One Piece: Who still has dreams?

Soon, they weighed anchor again, hoisted the sails, and set sail...

Nami glanced at Redio with some surprise; he was still carrying bags and bags of gifts he had bought for the little girl.

Why didn't you use his ability to "hide" it?

Could it be that he was worried about the old doctor drinking next to him?

It's strange, ever since I met Redio, I've never noticed him intentionally avoiding anyone when using his Devil Fruit powers...

"Where are we going?" Nami spread out a simple sea chart, and Kureha leaned over to take a look.

“Still Xiluobu Village, unchanged.” Redio, covered in shopping bags, said as he awkwardly rummaged in his pockets.

"Is your sister in Xiluobu Village?"

Nami felt she understood. No wonder Redio knew where Crocodile was hiding; he knew someone there. It was probably the little girl there who secretly told Redio about Crocodile…

With a talented and hardworking person like Nami personally at the helm, the huge pink new ship sailed swiftly and steadily across the sea with its sails billowing.

"Little girl, you're quite skilled." Kureha observed Nami the whole time and commented with a smile, "You can be his navigator when he goes to sea in the future."

Nami was taken aback.

Redio finally pulled out a coin, flicked it to Kureha with a "clink," and said, "Grandma, you don't need to worry about me."

You have hired Kureha for approximately 1 hour.

"Nami, come here."

Reddio, his arms laden with shopping bags, waved to Nami. Kureha, meanwhile, casually rested a finger on Reddio's shoulder while drinking.

Nami didn't know what he wanted to do, but she still reached out and shook his hand.

The next second, everything in front of me changed.

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Bonnie is heartbroken that her father fought off the bad guys and became a hero, but she can no longer see him. Her father has become a pirate, and she doesn't know when he'll return. Bonnie really longs to see him again.

[Mission Objective: Find Bartholomew Bear and reunite Bonnie with him.]

Client: Bonnie

[Distance: Extremely long (teleportation possible)]

[Estimated Difficulty: ★★★]

……

In the wheelhouse, where Redio, Nami, and Kureha had just stood, only a barely noticeable transparent prism remained, gently rotating clockwise.

This clockwise rotating prism seemed to be fixed to this floor of the ship's cabin, and its relative position remained unchanged even as the large pink ship continued to sail with the wind.

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[South China Sea, Kingdom of Sorbe, Southeastern Region]

Scorching sun!

Redio, Nami, and Kureha suddenly appeared out of nowhere in this barren wasteland.

Nami's expression changed drastically!

"The air pressure has dropped..."

She raised her hand. "The temperature is at least 10 degrees higher, and the humidity and wind direction... are all different too." She muttered to herself as she looked up, squinting at the blazing sun radiating heat from the azure sky. "The position of the sun... is this... in the Southern Hemisphere?"

Kureha watched with a grin and said to Redio, "You're pretty good, aren't you?"

Redio laughed: "You don't need to remind me."

Nami looked around. One second they were still at sea, on a ship, and the next second they were on land, a completely unfamiliar and desolate place. The only thing she could see was the bare old church to the east.

She stared blankly at Redio. "Where is this place?"

"South China Sea, Kingdom of Sorbe".

With shopping bags slung over his shoulders, Redio took the lead and walked towards the church building a few hundred meters away. "Come on, weren't you curious about who these were for?"

"Huh? Oh, wow."

Nami hurriedly followed them, then suddenly realized:

No wonder Tashigi and I couldn't find him on the ship! He really does have that teleportation ability you only see in comic books! And he even spouted some nonsense about invisibility...

As Nami got closer, she realized that it was an old and dilapidated little church.

The strangest thing is that all the windows of this church are boarded up inside and out, sealed so tightly that not a single ray of light can get in, making it look like a huge dark prison.

Does Reddio's sister live in a place like this?

Nami was still in surprise when the door of the dilapidated church quietly opened a crack. The church was dimly lit, and Nami could only make out what appeared to be a pink hue behind the crack, and a large, bright eye that revealed a look of delighted surprise:

"Radio! You're here!"

"Step back."

Redio reminded the little girl behind the door, and sure enough, the eye behind the crack in the door was gone. Kureha grabbed Nami's hand and followed Redio as they rushed through the door at lightning speed. With a "bang," the dilapidated church door slammed shut behind them.

Nami's vision went black for a moment, her eyes not used to the dim light. She could only vaguely see the pink-haired little girl's figure hop onto Redio's body, and she couldn't help but wonder, "What's going on?"

Kureha took a sip of her drink and said softly, "See the 'stone' on her right cheek? That's called Jade Scale Disease. People with this disease can't be exposed to any sunlight or moonlight; they can only have natural light."

"..."

Nami's eyes gradually adjusted, and she could clearly see the sick little girl Kureha had mentioned. She saw Redio holding her high up, her smile lively and bright. Sure enough, there were several stones on her right cheek, green and shiny, like gems growing in her flesh.

“If she were exposed to natural light…” Nami asked in a low voice.

Kureha said, "Over time, the stones will grow inside and outside her body, all over her body, and when she dies, she will suffer terribly and be a terrible sight. Just like her mother."

Seeing the little girl's bright smile, Nami was about to burst into tears. She took a deep breath and turned her head away.

"Doctor Doriel, who is this older sister?"

Bonnie, perched on Redio's shoulder, asked curiously to the two whispering behind them, "By the way, where's Chopper? Where's Chopper? Didn't he come?"

Chapter 15 Heaven and Curse

"Chopper is studying hard at home."

Redio pinched Bonnie's cheek. "He needs to learn medicine well so he can cure your illness as soon as possible."

"Hehe..." Bonnie giggled. She felt like the luckiest person in the world, with a father who loved her very much and everyone around her who cared about her.

When she felt lonely after her father became a pirate and left, Redio appeared. He was like Nika in her father's stories, warmly helping others like the sun.

"Bonnie!"

Two burly men rushed into the church.

They were local fishermen who had known Bonnie's parents since childhood. After Bonnie's father, Big Bear, left, they often came to the church to take care of the little girl.

The two had taken a nap when they heard laughter. They woke up groggily and were terrified when they realized Bonnie wasn't beside them. They scrambled over to her side.

Seeing that it was Redio and Dr. Doriel, they breathed a sigh of relief and wiped their sweat, saying, "I was so scared, Bonnie. You can't run out. If you get sunburned, we won't be able to explain it to your father when he comes back."

Bonnie climbed down from Redio's arms and pouted, "I won't run around. I'm seven years old now, not a little kid anymore."

"Redio, Doriel..."

Behind the two burly fishermen came a short, slow-moving old woman with a face full of wrinkles even more than Kureha's. "And who is this young girl?"

"Her name is Nami. Don't worry, she's my friend."

Redio placed the shopping bags of various sizes on the church pews and gave Nami a brief introduction to the people in the church, including Bonney's adoptive father, Bartholomew, who wasn't there but was the church's owner.

"Alright, I'm here for treatment, so let's stop with the nonsense."

Kureha interrupted the pleasantries, nodding at Redio, "Kid, get the stuff out. Bonnie, do you have a bathtub?"

Bonnie looked up and said, "There's a bathtub; Daddy made it for me."

Kureha pointed, indicating for the little girl to lead the way.

Bonnie seemed to really enjoy this attitude of not treating her like a child, and she ran briskly toward the living area behind the church.

The two fishermen and the short old woman named Connie were all clearly concerned about Bonnie, and when Kureha said she had come for treatment, they nervously followed her.

"Dolly the healer, can you really cure Bonnie?" the muscular fisherman asked ingratiatingly.

"..." Kureha seemed very unhappy. "If Jadescale Disease could be cured so easily, it wouldn't be such a terrifying incurable disease."

No, it isn't?

Bonnie walked ahead, her voice lighter than her steps, "Dad said before that my illness would definitely be cured by my 10th birthday."

"..."

The two tough men couldn't help but shed tears and turned their heads away.

Nami couldn't help but tear up.

But she was also somewhat speechless: not only Dr. Kureha, but even Redio seemed completely unmoved, showing no sign of being touched or shedding a tear. Did they have no heart?!