21- Opetel Island

On the island of Opetel in the town of Tora.

There were two girls in a bar in Tora town, a girl with long green hair tied in a ponytail and a girl with short dark blue hair.

"I can't believe this is happening to us." The dark blue girl sighed, she wasn't expecting that they would become wanted and be chased by the people they worked with before.

"It's all the fault of that damn Marine, but that doesn't matter now." The green-haired girl said softly, sipping some sake.

"What doesn't matter. We've become wanted. The bounty hunters we worked with before will come after us." Kuina was upset when she heard Zora's words and saw her indifference.

During these days many of the bounty hunters who worked with them previously and Kuina thought they were friends with them, tried to attack them and even one of them pretended to be still friends with them and then tried to make a sneak attack. This made both Kuina and Zora upset.

"I mean, I don't care if we're pirates, bounty hunters, or bandits. Anyway, that wouldn't make a difference to me. Even if more of these scum came trying to catch us, I'd kill them," Zora said seriously, as she tilted her head aside to avoid a knife thrown at her from behind.

Zora looked back and saw someone walking into the bar with a big smile covering his face, and said sarcastically, "Zora, Kuina, I haven't seen you in a long time, I hope you're okay."

"kawa, are you also trying to attack us?" Kuina said in anger while looking at the man with blond hair and lavender eyes.

"What? Impossible, how can I attack you? The knife just slipped out of my hand accidentally, I really hope you two weren't hurt by that." kawa said in an apologetic voice but a wry smile clearly appeared on his face in front of Zora and Kuina.

Kawa kicked a table and sent her flying towards Zora and using that as a distraction to escape from the bar started running quickly away from Kuina and Zora.

"You motherfucker, you won't run away. Your death will be here," Zora shouted and started running after him.

"Wait Zora, this could be a trap," Kuina shouted as she ran after Zora, trying to stop her.

...

Kawa ran quickly until he reached an isolated place and stood there waiting for Zora to come.

After waiting ten minutes Zora did not appear, so Kawa became nervous as he looked around, at this moment twenty men came out from well hidden places, one of them came forward and stared at Kawa and said. "You should have lured them here so where are they, why didn't either of them show up here."

"I'm really sorry, but I was sure they were following me. I don't know why neither of them showed up," Kawa said while shivering as he stared at the man in front of him.

The man slapped Kawa so hard that he fell to the ground, some of Kawa's teeth fell from the force of the slap and his mouth filled with blood, but he still bowed to the man in submission and said in fear, "Please forgive me, I was really sure they followed me."

"Listen to me, Kawa, if they run away from town, don't think you'll survive," said the man, stepping on Kawa's head.

The man went to his subordinates and said, "Spread out, I want you to find them, and if you find them, don't be a fool and attack them, send a signal to tell us where they are."

"As for you, you will come with me." The man looked at Kawa who was lying on the ground with his head under the man's feet after saying that, keeping his foot away from Kawa's head.

.....

"Damn, where did that bastard go? He was just lying in front of me," Zora said as she looked around, and then started running again to find Kawa.

"I finally found you." A voice came from behind Zora, so she looked at the person speaking and said, "Kuina, did you see that bastard? He was just walking in front of me."

"What are you talking about? He was running in the opposite direction, anyway it's a good thing you didn't catch him because it's probably a trap set by Omaeda," Kuina said while sighing, then grabbed Zora's hand and started running out of town, as she says, "Let's get out of here before he finds us."

"Why are you holding my hand? I can run faster if you let me go," Zora said, looking at Kuina in amazement.

"I don't have time to look for you if you get lost" Kuina said looking at Zora in annoyance.

...

There was a ship slowly approaching the port of the town of Tora on Opetel Island.

'Finally got me here wondering if Kuina and Zora have left from here yet or not,' thought Ethan as he looked at Opetel Island.

"Let's explore this island," Lucy shouted as she quickly got off the ship and, moments later, disappeared from Ethan's sight.

"Lucy, come back here," Nami said very loudly after seeing Lucy get off the ship, but even before she finished, Lucy was nowhere to be seen.

"It's okay, let her do whatever she wants," said Ethan, sighing, and then got off the ship as well.

"Wait Ethan, who should stay on the ship?" Nami said while pointing at the Alveda and herself. "One of us should stay here because this town is notorious for thieves. If we leave the ship unguarded, it will be robbed."

"Well, the two of you can stay on the ship." said Ethan and then started to walk away thinking how he would find Zora and kuina in this town.

.....

"Purupuru Purupuru"

Omaeda was sitting in a bar while Kawa was sitting in front of him shivering in fear, and at this moment a sound started coming out from one of Omaeda's pockets. So he reached into his pocket and took out Den Den Mushi.

"Speak, did you find them or not?" Omaeda opened the call, and said lightly.

"Yes sir, we found them trying to get out of town now, do you want us to stop them?"