"Um, Reiju, could you ask me to help you with something?" Baby5 looked at Reiju with her big, watery eyes.
Reiju blinked. "Uh... then could you help me get some water?"
"I don't want to, hehehehe!"
Baby5 laughed as she skipped away, leaving Reiju standing there in disarray.
"Captain Golden Lion, could you ask me to help you with something?"
"Jihahahaha! Looks like the little girl is in quite a good mood today... Light my cigar for me."
"I don't want to! Bleh, bleh, bleh!"
Watching Baby5 pull faces as she left, Golden Lion wore a baffled expression and rubbed his head. "Women really are hard to understand."
"Mr. Judge, may I ask you to let me help you with something?"
In just one day, Baby5's strange behavior had caught the attention of everyone in the Golden Lion Pirates. Since Reiju was a girl around Baby5's age and got along well with her, she quietly went to find Minos.
"Minos... um, Baby5 seems a little abnormal..."
Reiju looked awkward as she spoke hesitantly. "Could she be under too much pressure? Or did something go wrong while developing her Devil Fruit?"
Minos, who was practicing swordsmanship, wiped the sweat from his forehead. "No, she's perfectly normal. She just resolved a mental knot and got too excited. She'll return to normal in a few days."
"A mental knot?" Reiju asked curiously.
"Yes." Minos sheathed his sword and sat on a rock. "Baby5's family was very poor when she was little. After she was born, people thought she was a waste of food and useless. In the end, her own mother abandoned her."
"Because of that enormous childhood trauma, she became even more desperate to be needed by others. As long as someone needed her, she couldn't refuse them. Whether they wanted to