Part eight - Demons of East Blue 2/??

Johnny and Yosaku took a deep breath. They were sure that even a little bit more and the eternal thirst for money of their captain would defeat his own common (?) sense, because of which their lives would instantly become more complicated by an order of magnitude, or even by two orders of magnitude.

- Okay, everyone remembered what to do? Excellent! Then I'll send Zoro in.

- Send Zoro in? - Johnny and Yosaku asked in unison, sincerely believing that they only heard it.

Although the mask on Luffy hid his face, the guys were absolutely sure that, in response to their question, he sent them a satisfied smile. And then Luffy grabbed Zoro by the chains, lying under his feet, and, making a sharp turn, threw the swordsman up towards the ships, with such force that their boat almost went under water. But Zoro flew away at the speed of a cannonball. The highest point of its flight was thirty meters higher than the flagpole of the largest of all the ships assembled here.

The pirates standing on the decks, heads up in unison, stared at the "flying" Zoro with stunned glances.

- So, it's time for me to dump, otherwise, my captain's heart senses that he won't care about the pirates now, - Luffy said, after which Johnny and Yosaku again had to grab the sides of the boat so as not to fall into the water when their the captain, with one powerful leap, found himself on the deck of the pirate ship nearest to them.

- Hello again! - Luffy raised his hand, continuing to smile ... although no one could see it anyway. - I apologize in advance, but that monster over there, - Luffy pointed to the sky, - is about to kill you all. You guys should have given up.

And indeed. As soon as Zoro was at the highest point of his flight, the chains that bound him instantly flew in different directions. Then, already starting to fall, he took his bandana out of his mouth, shook it sharply from his own saliva, and then quickly and skillfully tied it back on his head. The swordsman's eyes glowing with crimson light, swiftly scanned the ship below. Unmistakably finding Luffy standing carelessly in the midst of the dense group of pirates, Zoro grabbed his swords. Zorri's prediction came true right away. A deadly whirlwind crashed onto the ship with the force of divine retribution. All the pirates standing on the deck were instantly killed, and a couple of seconds later, the ship itself was torn to shreds by the technique of a swordsman. Only Luffy escaped the deadly attack by simply jumping to the next ship.

The green-haired swordsman did not even think to stop.

The main mast from the ship he destroyed, caught in a sort of "eye of the storm", remained intact, but it was thrown high up. So Zoro used it as a leg support to reinforce his next technique. However, Luffy didn't avoid her this time. Grabbing a white plunger from his belt, the guy grabbed it with both hands in the manner of a baseball bat. After waiting for Zoro to launch another ranged technique at him, Luffy, having saturated the plunger with the Armament haki to the limit, swung the plunger at the sword technique, sending a wide light blue stripe away from him.

- I can't believe! - Luffy commented as he watched as his repulsed Zoro's technique swept through the surrounding pirates like a giant scythe of Death. And not only pirates. All masts and superstructures were cut clean. One single attack from the swordsman silenced fifty-four "voices" forever at once.

Here Luffy again had to jump to another ship. Zoro's third technic not only completely hacked the ship in half, in the very place where Luffy stood just a moment ago, but also pulled it under the water with her. The medium-sized galleon seemed to be dragged to the bottom of the bay by some huge, sea monster, so quickly it happened.

The next attack came only after Zoro landed on the deck, but it followed immediately. Another wave of energy, which took the form of a real Dragon, launched by Zoro's white sword, went through several ships at once, setting fire to, destroying and killing everything in its path. The swordsman's fifth attack sank both the ship he was standing on and the one Luffy jumped onto while escaping the dragon that Zoro had launched.

And there was panic around:

- Kill them, kill them !!!

- Shoot, shoot at them !!!

And the pirates attacked and the pirates fired, but Zoro and Luffy paid no attention to them. The green-haired swordsman was too busy killing his captain, and the captain diligently redirecting his first mate's attacks. Ranged attacks of the swordsman, if they did not sink ships, then mowed down dozens of people at a time. Just five minutes after the start of the battle, Zoro, with his attacks, killed about half a thousand people - of course, not without the help of Luffy, who managed to redirect many of the swordsman's attacks to people, - completely sunk seven ships and five more were either badly damaged or set on fire, or both damaged and set on fire at the same time.

And then Luffy, who found himself directly opposite Zoro, after they together killed all the pirates on the deck, saw the swordsman position his swords in a very characteristic way. Characteristic and therefore very familiar to Luffy. And how can you even forget the moment when you see how your first mate gets two heads and four arms more?

- Kiki Kyutoryu: Asura (Demon Aura: Asura Nine Swords Style)!

- Kick-ass! - delivered his verdict to Luffy when he realized what Zoro was about to do and then really made an effort to get out of where he was just standing. Of all Luffy's known arsenal of Zoro's techniques, the guy was frankly afraid of only one, and it was her swordsman who was now going to use. Not a moment passed before Luffy disappeared from where he was standing, as the entire world around him was flooded with a bright glow, and then Zoro's voice said:

- Kyutoryu Ogi: Kyuzen Sekai (Nine Sword Style Secret Technique: Nine Thousand Worlds) !!!

The result of the technique gave the impression that someone had fired a huge, blazing with silver fire, cannonball of a light blue, almost heavenly color. Which destroyed everything in its path, and left a vacuum behind it, where, a moment later, everything that was not completely destroyed by the core itself was sucked in and ground. Having smashed to pieces a dozen ships on its way, at the very end, the core also exploded, literally evaporating three ships at once. With one single attack from Zoro, more than six hundred voices were silenced forever.

- Willing to watch and watch you apply this technique, - Luffy admitted while standing next to Zoro down on one knee. - Yes, and since the last time it has clearly grown in destructive power ... or rather, you have become stronger.

- But it's very costly, - the panting swordsman admitted.

- Zoro, this is a real secret move and it should be costly, - Luffy said instructively in response. - If you can spam your secret technique like crazy, then it ceases to be secret and becomes an ordinary attack. Moreover, the ability to spam your once secret technique means that you have reached the next level and are ready to master some other secret technique. These are the elementary laws of the genre.

- Luffy?

- Yes?

- Never joke like that again.

- Zorri answers!

- I'm serious, Luffy.

- … I think I just felt a prick of guilt.

- I'm serious, Luffy, - Zoro repeated, and he really looked as serious as possible.

After a short silence, all three plungers fell onto the blood-soaked and corpse-covered deck, and then, with a heavy sigh, Luffy began to undress. As it turned out, the guy put on a small backpack under his terrible type of robe, where he folded his usual slippers, shorts and a red short-sleeved shirt.

- I won't take off my mask, and don't even persuade me, - Luffy said after changing his clothes. - It's almost your real portrait anyway.

- It would have been quite enough for me if you threw down the white plunger and the sign.

- Oh, okay ... since the plungers doesn't work for you, I will have to take up the sword ... Ryu, I see, is also having a good time, look how everything is blazing ... but Yosaku somehow got stuck ... and, by the way, that ship is , in my opinion, trying to escape ... cunning types there, however. We have not sunk even half of the ships yet, and they are already trying to escape.

- They won't get away, - Zoro said promisingly as he rose to his feet.

- Keep it up! Then you go to the right, and I will go to the left.

- Got it. But then who will sink the ship trying to sail away?

- … Zoro, that is the right side.

-… Got it.

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