The darkness was still thick when a baby stirred. His eyelids fluttered open, I feel my body was paining totally I smell the air is filled with fishy smell and smell of salt and then I slowly opened my eyes "umm..." there was a pain in my chest.
"Where am I?" "Was I kidnapped?"
I sat up with a start. Or rather, tried to. I looked down.
Small hands.
Tiny legs.
Bare feet that didn't even reach the floor of the wooden cot I was laid on.
"What the hell...?" I murmured, and thought why I have small hands huh then I froze.
That voice. That wasn't my voice.
High-pitched. Childlike.
"Did I… got reborn?"
Soon I remember who I was a young man name Chris, my last memories were of collapsing on my desk, surrounded by books and notes. I'd pushed myself to the limit preparing for college entrance exams, sleeping barely three hours a night in the next day. There had been chest pain, shortness of breath…
And then — nothing.
Now, this?
I laughed. Just a short, empty chuckle. "So I really died... Hah. And I got crossed over?"
I was still a little confuse about all this transmigration I thought after death there was nothing else but direct transmigration was something not what I thought I would get.
My voice still sounded strange to my own ears. But I wasn't panicking anymore. Just confused. And maybe, deep down, a little excited. I had a second chance. A new life.
"But where was I?" And in which type of world.
I peered through the bars of the cell. Rows upon rows of similar cages lined the room. The people in them—most of them children, a few adults—were silent, their faces a mix of exhaustion, fear, and hopelessness.
The realization hit me slowly, like a cold hand around his throat.
Am I… in a jail or something? Of a ship ?
That's when the pain started.
It was sudden and sharp, like needles in my brain. I clutched my head and screamed. Memories—not my own—flooded in. Faces I'd never seen. A village burning. Screams. Blood. Cold nights in the forest. Chains.
I saw through the eyes of the body I now occupied.
An orphan. A child born of Oni race. His village was destroyed by slave traders. Everyone he knew, gone. He was captured accept one who was in my front cage.
"Wait a minute, slave traders… , pirates , Marines ,Oni race and Selene. This is the world is it the world of One Piece an anime for freedom and adventure with one of the best MC's in anime Luffy but later on the author just showed us what a second generation is though Luffy is a good MC but there are more times where Luffy survived Marine Admirals even whom 5th stage cancer Whitebeard cannot beat and even he survived that wild Marine-ford war and even Borsalino where can oneshot other supernova's he kicked him back to Whitebeard.
AHHH… and here I am a slave. But one things in this world is true the more stronger you are the more freedom you have so I have to become strong.
The headache subsided, but the weight of the memories lingered. I sat there for a long moment, stunned.
"So I am a child of the Oni race and my name is Azrak huh" I tough the deep blue horns on my head "And the good think is this real owner can feel what the other person heart thinks, it's a great buff then this kid donot even knew what this thing really is but I know this type of ability is known as a special kind of Observation Haki which this body did not knew" "And this body is just 1year old looks like the constitution of this world's people is something else".
In only 1year old this body can walk and talk and the strength, I have is to beat up 20 normal humans.
I clenched my fists.
"Alright then," I muttered, a spark of determination lighting in my chest. "If I've been given a second life... then I'll climb to the top. No matter what, In this life I would never be mediocre but first I have to get out of here first or else I would be sold as a slave". At this time in my heart without me knowing a wild force started to gather though chaotic and small in presence. I should move faster my friend is also locked in and I have to help her if I can save her she will be of great help. I started to run my head a way to escape
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------His journey in the world of One Piece had just begun.
From the cold floor of a slave cage.