enma passes through flesh and zoro can see the crimson blooming in the other's chest. his grip on the sword hilt tightens before he pulls it out and enma, together with kitetsu and wado ichimonji, fall to the ground as battered arms catch the falling frame of what was once his crewmate.
no words passed between them but as the light in that visible blue of his returns its spark and stared into his grey one, he knows. he's grateful he fulfilled the promise; grateful it was him who dealt with him and not the others. even in the end he still worries more about the others.
his kindness truly knows no bounds.
the spark that returned in his eye fades into nothing and slowly, slowly, sanji closes his lids, never to open them again and zoro swore time froze around them as the blond takes his last breath.
muscular arms wrap around the lifeless body and he brings him close to him, a dam that opened last when he lost to mihawk in east blue opens up once more to shed tears for the fallen prince that he may or may not have been in love with.
A/N:
me: ships zonami and sanami
also me: haha what if i take nami out of the equation