Transmigrated Just Before Being Discharged?

In the year X778 of the Fairy Tail calendar, in the basement of an abandoned church.

After the purple light unique to a magic circle flashed, a figure lying flat slowly appeared on the floor, which was covered in dried blood...

As the lingering light from the magic circle faded, Hughes slowly awoke. The pitch-black surroundings made it hard for him to tell where he was.

He sniffed lightly, and a stench of blood and rot hit him, making his stomach churn and jolting him awake.

Hughes swallowed, suppressing the discomfort.

As his eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness, Hughes hurriedly felt himself up and down. Finding all four limbs intact and no wounds, he breathed a long sigh of relief.

"No! No! The director said that if you wake up in a strange place, someone must be plotting something against you. Could it be..."

"Congratulations, the operation was a success. You're now a proper girl!"

A scene slowly formed in his mind: a gentle woman dressed in white set down a pair of bloodstained scissors and gave him a sweet smile.

Hughes's neck stiffened slightly as he lowered his head in jerky motions. Seeing that his little brother was still there, he let out the breath caught in his throat.

"Phew..."

Hughes wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and looked around. After only a few brief glances, he froze again, his eyes widening.

On the bloodstained floor, apart from him, a dozen or so people lay sprawled in every direction. Their faces were contorted, and black stripes covered their corpses.

After collecting himself for a moment, Hughes looked at their all-too-eye-catching abdominal cavities. Sure enough, they were empty!!

"Oh no... I'm not going to be next, am I?"

Hughes stood stunned for a long while. Rumors of organ trafficking and people killing for pleasure instantly surfaced in his mind. He could hardly imagine this hellish scene of bloodshed happening to him!

He lowered his head and saw the same all-too-familiar blue-and-white striped clothes, with the words "Cang City Psychiatric Hospital" especially prominent on the chest.

"Fake! It's all fake!!"

"But I took my medicine this morning! There's no way it could have flared up so soon. The director even said I'd recovered and could be discharged tomorrow."

Hughes took a light step and crept over to the nearest corpse... It was a man, dressed in old-fashioned clothes. His wide, bulging eyes reflected Hughes's face.

Having looked at each other in the mirror every day, Hughes naturally recognized that this was his body!

His mind went blank in an instant...

Hughes remembered that he had been enjoying the anime the director had put on especially for him. Just as it reached an exciting part, the director came into his room, happily patted him on the shoulder, and handed him a discharge notice.

With his mind entirely on the television, Hughes had no time to pay attention. He took the notice and casually tossed it onto the bed.

The moment the two came into contact, a circular magic circle radiating purple light abruptly formed. A tremendous suction force suddenly appeared, pulling him toward the purple magic circle.

"So the magic circle that appeared on my bed was real? I really did transmigrate??"

"No... I was going to be discharged tomorrow and see the world outside the psychiatric hospital, not go to another world!! And such a dangerous place at that!!"

Before his agitation had subsided, Hughes's eyes suddenly widened, and he gasped rapidly and repeatedly. His right hand, still able to move, curled into a claw and clamped tightly onto his head...

"Hah!"

Hughes felt as though a boulder had been swung against his head. The pain was intense and fierce.

Waves of utterly unfamiliar memory fragments burrowed into his mind, paying no heed to whether he could take it. It was utterly violent.

My head hurts so much. It feels like something's about to grow out of it...

[Shakky is mine. I'm going to usher in the supreme era of oppression...]

[Imu is a woman. Joy Boy and Davy Jones caused the Great Kingdom's collapse in their struggle to win Imu...]

[Roger, you can't escape; Garp, stop chasing me. We have no future together...]

[Crocodile is Whitebeard's daughter...]

Hughes clenched his teeth. Unable to move because of the pain in his head, he could only silently endure the jumbled memories burrowing into his mind.

A moment later, Hughes sat slumped on the floor, gasping for air. He looked at his body, which he could move again, and the page before him that looked as though it had been created by illusion magic, and fell into thought.

[Host: Hughes]

[Talent: None]

[Fruit ability: None]

[Ultimate technique: None]

[Pending tasks: None]

[Tasks: Defeat the King of Mount Colubo, wipe out the mountain bandits, face the Bandit King's trial...]

The string of "none"s made Hughes click his tongue. Sure enough, it was the three-nones system unique to transmigrators.

Hughes noticed that only "Defeat the King of Mount Colubo" was lit up in the task module; the others were all gray.

He focused his mind on the gray tasks, but nothing happened, leaving him greatly disappointed. Having gained nothing, he could only focus on the one part of the task list that was lit up.

[Defeat the King of Mount Colubo: Mount Colubo is a place of both scenery and danger. Besides the mountain bandits hiding there, it is also home to many fierce beasts. These beasts are the true masters of the mountain. Please defeat the fiercest among them.]

[Task reward: Ultimate technique: Tekkai]

After Hughes finished reading the newly lit task, [Defeat the King of Mount Colubo], it slowly disappeared. The words "View the King of Mount Colubo?" appeared in its place, and Hughes checked it with a little excitement.

A huge, ferocious-looking tiger suddenly appeared on the page, the words "King of Mount Colubo" shining brightly above its forehead.

[King of Mount Colubo viewed. Please complete the task within ten days.]

[Task reward: Ultimate technique: Tekkai]

[Task penalty: The host's entire body will be reduced to half its size.]

Hughes fell silent, because he saw that the [Pending tasks] field, which should have said "None," now had "Defeat the King of Mount Colubo" after it.

"Oh crap, I fell for it..."

"Why did you have to go and click on it, you idiot!! And I've transmigrated into the world of One Piece??"

As a "mental patient" of the new era, Hughes had also been exposed to all kinds of knowledge. When those extremely familiar words "Mount Colubo" and "Tekkai" appeared, he knew he had probably transmigrated into the world of One Piece.

The transparent page slowly faded from sight, and Hughes let out a long sigh. The world of One Piece ran very deep. He hoped that what had just happened wasn't some kind of Devil Fruit ability.

The stench still lingered around his nose and mouth, but Hughes, standing where he was, had no mind to care about it. He had discovered that something really had grown in his brain.

The sensation of waves of memories invading his brain just now had been real, not an illusion.

There really were many memories in his head that didn't belong to him. The inexplicable memories made Hughes curious enough to browse through one fragment.

["Sengoku, just keep holding me down like this! Otherwise, I won't be able to stop myself from chasing Akainu back!"

"I've already lost Roger. I can't stop Akainu from pursuing his happiness again!"

His head pinned beneath Sengoku's giant hand, Garp couldn't move. His face was full of sorrow, and all he could see was the broad figure of Akainu running into Whitebeard's embrace!

"Fool, don't you still have me?" Sengoku's deep voice rumbled from behind him.

Garp's body suddenly stiffened, his voice hopeful and trembling. "Can I still have you?"

"Garp, I've always been waiting..."]

Hughes didn't dare read the whole thing. Stunned and at a loss, he blinked his large eyes, then swept the memory out of his mind like a piece of trash.

Wait... dude, is this right??

The world of One Piece I came to should be normal, right? And the system I just got should be nor... mal too, right! Hughes looked at the disemboweled corpses around him, covered in black stripes, and swallowed!

"Quick, quick! I just heard something inside. The summoning circle must have summoned someone again!!"