【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"There is no doubt that the man must be Hawkeye. His hawk-like eyes prove it." Zeff said, crossing his arms.

"Who is that?" Luffy asked.

"It's the person I've been looking for... Johnny..." Zoro remembered that Johnny said he saw Hawkeye near this store. Just as he was about to continue speaking, he heard the chef next to him whispering something about the red-eyed man. He was speechless for a moment. The information Johnny gave him was actually wrong.

"Johnny...what's wrong?" Luffy asked confusedly.

"No, it's okay." Zoro said helplessly, then smiled and said, "This way my target is completely determined to be the Grand Line, because that man is also there!"

"Do you have any deep hatred with him? How could you destroy the entire fleet?" Sanji asked doubtfully.

"No! It happened very suddenly." Ajin replied.

"You disturbed his nap..." asked Zeff.

"Or just want to kill time?" Qi guessed.

"How is this possible? How could we be defeated for such a boring reason!" Ajin shouted excitedly.

"Don't be angry, it's just an assumption, or maybe the Grand Line is just such a place." Zev said, stroking his beard with his hand.

"?" Usopp and Luffy looked at him in confusion.

"So it's a place where even the abnormal is normal, right?" Qi asked.

"Then nothing would be surprising." Zoro said.

"Luffy, let's not go to that kind of place!" Usopp said fearfully.

"Huh?" They looked at Luffy, whose body was shaking constantly while sitting on the table, and felt a little confused.

"Luffy?" Usopp called out in confusion.

"Wow! It's really exciting. This is the way it should be done!!" Luffy shouted excitedly.

Qi's lips curled up into a smile, and he became a little excited.

"...What a bunch of idiots, you are the kind of people who would easily get killed!" Sanji glanced over the table, where there was a group of ambitious idiots.

"That's true, but take back the word idiot..." Zoro said, "Since I set my goal to be the best swordsman in the world, I have put life and death aside. The only one who can call me an idiot is me who made this decision!"

"Ha, me too, me too!" Luffy raised his hand happily.

"Yes, as a man, of course it's the same for me!" Usopp crossed his arms and pretended to be confident, but was ruthlessly exposed by Zoro.

"Humph, so stupid..." Sanji muttered.

Zev looked at Sanji quietly from the side.

Qi suddenly turned his head and looked outside. Who was that? He felt a little solemn. That person was very strong. He seemed to be the person they were discussing. Oh no, Nami was still on Merry. He extended his observation Haki to Merry not far away. Qi looked up in surprise. Nami drove the boat away?

Why did Nami leave? He was a little confused. He could feel that she was very happy with them. Suddenly, he thought of something wrong with Nami some time ago. It seemed to have started with the wanted poster. Although he only glanced at it, it was a fishman. Recalling the wanted poster he had seen from Johnny, it was the pirate Arlong with a reward of 2 million Baileys. The sudden shouting of pirates turned Qi's attention to the door of the restaurant.

"Get lost, chef boys!!"

The pirates' voices kept coming from outside the restaurant, and the chefs stood at the door of the restaurant with their weapons raised to confront them. Suddenly, a huge cracking sound was heard, and the huge ship at the door was broken in two from the middle, and a huge stream of water rushed towards Barati.

"What?!" They looked in shock at the huge ship that was suddenly cut in half.

"Hurry up and raise the anchor! Otherwise this ship will be destroyed!" Zev shouted.

"Oh no, Merry is still outside!" Usopp shouted in panic.

"Don't worry, Merry is fine." Qi said, "Nami took the boat away."

"Brother~Brother~" Johnny's voice suddenly came, and then Johnny and Joseph were seen swimming towards the restaurant following the ocean current caused by the shipwreck.

"Johnny, Joseph! What's wrong? Aren't you with Nami?" Zoro pulled them up and asked immediately.

Johnny and Joseph immediately told them that Nami had taken all the treasures and left on the ship, and told them what Nami had asked them to say: "Nami said she never said she was your partner, Zoro, and she also said that she was very happy with you, Luffy. Nami moved all the treasures to the Merry, and then she ran away!"

"Damn it! I thought she had been well behaved recently. I was so careless!" Zoro punched the wall with his hands and shouted angrily.

"How dare you take advantage of their misfortune at this time? That's the ship Kaya gave them!" Usopp said angrily.

"Wait a minute, the ship hasn't gone far yet!" Luffy stood on the railing and looked over to Johnny and Joseph on the side and asked, "Where's your ship?"

“Still there.”

"Zoro, Usopp! Set off immediately and take that ship to bring Nami back!" Luffy said to Zoro and Usopp.

"Don't worry about her. What's the point of chasing a woman like that back?" Zoro retorted. He didn't think that someone who would betray them so easily was their partner.

"I just want her to be our navigator!" Luffy said firmly.

"I see! What a captain who loves to cause trouble for others." Zoro said with a headache "Let's go, Usopp!"

"Brother Zoro, the boat is ready!" Johnny and Joseph shouted while sitting on the prepared boat.

"Hey, Zoro!" Qi, who had been silent all this time, called out to Zoro. He looked at Zoro who was walking towards the boat and said, "The reason why Nami left should be related to the Arlong Pirates. Wait until Luffy and I arrive before taking any action."

"Luffy...Luffy, I have a disease that can't leave!" Usopp said stutteringly, his legs trembling and his hands covering his chest.

"Don't worry, we'll be there as soon as possible," Qi said.

"Are you planning to stay in the restaurant?" Zoro asked

"Well, I have to stay in the restaurant first. There are still some things that haven't been resolved!" Luffy said, pointing to the restaurant behind him.

"Be careful, this matter is also unusual." Zoro warned.

"He's coming." Qi's expression became serious.

"Who's coming?" asked Zoro. He followed Qi's gaze and looked towards the sea. A strangely shaped single-person boat passed through the middle of the broken giant ship.

"Chief! It's that guy, the one who defeated our fleet!!" The noisy voices of the pirates suddenly sounded.

Zoro stared at the man on the boat in disbelief. "Could it be...that is...Hawkeye!?"

"Yes, that person is the legendary world's number one swordsman 'Hawkeye Mihawk'" Zeff said.

"Asshole!" Standing on the broken hull, a Creek pirate cursed angrily, "What hatred do you have against us? Why did you follow us here?!"

Hawkeye raised his head slightly, his hat brim covering one eye, and his expression looked very bored. "Just to kill time."

"Asshole!" Creek angrily shot at the swordsman when he heard the answer, but the bullet was deflected or cut by Hawkeye's knife at will.

"No, you missed it?" a Creek pirate shouted in shock.

"No matter how many times he hits, it's useless. He uses the edge of his sword to change the trajectory of the bullet." Zoro stepped onto the wreckage of the broken giant ship, ignoring the Creek pirates and walked towards Hawkeye. "I've never seen such a gentle sword..."

"A sword that is not soft is not strong!" Hawkeye put the knife back into the scabbard behind him.

"Did you use that sword to cut the ship in half, right!?" Zoro asked, standing in front of Hawkeye on the deck of Creek's damaged pirate ship.

"Indeed." Hawkeye replied nonchalantly.

"I see..." Zoro said, looking at the man with a nervous smile on his face, "He is indeed the strongest..."

"I set sail for you!" said Zoro as he tied the green scarf on his arm around his head.

"What is your goal?" Hawkeye asked as he continued to sit in his boat.

"The strongest!" Zoro drew out his sword, stared at Hawkeye and said, "You are very free, let's fight!"