Raiding.

As soon as Ryuu tried to turn the knob of the door, his expression changed.

"I-It's locked....."

His face looked awkward right now, as after giving such serious orders, the first move itself didn't work out.

Zoro who was getting impatient didn't want to waste more time as he indicated Ryuu to get aside.

"Wait, let me do it."

Ryuu moved to the side as Zoro walked over to the door and took a deep breath.

Raising his right leg, Zoro kicked hard on the door which flew inside with a loud sound, before putting his leg back on the ground.

With an arrogant smile on his face, he muttered casually.

"See? Easy as that."

Ryuu and Akeno looked at each other with strange looks before shouting at him in a hurry.

"Zoro, quick! Take those demons out before they get alert!" 

At their shout, Zoro realized the matter at hand and swiftly dashed inside the shop while taking out one of his swords.

"Here I come demons!"

Akeno and Ryuu too entered the shop with a helpless expression as Zoro was making things difficult for them by doing unnecessary things without a thought.

When inside the shop, Ryuu could see the interior which looked gloomy and dark, but there wasn't much to see as Zoro had attacked a fat demon standing above 3 meters tall.

It didn't seem that the demon had much strength as it was quickly handled by Zoro who swung his sword a few times and knocked out the demon, who was still surprised at the intrusion.

The other demon who was on the other side of the shop quickly walked over while holding a weapon in its hand in confusion.

"What was that noise??"

The black-skinned demon's purple eyes suddenly met with Zoro's one eye before Zoro pushed himself toward the demon within a second.

"F-Filthy Human!", the demon had a dark look on his angry face as he swung his sword randomly with all of his strength.

Unfortunately, the demon was facing Zoro who was a master at swords even with his powers sealed at the moment.

The fight wasn't as eventful as the other demon too was quickly subdued by Zoro who kneeled down to look closely at the demon.

"Hmm, so this is a demon.", Zoro stared all over the demon, finding it amazing that it had such a tall and strong body yet was unable to fight with its mediocre skills.

"What a waste-!"

Shaking his head, he got up from there and looked around the surroundings.

Ryuu seemed to search around the shop curiously while Akeno was using her hypnotizing magic on the fat demon.

Zoro stared around bored and didn't have anything to do, so he picked up the demon's weapon and tested it out by swinging it around.

Meanwhile, Ryuu was busy looking around the shop to find any useful information or anything that could be of help to them.

He knew that there wouldn't be a chance to find any food here, and he also wished there wasn't any as that would mean they won't be attacking more shops later on.

But except for some daily utensils and some utterly unrecognizable items, he didn't find anything useful in this small shop.

Akeno finished her spell with the fat demon and moved over to the other demon to hypnotize it as well.

Meanwhile, Zoro got bored with the sword and walked off to some other rooms of the shop to find anything useful.

As he had to loot the shop, Ryuu searched hard and found some things that looked like this world's currency in the form of some black crystals from the counter and also got himself a low-quality map from within a safe below the counter.

"These may prove to be useful.", he smiled.

But suddenly they heard an exclaim from the other part of the room.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!!"

Akeno who was busy with her spell jumped up at the shout and looked speechlessly at Ryuu who sighed before going to the other room of the shop along with her following behind.

When they entered a room that was located deep inside the shop with barely any light present, they saw Zoro holding his sword and swinging it at a small humanoid figure.

Ryuu widened his eyes when he saw a tiny girl wearing cuffs on her hands and legs looking at Zoro with a frightened and scared face.

Akeno almost jumped forward to stop the man with Ryuu shouting at him.

"Wait ZORO! What are you doing!!"

They were a bit late as the sword reached the tiny girl, but instead of hurting her, the blade of the sword slashed at the cuffs on her body and broke them apart.

"Clang!"

Skillfully giving a few more slashes, Zoro broke all the cuffs placed on the girl and sheathed back his sword with a dark look on his face.

Turning around, Zoro faced Ryuu with a dark look on his face as he muttered.

"Is this what you meant by demons enslaving other races?", his voice reeked of anger as he had seen several whip wounds and scratches all over the tiny girl's body.

He could see the girl's bones almost coming out as she had sickly pale skin and dirty black hair with dead tired blue eyes.

Ryuu took a gulp as he could see a terrifying aura slowly spreading out from Zoro, which made him take a step back and recall something.

'I-Is that haki? That's.....amazing.'

Zoro slowly walked out of the room after leaving some words.

"I'm killing those demons....."

'Wait....', Ryuu tried to say those words but he couldn't move from his place and could only struggle with his eyes moving towards Akeno.

Akeno who noticed his look turned her face away, as for the first time she refused his orders.

Just looking at the tiny girl who was breathing slowly in panic reminded her of her past when she was just a kid and when her mother was killed, due to which she had to fend for herself.

A few seconds later, the power of the haki turned off, giving Ryuu a chance to take a deep breath, after which he dashed outside the dark room and ran to where Zoro was.

But it seemed he was a bit late, as the subdued demons had their necks beautifully cut off from their bodies and were placed on the counter.

Zoro was leaning against the counter beside both heads with a serious look on his face as he seemed to be contemplating.

Ryuu let out a hopeless sigh as he knew that they had done something that they shouldn't have done at the moment, which would bring the notice of the other demons on them.

"We're fucked....."

Shaking his head, Ryuu looked at Zoro, who had his eyes closed with a heavy look on his face.

'It's not his fault though.'

He couldn't blame all this on Zoro as even he was angry at the way the demons had enslaved a little girl who had done nothing to them, but he was more cautious and logical most of the time, thinking about the ways they could effortlessly handle all the missions.

'Maybe I should change the way of handling things or else there would be conflicts starting within our group....'

Ryuu pondered looking deeply at Zoro, thinking on how to convince the man into following his orders.

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