【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Chapter 428: Do you want your father more than your brother?

"Here you go." Lucci threw two candies into Luffy's open mouth. "Your next dose of medicine will be in four hours."

"Lucci, you've gone too far!" Luffy chewed the candy in his mouth, his face full of grief. Although the sweet taste spread in his mouth and suppressed the strange bitter taste in his mouth, he was still unhappy.

Lucci sighed helplessly and ruffled Luffy's black hair. "If you want to get better quickly, eat this."

"Chopper won't let me take such weird pills." Luffy complained.

Ace was obviously relieved that Luffy finally succeeded in taking the pills, so he continued, "Then how did your doctor treat you when you were injured?" He remembered that the reindeer was the doctor on Luffy's ship.

"Every time I get hurt, I just sleep for two days and it's healed." Luffy said dissatisfiedly, "Chopper wouldn't force me to take this weird pill."

"That's because Chopper treated you while you were asleep." Lucci complained, "The medicine was also given to you in the form of soup and pills."

"But that's sweet," Luffy retorted, "not this weird, bitter taste.

"Sweet medicine? Is it sugar-coated?" Sabo said with a smile. It seems that Luffy really has a group of friends who love him very much.

Ace sighed helplessly, "You all spoil him too much, that's why he's so stubborn even when he's hurt."

"You're the one who taught him that." Sabo said speechlessly, "Luffy wasn't this stubborn when he was a kid."

"These two idiots who let me take care of Luffy alone have no right to talk about my education." Ace said dissatisfiedly, but his expression was very proud.

Sabo and Lucci resisted the urge to roll their eyes at Ace's smug look.

"Can I go out? I've been in the room for a long time! I'm completely fine now!" Luffy frowned and looked at Marco and Lucci with dissatisfaction. Marco was a very good doctor, but also very annoying.

And Luffy, ever since he woke up, they'd been telling him not to get up or walk around. Even when he went outside, they wouldn't let him get down. They were so annoying! He really was fine! He'd been through worse, but he still couldn't convince Marco and Luffy. They refused to listen. Even Sabo and Ace sided with them. Luffy pouted in dissatisfaction.

"It's only been three days." Marco couldn't help but complain, and then said seriously, "You can't leave this infirmary for the next few days!"

"Impossible!" Luffy shouted in dissatisfaction.

"This is necessary!" Marco said angrily. "I knew something was wrong the moment you woke up, just from the energy you displayed. You couldn't recover quickly from waking up in that state. No matter how energetic you acted, it only accelerated your body's breakdown. That's why you're lying here now."

"I don't want to." Luffy pouted. "It's too boring to lie here!"

"Just asking you to stay in bed for a few days is already the biggest concession I've made. In fact, you should at least stay in bed for a few weeks!" Marco sighed heavily, his voice full of obvious fatigue. He didn't expect Lucci and Ace's younger brother to be so difficult to deal with.

"I don't want to, that's too boring!" Luffy immediately protested, almost jumping up and shouting angrily, "I won't stay here, I want to go out and adventure!"

"Be careful, you can't do strenuous exercise!" Lucci immediately held Luffy down and said with a frown. When Luffy woke up, he looked full of energy. Who knew that he would suddenly fall into a coma after dinner that day and sleep for two whole days. It really scared them.

"You can't go anywhere yoi!" Marco was fed up, he felt his headache getting worse, and said to Luffy in a scary doctor's voice, "If you can't stay in bed quietly and rest, I will force you to stay quietly and rest!"

In fact, he would not do anything to the child. He just gave him some sleeping medicine. His body needed to continue to rest and recover. If he did not rest voluntarily, Marco had many ways to make him rest. But looking at the quiet Luffy, Marco sighed heavily. To deal with these stubborn patients, did he have to use threatening words to make them obey?

Luffy visibly swallowed a breath, sensing Marco's forceful demands, and quieted down.

"But rest is so boring!" Although Luffy quieted down and stopped dancing in protest, he still continued to complain dissatisfiedly, "I've been in this room for a long time! It's boring here, not fun at all!"

"You're so rude! Haven't we been here with you the whole time? And you've only been here consciously for one day!"

Lucci pulled Luffy's cheek and shouted in dissatisfaction. The three of them had stayed in the infirmary to guard this kid for three whole days without leaving, but this kid got impatient first. He had no idea how worried he made his brothers. He really wanted to grab this little bastard's ears and teach him a lesson until he understood how much he made his brothers suffer.

"Okay, Luffy, stop yelling at him." Sabo grabbed Luffy's shoulders, signaling him to calm down. Then he reached out and touched Luffy's hair, saying in a gentle voice, "Luffy, why don't you tell us about your sailing experience, such as how you met your crew members."

"Okay!" Luffy grinned excitedly and began to share his adventures.

"Then Zoro and Nami stopped Buggy from firing, and we beat him up!" Luffy said happily, and then a little frustrated, "But Buggy tore my hat. Although Nami quickly repaired it, Shanks might think that I didn't protect his hat well."

"Don't be silly, Shanks won't blame you for this." Ace smiled and squeezed Luffy's shoulder. "We all know how well you've done in protecting your hat."

"Did we rescue the pirate named Buggy?" Lucci turned to look at Marco. He remembered Luffy saying that it was Buggy who went to Impel Down with him.

"That's the guy with the huge red nose," Sabo recalled. He had indeed heard this name at the gate of Impel Down.

"Is he gone? In fact, we shouldn't save him." Lucci said calmly.

"Although Buggy wanted to chop off my head on the execution platform, he helped me reach the third floor in Impel Down, so he is my friend now," Luffy explained.

"Has he left?" Now the three brothers turned to look at Marco with gloomy faces.

"An angry brother-con is really scary!" Sachi muttered, moving his body closer to the wall.

"He and the other prisoners had already left the ship the day Luffy woke up." Even Marco couldn't withstand these three murderous gazes.

"It was in Rogue Town." Sabo turned his gaze back to Luffy and said, "It must be Dragon who saved Luffy."

"Grandpa did say that my father was there to see me off." Luffy asked in confusion, "Lucci, why didn't you ever tell me that we still have a father?"

"No need to say, we haven't seen him." Lucci softened his expression, then pulled Luffy's cheek and asked dissatisfiedly, "Or do you want your father more than your brother?"

"Of course, brother, I don't need a father." Luffy said immediately.