(Vol 3) CHAPTER - 12 { Unintentional Kills }

The creature that walked in, was actually a blue-nosed reindeer.

It wore a hat on its head and carried a bag on the back which looked quite full.

Looking at the room full of people, the reindeer became nervous but didn't let it on his face.

"What is it? Why is it wearing a hat!"

Luffy immediately jumped near the reindeer making it startled.

"Luffy, that's a reindeer and with a blue nose."

Usopp came next to Luffy and inspected the reindeer like an exhibition thing.

"Is it tasty?"

Suddenly, Zoro voiced out making the reindeer show some fear in its eyes.

"Well, a reindeer can obviously be eaten after all it's meat."

Usopp explained, Zoro nodded his head while Luffy started looking at the reindeer with a star in his eyes.

"Meat?!"

Luffy had a river flowing down his wide open mouth as his eyes roamed around the reindeer's body.

"Tony, are you back?"

From another room, an old voice belonging to the hunchbacked old man.

"Yes, doctor Kurai."

The reindeer, Tony Tony Chopper or simply Chopper answered.

"Ahh! It can speak! Just like Goof!"

Luffy stared at Chopper as he held Usopp like a pillar.

"A zoan devil fruit user!"

Usopp already learned about the different types of devil fruit in the sea.

Paramecia, which offers a vast array of strange abilities.

Logia, which grants the users the power to become and control natural elements and.

Zoan, which allows the users to transform into animals or animal hybrids.

There's also the special paramecia and a few variations of zoan devil fruits.

"Help me get her to the bedroom."

The old man, named Kurai, walked out of the bedroom and pointed at Nami.

"Okay."

Zoro placed his three swords on the side and carried Nami in a princess carry to the bedroom.

All the heavy lifting work was handed to Zoro.

Closing the door to the bedroom, Chopper and Doctor Kurai first changed Nami's clothes.

Then they washed her body with a wet towel to clear off all the sweat.

The disease that Nami caught wasn't normal. There is a reason for this disease to be called the Five-Day Disease.

The tick with the name Kestia is responsible for the Five-Day Disease.

It inhabits tropical islands and existed in prehistoric times.

Therefore, it is a rare animal thought to be extinct that exists in Little Garden due to the island's ancient fauna.

As the Little Garden was the place which was visited the last by the Straw hat Pirates, Nami should have gotten the disease there.

The disease appears not to be transmissible from human to human.

Luffy, Zoro and Usopp waited patiently for the doctor and Chopper to do their work.

After a few hours, Doctor Kurai stepped out of the bedroom with a tired face.

"Fuu… the treatment is done. She will need a few days to completely heal."

He pushed Usopp away from the couch as he placed his butt there.

"Really! Thank you, old man!"

Luffy with a smile, shook Kurai's hands. Zoro also nodded his satisfaction, only Usopp was sad that he was thrown off from his seat.

"But you all should be worried. Kitta will not let you all leave out of here alive."

Kurai said with pure seriousness in his voice. He stared at the young man with a straw hat.

"Don't worry old man. We will immediately escape after Nami has healed perfectly. By the way, what can we do to repay you? Will money work?"

Asked Luffy, he pulled out a few bundles of green notes from his pocket.

Zoro also did the same but he not only had money, he even brought gold coins.

Usopp also didn't know the exact price of the treatment as Nami's situation was very serious.

He took out a bag from inside the bag he carried which contained lots of loot.

The old man Kurai looked at the money and gold before him with a stunned expression.

It was his first time in life to see this much money and gold all together.

But then he remembered something which caused him to shake his head.

"I don't need it."

Kurai replied, this time it was Luffy and the group to be surprised.

"Then what do you need, old man?"

Usopp asked. He put the bag of loot inside the big bag.

Zoro and Luffy also tilted their heads at Kurai because they didn't understand him.

"As you all see, I am too old now. If money could buy more life, I would have been an immortal."

Kurai stood up and walked to the window in the living room. Usopp immediately took his seat back.

A small figure with a hat on his head, Chopper, hid behind the bedroom door as he overheard their conversation.

Well, all of his body was exposed as he hid in a wrong and completely opposite position.

"Could you take Tony away from this place? His future is bright, but definitely not here."

Without turning back, Kurai said. Behind him, the four people were frozen.

Three were frozen because they didn't expect the doctor to make them take away his assistant.

And one frozen because he also didn't expect that from the doctor.

"There's blood, pain, grief, unhappiness, misfortune and deaths here. That's the only thing I can see. Tony is a first class doctor, but he can't spread a name for him as he is in hiding. Hiding from those Devil's Pirates."

Kurai turned back, he looked at Chopper who was standing beside the door to the bedroom.

"Tony, remember her words. You must keep her alive. Let the world know that there's a doctor who is going to cure every disease in the world."

"Doctor Tony Tony Chopper, the greatest doctor in the world! I would love to read this in the news headline."

"She would have loved to."

Kurai smiled at Chopper and headed to the kitchen to eat a meal.

Luffy stared at the back of Kurai and then glanced towards Chopper.

Their crew really needed a doctor, but forcing one wasn't their style.

Chopper lowered his head, to hide the fact that he was crying.

What Kurai said was true. The last words of the two mentors he came across.

Dr. Kureha and Hiriluk.

Was for him to live the life he wanted. And what Chopper wants to become is the best doctor in the world who can cure any disease.

But unfortunately, Dr. Kureha and Hiriluk will never be able to see him be so.

Because they both died. Killed by him is what Chopper believes.

One was indirectly poisoned by him a few years ago.

The other one died to save him from the Devil's Pirates not long.

And now, he is living with the only son of Dr. Kureha, Dr. Kurai.