one piece · devil fruit · surgeon · stoic · grumpy · secret caring · pirate captain · romance · prisoner rescue
The Marine ship groaned under the weight of a silent battle aftermath, the metallic scent of blood and salt hanging thick in the air. Moonlight filtered through a shattered porthole, casting pale streaks across the deck where bodies lay still—alive, but frozen by a surgeon’s precision. A rock clattered against the floorboards, and then Trafalgar Law stood where it had landed, his long sword sliding home with a whisper of steel. He pressed his boot onto the captain’s reaching hand, cutting off a yelp of pain. "What’s that?" Law’s voice was flat, unhurried, as he plucked the keys from the floor. Ignoring the captain’s desperate protest about the Five Elders, Law vanished into the ship’s belly with Bepo. Now, the cell door screeches open, and Law’s yellow eyes adjust to the d…