One Piece: Who still has dreams?

“Let’s go,” he said.

Hancock, clutching the gold coin, asked blankly, "Where to?"

"Go kill someone."

You have selected a delivery method.

-----------------

[14 years ago, on a slave ship, in the cells of young female slaves]

In the darkest corner, the two younger sisters nestled in Boa Hancock's arms.

Little Hancock's dirty face was streaked with tears as he stared blankly at the moonlight streaming through the small round window in the bulkhead...

Suddenly, from the depths of the sky, the figure of 26-year-old Boa Hancock descended, carrying a sense of temporal distortion, and instantly poured into her small body bound by chains.

“Go kill someone.”

Hancock could still hear the man's words echoing in her ears when suddenly her vision shifted, and she found herself back in that nightmare?!

Clang, clang... She raised her hand and saw the iron chains on it. Fear surged up like an instinct, spreading like a spider web across her entire body, and she began to tremble uncontrollably.

As if sensing her emotions, the two younger sisters began to sob softly.

Hancock took a deep breath to calm herself down.

That's not quite right.

If this is a dream, it feels too real...

Clang, clang, clang. She crossed her hands, grabbed the iron rings on her wrists that were tightly fastened to the chains, and tried to activate the power of the Sweet-Sweet Fruit. Surprisingly, she actually petrified the chains.

Crack, crack... Little Sandasonia and Little Marigold heard the sound and were stunned to see that the chains binding their sister's hands and feet had turned into shattered stones, clattering to the floor.

"Sister, what are you doing..." Before they could even react in surprise, Hancock had already petrified and torn apart the chains binding their hands and feet.

Having regained their freedom, little Sanda and little Mary were somewhat at a loss for what to do.

"Has your Devil Fruit power awakened yet?"

The cell door had opened at some point, and standing there looking in their direction was none other than that man!

Hancock led her two anxious sisters over and kicked the gate's bars, shattering the petrified part of the iron cage. Hancock carefully led the bewildered Sanda and Mary out of the cave.

"What is this?" Hancock asked, looking up. "A dream?"

Redio laughed, "Just consider it a dream." He pointed upwards, "Since it's a dream, don't you want to do something?"

Hancock bit her lip and then said, "Sanda, Mary, stick close to me."

She leaped forward, kicking the floor above her into a pile of rubble. Soon, screams and shouts echoed from above the petrified hole in the floor.

Little Sanda and Little Mary were at a loss and didn't dare to talk to Redio. They sniffed and then lightly jumped onto the stone hole that their sister had broken open above them.

Chapter 56 Scars

[Chapter Introduction Series: Executive Vice President Miss Quan, Sunday 6: "So That's How It Is"]

[Robin and Olvia arrived on the island and, after making inquiries from various sources, met to summarize their findings and concluded that the local nobles, fearing that the legends of the revolutionary army would mislead the public, deliberately spread a mixture of true and false rumors.]

*******************************************************

"..."

Redio looked up at the cave, and the commotion above quickly subsided.

The Empress's Love-Love Fruit was fed to her by the Celestial Dragons while she was a slave. Therefore, she shouldn't have any Devil Fruit abilities while still on this slave ship.

The people who are brought into this "time-space mission" are not experiencing "mental travel," but rather... a form where their original body has merged into their past self?

As Redio pondered this, he leaped out of the hole in the stone floor.

He glanced at the various expressions on the stone statues of the thugs on this floor, and quickly arrived at the outermost deck through a stone hole kicked open by another empress above.

Somaz remained in a sword-drawing stance, his entire body petrified in the night.

"Sister, are you alright...?"

Little Sanda and Little Mary stood on either side of Hancock, whose arms were covered in bloody cuts from thorns, leaving her skin torn and bleeding.

"I'm alright." Hancock's face was still pale, but she gave a bleak smile as she looked at the petrified God Knight and then looked behind her as Redio walked up.

"boom"!

Redio punched Somaz's petrified chest, and through the crack, a perfectly intact steel heart could be seen, still beating powerfully.

On this steel heart, one can vaguely see new flesh and blood slowly growing, seemingly abandoning Somaz's petrified body and regenerating a new physical form...

A few minutes later, Redio and the three Boa sisters boarded a small boat and drifted on the sea.

"..."

Hancock held her two sobbing sisters in her arms and silently watched the slave ship sail away.

"Thank you, I feel much better," she said softly.

Whether you're feeling better or not isn't up to you to decide!

Redio glanced at the system's task interface, but there was no completion notification.

[Mission Requirements: Escaping the nightmarish ship with Boa Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marie Gruud, and immediately returning to the Kuja Pirates or Amazon Lily, the island of women.]

Redio didn't take the Empress directly back; he wanted to test whether the mission had a time limit, and how long "immediately" meant.

Under the starry sky, on the night sea, a cold wind blows gently, and a lone boat drifts by.

The two Boa sisters' crying gradually subsided, and they silently wiped away their tears, sobbing intermittently.

Redio, trying to make conversation, said, "I see your two sisters are quite skilled too. How did you get captured by the slave traders?"

Little Sanda and Little Mary were on the verge of tears again. Hancock patted their trembling backs and said in a somewhat unsettled voice:

"When we first set sail with the Kuja Pirates, we had never seen anyone from the outside world before, and we were curious and excited about everything... until a strange man suddenly appeared on the ship... I believed his lies and fell into his trap..."

"Isn't it ridiculous? Because our capture was so easy that no one else on the ship, not even the previous Snake Princess, realized when we disappeared... I... I'm sorry, Sanda, Mary, I'm not a good sister..."

As she said this, she bit her lip tightly, and tears streamed down her face.

“Sister…” Little Sanda and Little Mary sobbed uncontrollably, frantically wiping Hancock’s tears from her face.

……

And so, Redio held Hancock's cold, trembling hand and listened quietly as she poured out her anger, regret, self-blame, pain, and even resentment.

Before she knew it, Hancock's head rested against his chest, her tears soaking his shoulder.

About 10 minutes later, the system popped up a message: [This task failed, returning...]

-----------------

Back to the present

[The Calm Belt, Isle of Women, "Amazon Lily"]

[Nine Serpents City, Emperor's Palace]

The reverse-spinning transparent prism disappeared, and Redio appeared out of thin air, holding the Empress's hand.

Hancock stumbled and fell into his arms.

“I can’t resist you like this,” Redio laughed. “You’re so sweet and soft.”

"..."

Hancock blushed, biting her soft red lips, her thick eyelashes fluttering, and she lowered her head as she left his embrace.

She turned and walked toward the pet snake throne, which was full of question marks, when her red high heels suddenly stopped.

"Aren't you going to watch it anymore?"

The empress turned around, her cheeks flushed, "My back..."

What's so interesting about it!

Redio followed, casually lowering the pink curtains on either side.

"..."

Hancock removed the emperor's cloak and casually hung it on the head of her pet snake Salome.

Her slender, white fingers gently untied the gold brooch with floral patterns, and the waist of her red top instantly loosened.

Duang! A pair of national treasures popped out. The red dress with floral sleeves slid down to the side of her high heels.

Hancock crossed her arms, her eyes sparkling with shyness as she looked up. Seeing Redio's reaction, her expression changed drastically, and she exclaimed incredulously, "You don't like it?"

No, isn't your romantic mind starting a little too fast?

Redio composed himself and said sincerely, "I love it. But—" He pointed—no, not at this! What kind of succubus aura is this?—pointing to Hancock's arm.

Hancock looked down and discovered that she had a wound on her arm, which was covered in blood.