Sup nerds. As mentioned earlier, you guys actually leave good reviews that make me think and stuff. So good job. To answer some questions, yes, I am planning on covering events in Punk Hazard and Dressrosa, ALTHOUGH it will probably just be from Law's POV since the other Heart Pirates aren't present. And while Law runs around with the Straw Hats I'll probably have a few chapters exploring what the crew does on Zou with Rina in their ranks.
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"How about we get you out of that dress now?" Anyu said. Rina smoothed her hands over the soft fabric.
"It's...ah, literally all I own now," she said lamely. Anyu laughed.
"I realized this when Captain Law abducted ya from a wedding. Don't worry, ya can borrow clothes from me until we find somewhere to buy ya some new ones." Rina nodded, and then followed the older woman towards the women's quarter. They had already finished exploring the Sub, and now Rina had a rough idea of its layout.
There was an outer deck, obviously. She had landed on it with Bepo. She had also figured out that the deck was connected to the top level of the vessel. The yellow submarine had three interior decks. The smaller top deck was labeled the control room, as it held all of the steering equipment and navigation charts, and connected to the outside deck as well. The middle deck was larger and where the galley and sleeping quarters were located. A small recreational room was also squeezed onto this deck. As for the third deck, the bowels of the Sub, that was was where the engine room, the brig, and Law's extensive medical bay where located. Now they were back in the women's quarters and Anyu was helping Rina out of the wedding dress.
"We should save this, it's to beautiful to throw away," Anyu murmured.
"It does feel nice," Rina agreed. As Anyu helped her into some normal clothes, Rina reflected on everything that had happened. Not only had she trusted a random stranger, but she had trusted one from the Worst Generation. The Captain of the Heart Pirates, Trafalgar Law. Rina had heard things about him, about how he was a sadistic mad scientist of a doctor, earning himself the nickname 'Surgeon of Death.' So far though, he didn't seem particularly cruel or unusual. He just seemed like, well, someone who did what they wanted, government be damned.
"Well it's a start, but yer starting to look the part!" Anyu said. Rina stopped her inner musings to feel the clothes she was now wearing. It felt like a simple shirt, and some rather baggy pants. What confused the blind girl was the knot of fabric around her middle.
"What's this?" she asked.
"An extra jumpsuit of mine. It's a bit big on you though, so I left the top of it off and tied it's sleeves around your waist," the older woman explained. "Now come with me, it's about time I started on dinner."
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Law sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. He could feel a headache coming on. The world seemed so advanced some days, with laser-spitting robots and trains that ran over the sea, to downright prehistoric some days, with Stone Age medical practices and old fashioned sailing ships still the norm. All of his medical books were repeating themselves and telling him what he already knew.
Blindness was either developed later in life due to age or injury, or you were born with it. It had been discovered that the main source of blindness was cataracts, which were the lenses of the eyes being clouded instead of clear. But Law of course already knew this.
It was also a well known fact that blind people often had one of their other senses grow even stronger to make up for a lack of sight. It seemed it was more rare for all of the senses to be enhanced, and the books had nothing about haki abilities. Law collected the handful of books he had gone through and took them back to his shelf. His eyes fell in a thinner book that was unmarked. Grabbing it after a moment of thought, the pirate doctor took it back to his reading spot.
It was one of Doctor Hogback's personal medical journals. Law had found it for sale in a shady little junk shop a few islands back. The famous doctor had been somewhat radical with his ideas, but as Law saw it, sometimes radical was needed. He had only leafed through the journal once or twice before, but he remembered blindness being mentioned somewhere. About halfway through, he found it. Hogback had been performing autopsies on various cadavers for research.
Today's specimen had cataract blindness, so I decided to focus on studying the eyes. As previously known, the cause of the specimen's blindness was caused by clouded lenses. I removed the clouded lenses easily enough, and I took clear, healthy lenses from a specimen I had operated on the previous day. Much as I suspected, the clear lenses were able to go into the new eye. Let it be noted that before removing the cataracts, the the pupils and irises were a cloudy uniform color. After replacing the lenses, the eye's natural brown color became apparent and clear. Therefore, I hypothesize that cataract blindness is curable by surgery via lens transplant, but how to apply this to a living patient is still unknown at this time.
Law closed the journal. With his Ope-Ope Fruit powers, the surgery would be possible. Of course, he didn't even know if the girl wanted to see. And he didn't want to damage her eyes further with a mistake. The surgeon put the journal back on his book shelf, and then put his shoes back on, thinking. He was planning on setting up a base on an island for a least a year, and now he was considering doing some experiments while there. He also wanted to test out Rina's abilities and do some much needed alterations to the Sub. He stood up, his shoes fully on, and he quietly left his quarters.
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"Where are we headed anyway, Bepo?" Law asked the polar bear as they ate. Bepo swallowed his food before answering.
"I managed to get a couple of eternal poses while we were on Sabaody. I've compared the names on the poses to some of my charts and picked the most remote one," his first mate answered. Law nodded.
"When should we be arriving?"
"About 6 more days or so, but there's another island that we will pass on the way."
"We'll restock there, then," Law decided. Over dinner, he had explained his plans to the rest of the crew. They seemed to enjoy the idea of setting up a temporary base.
"If we're updating the Sub Shachi and I might have to go around to other islands for supplies," Penguin said through a mouthful of food.
"That's fine. All of us will probably have to island hop a bit for things," the doctor said, thinking of his own more private medical plans. Dinner went on without event, and slowly the crew members disappeared to bed. Law found himself alone with Rina in the galley. She was seated a few seats down and across from him.
"So, how are you doing?" he asked, gulping at the mug of tea he was nursing.
"Everything is so lively," she stated. Law snorted in amusement.
"Well that's one way of putting it.." he agreed. The two of them shared comfortable silence for a while longer.
"What exactly do you have planned for me?" she suddenly asked. The Heart captain quirked a brow, setting down his mug.
"To be honest, I'm not quite sure yet. I'm curious to see if you can learn other forms of haki. Before I knew you could use it at all I was thinking you could help us detect enemies while we were above water," he told her honestly.
"And if I can't use other forms of haki?" she asked. Law had to give the girl credit for being perceptive.
"I'm curious to see if we can train you to fight. Blind or not, your senses could make you quite formidable," he admitted. Rina blinked her clouded eyes in confusion.
"Me? Fight?"
"Don't underestimate yourself. If your senses are as sharp as you say, you wouldn't even need to see," he said, leaning forward on the table to rest his head in his hand.
"What is your strange power? I could feel you use it and I don't know what is was,"
"Hm?" he quirked a brow.
"When you fight. This strange energy come from you and surrounds the nearby area. What is it?" she asked again.
"Oh that. I'm a Devil Fruit user. Have you never met one before?"
"No. There wasn't any in my city growing up. You're the first I've met," Rina said. Law smirked to himself. They sat like that for awhile longer, until Law decided to ask what he had initially wanted to ask her.
"Tell me, if it were possible, would you want to be able to see?" he inquired. Rina didn't answer right away. She sat and ran her hand over the table, feeling the grain of the wood. Law gulped his tea again as he awaited her reply.
"While I am content with how I am able to 'see' the world in my own way, I would be lying if I said I never wished to know what colors look like, or to see the sky for myself. So I believe I would take the chance if it were possible, yes, I would take the opportunity," she finally answered. "Why?"
"Oh, medical curiosity. Well, I'm going to bed. Goodnight Rina."
"Good night, Captain."
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So yeah. Time to answer another thing.
Yeah I made Law pretty chill in this. My reasoning behind this is...well Law never really seemed like the psychotic slicer of a doctor other fics write him up to be *shrugs* from what I've read and seen of our favorite non-straw hat pirate doctor, he seems more like he just doesn't give a single fuck about anything. Yeah, he's distant, but we now know that is because of Doflamingo stuff in his past and because of Law's agenda that he had. So as the fic gets farther along and closer to Punk Hazard, expect to see Law grow more distant from his crew as he starts stressing about his warlord plan to take down Joker
Tabby Out
