The blackening of the heavens begins with Hokage

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The next morning.

Neither Zoro nor Luffy became depressed or lazy about exercising because of Kuina's death.On the contrary, they exercised harder than before

Both parties know in their hearts that they are not working alone now.

They must work together with Kuina's share.

This is the promise between them and Kuina.

In this way, several days passed in succession.

Nothing special happened these days. Luffy and Zoro's life was still about exercise, exercise, and exercise.

until this day.

As soon as Zoro arrived at the kendo hall, he found an uninvited guest in the kendo hall. Master Koushiro was receiving this guy.

He recognized this guy.

This guy is the masked man who brought Luffy here to learn kendo.

As soon as he saw the masked man, Zoro felt his heart tighten.

Then he rushed out without saying a word.

Running wildly in the gym.

It wasn't until he ran to the courtyard behind the gym and found that Luffy was already saying goodbye to the other students one by one that he stopped walking and asked Luffy breathlessly: "You are leaving."

Luffy had a look of reluctance in his eyes.

But he still nodded.

Zoro rushed forward and grabbed Luffy's collar: "Damn it, didn't you promise Kuina that we would work together? Why don't you leave now?"

"Even if I leave, I will not miss training."

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After hearing this, Zoro slowly calmed down and slowly let go of Luffy's collar.

With Luffy looking confused, Zoro suddenly turned and left.

Cross the courtyard and return to the dojo.

Ignoring Koushiro and Li Yaoxiang who were talking, he passed directly by them, then took the four real swords hanging on the wall and returned to Luffy.

He threw one of the real swords at Luffy's feet, bit the hilt of one of the real swords in his mouth, and said, "Before you leave, let's have one last battle."

Luffy smiled heartily.

Pick up the real knife.

The two sides took up stances and rushed towards each other.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of collisions between knives was heard in the courtyard.

Very dense.

Luffy's swordsmanship now is no longer the rookie it was when he first came here.Even if he fights against Sauron's three swords, there will always be back and forth.

Zoro can't take down Luffy as easily as he did before.

clang clang clang

They fought each other for quite a while.

You come to me on both sides.

It's a pity that Luffy's talent in swordsmanship is never as good as Zoro's.

In the end, Zoro caught the moment of his mistake and took the real sword out of his hand, ending the competition.The two sides looked at each other breathlessly for a long time.

Nobody spoke.

I don't know how long it took.

Zoro sheathed the knife.

Then he said for no reason: "How can you become the strongest person in the world if you are so weak?"

"I will become stronger and stronger than anyone else"

"Well, don't you always say that you want me to join you and become your partner? When we meet next time, if you can defeat me, then I will join you."

The corners of Luffy's mouth quickly rose.

But Zoro immediately added: "Don't be too happy too soon. If I find out that you broke your promise to Kuina and me, then I will kill you with my own hands."

Luffy was taken aback.

But his smile soon returned.

"OK"

"A word is settled"

"A word is settled"

After a moment, Zoro seemed to have remembered something and suddenly asked: "By the way, you have been inviting me to join you. What do you want to do when you grow up?"

If it were before, Luffy would definitely answer without hesitation: I want to be a marine

But after the Sabo incident, Luffy hesitated.

He discovered that not all marines were as good as he thought.

He became confused.

Don't know what I want to do.

He only knew that he was yearning for the sea and freedom.

Seeing the complicated expression on Luffy's face, Zoro felt ashamed for a while, feeling that this time he was really in trouble.I knew this guy was unreliable and didn't even know what he wanted to do, so he casually invited others to join him.

What's even more frightening is that he actually agreed

Not long after, Li Yaoxiang and Koushiro finished talking, came to the backyard, and was about to lead Luffy away.

Just as the two were about to step out of the dojo gate, Zoro chased them out, crying and shouting: "Luffy, you idiot, don't forget our agreement."

Luffy's eyes were also a little moist, and he readily agreed.

After leaving the Kendo Hall, Li Yaoxiang took Luffy to a secret place, summoned the air gate, and took Luffy back to Gorbo Mountain.

Luffy walked back to Dadan's house as if nothing had happened.

"I'm back. You guys are eating meat. I happen to be hungry too."

In an instant, everyone who was dining turned their heads and looked at Luffy in surprise.

Ace rushed over quickly and knocked Luffy to the ground with one punch: "You bastard, where have you been after disappearing for so many days?"

Luffy was a little stunned.

Holding his cheek.

He understood why Ace suddenly rushed over and beat him.

"My big brother took me to become stronger."

"Big brother"

Ace knew a thing or two about Li Yaoxiang.During the time he spent with Luffy, Luffy often mentioned it to him and Sabo.

"You idiot, even if you are like this, can you leave without any explanation? Do you know how worried everyone is about you during this period?"

"me"

Luffy didn't know what to answer.

Ace also saw the real sword in Luffy's arms at this moment.Luffy's current strength is not enough to suppress Gin Gho, so Li Yaoxiang has not given Gin Gho to Luffy yet.

What Luffy held in his arms was just a real sword he brought back from Koushiro's Kendo Hall.

Ace also picked up his weapon, which looked like a faucet steel pipe, pointed at Luffy and said, "Very good. You said you ran away and became stronger, right? That's your weapon. Pick up your weapon and follow me outside." In the duel, I want to see how strong you, the guy who played missing, has become."

After a while.

A group of people came to the open space outside Dadan's house.

Kalidadan and other bandits were watching.

Ace holds the faucet pipe.

Luffy holds a real sword.

The war is about to start

Ace, filled with rage, took the lead in attacking.Before this, although Luffy was already stronger than when he was 7 years old in the original work, Luffy still had never defeated Ace. After all, Ace was three years older than Luffy and had more training than Luffy. Three more years.

At this time, Ace is no weaker than Sauron, and can even be said to be stronger.

However, this competition is not a simple swordsmanship competition.

Luffy won't just use swordsmanship like he did against Zoro.

In this battle, Luffy took advantage of his sword skills and rubber man to the fullest. Often when the real sword was suppressed, he would decisively abandon the real sword and use a few floor moves plus rubber legs, rubber fists, etc. to break Ace's attack. offensive.

When the crisis is over, he will pick up the real sword and continue fighting.

Sometimes he would use his feet instead of his hands, using his ankles to curl up the handle of the sword to fight.

Not only did Ace have to dodge Luffy's oncoming attacks, but he also had to be wary of the attack when his rubber legs retracted.This battle made Ace feel quite stressed.

Finally, after hundreds of rounds, Ace's weapon was bent by Luffy's kick.

It was not impossible to continue fighting, but Ace did not do so.

He threw away the steel pipe and angrily yelled at Luffy: "If you dare to leave without any explanation next time, I will never forgive you."

After that, he turned around and left towards the jungle.

He looked angry, but without anyone noticing, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Because he knows that from this moment on, his troublesome brother is no weaker than him.