Huh?
Huh?
Huh?
Looking at Kuina's bounty poster in his hand, Zoro's eyes were red with excitement, while small question marks kept appearing above his head.
For a long while.
"Ku-Ku… Kuina has reincarnated into a great pirate with a bounty of 300 million?!"
Zoro's face held excitement, but also a ghost-like shock.
"Wait a moment, Boss, what do you mean? Do you know this little girl named Kuina?"
Joseph, the Sword Saint, realized this astonishing fact.
"How could I not know her? Kuina is my childhood friend!"
Zoro answered subconsciously.
"Eh? Eh, eh, eh!"
"This girl is actually your… childhood friend, Zoro Boss?!!!"
Johnny, the Sword God, and Joseph, the Sword Saint, were both stunned on the spot.
They had thought they only knew each other, but they never expected…
Wait a moment!!!
Johnny, the Sword God, and Joseph, the Sword Saint, simultaneously shuddered, as if they had thought of something.
"Uh, I mean, Zoro Boss, 'childhood friend' usually refers to people of similar age who grew up together!"
Joseph, the Sword Saint, said seriously.
"Exactly, exactly! This girl looks to be around ten years old. Zoro Boss, you can't go down the path of pedophilia! With your charm, there's no woman you can't have!"
Johnny, the Sword God, said earnestly.
Upon hearing this.
Zoro was momentarily stunned.
The next second, as he reacted, he decisively gave his two misguided subordinates a chop to the head each, knocking them to the ground.
What are you two idiots thinking? Kuina is two years older than me!
Zoro refuted.
"Oh?"
Even after being hit, Johnny and Joseph still looked skeptical, glancing sideways at Zoro.
They thought, 'Big Brother, you're lying! There's no way this little girl is a twenty-year-old adult.'
"Ah, ah, ah, seriously, I don't know how to explain it to you guys. My mind is a mess right now... In short, in my understanding, Kuina shouldn't even exist in this world!"
Zoro clutched his head with both hands.
"Big Brother, it's not good to curse a female acquaintance like that!" Joseph said, defending her.
"No... no, to tell you the truth, nine years ago, Kuina fell down the stairs and died!" Zoro sighed.
"Holy crap!!!"
"Holy crap crap crap!!!"
Johnny and Joseph, the two great'Sleeping Dragons and Phoenixes,' widened their eyes in unison as if they had seen a ghost.
"Kuina should have died. This should just be someone similar... But, her appearance and name all match. I'm starting to wonder if I'm dreaming!" Zoro's face was full of distress.
Slap!
Johnny gave Joseph a big slap across the face.
"Ah, what was that for~" Joseph cried out in pain.
"Big Brother, it seems you're not dreaming. By the way, if you want to know what's going on, why don't you go back home and ask this girl's parents? What's the situation?" Johnny suggested.
"Do you think I don't want to go back? The problem is, I really don't know how to go back!" Zoro, who had been wandering for half a year, wailed to the sky, on the verge of collapse.
...
...
The shock caused by Crocodile's downfall and Roland's crew's record-breaking bounties continued to ferment, gradually drawing the attention of the world's major figures.
New World.
Dressrosa.
Royal Palace Outdoor Pool.
"Fufufufu, interesting! Truly interesting!" Doflamingo, the Shichibukai Heavenly Yaksha, held a hand to his forehead and laughed wildly.
"Others may not know, but I know all too well, Crocodile. You were taken down by this rookie, weren't you? What a useless piece of trash!"
"I used to think you would be a good partner, but it turns out you couldn't even take down a mere country. If you had taken Alabasta, we might have been able to cooperate, but now... you're no longer qualified!" The curve of Doflamingo's lips widened.
"Nanan, Doffy! Doffy! About this Air Force Pirates... aren't their bounties too outrageous? What does the World Government mean by setting a billion for someone's first bounty?!" Torrepol, a top executive of Doflamingo, asked in shock.
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