Mom’s Last Wish
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1This story concerns the dying wish of Queen Vinsmoke Sora, made one day before she passed. When she had been pregnant with Iichiji, Niji, Sanji, and Yonji, her husband, King Vinsmoke Judge, a geneticist, had experimented with their four boys in vitro in order to turn them into emotionless super soldiers. Not wishing her boys to become unfeeling killing machines, she took a drug to nullify their genetic enhancements. However, the drug slowly poisoned her over the course of eight years after the quadruplets’ birth. Even more heartbreaking, the drug had only worked on Sanji, leaving him a regular human (or so was thought).
The day before Sora died, the day that 8-year-old Sanji endured a series of mishaps to bring his mother a meal he had cooked for her, she secretly prayed that someday, the drug she took would finally affect her other three sons, and that her family would finally be whole and loving. Sadly, she did not live to see that day.
Now; the 21-year-old Vinsmoke sons are experiencing something they’ve never felt before—emotions, most notably, regret. Regret for how they treated their brother, Sanji. They know that they do not deserve forgiveness for what they did to him, and yet, for some inexplicable reason, they all wish for it.
Sadly, the Vinsmoke children were just as much victimized as Sanji. Genetic enhancements were forced on them when they were still to helpless to have any say. Their agency had been stripped away from them. That doesn’t absolve them from their abuse of Sanji, but now, they’re left with the feeling of guilt, and of grief. They had lost their mother long ago, and they lost their brother because of their cruelty to him.
Sorry for the pic, the AI generator leaves a lot to be desired.
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