One Piece: Start in the Valley of Gods, and steal the Dark-Dark Fruit

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

The golden guard kneeling at the head 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 Jiger, raised her hand and took off the heavy golden helmet on her head. Her long black hair spread out like a waterfall. She looked at Jiger and said softly,

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

Jig was stunned for a moment, and he 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 the heavy armor could hardly hide her exquisite curves. The skin above her neck was as smooth as white jade, and there was a pair of large amber eyes on her delicate face. But if you look closely, there is a small scar under her left eye, and it was this scar that reminded Jiger of her.

That was before Jiger was pulled into the experiment by Gulandra.

Before the age of six, he lived a pampered life in the palace like other celestial dragons, and Lucia was a slave that Garin bought at an auction when he went to the Sabaody Archipelago.

Garin didn't have any special hobbies. He liked Lucia because the main When the host introduced her, he said that she was 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 royal family members were killed by pirates. After she was found hiding under the bed by pirates, she was sold to the auction house by the pirates along with some treasures.

Born in the royal family, she stood out among the slave children at that time. Garin took a liking to her at first sight and bought her as a fourth birthday gift for Jiger.

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

At first, Lucia was very scared of this boy who was three years younger than her, because she had heard from her parents since she was a child. The Celestial Dragons were so brutal that even the so-called king was an ant that could be easily crushed to death in their eyes.

However, Jiger never regarded her as a slave at all. He had been imprisoned in the depths of the tribe by Gulando since he was born. It was not easy for him to meet a child of similar age to him, so he naturally cherished her very much.

He would let Lucia sit next to her and eat together during meals, and would often yell at Lucia to play some childish games he heard from the nanny.

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

At the beginning, Jiger often called Lucia sister. Lucia's mind was more mature than Jiger's, and she knew that she couldn't let Jiger call her that.

If this kind of thing got out, even if the relationship between the two was very good, it would be... Someone will make her, a lowly slave, disappear from Jig forever.

The two spent two years of peaceful time together. Lucia was not tortured as she imagined. Instead, she was infected by Jig and gradually opened her closed heart.

She even thought that it would be nice to stay with Jig as a slave for life.

But things didn't go as she wished. One day when Jig was six years old, Gulando suddenly came to Jig with a guy with a big head and a weird look.

Jig was listening to Lucia reading to him. When he saw Gulando, he was clamped by Gulando's waist before he could call his father, and was taken away with a confused face.

For a long time since then, Lucia hadn't seen Jig. After losing Jig, she was suddenly shrouded in fear.

She realized that this huge Figalandu family was a prison for her, and she became the little girl whose country was destroyed and her family was ruined.

Jig has always been the light that illuminates her, but now the light is gone.

She was in a daze, and her only hope every day was to see Jiger come back suddenly. 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 weird man standing next to Gulando at the time. Lucia immediately approached them calmly and vaguely heard what they were talking about.

"Alas, it has just been injected with a gene and it has turned out like this. I really 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 is going on!"

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

""Pah!"

Lucia dropped the broom in her hand to the ground. She ran up with all her strength, blocking the two of them, and asked in a trembling voice,

"you.......Are you talking about Saint Jiger?"

Both of them changed their expressions. One of them glared at Lucia fiercely, then pulled the other away quickly.

Lucia stood there blankly until the female officer who was in charge came to urge her to come back to her senses.

She suppressed the fear in her heart and continued to work under the scolding of the female officer. When it was time to finish work at night, she did not go back to her residence with the other servants, but found an excuse to run away.

Usually, her activity area was only where Jiger lived before. She groped in the direction where the two men 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 were two guards in golden armor standing there, 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 very hoarse, but Lucia immediately recognized it as Jiger's voice.

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 of medicine injected today is a bit large."

"Hi, I won’t be able to hear from you soon. How could a child survive that kind of experiment until now? Should we say that he is worthy of being the bloodline of the Figalando family?"

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

When the two guards arrived at the flower bed where Lucia had been hiding, there was no one there, only a few drops of water on the ground that were almost drying up.