As Drum Island transformed into a convergence point for the world's most dangerous forces, the Sky Screen's ethereal glow shifted once again. The static images that had captivated global audiences gave way to something deeper—a narrative that would reveal the tragic beginnings of the future "Zoan God."
[Tony Tony Chopper's life story, according to the Nico Chronicles, represents one of the most thoroughly documented biographies of the Great Pirate Era. His trajectory from outcast to legend has been verified by historians across generations, earning the highest credibility rating among recorded accounts]
[The Nico Chronicles, penned by descendants of the archaeologist Nico Robin, chronicles the major events and pivotal figures of the Great Pirate Era. Previously, we glimpsed fragments of Buggy the Clown's hidden history. Today, we delve into the complete origins of Tony Tony Chopper]
[The historian who compiled these chronicles made no attempt to hide her heritage. Her ancestor, Nico Robin, bore the title "Demon Child" during the Great Pirate Era—an archaeologist who witnessed history itself. She observed the World Government's eight-hundred-year reign, watched its gradual decline, and recorded its ultimate dissolution into the dust of forgotten empires]
[Today, the mystery of Tony Tony Chopper's origins is revealed in its entirety]
The Sky Screen's display shifted, showing the pristine wilderness of Drum Island's interior—a landscape of endless white broken only by the dark shapes of reindeer moving across the snow.
[The exact herd of his birth cannot be verified due to the passage of time, but Tony Tony Chopper entered this world among the wild reindeer of Drum Island. From the moment of his first breath, fate marked him as different]
[His blue nose—a genetic anomaly that should have been merely cosmetic—became the defining curse of his early existence. To his herd, this deviation marked him as fundamentally wrong, a creature that violated the natural order]
The images showed a tiny reindeer calf, barely weeks old, being driven away by larger members of his herd. Their antlers lowered threateningly, their eyes filled with the instinctual fear that difference breeds in the natural world.
[When still barely old enough to walk steadily, Chopper was exiled by the herd's alpha. The young reindeer found himself alone in the harsh winter landscape, with only his exceptional willpower keeping him alive in conditions that should have claimed his life within days]
[Denied the protection and food sources of his herd, the young deer was forced to dig through snow with tender hooves, searching desperately for any sustenance. Perhaps destiny guided his steps when he discovered a peculiar fruit growing on a small, hardy tree]
[Hunger overcame caution. The starving reindeer devoured the fruit completely, though its taste was unlike anything in nature—bitter, strange, almost metallic. But it filled his empty stomach and provided the energy to survive another frigid night]
[The fruit he consumed was revealed to be a Devil Fruit: the Hito Hito no Mi (Human-Human Fruit), Standard Model—considered among the most useless Devil Fruits in existence]
[This particular fruit grants animals human-level intelligence and language capabilities, but provides no combat abilities or obvious advantages. For humans who consume it, the effects are even more disappointing—a slight increase in intelligence at the cost of their ability to swim, making them objects of ridicule]
[After Chopper's eventual death, this same fruit would be consumed by an unfortunate human, granting him marginal intellectual improvement while condemning him to a lifetime as his village's laughingstock]
[The Hito Hito no Mi produced several remarkable variants during the Great Pirate Era, each leaving indelible marks on history:]
[Fleet Admiral Sengoku: Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Daibutsu (Human-Human Fruit, Great Buddha Model)]
[Various legendary figures claimed different mythical variants of this fruit, each transforming the wielder into beings of immense power and wisdom]
[But standard model that Chopper consumed was considered worthless—until Tony Tony Chopper proved that no Devil Fruit is truly useless in the hands of someone with infinite determination]
[It wasn't the fruit that made Chopper legendary. Chopper made the fruit legendary]
The Sky Screen displayed the heartbreaking transformation sequence: a small reindeer suddenly expanding into a towering, hybrid creature covered in brown fur, antlers intact but now supporting a more humanoid frame.
[Initially unable to control his new abilities, Chopper remained locked in his hybrid form—a two-meter-tall monster that retained his reindeer features while gaining human posture and proportions. Desperate for acceptance, he attempted to return to his birth herd]
[The reindeer's reaction was immediate and violent. Where once they had merely driven him away, now they attacked with genuine terror. In their eyes, this half-human, half-deer abomination represented something far worse than an oddly colored reindeer—it was a violation of the natural world itself]
[Forever banished from his species, Chopper's young mind conceived a naive hope: if reindeer wouldn't accept him, perhaps humans would. After all, hadn't the fruit made him partially human? Surely they would welcome one of their own]
[His approach to human settlements on Drum Island met with an even more violent response. Humans, already fearful of monsters and demons, saw only a creature from their worst nightmares. Musket barrels emerged from windows, and bullets began to fly]
[Chopper fled through the snow as projectiles tore through the air around him, his flesh and blood form vulnerable to human weapons. He could only protect his vital organs while desperately seeking shelter in the deepest parts of the winter forest]
[This encounter birthed the legend of the "Blue-Nosed Snowman"—a monster that parents would use to frighten disobedient children. "Be good, or the snowman will come for you on the coldest nights." The very creature who would one day dedicate his life to healing became a boogeyman in local folklore]
[Though he escaped with his life, Chopper collapsed in the snow, his body riddled with wounds and his spirit completely broken. Rejected by animals and hunted by humans, he belonged nowhere. In his childlike understanding, death in the snow seemed like mercy—an end to the loneliness that consumed him more completely than any physical pain]
[If not for the intervention of a mediocre doctor, the world would have lost its greatest healer before he had even begun to understand his gifts]
The scene shifted to show a man in a tattered coat trudging through the snow, his medical bag swinging at his side. His face was kind but worn, marked by years of failures and the weight of good intentions that rarely translated to positive outcomes.
[Dr. Hiriluk deserves little recognition in medical history. His career was marked by consistent failure—patients rarely improved under his care, and many left his treatment in worse condition than when they arrived. Mercifully, no deaths were directly attributed to his incompetence]
[Fate arranged the meeting that would change everything. In the depths of winter, Hiriluk discovered a hybrid creature lying motionless in the snow, its blood staining the pristine white ground in expanding red pools]
[The doctor's first instinct was to help, but Chopper's traumatized mind saw only another human with another weapon. The reindeer's fist struck out with desperate strength, pummeling the would-be healer until the older man was as bloodied as his patient]
[Yet even as he absorbed blow after blow, Hiriluk continued trying to reach his medical supplies. When Chopper finally exhausted his rage, he discovered something that defied all his previous experiences with humans: this man wanted nothing more than to heal his wounds]
[To prove his peaceful intent, Hiriluk stripped off every piece of clothing in the freezing air, showing the frightened reindeer that he carried no hidden weapons. Shivering and vulnerable, he extended his medical supplies with hands that shook from cold rather than fear]
[For the first time since eating the Devil Fruit, Chopper encountered genuine kindness. He allowed the strange human to bandage his wounds, to tend his injuries with gentle care. The animal-type Devil Fruit's enhanced healing factor would handle the rest, but the emotional wounds required a different kind of medicine]
[Hiriluk brought the homeless reindeer to his ramshackle clinic, where Chopper experienced warmth—not just physical heat, but the emotional warmth of being wanted. For the first time in his short life, someone had looked at him and seen not a monster, but a being worthy of care]
[The reindeer wept tears of gratitude, his heart opening to the possibility that perhaps not all humans were enemies. Dr. Hiriluk became his adoptive father in all but blood, offering sanctuary to a creature the world had rejected]
[Communication proved challenging initially—the reindeer could speak but had no name by which to be called. Observing the young creature's ability to walk upright and noting the impressive antlers that could easily knock down trees, Hiriluk made a decision that would echo through history]
[A name that went down in human history was born from the mouth of a mediocre doctor.]
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