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The Pirate King ~ Chapter 4 ~ The Stranger
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“Uh, yeah.” Replied Luffy picking his nose.
“Heh. You’re interesting but don’t think that I’ll go easy on you just because of that.” Said Mugoi who got his spear pointed at Luffy.
"That's fine with me." replied Luffy as he got in a fighting stance.
As Mugoi picked up his staff, Luffy ran towards him and threw a punch straight to his face but it wasn’t effective. Mugoi had pulled his spear and blocked his punch. As soon Mugoi blocked Luffy’s punch, he swung his spear horizontally towards Luffy, tearing off part of his cloth and scratching his skin during the process. Luffy jumped back, grinning.
“Not bad…” Luffy said as he charged, once again, at the armored man before him.
“Gomu Gomu no Pistol!!” Luffy yelled as he stretched his right arm behind and retracted it for one heavy punch in the abdomen. Mugoi was sent flying from the point of impact.
“W-what the…?!?” Zoro gasped as he witnessed the punch connect.
Luffy picked up his strawhat from the ground which had fallen to the ground from the punch earlier.
“His armor is pretty strong.” Said Luffy cracking his knuckles as Mugoi got back on his feet and walked towards Luffy. He seemed pissed and his armor had a huge circular crack in the middle.
The angry Mugoi ran towards Luffy with his spear pointing at Luffy. Luffy, on the other hand, stretches his right leg up into the sky and as Mugoi comes close to Luffy, he retracts it landing his foot atop the spear crushing it into the ground.
“I-incredible” spoke Zoro gasping at how high Luffy’s leg had stretched looking at the sky ignoring what had happened on the ground. Mugoi lifted his spear only to find half of it broken and stuck inside the ground.
Mugoi’s eyes widened, his body began trembling and his usual wide grin of entertainment had all disappeared. Mugoi turned around and ran thinking to himself, “Damn! If one of the loyal knights found out about my failure here, I’ll be killed!!”
“So, you’ve failed here as well…” came a voice from a nearby tree. A man wearing ninja clothing stood there leaning against the tree. His whole face, beside his eyes and hair was covered with a mask connected to his ninja outfit. Two sword hilts could been seen that were attached to his back.
“Suto-sama..”
Mugoi had stopped running and looked at the stranger learning on the tree. He looked even more terrified with his appearance and started apologizing at once.
“I-I apologize Suto-sama but I never expected to see someone as strong as him in this part of the sea!”
“Hum, excuses won’t do any good – desu” replied Suto, the stranger, who was looking attentively looking at Zoro. “His Majesty gave you one last chance because of his generosity and you’ve let him down on too many occasions..”
“P-please forgive me!!” begged Mugoi crying on Suto’s feet.
“You’re giving us a bad name!” Suto said coldly. He pulled out his sword and slayed the man’s head before him. “I don’t give a second chance..”
Luffy began to fill with rage and while Zoro placed his hands on his sword in case the stranger attacked him.
“HOW COULD YOU KILL YOUR OWN NAKAMA?!?” Luffy demanded.
“Nakama…? This trash? Don’t say nonse.” Suto laughed hysterically. “He was sent here on a mission for a new recruit and I think he managed to find one but he’s too weak and weaklings don’t deserve to live.”
“I’m going to kick your ass!!” Luffy retorted while Suto walked forward and grabbed Mugoi’s dead body and his head from the ground.
“Maybe some other time…I have to hurry for our meeting.” Suto replied walking deeper into the woods and disappeared.
“I wonder what that was about…” spoke Zoro heading back to the town and Luffy followed.
“So, will you be joining my crew?” asked Luffy catching up with Zoro.
“Why would I want to be a pirate?”
“You can fight him if you come with me.” Luffy replied. Zoro stopped walking and looked at Luffy not sure what he was talking about.
“Who..?”
“The guy who defeated you and gave you that scar.” said Luffy looking at Zoro while picking his nose.
“H-how did you know?”
“There’s pain written all over your body.” replied Luffy continuing to walk on ahead.
“If what he said is true, I might surely be able to fight him again!” Zoro thought, following closely behind Luffy.
The two made their way through into town and to the Meat Shop where the mayor stood there with his hands over his heads, cowering in fear.
“Hey Ossan” said Luffy waving his hands as they entered the building.
“You’re back!!” cried out the Mayor laughing. He ran over to Zoro and Luffy and gave them a hug. “I’m so glad you’re back…”
The mayor began crying and Zoro and Luffy grinned uncomfortably. He let them go soon after and soon the townspeople came over to the meat shop to congratulate their heroes. The heroes were treated to a buffet right after and soon nightfall arrived.
To be continued…
