It was an ordinary morning, people just starting to rise on their beds while others were already out, beginning to start the day early, children who woke with the sun were already running outside playing tag and others were simply enjoying the start of the day.
But just beside the village, a forest stood, if you stood close enough you would hear an eerie voice echoing inside the woods, the voice filtered by the trees so it just seems like a hushed whisper, but it's there. There was only one person who lived there, and practically owned it for years now and it was known by everyone in the village...
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"I was a moving thing∼
Before I was a human being∼
I was the ice before it melts,
I was the tree before it fell...
My dear∼ come near∼
Do you understand what is happening∼?"
Walking along the forest, my soft voice softly filled the normally silent place, as I mindlessly stepped beside the branches that stood my way. My hand held onto an empty basket I was using to collect fruits, fresh new ones right at the beginning of spring, while my other held another basket already filled with apples, strawberries, apricots and different berries.
"Crawl beneath the earth,
To feel the hunger and the thirst."
I saw another tree, a lemon tree this time, on the other side of a creek. So I walked on the rocks visible on the water, which was thankfully not deep, easily maintaining balance. My slippers became wet as the water current kept flowing, but I didn't let that bother me.
"If you could fly∼ and be the bird∼
Then you would see the forest burn∼"
As soon as I reached the tree I started picking the big ones with both hands. Where was the empty basket you may ask? Simple, a 3rd hand has it!
A lemon suddenly started to fall, with reflexes I didn't have the other day and quickly caught it with the 4th hand that grew from my body below my left arm. I didn't let that bother me either.
"My dear∼ come near∼"
What was bothering me however, was the dozens and dozens of critters following me since I became like this! Surely enough, birds of different kinds, squirrels, deers, hell even rabbits, the preys I eat on a daily basis coming to their predator!
"Do you understand what is happening∼?"
No, to be honest I don't.
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It started about a week before I turned 17, also the week before I finally left the island. Well, supposed to leave anyway. I made the decision to leave the same age as Luffy and Ace. I would travel to different islands of East Blue(since that is where my Island is located) before going to the Grandline, how exactly, I don't know yet. Maybe I would just travel in circles until I meet some pirates willing to have me onboard.
As the winter ends, I will begin packing, that's the plan.
Of course the universe said my life was too simple and decided to fuck that up.
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Ryouseirui | 両声類 |
FanficSUMMARY: 両声類 Ryouseirui, literally translates to "both vocal species", and is a Japanese term to describe people who are able to sing two "genders", from male singing voice to a vocal range of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano. Although that's...
