(A bonus update for Sect Leader ~Mo Mo Mo~ / 5)
"Wait. Your parents separated right after you two were born?" Loa suddenly realized something terrifying.
"So you and Minnie are actually twins?!"
This was downright absurd! Loa looked as though he'd seen a ghost—and not just figuratively.
Tsk!
Jones struggled to contain his anger. "What? Is there a problem?"
"Uh, no, no. Go on." Loa sipped his juice, conceding the point.
Well, this was a Japanese-style manga world!
A place where the women drawn could pass for men.
So of course it made perfect sense for Jones, who looked well into his forties, to be the twin brother of thirty-one-year-old Minnie!
Ahem.
Once Loa got past that, nothing else in Jones's life story surprised him.
To satisfy the curiosity of a child in his uncle's family, Jones had been forced to eat a Devil Fruit no one had ever seen before.
It was the Beast-Speech Fruit.
But its powers were weak at first, and once the child's excitement faded, he lost interest in Jones.
Only after Jones displayed the Beast-Speech Fruit's other abilities was he tossed into the Underworld like someone else's unwanted pet dog. Meanwhile, his sister Minnie was sent to the World Government and trained as a spy.
By the time Jones grew strong enough to believe he could protect her, he was ordered to remain on Kuriswia Island. Minnie's life was used as leverage to keep him there.
He had been guarding the island ever since.
Once a year, he and Minnie were allowed a brief conversation over a Den Den Mushi. Just a few words.
She was the only person he cared about.
As for the Athos Family that had raised him, Jones felt nothing but hatred.
He was like an abandoned lone wolf, lonely