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Chapter 3: Heartbreaking Secret Revealed: Part 1

Two days have passed since I arrived at Mihawk Oji-san's mansion. This place was completely huge and incredible. I have currently found 5 secret passage-ways and tunnels weaving throughout this place. I'm sure there's more so I'm still searching. One of the passages goes from my room to the kitchen and also goes to Mihawk Oji-san's room. I'm always sneaking a snack from the kitchen using the secret tunnel. I am currently in Zoro's room. It looks like he's finally going to wake up. Oh by the way, Maika-san took me shopping to get new clothes. I was wearing a dirty ragged dress full of holes and she said I looked like an abandoned cat left in a dumpster. She really is a nice person and-! Zoro moaned as he tried to turn his body. He gave up and decided to just open his eyes.

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I heard someone moving; some talking going on. Where am I? I slowly opened my eyes and only saw blinding light. As my eyes started to adjust, I saw a chair next to the bed I lay on, a basin with water on top of a nightstand and shadows dancing across the wooden floor. I could recognize this place as my room but how did I get here?

"You're finally awake huh Zoro?" Mihawk asked standing next to the bed.

"Yeah. Um ho-how did I get here? I remember blacking out from blood loss."

"Yes. You fainted and fell off the cliff. This young lady, Honoka, saved your life by stopping your fall with the power of levitation." Mihawk put his arm around a small girl that stood next to him.

She looked about 10 years old. This girl has slick straight hair that fell down a little below her shoulders. Her bangs were pushed onto the right side and she wore a bow clip on the opposite side of her bangs. Her hair was a jet black with turquoise/teal highlights (mostly on the bangs and tips of the hair). It blended well with her dark royal blue eyes. They looked like stormy clouds that were ready to clear up into a beautiful sky. She wore a short black tank top over a short white t-shirt (could see her belly button) with bows on the shoulders. Her pants were black harem pants up to half of her shins and she wore a red sash over the elastic part of the pants on her waist/hips. She had on a pair of black wrap-up sandals to match with the outfit. One other thing that stood out was her necklace. It was a long chain in that ancient brown color with a crescent moon as the charm. There was also a rose filling up the space nest to the moon. The moon was a silvery white but the rose was an elegant soothing pink. Over all she was fit for being a pirate in appearance anyway.

So she saved me? This tiny little thing saved me from falling off that cliff? No way! But then again he said she used levitation to stop my fall so in that case I guess it's possible.

"Hi. I'm really glad you're awake. Thank you very much for saving me from those smugglers." the girl shouted.

"Um hi. What exactly do you mean?"

"Well Zoro, this girl was one of the children locked up for child slavery that we rescued."

I stared at the girl and noticed that her wrists did have scars. Probably from the shackles. I sat up in the bed and looked at the little girl. "You're welcome. I thank you as well for saving me. See I can't die. I have an important promise to keep as well as important friends I have to meet up with once again." She nodded her head and smiled.

"By the way, what's your name?"

"My name is Honoka. Nice to meet you Zoro-san."

"Don't add the san after my name. Just Zoro is fine, ok?"

She smiled again and nodded. "Hai, Zoro!"

This child had a weird way of making me want to smile and hold onto her.

"Zoro, you should rest up for a couple of days before we start—!"

"No way! I can't just lay here and wait. I need to get stronger and that's not going to happen with me here in bed."

"I knew you'd say that. Then how about we eat breakfast before we start."

"Yeah. That sounds good 'cause I'm starving."

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While everyone was eating, I was playing around with Perona, asking her to fly me around the house. Of course she kept denying.

"Say Hono-chan. How did you get that levitation power of yours from?" Mihawk Oji-san asked surprising me with the sudden question.

"Um, well actually…" How was I supposed to explain this? I'm pretty sure Mihawk Oji-san saw it was a hard topic for me to talk about so he dropped it and moved on to training topics with Zoro.

Later on Zoro and Mihawk Oji-san went off to a place in the forest where they would usually train on new attacks. They trained for a long while and I was mind-blown at how powerful they really were. It seems like Zoro is actually trying to beat Mihawk Oji-san so he can be the World's Greatest Swordsman. That was the promise he made with his childhood friend Kuina.

"Hey Zoro. Come on take a minute break to at least drink water before you collapse again." Mihawk Oji-san then started saying all his mistakes and flaws; what he's lacking and what he should continue doing. When they finally stopped talking, I could tell they had something they wanted to say or ask and I knew what it was too.

"My home was in the West Blue on Rose Island." I started. I was ready to talk about my past and I know I can trust Mihawk Oji-san and Zoro-nii. They also were looking at me with complete curiosity, so I continued.

"Rose Island was a very hard place to find since there were always storms around it. We almost had no visitors. It was a peaceful place with plenty of crops, plain fields, flowers, meadows, and fruits. Whenever we had visitors we would have a festival to welcome them." I stopped to catch my breath and gather my next thoughts. Zoro-nii and Mihawk Oji-san were quietly listening, their curiosity still quite obvious.

"On Rose Island, there were also mountains that no one would ever cross or go near. I felt the urge to do it though. I wanted to cross the mountains, do something no one else did, make a discovery that would shock everyone especially my father. He wasn't easy to surprise since he was a scientist. He knew a lot, and studied a lot; I was really proud of him. I wanted to show him I could do something that he'd be proud of me as his daughter. So I went into the forest up to the edge of the biggest mountain, Hanalui, and began to climb.

"I eventually found a cave and decided to take shelter there for the night. I walked in and heard, felt a breeze coming from inside the cave. Of course I was curious so I went deeper inside until I saw a light. I ran as fast as my feet could carry me and what I found was a beautiful field of trees with a sort of aura around them. They grew exotic fruits that travelers called devil fruits." Mihawk Oji-san and Zoro-nii opened there mouths up way wide not believing I actually lived in a place where these magical fruits grew.

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