A/N: I'm so sorry that I was hanged you guys on the last chapter, hahaha xD Yes! I'm a bad person! ( even though it hurts me to be called like that ) Also, I might make a story where you're in real world then suddenly you're in One Piece xD Tell me if you guys would like that kind of story, I might make it! Also, can someone help me? I don't know, should Zoro's sword be considered as a Katana or not and be considered as a sword?

Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece

Last time in Chapter 22...

"… What do you aim for?" Mihawk calmly asks as Zoro finished wearing his bandana and had a small grin.

"To be the strongest." Zoro says as he pauses, "You said you're free, right? So let's have a duel." Zoro adds as he draws his sword towards Mihawk.

"… I see, very well then." Mihawk says as Luffy raises his eyebrow, Mihawk takes a glance at Luffy, who raised his eyebrow more. 'This swordsman can use Haki, but that man… He's suppressing his power.' Mihawk thinks as he steps up to the deck of a broken-down ship that he cut. "Even if you learned ambition, you and I can demonstrate the clear difference in strength between you and I, without needing to cross blades at all. But still, you dare to challenge me. Does your bravery come from your conviction…?" Mihawk says as he crosses his arms "Or from ignorance…?" Mihawk adds.

"It comes from my ambition, and a promise to a friend." Zoro explains as he readies to take the position to fight.

"To be honest, I never thought I'd be able to meet you so early on…" Zoro says as the people were making a ruckus about what was happening.

"A waste, if you ask me." Mihawk says as he glanced again in Luffy, who frowned, thinking why Mihawk was looking at him.

"There's not a chance someone can match our Aniki!" Yosaku naively says as his partner, Johnny, silently agreed.

"That man… Just what did he do to this ship…!" Don Krieg says while Mihawk shows that in his crucifix pendant, there was a little dagger.

"Just what're you planning to do with that?" Zoro asks, even though he had an idea of what Mihawk was going to do with the dagger.

"I'm different from those stupid brutes who'd go all out just to hunt a mere rabbit." Mihawk pauses "Though you may be a swordsman of some renown, this is East Blue, the weakest of the four seas, that are separated by Red Line and 'Grand Line'." Mihawk adds 'Even though you know Haki, it's still weak even after your years of training.' Mihawk says in his thoughts.

"There's a limit… to just how much you can underestimate me…!" Zoro says as he runs towards Mihawk "YOU BETTER NOT REGRET IT WHEN YOU DIE!"

"Hear me, little frog in his well. It's time for you to realize that the world is bigger than it seems from your well." Mihawk says as Zoro starts using Bushoshoku and Kenbunshoku with his 'Oni Giri' Technique.

The moment it was in Mihawk's range, Mihawk uses Bushoshoku in the tip of his dagger, a little Kenbunshoku and Bushoshoku, Mihawk was able to fully stop Zoro's technique. "ANIKI'S 'Oni Giri' WAS STOPPED!" Johnny shouts disbelief as Yosaku followed.

"HIS SIGNATURE ATTACK THAT SENDS HIS OPPONENTS FLYING 100% WAS STOPPED!?" Yosaku shouts as Luffy remains calm. But inside, he was already panicking.

'I… I can't move… There hasn't been a single man who could see through that move until now! I even used Bushoshoku the fullest… So how can he stop me with that toy…!? This is… ridiculous!' Zoro thought as he can't move all of his swords, he kept struggling as Mihawk was calm and didn't break a sweat.

He kept swinging his swords as Yosaku and Johnny was cheering for him in the background. "Such ferocity…" Mihawk calmly says despite Zoro doing his best to at least cut Mihawk.

"HE'S EASILY TAKING ON RORONOA ZORO'S SWORDS WITH THAT LITTLE THING!" A pirate says as all of them watches of the humiliation Mihawk was giving to Zoro, as Zoro already sweating.

"What burdens you so? What do you still desire to the extent of your strength, weakling…?" Mihawk says as Zoro's eye widened at Mihawk's words.

"HOW DARE YOU CALL OUR ANIKI A WEAKLING!?" Yosaku shouts as Johnny and he attempted to jump in the ship.

"WE OUGHTA TEACH YOU A LESSON, YOU BASTARD!" Johnny shouts as Luffy pulls them by their coats.

"STOP, YOSAKU! JOHNNY! DON'T INTERFERE!" Luffy yells as he grabs the two's head and slams them onto the deck. "STAY PUT RIGHT HERE…!" Luffy says as he frowns and had the urge to help Zoro, but knowing Zoro, he wouldn't like it.

"Luffy…" Usopp says as he looks worriedly at Luffy, Nami did the same.

"TORI…" Zoro says as he puts his hand swords over his mouth blade and swings forth a forward descending slash with them. "GARI " Zoro shouts as he remembers Luffy's words.

The ending was pretty certain, he got cut right in the chest. "BRO!" Yosaku and Johnny shouts as some tears fell out in their eyes, Luffy had to hurt himself to stop himself from going there. Nami placed her hand on her mouth as she had a terrified face.

Despite being cut in the chest, Zoro didn't step back. "Do you wish for me to pierce your heart thus? Why do you refuse to step back?" Mihawk says as both of them didn't budge an inch.

"Beats me… Not really sure myself… But I get a feeling…" Zoro says as he pauses "That if I were to take even one step back right now, I'd lose something very important to me… A promise or oath… Or whatever it is would be irreversibly broken… And that I'd never been able to return back to where I'm standing right now." Zoro says.

"Yes, such is defeat." Mihawk says as Zoro grins at Mihawk's words.

"Haha… Then that's why I can't step back." Zoro says as he looks at his chest that was cut by Mihawk.

"Even if it means your death…?" Mihawk slowly says as Zoro looks at him straight in the eye with a grin.

"I'd rather much die." Zoro says seriously as Mihawk stayed calm but he was already thinking of approving of Zoro.

'What conviction he possesses! To rather choose death than defeat…' Mihawk thought as he slowly pulled the dagger from Zoro's chest. "Kid… Tell me your name."

Zoro grins,"Roronoa Zoro." Zoro says as he holds two of his swords at an angle against each other.

"I shall remember it, for your strength is not often seen in this world." Mihawk says as he unsheathes Yoru,"And to pay my respect to you as a fellow swordsman, I shall end this duel with my black sword, The World's Strongest Sword." Mihawk added as the pirates were surprised that Mihawk used Yoru.

They started and Luffy could feel himself breaking as Yosaku and Johnny were pleading Zoro to stop, it seemed like they would have known the result, which undoubtedly is obvious. "SANTOURYUU OUGI!" Zoro shouts as he rotates them rapidly while running towards Mihawk, "SANZEN SEKAI!"

It ended in a flash, for the people in the current timeline at least. For Luffy, it felt like minutes. '… It's close…' Luffy thought as he slowly breathed, he couldn't stand watching all of it. It just brought the bad memories.

While Luffy completely shut the whole world, completely focused on the battle, Zoro managed to cut Mihawk in the coat and in the cheek. Mihawk smirked as he found a person worth waiting to fight with. Slowly, Zoro coughed out blood as he sheathed his sword and opened his arms wide, which made Mihawk completely surprised. "What…?" Mihawk slowly says as Zoro grinned at him.

"A wound on one's back, is the shame of a swordsman." Zoro says as Mihawk lightly grinned.

"Splendid." Mihawk says as he cut Zoro's chest. Luffy, despite knowing it would happen, had his eyes wide open, Usopp shouted Zoro's name while Nami fell to the ground and had a terrified face.

Luffy felt like his whole world shattered into pieces as he saw Zoro fall to the ground, lots and lots of blood, like a long time ago… Luffy already knows that he'd snap, and no one needs to tell someone that Luffy is ready to kill, since his face already told so.

A/N: ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER! PLZ DON'T CALL ME A BAD PERSON! I JUST STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THE MAJORITY WANTS! LONG OR SHORT CHAPTERS? TELL MEHH!