will be removed after you eat them."

This...Victorica's operation opened Leo and the other two's eyes, and they could only marvel at the magic of the power of the devil fruit.

Leo asked curiously, "Do you know what fruit you are capable of?"

"What do you mean?"

"Do you remember eating a very unpalatable fruit? What did that fruit look like?"

Victoria put her finger on her chin as if thinking. Suddenly her face changed and she squatted on the ground with her hands on her head: "Remember, that thing is terrible. I would rather eat green peppers than eat that kind of fruit again."

Leo quickly took out the devil fruit album and turned the pages one by one for Victoria to identify. The little girl suddenly pointed her finger at one of the fruits on the page, then quickly retracted her finger and rubbed it hard on her clothes, as if she had touched something dirty.

The fruit that Victoria picked up is called the Plant Fruit, which is a superhuman fruit. According to the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia, this fruit can accelerate plant growth and activate plants into soldiers.

Victoria had already demonstrated her ability to turn plants into soldiers, but her later ability to create a panacea wasn't even recorded in the illustrated manual.

When Leo saw the Plant Fruit, his first reaction was to think of Admiral Green Bull's ability, but he quickly denied it, as Green Bull's fruit was obviously a Nature Fruit. It is unknown who would be more powerful when Green Bull and Victoria met.

"Victoria, did you come up with the ability to make the panacea just now by yourself? You are amazing! You can develop such a magical ability."

When the girl heard the other person praising her, she put her hands on her hips and puffed out her barren chest and said proudly, "It's not that amazing. As long as it's the herb I've eaten, I can simulate its effect and then plant it in the soil and it will grow."

The corners of Leo's mouth twitched uncontrollably. Is this some kind of Shennong tasting hundreds of herbs in the second dimension? If this were true, the girl would have suffered a lot.

"Do you know anything about herbs? Be careful of poisoning if you take them carelessly."

"No, even though some herbs will cause my stomach to hurt for a long time after taking them, it will be fine once my body gets used to it."

Leo looked at Victoria with some heartache, and cursed the Lord of Mushroom Island in his heart. He really didn't take human life seriously and was treating Victoria as a tool.

"Victoria, tell me the truth, did the lord force you to do this?"

Victoria suddenly curled up. Just hearing the word "lord" made her tremble with fear. "That's my father. He used to beat me all the time, but then he found out my secret. From then on, as long as I eat enough mushrooms every day, I won't be beaten anymore."

Leo and Alfu were silent after hearing this. Gloria hugged Victoria in her arms with heartache and said, "What a bastard father. He can kill such a lovely daughter and force her to grow up eating grass. Leo, let's go teach that bastard a lesson, okay?"

Leo reached out and touched Victoria's head: "This matter is not that simple. Even if we teach the lord a lesson, what will happen? It will not change Victoria's situation at all."

Gloria was furious when she heard Leo say this: "I don't care if you guys don't go, I'll go by myself."

Leo looked at Victoria and asked gently, "Victoria, do you want to come with us? I will take you to see a wider world."

Hearing this, Victoria's eyes became even more horrified, and she shook her head desperately: "Dame, you can't do that. My father won't let me leave here, or he will beat me to death."

Gloria said angrily: "Why are you afraid of him when we are here? After we teach him a lesson, you can leave with us and don't stay here."

Ah Fu, who had been quiet all the time, suddenly spoke with a serious expression: "Gloria, do you know what you are saying? Don't impose your will on others. You don't have the right to make decisions for others."

Gloria also became stubborn and said to Ah Fu angrily: "Ah Fu, I misjudged you. You and Leo are so kind to me, why don't you help Victoria?"

Gloria was abandoned by her parents when she was young, and grew up in the company of ghosts and wolves. She has never experienced the warmth of home, so it is not surprising that she can empathize with Victoria, but she herself is also a little girl who has not grown up, and she obviously does things on impulse without thinking about the consequences.

Leo interrupted her sternly: "Shut up and sit still."

Gloria looked at Leo with a wronged expression, tears welling up in her eyes, but she still sat obediently on the ground, hugging Victoria, and protested to the two of them with her eyes.

Leo ignored Gloria who was sulking and continued to ask the little girl: "Victoria, where is your mother? Your father always abuses you, doesn't she care about this?"

"I have never seen my mother. I heard from my brother that she was a bad woman and ran away after giving birth to me."

"If you were given a choice, would you like to stay here or go with us to see the outside world?"

Victoria raised her hand and pointed out the window: "I want to see the blue sea. I can only see a tiny bit of it here, but the book says that the sea is very big."

"Yes! The ocean is very big. We are now in the West Sea. There is also the East Sea, South Sea, North Sea, and the Grand Line. There are countless islands on the ocean, and there are many interesting adventures on the ocean, so do you want to follow us?"

Victoria's eyes suddenly dimmed: "No, I can't leave. I will die."

For the next period of time, Victoria kept repeating that she couldn't go out or she would die if she went out. Leo just looked at her quietly. The girl had been tortured by her father and suffered from severe post-traumatic stress disorder.

All three of them felt weighed down by something heavy in their hearts. Leo recalled that there were many children like Victoria in the One Piece world, such as Baby 5 from the Don Quixote family, and Kerla who was saved by the Sun Pirates. Now that he has experienced this world personally, Leo believes that there are many children who have the same tragic childhood as them, but even thinking about this can change anything?

Mr. Long, what would you do if it were you?

At this time, Leo began to understand Long a little. The structure of this world was like a cage that trapped the lower-class civilians.

After saying goodbye to Victoria, the three of them ended tonight's adventure. They were full of enthusiasm when they came, but felt heavy-hearted when they left. Gloria left all her desserts to Victoria, and now followed Leo and the others without saying a word.

Leo suddenly thought that he should tell the old woman in the tailor shop the story of Victoria. He remembered that she had been talking about the golden fairy that day.