One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Like a mad tiger, Rorschach clenched his five fingers that had dug into Old Jerry's eye sockets. With a sickening cracking sound, Old Jerry's face was torn to pieces, and the body slipped from Rorschach's grasp, crashing heavily to the ground.

Bang bang bang!

The deafening gunfire finally erupted after the pirates frantically loaded their gunpowder.

The iron bullet, carrying a pungent smell of gunpowder, grazed past Rorschach without hitting him.

In the short distance of twenty meters, the short-handled flintlock pistols in the hands of the pirates were like intimidating toys, with the bullets they fired having an almost zero hit rate.

Only other pirates wielding sharp weapons posed a true deadly threat to Rorschach.

Rorschach, his stomach rumbling with hunger and the world before him a blood-red blur, had already exhausted himself just standing there.

Not to mention, they also had to face more than a dozen vicious and bloodthirsty pirates.

Unable to dodge in time, his tall body was struck by four or five blunt knives, and waves of pain pierced his heart, causing him to sway a few times.

It hurts.

But compared to the beatings he suffered from his gambling-addicted father in his previous life, and compared to the grief he felt at this moment, it was nothing.

...

Rorschach was not originally from this world.

He had a dark and unpleasant childhood in his previous life.

A father addicted to gambling drags his already modest family into an abyss.

Her mother couldn't bear it any longer and divorced her, leaving her to live with her father.

The father who won money was very generous, kind, and gentle.

He would take Rorschach to the amusement park and to a hot pot buffet.

But when he lost money, Rorschach's nightmare began.

The father vented all his anger on him—beatings, insults, hysteria, and blaming others.

This caused young Rorschach to develop severe depression at a very young age, closing himself off and rejecting any warmth.

From then on, he fell in love with reading novels, watching anime, and playing games.

His academic performance plummeted as a result.

When the homeroom teacher approached Luo Xia's father to find out what was going on, Luo Xia was repeatedly beaten.

Finally, on a bright morning, Rorschach became a free bird, flapping his wings and leaving that so-called home.

When Luo Xia opened his eyes again, he saw two elderly people leaning on each other, their faces full of loving smiles, and he saw himself in swaddling clothes, as an infant.

Old John and his wife had their son late in life, and they doted on him and cared for him dearly.

Rorschach finally felt that true human warmth.

During the day, Old John would go out to sea to fish, while Mrs. Elizabeth would stay home to take care of the hard-won new life, weaving bamboo baskets and winnowing trays to exchange for surplus grain with other villagers to supplement the family income.

Life was ordinary, but it was exactly what Rorschach had always dreamed of.

Rorschach's birth placed a huge burden on the already strained and impoverished life of old John's family.

For some reason, Rorschach had an amazing appetite from birth, and his growth and development rate was several times higher than that of his peers.

The main occupation of the people living in Hongye Village is fishing at sea.

There was no other choice.

This small island is resource-poor and has infertile land, so even if seeds are planted, it is difficult to harvest much food.

Due to poor maritime transportation, it was common to go months without seeing a single merchant ship.

The impoverished Red Leaf Village has no special products; it's like an isolated island, drifting alone outside the world.

Ironically, even on such an isolated island, tax collectors from the Kingdom of Lubnilu still come on time every year to collect taxes and exorbitant sums of heavenly gold.

The immense pressure to survive forced the elderly John and his wife to live frugally and work increasingly hard.

Despite such difficult circumstances, Rorschach maintained an optimistic and positive attitude.

One reason is that he truly experienced the warmth of family affection.

Another very important reason is that when he grew up a bit, he finally learned from the most knowledgeable village chief what kind of world he lived in.

This is the world of One Piece!

It was the world of anime that he loved most in his past life.

Rorschach's love for One Piece is so deep that it's ingrained in his very being.

He can accurately recite the name, origin, appearance time, and Devil Fruit ability of every character in the manga.

During the period when he was suffering from severe depression, it was the passionate and touching anime One Piece that helped him get through the most difficult time of his life.

Upon learning this news, Luo Xia was overjoyed, feeling that his life was complete.

They have loving parents, and they yearn for the vast ocean and distant horizons.

He had even already thought about his future plans.

He wants to start training from a young age, strengthen himself, earn a lot of money, and let his parents live a life free from financial worries.

I want to go to the East Blue to find my favorite Luffy, Zoro, Sanji and others, and shamelessly join their pirate crew to see the magnificent sea.

Perhaps one day in the future, I will be able to meet and fight those powerful beings on the high seas.

He even felt that his body, which was much taller than his peers, might contain unknown and mysterious power that could help him step onto the world stage someday.

All these fantasies were gradually shattered three years ago when his mother, Ms. Elizabeth, died from a common cold.

He couldn't understand how his mother could be taken away by a common cold.

Aren't the people in the world of One Piece all physically as strong as monsters?

The harsh reality followed one after another, allowing Rorschach to experience the true face of this world.

As he got older, his appetite became increasingly outrageous.

The food was enough for ten people, but Rorschach ate it as if he hadn't eaten anything at all.

His stomach was like a bottomless pit; no matter how much he ate, he still felt unbearably hungry.

At the same time, his height increased rapidly, reaching an astonishing 2.3 meters at just twelve years old.

Because of his insatiable stomach, he suffered from severe malnutrition, which caused his hair to turn pale and his body to become emaciated. Apart from his large bones and joints, he was practically just skin and bones.

Rorschach, in this state, couldn't even complete the simple task of helping his father cast and retrieve the net.

He became a useless person, spending his days at home waiting for his father to return from fishing and fill his stomach with 99% of the catch.

Old John, having lost his wife, grew increasingly old.

Every time Luo Xia saw him return from fishing, looking exhausted, but his face would light up with a loving smile the moment he stepped through the door, tears would stream down his face uncontrollably.

Rorschach hated his own incompetence.

He considered ending it all, ending his own life again, and sparing the poor old man.

That day, after watching old John's figure disappear from the door of the cabin, Rorschach sat there for a long time, then pulled out a rusty harpoon from behind the door.

To his surprise, just as he was about to plunge the harpoon into his throat, Old John, who was always busy all day, returned unexpectedly.

That day was the first time Rorschach had been beaten since he came into this world. His father, Old John, beat him for a full half hour with red eyes.

After the beating, old John, with tears in his eyes, said to him, "My child, you must remember that your coming into this world did not harm me, but saved me and Elizabeth. No matter what happens in the future, even if I leave one day, you must live strong and live a better life than us. Your life has not yet begun; your life is meaningful!"

Since then, Rorschach has pulled himself together and has begun to do everything he can for his family.

He stopped fantasizing about those unrealistic and illusory things.

When old John went out to sea to fish, Rorschach would carry a bamboo basket woven by his mother and collect seashells and small fish left behind on the beach after the tide receded.

He also learned how to weave the small seashells he found into exquisite bracelets and necklaces.

Luo Xia put aside his former shyness as a modern person, took the woven bracelets, and traded them with the village aunties and grandmas for some unpalatable black bread or fish and shrimp.

He still remembers the first time he brought home the black bread he had traded for, and when he handed it to old John, old John burst into tears, crying like a child.

“My child has grown up and will surely be a great man. Elizabeth will be proud of you,” Old John said with a gratified smile, stroking his head.

And then, today arrived.

Old John was feeling unwell and Rorschach forced him to stay home, preventing him from going out fishing.

I went out early in the morning to the beach to collect seashells and fish.

Today's haul was quite good; Rorschach even found a crab the size of a wooden basin.

He was overjoyed and was already planning how to use the big crab, along with the remaining salted fish at home and the black bread he had traded for, to stew a delicious dinner.

Then......

He then saw the burning village, the sky illuminated by the firelight turning it blood red.

When he ran back in a daze, he saw that the familiar wooden house had been reduced to ruins.

Old John clutched the piece of black bread he had traded for yesterday tightly in his hand, letting the flames scorch his body as he desperately curled up, protecting the insignificant piece of black bread in his arms.

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scoff!

The blade cut into the withered skin, but was then blocked by the hard bone, unable to go any further.

The pirates who were attacking Rorschach with sinister smiles on their faces gradually discovered a fact that terrified them.

That is, no matter how they chopped at it, the skeleton in front of them stood there without saying a word.

No screams!

No retreating!

There was no crying or begging for mercy!

He stood there, his body stained with blood, the tragic aura emanating from him growing stronger and stronger, like a demon crawling out of hell.

Finally, one of the pirates couldn't help but let out a terrified scream, dropped the blunt sword he was wielding, and turned to run away.

The pirates believed that it was definitely not human!