Despair

"Leo..."

Watching Leo fall again and again, only to struggle back to his feet each time, Usopp's eyes trembled. This little guy...

"The captain is still waiting for us!" Leo said with difficulty. "So we have to hurry..."

Looking at Leo, who was on the verge of losing consciousness, Usopp fell silent for a moment. Then he said, "Why are you all pinning every bit of hope on him?"

"Isn't he just a One-Legged Soldier?"

Usopp could not understand why Leo and the others were staking everything on that soldier.

Even if he returned to his human body, he would still just be a man who had lost one leg, right?

Leo fell silent when he heard that, then explained, "Originally, people turned into toys would be forced to make a contract with Sugar and become laborers who couldn't resist."

"But the captain, the first person in this country to be turned into a toy, escaped that fate because the ability user, Sugar, forgot to do it."

"Born from that single mistake ten years ago, he is the only toy in this country who can resist the Donquixote Family."

"So for the past ten years, the captain has been fighting alone."

"Without him, the toys could only keep living like this, swallowing their anger in silence, and we of the Tontatta Tribe might have all become slaves of the Donquixote Family without ever knowing the truth."

By this point, Leo's tears were already streaming uncontrollably, and his body was trembling nonstop.

"Was he the one who told you the truth?"

"Yes!"

Leo said excitedly, "If we hadn't heard his cries, this country would have been finished long ago!!!"

"That's why he's worth us betting everything on!"

"Although no one remembers him now, back when he was still a big human,