[One Piece] Inferior Star

Augustus, also known as Olu, is a standard mercenary.

In this era, the brilliance of this profession is covered by pirates, but then again, which profession is not covered by pirates?It's not all bad, however.At least for Olu, he wished that all the attention would be attracted by the pirates, and then he would go on missions that required stealthy actions.

He didn't just like the job.He just didn't have anything else to do for a living before that.For some reason, he doesn't like 'humans', and hates pirates even more.Of course he can't do ordinary work.Then you can only be a mercenary.Is it possible to be in the navy?don't want.He also hates 'following orders'.

He only does what he feels is right.It's not about good or evil, it's not black and white.He's not a good guy, but he's not bad either.he does not know.All he could be sure of was... that people wouldn't like him.

Whether it's too bright hair color, or too bright red eyes, or...a face that can't make a good expression, and a fruit ability that is a bit disgusting and scary.

All over the body, there is no place that people like.Olu has this self-knowledge.

But even in this way, he will feel that 'if he doesn't do anything, then he is too inhuman'.He didn't know what a 'scientist' was, nor what the hell was science.He just thinks it's all wrong.That being the case, he had to do something right and then make money.

"Why should you trust me?"

But Olu is still a little strange... This is the first time he has been trusted, and this person is still the target of his assassination.He deliberately slowed down and walked to Youxiang's side, and asked this question.

"Because Olu didn't lie." Youxiang's answer was also very simple, she said, "Even if you want to make enemies of all of us, let us come here... that must be a very important thing. Although I am not sure What exactly is it, but Olu must attach great importance to this matter, and feel that it is more important than his own safety."

"…………"is that so.I didn't realize it myself...

Olu said nothing more.He's not one to express his weaknesses.In other words, he didn't want to expose anything more.He quickened his pace and walked to the front, and then said, "It's the room in front... Now the patrolling people will be lazy and stay in the lounge for a while, we can avoid them."

There are no...adult biosignatures around.

Matthew's sensors returned such information.He said with some hesitation: "Mr. Luo... Is that man named Caesar Courant doing anything other than creating gas that can create artificial devil fruits here?"

"I don't know." Luo replied truthfully, "This facility is huge... There are many places I haven't been able to investigate clearly. And Caesar doesn't completely trust me, so I didn't investigate anything too blatantly. What's wrong? You What did you find?"

"child."

In that room up front... is a group of kids.Why?Why are there children here?Could it be 'staff family members'?Impossible...It's too hearty to have someone bring a family in such a harsh environment...Could it be...the only possibility appeared in Matthew's mind, and he said: "Human beings are really exactly the same."

"Can you know it here?" Is it a devil fruit...?Olu looked at Matthew in surprise, and he said, "Those kids..."

"Is it an experimental product?"

"........."

"It's really... really disgusting. The human race... no matter where it spreads to any corner of the universe, the magical inferiority will never disappear. However, this kind of wonderful inheritance also makes people have no desire to study. ” Matthew said so, while others were still wondering what he was talking about, Olu opened the door first.

"Biscuit House." Olu stood at the gate, looking at the children playing in the cute and soft fairy-tale style house and said, "They call this the Biscuit House."

Children... There are a large number of children of all sizes in this room!Probably no older than 10 years old, some are extraordinarily large, perhaps giants?Youxiang looked at them in surprise, and the children also looked over, they stopped playing curiously, but they seemed to recognize Olu——

"Ah! It's the big brother with sky blue hair!" One of the huge little girls laughed, and she ran over. Because of her huge size, the ground was trembling, "Big brother, you came to see us!"

"..." Olu didn't respond to this pure and bright smiling face, he didn't even look up into the kid's eyes, "Please." He said to Matthew, "You seem to be able to do a lot. I can't help it Stay here... I will guard the gate for you outside, and I will warn you in advance if anyone comes."

"Olu...?"

"Feel sorry."

Faced with Youxiang's hesitation to speak, Olu just glanced at her, not knowing who he was apologizing to, then left the room and disappeared behind the door.Luo glanced at his back, then looked at the children in the room, and said in a low voice, "I heard that the World Government once studied experiments to make humans gigantic..."

Huge human beings... I seem to have seen it in the documents of the Rebel Army.That project should be banned.Because no matter what, there was no research result, so... Sabo didn't want to say these things in front of these children, but he looked at the confused and innocent eyes of the huge girl in front of him, and a wave of anger ignited in his heart.He suddenly understood why Olu didn't want to stay here.

"Why are you here?" Ace looked at the girl, and he asked directly, "Where are your parents?"

"Well...we are here because we are sick." The girl replied, "As long as the illness is cured, we can go back to find our parents!"

"…………"are you sick.Matthew went to the front and said, "I'm the new doctor. I'm here to treat you this time."

"Huh? Really!" Although others were surprised that Matthew would say that, the girl and other children believed it.They immediately laughed happily, "Can the doctor brother cure us all?"

"I don't know." Matthew didn't have much expression on his face, he said, "I need to do an examination first... can you show me?"

"Um……?"

The kids didn't say no, but they didn't know exactly how to check.In the next second, the blue scanning beam irradiated each of them, including the huge baby who was still in the swaddle.The light doesn't cause any discomfort, and it's even a little fun for kids.

"...Dr. Luo." As soon as Matthew turned off the beam, he immediately turned around and called Luo, "Take a step to talk." After speaking, he walked out the door.

Luo probably guessed some results, he looked at Youxiang, said to wait for a while, and then followed Matthew out.Youxiang was a little worried, but... Matthew should be able to handle it.If even he can't handle it, then really...

Youxiang cheered up, if she couldn't smile now, then the children would be too pitiful.When she raised her head again, she showed a bright smile: "Then let's play together first~~ Ace and Sabo should also be together!"

"Ah, um..." Sabo was a little absent-minded, but it's also good for the children if everyone goes out now... He laughed, "Okay~ Let's play hide and seek then! Ace?"

"Haha! I'm good at this! Come and be a ghost!"

It shouldn't be a problem for the two of them to coax the child... Anyway, let's take a look at the situation for now.Where did these children come from, and what happened... Youxiang couldn't laugh for a while, until Rossi touched the top of her head, and she looked at Rossi with a wry smile: "We seem to be trapped again~" got into trouble."

"It doesn't matter. It's because we can't turn a blind eye to it that we have 'trouble'. After solving a trouble, we can move forward better." Rossi smiled, and he said, "At first, it was because I saw When I got to the heart of Cabbage, I couldn't ignore this kind of thing, so I felt that there would be nothing wrong with following you back here."

"Rosie..."

"I'm in the Navy after all. I guess that's my job too." If you're the kind of people who can act like you don't see something like this... then I probably won't be on this 'team' either So satisfied.Rossi seemed to understand the reason for his previous satisfaction, he said, "Let's play together too! Cabbage!"

— "They're dying."

As soon as Matthew went out, he said bluntly: "Their bodies are suffering from unimaginable erosion, their organs are failing, and their blood is also abnormal. Some kind of neurotoxin is eroding their brains, just like... something that will make them addictive drug."

"Do you know so much just by looking at it..."

"Who do you think I am!" Matthew was a little excited, and he immediately said, "All the data...all the body data are abnormal, and the smallest one is the most serious. What kind of crazy bastard would Hitting a baby in the cradle? Even if there is a jerk and everyone around him thinks it's 'right'?!"

"Matthew."

"It's hard, unbelievable, unbelievable! They're so young, but they're about to—they don't even know what's going on!"

"Matthew! Calm down!" Luo raised his voice, he said, "Calm down...do you have a way to treat them?"

"If there is a year and a half, and the highest level of medical equipment, maybe there is?" Matthew couldn't calm down.Whenever he thinks he has reached a certain limit, the human can tell him 'you are so naive'.He said, "But no. There's nothing here, isn't it? We don't have the time, we're not here to do this. We don't have the equipment, we don't have anything."

"........."

"They will die." Matthew emphasized again, and he said, "I feel so hopeless for the first time since I came here, why...why I, a super advanced artificial intelligence, even a few human children You can’t even save the cubs?! This is simply a great shame. I should save them and mock your incompetence condescendingly!”

This is the first time Luo has seen Matthew like this, should he be... angry?Still sad, or desperate?In any case, although he said he hated humans, at this moment, he really wanted to save the children in the room.

"Listen to me. Calm down. We can turn those kids over to the Navy," Lo said.

"Are you serious? Do you really trust the navy that much?"

"No. I don't trust them." Luo said emphatically, "but Vegapunk is at the Navy Headquarters."

"Vegapunk..."

"This is his laboratory, Kaiser is his colleague, and may even use some of his research results. As the chief scientist of the Navy, this is his responsibility, and it is also the responsibility of the Navy." Luo said, "If Bei Add Punk and Admiralty, and there's time and equipment. With that, will they survive, Matthew?"

"I don't know." Matthew, who had never been so uncertain, said, "They're too young. Mr. Luo. Do you understand? The human body is fragile. More fragile than any living thing. Especially in infancy , don’t even have a protective color? They can only be ‘at the mercy of others’. The insignificant resilience of youth is nothing compared to that poison. Do you want me to say the probability of death?!”

"........."

"Hey..." There's really no way... Matthew paused for a while, he didn't know what he was thinking.But when he spoke again, he calmed down, "I detected Luffy's ship."

"The Straw Hat?" How did he do it? ?Is it using that...satellite or something?

"Ah. Although I haven't seen what his ship looks like, but that flag should be him." Matthew responded, and he said, "There is another... Navy warship right behind. G-5... ...If it was GH at the head, can we still look forward to that invincible lieutenant general..."

"?" What invincible lieutenant general?Luo didn't understand what Matthew was saying. He said, "G-5 is said to be the most vicious group of navies in the New World. Have the Straw Hats been entangled by them?"

"Is it the most vicious..." I don't know if I can count on them.It cannot be located so clearly from satellites.The closer to the island, the more interference factors, and Matthew couldn't see who was commanding the G-5 warship.But Luffy is now considered a 'big pirate', and if he can run after him, he should be no ordinary person.Hope he can be of some help...

Although the navy of the last... GH-0 fortress was useless at all, but such a large naval headquarters, wouldn't there be no one who can use it?

"I won't give up on them." Matthew said suddenly, "This is the evil of human beings, it is the defect of human beings, and I cannot become 'like human beings'."

"Matthew, you..."

"It's not about sympathizing with humans, nor is it about loving them. It's just about hating them, so much that no matter whether it's good or evil, I don't want to be like them... the same as you." Matthew emphasized his principles, and he was about to go Walking back, "Also, Mr. Olu. You have been listening... As a human being, you have surpassed many people. Let me thank you instead of those children."

"..." Olu stood in the shadows, he didn't speak, and he didn't come out.

"Not only did you not let this evil deed become a secret, but you also found the most 'correct' person." After Matthew finished speaking, he opened the door and went back to the room. He needed to find a way to delay the onset of toxicity, and then find a way to separate those things The method, maybe, maybe it can delay time, maybe it can prolong life, this is not as simple as 'saving those children', but 'fighting against the evils of mankind'.

Can't lose.

Matthew would never allow himself to lose in this matter.

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The author has something to say:

I don't know if the name "Biscuit House" comes from the Grimm's fairy tale "Candy House".A house made of candy and biscuits is a dream paradise for homeless children, but also a trap set by a cannibal witch.Grimm's Fairy Tales This one is pretty dark...

Matthew is a very contradictory person. He has said before that he hates humans, but at the same time loves them deeply.He hated the imperfection of human beings, yet yearned for the infinite vitality and possibility they possessed because of this imperfection, and the ability to invoke miracles.However, also because of hatred, he will not do the same evil as humans.Even if he wants to do bad things, he will use methods that humans will not use.

So not only does he sympathize with the children in the cookie house, but he also hates those who have killed the future of these children who would have had a "life" that he could never have.This feeling is the same as what he said to Kagawa after he found out about Germa 66: What does that person think of life?