One Piece: The user of the Nen-Nen Fruit, who overturned the sea.

Swallow Fruit.

In the original work, Wapol developed this fruit into a low-level use of eating iron to replenish iron and eating stones to replenish stones, which was a complete waste of a top-level fruit.

The true value of the Gluttony Fruit lies in "fusion" and "transformation"—

If one can absorb Seastone and integrate the Seastone factor into oneself, the Devil Fruit user can gain the hardness of Seastone while retaining the Devil Fruit's power.

If one can devour various rare metals and minerals, their physical strength can be increased indefinitely.

The potential of this fruit depends on the user's imagination and resources.

Roy instructed Tesoro to put the Swallow-Swallow Fruit into his storage bag, placing it together with the Giant Pulse Dragonfly Fruit.

Leaving Beehive Island, these two fruits alone made the trip worthwhile.

Moreover, he also gained the ability to control the Op-Op Fruit.

Lafayette walked up to Walpo, stared into his eyes, and began hypnotizing him.

"Starting tomorrow, the 'Doctor Hunting' Act will be repealed. The persecution of doctors will cease."

All the exiled doctors were recalled.

Valpo nodded blankly.

"Forget about tonight. You slept soundly tonight and know nothing."

Valpo nodded again.

The three of them left the palace silently, just as they had arrived.

The next morning, in the village of Big Horn.

A notice bearing the royal seal was posted on the bulletin board at the village entrance.

"Effective immediately, the 'Hunting Doctors' Act is hereby repealed. All exiled doctors are to be recalled immediately and their medical licenses restored."

The confiscated clinics and medical equipment must be returned within a specified period.

The villagers gathered in front of the bulletin board, unable to believe their eyes.

"Really?"

"King Valpo...revoked the decree?"

"Impossible, right? Are they up to something again?"

But the royal seal on the notice is genuine, and the signature is also genuine.

Moreover, the patrol team had already withdrawn long ago, and all the soldiers who usually swaggered around the village were nowhere to be seen.

At noon, the first exiled doctor returned to Big Horn Village.

He was an old man in his sixties who was exiled to the uninhabited area at the northern end of Cigu Island and survived for more than half a year by eating snow and digging up grass roots.

He stood at the village entrance, looking at the notice, tears streaming down his face.

The villagers finally believed it.

The cheers started in Big Horn Village and quickly spread to Cocowitt, Kestar... the entire Drum Island was engulfed in revelry.

Meanwhile, in the castle atop Drum Mountain, Gureha stood by the window.

Looking at the faint cheers coming from the foot of the mountain, I took a sip of plum wine.

"This kid's got some skills."

She turned around and looked at Luo, who was engrossed in his studies.

"Hey kid, stop slacking off! Have you finished memorizing Chapter Three?"

Luo didn't even look up: "I've finished reciting it."

"What about Chapter Four?"

"...I'm memorizing it now."

"Too slow! The old woman memorized this medical book in just three days!"

Luo looked up at her, his face expressionless. "Didn't you say it took a month?"

Kureha was taken aback, then angrily smashed a bottle over his head: "Shut up! Go back to your book!"

Luo lowered his head, and a very faint smile unconsciously appeared at the corner of his mouth.

......................

For the next month, Luo lived a hellish life.

Every day before dawn, Guleha would drag me out of bed, force me to drink a bowl of medicine soup so bitter it made me question my existence, and then I would start memorizing.

Medical books, pathology, toxicology, anatomy—one after another, Gureha's most treasured medical books were piled up in front of him.

Luo's platinum lead poisoning meant he never had a proper schooling as a child, and he was taught to read by Rosinante.

It's easy to imagine how difficult it would be for him to finish reading so many professional medical books in a short period of time.

But Luo didn't complain at all.

He only sleeps four hours a day, spending the rest of his time reading.

If he didn't understand any technical terms, he would ask Kureha. Although Kureha would grumble and complain, she would always explain things clearly to him.

After explaining, he would add, "You don't even understand something this simple? You're so stupid."

Luo is used to it.

He discovered that the more fiercely the old woman scolded people, the more earnestly she taught.

Yamato volunteered to stay behind to "protect Ra".

In reality, all she did every day was roll around in the snow and steal Kureha's plum wine.

After Kureha discovered this, she chased after Yamato with various weapons and attacked half of the castle, but in the end she acquiesced—because Yamato helped her chop firewood for an entire wall.

The peas were also left behind.

Every day, he squatted in every corner of the castle planting flowers—a row of sunflowers on the windowsill, a few luminous moss plants by the fireplace, and even a few cloud grass seeds stuffed into the cracks of Gureha's medicine cabinet.

Gureha scolded her for "treating an old woman's castle like a flower garden," but she didn't actually stop her.

After those flowers and plants grew, the castle did indeed become more lively.

Savi, Bar, and Bages practiced sparring in the snow in front of the castle every day.

All three fighters had a head-on, brutal fighting style, their punches landing squarely and leaving the snow pockmarked and uneven.

Kureha initially found them too noisy, but later she would sit by the window every day with a glass of wine in hand, watching them fight, and occasionally offering her comments:

"Hey big guy, you're not very stable!" "Hey white-haired one, your left punch is a beat slower than your right!"

Savi, Barr, and Barrett were initially unconvinced, but later they realized that the old woman was absolutely right, so they listened obediently.

Kazami sat alone atop the castle tower, gazing blankly at the snowstorm. He had become even more silent since returning from the small garden.

He draws and sheathes his sword more often than he eats. Sometimes he sits on the tower for an entire day, motionless, like a statue in the snow.

Enel floated in mid-air, his Observation Haki covering the entire island, acting as a sentinel.

He claimed he was "protecting you weaklings," but in reality, he was craving Gureha's plum wine. However, he was too embarrassed to sneak a sip like Yamato did, so he just floated in the sky, sulking.

Tesoro and Lafayette guarded the outer perimeter of the castle.

Although Wapol was hypnotized, no one can guarantee that nothing unexpected will happen.

Roy used this time to search the entire Drum Island.

He traveled to several major villages, including Big Horn Village, Kokowet, and Kesda, and even ventured deep into the uninhabited areas of the Cigu Mountains.

With his Observation Haki fully activated and his mental energy spread out, he searched for any possible trace of aura.

reindeer.

Blue nose.

Human Fruit.

But no matter how hard he searched, he couldn't sense anything that met the criteria.

Roy stood atop Drum Mountain, gazing at the swirling snowflakes, and sighed inwardly.

Is it too early?

In the original story, Luffy arrives at Drum Island several years later, by which time Chopper has already started learning medicine from Gureha.

At this moment, the reindeer that would later become the "Straw Hat Crew's doctor" is probably still an ordinary fawn, or even hasn't been born yet.

Roy did not insist on this.

A month later.

Luo's treatment has ended under Kureha's guidance.

He stood in the castle hall and took off his shirt.

The white patches on my chest, arms, and back have all disappeared.

The skin returned to its normal color, no longer that sickly pale white, but with a healthy flush.

Kureha circled him twice, examined his eyelids, took his pulse, and finally nodded in satisfaction.