【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Coby quickly took the girl from Luffy and asked worriedly, "Are you... okay? Those guys are really too much!"

Luffy listened to the noises in the wall, climbed up, and walked in front of Zoro, he looked into his eyes, he could see the anger in his eyes.

Zoro could feel the boy in the straw hat on the wall standing in front of him. "You're still here!" He looked up at the boy. When he met his big brown eyes, he was silent. At that moment, he could only see pure curiosity in his eyes. There was no fear or judgment. Subconsciously, he reminded him, "If he finds you staying here, he will tell his dad."

"Really?" Luffy grinned. "I'm Luffy. I'm looking for a partner to be a pirate with me. How about you join me?"

"Huh? Pirate?" Zoro raised his eyebrows and said disdainfully, "You actually degraded yourself to become a bad guy?"

"This is my wish. There's nothing wrong with being a pirate!" Luffy said with a smile.

"Are you going to let me go and let me help you?" Zoro grinned. "Let me be frank with you. I won't agree to your request because I still have something important to do."

Zoro looked at the bright smile on his face and continued to explain, "Even if you don't help me untie the rope, I can survive on my own. As long as I can live for a full month... that guy will let me go as agreed."

"Really?" Luffy grinned.

"The most important thing now is to find a way to survive and then complete what I want to do!" Zoro showed a determined smile on his face.

"If it were me, I would starve to death in a week, hahaha!" Luffy said with a laugh.

"I'm different from you. You should find a partner somewhere else!" Zoro looked at Luffy's back and hesitated for a moment, "Hey, wait a minute."

"Huh?" Luffy looked back in confusion.

"Um...can you pick it up for me?" Zoro said hesitantly.

Luffy looked at the dirty rice ball on the ground and picked it up. "Are you going to eat this? You can't be that hungry... This has turned into mud..."

"Stop talking nonsense, take everything that fell on the ground!" Zoro opened his mouth wide and motioned Luffy to put the food in. Even though it was full of mud and stones, he still chewed it. Even though he choked, he still swallowed it.

Luffy crossed his arms and looked at Zoro's difficult swallowing behavior, and said directly, "So I said, do you want to commit suicide?"

"Hey! Can you tell that kid a message for me?"

"what?"

"Tell the girl that the rice balls taste delicious, thank you very much!" Zoro showed a big smile on his face.

"Haha!" Luffy had a big smile on his face and decided that he wanted him to be his partner.

……

"Really!?"

"Yeah! He ate all the rice balls with relish!" Luffy said happily to the girl.

"That's great!" the girl shouted happily.

"That... is he really the villain in the legend?" Coby asked in confusion.

"Of course not!" the girl said angrily, and then explained, "Big brother just wanted to save me. Colonel Morgan's son was wandering around the town with a wolf that day. Everyone was very scared. Big brother killed the wolf to save me, and then big brother was caught by Colonel Morgan's son."

"So, Zoro was captured just because... he killed the wolf that guy raised?" Luffy asked confusedly.

"Yes! It's all Colonel Morgan's son's fault!" said the girl angrily.

"Hehehe, kneel down, everyone. Or do you want to end up like Roronoa?" Colonel Morgan's son said proudly as he led the navy down the street. "In three days, I will publicly execute him!!"

"Three days later?" Luffy said in confusion after hearing his words. Then he stood in front of Colonel Morgan's son and asked in confusion, "Don't you have an agreement for one month?"

"That was obviously a joke! That guy was as dumb as a beast, he actually believed it!!" He laughed loudly.

Luffy looked at his smug expression, clenched his fist and waved it at him angrily, then a serious expression appeared on his face, "Coby, I've decided, I must make Zoro my partner!"

……

"Hello!" Luffy raised his hand and greeted Zoro with a smile.

"Why are you here again? If you want to persuade me to become a pirate, just give up the idea!" Zoro sighed.

"What does it matter? You've been regarded as a bad guy anyway." Luffy said unconvinced.

"I don't care what anyone says! I've never done anything that would go against my beliefs and make me regret it, and I won't do it in the future!" He was tired of this conversation, and he said directly, "So I won't be a pirate."

Luffy looked at Zoro in silence, then pouted angrily and said, "I don't care, I have decided that you want to be my partner!"

"Don't act on your own!" Zoro shouted angrily.

"You use a knife, right?" Luffy asked with a smile.

"Well...if I wasn't tied up I would indeed..." Zoro was a little confused as to how this boy knew he could use a knife. He didn't look like the kind of person who would pry for information.

"Where's the sword?" Luffy asked.

"That bastard took it away. It was second only to my life...my treasure!" said Zoro angrily.

"Oh! Baby! That's important!" Luffy nodded and said seriously. Then he seemed to have thought of a good idea and said with a smile, "If you want your sword, you have to be my partner, hahaha!"

"Asshole!" Zoro shouted in disbelief, "You are so despicable!!"

"Okay! I'll get it right away." Luffy ran excitedly into the naval base.

"Hey, don't go!" Zoro tried to stop him, but before he succeeded, the guy had already entered the naval base. "Is that guy planning to sneak into the naval base? What an idiot..."

Looking at the guy's back as he left, he couldn't help but sigh. Today was definitely the strangest day he had ever spent on this island. It wasn't that he didn't want to be free, he just wanted to keep his promise, and he wanted to see what happened to Kuina's sword. If he lost it, he would never forgive himself.

"Where's Luffy?"

Zoro lowered his head and looked at the person standing in front of him. It was the boy with pink hair who was with Luffy before. He responded nonchalantly, "Luffy went to the naval base."

"Ah? Luffy broke into the base camp?" Coby shouted in shock, then sighed and said helplessly, "He's making trouble again... By the way, my name is Coby."

He didn't bother to explain why he was going, but when he saw the boy trying to untie him, he began to be surprised, and then he warned him "Hey! If you save me, you will die too."

"They have no reason to arrest you! I can't stand this kind of navy anymore." Coby shouted angrily while untying the rope, "I must become a righteous navy! Just like Luffy wants to become the Pirate King!"

"Wha...what?" Zoro was shocked by the boy's dream, this kid must be kidding, right?

"Hehehe... I was surprised too! But he's serious, that's just the kind of person he is." Coby laughed nervously.

"Wow!!"

A bullet suddenly hit Coby's shoulder, causing his body to fall backwards.

"Are you okay?" Zoro asked worriedly. He turned to look at the navy coming over here and said to Coby, "Run away quickly. They will be coming here soon."