Chapter 117: 117- lost
Inside the bar, a group of twenty people surrounded four girls.
Nojiko frowned as she looked at them seriously, "What? Do you want to fight?"
"I will be merciful and will not fight you, if you hand over the bag you're carrying." One of the twenty people laughed arrogantly while looking at the girls.
"We don't have time to talk to you, so let's finish this matter quickly." Nojiko pulled out a pistol and shot this man's thigh, the man beginning to roll on the ground screaming in pain.
Immediately after that, she pulled out another pistol and began shooting the other nineteen.
Nojiko was very fast and within moments she shot nineteen times at nineteen people, none of the nineteen managed to evade, and they were hit.
"Let's go back to the ship." They only wanted to eat but the mood of the four girls was ruined so they decided to go back to the ship and put the money bag there.
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"Zora, we've finished buying everything we need. Let's go back to the ship." Kuina smiled while carrying several bags, she was now fully prepared to craft some high quality swords from the metal she had taken from the Underground City.
After waiting a while Kuina didn't hear back so she looked around and didn't find Zora anywhere nearby.
"Damn, I overlooked her for a moment how she could get lost in such a short time." Kuina screamed in annoyance and started running everywhere looking for Zora.
But moments after she was walking in search of Zora, a group of marines gathered around her, causing her to drop all the bags and grab her sword tightly, ready to fight.
"Tashigi-san, we have been looking for you everywhere." The group leader sighed when he saw Kuina.
A big question mark appeared above Kuina's head, 'Is this a trap, are they trying to pretend they know me and then sneak in to attack me suddenly?'
"The SHD pirates have reached the city, and we found Zora the pirate trapper. Please help us defeat her. She is very strong." The Marine spoke seriously and bowed toward Kuina for help.
'They're trying to lure me into a trap.' Kuina frowned but did not attack the Marines. 'Let's see what trap they set for me. Also what if they were talking about the truth and they found Zora. '
"Lead the way." Upon hearing Kuina's words, the Marines signaled for her to follow.
After a few minutes of walking, Kuina and the Marines arrived at the Marine base, 'As I expected it was a trap, they lured me to their headquarters.'
"She's inside the headquarters making chaos, and Captain Smoker is not available so no one can stop her." After the group leader said this, several Marines fell from the windows of the building to the ground.
'What a perfect acting.' Kuina looked at the Marines' concerned expressions which made her think. 'if I had a hat, I'd raise it out of respect for their wonderful acting.'
But contrary to Kuina's expectations, Zora walks out of the building while saying, 'Damn, where is Kuina, and why are there so many Marines here?'
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"Alvida, do you know where the execution stage was where the Pirate King was executed?" Lucy sighed depressed as she walked the streets.
"If I had known, we would have found it a long time ago." Alvida sighed while looking at Lucy as if blaming her for getting lost.
As soon as they left the ship, Lucy started running randomly and entered so many side roads that she and Alvida who was following her, got lost.
"It's all because of you, if we had gone to the main road we'd have gotten to the execution stand already." The thing that made Alvida even more upset was that she didn't see anyone so she couldn't ask the right way, making her just as depressed as Lucy.
as Lucy began looking around trying to figure out the right way to go. It was then as she turned around she saw something that made her raise an eyebrow. It was a bar's sign that said 'Bar Gold Roger' causing Lucy to raise her eyebrow in curiosity.
"Alvida, let's check if there's anyone inside to ask about the way to the execution stand. I'm also curious why this bar was named after the pirate king." She decided to investigate the bar and walked inside.
It was completely empty and run down. There was dust everywhere, the chairs were overturned on the tables, and there were cobwebs everywhere. The only person in there was a short elderly man sitting at one of the tables with a skull in front of him along with two glasses of booze, one from him and one for the skull.
"Excuse me, do you work here?" Lucy asked as she walked inside.
"The sign outside said this place is called the Gold Roger, How did it get that name?" she asked again before the man could answer her first question. The man looked at Lucy through his sunglasses with a calculating eye before he replied.
"Scram," he said in a grumpy voice.
"this isn't a place for a little girl like you," he said causing Lucy's eyebrow to twitch.
"Besides we are closed for good starting today," he said as he poured himself a drink.
"You're going under?" Lucy asked as she walked over and took a seat on one of the bar stools.
'Shouldn't we just ask for the road?' Alvida sighed and went to sit next to Lucy.
"I am not going under, I decided to shut it down myself," he said before placing the bottle of booze back on the table in front of him.
"I'm retiring," he said with a sigh.
"Sorry, I just wanted to know about the name." Lucy said.
"I'm looking for the execution platform, but I am lost. Could you tell me the way?" Lucy asked before her eyes focused on the skull that was on the table. It looked like a human skull but it was way too large to be a human.
"Where did you get that skull?" she asked.
"Killer Giant, one of the most feared villain to have haunted the waters of the Grand Line." he said before clicking his glass to the one in front of the skull.
"He had sent hundreds of pirates to their deaths over the course of his life, but it only took Gold Roger a single blow to put the behemoth down for good." he said with a smile causing Lucy's eyes to widen.
"Gold Roger killed him?" Lucy asked in a surprised voice.
The man threw his hands in the air before and yelled out. "With lightning speed!" he yelled before bringing his arms back down.
"You see Killer Giant was known for using this massive blade but it didn't matter, the whole fight was over before he could even raise it." he said causing Lucy to grin widely as she was listening to a story about the former pirate king.
"And here is the wound that did it." he said while pointing to the missing part of the skull.
"Killer Giant was a terrible waste of human flesh anyway, but he proclaimed with his dying breath, 'Gold Roger I take my hat off to you. You will forever be the King of the Pirates." the old man said causing Lucy to get goosebumps and grin widely.
"Awesome, tell me more." Lucy said in an excited voice.
"Eric Dowd, the man known as king; Silvers Silver, the world greatest gunman; the giant Grounds Brothers, they were all famous for their strength, indestructible demons feard by everybody, but not Gold Roger." he said with a sigh before looking down.
"Nobody ever wants to hear my stories anymore." he said in a sad voice. Lucy's entire body was shivering with excitement.
"I want to hear them, come on tell me more." Lucy said excitedly.
Even Alvida was excited to hear more about the Pirate King.
After that, the old man started talking about the stories he knew about the King of the Pirates, and also how Gold Roger bravely entered the Grand Lane and then talked about the day he was executed 22 years ago.
Lucy then happily talks about her dream of going to the Grand Lane, which made the old man shocked and then remember seeing Lucy's face on one of the wanted posters.
Right after that, the old man heard footsteps approaching and then someone walked in through the front door.
"I found you, Straw Hat."
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