Jean-Baptiste Lerioux

Lerioux (レリウクス), the Witch Doctor (呪術医), is one of the main protagonists of Proud Line. The last member of a line of traditional healers on the island of ---, he had lost faith in his family's medicine but continued to approach the sick around him. Scorned and kicked out of what had once been his own city, he eventually came upon the recently arrived (and injured) Pounce D. Luk. Reluctantly healing him, the young pirate became the first in many a year to trust and befriend the doctor. Ultimately, the two worked together to hunt down the source behind his family's "curse", and discovered it. His belief in his ways restored, Lerioux accepted Luk's offer and joined his crew as their doctor, hoping to prove to the whole world the effectiveness of his family's technique.

As such, his dream is to one day compete with the greatest of doctors the world has to offer, defeating them in curing the supposed "incurable" diseases that can be found on the Grand Line and New World.