A/N: Sup dudes~! I'm so sorry I haven't made a single chapter yet xDD It was my birthday and I had to enjoy my life. Anyways, I'm so sorry!
Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece
Last time on Chapter 26...
"Captain, Look! I thought that you'd find it interesting since this pirate got a very high bounty despite sailing for the very first time!" Shachi shouts, Shachi is an average sized lean man. with their Jolly Roger displayed on the back and the chest pocket, as well as brown boots. He wears a black cap with a yellow brim, a red pompom on top and his name displayed on the front. Shachi brings the newspaper, where he got the information about the pirate sailing for the first time, to Law, who was casually sitting on a chair with his nodachi on his side.
Law silently takes the newspaper and his eyes widen at the surprise, but got his composure very quick and smirked. "It seems like you finally made a ruckus, my little brother."
"Shishishishi, looks like we're wanted men now! It says 150 million beli!" Luffy says as he laughs 'My first bounty reached 100 million plus! Looks like I win the 50 million we all once agreed.' Luffy says in his thoughts.
"I might have panicked and punched Luffy right now but our Captain's strong." Nami says before she was quiet for a while and went in flames. "…IS THAT WHAT YOU THINK I'D SAY!?"
While Nami tried punching and hitting Luffy with her weapon, which she failed at, Usopp was comforting Sanji. "Don't be jealous now! Once we become more infamous, we might all get one!" Usopp says as Sanji was immediately happy.
"… With this, we can't afford to just loiter around in East Blue any longer." Nami says as she wiped off a sweat on her face after trying to at least hit Luffy.
"Alright, men! Let's head straight for 'Grand Line'!" Luffy says as he cheers while Sanji and Usopp happily cheered 'Aye Aye!' while their arms are in each other's shoulders.
"Hey, I see an island up ahead." Zoro says as Nami looked and Luffy strangely stopped cheering and his expression turned blank.
"You do…? That island, is proof that we're close to the Grand Line!" Nami says as Luffy let Sanji and Usopp cheer while he crosses his arms and leans on the railing as he quietly looks on the island. "On that island, there's a famous town called 'Logue Town'. It's also known as the town of the beginning and the end. It's the birthplace of the Pirate King Roger..." Nami pauses "… As well as his execution spot."
"Logue Town…" Luffy says quietly but everyone heard it.
"Shall we go?" Nami asks as she looks at Luffy, yet knows the answer a long time ago.
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"Whoa! What a big town!" Usopp exclaims as Sanji looks everywhere, probably looking for something or maybe a woman.
"So the pirate age all began from here, eh?" Sanji says as he kept looking everywhere, Zoro was only looking uninterestingly.
"Ok, then! I'm gonna go see the execution stand!" Luffy says, everyone was looking at him because he was just too tall.
"Seems like I can get some good ingredients and food here! " Sanji says as he grins."'As well as fine women' Sanji adds in his thoughts.
"I'm going to go look for some equipment to buy." Usopp says as Zoro rubs his chin, already knows what he wants to buy yet troubled.
"I do have something I want to buy too but…" Zoro glances at Nami who grinned at him.
"I'll happily lend you some money. At 300% interest, that is." Nami says as Zoro sighs. Luffy goes to them and pats and ruffles Nami's hair.
"Nami, share with your Nakama, ok? We'll get more money along the way." Luffy lectures as Nami pouts but agrees.
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"Seems like that monster ain't with you today!" An unfamiliar voice was heard as Zoro turns to look, interested in what was happening.
"It's all because of you that our boss is in prison!" Another one says but it was said angrily.
"If you still haven't learned your lesson, I shall gladly be your opponent." A feminine voice says the two males who were talking angrily was looking down on the woman.
"Did I just hear that correctly!? A little miss like you is going to be our opponent?" One cracks his knuckles while looking down on the woman. The woman has dark brown eyes and has black hair between chin- and shoulder-length. She looks remarkably similar to the late Kuina, Zoro's childhood friend. She wears rectangular glasses with red frames. She was wearing short-sleeved shirts of varying different colors and designs. But covering them with her white-trimmed, waist-length blue leather coat. She wore blue jeans with black shoes.
"Well, why not!" One says as he was already holding his sword. They suddenly charged on the woman. "WHEN YOU DIE, TELL THAT MONSTER FRIEND OF YOURS, THAT OUR DREAM OF GOING TO GRAND LINE WAS BROKEN ALL BECAUSE OF HIM!" He shouts while charging. Suddenly, the woman took her katana that was hidden in a cloth. After defeating the two effortlessly, the woman carelessly tripped and landed in front of Zoro, on the ground.
Some people started complimenting the woman. The woman started looking for her glasses, Zoro knelt down and took the glasses. "Hey, looking for these?" Zoro asks as he slowly widens his eyes.
"Ah. S-sorry for troubling you. Th-thank you very much." The woman says as she starts to put the glasses in her eyes. Zoro first got surprised but got his composure quickly.
'Relax, Zoro. There's a lot of people and I'm sure that there's a lot who looks in common. Kuina died a long time ago, she's not her.' Zoro says in his thoughts.
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"How's this?" Nami asks after wearing something, the worker answers with an 'E' at the start.
"Ohhh! It suits you wonderfully, miss!"
"And this?"
"Ohhhh, How elegant you look! Lovely, miss!"
"What about this?"
"Elementary!"
"And this?"
"Electrical!"
"And this?"
"Elegiac!"
"And this?"
"Erotic!"
"This?"
"Eccentric!"
At the end: "So will you be buying all this, miss?" The worker asks with a very exhausted and forced smile.
"Nope, don't need it. I want something a little more casual-" Nami says as she starts to go outside, the worker cut her off in anger.
"PLEASE COME AGAIN!" The worker says as he had tears falling while Nami didn't care about the worker's exhaustion.
"–That's easier to move in." Nami says in the end while waving her hand like hitting a fly. ' I'll try somewhere else.'
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"The execution stand…" Luffy says quietly as he looks in the distance, he was in the shades since he making sure no one sees him and making sure that he sees no marines in sight. After a few minutes, Luffy slightly grinned "Better surprise him." Luffy says as he slightly tilts his straw hat to hide his eyes but his small grin was visible. He turns around and walks into the dark alley.
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"Damn it…" Zoro says to himself as he still remembers the girl's face. "That was shocking. But that girl, looks way too much like Kuina." Zoro pauses 'She's basically a copy!' "Not only that, she's a swordsman as well!" Zoro looks at the ground "Well, it is a big world, after all… At least I won't ever run into her anymore." Zoro pauses before gritting his teeth in anger. "Damn it, I still can't get over it…"
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'Damn it…!' 'Zoro thought as he was checking some 50 thousand beli-ed swords, he went to a sword shop, that copy, or Tashigi, came in, then now they're making a conversation. Just great.
"So you love swords, do you? If you don't mind me saying so, your 3 swords remind me of a certain bounty hunter." Tashigi says with a smile but Zoro pays no mind and looks at some swords.
"A certain bounty hunter..?" Zoro asks, he had an idea that it was him, but he wouldn't mind telling Tashigi that it was him. He had nothing to fear.
"I'm talking of Roronoa Zoro. Do you know him?" Tashigi asks as Zoro sighs and looks at her with a deadpanned face.
"I am Roronoa Zoro." Zoro says as there was a pregnant silence before there was a shout.
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"EHHHHHHH!? " Tashigi and the seller shouts in surprise. Suddenly, Tashigi unsheathed her sword.
"You're the one who treats his swords as merely a means of making money! It's simply unforgivable!" Tashigi shouts as Zoro sighed. Why do people think of him that way?
"Look, I treat Wadou as a treasure. This is something valuable and precious to me, I don't think of my swords as merely an item that helps me make money." Zoro explained as he looks at Wadou Ichimonji. Tashigi flinched and slightly lowered her guard.
"I'd be more happy to welcome any criminals!" The seller shouts as Zoro and Tashigi looks at him. "I remember when my shop uses to teeming with sorts of people trying to enter the Grand Line." The seller pauses "But ever since that monster was placed in changer of this town, I barely get any customers anymore!" The seller shouts angrily.
"S- Smoker is no monster!" Tashigi shouts in anger, completely forgetting about Zoro, who was searching for a decent sword.
"He's a devil fruit user! That's more than enough reason to call him a monster!" The seller shouts back. Zoro stops for a moment, remembering Luffy's stupid grin, his kind attitude, his strength, the protectiveness, everything about Luffy.
'Luffy's no monster. Well, his food consumption is another matter.' Zoro says in his thoughts as he slightly grinned before going back to look for decent swords.
"In any case… being a swordsman myself, I vow to train harder and harder with my Shigure, such that I can travel the world and retrieve all the masterwork blades from the hands of criminals!" Tashigi shouts as she pauses while proudly holding her Shigure. "Whether it be the 12 Supreme-Grade Swords, 21 Great-Grade Swords, or the 50 Skillfully-Grade Swords, I shall risk my life to retrieve them."
"Does that mean you'll take this sword too?" Zoro asks with a grin, holding his Wadou "The Wadou Ichimonji…"
Tashigi widens her eyes as she remembers Zoro's words.
"Look, I treat Wadou as a treasure. This is something valuable and precious to me, I don't think of my swords as merely an item that helps me make money."
'Maybe… He was saying the truth… Maybe he really does treasure Wadou.' Tashigi thought as she hesitates. "I-Its not that I want these swords for myself. I simply detest the idea of them being used for evil. If it's that important to you… Then maybe you can keep it if you're not using it for making money. Why is it that important to you anyway?" Tashigi asks in curiosity, she wants to know if Zoro was really saying the truth.
"I'm a pirate, not a bounty hunter, you know." Zoro says as Tashigi flinches. He holds Wadou with care, that didn't go unnoticed by anyone in the shop. "Anyways, I don't plan on telling anyone. My past is something unimportant." Zoro says as he looks at a sword that piqued his interest.
"T-the 'Sandai Kitetsu'!" Tashigi stutters as Zoro takes the sword that is a moderately curved katana with a white edge and a distinct blue Hamon that has the appearance of flames. Its tsuba is golden and shaped like a rounded cross pattée; the hilt is wrapped reddish-brown, with a golden clasp around its middle and a golden kashira pommel. The sheath of the sword is deep red and continues the design of the hilt, having two golden clasps in short succession around its middle, and the kojiri end cap also being golden.
"Sandai Kitetsu…" Zoro says quietly as he raises it. The seller was sweating as he looks down. Tashigi suddenly explained the Sandai Kitetsu, much to Zoro's surprise.
"Mister! Are you really selling this sword for only 50,000!?" Tashigi asks as the seller flinches.
"Y-Yes…" The seller stutters and said it too quickly.
"That's amazing! That is another high-grade sword! It should normally be sold for a million beli. It's predecessor 'Nidai Kitetsu' is one of the Great-Grade swords, while 'Shodai Kitetsu' is one of the Supreme-Grade Swords!" Tashigi says before looking at Zoro 'He is the first one to see and hold the Sandai Kitetsu…'
"NO, I CHANGED MY MIND! I CAN'T SELL THAT SWORD!" The seller suddenly shouts as Tashigi turns to the seller.
"What!? But why!?" Tashigi argues while completely knowing that she was defending a pirate. Tashigi acknowledged Zoro as a rival, she decided.
"It's cursed, right?" Zoro says as he unsheathed the sword and looked at the blade. The seller looks at him with sweat still visible on his face.
"You knew…?" The seller asks mixed with confusion and surprise in his tone.
"No… I could tell." Zoro responds while still looking at the blade seriously. The seller gulped.
"… It's as you said. Beginning with Shodai Kitetsu, the Kitetsu line of blades are renowned for their quality, but they're also cursed swords!" The seller pauses as he crosses his arms. "Many famous swordsmen of the past have suffered tragic deaths after carrying around the Kitetsu swords. That's why you won't find any swordsmen who'd dare to use a Kitetsu these days. Even if a person was unaware of the curse behind these swords, they'd still end up dead after wielding one. I wish I could get rid of that damn sword, but I'm afraid of being cursed too."
Tashigi bows down in shame. "F-forgive me! I had no idea it was such a terrifying sword, and ended up saying something so foolish…" Tashigi says in shame.
"Hmph! This is why I hate amateurs like you, shouldn't act like they're experts about swords!" The seller shouts as Zoro raises the sword up.
"I like it!" Zoro declares, which made Tashigi and the seller's attention to him. "So much so that I'll take it!" Zoro shouts with a grin.
"Y-You idiot, I said it's not for sale! If I did sell it to you and you ended up dead, it'd be almost as if I were the one who killed you!" The seller shouts. Suddenly, a fat woman slapped the seller's back head.
"Don't be stupid! Just sell the damn thing already!" The woman shouts as the seller looks at the woman.
"Agh! But honey!" The seller whines as Zoro looks at them.
"Then how about this? Why don't we test what's stronger?" Zoro pauses with a grin. "My luck… Or its curse…?" Suddenly, Zoro throws the sword up. "… If I lose, then that means I was never a man who'd amount to anything special…" Zoro says as he stretches his arms where the sword was falling.
"STOP! YOU'LL LOSE YOUR ARM! THAT SWORD'S SHARPNESS IS UNPARALLELED!" The seller yells in fear.
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"I'll take it!" Zoro shouts as the sword didn't cut his arm and wasn't scratched. Tashigi fell on the floor while the seller literally fell on his butt. Zoro takes the sword and points at Tashigi "Hey, you. Pick one more sword for me." Zoro says as Tashigi widens her eyes.
"Wha-!?" Tashigi shouts in surprise, she was about to complain but the seller suddenly stood up.
"Hang on!" The seller shouts as he goes in a room "Just-" Zoro and Tashigi hears the seller in the room as there was some kind of things falling. "-Wait right there!" After a few minutes, the seller came back with a sword. "This is a black lacquered longsword with an unraveled edge. Its name is 'Yubashiri' one of the 50 skillful-grade swords! I can personally attest to its sharpness! Although my store may not be much, this is the best sword I have."
"Haha… I can't buy this. I already told you I have no money." Zoro says, thinking he had to pay for the sword.
"I'm not asking for any money! Just take it! And of course, I won't ask you to pay for Sandai Kitetsu either. I apologize for trying to trick you before. It's been a long time since I've seen a swordsman as good as you. As they say, the sword chooses its owner. So I shall also believe in your good luck and pray!" The seller says as he crosses his arms.
After that, Zoro left with two new swords, had an unknowingly first rival, and a person who entrusted his will to him.
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"Damn you Mugiwara, trying to hide your presence. You already know that I've felt your Haki a long time ago."
A/N: Dun dun dun… Who is this person!? Btw, I'm so sorry for not making new chapters. I had exams but now that the final exam is over, I can make chapters whenever I want! Horray! All hail freedom!
Btw, a reader asked me where is Corazon since he wasn't in the bounty reaction Owari. The reason is, Oda didn't make any scenes from the bandits, so I didn't either. I thought that the bandits were mixed with the villagers. If you want, I could make an Owari from that.
I really need a picture for this story now xD Can anyone make me one?
Thanks to those who reviewed, followed, and many more!