West Blue, Malbrook Island, 1515
In a small dimly lit wooden room, a boy, maybe 13 or 15 y.o, with a thin body full of bandage could be seen. The boy who just wake up starting to observe his surroundings with his golden-yellow eyes, a wooden bed and a worn out table on its right. A wardrobe and a bag could be seen in the corner of the room. A wooden floor with some speck of blood that look like somebody trying to clean up. He looks like still in trance, he keep looking his surroundings to make him remember where he is. Then he look at the wardrobe mirror in the room, but what he see it's not the one he use to see. With black medium hair, sunken cheeks, thin bandaged body and golden eyes who looks like shinning in the dimly lit room. He was sure that this is not him, his eyebrows jumping and a twitch could be seen in his temple as he shut his eyes with all his power and thin sweat running down his forehead.
"ARRRRGGGHHHHH" the boy shout with his right hand holding his temple. His body shaking, he gritted his teeth, shut his eyes and his left hand holding his bed railing with all his power could muster. The pain come and go as fast as it could but for the boy, it looks like hours of torture. With huff, sweat running down all over his body, he no longer shaking but what greet him is fatigue stronger than he ever felt, he close his eyes and his body limped and he lost consciousness ... again.
The boy shout alerted other house occupants and an old man come in, wearing a white ¾ shirt with 3 button and black pants, with a ruffled grey hair, he taking his medical bag in the corner of the room and start checking the boy bandage and wounds. It's was miracle that with this kind of wound, the boy could still screaming so loud. The old man, who has robust body, short grey hair and a scar that could be seen destroying half of his face from left eyebrows to left upper lips, chuckle and continue whatever he doing.
While the old man start dressing the wound and replace the old bandage, a new footsteps could be heard in corridors. With a black hair in ponytail, a thick glasses, a thin lips and slim body covered in a pink-criminal T-shirt and a short hot pants, a lady in her 17-18 entering the small wooden room.
"How is he, uncle Jean? Why he screaming so loud? You think he will die?" the lady ask the old man, making the old man twitch a little.
"You should think something more positive a little, Lily. This is why the villager don't get close to you. And no, I don't think he will die" the old man said after reprimand Lily questions.
"Who cares about them stupid villager" Lily whispered but it looks like the Old man Jean heard it. "And then why he suddenly screaming in the middle of the night if not a reapers take his soul while he is in a comma?" continue Lily, like she was stating the truth to Old man Jean with one raised eyebrows.
"Stop looking at me like that young lady, I might be ex-marine but I'm no doctors. Maybe it's just a nightmare, we both know why he became like this, so off we go, back to your bed young lady we have a store to open tomorrow" the old man Jean said while starting to putting back all his medical equipment and walking out.
"Tomorrow? Maybe what you mean is, today" Lily said with smile while following old man Jean and old man Jean only rolling his eyes for answering her.
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In the dark room, the boy looking at a square light that showing a memory of Mance Raida, the real owner of this body. He saw it in first person perspective from Raida still a baby till a cannonball blasting his body to the sea. Yes, a cannonball. Mance Raida was a fisherman son who doesn't like to fish, actually he was afraid of Sea king but he can't say it to his father because he didn't want to disappoint his father. Since he is 4 or younger, he living with only his father, Mance Windu, because his mother, Theressa, died of excessive bleeding when delivering baby Raida. That why his father always trying to make his time together, bonding, that was his father said.
Mance Windu, dead when Raida was 10 y.o. At that time there was a pirate raid to their home in Greim village, Dartlam island, West Blue. Around hundred miles of East O'Hara. Although it's already 8 years after the great pirate started by the great demon Gold Roger, the villager still caught off guard and butchered by the pirate. Raida already forget about their pirate name, it's been 6 years after all. But in this dark space, the boy know, The Sword Hand Pirate, with rookie captain Rhodes with 2.000.000 beli bounty. A rookie captain came to a village and the village gone. The boy keep watching Raida memories, how his father wanted him to run, how other villager shove him, make him fall so he can slowing down the pirate who chase them, how he survived, and start wandering to other village, have a job at the port for few years until one day, a merchant acquaintance of him offering him a job. Raida agrees and start working for few months until that day came, the same pirate group, Sword hand pirate came and tried to hijack the merchant ship who going to Ballywood. Long story short, they succeed and after they got the gold, wood and other stuff, then they start shooting down the merchant ship with their cannons. A wild cannonball, or intentional, go straight to Raida and he was blown away and fall to the ocean.
After all that memories, the boy, start to wake up again, only to see the same wooden ceiling in dimly lit room.
"Rest in peace, I'll take your place and I promise you I will get your revenge. From now on, I'll be Mance Raida. I'll live and survive. We will live and survive" the bo- no, Raida whisper to himself, and after that he feel his body and mind getting lighter and more comfortable. Raida is shocked, 'is that your last will?' Raida thought to himself, he didn't want to believe it but then again, everything what happened to him up until know is something impossible.
"Thank you for believe in me, and don't worry, I won't go back to my word" Raida continue whisper to himself. And after that, will all that fatigue, Raida closed his eyes and rest for the night.
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Morning come and the sunlight enter the window beside Raida bed and slowly wake him up. Opening his eyes, Raida once again observing the room to make sure that everything that happened last night isn't a dream. It's real. He who used to be a normal civilian who work 9 to 5, he who live monthly using his tiny salary, transported or isekai-ed to pirate world. Yes, he's been thinking, after receiving former Raida he 100% sure that this is Pirate world. "I mean who else using pirate, devil fruit and unique bounty system if isn't pirate world?"
After that self monologue, he try to wake up from the bed and try is the keywords, because his whole body starts aching. He gritted his teeth and try to hold back his tears in corner of his eyes.
"Ahhhhh holy bell, I know from the memories that he get hit by cannonball but who know it will be this hurt. I don't know how Luffy or other characters can just shrugged a mortal wound like it's nothing. Curse you God (Oda) for thy lies!" Raida said between his teeth, a lot of sweat start pouring down on his body making his moist bandage wetter.
"I would be stay in bed if I were you" another voice heard inside the wooden room. Surprising Raida.
"Whoa, where the bell are you come from?" Raida said while holding his beating chest. Surprised by a grey haired old man who suddenly appear beside his bed while leaning in wooden wall.
"fuuuuu nasty wound you got there" continue Raida after seeing the old man wound.
"Says the bloody mummy teenager who keep whining the whole night" quipped another feminine voice from across the hall with the Old man only smiling for his own answer.
"ack .. alright sorry and thanks for fix me up. I owe you one old man" Raida said with a tone full of gratitude while bowing to the old man.
"Don't mentioned it. Me no doctors, so we still need to drop you in Doctor Corvus place. I'm Jean btw and that young brat is Lily" The old man Jean said dismissing Raida debt with wave of his hand while pointing the room next door with his right hand.
"We? I think I can go alone Mr Jean. I don't want to trouble you" 'does he do it on purpose or he is know mantra?' Raida said while having his own doubt.
"Nonsense, with your body you can't even stand. Just accept it, accepting other people kindness doesn't make you look weak, you know that right?" Said Old man Jean with a little smile.
Raida on the other hand doesn't really like this kind of kindness, he's in pirate world after all, who know that after all this over, this old man gonna sell his young body to slaver or make him accept an unfair contact. After all, It's never wrong to always careful.
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Now, What should Raida do?
Choice 1 : Stay and accept Mr. Jean help.
(Go to chapter 2)
Choice 2 : Politely declined Mr. Jean help and go to Doctor Corvus by himself.
(Go to chapter 3)