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Summary
They were children.
That was their first mistake.
Before the sea, before the dreams, before the promises whispered under a stolen sky — there was Fushia. There was laughter. There was warmth.
And then there was the cage.
When Luffy, Ace and Sabo are taken from Dawn Island by men who promise opportunity and deliver chains, their world fractures in ways no child should survive. Sold into a hidden laboratory disguised as salvation, they become subjects in a project meant to rewrite the laws of Devil Fruits themselves.A polite scientist.A second chance.A lie.
Arlson does not seek to heal them.He seeks to break them.Fourteen months of experimentation.Artificial Devil Fruits born from violent deaths. A first love turned to ash. A will crushed but never erased.
Ace burns with guilt. Sabo goes cold and empty. Luffy — Luffy survives the impossible.
And a breaking point that will tear the laboratory apart. This is not the story of pirates chasing freedom. This is the story of what had to be destroyed before freedom could exist.Also on FFNet
Series
- Part 1 of Childhood - Ashes - Family