One Piece: Who still has dreams?

The scenery before Redio's eyes suddenly changed. The vast East China Sea that had been there in the early morning had become a snow-covered mountain road in the dark of night. The cold wind howled in his ears, sharp as knives, and howled like ghosts.

First, find the person who commissioned the task, Luo, right?

"what?"

Redd looked down and realized his lower body had moved forward on its own—he hadn't even gotten on the bus yet!

His upper body fell backward, crunching into the snow.

"call……"

Just a few meters away, behind a tree with deep snow, Trafalgar Rodriguez relaxed a little.

Bepo, Bepo's companion, was inexplicably kidnapped. He came to the island alone to keep his appointment, constantly on guard against enemy ambushes. Just when his nerves were on edge, he suddenly heard the sound of someone's feet crunching on the snow behind him.

Almost instinctively, Law used the power of the Op-Op Fruit, imbuing his sword with spatial abilities, and cleaved the attacker in half at the waist with a single strike, while simultaneously teleporting himself behind the tree...

He then peeked over there.

The sky was dark and the wind and snow were heavy. It was still possible to make out that the person had initially been standing back to back with him. After being cut in half at the waist by the Op-Op Fruit, the lower body continued to walk forward while the upper body fell down naturally.

Just before he fell backward, the person seemed to glance in his direction.

Ok?

Luo Xin suddenly became alert and was about to raise his finger to use the power of the Op-Op Fruit when he was struck heavily on the back. The tree he was hiding under was also kicked and snapped in half. With a loud "bang", he and the broken tree were kicked more than ten meters away, plowing a black gully into the snow on the mountain road.

Sure enough, it was the lower half of that person's body, standing on the broken tree root, with his legs lightly tapping left and right, as if warming up...

warm up?

Luo Xin knew something was wrong. The Op-Op Fruit had created a spherical space, like an invisible operating room, and he, the user, was the surgeon in control. Luo lightly lifted a finger, teleporting himself to another location within the "operating room."

"boom!"

The moment he left, the man's lower body leaped there, stomping the ground and cracking it open.

What kind of speed is that?!

Without an upper body, how can someone generate that kind of superhuman strength? How exactly does they generate that force? Does it conform to the physics of human musculoskeletal movement?!

Luo broke out in a cold sweat, his back throbbing with pain. He gritted his teeth, trying to get up, but a cold blade was pressed against his neck. His hair stood on end.

"Don't move, okay?"

Redio, with one hand easily bracing himself against the snow and the other holding the Seastone Greatsword, Subduer, pressed it against Law's neck. "I'll count to three, and you'll have to reattach my lower body. Otherwise, you'd better figure out how to reattach your own head."

This person sounds serious!

"1..."

Luo is already trying!

"2..."

But I can't use the power of the Op-Op Fruit!!

Luo, feeling utterly weak and powerless, cried out in desperation, "I can't use my abilities anymore! Just piece your body back together and you'll recover!!!"

The shouts were so loud that snow fell from the treetops.

With a series of creaking sounds, the lower half of the body walked towards them in the darkness.

"Oh, actually I know."

Redio laughed, slapped the ground, and his upper body sprang up while his lower body moved forward, backward, left, and right, making perfect contact with the cross-section of his upper body that had just bounced over.

"Are you deliberately messing with me?!" Luo Jianya roared, picked up his fallen felt hat, dusted it off, and got up.

He can use his abilities again now, and the inexplicable weakness he felt earlier is gone. Is it all because of that knife?

[Task accepted]

The system notification appeared when I kicked Fei Luo with my lower body.

Redio twisted his waist and lifted his leg; it was a perfect connection, a seamless recovery.

Devil Fruit abilities are really interesting.

"Who exactly are you?"

Luo brushed the snow off his clothes, gripped his long sword, and asked warily, "You suddenly appeared; I thought you were with my enemy."

Where is this person's knife? Luo looked at Redio's empty hands with suspicion.

"There's a bear that's been tied up, I'm here to help rescue him."

Reddio glanced at the system task interface. The map of the task scroll was still viewable. Law, the task commissioner, Bepo, the task target, and Kizaru, whom Reddio specifically requested, were all displayed on the map.

Luo asked in surprise, "You know Bepo?"

He's right there.

Redio didn't bother explaining; he told the boy to use his imagination. He pointed diagonally ahead into the depths of the snowstorm. In the center of the island, a towering vertical shadow could be vaguely seen in the dim night.

Luo strained his eyes to make out, "That's... a tall tower?"

"Whatever it is, time's almost up, let's hurry."

On the minimap, Kizaru's golden light is already very close, moving at lightning speed.

Reddio grabbed Luo next to him and sprinted away.

The explosive, shaving-like movement style is unsuitable for long-distance running; it would ruin your leg muscles. However, it's fine to incorporate high-speed shaving movements into long-distance running.

Name: Trafalgar Rodriguez

Overall Strength: ★★★

[Mastered: Ope Ope no Mi (Proficient), Basic Swordsmanship (Skilled), Basic Physical Combat (Skilled), Swimming (Beginner)]

You also have 3 stars?

Judging from the feel of my foot just now, it doesn't seem like it. The surgical technique must have boosted my score quite a bit, right?

……

And so, Redio led Luo swiftly through the howling wind and snow, and soon arrived at the foot of the tower in the darkness of night.

[Mastered: Shaving (Six Styles) (Proficient)]

"Oh my gosh, is this Garin Tower?"

Redio looked up, rubbed his hands together, and breathed out a couple of puffs of hot air. Without hesitation, he charged forward! He crouched down and exerted his strength, his legs like springs, leaping twenty meters high and grabbing the uneven outer wall of the stone tower.

In the darkness, Redio clung to the stone tower, climbing rapidly section by section, as if he were flying!

"If it were me in my past life, I wouldn't have been able to crawl even a meter."

As Redio thought this, his hands continued working. Looking up, he could already see the top of the tower, a hundred meters high, which was a square stone house. At the bottom, he could vaguely see wooden planks that allowed entry...

Suddenly, his vision blurred, and he found himself inside the stone house.

Snowflakes drifted down as Luo, holding his sword, said calmly, "No need to thank me."

Chapter 44 Kizaru Arrives

If you can move up here, why did it take me so long to climb?

Redio's death stare.

Luo looked away, scanning the stone house atop the tower.

It's completely empty!

Therefore, the single item placed in the middle of the room attracted particular attention.

It was a gilded, jewel-encrusted, and mysteriously patterned coffin.

This must be the coffin of the former member of the Knights of God that was stolen, mentioned in the brief preface of the quest scroll. Redio understood and walked over.

On the luxurious coffin lid lay a note:

I'm inside, Captain, save me! (A simple polar bear sketch with a few strokes of sweat added)

Reddio, Luo: "..."

Isn't this kind of trap a bit too idiotic?

Luo raised his finger, preparing to activate his ability to retrieve the contents of the coffin.

Ability activation failed!

The cold, stone-like, iron-like longsword was pressed against his neck once again.

Luo let his hands fall limply, glaring at Redio: "Even if it's not Bepo inside, I still have to see it with my own eyes!"

Redio said, "They put this here because they knew you would do it even if you didn't know it was them."

Luo didn't understand: "It's just a corpse, what's wrong with taking it out? Put the knife away!"

Redio said, "Some things are better left unseen until you're qualified to see them."

The entire Knights of God have signed a deep-sea pact with Im. Who knows what Im could do with their corpses? I'm here today to meet Kizaru. If Im suddenly causes trouble from afar, I'll have to run away beforehand.

"Hehehe...Young man, you seem to know who's lying in this impossible-to-open coffin?" A sinister, aged laugh echoed from outside the stone house. "Have you seen it too? That incredible, godlike power!"