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Bold for attacks

Steve's POV

"Ehh?" I groaned stretching and waking up to an obnoxiously loud bell.

The minks were in a hurry, running around and talking about the Samurai.

Oh, son of a bitch.

"What do we do?!" Nami complained "They're headed to town with a whole army!"

"Why are you yelling at me about it!" I snapped "To be frank they have a right to be a little pissed at the Samurai for bringing the destruction of their island, directly related or not. I guess the best thing for everyone would be to stop them from meeting."

Although that's what Robin and those two idiots were supposed to do over night, some help that was!

"I'll catch up in a bit." I sighed "You can take Luffy to deal with it."

Nami ran off and I looked out the window.

"Well crap, shit is about to hit the fan isn't it." I groaned "Why can't things ever be easy?"

Later

"Hmm." I blinked as I was caught up on the situation.

Apparently, the Samurai that Jack had been looking for really was here the whole time and all the Minks just sacrificed themselves for him since they have some history with the Samurai of Wano.

"What's the matter?" Robin asked.

"It doesn't add up." I looked at her "Basic instinct and logic would tell you that at least one Mink would have sold Raizo out to save themselves. You're telling me not one person would have done it to save their family, not one parent and child, not one person who's barely met this guy?"

"Different cultures act differently." Robin shrugged.

Ridiculous, you should just kill those useless animals yourself!

"Still I just can't fathom it at all." I shook my head "If it was to save you and Lil I would have shipped that guy off in a heartbeat, holding onto shit like old debts and dues is what's screwed up with the world, you really just have to burn things down once in a while."

"You're starting to sound like the revolutionaries." Robin laughed.

"Tsk." I hissed again "No, those guys aren't much better, trying to fix the world by tearing so much of it down won't help, all you'll do is make a different group feel bitter and oppressed. Say what you will about the world government but for most of the world they provide them with protection and stability, ripping it apart completely will only serve to harm innocent people who used to live in peace."

"Are you stressed out." She hugged me "You know how you get with your emotions when you get stressed"

"I'm just pissed off." I groaned "First Kaido, then Sanji and this crap, we're being pulled in three different directions, stuck between a rock, a hard place and an even harder place. Normally I don't care and just go with Luffy's flow but this is getting serious and heavy and if I just let him fly by the seat of his fricken pants someone's gonna end up dead! Normally I'm cool headed, but all this stress is just eating away at me, it's not always easy to be the level-headed captain you know."

"I would never think it was." She kissed my neck from behind "Maybe you need to relax before we go meet that ninja."

"What are you suggesting." I hummed.

"Oh you know…" she smirked.

"What would I do without you?" I laughed.

"You'd be a train wreck." she teased.

AN

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Pick Up Point- Chapter 817

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