Pirates: From Vice Captain to Lord of the Dead

“Pfft! How is that cool!”

Reiner directly sprayed, I didn't expect you to be such a Joe Beard, looked at Chopper strangely, and said: "However, since you yearn for pirates so much, why not just go out to sea with us."

"That's right, come with us, Chopper." Luffy also invited with a smile.

The excitement on Chopper's face gradually turned into hesitation. Of course, he dreamed of becoming a pirate. Doctor Hiluluk was once a pirate, but

"I can't be a pirate." Chopper looked lost, with a hint of sadness in his eyes.

It was himself who was holding him back.

"why?"

"Stop asking." Chopper turned and ran away.

"Strange, is there anything that a pirate can't do?"

Luffy squatted on the chair like a monkey, looking at the direction where Chopper left with a puzzled look on his face.

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At this time, the door of the operating room opened. It was called an operating room, but it was actually a bedroom. After Valpo left, Kureha occupied the castle and renovated it.

"It's done. Let him lie down for a while."

Dr. Kureha clapped his hands and sat down. He picked up the wine on the table, leaned back on the sofa and took a gulp. "You two little brats, you actually tried to kidnap my pet while I was away."

"Hahaha, I've been discovered." Luffy, who was exposed, smiled indifferently.

"If you want to take him away, go ahead." Kureha didn't take it seriously, and said jokingly, "As long as you can do it."

"It sounds like you're quite happy about it." Reiner chuckled and handed the other person a cigarette.

"He always wanted to be a pirate."

"Then why not go out to sea?"

"Because he is sick, a sickness in his heart, and I can't cure it."

Looking up and blowing out a puff of smoke, Kureha closed his eyes as if recalling something, and slowly told them about Chopper's past.

“Because of his blue nose, he was rejected by his own kind since birth and has been following behind the reindeer herd all alone and unwelcome.

"Later, he ate a devil fruit by mistake and was attacked by reindeer as if he were an alien. He came to a human village covered in wounds. You have seen his appearance, and it is obvious that he was regarded as a monster.

"Humans' instinctive fear of the unknown made them unable to accept this monster, so they cursed, brandished knives, and even shot at it, in an attempt to drive it away."

Kureha seemed to be thirsty, so he took a gulp of wine and continued:

"Until that man appeared, Shilluluk, a third-rate doctor with poor medical skills, who dreamed of inventing a panacea all day long and talked about making cherry blossoms bloom in this country.

"It was just this person who redeemed this monster who was not accepted by his own kind and humans."

Kureha finished his drink, put the empty bottle on the exquisitely crafted marble table, and said with a look of disgust,

"After his adoptive father died, this kid came to pester me, saying he wanted to become a doctor who could cure all diseases. What a fool he is."

Kureha looked at the two of them seriously. "He was afraid of being hurt again, so he closed his heart and gradually even thought of himself as a monster, so..."

Kureha paused and said to the two jokingly, "Go ahead if you can do it."

"Hehehe, I've decided."

Luffy grinned, "I must make him our partner!"

"It's fitting, since our ship is full of monsters."

Reiner chuckled and stood up, rolling up his dark blue sleeves, "Let's go Luffy, I can't wait."

"Hehehe, the battle to capture Chopper begins!" Luffy shouted excitedly and rushed out first.

"Two idiots!"

Looking at the two people running away, Dr. Kureha spat and opened another bottle of wine. He really didn't know how they lived to be over a hundred years old.

"Idiots just attract each other."

His body slumped back into the soft sofa backrest, Kureha looked up at the ceiling in a daze, with a look of loss in his eyes.

"Are you leaving, Chopper?"

Chapter 38 Cherry Blossom Rain

Boom!Boom!Boom!

After knocking on Chopper's door, Reiner and the other man stood at the door waiting for each other's response.

Inside the room, apart from a bed in the corner and a wooden bookshelf filled with books, the other walls were lined with tables filled with a variety of medical supplies.

Hearing the knock on the door, Chopper, who was standing on the chair, hesitated for a moment, then jumped down to open the door.

Creak~

Chopper's eyes widened, "Do you have anything else to say?"

"Hee hee hee."

Luffy grabbed Chopper's two antlers and lifted him up, saying with a smile: "Chopper, come with us, don't you also want to be a pirate and go on adventures?"

"No, although I really want to go to sea."

Chopper did not resist, but said with a disappointed look, "I am very grateful that you invited me, but, but..."

The voice gradually became intermittent, and Chopper's mind flashed through past memories, repeated denials, and repeated cold stares.

However, Luffy said:

"There aren't that many buts. Pirates are very free."

"What do you know, human!"

Chopper yelled and slapped Luffy's hand away, his expression gradually becoming ugly.

"You haven't experienced what I've been through! How can you say it's so easy?

"I clearly... I clearly did nothing wrong! Why am I being abandoned by my own kind!

“Why should I be hurt by humans!

"I'm a monster! Look, I have a blue nose, and I talk and walk like a human, but I have hoofs on my hands!"

He spread out his hands, tears welling up in his round eyes, which kept falling down the fur on his face. He held the brim of his hat with his hands to push it down, lowered his head and sobbed softly:

"I don't look like a reindeer, and I don't look like a human being at all,

"I don't even look like a pirate,

"How can a monster like me be friends with humans..."

The room was silent. Luffy put away his playful smile and walked forward and said seriously:

"I'm sorry, Chopper...

"I really don't have such experience, it's hard for me to empathize with you.

"But look! I'm a monster too, Chopper."

"Monsters can be pirates too. They don't have to care what others say. Pirates are so free, right Reiner?"

Luffy said as he laughed playfully, stretching his cheeks out.

Reiner also transformed into a beast form and said with a smile:

"Ah, monsters are most welcome on our ship."

As a result, Chopper, who was originally crying, was shocked when he saw this.

"Monster!!!"

Looking at the two people in front of him, Chopper's eyes popped out, his jaw dropped to the ground and he let out a scream, his short legs spinning like a hot wheel as he rushed out.

"Help, Doctor Doriel!!!"

Reiner: “…”

Are you polite?

"Hee hee hee."

The two men grabbed a deer antler in each hand and lifted up Chopper who was about to run away.

"So, come and be our partner, Chopper." The two said in unison.

Chopper gave up struggling after a while and turned to look at the two people. He found that their serious eyes were exactly the same as those of Dr. Hiruluk back then.

As if to confirm, or as if to seek approval, Chopper whispered:

"Are you really willing to accept me?"

"Of course, don't ask such questions again, Chopper."

Reiner retracted his transformation, picked up Chopper and let him sit on his shoulders, with his hands resting on his golden hair.

"Come on, let's go talk to Dr. Kureha."

Outside the castle, three people sat cross-legged in the snow, Reiner was staring at the sky with a cigarette in his mouth, bored.

Chopper wanted to say goodbye to Dr. Kureha and pack up his things. After picking up Zoro, the two of them came out.

Next, we will go to Alabasta. I have about ten seastone bullets, two pairs of seastone handcuffs, and the blue and red armed demons.

It shouldn't flip over, right? Reiner thought.

"So while I was unconscious, this raccoon cat became our partner?" Zoro turned his head and pointed at the petite figure walking out of the castle.

"I'm a reindeer, bastard!" Chopper yelled with his teeth bared.

"Well, it doesn't matter. You are a doctor anyway, right?"

Picking up the three long swords on the ground, Zoro stood up and bent over to look at Chopper, "Indeed, it would be much more reliable to have a ship doctor on board."

Upon hearing this, Chopper's expression immediately changed, and he twisted his butt shyly:

"Hate it~, even if you say I'm a doctor I won't be happy~"

"What a strange guy, he changes so quickly."