Joining the crew II

Now, everyone was on deck as they learned from Zoro that he had found someone powerful—a swordsman to fight with.

"Is he okay? What if he's too strong?" Chopper asked, looking at Zoro and the others with concern.

"It's okay; we're just going to check it out," Nami reassured him.

"Yeah, we're still in the Grand Line, so we should be careful," Vivi added. They were on their way to Alabasta to help Vivi, and now finding someone seemingly powerful in an isolated spot raised some suspicions.

"Shishishi! I will fight him to see if he's strong enough to join us!" Luffy laughed, his excitement evident.

"He seems strong," Sanji said, blowing out a puff of smoke, his eyes narrowed in thought.

Zoro nodded, wrapping the scarf around his head. "He is," Zoro confirmed, "a strong swordsman." He felt a sense of anticipation building within him.

Soon, they reached the island as they docked it and then Zoro jumped off the ship and pointed at Ash.

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I looked speechlessly at Zoro, who jumped in front of me, pointing his sword at me.

"Who are you?" I asked, wiping the sweat from my brow and resting my sword on my shoulder.

"My name is Rorono Zoro. I want to be the world's strongest swordsman!" Zoro declared, still pointing his sword at me.

"So, why are you pointing your sword at me?" I asked, looking directly at him.

"Aren't you a swordsman yourself? Fight me!" he insisted, maintaining his stance.

"I don't want to," I replied seriously. I genuinely didn't want to fight; there was no reason for it. I'm not a battle maniac after all.

"Huh?" Zoro looked at me with a confused expression, wondering if he had heard correctly. A swordsman refusing to fight?

"What kind of swordsman are you? How can you back away from a fight?" Zoro challenged, his curiosity piqued.

"I've fought plenty, but I just want to leave this deserted island," I explained, feeling truly uninterested in any confrontation. I was in a state of irritation, and staying on this island any longer felt unbearable. I needed to get away!

"then we will let you go with us, just fight with us" Luffy jumped and appeared right in front of me and said.

"okay" I nodded, as I myself want to join them as I want to use Super travel on them, and acquire more ability as my current abilities are good but not in Marvel world.

"lets fight then" I said, as my stance as same as early.

Zoro nodded as he stood in front of me.

Everyone on the deck started to count as he stood facing each other.

"3"

"2"

"1"

"go"

Zoro dashed toward me, but...

"Graviole varýtitas!" I chanted the spell as a gravity domain appeared around me, with a 100-meter radius and 10 times the normal gravity.

Zoro stopped and fell face-first onto the ground.

"You can't even stand in front of me, and you want to fight?" I asked, looking at him. On deck, everyone had their mouths wide open as they saw Zoro buried in the beach, his body pressing more and more into the sand.

"Devil fruit power" Sanji said as everyone looked at me, 

"No wonder he wasn't able to leave this Island" Vivi sad as everyone nodded I wanted to say its no true, I just didn't wanted to leave this island without sufficient strength.

Zoro gritted his teeth as he kept pushing is body against the ground as he tried to stood up, from the people on deck I already understood, they are on their way to Albasta Kingdom to help Vivi, which means their journey has just started and they are not strong enough currently.

"Do you surrender?" I asked.

"Never! I want to be the world's strongest swordsman!" he shouted as he pushed his body up, standing upright. My eyes widened as I saw this; he was enduring 10 times the gravity. Zoro picked up his sword, but it took all his strength to do it.

"You pass," I said, as I ended the Gravity Domain.

"Huh?" Zoro asked, confused.

"I just didn't want to fight a weakling," I said, as everyone understood. I lifted my sword, holding it in front of me. From my simple sword, a blue energy formed on it.

It was the sword energy from the Overgear world. I didn't know what it was called here, but it felt like an aura similar to the green aura Zoro had.

"What is that?" Zoro asked, looking at my sword as he asked too.

"It's called Sword Energy," I said as Zoro nodded.

"You have yet to awaken it, right?" I asked, and he nodded. Then I said, "Then see this!"

I stood in front of the sea, holding my sword. "100,000 Thousand Ary Massacre!" My muscles bulged as I swung my sword.

A wide blue arc was released from my sword as it went ahead to cut the sea,

"What?!" Sanji and the others stared at me.

"The sea is split?!?" they exclaimed.

"You are no match for me currently, but you have the talent for it," I said as I walked back to the boat. Zoro just looked at the split sea, astonished.

And then he looked at his sword "Who are you?" he asked looking at me.

I stopped as I thought for a moment " just a traveler" I said as everyone nodded.

And I climbed onto the boat and asked, "Which room can I take?"

"You can take mine, but I will take it back once I defeat you," Zoro said, and I nodded.

"Hey! You are strong! Be my vice captain! My name is Luffy; I am the man who will be Pirate King in the future!" Luffy exclaimed.

"There's no way he will accept it," Sanji said, shaking his head, as everyone nodded.

"Okay," I said, as everyone's lower jaw fell open in disbelief.

Chuckle!

"Being the vice captain means you ensure the well-being of the whole crew. You train them, and I will take that position," I said as everyone looked at me, stunned.

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