Supreme Swordsman Zoro

As the duo entered the bar they were met with the intimidating gazes of the patrons, well the patrons thought they were intimidating, Zoro smiled at their gazes and clicked one of his katanas while smiling evilly, Kuina decided to ignore the gazes that were eyeing them both and walked directly to the barman.

A fat bald man who wore an apron and a dirty shirt was behind the bar counter cleaning a mug, Kuina approached the bar counter and dropped a stack of bounties on the counter, the bald barman didn't even look from his mug as he said:

"Buy something first before asking for information." Zoro chuckled and put a two hundred belli bill on the counter while saying:

"Ale for all of that." The barman smiled then filled two mugs with cheap ale and slid them to Kuina and Zoro, Zoro drank the ale in a few seconds while Kuina pushed it away, Zoro took the second mug and drank it considering Kuina didn't want any he decided to drink it all by himself.

Kuina then pushed the bounties forward to the man, he started to look through them and he looked at the duo with a strange look on his face then said:

"You want information on all of them?" Zoro nodded his head before Kuina could say anything and he responded to the barman:

"Of course, in my opinion, there are too few wanted people on this island." A chuckle rang out in the bar as a man got up from the stool he was on, he had a scar running over his face vertically as he dragged a giant cleaver towards Zoro he said in a low voice:

"Oh, you think you are a hotshot aren't you?" But before the man could say anything else Zoro unsheathed his sword then sheathed it right back on, a slash appeared on the man's neck as his body slid forward and hit the bar floor.

People looked at Zoro like they saw the devil, they weren't even sure how he decapitated that man!

Someone even shouted:

"He killed boss Billy! he had a bounty of one hundred thousand!" Kuina checked the bounty posters and saw that Billy was the biggest fish they could catch on this island, he was really easy to find, the barman started stuttering and shaking but Zoro's gaze that landed on him made his heart almost stop, Zoro then decided to ask:

"So about the other wanted men, do you have any information?" The barman spilled everything he knew, luckily for the both of them even though they weren't at the bar most of the pirates and bandits were resupplying so they could catch all of them at once. Kuina took Billy's head as proof then left the bar with Zoro in tow.

Zoro played with his swords as Kuina took the lead walking towards the convenience stores where the pirates were supposed to be resupplying, immediately they found out quite a few of wanted men that they easily dispatched. Kuina crossed the wanted posters which they caught with an X then moved on as they continued to catch wanted men.

After a few hours, they caught everyone that went to resupply, unfortunately, some didn't resupply today so they couldn't catch them as they were at sea after they threw all of them at the marine base they made away with four hundred and sixty-five thousand bellies, the marines told them they could also take some things from the pirates, for instance, their boats if they wanted to, they wouldn't stop them, most of them would be repossessed by the government but the marines from the base realized that the duo was very strong and they wanted to curry favor with them.

Immediately their ship problem was solved, and they had some money to boot too! as they looked at the sh.i.p.s that were docked at the pier Zoro shook his head as he saw that even though most of them were pretty big he didn't like how they looked, there weren't many sh.i.p.s as not every wanted man had a ship so he had to make do with what he could get his hands on.

a marine lieutenant was with them as he would register the new ship that Zoro and Kuina would select thus not confusing them with pirates if other marines would see the ship, the marines from the base would also help them by giving them some clean sails that wouldn't depict a skull and crossed bones.

Zoro finally decided on a medium-sized ship that was colored dark green, it's figurehead was a fat mermaid. With the help of the marines, the change of sails was done immediately, down inside the ship where treasures were kept an orange-haired girl which looked to be fourteen years old was loading huge sacks of treasure then put them over her shoulder ready to run away.

Zoro was looking at the ship more closely when he suddenly felt a small being on the ship with his Observation Haki, Kuina smiled towards him as she felt it as well, they decided to wait for the unknown individual to make himself visible as there was no way he or she could leave the ship without getting on the deck first.

After a few minutes, the orange-haired girl who wore a green skirt, sandals and a white sleeveless

shirt with two huge sacks of gold and treasures over her shoulder, when she saw both Zoro and Kuina she wanted to make a run for it and jump on the dock but Zoro suddenly appeared in front of her.

The woman let out a loud 'yiiip' but she couldn't do anything against Zoro, she tried to hit him between the legs with a kick but Zoro easily dodged and said:

"Quite vicious aren't you." Nami knew she was done for the man was extremely fast but she wouldn't go down without a fight! She let the sacks of treasures on the deck and was ready to throw herself at him but Zoro shook his head and then said:

"We aren't pirates, we just took this ship after we caught the crew, we are bounty hunters." Kuina walked over and said:

"That's right, don't be scared we don't want to hurt you." Kuina smiled towards Nami and asked afterward:

"Why did you steal all this money from the pirates, it's quite risky and you are all alone, you also look like you aren't that old." Nami looked at the two of them but decided against telling them her life story and she just said:

"I need this money for a personal reason, it has to do with my village please don't pry into it." Zoro shook his head and decided not to interfere but Kuina wasn't the same as him:

"Are you sure you are ok? do you need some help?" Nami's gaze softened, in her mind as long as someone wasn't a pirate there was a chance he could be a good person but then she shook her head, she didn't want to doom two strangers, Aarlong was a beast with a bounty of twenty million, she didn't think two unknown bounty hunters could defeat him.

Since Nami insisted that she didn't need any help Kuina decided to let her go but before she left the ship Kuina said:

"My name's Kuina and this guy is called Zoro, what's yours?"

Nami smiled at the two of them and said:

"Name's Nami, see ya!" She then jumped to a nearby small boat when suddenly a gust of wind started to push its sails at a fast speed as she quickly undid the knot that was tied to the dock.

Zoro watched as the boat speed off into the horizon then looked at Kuina and said:

"Ok now that this episode is over what should we do?"

Kuina took a pondering look on her face then said:

"Hmm maybe, before we go to the grand line let's see the whole east blue, it shouldn't take us much time we should also cash in as many bounties as we can as extra money is never bad, we have a ship already but I don't think this one would be good enough to get us through the grand line."

Kuina's words made sense to Zoro so he decided to not question anything she said, Kuina took her things and choose a free room in the ship and Zoro decided to do the same thing after their things were settled in their rooms Kuina came out of her room with a map and shouted to Zoro:

"Zoro come out! we have to navigate for a while to get to the next island the c.u.mulative bounty of the island should be at least at one million, the nice marine lieutenant even gave us updated wanted posters, let's go!"

Zoro walked outside his room and with Kuina's instructions set the sails in a favorable direction then started to navigate the ship towards the next island. After a few tens of minutes of navigating Kuina told Zoro:

"Ok this is enough if nothing unexpected happens we will get to the island in a few days, also you don't have to hold rudder anymore. Zoro sighed as he let go of the rudder, their destination was already set so all he had to do was let the wind do its job.

Zoro walked slowly away from the rudder then asked Kuina:

"What do you want to do now?"

Kuina put a finger on her chin and she started thinking then she said:

"Well I guess we can just train a bit then eat something afterward, let's first start with our normal training routine, as we already unlocked armament now we only have to focus to increase its success rate, as for Observation we can only try to hone it by continuously using it just like my father said."

Zoro started to use Observation but after a few tens of minutes beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, it was hard for him to keep Observation up all of the time, he was very far away before he could use Observation all the time unconsciously, as for armament, he still had only a forty percent chance of activating it and any distractions would turn it off immediately.

Kuina could keep Observation up for more time but her progress in armament was quite slow after they trained their haki for half a day they ate some rations they got for the journey, Zoro shook his head at the taste and said:

"This food isn't as good and nutritious as someone's cooking, the food can keep us alive but it doesn't help us in regards of getting stronger." Zoro could feel that the better food they got after he came with the bounty money helped him increase his strength better than what he ate before, better food increased the speed of gaining strength but it wasn't by much, but any kind of help was needed for his dream so Zoro decided he needed a cook on his ship.

Kuina nodded her head as well, cooked food was needed for a balanced diet, unfortunately, both of them couldn't cook at all, all their talent went into swordsmanship and haki, everything else was mediocre or extremely bad. Of course, they could roast some meat or fry some eggs but they couldn't make any good dishes they also had no cookbooks.

Zoro now realized that he couldn't go through the grand line by himself he lacked certain things that were needed to keep yourself alive at sea, he either needed to learn them or get someone who was talented in them to join him on his journey of becoming the greatest swordsman in the world.

The first people he needed to get was a navigator and a cook, he didn't even know where to look for them, Kuina didn't know either, she didn't have any knowledge of east blue besides what the map showed her.

Zoro shook his head if he met any good cooks or navigators during his whole journey in the east blue he would try to ask them if they wanted to join him.