The Reaction

In a random day…

In a room on a small island called Narhad…

A 10-year-old boy named Fred was sleeping soundly like a baby...

"…ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ... AGHMN…ZZZZZZZZZ…. BUNZZZ…. ZZZZZZZ....

Forget it Marge, it's Chinatown! … ZZZZZHHHH… GZZHHHHZZZ…"

…Well…

He slept peacefully like a possessed polar bear in heat with rabies and absinthe(a type of alcohol) hangover...

When suddenly at 06:30 his best friend arrived to bring him out of his hibernation state

"Fred

Fred?

FRED!

ARE YOU AWAKE!?

YOU MUST SEE THIS!

IT'S... " Stephen yelled excitedly as he entered Fred's house, walked up the stairs to his bedroom, opened his bedroom door and… looked away almost instantly "OH MY GOD FRED!

SLEEPING NAKED AGAIN!?

COVER YOURSELF A LITTLE!"

"This is my bed and I get to do what I want in it..." Fred said half dreamily as he pulled the sheet over his butt and said without even lifting his head from the pillow "What's going on Stephen? It's not 7:30 yet...

We still don't have to train, let alone be awake..."

"Get up immedietly!

Something incredible has happened! Your face is on the cover of the World Economy News Paper!

ON THE COVER PAGE!" Stephen yelled as he forcibly lifted Fred's limp head from his long mane to show him the newspaper.

Something that finally woke him up, although not 100%

"This is serious? I knew that they would talk about our case, since that kind blue-haired girl came to interview us, but I didn't expect that we would be on the fucking cover of a newspaper with worldwide distribution, let alone such an important one" Fred said, growing more awake and therefore more capable of formulating long, meaningful sentences as he grabbed the newspaper and rubbed his eyes to see better, although everything was still blurry.

"Forget about it and let's go to my house so we can read the article together.

Mom has made pancakes, we're all waiting for you to read it together

No spoilers" Stephen insisted as he tossed Fred a pair of pants and shirt.

"Ok... ok... I'm coming...

But at least let me read the headline and see my face in the newspaper..." Fred replied as he put on his clothes upside down and read the newspaper headline now that his vision finally had the right brightness and contrast "The hero that we all have inside?"

---

News Coos were flying all over the West Blue distributing the newspaper in the cities, towns and villages that hadn't yet been attacked by the Leech pirates

"Thank heavens!

I thought we were going to be the next victims of those bastards!

THE LEECH PIRATES ARE DEAD!" Shouted a baker who had just picked up the newspaper that fell at the door of his business and read it with happiness

"Has the Navy finally caught them?

What a great relief..." His wife said with relief, who listened to her husband while she kneaded the bread inside the store

"No, it wasn't the Navy...

You won't believe it honey...

It's incredible!" Replied her husband, who ran inside to show her the newspaper so she wouldn't think he was kidding her.

It was also distributed to the villages that were pillaged by the Leech pirates recently.

"Carla-neechan! Carla-neechan!

Is it him? Is this the boy who rescued you and punished the pirates!?" Said Nina, an eight-year-old girl, who, accompanied by her little brother Anthony, ran into her house with the newspaper up, showing it to her older sister, who was preparing breakfast for them

"Yes it's him...

Mnffm sniff...

Thanks to Fred and Stephen I can be here with you today." Said Carla, one of the girls who lived for a few days in the village of Narhad, who upon seeing the face of her saviours couldn't help but cry, even though she was in front of her little siblings, the only family she had now

"Neechan!

I'm going to train! I'm going to become as strong as him and protect you from other pirates that come to harm you!" Said Anthony, the seven-year-old little brother, who, inspired by Fred's exploits, a boy not much older than him, set out to be stronger to prevent something like this from happening once again to his family.

And he wasn't the only one, his little sister Nina also felt that call strongly. She wouldn't allow pirates to take her family away from her, as they already did with her father and mother... and almost did with her older sister "And me too! Let's go oni-chan!"

"Okay little ones, but first you have to eat ALL your breakfast...

Fred ate a lot every day before training, including bell peppers and carrots." Carla answered, taking advantage of the image of the family hero to correct the bad eating habits of her two little siblings.

The newspapers even arrived in the pirate ships that plagued that sea!

"Is there any news of interest Stuart?" Captain Drenvor the [Iron Fist] asked one of his subordinates, who had just picked up the newspaper

"Well...

Indeed there's one, Captain Drenvor...

The Leech pirates have been slaughtered" Replied Stuart, a middle-aged pirate with a visibly red nose from all the alcohol he drank at the party last night.

"This is great news! Less competition!

HIAHIAHIA!

Who has killed them?

Was it Captain Eduard from the 78th division, Captain Robert from the 79th division, Captain Zora from the 80th division?

Or perhaps it was that Lieutenant Francis that I have heard so much about lately?" Captain Drenvor asked, imagining a battle with them, one of the few who could rival him in strength in the West Blue just as John the Leech did not long ago.

"Well...

It was two children and a house cat..." Stuart replied after reading it several times to make sure he wasn't imagining anything.

"NANI!?

How much have you drunk!? It's only six in the morning!" Said Captain Drenvor, removing the newspaper from the hands of his subordinate minutes before ordering some alcohol to shallow that same news

But that news didn't just shock West Blue, everyone was fascinated by the story...somewhat honeyed by Morgans and Fred... about the fall of the Leech pirates and the rise of a new pre-pubescent hero

---

Totto Land

[THE HERO THAT WE ALL HAVE INSIDE

Frederic Freed was a child like any other, living peacefully and happily on a small remote island in the West Blue with his mother and father.

However, his life was turned upside down when at the tender age of three some evil pirates killed his mother.

From that moment little Fred swore to himself that he would become stronger to defend his father and the entire town in the future...to prevent the same thing that happened to his late mother from happening to another person]

"Poor kid...

If I had such a son, I would pamper him and help him in every way possible." Said Charlotte Linlin, better known as the Yonko Big Mom, who in her crazy bipolar maternal mode was moved to read the story of that little child who lost his mother...

While...

"BUAAAHHH!! BUAAAHHH!!!"

"BUAAJJJJ!!! BUAAAHHH!!!"

She neglected her own children

"WHO THE HELL IS MAKING SO MUCH NOISE WHILE I'M TRYING TO READ!?" Big Mom yelled, looking intimidatingly at the poor bastards who had even dared to bother her even in the slightest.

"Your newborn children, mother

Mascarpone and Joscarpone are crying because they're hungry" Said the young Perospero, who was holding his well-known long-necked brother and sister, who didn't stop crying

"Oh…they…

Wait a minute..." Big Mom replied before looking back at the newspaper.

"But mother, they're seriously hungry, they haven't stopped crying for an hour" Insisted Perospero, who was forced to use his candy generation skills to hold his siblings, who were convulsing a lot, especially their long neck

"Isn't there a river of milk running through all of Totto Land?!

I'm busy right now!" Big Mom yelled once more, giving an ultimatum while her Hommies held the newspaper for her.

---

Drum Island

[From that day on, Fred trained every day as if his life was on the line, performing superhuman efforts that would make any adult sweat blood just looking at him from early morning until nightfall

Stopping only when his body fell literally to the ground for being physically impossible to continue training…but getting up instantly when his body regained mobility to try again

However, Fred's life wasn't just about training, he also studied diligently… even while he trained… to become a great doctor and be able to assist his father in his small clinic, where he began to work actively at the age of five, not only helping his father, but also the entire village with his amazing skills as a doctor and pharmacist

There wasn't a single minute of the day he wasted!

Even when he said that he was going to play with his best friend Stephen in the forest, what they actually did was collect herbs for their medical creations and hunt animals to sell and thus help their families

However, despite his busy schedule, he used to find some time to help the elderly with things that they, due to their advanced age, couldn't do on their own.

And not only the elderly, also to children like him, who treat him like their older brother, not only for being the oldest boy on the island, but also for being the most responsible, hard-working and admired of all]

"What a good, hard-working, responsible, respectful and incredible child..." Said Vapol the current King of Drum Kingdom, who was really moved reading the newspaper that covered his entire field of vision… to immediately put it aside and see…

"BUUUURRPPP!!!

You ugly bitch! Bring me more food!

And for your sake I hope it's good or I will order you to be executed!

Maaaaaahahahahaha"

See his nine-year-old son behaving like absolute scum, forcing himself to ask himself "Why is my son Wapol not like him?"

---

Near the Sabaody Archipelago

[But tragedy struck that admirable boy again...

On his tenth birthday, when he was returning from the forest where he went hunting with his faithful friend Stephen with enough food for the entire village to celebrate his birthday with him, but… upon reaching the village he only found horror

His village had been visited by the infamous, bloodthirsty and inhumane Leech pirates!!

And as usually happened with all the villages from which the Leech pirates left everything was destroyed, the streets were full of corpses, people on the verge of death, missing young women and children crying helplessly...

Those same children greeted him and led him to his dying father, a doctor who gave his all to save as many people as he could while ignoring his own injuries, injuries that wouldn't have been fatal if he had managed to treat them correctly and rested.

However, by performing this heroic act with his friends and neighbours, he lost too much blood and his wounds opened to the point of no return, leaving him only time and energy to die in the arms of his son, who could do nothing to save him... no matter how hard he tried…

In this way Fred lost his two parents, his only family, at the hands of pirates...]

On board the Moby Dick, the Whitebeard Pirates were heading to the Sabaody Archipelago to coat their emblematic ship in order to travel to Fish-Man Island to declare it their territory and thus help their friend King Neptune, when suddenly the newspaper arrived.

"What a sad story" Said Marco, Jozu, Vista, Whitey Bay and many other crew members who gathered around the newspaper to read it, not expecting to find a story that moved them so much

A story that forced them to look with teary eyes at their captain and adoptive father Edward Newgate, also known as Whitebeard, one of the Yonko and the strongest man in the world.

"Hey? Why are you staring at me so intently?" Whitebeard asked, noticing that almost all the eyes of his crews had set upon him at the same time.

"FATHER, PLEASE, NEVER DIE!!!" All the members of the Whitebeard Pirates cried out in unison.

"Come on, stop crying and tell me what's going on!" Said Whitebeard confused by the strange behaviour of his beloved children

---

North Blue

[But unlike the other children who cried on their knees in front of the corpses and mutilated bodies of their families, Fred got up and carried on his father's will, carrying all the injured people to his clinic to save as many lives as possible

However, he did more than that...

On that island there were still two pirates who stayed there to hunt them down, since they had realized that there were more people on that island that they hadn't tortured, killed or traumatized...

What these hunters never expected is that they would become prey, prey that fell into the trap of a ten-year-old boy, being taken alive and tortured until they gave Fred the information he needed in record time

Immediately afterwards Fred called the Marines to give them all the information he had obtained, among which was the secret base of the Leech pirates, where they hid and rested after their routes of death through the West Blue and where now the mothers of his friends were kidnapped

And the Navy, as was to be expected, promised to make good use of said information to catch them, but unfortunately... they told him that it would take several days for them to reach that location...]

"Just turned ten years old and already torturing people to get information from them

Does he remind you of someone Doffy!?" Said Trebol one of the commanders of the Donquixote Pirates and who… more or less… turned his captain into the monster he's today

"Just slightly Trebol

This boy was saddened by the death of his father...

Instead, killing him freed me!

We are quite different in essence" Answered Donquixote Doflamingo, the captain of the Donquixote Pirates, sitting on a mountain of corpses while controlling the bodies of his enemies with his strings whom he tortured

Ironically to force them to reveal where he had hidden his loot

"Well said young master!

And speaking of killing, when should we end their lives?" Asked Lao G, who managed to locate the booty, something that he reported to his captain a few minutes ago

"Right now, I was finishing reading

Puffuffuffu!" Doflamingo replied as he pulled his strings, forcing his puppets to kill each other

NO! NOOOO!!!

SLASH!

SLASH!!!

KIAHHHH!!!

---

Onigashima

[After knowing, thanks to pirates that he questioned, what could happen to those poor women in the following days, added to the inconsolable cries of his little friends whose mothers had been kidnapped...Fred simply couldn't sit idly by...

That ten-year-old boy that just lost his entire family and who barely remembered the face of his mother, who died when he was little... he couldn't bear the idea that these children's, now in his care, felt the same sorrow that he had felt since he was three years old

That's why despite the slim chance of success and the high chance of death, Fred set out to infiltrate the Leech Pirates base and rescue their mothers from the dirty clutches of the Leech Pirates!]

"Hmm...

Despite being a brat, he has big balls

Not like our new slaves from Wano...

Right Kaido-san?

Muhahaha!" Said Queen, who projected the news of the day to the entire crew on one of his giant televisions.

"Worororo

Sure...

Since the death of Oden and the Red Scabbards, not a single samurai has dared to rise up against us or Orochi.

They make quite convenient slaves...

Do you think that child would act differently in their situation Albert?

Wiphk!" Kaido replied, drowning his sorrows in alcohol at half past seven in the morning like always… but especially since a few months ago, since he still hadn't been able to get the shame of defeating Oden in such a cowardly way out of his head

"That's a drunken question that's kind of hard to answer...

Probably...

But even if he tried, he wouldn't achieve anything, just like the samurai" Albert, alias King, answered in the most correct and sober way that he could.

"That's more than obvious!

Worororo!

Wiphk!" Kaido said as he took another drink before having to go deal with his daughter Yamato and her stupidity of calling herself Oden.

---

In the middle of the Grand Line

[That's why after gathering enough information, tools, poisons, antidotes and medicines to complete the dangerous rescue mission… and obtaining the collaboration of the two pirates whom he had interrogated, whom thanks to his great medical knowledge he managed to poison and offered them the antidote once they helped him finish off their own crew…

He left the island for the first time in his short life

And there on the small ship heading to the dangerous pirate base, into which his faithful friend Stephen and his kitten Schrödinger had slipped in refusing to leave him alone, Fred told them the master plan that would allow him to turn the possible into impossible]

"Turn the possible into the impossible huh?

I remember hearing something similar a long time ago..." Said Red-haired Shanks, who couldn't help remembering with a smile the battle between the Roger Pirates and Shiki's Great Fleet, in which their captain achieved the impossible, defeating an enemy that far outnumbered them

"Is something wrong, Captain? Do you know him?

Is he family of yours?" Asked Yasopp, who couldn't help but flip through the newspaper his captain was reading after seeing him smile, let alone seeing that on the cover was a photo of a red-haired boy from West Blue.

"Just because he's from West Blue like me and has red hair like me doesn't automatically make him family.

MUCH LESS AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD!" Shanks said, refuting all the false accusations his gang was giving him just with their gazes

"Really?" Also asked Benn Beckman to make sure he was telling the truth…Although he wouldn't judge him too much if it was a lie…

"Yes, really..." Shanks repeated, who really had no other family that he remembered

---

Goa Kingdom

[Thanks to their brilliant strategy, they managed to infiltrate the base inside barrels full of wild boar meat that they themselves hunted that afternoon, barrels that were taken to the kitchen, where they took control of the situation

Thus capturing and coercing the cooks to turn to their accomplices and poison all the food and drinks with a non-lethal poison that would put all the pirates and kidnappers who ate and drank it to sleep within minutes

A strategy that worked almost perfectly, knocking out almost all the Leech pirates, unfortunately it was unable to effect the two most dangerous ones.

Captain John the Leech and Vice-Captain Smith the Bloodlust…

Seeing that setback, Fred, who foresaw that something like this could happen, created a distraction, a distraction that allowed all the pirates coerced by him to evacuate all the girls from the base without anyone noticing.

And only at that moment, seeing that they were all safe, Fred alone and without any help, with his bare hands and weapons, without receiving a single wound, in the blink of an eye managed to kill more than ten of the Leech pirates who were still standing, except for the two officers..

Proving to himself and to the whole world that his hard training had paid off.]

"You can see it Ace, I will also train you hard to become a great marine

In eight... no, in five years you'll be catching pirates like the boy in the photo" Garp said with the newspaper in hand, extremely motivated and absurdly competitive after seeing that there was a boy out there killing dangerous pirates at such a young age.

He wanted his Ace to even surpass him!

However, Ace wasn't interested at all.

"I gon't wanz to be a Magine!" Answered the little two-year-old Ace, who at that precise moment learned to run to escape from Garp and his crazy ideas.

"EEHHH!!!?

COME BACK HERE! DON'T RUN!" Garp yelled in concern, who ran after Ace, though also somewhat happy to see that he could now run, one of the essential traits of a good Marine.

---

Somewhere on the Grand Line

[After finishing off the remaining footmen, Fred faced off against both John and Smith alone, in a confrontation where Fred using his superhuman speed and stamina, which he got thanks to his hard daily training, tried to win as much time as possible until the poison took effect

But unfortunately for our little hero the differences in age, strength, experience and numbers were superior to his speed and cunning, but after ten minutes of pursuit, in which the poison failed to take effect, his enemies began to gain the upper hand

This prompted the intervention of his faithful friend Stephen, who fired his crossbow at Smith and John, helping Fred deal with the enemy...

Thanks to that intervention Fred had it easier for a moment, but it also put him at a new disadvantage by having to protect Stephen as well as himself...]

"One of the reasons why I prefer to work alone" Said Dracule Mihawk the Marine Hunter, from his one-person boat while reading the newspaper, drank a glass of wine and...

SLASHHH!!!

Cut down a pursuing navy battleship, plunging it into the ocean depths...

---

Somewhere on the Grand Line

[A situation that his genius mind already foresaw in advance!

Thanks to his infinite craftiness Fred managed to turn their greatest weaknesses into strengths, forcing the Leech Pirates to end up poisoning themselves with a powerful sleep-inducing poison right when they thought they won!

In this way Fred, with some injuries, carrying Stephen with a broken arm and several shattered ribs and the corpse of his cat Schrödinger, who sacrificed himself so that Stephen could live, emerged victorious from that dangerous battle, saving the maidens in distress and capturing the villains alive]

"Kuhahahaha! I like your style

Someone like him would be a perfect fit for the organization I have in mind

Too bad he seems to have morality and all that stuff..." Crocodile said, travelling in his sand-filled ship towards the direction of the Sabaody Archipelago, where his target was last seen

---

On an uninhabited island in the East Blue

[And after performing the emergency healing and recovering everything that was stolen, Fred and Stephen aboard the Leech Pirates' ship returned with all the kidnapped women from various villages to Narhad

Where their friends who believed that they hadn't only lost their mothers forever, but also their best friends and platonic loves, received them with tears, hugs and cheers like the heroes they are.]

"I like guys who [recover everything stolen]...

Now just stay on your island, live your dream life, stop growing stronger and NEVER come to East Blue to visit me!" Said Buggy the clown who broke out in a cold sweat just thinking about meeting a boy like this in one of his raids on the random villages of the East Blue

---

Country of Flevance, in the North Blue

[But that's not where Fred's work ended...

As the only doctor present there, he gave in-depth care once again to all the victims of the Leech Pirates on the island, including all the kidnapped women who had been subjected to torture and inhumane treatment, healing them physically and mentally

Sacrificing hours of sleep despite all the fatigue that had accumulated, as well as injuries, both physical and mental]

"He's only ten years old and he's already a fully fledged doctor

It's pretty incredible" Said Trafalgar D. Water Thomas, owner of a family-owned hospital where he and his wife worked as doctors.

"Do you also want to be a great doctor when you're his age Law-chan?" Thomas's wife asked her little son, who almost always was with them at the hospital

"Yes mom

I will study hard to help you in the hospital" Answered soberly the 6-year-old Trafalgar D. Water Law, sitting at his desk studying medicine diligently like every day

"Oni-sama, you are too serious, let's play!" Said Trafalgar D. Water Lami, Law's little sister, who wanted the attention of her serious but affectionate brother

---

Marine Headquarters

[In addition to doing the opposite with John and Smith... whom he took alive not to show them any mercy by not killing them...

For days, until the Navy arrived on the island, when he didn't have to be helping someone, the young doctor Fred tortured them relentlessly and mercilessly to such an extent that those rude and bloodthirsty pirates begged over and over again for him to end their lives

An end to their suffering that Fred denied them over and over, just like they had done for years to the poor people they had tortured to death...

An action that wasn't prompted by Fred's desire for revenge, but by his great and unwavering sense of justice towards their victims!

John, Smith... all the pirates in the world!

None of them deserved a quick and painless death after what they had done to so many people! They should feel even a fraction of all the pain and suffering they had caused their victims, they needed to pay for their actions before they went to the darkest, deepest and stinkiest of hells!

NOT TO DO SO WOULD BE THE SAME AS EXECRATING IN THE MEMORY OF ALL THE LIVES THEY TOOK DOWN AND INSULTING THE ORPHANS THEY CREATED!]

"That kid is… pretty brutal…

And…

What the hell is this Morgans saying?" Said Vice Admiral Tsuru, who wasn't fooled by the word [justice] that was so often used in the organization in which she worked.

But she was one of the few...

"You think so Tsuru?

I don't think that boy's intentions are wrong…or even his methods" Said the Former Admiral Zephyr… husband of a woman murdered by pirates and father of a son murdered by pirates… who for various reasons he fully agreed with that idea of [justice] "I wish there were more young men like him spread all over the world, whether in or out of the Marines"

"That torture didn't end until the Marines arrived, standing petrified upon seeing that this heroic boy, who had risked his life to save others and who had sacrificed his health and resources to help and heal others…was capable to of such a heinous act against another human being

But Fred, despite his young age, gave them a valuable lesson, taking them out of their big mistake...

Those things weren't humans!

A human wouldn't kill defenceless old people, wouldn't leave innocent people half dead to die slowly agonizing in the mud, wouldn't rape mothers in front of their children or take everything from them with a smile on their face.

Those scum are just monsters, less than beasts, worse than cancer cells...

They are demons!

And our duty as human beings is to hunt them down and make them pay to the last drop of blood for their crimes against humanity!

A great lesson that those marines would never forget, especially if they had a pirate in front of them again and could wonder what to do with it"

"DAMN RIGHT FREDERIC FREED!

All that scum deserves nothing more than the most painful of deaths!

WE SHOULD EXECUTE ANY MARINE THAT SHOWS MERCY TO THESE DEMONS!!" Vice Admiral Sakazuki shouted, exploding like a volcano upon rereading that part of the article again, burning with extreme passion… so much so that he was burning the table he was resting his fist on with his magma Akuma No Mi

"Sakazuki!

It's the third table you burned this morning, control yourself a bit!" Said Vice Admiral Kuzan, using his ice Akuma No mi to stop another possible fire inside the Marine headquarters.

"And someone take that newspaper away please!" Said Vice Admiral Borsalino with the tranquillity that characterized him while he filed his nails.

---

Narhad Island

[There are many adjectives that can be attributed to Frederick Freed for the life he had led and for the feats he had achieved so far, such as determined, persevering, responsible, hardworking, kind, intelligent, brave, strong, decisive, upright, fair, consequent...

But also generous and altruistic!

Not only did he rescue girls from other villages that had nothing to do with him, he also healed them, gave them food and a place to live for days without asking for anything in return until the marines came to pick them up

He even gave them all the money and items he recovered from the Leech Pirates lair to help them rebuild their lives!

A great fortune valued at almost one hundred million but that's tiny compared to the big heart of that ten-year-old boy who had just been left alone in the world with no other possession than the small hospital of his deceased family]

"Yes...

This is how I am!

An extremely generous and virtuous guy in absolutely EEEEEEEVERY aspect...

An example for everyone in everything and…" Said Fred as he read the newspaper proudly, almost believing everything he was reading...

If it weren't for the withering look from Stephen and Marlon, who knew the truth "..."

"Of course revenge wasn't a motivator to hunt down and torture to death these parasites in the most painful, imaginative and rewarding way possible, everything was for justice

Of course I didn't donate MY money because I was almost forced... of course not... it was my idea from the beginning...

And of course I never felt my soul break with every berry I lost that day and...

REALLY!? ALMOST ONE HUNDRED MILLION BERRIES!? ALL THAT JUNK WAS SO EXPENSIVE!?

FUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!" Said Fred, going from euphoria to simulated sarcasm and ending in total depression upon discovering that his loss was greater than he expected.

"Please...

It was me who said we would donate the money, you were against it!

Besides!

They don't mention at any time my super ship that I gave you for your birthday, without which we wouldn't have reached the lair in time

They say here that Shrodinguer and I slipped into the ship, but that wasn't the case with me.

They also don't talk about the barrels I made in record time to be able to infiltrate, like most of the tools and weapons we used to defeat the Leech pirates...

If I hadn't fired the crossbow at that moment they would surely have killed you and yet here they make it look like it wasn't a big deal

I look like a nuisance who only annoyed you by doing it!

And... and...

Really!

Many of the things they said here are lies, are misrepresented or omit important information!

And they make me look like a totally useless sidekick!" Stephen said totally outraged and even insulted after seeing how they had represented him, to the point of being as depressed as Fred

And exactly the same thing happened with Marlon, who had been frowning for a while "At least they name you like Schrödinger...

They haven't explained how I took out half the pirates, greatly weakened the captain and vice captain, or how I almost beat them all by myself if it wasn't for that filthy coward...

EVEN THOUGH THEY GAVE ME A FULL INTERVIEW!

Without my contribution surely your plan wouldn't have worked!

Fred has taken all the glory!"

"Come on guys, you know how sensationalist press works

They take a story, condense it and tweak it in a certain way to make it more appealing to the audience... and it's easier to write a story and move people with one hero than two or three...

But don't worry about that...

All the people you have helped, especially me, know that you have also been great heroes like Fred

And Fred you shouldn't stay depressed about it, not only did you help a lot of people by donating that money, you also earned the admiration of millions of people for it." Roxanne said, trying to cheer up the three brave older children in her charge as best she could.

But her attempts were of little use "...

...

..."

"Who wants more pancakes paid with the image rights of that article?" Roxanne said, making another slightly less elaborate attempt to cheer them up.

"Me... please..." The three answered in unison, a little less depressed.

---

Lulusia Kingdom

[As I was writing this article, discovering more and more details of Fred's life before and after his tenth birthday, many different emotions touched my numb heart, as perhaps has happened with those who have read this article up to this point

But above all, a question assailed me...

What makes us different from Frederic Freed?]

'What?' Thought several poor farmers, marveling at Fred's epic upon reading this reflection.

"Surely some of you have experienced a situation similar to the one Fred experienced and many of you have been able to empathize with people like him either by talking to them or by seeing what happened to them thanks to a new in this or another newspaper.

For this reason, when reading that Fred, someone surely younger than your children and brothers, had the courage to face an enemy that was greater than him in age, strength and number despite being able to stay waiting at home, crying like the other children while praying that someone would come to save them and their families... created a knot in the neck and heart that prevented oxygen from reaching our brains for a few seconds

And when we read that he was able to achieve what we thought impossible, obliterate his enemies while rescuing dozens of people, including the mothers of his friends, we all celebrated in our hearts the feat of that little hero

We celebrated it as if we had been a part of it… and some of us even fantasized that we were the ones who had achieved such heroism."

"Oni-chan, did you also imagine defeating pirates like Fred?" A ten-year-old boy asked his older brother with a lot of motivation to see if he hadn't been the only one

"Yes… you are right...

Just a little... but with different pirates..." His older brother replied, a little embarrassed to admit that he had the same childish fantasies as his little brother.

"Perhaps we haven't fantasized being in exactly the same situation that Fred lived, but a very similar one in which we didn't have the courage or the ability to act like him.

We all would have wanted or would like to act like that brave 10-year-old boy in a similar situation, defeat those who want to harm us and help those in danger, destroying with our own hands all injustice that stands before our eyes.

But...

Have we ever done it? Will we ever?

Have we ever even tried it outside of our imagination?"

"Yes! Me...

No... I don't think so... "Said the father of the family with resignation as he looked at his children, who were still fantasizing about being like the boy in the news...

He and many like him couldn't afford that luxury... despite having so little, they had too much to lose if they dared to do something similar

The people of the Lulusia Kingdom, a rather poor kingdom of the New World, were constantly plundered by the pirates of the most dangerous sea of all, from whom they had to hide, flee and even obey to avoid being hurt, since neither they nor the guards of the kingdom could do anything against their strength...

And almost everything that hadn't been stolen by the pirates was looted by the tyrannical King Seki, who impaled anyone who dared to contradict him, even if it was just a little...

Everyone, especially the adults, who had lived their entire lives believing that there was no other way of life than endure the abuse of others without complaining in the hope that they would abuse them less...were too scared to even think of fighting even if they had a chance to win

"You aren't as strong as he's...

Don't even think of doing something like him, you will only get killed..." Said the mother of the family, trying to temper the minds of her young children to prevent them from imitating Fred, now or in the future

Although in reality she wished to be capable to do all that and more instead of her children.

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Baltigo

[That's why I ask myself again...

What makes me different from Frederic Freed?

Nothing...

At first glance nothing differentiates us from him...

As he answered when we asked him, he's just an ordinary human without any kind of genetic component in his body that makes him special from others.

He hadn't even eaten an Akuma no Mi that gives him an advantage over the rest.

All he did was train and study hard, diligently and intelligently for seven years with one goal in mind...

Defend himself and others from those who wanted to hurt them!]

"Mmmfufufu!

I like this kid Dragon!

Should we try to recruit him?

He has a lot of potential and my feminine intuition tells me that his mentality is somewhat aligned with ours.

Come on, say yes! In a short time he may end up becoming the second-in-command of the Army!" Said Ivankov, with a smile bigger than the rest of his body, eager to go to West Blue right now.

"And besides, he could become a source of inspiration for our recruits... as he's now..." Kuma said as he watched the children they were training, who were trying harder than usual after reading the article. "But I think we shouldn't try, at least for now...

His story can be a great source of inspiration for people around the world, whether they share our cause or not.

But if he joins our ranks the World Government will try to destroy or distort his image as it has done with us.

And that would be counterproductive..."

"I agree with you this time Kuma

I don't know what Morgans is thinking in distributing this story and reflection, but...

If this article can inspire even just 1% of the population to become stronger and have the courage to fight against injustice...

The Revolutionary Army will be that much closer to victory!" Dragon answered, that after interpreting the newspaper in his own way and imagining people rising up against the World Government in the same way that that 10-year-old boy rose up against a dangerous pirate gang he began to feel more optimistic about the organization he recently created

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West Blue, Mastarc

[And that's why I wonder...

What exactly prevents us from being like Frederick Freed?

Nothing...

Nothing prevents us from being like him... nothing prevents us from being as strong and courageous as that ten-year-old boy...

Nothing prevents us from striving to become stronger and wiser every day, to use that strength and wisdom for our own good and for others in the future...

Nothing prevents us from having the courage to act decisively when injustice occurs in front of us instead of cowering and praying, almost always in vain, for someone to magically save us...

We just have to bring out the hero that we all have inside!

All of us can and should be a hero like Frederick Freed, The Demon Hunter]

"Wow, he's right, now I want to train more than ever...

I can't keep hoping that Lieutenant Zark will always save our asses whenever a dangerous pirate shows up." Said an ordinary Marine who drank with his co-workers in a dark bar in the morning instead of training.

"You're right...

If a 10-year-old can, why can't we?" Answered another of his companions, a little older, tall, fat and bald as he swallowed a mug of beer.

"But...[Demon Hunter], what's the meaning of that title?

The [Demon-faced super torturer] would have favored him more" Asked another of the marines, one of the few who was in Fred's basement when John and Smith died by extreme torture... and he couldn't get that scary image out of his mind

"I think it's because of what has been said in the article

That he usually hunts and that for him pirates are demons...

A bit far-fetched, but it makes sense and it's also cool" The first of the marines answered, who put his beer aside, since alcohol wasn't good for training, his new motivation

"I think there's more than that behind that name...

Do you remember two years ago? A few nautical miles from here, in Ohara, that 8-year-old girl was nicknamed Devil Child...

I think Morgans linked those ideas together to create this nickname...

Both are from West Blue, were born in the same year, became famous by doing impossible deeds as children...

There has to be a relationship, I'm sure!" Another Marine with dark circles under his eyes and an extremely red nose answered, who seemed extremely nervous and looked everywhere as if he were being spied on.

"You are paranoid!

You've already seen five Nico Robins this week and one of them was my niece!" Said the somewhat older, fat and bald marine, laughing at the occurrences of the paranoid conspiracy theorist of the group

"And now there's a sixth, the niece of the owner of the bar...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Said another of the Marines, continuing the joke as he pointed to the blond girl with glasses who had brought them their drinks, who was now washing the dishes behind the bar.

"Stop this nonsense and let's get back to work or we'll be late...

I don't know why we always have to come to drink at the bar that's furthest from the base" Said the marine who had motivated himself to become stronger, getting up from the table without finishing his beer

"To prevent Lieutenant Commander Miller from seeing us and punishing us

That man has eyes everywhere, he doesn't miss a single one" Replied the group's conspiracy theorist, looking from one side to the other to see if his superior had followed them here.

"You are right...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Everyone laughed as they paid their bill and left the bar to get back to the job

A peripheral bar called [One more and I'm leaving] that was actually a cover business where information and other illegal substances were trafficked in the Underworld, which at this time of the morning was completely empty except for the owner and the young ten-year-old girl who was just now removing the cups of those marines from the table

'Demon Hunter...

The story in the newspaper about you is true...

Or is it a lie like mine?" Nico Robin thought, disguised with a wig and glasses as she worked trying to gather money, information, resources and favours to leave the West Blue without risking her life.

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Inside the 80th Branch Marine Base

[To finish this article, Frederick Freed himself has asked us to send a big thank you on his behalf and a big hug to Lieutenant Lex

The marine who with a very humane and kind treatment helped everyone enormously from the first moment they contacted him, when he arrived on the island, when he returned the girls to their homes and that even now was still watching over them from the 80th Marine Division of the West Blue]

"Nin! Nin! Look dad, I'm a Marine ninja" Said Clark a 3-year-old boy, who played with cardboard shurikens while wearing a navy cap inside an office on the base.

"Yes, yes I already see it son, but look at this

Daddy has been named in the newspaper!

On the main cover!" Lieutenant Commander Lex said, pointing to the part where he was named in the newspaper, so that his son would be proud and feel admiration for his father

However, his son was busy with something more important "Nin! Nin!"

"Hahaha… kids…

So this is the boy you cared so much about and that thanks to him you received a promotion?

He has had a very nice detail to thank you in the newspaper" Said Veronica, the wife of the now Lieutenant Commander Lex, who had come to the base with her son to attend her husband's promotion celebration.

"Yes...

I don't know if he did it to thank me or if he used this opportunity to look good with the Marines and thus avoid creating envious enemies

But be that as it may, we have all won.

I can't wait to see him again to give him the rewards of the Leech pirates

Seriously, he has been calling me every day to check if we have the money" The Lieutenant Commander replied, satisfied with his promotion, although he was more satisfied with having received it by doing the right thing, helping some children in need...

When suddenly everyone heard in a nearby office someone screaming...

"IT WAS MY CASE! MY FUCKING CASE AND THEY GIVE HIM A PROMOTION!

AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET MENTIONED IN THE NEWSPAPER!

FUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!

THE LEECH PIRATES HAVE BEEN MINE FOR A LONG TIME! I SAW THEM FIRST!

AND YOU, WHY DID I GO FOR A DRINK WITHOUT ME!?"

---

At the offices of the World Economy News Paper

[In the following deliveries we will provide more detailed information about Fred's life with full interviews and many other exclusive details

Don't miss it!]

"President! As you predicted the article has been an absolute hit!

Everyone is talking about Frederic Freed right now

AND WE HAVE RECEIVED THOUSANDS OF LETTERS AND CALLS ASKING FOR MORE INFORMATION!" Said one of the reporters, work the job that was as easy and rewarding as possible, delivering extremely good news to the president of the company you work for.

"And what's better, we have never sold so much!" Said another employee, who showed a graph with today's sales

"That's not even the best guys!

The best thing is that no other newspaper has echoed this news before us!

AND THAT WE HAVE MANAGED TO BUY ALL THE INFORMATION EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCE

KIA HAHAHAHAHA!!!

WE ALMOST HAVE THE MONOPOLY ON THIS GOLD MINE!" Answered Chairman Morgans, who felt that every berry he paid to Fred and company for the scoop of this story had been a bargain.

"You are amazing president!

A genius among geniuses!" Said all the employees in the room, flattering their boss, but without lying, everyone admired him for what he had just achieved.

"That's right...

And now we just have to exploit and extend this great success as long as possible...

QUICKLY!

Tomorrow we will include the training method that made Frederic Freed the super kid he's today!

For the day after tomorrow the interviews of the girls he saved and how they appreciate what he did for them!

After that the full details about the great battle at the secret base!

And then…

KIA HAHAHAHAHA!!!" Said Morgans, thinking about how he could exploit that story for days and weeks until it was physically impossible

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