Supreme Swordsman Zoro

Chapter 11 - Getting some bounties and sailing to Baratie

Zoro watched as they got nearer and nearer towards the island then he said:

"You guys can dock the ship right?" Johnny and Yosaku nodded their heads like chicks pecking rice wanting to impress their big brother Zoro, Zoro smiled at the two of them and said:

"Ok then I'll go ahead and resupply with Kuina we will meet later at the local bar and we will start bounty hunting afterward ok?"

Johnny and Yosaku continued to nod their heads, Kuina chuckled at their antics, even though the duo was pretty weak they were pretty funny, Zoro leaped away from the ship and Kuina followed him as they were already near the docks of the island.

Johnny and Yosaku lowered the anchor and lowered the sails as well they high-fived each other then they jumped down from the ship as well, Zoro and Kuina were already buying the required food items and other things needed for living at sea. After a few minutes of shopping, they walked towards the town's bar and met with Johnny and Yosaku who were just coming towards the bar.

Zoro and Kuina gave them the supplies and told them to go back to the ship and return, the duo didn't say anything and executed the orders, Zoro and Kuina entered in the bar but the patrons started to whistle and do indecent gestures towards Kuina, a glare from Zoro and his swords unsheathing stopped every patron's gesture and whistling. After killing quite many people Zoro gained a peculiar aura around him that scared normal people, however, some dumb people couldn't even sense that in this bar.

A giant hulking man with a tattoo on his forehead and an eyepatch who wore a black tank top green boots and white shorts approached Kuina and said in a lecherous tone of voice:

"Why don't you ditch this green-haired loser and come entertain me and the boys?" He pointed towards the table where he stood before and there were some other pirates like him there salivating as they ogled Kuina's body, their eyes were especially looking at her b.r.e.a.s.ts.

Zoro was ready to unsheath his swords and kill all of these fools but Kuina put a hand over his and said:

"These guys have a bounty of two hundred thousand in total, let me deal with them, after all, they insulted me personally!" Zoro smiled at Kuina then nodded his head, he walked towards the barman and said:

"One bottle of ale." Then he slapped the counter with bellies, the slap was so hard that the counter cracked in the middle, the barman was shaking like a leaf at Zoro's strength, he smiled awkwardly at him and gave him one of his best ale bottles.

The eye-patched pirate lone eye bulged out as he saw Zoro's strength but before he could say anything Kuina was already sheathing her sword:

"One sword style: Sudden death." The pirate looked at her like one would look at a fool then said:

"What are you mumbling about you crazy bitch?" But before he could continue his train of thought he saw himself fall over for no reason, as he looked around the bar with his eyes he could see people who watched him with terrified eyes before he could ask what was their problem his thoughts started to grow foggy as he died. Kuina patted her hands as she looked at her handy work, killed before he knew he got killed!

His crewmates wanted to run away from this devil woman that they encountered but before they could Zoro unsheathed one sword, one hand drinking ale while the other pointed at the running pirates, a horizontal slash made from Zoro shoot out a flying blade which cut all the remaining pirates in two.

The regular patrons started to vomit at the sight while the barman's shaking aggravated, he thought to himself:

"He didn't even slash them, how he could cut them in two from a distance???"

Zoro smirked at the barman which made him faint, as Zoro's smirk looked like a devil's smile to him.

The regular people started to run away from the bar as Johnny and Yosaku tried to enter it, they were almost stampeded by the crowd, fortunately, they dodged in time. When Johnny and Yosaku entered the bar their eyes widened as they saw the mess, As Johnny looked at the faces of the dead pirates who laid on the floor he got some folded wanted posters from his pants pockets and he said out loud:

"Billy one-eyed Joe, bounty one hundred thousand, Ruffer the sea dog bounty fifty thousand, Bildop the snail bounty fifty thousand." They already made two hundred thousand bellies while they were delivering the goods back to the ship! What a frightening efficiency!

Kuina smiled at the duo and waved towards them, Johnny and Yosaku made sure to not step on the entrails of the pirates so they wouldn't get their footwear dirty, Zoro finished his ale then said:

"Go, cash in the bounties for these people, you keep fifty thousand, come back here we will go bounty hunting together so we can train you a bit." Johnny and Yosaku wanted to train already but since they would get fifty thousand bellies only for delivering the heads of the wanted people they decided to keep silent.

Both of them had their swords which they used to cut off the head of the other two wanted pirates and they also took Joe's head, afterward they wrapped it in some cloth that was covering the tables of the bar.

It didn't take them much to cash in the bounties and come back, Zoro was already at his third ale bottle while Kuina also tried one glass of ale herself, she didn't understand why Zoro loved alcohol so much, it tasted sweet but it also burned your throat, she didn't like the sensation so she stopped after one glass.

Zoro walked away from the half-destroyed bar counter and said:

"Let's go find some other wanted pirates or bandits, time for your training." Johnny and Yosaku beamed like they saw Santa Claus on the day of Christmas, they could finally get some training from the superhuman swordsman duo!

Zoro and Kuina left the bar followed by Johnny and Yosaku, of course, finding bandits and pirates is easier said than done, sometimes you would find them the moment you left your residence other times you wouldn't see a pirate in years. Fortunately for Johnny and Yosaku, they found a small-time gang with bounties ranging from ten thousand to twenty-five thousand harassing the villagers of the town they were in.

Johnny and Yosaku immediately went in running towards the bandits who were trying to abuse and steal from the poor villagers, Johnny's and Yosaku's technique wasn't that great and their strength was lacking but they were above the normal human power, with some luck they beat the bounty holders but afterward, they fell in exhaustion which led them to be surrounded by the grunts.

Zoro snorted and all of the grunts became headless, Johnny and Yosaku widened their eyes, this was the first time they saw Zoro in action and they couldn't be sure what they saw, Zoro's slashing speed was too fast for their untrained eyes, one second Zoro snorted the other second headless bodies were kneeling around them.

Zoro shook his head at the duo's lack of stamina and said:

"You are lacking in everything even though you are better than normal, I guess we will first have to begin with stamina training." Kuina nodded her head and said:

"After we finish with the bounty hunting on this island I will create a special training routine for the two of you Ok?"

The exhausted duo nodded and smiled towards the both of them, afterward they helped each other up and decided to follow Zoro and Kuina and see how they would handle the other wanted criminals.

After a few hours of scurrying the whole island which wasn't that big, they caught almost all the present pirates and bandits and handed them in for their bounties, fortunately, the marine base had enough money to pay them off, the marine who gave them the bounties gasped as he said:

"It's you Roronoa Zoro and Kuina the new upcoming bounty hunter stars!" It seemed news traveled fast among marines, Zoro and Kuina only cashed in quite high bounties, well high for east blue standards so they were already pretty popular among east blue marine folk.

The marine bowed to the two of them and said:

"It's good to have people like you working with us!" Then he saluted them after they left, Johnny and Yosaku were impressed by the respect Zoro and Kuina got from that marine and promised to themselves that they would one hundred percent take their training seriously so they could become great swordsmen like them.

Zoro, Kuina, Johnny, and Yosaku embarked their ship and left the same day they arrived, their next destination was Baratie the floating restaurant!

As always Johnny and Yosaku did the chores afterward Kuina called them over and said:

"Your physical constitutions are quite weak before I can teach you any techniques we will have to train your bodies a bit, first you will have to do one thousand push-ups sit-ups, squats, and some variations push-ups, some weight lifting, and some swimming." Johnny and Yosaku started to sweat at Kuina's words if her training was already this hard what training did Zoro have in mind for them?

They didn't complain about her training even though it was inhuman and started to do it, in the first days they could barely reach two hundred push-ups and sit-ups while they couldn't even lift weights and swim. Zoro shook his head as he lifted two anchors over his head as he did squats, from where he got those huge anchors no one knows.

After he felt that he finished his warmup he tied the anchors to his body and jumped behind the ship, then he put his hands on the sh.i.p.s back and started swimming, the speed of Zoro legs in the water created mini vortexes as the ship sailed at high speed, Kuina took control of the rudder so they wouldn't deviate off course.

The time they would need to get to Baraties shortened immensely with Zoro's new training technique, after a few hours of swimming Zoro untied the anchors from him and jumped back on the ship, Johnny and Yosaku were sweating intensely and they were ready to give up for today but when they saw how Zoro was still ok after how much he swam with giant anchors tied to him to boot!

They decided to push beyond their limits and try to finish the push-ups sit-ups and squats quota for today at least.

After another few days, a giant fish could be seen over the horizon, it was blue and it had orange lips, it wasn't a fish it was a ship!

Some scared people could be seen running to their sh.i.p.s and sailing away from the restaurant, Zoro looked at the restaurant then asked Johnny and Yosaku who were now lifting weights after they finished their other training:

"Is this the supposed floating restaurant?" Johnny and Yosaku said in unison:

"I think this is the one big brother Zoro, we haven't seen it so we can't be sure one hundred percent but this was the location we were told about."

Zoro nodded his head at them then waited for a few minutes as their ship finally neared the restaurant, Johnny and Yosaku stopped their training with permission from Kuina and they all jumped from the ship's deck to the restaurants.

With their newfound strength, Johnny and Yosaku almost made a hole through the restaurant's deck but fortunately, Kuina caught them before it could happen.

They entered and took a seat as they looked around the restaurant, it was quite empty and there were no waiters to take their orders, Zoro shook his head and said:

"Are you sure the restaurant is open, this looks like a ghost restaurant." Suddenly out of nowhere a blonde-haired man who wore a dark suit with a blue undershirt and a black-tie appeared, he was smoking a cigarette, the right part of his face was covered by his hair while the left part was shown, the man had some very curly eyebrows.

He looked down without observing Kuina and said:

"Ok, what do you want you, shitty customers." He looked up to see the customers but then his eyes transformed in hearts as he started to twirl around the restaurant like a tornado:

"OH MY GOD, WHAT A BEAUTY!" Zoro snorted at the man's behavior and said:

"I don't like this restaurant already maybe we should go." Kuina giggled at Zoro attitude and said:

"It's ok Zoro," Zoro grunted at Kuina's words then didn't say anything else, Sanji approached Kuina and kneeled near her, here Kuina started to feel a bit weirded out by his behavior he was ready to kiss her hand but out of nowhere a sword appeared near his neck and Zoro's voice could be heard:

"Shitty curly eyebrowed cook, don't you think you are a bit too familiar with my friend?" Sanji's eyes widened as he didn't feel the sword being unsheathed nor approaching his neck at all, who was this guy?

Sanji cleared his throat and said:

"So what would you want today?" Zoro was ready to cut the man into pieces but Kuina put a hand over Zoro's shoulder and shook her head, Zoro huffed and resheathed his sword, the man was a civilian if Zoro killed him they could become wanted criminals, Kuina didn't want that so she advised Zoro that it wasn't a good action course with her gestures.

Sanji narrowed his eyes at their interactions and a lightbulb suddenly lighted up in his brain, it seemed this woman was already taken...

After calming Zoro down Kuina started the food order:

"Give us your best dishes, money isn't a problem." Sanji couldn't control himself as he started twirling around again:

"Beautiful and rich with the soul of an angel ah...." Sanji disappeared inside the kitchen as his words resounded in the dining hall of the ship, Zoro looked at Kuina then said:

"This guy is pretty annoying and it seems he is the only one here, I don't think we can get a cook from here." Kuina shook her head as she said:

"He is pretty lecherous but if his food is good we can try to recruit him, you are stronger than him and it doesn't look like he would do anything problematic on his own, he also looks pretty young, by my observation haki estimates he is also quite strong, would make a good crewmate, you should be able to sense that there are very few people in the restaurant as well, there's one other relatively large presence in here but he didn't make himself visible up till now while we probed around, that means he doesn't want to meet us." Zoro acknowledged Kuina's words with a nod, she was right.

After a few more minutes of waiting the blonde chef came out of the kitchen with a few trays and plates of food, he bowed towards Kuina and gave the stink eye to Johnny and Yosaku, he, however, didn't dare to look at Zoro.

Zoro took some of the utensils that the man brought with him and started to dig into the food, even though he wouldn't say this out loud the food was very good, the best food he ate since he was born, Kuina eyes started to sparkle as she ate the food, Johnny and Yosaku did the same, the food was really good!

The man smiled as he saw how everyone enjoyed the food he cooked, Kuina finished her food first then asked:

"Are you the one who cooked this?" The man's smile remained on his face as he responded:

"Yes, I cooked this, want seconds, on the house for you." Kuina shook her head then posed another question to the blonde man:

"What's your name?"

The man straightened his tie and said:

"I'm called Sanji, sous chef of the floating restaurant Baratie, at your service."

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