Wolfy-tan: Hi viewers! Here's chapter 53!

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Chapter 53: Zoro VS Mister One!

Zoro quickly blocked Mister One's attack at Nami.

"Zoro!" Nami exclaimed. Zoro looked up and saw the stone pillar split into huge gaps in itself.

"Whoa! The stone pillar si plit vertically!" Nami exclaimed.

"Split...? Nope..." Zoro said. "That was apparently the work of a sword."

"Damn you," Mister One said. Zoro swung his katana at him, and he merely blocked with his arm.

"Eh?" Nami questioned. "Your arm is not cut?"

"So you don't have a normal body, either," Zoro said, inspecting One's arm to see it turned into a sword.

"I ate the Supa Fruit," he said. "My entire body became all blades. So it's you: the man who took out a hundred men at Whiskey Peak." Zoro raised his brow. Why weren't they giving Lucy credit, too? Whatever, he had to focus on his battle at the moment.

"And a couple years ago in the East Blue," the woman started. "After declining an invitation to the B.W. Company by Mister Seven, you killed him, or should I say the 'Pirate Hunter' killed him."

"So it is you," Mister One said.

"Ha, how nostalgic," Zoro said with a smirk. "But it's all your fault cuz you didn't agree to my conditions. The condition I put in at the time was I'd join you if you let me be boss." The woman chucked.

"This guy is funny," she said.

"And he not only disagreed, but he came at me, so I had to kill him," Zoro said. He smirked again. "You guys wanna invite me, too? Everything would just be easier if your boss just quits." Then, Zoro launched an attack at Mister One, who blocked it with his arms.

""Don't underestimate me," One said. "You're just a simple pirate hunter."

"And you are?" he asked. "Idle dolls who have no self-conciousness, who are being controlled and work for a 'dream world'?" Or an empty group of men without power?" Mister One turned to the woman.

"Miss Doublefinger," he said.

"'I'll finish this guy.' Is that what you were going to say?" she asked. She began walking away. "Sure, have it your way. As for me, I'm off to finish the little girl."

"Damn, Nami!" he turned to where Nami was before. He sweat-dropped. "Gone..." Mister One got into a stance and Zoro bit his lip. They began their battle. They both launched attacks, only for the other to block it. Zoro put Wado in his mouth.

"Three Swords Style..."

"Assassin!" One said, getting into a stance.

"Bull Horns!" Zoro yelled, attacking, only for it to be futile. He took Wado out of his mouth, his back facing One.

"So your body is as hard as a blade," he noted. "So if I can't cut metal, I can't hurt you."

"That's right," he said. "Attacks including hitting and slashes can't hurt me. Zoro crossed his arms and turned to him.

"So as long as I can't cut metal, I can't beat you right now," Zoro said. He took off his cloak.

"Hm? So what're you going to do now?" One asked.

"Ah...I pity you," Zoro simply said. "I am in a dangerous situation. Danger can force a swordsman to become stronger!" He crossed his katanas so they formed an 'X'.

"When I've beaten you, I'll be able to cut through metal!" Zoro exclaimed.

"Sorry to ruin your mood, but ever since I've gained the Supa powers, not even one swordsman has been able to hurt a hair of mine," Mister One said. "You cannot beat me, swordsman!"

"Oh? I understand, but I was just giving you some advice to remember such things," Zoro said. "I don't know what kind of swordsmen you fought before me, but that may change soon because I'm sure we've never met before!"

"I see, you only have a big mouth!" One said, charging at him.

"Thanks for the compliment, baldy," Zoro said with a smirk, blocking One's blade-leg with his two katana.

"I wonder how long you'll last," Mister One said.

"How about you?" Zoro replied. Suddenly One brought down his leg and changed his fingers to blades.

"Hand Claw Slash!" he yelled. Zoro quickly blocked it by reflex. They continued to battle. Soon Zoro distanced himself from One.

"Demon Slash!" he yelled, launching his attack at One, sending him in the air. Zoro quickly prepared for his next attack.

"Tiger Hunt!" he yelled, sending him crashing to the ground. Zoro watched the smoke lift to reveal a standing Mister One.

"What did I tell you earlier?" he asked.

"Ha, there's not even a scratch on him," he said to himself. "I haven't met anyone who took my attacks and still be standing."

"Of course, because up to now, you have never met me," One said. With that, he launched at Zoro, and they continued sparring.

'This guy can make a blade anywhere on him, a body of blades!' Zoro thought. He quickly gained space between them by rolling away.

"Exploding Daisy Slash!" One yelled, positioning his hands to resembled a daisy and launching at Zoro, who quickly blocked it with his swords. The building behind Zoro cut cleanly into six pieces.

'This...This guy...'

"Fly away," One said simply, causing Zoro to go flying into the building, which caused the building to collapse on him.

'I will have to train myself more...that was too close to death...what am I lacking?' Zoro thought. He remembered something his sensei taught.

"Hm...hurry up and slash me," Mister One said. "I'm just standing here and haven't seen you hurt me yet.

"Underestimating me?" Zoro asked with clenched teeth, still under the rubble of the fallen building. "Now I shall show you the look of me slashing through metal!" With that, he picked up a piece of the building that was about a sixth from the original building, not seeming to break a sweat.

"When I can slash through metal, it will also mean your death!" Zoro exclaimed.

"Is that so?" One asked with a straight face. Zoro threw the large building remain at Mister One.

"No matter what comes toward me, I will simply destroy it!" One exclaimed.

'Starting with the blade that cannot cut anything, eh...!' Zoro thought, thinking of his sensei's lesson to him. 'A sword that cannot cut, yet can cut through metal! I don't understand what the meaning of this is!'

"Stupid tricks," One said.

"All of that doesn't matter, the harder it is, the stronger the swordsman will become in the end!" Zoro exclaimed.

"Disintegrating Slash!" One yelled, chopping the building into neat stone blocks.

"I will be the first to cut you in half!" Zoro yelled, running up to him as they continued battling. Zoro bit his katana hard and thwacked him, causing him to lose balance and fall back. One soon rebalanced himself, but Zoro didn't give him any extra time, readying his next attack.

"Crab Slasher!" Zoro yelled, causing One to fall back again. Zoro caught his breath.

"You're a little tough..." Zoro said.

"Same to you," Mister One responded. He got back onto his feet and showed more blades on his arm.

"I'm no ordinary swordsman," One said. "I have tons of techniques to split you in two. Spiraling Blade!" With that, his blades on his arms began to spin with lightning speed.

"You can't be a swordsman; you're nothing but a miner!" he yelled, charging.

"I'm an assassin," he said and their blades hit at each other, and One's blades were spinning so fast on Zoro's katana that sparks began to fall.

'Sparks? Damn, how fast are those things rotating?' Zoro thought.

"I'm not just some dumb miner," he said. "I'll cut through you as proof." With that, he put his high-speed blades on Zoro's chest, and they rotated so fast that blood splattered once the blade touched his skin. Soon One shoved the whole blade in him. Blood splashed everywhere as his katana were released from his hands and mouth.

"The wrong decision will result in death!" One exclaimed. Once One was through with him, he threw him to the stone pillar and began to lick the blood from his hands. Zoro breathed heavily.

"Hm? You're still alive?" Mister One questioned.

'Cannot show an enemy weakness!' Zoro thought, trying to get up. He managed to get off from laying on his stomach and sit up against the pillar.

"You have no weapons; what will you do now?" One asked. "Disintegrating Splitting Slash!" He cut the pillar into multiple pieces, not to mention he just cut Zoro even more, making even more blood spurt out. He turned to leave.

"Just die now," he said. Zoro looked up, blood running down his mouth and blood running down his torso from his wound. He noticed the stone above it was about to fall on him.

'Today I've had little luck with rocks,' he thought. With that, the stone pillar collapsed on him entirely, or what seemed so. One thought he heard the sound of slight shifting of stone and feet pattering, and when he turned around, he saw Zoro, completely covered in his blood, but nonetheless standing with a somewhat lean that made him seem a bit too casual for his situation.

"Impossible...even after that, he's still standing..." he said to himself. "How did you evade all of the rocks?"

'Evade all of them...no...' Zoro thought. 'It's because I knew they wouldn't land on me. My katana...it's under that rock. I know it!' With that, Zoro lifted up the rock to his left and picked up his katana. 'I've had this feeling before, too. Everything is quiet...except my heartbeat that's so loud. I'm near death's border. The falling rocks had a sense of life to them...not life, I would call it...breathing...the breathe of those rocks...the trees, they are breathing as well...even the land is...is this the meaning? Not being able to cut through...is to understand the meaning of breathing? Is this the power to cut through metal?'

"What's going on?" One yelled. "After receiving so many attacks and losing so much blood, how could you still be alive?"

'I can hear it: his metal's breathing,' Zoro thought.

"The next move is going to finish you off for good!" One exclaimed. Zoro tapped his katana on the leaf of the tree near him, and it only swayed from the katana's touch.

"Transfer my thoughts through my sword," Zoro said. With that, he tapped the rock beside him, and it split cleanly.

'Now to see if I have truly gained the power to cut through metal!' Zoro thought, pointing his katana at Mister One.

"Using only one katana to try and block my move?" One questioned.

"Enough," Zoro said. "I won't wait for death."

"So you're giving up, eh?" One asked, creating blades at his feet. "Disintegrating Speed Slash!" he yelled, speeding at Zoro with his bladed feet.'

"Single Sword Style: Lion Requiem!" With that, they shot their attacks at each other. There was a slight pause, Zoro standing and One falling to the ground.

"I give my thanks to you," Zoro said. 'Now I'm even stronger.'

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