One Piece: Who still has dreams?

Ace heard Luffy's stomach growl as he lay on the other side, and sure enough, he slowly got up. He silently removed the three-section staff from Luffy's face and threw it aside; Luffy's head was already covered in drool.

"Go eat." Ace said, embarrassed.

"Wow!" Luffy pounced on the mountain of roasted meat like a hungry ghost.

Ace, his body aching all over, slowly followed along to freeload. After sitting down and munching away for a while, he suddenly realized: Wait a minute, where did all this meat come from?

Forget it, let's eat first.

Reddio smiled, his hands still busy tearing and eating the meat with gusto. On a whim, he opened the system's radar interface and selected to start the search.

If he forgets, he'll just let it go, but as soon as the thought pops into his head, and he happens to have a search opportunity today, he'll open the radar. It's just something he does easily anyway.

The first two radar results were unremarkable; both were short-range missions. Moreover, judging from the mission descriptions, one was to help a nobleman in the city find a cat, and the other was to help a noble lady get a beautiful dress that could outshine her best friend...

Stop kidding me!

Redio abandons the mission.

But the results from the third radar scan made his eyes narrow...

"What's so funny?"

Ace's voice drew Reddio's attention back.

Across a pile of gnawed roasted meat bones, Ace sat with his legs crossed, staring at Redio, who had a strange smile on his face. "What exactly do you want to do?"

Redio said, "I'm here to help. I don't care which of you two I help, but since Luffy is being unreasonable, I can only settle the score with you, his older brother."

Luffy, his mouth full of meat, exclaimed, "Oh, five cents? Are you done?"

"..." Ace said calmly, "Didn't you ask me what my dream is? My dream is to gain freedom and live without regrets. I don't need your help."

“That’s hard to say,” Redio laughed. “How about this, I’ll consider it as me needing your help. If you don’t help, then I’ll stay here and deal with Luffy.”

A question mark appeared above Luffy's head.

"Are you ever going to shut up?" Ace said irritably. "What do you want me to help you with?"

Reddio: "Ask me for help."

Ace and Luffy: "..."

……

As darkness fell, wild animals in the mountains retreated,不敢近近 (不敢近近 - dared not approach).

Ace gazed at the starry sky and suddenly asked, "Hey, do you know a lot about Gol D. Roger?"

"Not at all!"

Redio leaned against a tree root. "I know him a little more than most people in the world, but a little less than those who really know him."

"..." Ace was silent for a moment, then asked, "Why did he say those words before he died, thus beginning the era of pirates? Everyone says he is the real devil, and I am the son of a devil who should not have been born into this world."

"..."

Reddio glanced at Luffy, who was already fast asleep after eating and drinking his fill, and said, "Isn't the era of pirates good? To cure a serious illness, you need strong medicine. This world is seriously ill and needs to be accelerated. In the competition, there will always be someone who can bare their fangs at those high and mighty guys and make even gods bleed."

Ace: "..." What is this person saying?

Reddio chuckled, "Upon arriving at the final island, the Pirate King and his crew learned all the hidden truths of the world. They felt they had arrived too early and couldn't do anything, so they disbanded the pirate crew on the spot. As for Roger... he had long been suffering from an incurable disease, and was already terminally ill. What the Pirate King did in the last period of his life, no one knows, but what is certain is that he surrendered to the Marines before he died, and on the execution platform in Loguetown, he left behind that speech for the world. If he was the devil, so be it! Isn't the devil the natural enemy of God?"

Ace fell silent.

Redio stood up and said, "Take your time thinking about it. I have something to do and will be back in a bit."

"You don't have to come back!" Ace thought to himself, then his eyes widened as the person suddenly vanished into thin air right in front of him!

……

[New mission detected by radar]

In the dead of night, Boa Hancock repeatedly recalls the four years she spent as a slave to the Celestial Dragons. Tragically, even in her dreams, she cannot escape that ship that leads to hell…

Client: Boa Hancock

[Distance: Extremely long (teleportation possible)]

Estimated Difficulty: ★★★★★

[Estimated remaining time to receive benefits: Approximately 69 years]

……

Chapter 50 Psychologist

[South China Sea, near the doldrums, an island]

Redio's vision blurred, the night vanished, and it was still dusk in this sea area.

"..."

He looked up and saw a high-rising stern half a meter above him. He had been teleported into the shadow of a large pirate ship stranded on the shore.

Whoosh!

The cool sea breeze was in my ears, mixed with the sound of the tide crashing against the stranded pirate ship.

Not Women's Island?

Redio was intrigued. Boa Hancock was the Empress of Amazon Lily, the island of women, and Amazon Lily was located in a completely calm sea on the Grand Line.

He went around under the stern of the stranded ship and was confronted by a horrifying ghost face.

Oh, it's a human statue.

This was a pirate wearing a skull captain's hat, with one eye and a hooked hand. In his final moments, he gazed towards the sea, his mouth wide open, and a heart shape flew out of his single eye. He was petrified there.

Sweet fruit...

Redio continued walking forward and saw more and more of these human stone statues. Judging from their appearance, clothing style, and the weapons such as swords in their hands, they all clearly came from this stranded pirate ship.

These petrified pirates stand scattered along the coast, their eyes radiating the same love, facing the same direction, like a field of stone-carved sunflowers.

"Lady Snake Princess seems to be in a bad mood today..."

Even when she's angry, she's still so beautiful~~

"The happiest thing about joining the Kuja Pirates is being able to admire Lady Snake's beauty up close...hehe..."

"Alright, hurry up and move it, or Lady Snake will punish you."

"That would be even better, hehe."

Redio heard the women talking and slowly approached. He saw several women wearing white cloaks carrying a pile of treasure chests, food, and miscellaneous items out of the stranded pirate ship.

"Shh!"

The female warrior in the lead, with her hair in a bun, suddenly stopped, then turned around sharply, picked up a short cannon, and fired a shot at Redio with a "boom" as it shot out a burst of fire.

Is this reasonable?

Redio dodged with a quick movement, and behind him, with a loud bang, the capsized pirate ship burst into flames.

"There are still some who slipped through the net!"

"It's a man."

"Let's solve it first."

The other Nine-Snake Female Pirates chatted amongst themselves, but their actions were swift and decisive. They simultaneously drew back the longbows that their pet snakes had transformed into, and immediately nocked arrows.

Whoosh! Four ordinary iron-tipped wooden arrows accurately locked onto and shot towards Redio, who was dodging.

A pirate crew where everyone uses Haki is awesome!

Reddio pushed off with his feet and vanished from the spot in a flash. The four arrows, wreathed in invisible energy, crisscrossed and struck the two petrified pirates behind Reddio, blasting them to pieces with a series of bangs.

The female warrior with the bun hairstyle who was initially alerted by Redio's Observation Haki suddenly turned around and swung her elbow, but the man who suddenly appeared behind her caught it with a "bang".

Reddio's hands were numb from the trembling. He had been fighting Ace all day, and his whole body was still a little sore, but he laughed and said, "Is this what Haki is? It seems like nothing special!"

He grabbed the female warrior with the bun hairstyle by the arm, twisted it behind her back, and pressed her down.

Longdan, in pain, nimbly twisted her body and kicked Redio in the groin.

boom!

Redio raised his foot and kicked her foot, causing her to bounce back and kick away her female companion who was about to come to her aid.

At the same time, Redio grabbed her arm, swung her up, and slammed her heavily onto the other two Kuja pirates, knocking over a large pile of treasure chests they were carrying, spilling jewels and food all over the ground.

Whoosh!

The only remaining female warrior in a cloak, holding a snake bow, fired another arrow imbued with Armament Haki at Redio.

Almost there!

Redio narrowly dodged, then silently shaved his head and instantly appeared in front of the archer warrior. To her shock, he slapped her face and knocked her to the ground.

In just a few rounds, all five women were knocked down.

"Alright, stop fighting!"

Redio stood in the center, raised his hands, and looked around at the scantily clad Kuja pirates scattered on the ground. "Listen to me, I'm not with these petrified pirates."