Chapter 9 – Zoro.

Chapter 9 – Zoro.

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Monkey D. Luffy's POV

Shell City, East Blue.

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As Luffy took flight, he looked towards the Marine base.

"I should have had some time to deal with the girls before, but now I'll rescue him. Wait for me, Zoro!" I said and used my momentum to increase my flight in that direction.

It didn't take long to be above the base at a distance of one kilometer.

"Thanks to my Mythical Zoan, I can see every detail from this distance. It's great to have enhanced eyes like all the other animal senses," Luffy said to himself as he looked at the base below, examining all the structures. He glanced in one direction and finally spotted the man tied up in an empty courtyard.

"Damn it!" He heard the green-haired man muttering quietly with his sharp ears.

I started to fly and descend towards him. He didn't notice me as I silently landed behind his cross. The sun was in front of him, so he couldn't see the shadow of a "giant bird" behind him.

Turning off my wings silently, I began to approach him from behind.

"You seem to be in a tight spot, huh... There's even food on the ground..." Luffy said casually and noticed the dropped bun on the ground, realizing he arrived a bit later than the original timeline.

"HM?!" The green-haired man quickly startled by this sudden voice from behind.

"Who are you? How did you sneak up behind me without me noticing?!" He became quite alarmed by Luffy approaching from behind, but the man with the straw hat couldn't blame him for his reaction.

"How I got here doesn't matter, but let me introduce myself to you. I am Monkey D. Luffy! The man whose dream and goal are to conquer all the seas and shake the very foundations of this world in the process!" I said with a big smile.

"Hmm? Conquer the seas? Shake the foundations of this world?" Zoro said, raising an eyebrow, but he didn't laugh at this declaration; after all, he was another dreamer.

"That's right, I'm a pirate," I said, looking into his eyes.

"And I hunt pirates sometimes to get by, so you better leave," he simply said, and Luffy smiled.

"Hold on there, my friend. Let me finish speaking. I can't be arrogant and think I can do all of this alone. I need a crew to fight against the world and turn it upside down. I can see your ambition too. What's your goal?" Luffy asked, knowing already what his next words would be.

"I made a promise to someone a long time ago that one of us would become the greatest swordsman in the world. I am Roronoa Zoro, the man who will become the greatest swordsman in the world!" He said firmly, while I smiled enthusiastically.

"Very well, my friend. A worthy dream for a swordsman in my pirate crew!" I said, and he looked at me strangely.

"I'm not interested." Knowing what I was insinuating, he cut me off.

"Sorry, Zoro, I won't force you to join my crew because I don't think you deserve that, and I don't find it very cool with most people. But now you're a criminal, and you'll never survive being hunted by the Marines when you're alone at sea to become the world's greatest swordsman." I said, trying to persuade him.

"I made a deal with the Marines. If I stay here for a month without eating, they'll set me free. I've been here for a few days, and I can stay much longer like this!" Zoro said.

"And you believe that?" I raised an eyebrow with that, knowing his fate.

"What do you mean?" He asked, narrowing his eyes.

"Look, Captain Morgan's son, Helmeppo, is going to execute you soon to take your sword, the Wado Ichimonji. You're either going to become an outlaw or a dead man. Which option do you choose?" Luffy said, crossing his arms in front of him.

He looked at him for a few seconds, realizing there was no mistake in his words, and finally spoke.

"He's really going to do that?!" His tone showed immense anger.

Before Helmeppo and his guards could escape, I used my speed to approach.

[Moa Moa no Mi: Speed, apply 30 times!]

I may not have the Gear 2 of the Hito Hito no Mi, but my speed already surpasses it by far at this level!

In their view, Luffy disappeared from where he stood, reappearing right in front of them. Without saying anything, I delivered a punch to each guard on either side of Helmeppo.

BOOM

BOOM

Their bodies slammed directly into the Marine base wall like rockets. Luffy wasn't a good person, and they had tried to kill him because he was going to spare them as the original Luffy did?

Luffy didn't know if they would survive those punches, but he didn't care anymore. He removed his eyes from the holes in the wall made by the Marines and looked at the frightened Helmeppo in front of him.

He glared at the son of Captain Morgan, one of the worst kinds of people imaginable. Who would they be? The hypocrites of the Marines, people who did evil under the guise of justice. These were the kind of people Luffy detested the most in life.

"So, I heard that you like to intimidate the citizens of this city..." Luffy said calmly, looking into his trembling eyes.

"Wha-what do you mean? My father won't let you hurt me!" Helmeppo was very scared now, and having Luffy, a stranger, staring at him like a predator didn't help alleviate his tension.

"Let me show you how to intimidate someone!" Luffy said with a sinister smile.

"What do you mean? My father won't let you hurt me!" Helmeppo was very scared now.

"Hehe, if he shows up, I'll make him join the fun..." Luffy talked like a thug, maintaining a wicked grin.

Before Helmeppo could respond to this, Luffy grabbed him by the arm.

Crack

I simply bent it effortlessly, and his arm made a sound as if bones were breaking.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Want to give up already?" Luffy said with a small interrogation, looking at the pathetic Helmeppo beneath his hand, now barely able to speak after receiving two blows to the face that destroyed him.

"It's a shame that you can't take it anymore. I could have taught you more, but let's finish this." He said, as he looked at the base and simply launched a badly injured Helmeppo directly into the window on the fifth floor, like a ragdoll.

Crack

They could hear the sound of the window breaking from that height.

Zoro and the Marine guards who had seen this man torturing the son of their captain pointed their guns at him from the walls of the base, but they hesitated to shoot, and no one had yet managed to inform their superior. Luffy's actions had been so sudden that they didn't know how to react.

"Let's make this more attention-grabbing," Luffy said with a smile, while Zoro looked at him trying to understand what he was planning. Luffy looked at the gate and pointed at it with the palm of his hand.

"Let's use this ability for the first time!" Luffy said with a smile as a powerful purple flame appeared around his hand, appearing to charge with every moment and growing stronger.

"What's this?!" Zoro was shocked by this, but not nearly as much as what would happen next.

Without responding to Zoro, the flame in Luffy's hand flew and was shot with a small explosion, like a cannon, at high speed, directly towards the gate.

The base's gates were still closed, so the flame hit right in the middle.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM

It wasn't just the Marine base that heard it; the entire city trembled from the explosion. A group of women with a bear and a shark heard it on a certain beach, and a boy in a boat near the island was also startled as he saw an explosion in front of the base, from where he was several kilometers away at sea. He wondered what on earth was happening there.

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