One Piece: Who still has dreams?

"you……"

"Shouldn't this have been said from the beginning?!"

The female warrior with the bun hairstyle, Rindou, helped her two companions to their feet. Finally, the female pirate who had been knocked down by Redio covered the slap mark on her face and said angrily.

"He's clearly a man, but he's incredibly strong!" another female pirate, who had been kicked away, exclaimed, clutching her stomach.

Nine Serpents value strength above all else, and this man from the outer sea subdued them decisively, which made her look at him with even greater respect.

Redio laughed, "You guys clearly know how to use Haki, but you're not very good at it!"

Gentian, with a cigarette dangling from his lips and his coat open, revealing his bare chest, said nonchalantly, "'Haki' and 'arm strength' are two completely different things. Don't you even understand that? Man, if you say you're not one of these pirates' comrades, then who are you?"

"Me..."

Redio thought for a moment and said, "I am a psychologist. I'm here to heal your Snake Princess's emotional wounds!"

This person is crazy; they actually said that the perfect Snake Princess has a mental illness.

But you're powerful, so you're right.

Longdan and the others exchanged glances, nodded, and turned around, saying, "Come on, but we can't guarantee whether Lady Snake will be willing to see you."

……

Redio followed them toward the direction the petrified sunflowers were facing.

The Kuja Pirates' red Perfume Serpent pirate ship was moored on the shore. Two huge sea snakes were tied to the bow. Rindan went ahead first, and one of the sea snakes lowered its head. She leaped onto the snake's head, climbed onto the deck, and quickly disappeared.

In the distance, the blood-red setting sun sank below the horizon.

After a while, three figures emerged from the deck. The two on the left and right were enormous, while the middle one was tall and slender with flowing long hair. In the orange-yellow silhouette of the setting sun, she leaped, her cloak fluttering in the twilight, and landed on the head of the giant sea serpent in her high heels.

“The man is standing right there,” she said calmly.

Backlit, her face was blurred, only her beautiful eyes looked down coldly. She stretched out her hands, made a heart shape, and aimed them at Redio and the four Kuja female pirates who had brought him. A pink heart-shaped light wave flew out from her palms, quickly passing through Redio and the other four.

The four female warriors flanking Redio looked up at the beautiful figure at the bow of the ship, their eyes sparkling with hearts, and turned to stone on the spot.

"I told you you're sick, didn't I?"

Redio, his white hair flowing, his bright blue eyes looking at the Empress, his body hissing with wisps of hot steam, strode toward her.

Why wasn't he petrified?!

The female pirates on the Kuja Pirate Ship stirred, exclaiming and whispering amongst themselves.

Boa Hancock, refusing to believe it, made a heart shape with her hands and activated her Love-Love Fruit power again.

"Obsessed with Gan Feng!"

The pink light wave struck Redio precisely, but it stalled upon contact with a protective shield created by an unrestricted spell on his body, preventing the attack from advancing any further.

[Remaining time for Gojo Satoru Mode: 53 seconds]

Redio was unharmed and continued his momentum, causing another uproar on the ship.

The two tall figures on either side of Hancock jumped down, landing with two thuds. Instantly, they transformed into a giant green-haired humanoid python and a ferocious yellow-haired king cobra, attacking Redio from the left and right respectively.

Boom!

Redio delivered a light punch, sending them flying almost simultaneously. Then, he lifted off the ground and soared into the air, heading straight for the bow of the Kuja Pirate Ship. The two giant sea serpents were so astonished that their eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

[Remaining time for Gojo Satoru Mode: 40 seconds]

“Boa Hancock,”

Redio hovered in mid-air, his blue eyes seemingly glowing, looking down at the Pirate Empress at the bow of the ship, whose face was pale. "There is an unhealable wound in your heart, and it is still bleeding."

Swoosh! ...

A dense rain of arrows flew toward Redio from the deck, each arrow imbued with Armament Haki powerful enough to shatter rocks and split monuments, but all the arrows stopped just centimeters away from Redio.

[Remaining time for Gojo Satoru Mode: 20 seconds]

Redio pressed his finger down, and the entire pirate ship was pulled forward with a hissing motion by an invisible force. Redio gracefully landed and flew to the Pirate Empress.

"Fragrant feet!"

Hancock delivered a high kick, which clearly struck Redio, but the kick, imbued with the petrification ability of the Love-Love Fruit, strangely failed to touch his body.

[Remaining time for Gojo Satoru Mode: 8 seconds]

What kind of ability is this?

The Empress, her feet wreathed in Armament Haki, spun around and kicked at Redio again, but to no avail. He neither dodged nor defended, yet her kick failed to actually touch his body.

“You’re mentally ill, don’t you realize it?” the white-haired, blue-eyed man said.

Hancock remained silent, continuing her attacks, while Redio teleported repeatedly, effortlessly dodging her attacks, and finally pointed behind her. An invisible force pulled Hancock backward, sending her flying across the entire deck before crashing heavily against the outer wall of the ship.

[Remaining time for Gojo Satoru Mode: 1 seconds]

Reddio strode towards Hancock. The Nine-Snake Pirates on the deck had reached their limit; some drew their snake bows, others drew their swords, and attacked Reddio from both sides.

"Domain expansion..."

Redio made a hand seal with one hand, "Boundless Emptiness".

A cosmic, starry barrier instantly unfolded and dissipated across the entire deck in 0.2 seconds, almost in the blink of an eye. However, all the Kuja pirates who were charging toward Redio froze, their eyes fixed on the spot in a daze.

Hancock, who had been glaring angrily at Redio in front of the cabin, also lost her luster instantly after being swept by the power of the Boundless Void's domain.

"The branded female warrior, if you have a disease, you need to get treatment."

Redio's white hair faded, ending his Gojo Satoru mode. He walked step by step toward the Empress, placed his hand on her chest, and laughed, "Keeping it all inside can easily lead to a twisted mind, don't you think?"

[Task accepted]

Name: Boa Hancock

Overall Strength: ★★★★★

"..."

Hancock shivered at his touch, snapping back to reality. Her beautiful eyes flashed with a mixture of anger, terror, and pain as she coldly demanded, "What do you know?!"

Chapter 51 On the Way: Slave Ship

[Section Header Series: Executive Vice President Miss Quan, Sunday 1: 'Farewell']

[A month after Redio's departure, at the port of Alabasta, King Cobra and Princess Vivi bid farewell to Olvia and Robin. Crobatic, with his buzz cut, peeked out from a distance, smiling and waving.]

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I know a lot more than that.

Reddio gently nudged Hancock, turned and walked away. "Anyway, go back and think it over carefully. I hope that next time I come to see you, you will cooperate with the treatment."

Goodbye Revolutionary Army, I've found an even more appealing and domineering instructor.

"You think you can just leave like this?!"

Hancock gritted her teeth, touched her red lips with her index finger, and kissed out a burst of pink heart-shaped energy, aiming it at Redio like a pistol.

Redio turned back and smiled at her, then vanished into thin air.

"..."

The kiss gun that had been poised to fire at the Snake Princess's fingertips gradually dissipated. She stood there, stunned, as the sea breeze gently lifted her long, smooth, black hair. For a moment, her mind was in turmoil.

Could this person really know my secret? But how could that be...? Could he be one of the Celestial Dragons? Could he... recognize me?!

Hancock's heart was filled with shame, inferiority, anger, and deep fear. She looked blankly at the Kuja Pirates' subordinates on the deck, her own subjects...

They expected to see strange looks from the women, but instead, they saw the women standing there blankly, still in the posture of drawing their swords and raising their bows, their eyes unfocused and lifeless, as if they were in a dream.

Hancock suddenly realized that she had been just like them before she came to her senses!

Thoughts stagnate, mind loses focus! Completely oblivious to the outside world!

It was made by that white-haired, blue-eyed man...

Hancock stood silently for a moment, then leaped off the bow of the ship and landed on the shore.

"elder sister!"

Are you alright?

The green-haired second sister, Sandasonia, and the blonde third sister, Mariegrood, who had been easily knocked away by the blue-haired, white-eyed man, hurriedly returned.

"That man was amazing! Sister, where is he?" Sandasonia looked up at the Perfume Serpent pirate ship.

Mariegrud turned to look at the four petrified Nine-Snake Warriors and said incredulously, "That man wasn't petrified? Could it be that he didn't have any evil thoughts when he saw your beauty, sister? That's absolutely impossible!"

Anyone who harbors evil thoughts will surely be petrified by the allure of Gan Feng.

As for what constitutes having evil thoughts?

She's so beautiful, like Boa Hancock, that just one glance at her is enough to make any man feel guilty!

Women see it the same way.

Sandasonia calmly analyzed: "Perhaps the lighting was bad just now, and my sister was standing too high, so he couldn't see her clearly."

Mariegrud disagreed: "Isn't the allure of my sister's presence enough to captivate a mere man?"