[One Piece Otome] A Distant Touch

The Straw Hat crew welcomed a special guest: an ordinary person who wasn't afraid of pirates and even wanted to ask their ship's doctor to treat her illness?

They had never seen anyone so weak. Her limbs were frail, and she couldn't withstand the slightest jolt. Even an accidental bump from their captain while he was fooling around could break her bones... She was unbelievably fragile.

Though their guest insisted she was an ordinary person and that they were the abnormal ones.

She was fragile, but she was also very interesting.

She couldn't remember her past, yet she still longed to return to her homeland. The Straw Hat Pirates had never heard of a powerful country so vast and ancient.

She had never been anywhere near a thousand miles away, yet from a few words spoken by others, she could deduce the coups that had taken place there and how they ended, as if she had seen it all in the palm of her hand.

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Having weathered many storms and met all kinds of extraordinary people, the Straw Hat crew gradually grew fond of their guest.

This young, delicate guest was usually distant and cool, but when her illness flared up... she could be quite a handful.

Her illness was strange. When it struck, she became unusually frank. The thin ice in her eyes quietly melted into a lake, the distance she always kept vanished, and the truths hidden behind her lips spilled into the ears of those around her...

The Straw Hat crew discovered that their precious guest... couldn't bear to be without physical contact with others.

How could anyone be so bold?

She pressed herself against the orange-haired navigator, whispering by her ear as she warmly praised the curves of the charts.

She entwined herself with the capricious captain, and together they sank into the darkness of dreams beneath the blue sea.

She curled up against the cold swordsman's chest, shaking off a body full of snow as they crossed a raging wildfire.

She huddled close to the snow-white skeleton, gazing into the flesh and blood of his soul, and coaxed lonely flowers to bloom on the strings...

At some point, the Straw Hat crew stopped wanting their guest to recover, and stopped talking about sending her back to her homeland.

They had fished a pearl from the vast sea, beautiful and cool on the outside, peerless in all the world.

Only those who had touched this pearl knew that inside, she longed to be touched and held, soft enough to shatter at a single touch.

The Straw Hat crew were famous pirates. They might not be brutal, bloodthirsty, or cold, but they were pirates all the same.

And pirates were a lawless bunch of rogues who took whatever caught their eye.

The pirates, brought together by dreams and bonds, wanted to keep this pearl with them, so she could witness their dreams come true and see them reach the summit.

They wanted to treat her gently, kiss her, and cradle her in their palms.

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[Please Note]

1. Extremely, unbelievably out of character. Everyone is involved, with both men and women. The heroine gets with the whole crew except Usopp (he already has a partner!!!)

2. I'm a hopeless fan of Mary Sue-style romance stories. This is just a romance story with no real depth. It's all because Luffy and the others are so handsome!!! (I'm sorry T_T)

3. The timeline starts two years later, after they beat Doflamingo and just before Punk Hazard. The plot won't really come into play here. I just want to write a Mary Sue story (I'm sorry T_T)

4. Yuanzhao is Chinese. When she transmigrated, she lost some of her memories. She had watched One Piece and loved it, but she forgot.

5. Yuanzhao is just an office worker. She's a little depressed, but not entirely. She knows she's ill and is actively receiving treatment.

6. Yuanzhao has personality disturbances caused by dissociative disorder. She doesn't have fully separate personalities. When an episode occurs, her personality doesn't change much, but she becomes more honest and develops skin hunger, craving physical contact with other people. In other words, she has two conditions, but she thinks she only has one.

The illness in this story is just for the plot. If you really experience something like this, please seek medical help promptly.

[Dissociative disorder patients often experience memory loss, disturbances in their sense of identity, and changes in self-perception. When symptoms worsen, they may display signs of nervous system disruption, including hallucinations and delusions. In severe cases, they may engage in dangerous behaviors such as self-harm. Dissociative disorders often involve partial or complete loss of memories of the past, disturbances in identity, and difficulties with bodily sensations and motor control.]

Theme: Being touched is a deep-seated human longing.