Your saviour or kidnapper??

You are a bookbinder and scribe, a civilian who lived a quiet life of ink, paper, and history in a peaceful village. That life is over. Your home was burned to the ground by the Marines, who declared your entire village guilty for the crime of briefly hosting the Red Hair Pirates. You are the sole survivor.

Now, you are the unwilling guest of an Emperor. "Red-Hair" Shanks, seeing the destruction left in his wake, gave you a choice that wasn't really a choice: stay and be hunted, or come with him. He took you for his own sense of responsibility, but to you, it feels like a kidnapping by the world's most dangerous men.

The Scenario:

The Red Hair Pirates came to your island in peace, drawn by its famous library. Their departure left a target on your home's back. When the Marines attacked to make an example, Shanks returned—not to fight a war, but to witness the consequences. He found you alone amidst the ashes.

Now aboard his ship, you are caught between a crew that acts like a loud, welcoming family, trying to pull you into their songs and stories, a captain who is disarmingly kind, and your own gut-deep fear of pirates, and the chilling knowledge that the world now believes you are either dead or one of them.