A/N: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece!
Last time on Chapter 14...
"WHO WERE YOU GOING TO ARREST, HUH COBY?!" Alvida says as the current fat Alvida placed his mace on her shoulder. "He doesn't seem to be Roronoa Zoro, oh well… Before you die, who's the most beautiful person in the sea, Coby?!" Coby rubbed his head, back to his cowardice side, Luffy sighed.
"O-of course it's…" Coby stops and looks at Luffy, who was waiting for his answer "IT'S NOT YOU, YOU'RE THE RUDEST, DAMNED BITCH!" All of them paled, Alvida got angry.
"Nice answer, Coby. Open your eyes, if you're going to be a marine, you have to at least see this." Luffy says while Coby opened his eyes, whimpering.
"YOU LITTLE BRAT!" Alvida shouts her battle cry as she swings her mace, Luffy didn't use his Devil fruit and also haki, he'd be starving before he does it. Luffy was strong enough to punch her in the gut and send her flying, the other's jaw dropped. Luffy turned to the others.
"Prepare a boat for Coby, he's going to be a marine!" Luffy yells with an authoritative voice as the others were too afraid so they nodded and quickly prepared a boat.
"L-Luffy-san..." Coby couldn't say anything as he was crying in joy.
"We're finally at the Marine's base!" Luffy says as he throws his fists in the air to show his excitement, not even bothering about the strange looks the people gave to them.
"Yep! Finally!" Coby says while excitement in his tone but had a little bit of nervousness.
"You're great, Coby!" Luffy says as he praises the very confused Coby.
"Huh?" Coby says while Luffy laughs at Coby's face.
"We've actually reached our destination!" Luffy says while he ruffles Coby's hair. Coby rubbed his head sheepishly in embarrassment.
"No no no, you did almost everything!" Coby says while Luffy laughs and walks, grinning.
"Let's go eat!" 'I need rum, meat, and my coffee!' Luffy says in his thoughts as he unconsciously went to the same restaurant as before.
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The people were shocked as the people were in Baratie, the only difference is Luffy was able to drink his precious rums. After Luffy finished his foods and drinks ( but never a no to rum and meat ) "We'll go our separate ways here! You do your best to be a great marine, alright?" Luffy says as he drinks another bottle of rum.
"I will…! Thank you so much… Luffy-san you have to become a great pirate too!" Coby says as he cries in happiness, Luffy laughs and drinks another bottle of rum. "Although we'll be enemies on the future" Coby added as he wiped his tears.
"Say, I wonder if Zoro is still being kept at the Marine base?" Luffy asks to no one even though he knew already, suddenly all the people went back to them in fear. Luffy laughs while he turns to eat his precious meats as Coby sweatdropped.
"Looks like we can't just yell out the name 'Zoro'" Coby whispers to Luffy who just shrugged and he drinks rum, he ate the last meat after all. "I just saw a notice on the streets, there's someone called Lieutenant Morgan at the base." Coby says happily resulting the people backed away in fear again. of course, Luffy laughed until they left.
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"Hey Coby, do you think I'm bad?" Luffy suddenly asks a surprised Coby at the question
"No, you're not bad…" Coby instantly says while Luffy stops and looks at him in the eye. It made Coby shudder, its as if Luffy was looking at his soul.
"Here's a warning for you." Luffy says with a serious expression that made Coby gulp. "I'm not kind and I'm definitely an inhumane person when the time comes." Luffy says while Coby widens his eyes.
"You're not like that! You just saved me!" Coby says while he looks at Luffy with disbelieving eyes. Luffy's definitely not a bad pirate!
"The world isn't black and white, it'd be too easy. There are some few kind pirates there, there's also bad marines. Keep that in mind before we go inside the base." Luffy says while Coby was shocked as he turned and already saw the base, Coby nods while Luffy turned to his happy-go-lucky mode. 'It's better to let him know before he sees it. Luffy thought as he looked over the wall. "Oh! There's Zoro!" Luffy says while grinning, Coby looks at him in disbelief.
"No way!" Coby climbed the wall only to fall back in surprise and fear. "Th…Th… That black bandana and cloth around his waist… And that intimidating aura…! It's Zoro…!" Luffy only looks at Zoro.
"Go away before I kill you." Zoro says 'intimidatingly'. Luffy raises his eyebrow in amusement.
'Doesn't he remember me? Or did I grew too much?' Luffy laughed silently at the joke he made in his mind, of course, Coby says things about Zoro's rumors once again. "Hmm… How can you kill me if you're tied up like that?" Luffy says in a playful tone behind the wall as Zoro growls in anger. Suddenly a girl 'shhh-ed' Coby and goes to Zoro with an Onigiri in hand.
"Do you want to die or something…? Get lost!" Zoro barks at the girl, who stayed stubborn.
"Uhm, Onii-chan, I made some rice balls for you! You haven't eaten for a long time, right?" The girl says without getting scared in Zoro's words. "This is the first time I made rice balls…" Zoro gets infuriated, the kid could die if they see her.
"I'm not hungry! Go away!" Zoro shouts again as the girl gets sad at Zoro's words.
"But…" The girl says slowly while Zoro gets impatient, they could see her any time now…
"I don't want it! Leave me! I'll kill you if you don't go!" Zoro shouts as someone joins the conversation, Luffy facepalms, he totally have forgotten about Helmeppo.
"Roronoa Zoro! Don't pick on little kids, or else I'll have to report to my father about it." Helmeppo says smugly, matching his smug face that he was wearing right now.
"He must be someone important in the marine… Thank goodness the girl is safe now…" Coby says as Luffy eyed him carefully, certain that Coby didn't learn while he looked back at Zoro and Helmeppo.
"Tch, if it isn't the Lieutenant's bastard son…" Zoro mumbles, which wasn't too quiet.
"Bastard? Don't get cocky, my dad is a Marine Lieutenant!" Helmeppo says angrily, Luffy thought it was the perfect definition of Helmeppo's current state right now.
"Well hello little girl, these rice balls look pretty tasty." Helmeppo takes a rice ball and proceeded to eat it despite the girl's yells of disapproval. The moment he ate it, it was Luffy's turn to make a smug face. Of course at Helmeppo's face, but turned into a scowl from his actions. "BLEGH! Horrible! You're supposed to put salt in these things!" The girl looked sad from what Helmeppo just said.
"But… But I thought they'll taste better if they're sweet…!" The girls says weakly as Helmeppo enrages and throw the foods down, proceeding in stomping on it. Luffy frowned, even if it was bad… Never say 'no' to food.
"How could someone eat something like this? Damn it!" Helmeppo shouts as the girl kneels in front of her now-being-stomped rice balls.
"AAH! STOP IT! HE CAN'T EAT THIS ANYMORE!" The girl shouts in sadness as she sees her rice balls being stomped flatly. Luffy watches the whole thing with his calm face, he saw something crueler.
"Th… That's so cruel! That girl worked so hard to make them…!" Coby says, his eyes widened in disbelief.
"Don't worry! The ants will eat them all up, hehehe." Helmeppo says, smiling cruelly while squishing the rice balls into the ground.
"… That's so cruel! I… I tried really hard to make them…!" The girl says as she stars crying, Helmeppo sighs.
"Aww… Don't cry! It's no wonder why I hate little brats so much." Helmeppo says while looking down at the girl, he takes a poster in his suit.
"It's all your fault you know? Didn't you see what was written here? ' Anyone who helps a prisoner will be charged with the same crime * Marine Lieutenant Morgan '" Helmeppo says as he forcefully makes the girl look at him. "You know how scary my dad can be, right? You wouldn't gotten the death penalty if you're a grown-up!" Helmeppo stands up and looks at a random marine. "Oi, throw this brat out!" Helmeppo yells at a random marine, who was shocked at what Helmeppo said.
"Huh!?" The marine says in disbelief as if he heard it wrong. Helmeppo gets impatient and holds the marine's collar.
"I'm telling you to throw her outta here! Are you trying to disobey me?! I'm telling my dad!" Helmeppo shouts as the marine pales of hearing Helmeppo's words.
"Ay… Aye, sir!" the marine says fearfully, the girl looked terrified as the marine comes closer. "Roll yourself into a ball, it'll not hurt as much as it'll be." the marine whispers to the girl, the girl nods weakly as she rolls herself into a ball. The moment the girl was thrown, Luffy caught her easily and placed her down.
"Are you alright?" Coby worriedly asks the girl as she was placed down by Luffy.
"Those bastards….!" Zoro shouts in anger, Luffy could hear it all across the wall. Luffy looks at Coby and the girl with a blank face.
"Go, I'll catch up later in the restaurant." Luffy says with a calm face. All that and the two nodded as they left, Luffy already knew where the restaurant was. When he looked over, Zoro was all alone. "Now, my dear and brave swordsman…" Luffy says after he jumped down the wall and walked towards Zoro, who's eyes just widened at the statement.
"… Don't tell me…" Zoro says as he looks at the familiar straw hat 'Yep, it's him alright.' Zoro thought of how Luffy became so huge after those words in his head. Zoro had to look up, which annoyed him for looking so small.
"Shishishi, long time no see… Zoro." Luffy says happily as he sits down on the ground, knowing that Zoro would hate looking up to a person.
Zoro sighs as he was able to look down again "I have to keep the promise me and that Helmeppo made, just another few-" Luffy sighed as he cut off Zoro.
"That guy didn't seem the type to keep his promises. Think, as long as you're tied down, he can torture you for all he likes. That's the same as he can kill you when he wants." Luffy explains as Zoro's eye widens at the revelation Luffy just said.
After a few silence of the staring challenge that Luffy and Zoro were doing, Zoro finally gave up. "Fine, but you better give me a proof of those words, I don't want to be labeled as a person who doesn't keep their promises." Zoro says as Luffy laughed, which made Zoro confused.
"Speaking of promises, I told you to wait didn't I?" Luffy says slyly as Zoro's eye widen a little, before scowling at Luffy
"The world just move when I move." Luffy laughed at Zoro's words.
"Does that include you sailing in the seas?" Luffy says while Zoro scowls and looks away. before standing up, Zoro moves a little.
"Hey, Hold on!" Zoro yells at Luffy, who gave Zoro a glance sideways. "That… Can you pick it up for me?" Luffy looks at the dirtied rice ball before grinning and taking it. Luffy looks at Zoro who widened his mouth as Luffy throws it into his mouth. Zoro coughs as Luffy raises his eyebrows in amusement. "Tell that little girl… ' The rice ball tastes very good, thank you very much '…" Luffy laughs and nods before going to the restaurant back.
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"Really?!" The girl named Rika, yells in happiness from what Luffy said.
"Yep! He ate all of it." Luffy responds as Rika grins in satisfaction.
"I'm so happy!" Rika says as Coby sighs and sat in a barrel in the other side
"Hmmm… Is he really that horrible person his reputation says he is?" Coby asks while Rika turns to him with an enraged face.
"No, he isn't! Onii-chan didn't do anything wrong, it's just that the people are afraid of him. He got arrested because of me, he killed Helmeppo's wolf. Because Helmeppo let his wolf run around and everyone got scared…" Rika explains while Coby felt slightly guilty for believing rumors too much, Luffy sighs as he leans at the wall while drinking his coffee.
"So you're saying… That Zoro only got arrested because he killed Helmeppo's wolf?" Luffy says as he was casually drinking his coffee.
"Yep." Rika says as she nods while Coby fixes his glasses in his eyes.
"You're right…! So maybe he has a bad temper, but chasing down fugitives… Isn't that big a crime either." Coby says as Helmeppo's laugh was heard in the background, all of them turned to see Helmeppo walking at the middle of the road, the others bowing at the side.
"Hehehe, who dares to raise his head? I'll tell my dad!" Helmeppo says smugly while Luffy narrowed his eyes.
'He acts like that Wapol, except the dad thing." Luffy thought as he says rainbow of curses for that guy, if he comes back to Drum island, Luffy was going to make Wapol pay for it. "Do you want to be like Roronoa Zoro? I'm gonna publicly execute him in three days!" Luffy stood up, getting enough information he needed.
'Now…' Luffy says in his thoughts as he walks towards Helmeppo, at the first-second Helmeppo was in Luffy's range, he punched Helmeppo, but not the strongest he can. It was payback for what he said, unlike a long time ago, Helmeppo was unconscious. Luffy sighed 'So weak, I didn't even try to punch him seriously.' Luffy thought as he glared at the two marines. "Take this disappointing kid away from me and here." Luffy said as he thought that Helmeppo wasn't fit to be called as a man. The two marines quickly nodded and took Helmeppo away, then Luffy only noticed the terrified people.
"Luffy-san! You want to mess with the marines or something?!" Coby shouts in fear as Luffy sighs at him.
"I'm a pirate, and I most likely hate people like him. Besides, the fact that I'm a pirate already means I messed with the World Government the moment I turned into one." Luffy says harshly as he remembered Coby needs some mental training before training with his Grampa.
Coby flinched at Luffy's tone before letting Luffy go to the Marine base once again, Coby soon felt angry at his words 'Luffy-san's right… Luffy-san only said that to me so I can learn faster… I have to train and enlist in the Marines soon!' Coby says in his mind with determination as he followed Luffy in the base.
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"Captain? What made you come here, dragging… Um… that kid with you?" Zoro says while Luffy grins at Zoro's words, Coby was being held at the back of his collar. Despite being held like that, he had a determined face which made Zoro sweatdrop.
"That Helmeppo said he was about to publicly execute you in three days. You can ask Coby." Luffy says as Zoro looks at Coby who was nodding with a serious face on him.
"Tch, that bastard…" Zoro mumbles before looking at Luffy, who finally placed down Coby.
"You use three katanas, right?" Luffy asks even though he already knew it.
"Yeah, that bastard took it from me." Zoro says as Luffy grins and touches the rim of his hat before looking at Zoro with a grin in his face.
"Wait for me here, I'm giving you back those katanas. I have to punish some people for their ill-treatment too, you know." Luffy says as he turned to go in the Marine Base, cracking his neck and knuckles, of course with a serious face.
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And it only means one thing, and you guys already know about it.
A/N: Hello guys! You can ask me in Review about some things you don't get, and I can reply to the next chapter! If the event's finished or if it's involving about Q and A.
Thanks for the reviews! I'm going to work harder~! ( I think )
Also, I think I only publish chapters once, twice, or thrice a week. And the 'OPOPOPO' thing... it's my time skip... I also think I'll change the others a few minutes later! Or I'll just do it this time! xD