True Lies
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"Miss Kaya, I've received the special glasses you ordered from the store in the next town," announced Merry the butler as he handed a small box to Kaya. "Are these satisfactory?"
"Perfect! Thank you Merry!" Kaya said as she looked over the glasses. "I'm sorry you had to go so far."
"It's my pleasure to serve you, Miss Kaya," replied Merry the butler, "It's a gift isn't it? Klahadore will be so pleased!"
"I hope so," said Kaya, "Tomorrow will be exactly three years since Klahadore came to this estate. He's been such a great help." Unfortunately neither Kaya nor Merry knew of the evil plan Klahadore had in store for them. If all went as planned, they'd both be dead before noon tomorrow.
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"Everyone! Listen to me!" shouted Usopp, "Pirates are going to attack our village tomorrow at dawn!"
"If we believed you every time you cried 'pirates' we'd be running for the hills everyday!" snapped an angry villager.
"BUT THIS TIME ITS REALLY TRUE!" argued Usopp.
"And this time, we're really gonna clobber you!"
"Yipe!" exclaimed Usopp as he quickly turned and ran as fast as he could, with the large mob of villagers chasing after him.
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"What could have gotten the Captain so worked up?" wondered Pepper as he, Carrot, and Onion ran towards the beach with Nami and Zoro following behind them.
"I can answer that for you," came a voice as Y/N came walking out from between some trees with his hands in his pockets. Despite Usopp's panicked behavior and the Captain's absence, he still seemed to be his usual calm self.
"Where have you been!?" demanded Nami.
"I was with Luffy and Usopp down by the beach," answered Y/N. "While we were there we overheard a plot that the butler and some strange hypnotist called Jango have cooked up."
"Hypnotist!?" repeated all five of them. They encountered a strange hypnotist earlier.
"Let's get back to the beach," suggested Y/N. "Luffy fell off a cliff. I can fill you in on our way."
"Wait... WHAT!?" snapped Nami.
"Its alright, he only landed on his head," Y/N calmly informed her, then he turned and led them off in the direction he had come from, "This way."
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Y/N filled the others in on the way to the beach where they eventually revived Luffy. "That's weird," commented Luffy once he woke up, "I thought I was on top of the cliff."
"Wait so that butt-ler really is a bad guy!" Carrot exclaimed to Pepper and Onion.
"I never liked him anyway," Pepper told them.
"And that hypnotist is in on it too," realized Onion.
"So that's what Usopp was doing," commented Nami, "That's why he was running toward the village like his pants were on fire. The villagers should have plenty of warning, they can just hide out in the hills. Pirates are generally pretty dumb."
"Not this one," said Y/N. "You don't know Captain Kuro, he's as crafty as they come. He was supposed to have been executed by the marines three years ago, but all this time he's been living as a butler. He's fooled everyone."
"Oh," said Nami, she had never heard of Captain Kuro before.
"Hey, maybe we should run and hide too," suggested Carrot.
