A Mysterious Seal

While Bryan was informing Masterson and Zoro of what had happened, Miss lemonade and Mr. Merchant heeded Bryan's command.

After leaving his office, they went to their floors and sub-department and commanded their agents to shut down all the operations. (A.N: The Illegal Department is divided into many sub-departments. Miss lemonade and Mr. Merchant are the head of the Narcotic and Human trafficking sub-departments)

The Illegal departments were in disarray and uproar as they couldn't understand what was transpiring. First, their Department Head, LittleFinger was imprisoned after talking with Mr.Mountain.

And now, Before the buzz died down, Miss Lemonade and Mr. Merchant, after returning from Mr.Mountain's office, started to order them to throw away all Illegal substances and to either imprison or sell all of their untrained slaves, and it didn't end there.

No, no, no. Afterwards, they ordered an immediate shutdown of all the drug labs and reformation centers and dismantled and cleaned them so thoroughly that no traces of them ever existed.

Under Eastormel Fort, In the second floor, Floor of production.

(A.N: I forget to explain in the past the first floor is the warehouse. Where they place the finished products, and the second floor is where they manufacture or train the products, Drugs, slaves, and weapons. So they are dubbed the Floor of the repository and the Floor of production.)

Three agents came out of the many drug Labs carrying boxes. Two males, one female. While walking, they started to chat.

"... What do you think we will be doing now that our department is being shut down?" one of the male agents with brown skin asked with an anxious expression.

"I don't know..."

"We will be sent to the frontline, of course..."

The female and male agents replied at the same time.

"Huh? But why? Don't the higher-up know that we aren't that proficient in fighting? Our skill lays in other areas-." the brown-skin agent said as he looked confusedly at the other male agent, who wore glasses.

"you mean in torture or taking drugs? Hmph!, Mr.Mountain doesn't care about those skills. If he did, he wouldn't shut down this lucrative trade."

"..."

"Do you get it now? We have lost our value, so now we are back to square one, a standard Million agents. Sigh... and here I was so close to a promotion... "

The agents quieted down after that, as they lost interest in speaking. They walked until they arrived at the dumping site. The dumping site is a large hole in the ground that no one knows how deep it is.

Baroque Works dispatched a group of agents to find what was there, but the agents never returned. After two more expeditions, Mr.1 gave up on it and instead started to use it as a dumping site for all the chemical waste and human bodies that couldn't withstand the experiments or reformation.

"But you know it such a waste to throw it all, Millions of berries down the drain, sigh..." the brown-skinned agent said with a dejected look as he opened the box and poured all the drugs into the pit.

'What if I hide some of it' The Glasses wear agent that for a moment, he felt greedy and wanted to hide some of it, but then he remembered that Baroque Works has eyes and ears everywhere in this city. If it was found that he had hidden some of it, then...

"Yeah... But you know this show how high they value Baroque Works' reputation." The female agent said as she poured the box containing the drug.

Many similar conversations or thoughts were happening all around the first and second floors as the agent disposed of the product with excellent efficacy and erased any trace of their involvement in this line of work.

All this activity and clamor even reached the reformation centers, Where in a cell. A boy with pink hair and clothes made of rugs was awoken by all the noise.

'Is it Reformation Time?' The boy, or as we know Koby thought, and then he quickly tried to stand, only to fail when his entire body throbbed in pain, making him gasp in pain and fall to the ground. After failing, not even a second later, the Koby tried to stand up again and succeeded.

"..." After standing. The Koby stood there in silence, waiting for the guard to open the door like usual, but nothing happened. Which surprised and unnerved the boy. Who didn't move from where he stood,

'Who knows, this might be a new test or something,' Koby thought. But even after 30 minutes, nothing happened. This calmed the pink-haired boy, who could no longer stand. So he fell to the ground.

Thud!

"Ahh-" making him cry in pain, but then he bit his cheeks to avoid making any noise.

'Huff... Huff... Looks like I woke up earlier than usual or... something happened.' After the pain subsided, Koby thought while lying on the ground and staring at the cell with confusion. He stayed like that for a little while since he was too tired to move, and he couldn't fall asleep again because he had already woken up.

So, he stayed there lying on the ground and gazing at the ceiling with a vacant and numb expression. The fall deshuffled his clothes and showed the many purple and green bruises covering his entire body.

'Since that... Day... I... haven't had time to rest like this...' Koby's thought crushed him as even the fundamental privilege of rest was taken away now that he was a slave.

'As a slave, you are no longer considered a human but an object. So any privilege or courtesy that applies to a human doesn't apply to you...' The words of that women ring in his mind. This made him angrier and angrier until he made the mistake of thinking of revenge against Baroque Works.

"Ahhhh!" This hint of hostility awoke the seal on his heart, Which disciplined Koby for his hostile thoughts by sending a short burst of electricity around his body. The pain made the boy yell loudly and spasm on the ground, unable to hold back his cry, waking all the neighboring slaves.

"Shut the f**k up!"

"He can't. He awakened the seal. Sigh.... poor kid.."

"Tsk. It's his fault for not being able to control his emotions."

Some yelled at the beginning, but after knowing that he had awakened the seal, they just scowled in his direction and then went back to rest.

Meanwhile, back at Koby's cell, He kept screaming and spasming for a little while. Until the seal was satisfied and went back to slumber.

"Huff... Huff... Huff..." Koby breathed heavily as he laid on the floor. Tears started to drip down his face, with sorrow and despair sinking in as he stared at the blurry ceiling. His memories of the 5 days slowly began to flash through his mind.

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Author Note:

Hello everyone, Author here.

I would like to apologize for this short chapter, as I'm sick again and unable to write properly.

And also, I might take a day or two to rest, so expect the next chapter to be released 3 to 4 days later than usual.

Again I apologize.