[One Piece] Miss Inumaki Has a Crow's-Mouth Buff

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Many years later, the Pirate King and the companions who had first set sail with him returned to Foosha Village. The children excitedly crowded around them, clamoring to hear about their thrilling adventures. Though Luffy had grown more mature after all he had been through, in his heart he was still like a child who had never grown up. He ate meat as he told the stories of the adventures he had shared with his companions, looking even happier than the children.

Chengxia sat to the side and listened. The Pirate King ate his fill, then promptly fell asleep. The children came over to pester her, and unable to refuse, she continued from where her captain had left off.

The story went on for a long time, but the children were still wide awake. Chengxia urged them to go to bed, but one of them asked why she had earned the nickname "Jinx." Faced with their curious looks, she had yet to answer when the Pirate King, who should have been asleep, woke up again, driven by hunger. He cut in first: "I know! It's because Makimaki..."

Luffy hadn't finished speaking when Chengxia simply opened her mouth slightly, revealing the curse marks on her lips and tongue. She said, "Shut up."

And so the Pirate King, feared by the Navy and pirates everywhere, clamped his mouth shut in an instant, unable even to eat. Ignoring his pitiful expression, Chengxia told the children, "Go back to bed."

As the children filed out, looking surprised and curious, Chengxia walked them to the door and smiled gently. "I'll tell you why tomorrow."

*Reader's guide

① This should be a wish-fulfillment story. Probably.

② The heroine is the daughter of Inumaki Toge from Jujutsu Kaisen, but anything related to Jujutsu Kaisen will only appear in her memories.

③ About her abilities: The heroine inherited Cursed Speech, but her cursed energy isn't particularly strong, and after she transmigrated to the world of One Piece, the difference between the worlds weakened the ability. So she can talk to people normally without worrying too much about accidentally cursing them.

④ Since Cursed Speech has been weakened, and she inherited her mother's formidable physique, the heroine mainly relies on martial arts to fight in the early story. She's also extremely hard to kill.

⑤ The heroine will get a Devil Fruit later on. Its power is mainly "thoughts becoming reality," meaning that whatever she says becomes real. However, since she already has Cursed Speech, the two abilities together greatly weaken the Devil Fruit's power. On the other hand, Cursed Speech gets a huge boost, though with a side effect: good things don't work very well, while bad things work especially well. In short, if she's in a desert with no water and says she wants some, water might not appear. But if she casually tells someone not to trip, they'll definitely trip.

Mm, that's why the Navy later gives her the nickname "Jinx." Some people also call her the "Puppeteer," which she prefers.

⑥ As for the pairing, even though it's tagged as romance, it might have no pairing. Ah, it could also be an everyone-loves-her story, since I like that sort of thing. Anyway, we'll see.

⑦ Updates will come whenever I feel like it. I've dug too many holes already.

Theme: Freedom and the sea