【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"Hahaha! Your subordinate is really not simple!" Buggy walked over with a glass of wine, looked at Luffy in the cage and said with a smile.

"What are you talking about? She is not my subordinate." Luffy looked at Buggy and said seriously.

"Yeah, yeah, no wonder you said that, after all, she betrayed you!" Buggy said with a smile, then looked at Luffy in the cage with an evil smile on his face, "The person who stole my treasure will end up in a miserable way! I have decided to deal with you!"

"You're going to let me go?" Luffy looked at Buggy and felt that this man was going to let him go.

"Yeah, I'm going to let you go..." Buggy said along with Luffy's words, not realizing what he said. The next moment he realized what he said and shouted angrily, "Who said I'm going to let you go!!"

Bucky turned and ordered, "Guys! Bring out the Bucky bomb!"

"Yes!"

"Boss, the Bucky Bomb is ready!!"

"Let me show you the power of the Buggy bomb!!" Buggy grinned and ordered his men to fire at the town.

Nami watched in shock as the shell turned the town that had just been intact into ruins.

"Hahaha, well done, I can turn a town like this into ruins with just one cannonball! With it and the power of the devil fruit, I will definitely be able to dominate the Grand Line!" Buggy smiled proudly.

"Now, fire the cannon, Nami!" Buggy turned the muzzle of the cannon toward Luffy's cage and threatened Nami, "You use this Buggy bullet to blow up your former boss and swear that you will always be loyal to me!"

"Kill that guy!? Me!?" Nami looked at Luffy with eyes wide open, cold sweat pouring out of her body. She quickly looked at Buggy with a bright smile on her face, trying to distract Buggy's attention. "No... No, Captain Buggy! Let's not do these things! Compared to these... First of all... Oh, right! Wine! Let's continue drinking!! Don't worry about these things!!"

"Go ahead!" Bucky's evil voice sounded.

Nami's expression froze, her distraction plan hadn't worked, she didn't know what to do, she had never been in a situation like this before.

The pirates began to cheer and yell at her to light the fire. She was scared and didn't know what to do. She didn't want to kill the boy, even if he was a stupid pirate! But if she didn't kill the boy, Bucky would definitely kill her. But if she killed the boy, wouldn't she be no different from those pirates?

She looked at the boy and she noticed that the boy was looking at him too, even though the boy's hat covered his eyes.

"Nami, don't spoil everyone's fun! Hurry up, light the fire!" Buggy urged loudly.

"Your hands are shaking!" she heard the boy in the straw hat say. "You were so reckless in fighting the pirates without sufficient determination and preparation, that's why things turned out like this."

"What kind of determination is this? Killing people at random... is that what you mean?" Nami asked angrily, with beads of sweat dripping from her forehead. "Is this the determination required to be a pirate?"

"Wrong!" Luffy grinned, "It means the determination to risk your life!"

"Hey! New here, you're such a bummer! Don't you even know how to light a fire?" A pirate walked up from the crowd, snatched the match from Nami's hand, and tried to light the fuse. Nami reached for the stick on her thigh and swung it hard at the pirate's face, knocking him to the ground. Nami looked at the fallen pirate, it was over, she really did it, she didn't know why she did it.

"Nami! What do you mean? It's so rare that I agreed to let you join us, what's your attitude now!!" Buggy yelled angrily.

"What's going on? You want to save me now?" Luffy said.

"Shut up, idiot!" Nami yelled, "I was just forced by the situation... Even if it's just pretend... I don't want to be like those most annoying pirates... who killed the people who are most important to me!!"

"...That's why you hate pirates so much." Luffy could feel Nami's hatred for pirates, and he understood why she hated pirates so much, but his attention was attracted by the burning fuse "Ah! The fuse is still burning!!"

"Oh no... I'm finished!!" Luffy said anxiously, then bit the iron bars of the cage hard.

"People's tolerance is limited! Kill her!" Bucky shouted angrily, "You just die gorgeously!"

"The fuse is still burning?" Nami heard Luffy's words and turned back in shock to look at the still burning fuse.

"Damn it! I'm going to be blown away!!" Luffy shouted in panic with sweat on his face, and then he quickly bit the railing he had been biting with his teeth, "I don't want to die here!"

Nami swung her stick and knocked down the pirates who surrounded her. Then she quickly walked to the fuse that was about to burn out, and held the burning fuse tightly with her hands to extinguish it.

"Ah!" Nami screamed in pain.

Luffy looked at Nami's actions in shock, then noticed the pirates behind her and warned, "Watch out behind you!" Then he breathed a sigh of relief, he felt Zoro coming.

"So many grown men bullying a woman!?" Zoro blocked all the pirates who tried to attack.

"Zoro!" Luffy smiled happily.

"Are you hurt?" Zoro looked at the girl who extinguished the fuse in order to save Luffy.

"Hey... I'm fine..." Nami replied hesitantly.

"Great! Zoro, please save me!" Luffy said to Zoro with a smile.

"Luffy, what on earth are you playing at?" Zoro turned to Luffy and sighed, "Do you think all this is funny? Last time you were captured by a big bird, and this time when I finally found you, you were trapped in a cage!"

"Stupid!" he ended his speech with this word.

Luffy pouted angrily "I think this is kind of fun."

"Hey! Is that guy calling Zoro?"

"Could it be the legendary pirate hunter?"

The pirates were discussing.

"Are you really Roronoa Zoro? Are you here to take my head?" Buggy asked the swordsman holding the sword.

"No, I'm not interested. I'm no longer a pirate hunter." Zoro replied impatiently.

"But I'm very interested in you. If I kill you, I'll become famous!" Bucky said as he flipped the knife with one hand and held four daggers in the other hand, eager to try.

"Since you insist..." Zoro said as he put the knife in his mouth, holding a knife in each hand and assuming a fighting stance.

He looked at Buggy who was rushing towards him and took an attacking posture. He did not move, but chose to swing directly. In just a few seconds, Buggy's body was chopped into several pieces. Looking at the fallen body, Zoro put away the knife, did not look back, and walked towards Luffy. This guy was too weak.

"Is that guy so weak?" Luffy looked at Buggy who was knocked down by Zoro with some doubts. He could feel that the guy seemed to be alive, but he should be dead after being chopped like that. Luffy looked at Zoro and shouted, "Hey, Zoro, let me out."

"Got it!" Zoro looked at the cage that held Luffy and touched it. "This is an iron cage. It can't be cut. We can only find a key to open it."

"Really?" Luffy asked doubtfully, and then he was attracted by the laughter of the pirates over there. "They are so weird..."

"What's so funny? Hand over the key obediently. I don't want to fight with you!" Zoro looked at the Buggy pirate crew who were laughing over there.

"Zoro! Behind him!" Luffy shouted loudly. Although his vision was blocked by Zoro's body, he could feel something attacking Zoro's direction.

Hearing Luffy's warning, he subconsciously moved sideways from his standing position, but he was a step too late. He was cut on his waist by a dagger. He covered the wound on his waist and was a little shocked. It was a broken hand holding a knife attacking him. "What is this!?"

"His arm!" Nami looked in shock as the broken arm flew towards Buggy's reassembled body and then became his original hand.

"The Fruit of Splitting!" Buggy said proudly, "This is the devil fruit I ate! I am a split man who will not die no matter how hard you cut me!"

"Split Man? Is that guy a monster?" Luffy said in surprise.