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The Reunion of Childhood Friends
🕑 Added 2024-10-26 15:11:37 +0000 UTC--- Chapter 380 ---
The fight is over.
Everyone stared in the direction of the Districts 3, 4, and 5 with fearful expression. Such a large-area lightning attack would obliterate almost anything in this world.
Even Logia's Elementalization can't tank such an attack. The scale is just different.
Of course, the one who launched this attack casually drank her tea and chatted with her friends in the cave at District 1 like nothing 'important' or eventful happened to her.
"Wow, ROBIN! YOU'RE SUPER STRONG!" Luffy clapped his hands as the entire fight was 'literally' broadcasted to screen-like paper on the cave's wall.
Nami and Brook also put on a thoughtful look. They didn't expect Robin to become this strong in just two years.
"And that was just a clone." Kuina reminded them, drinking her coffee to look more mature.
"Ah, that's right. The one fighting the Admirals is just her clone!" Nami covered her mouth in shock.
"Robin-san, how did you do this?" Brook couldn't believe his eyes. Well, he didn't have any.
Robin put down her tea and replied, "Martial Soul."
"Oh, the one Kuina talked about earlier!" Luffy's eyes lit up.
Kuina snorted, "As if you understood anything I said earlier."
"SHISHISHI~! Of course, I don't understand a thing!" Luffy replied loud and clear.
"..." Nami.
"..." Brook.
Robin replied with a mysterious expression. "Well, I will explain everything when the whole crew is here."
"For now, our little guest is here."
Thud!
"Good work." Robin glanced at the new figure that was none other than her paper clone, placing the fainted Fujitora down on the floor.
After that, the paper clone just turned into countless origami papers.
Luffy, Nami, and Brook stared at the Fujitora in awe.
They knew Robin defeated this man a moment ago, but isn't bringing him here risky?
Luffy squatted on the floor and grabbed a stick, poking Fujitora with a cautious and solemn look.
"Don't poke someone with a stick!" Nami pinched Luffy's ear, pulling him back to his seat.
Luffy showed no pain and shrugged, "I'm just making sure he was still alive."
"Of course, she won't kill someone who doesn't deserve death. Robin is more merciful than you thought." Kuina stated the obvious. "Also, Robin made sure there was no one else in the area when she fought those Admirals by teleporting them away with her Martial Souls."
"Doesn't that mean Robin-san divides her attention by hundred if not thousand, parts?" Brook raised his hand.
"Yes, Brook. However, it's not difficult because my divine sense covers more than those areas. They are just side tasks." Robin didn't find this achievement worth mentioning.
If not for the Tiny World's restriction, Robin's divine sense might spread all over the planet and the moon.
"Oh, someone is coming." Talking about divine sense, Robin just sensed a familiar presence entering District 1. She smiled and glanced at Kuina.
"Kuina-chan, why don't you greet this person?"
Kuina's divine sense also detected 'this person' and snorted at Robin for teasing her again. "I know. I've been searching for this idiot."
With that, Kuina vanished from the spot.
If Robin hadn't shown her abilities earlier, perhaps Luffy and others would have gotten frightened, thinking Kuina was a ghost.
"Are you guys ready to watch a fun show?" Robin pointed at the screen-like paper on the wall.
"Shishishi, it's been two years. I wonder how strong our swordsman has become." Luffy laughed mischievously.
Nami is brutally honest, "He has no chance of winning. If Robin is already that strong, Kuina shouldn't be far off."
"True, true." Brook nodded in agreement with Nami.
"If it was life-and-death combat, I might lose..." Robin stated as a matter of fact.
"What if it isn't?" Nami glanced at her.
Robin smiled faintly, "Nah, I'd win."
...
...
Zoro strolled from the port to District 1, kicking a random pebble in frustration.
Getting rejected by a strong swordsman like Fujitora sucks!
"Damn it! Just a few swings, and we are good." Zoro mumbled, shaking his three swords in satisfaction.
However, before Zoro could continue with his frustration, he saw two bloodied people flying in the sky and running away to the port.
"What's wrong with them?" He frowned and then saw several meteors falling from the sky.
"..."
His eyes widened.
His jaws dropped.
"What the hell! WHO PUT MOUNTAINS IN THE DAMN SKY!"
Then, a yellow lightning strike destroyed the meteors and caused a strong shockwave. Yes, all the way to Zoro's position.
Zoro steeled his legs and experienced the impact. "If this impact on this area is like this, how strong are the people there?"
"Mihawk is right. There are so many powerhouses in this world."
Unfortunately for Zoro, his teacher for the past two years just got beaten up a few moments ago.
Zoro started running to the danger, plastering a mad smile on his face.
Yet someone suddenly intercepted him.
This person. She has blue hair, a slim yet trained body, and that face.
"What's up!" Kuina greeted him with a grin.
Zoro froze on the spot, "H-How can you be here!"
"You're supposed to be dead!"
"Oy, Bakazoro, are you cursing me?" Kuina put on a fierce look.
"Also, I'm not dead. I faked it."
"You can't fake death, you fool!" Zoro returned, thinking this was his imagination. "Ghost! That's right, you must be a ghost!"
"..."
Bam!
Kuina appeared instantly before Zoro and punched his stomach. "What did you say, Bakazoro!?"
"Uugh!"
Zoro groaned in pain, falling to the ground with shock on his face.
This familiar move and sensation.
There is no mistake.
"But you're... I literally attended your funeral..."
Kuina crossed her arms and repeated, "As I said, I faked my death."
"You don't know the specifics because of the sealing Master put on your idiot's head."
"Here, I will unseal it for ya."
With a gentle tap on the forehead, the 'memory' seal Huo Yuhao put on Zoro disappeared.
Zoro clutched his head and experienced several moments of his younger days, gasping for air due to the shock Huo Yuhao gave. And the torture Huang Qiu'er put him through.
"This..." Zoro doesn't know what to say.
"How could she do that to me... No wonder my chest felt tight every time I saw a woman using a spear."
"That demoness..."
"Are you talking about Senior Qiu'er?" Kuina gave him a funny look.
"I heard you were courting death by asking my Master to a duel, so she taught you some lessons."
Zoro cursed, "I hope you kept that part of memory sealed forever. What a dark past."
"Hehe, then that wouldn't be interesting." Kuina found Zoro's situation straight-up hilarious.
Zoro sighed and looked at Kuina, observing from bottom to top.
"You have become... More beautiful."
"And strong, very strong, I can feel it."
"But it won't stop me from challenging you to a duel!"
"You sore loser." Kuina squinted her eyes, recalling their younger days in the Shimotsuki Dojo.
"IT'S JUST 2001 MATCHES! THIS TIME, THIS TIME I WILL WIN!" Zoro, who has calmed down due to his training, gets riled up when meeting his long-lost friend again.
"You never change, Zoro." Kuina smiled sincerely.
No one knows Zoro's obsession and dream better than Kuina.
"Very well, let's spar here."
"Right here?" Zoro looked around, finding himself on the entranceway to District 1. There are buildings and everything here.
Kuina taunted, "What's the matter? Are you perhaps not confident fighting me here? Bakazoro is such a scaredy cat!"
"Hmph, I will show everything with my swords then," Zoro replied, pulling Wado Ichimonji.
Looking at Wado Ichimonji in Zoro's hand, Kuina felt nostalgic because she used that sword in childhood. But now, a sword of that level can't keep up with her.
It also makes Kuina realize that fighting with her 'personal' weapons will be unfair to Zoro.
"Oh, yeah. Now I understand why Sensei gave me this." Zoro suddenly pulled a green feather from his clothes.
Kuina detected faint spirit energy in the feather and recognized it was 'actually' coming from her father's Martial Soul, Wind Speech Sparrow.
Then, the green feather burst into a breeze and turned into Shimotsuki Koushiro.
"Sensei/Father!" Zoro and Kuina were surprised to see him appearing before them.
Koushiro fully materialized and smiled at them, "Haha, I didn't expect my breeze clone to appear this soon. It seemed my bet with Young Master Yuhao was about to start."
"I can't possibly miss a duel between my daughter and disciple."
He looked at Kuina fondly, "Kuina... You have become an adult."
"Father misses you so much."
"But I know you're in good hands."
Kuina knew what her father meant and nodded happily.
...
East Blue, Shimotsuki Village.
At Shimotsuki Dojo, the real Koushiro is meditating calmly. Behind him are seven halos, two purples, four blacks, and one red.
"Kuina... It seemed entrusting you to Young Master Yuhao is a good choice." Koushiro's lips curled into a smile.
"Your mother would be proud."
"And I am also proud of you."
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