Bringing him a bottle of beer in a silver tray from the kitchen, the male maid's red high heels made a constant clicking sound effect as they touched the wooden flooring.
"Your drink... Zoro."
"That's not my name, dear." Zoro smirked, taking the crystal bottle in his hand to stick his lips onto the rounded top after popping the cap open.
"Oh, no. Absolutely NOT. I'm not calling you that ridiculous nickname! It's already bad enough that you changed MINE." Luffy puffed his chest out, turning around to take the silver tray back to the counter.
"What's wrong? Don't you like it, hmm?" To tease the younger, Zoro sneakily pressed his frozen beer against his bare skin, making him jump.
"STOP! Just for that, I'm charging you another five dollar bill."
"Five? Wow, your prices really decreased from a twenty to a five." Unfolding yet another bill from his wallet, the older man pulled the brunette by his collar.
"Fine, but this one's just for you. Don't let Nami steal it from you, Monkey D... Lilly." Zoro chuckled, mentioning the new name he practically paid for after handing 'Lilly' a twenty dollar bill.
"Z...Zoro, I can't accept this. You're gonna stay broke because of this cosplay." The younger male spoke, worried for the sake of Zoro's wallet.
"A bet is a bet, right, Lilly? And what happened to the name I asked you to call me, sweet cakes?" Zoro asked, commanding the brunette to complete the task he assigned him to do.
"There's no way. You'll NEVER get that name out of my mouth, no way in hell, Moss Ball!" The boy insisted, slamming the silver tray onto the floor while bursting with rage.
In response, the man gasped. This action of his made the younger realize how careless he could be, given how loud and destructive the noise was.
"I'm sorry..."
"Sorry 'who', hmm?" The man asked, realizing how convenient this mishap was for him.
"Sorry... There, I said it." After muttering a word that was still foreign and intimidating for him to say, the boy stood there, waiting for Zoro to answer him.
"What? What was that? Speak up, I didn't hear you." By now, Luffy could tell that his friend was doing this just to test him, and he wasn't onboard with his plan.
"Shut up! I know you're just doing this to tease me." This response caused Zoro to victimize himself by gasping again in 'utter shock', or as he described it to be.
"First you slam the tray onto the floor and then you insult me? Is this the type of person you are, Lilly? How disappointing." Turning the tables on Luffy, the boy had no other choice but to fix everything in the best way he could.
"Forgive me, M... Master." Nearly biting his tongue after finishing his sentence, Luffy's left eye started twitching out of regret.
"Atta girl, Lilly. That wasn't so hard, was it?" Being given a different name was partially acceptable and easy for the boy to tolerate, but being misgendered was something absolutely unacceptable.
"I'M A BOY. A MALE. MAN. GOT THAT, YOU STINKING 'MASTER'."
"Since when was 'Lilly' a boy's name, Lilly?" The man asked, earning a soft punch on the chest from Luffy who just about had it with his dominating behavior.
A behavior that the 'maid' was secretly into, but was too proud to admit.
"It'll cost you extra. I'm talking a LOT of cash." On the other end of the hallway, they heard a loud scream of joy, most likely coming from Nami who was nearby.
"There's no way this idiot is about to- WHAT IN THE FOUR YONKOS- A FRICKIN' FIFTY DOLLAR BILL!?" Luffy's eyes widened to the point of causing him pain when seeing Zoro waving the expensive bill in the air.
"Y-you money murderer! Are you trying to get robbed by Nami?! Don't raise that bill so high!" The boy whisper-shouted at Zoro.
"What bill?" In the blink of an eye, the fifty dollar bill had left been swept off of Zoro's hand like magic, leaving nothing but a strand of orange hair behind.
"NAMI, STOP ACCEPTING MONEY FROM HIM!"
"SORRY, LILLY!" She shouted back from far away, letting the name "Lilly" echo throughout the Thousand Sunny.
"Great! Now she's calling me Lilly too, see what you did!!" The Captain held his head, crumbling masses of hair beneath his hands.
"You still haven't completed your job yet. What am I paying you for?" The Swordsman asked, pointing at the tray that was still on the ground.
Sighing, Luffy knelt to the floor and picked the long silver platter off of the floor, getting back up while giving Zoro a smile that could mean two things: 1. He was doing it out of courtesy. Or 2. He wanted to bang the dish over the man's head.
Either way, Zoro didn't mind what the boy did to him at this point. Being in control of his actions, even for a day, was one of the greatest things that had ever happened to him.
"Hey uh... You forgot to pick that up too." Tossing a paper rolled up into a ball, the man watched as it landed a few inches into the kitchen from where Luffy was stood.
This enraged the melodramatic male in a way that stirred up a storm inside of him, but he kept himself composed for his own sake.
While bending over in a different position, given that he was no longer on his knees, the ruffles at the bottom of his dress lifted upwards when Luffy shifted his weight in order to grab the paper from the floor.
Unbeknownst to him, Zoro left his seat moments before he went to pick up the piece of paper, and was right behind him.
When Luffy was about to stand back up again, he sensed someone was behind him, explaining the reason why there was a large shadow towering over his body.
"I'll give you my entire bank account if you bend over that way again."
"YOU'LL WHAT!?"
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