Re: Life In One Piece

Another few months passed in this new world… After the announcement of my new position, I was given a small room in the main castle and left to my own devices.

Furthermore, just like the rest of Judge's children, I was assigned growth hormone therapy to bring out the true powers hidden in my modified genetics.

I could see the therapy truly working since my exoskeleton, healing, and growth boost were all improving in the talent section of my stat screen.

Apart from this, I was set up with good nutrition and had access to a lot of the facilities to pass my time until my true training could begin.

Creak-

While I was reading a few informational books in my room, a large woman in French maid's uniform walked in.

Her name was Eponi; she was a nurse in service to the royal household of the Germa Kingdom.

"0365, your presence is requested by your royal majesty!"

Without delay, I nodded and followed right behind Eponi.

In time, I arrived in the throne room in the castle. It was a large room prominently adorned with militaristic decor, including a large spread-winged bird behind the royal throne itself. Roughly in the room's center, there was table encircled by about five chairs.

Sitting on those chairs, there were the quadruplet sons and the daughter belonging to the royal family.

I was taken to a nearby chair at the side of the room and made to sit there by myself.

Some distance away from me, Vinsmoke Judge was sitting on his throne with a slight frown on his face. When everyone had finished settling, he began to address his family.

"As you all know, your bodies have all been endowed with genetic enhancements. You all have the potential to develop superhuman strength and even abilities akin to Devil-Fruit powers… You all will now begin training to one day lead Germa 66 and conqueror all of North Blue… just like our ancestors once did!"

At Judge's words, a twisted grin had formed on the faces of Niji, Yonji, and Ichiji; while Reiji remained emotionless.

On the other hand, the child Sanji's nose had wrinkled with disgust. He didn't understand the warmongering nature of this kingdom at all…

In the end, Vinsmoke Judge had announced a special training regimen for all his children and ordered me to participate in it too.

We were to meet every morning for a few hours and perform a grueling training session to hone us.

**

One month into the training session…

In an open field next to a large swimming pool, all of the genetically modified children including me were performing l.a.p.s in the pool with weights attached to us. I had the highest weight of about 200 kg, while Sanji had none.

However, he was easily the first one to run out of breath and start drowning.

"Ahhh! H..Help me!"

Without delay, I stopped doing my l.a.p.s and rushed to save the young boy.

"Hahaha! Looks like Sanji is drowning already…!"

"I always knew he was weak!"

The brother trio and even Reiju stopped their exercise to laugh at Sanji.

Vinsmoke Judge watched Sanji fail from the distance and curled his lips resentfully. 'Is this kid a failure?' He thought to himself.

After being transported by me to the surface, Pant-Pant- Sanji began to recover his breath hastily.

I could only eye him with a sad smile on my face. From the start, there was a no way a normal human should be able to survive a training regiment as intense as this.

This boy surely had a sad fate…

"Everyone, get back here! We're going to start sparring."

Vinsmoke Judge ordered, resulting in everyone hurrying back up.

He first made Ichiji, the red-haired older brother, spar with Yonji, the green haired youngest brother. This resulted in the former winning after an intense battle.

It was very surprising how the two didn't hold back despite being so close to each other.

"Sanji and 0365, it's your turn to battle!"

I nodded and stepped into the sparring ring, while Sanji stepped in too with his whole-body trembling. This was probably the first time he was ordered to fight somebody in his life.

"Begin!"

With a pronounced sigh, I took slow strides towards Sanji. I immediately lifted him up and placed him outside the ring to achieve victory.

The whole time Sanji did nothing but stay frozen.

Niji, the blue-haired brother, didn't enjoy our fight much as he said, "Why the hell didn't you beat Sanji?! You're supposed to fight your opponent with your full strength!"

I didn't reply to him and was about to walk out of the ring, but then Vinsmoke Judge made me stay and called Niji to have a spar with me.

Niji bumped his fists together and jumped into the ring with his eyes flashing in excitement.

Meanwhile, I had curled my lips upward into a grin away from everyone's view.

As soon as the match began, -Whoosh- I rushed up to him in the highest speed I could muster. Poor Niji didn't even have the time to react.

Wham…!

A frightening kick consisting of my full strength was delivered at Niji's torso. He fell out of the ring and began to puke blood from his mouth before fainting.

Yonji and Ichiji bared their teeth at me in anger with the latter yelling, "What the hell?! How dare you try and harm royalty?!"

"But I was commanded by Niji-Sama to not hold back… Are you saying I should have disobeyed his orders?"

I bowed to him and kept my face straight.

Ichiji and Yonji didn't seem to buy my words as they kept their glare at me.

"Let us show you what it means to disobey royal-"

"Back away from him!" Vinsmoke Judge signaled the two to stop and then continued, "He's programmed to try his best to follow our will… Rather than blame him, learn to use your forces properly. You're going to be commanding hundreds of soldiers in the future after all."

Yonji and Ichiji stopped the fuss they were creating and backed off completely. They respected their father the most.

Soon the spars continued; however, I held back a lot more every single time I was asked to fight anyone.

The spars were surely a little depressing to watch since someone would beat the hell out of Sanji every other round.

Just like that, another day passed in training.

**

A few hours later, I was strolling about in Germa Kingdom while humming by myself.

There were only a few hours of gruesome training my young body could manage; the rest of the time was practically spend doing nothing over here.

Step-Step-

On my way to a library, I spotted Reiju walking about with medical supplied in her hands.

Soon I ran up to her and said, "If you're looking to take care of Sanji with those medical supplies, I'm sure I saw him go towards your mother's room."

Reiju nodded and was about to turn around, but then her eyes widened in surprise.

"Wait, how do you know I'm bringing these for Sanji…?"

I bit my lip as I remembered how Reiju was pretty secretive about caring for Sanji these days. She didn't want to be lumped in with him and bullied too after all.

"Isn't it obvious? I know you're a kind person, and you care about your younger brother!"

"Not true… Whatever, just go away and keep all of this to yourself."

Reiju returned back to her cool expression and began to walk back to the main castle. I began to follow her without any reservation.

"Jeez, I forgot how everyone in your family thinks of 'kind' as an insult! I was totally complementing you by the way…"

Reiju's eyes fluttered for a second and then she continued walking.

"Huh, here I thought you were supposed to follow our every command. Didn't I ask you to go away?"

I laughed forcefully at this accusation and changed the topic. "C'mon, a life of a clone is pretty boring you know… Like what do you do for fun around here?"

"You sure talk like a normal person..."

Out of boredom, I kept asking a few more questions of Reiju, who kept becoming more and more convinced I was unlike any of the other clones in the kingdom.

Soon we arrived in a small room with a single bed over there. In that bed, there was a young woman with pale skin, dark blue eyes, and wavy shoulder length blonde hair. I recognized this beautiful woman as Vinsmoke Sora, the queen of Germa Kingdom.

Next to her, a child Sanji was sleeping peacefully. While Reiju went up to her mother, I turned around and started to leave.

'Perhaps, I should avoid disturbing this bedridden woman,' I thought.

But immediately upon my arrival, Sora glanced at me with her eyebrows raised in curiosity.

"Wow, you look just like my son, Niji! You're definitely the advanced clone I've been hearing about… Come closer!"

Sora's words weren't too far from the truth. I looked just like Vinsmoke Niji with the blue hair but without the swirly eyebrows.

This was all because the lineage factor was to be used on Vinsmoke's own kids, hence clones like me being tested had their genes taken from the queen and king themselves.

Step-Step-

Upon approaching near her, Sora began to move her gentle hands around my face.

"He has my nose and eyebrows… Judge's eyes. Wow, you'll surely look very handsome like one of my kids in the future!"

I flexed my biceps in pride at her words. "Yeah, lucky me! I'm glad I could at least avoid those swirly eyebrows..." Then, I tilted my head towards Reiju and added, "No offense though. I'm sure you'll look like a real beauty like your mom in the future!"

…

There was some silence there for a few moments where Sora was looking at me strangely.

"Yeah, this boy is completely different from the other clones" Reiju was the first one to speak, her voice calm and cold.

Soon a giggle escaped Sora's mouth, and her eyes began to sparkle more when looking at me.

"Aww, thank you for the complement…! Your name was 0365, right? Let's give you another one!"

"Uh… 0365 is fine. Maybe 007 would have been cooler. But if you're going to call me anything else, let it be Magnus!" I shook my head and declared.

"Magnus… that's a good name!"

Sora began to pat my head gently. Next, she turned towards Reiju and said, "I'm going to have the nurses take me to the royal bath. I'll take Sanji with me too. Would you like to join me?"

"Okay, I've nothing to do."

"Oh, you should come too, Magnus!"

A bead of sweat rolled down my face as I shook my head and answered, "Nah, I'm too busy!"

All of a sudden, a coy smile developed on Reiju's face.

"I thought you were very bored eh. Are you perhaps too shy to come with us?"

"N-No!"

My chin trembled at being caught. As a grown man with ethics, how can I enter a bath with a married woman?

Of course, I was just a 6-year old boy to everyone else…

Before I could leave, Sora grabbed me by shoulder with a kind smile on her face. "Everything will be fine! Just join us and have a good time…"

"I guess if you're really ordering me too…"

Very soon, we headed to the royal bath after waking up Sanji.