Chapter 3 -

I wake up to find that my arms and legs were tied with chains that hung from the ceiling and floor.

Once I realized I started panicking and thrashing about, trying my hardest to break free from the chains, but that proved to be futile.

I found that I was in an extremely dark room. There was no light to be found at all, anywhere.

my heart seemed to beat a thousand miles per hour.

I tried to listen for any sort of sound but, I found that the silence was deafening. It was so quiet in fact, that I could hear my blood pumping throughout my body it sounds like I was standing inside a river.

Moments later just as I started to calm down a little, I heard someone open a door.

I tried to say something but found that there was a piece of tape over my mouth keeping me from speaking.

I listened as someone walked closer and closer towards me. My heartbeat seemed to get louder and faster with every step I heard.

After a moment the footsteps stopped. I then slightly calmed down.

*WHAP*

I leaned forward in pain as he just felt something hard to throw itself into my stomach.

If I didn't have tape over my mouth I was sure I would have coughed up blood from how hard I got hit.

I then heard a voice speak to me.

"&@%#$¢¥¢ £¥£¥¢ #%@!" The voice screamed out before slamming the same object into my stomach again causing me to groan loudly through the tape on my mouth.

I was able to identify that the voice came from a female after I regained my composure.

All of the sudden, I got blinded by extremely bright lights being shined right at me.

The lights allowed the female to see my full body.

I looked down away from the lights and saw that my jacket and shirt were gone, leaving me bearskin exposed.

"Sh#t! At least it's a woman this time..."

I might not understand what she's saying, but I could guess why she's so furious. It's probably because of the devil fruit that I ate.

All of the sudden, the women spun her body and waited for a while. Just as I was about to say something, I hear footsteps.

It came closer and closer. I began to imagine the worst-case scenario, which was me getting tortured and then finally killed.

Finally, the silhouette entered my line of sight.

It is a group of people that all wear the same kind of white robe that resembles a spacesuit with a skirt. The Male ones seem to have a different style of collar than female ones.

Other than that they all wear an oxygen tank.

Most of them are notably overweight, if not outright obese. they all have a rather haughty, if not arrogant, look on their face, showing neither pity nor sympathy.

Just from that one glance, I already knew who they were. They are the world nobles A.K.A The Celestial Dragons!

But how did Pirates even know the celestial dragons? Maybe....No that can't be... Then...

Oh-well it doesn't make a difference how, for all I know, It could be the doing of the entity that brought me here.

I just watch the women trying to sell me to the celestial dragons and additional nobles. It was getting louder and louder.

I don't see why someone would want to buy me. The child-like body that I have isn't much, my looks are just slightly above average. And lastly, I'm not useful at all.

I'm just a grown-ass adult in the body of 4 years old, but of course, they don't know that yet and I plan to keep that as a secret.

My thought was put to a halt as all of a sudden the women next to me yelled something. The women then released me from the restraints and handcuffed me.

I didn't try to escape or anything, because that would just get me killed. I can see that everyone here has a weapon.

I felt myself getting weaker as if something was draining my none existent strength. Then, the women jerked me towards her. I stumbled from that.

She then carried me away.

I was dragged into another space. Afterwards, I lost conscious!

...

Once I awoke, I almost instantly spring upright and staggered away from my previous position.

I analyse the surrounding and concluded that I was safe.

I am currently in a cage with a couple of other children. They're currently staring at me. I smile brightly to show that I wasn't an adversary.

I just sat down next to the nearest child. She didn't say anything so I assumed she didn't mind so I just sat down.

"#%@$@&@%@." I fix my gaze on the child who spoke. It was a boy with a quite the handsome face. Compared to the other kids in the cage, the clothes he wore were clean.

The cage is small, but he still somehow managed to occupy a space of his own. Now, he's playing with a stick.

I couldn't understand what he was saying, but guessing from his behaviour, I thought that he would be a stable child. furthermore, I need someone to be on my side when everything hits-the-fan.

I slowly began moving toward him. He noticed my advance but didn't do anything to stop me.

I slumped down next to him at a safe distance.

"What's up, man?"

"...."

And that's where our conversation ended. He slowly crawled away and didn't break eye contact while doing so.

meanwhile, the other children that saw the situation giggled slightly before their expression turned ice-cold for a child.

Most of 'em lost the will to even want to survive.

Then, there is this one kid. He would keep silent for a while, and then suddenly start babbling.

He would scare the smaller kids to the point they would sob. He even made an abundance of various expressions and gestures to match his babbling.

He would not stop until a child at the age of eight or nine cried out. Then he would take a short breath out of satisfaction.

The atmosphere of the cage became more and more depressing, as the kid that was scaring the little ones was given a beaten by the guard until he stopped breathing.

They smashed his backbone and his corpse was taken somewhere. I could only guess what they'd do to that corpse.