One Piece: Two Souls In One Body
two lives one promise part 4

Old books of legends and myths.

I tore it up and searched for the place. Ace kept asking what happened. There: Two brothers and a demon of despair: Once upon a time there lived two brothers. Their lives were happy and peaceful until the day their parents died.

From now on they are alone, driven out of their homes, they live on the street.

One cold and gloomy winter, the younger of the brothers fell ill. Although the older ones asked for help everywhere, no one showed mercy to the children.

He offered to work if they would accept his sister. But no one wants to accept a sick and dying child. The fear of falling ill on its own is too great.

So it just so happened that on a dark night without a moon, the younger brother died, with the promise on his lips to never leave the older one alone.

Tonight his whole world is destroyed. The desire to live from the older brother was extinguished and he just wanted to die.

But some suffering is so great that even death takes a distance. The brother shouted his pain into the darkness of the night and cursed this cruel world.

His shout went unanswered and something moved in the darkness. Using the boy's pain as a beacon for our world, the devil came.

Invented by all the jokes, all the suffering, the unquenchable tears and the inaudible cries of despair, he knew no good, no evil, only despair.

One by one the citizens were plunged into a dark dream that marked a snake-like black scar on their bodies. Caught by their own fears, they are unable to wake up.

One by one they starve, die of thirst, while suffering in their dreams. Until only the brother remained.

Now the devil attacked the person who called him. The older brother fell into a dark dream, at the mercy of the devil.

In his dream he heard the reproach of his younger brother and his parents why he did not save him. They turned their backs on him and walked away, leaving him alone in the darkness, no matter how loudly he shouted.

This one smiled at him and took him out of his dark dreams. The demon had to let go, because the younger brother gave him something that despair could not resist: A glimmer of hope.

Together they achieve what no one else can do - they pull themselves out of darkness and despair. His older brother awakens and leaves the island knowing that his younger brother has kept his promise; he does not leave him alone.

Now he wants to see the world with his own eyes, to see that there are also good ones.

The devil, however, must remain on the island where all are living, avoiding this village of despair, until the day when someone will take him out of this island to devour the whole world or drive him out of this world again.

Black blood vessels, this strange island, people possessed, I guess. "We have to tell dad," Ace said seriously. But before I could take a single step, I saw a black vein on the back of my hand, then it was all dark.

to explain:

***Once the pathogen enters the body, the body has started to fight back. It is the responsibility of the innate immune system, which keeps pathogens under control until the "learned" immune system can start working after about 4 days and destroy all pathogens. If there is no increase in this type of cell, the person is completely healthy.

NK Cell: Natural killer cell. They are part of the innate immune system. It is the first cell to attack a pathogen.

T cells: Parts of the immune system that are "studied". Able to recognize the virus in the cell and destroy the cell.

B Cells: Produce antibodies to pathogens and are also part of the "studied" immune system".

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