🏴☠️️Ch.10: Digging Dirt on the Butler! The Mystery That Is Klahadore!🏴☠️️
It's an intense stare down between the pirate crews and the butler, with the young mistress of the manor being a spectator.
Kaya kindly tries to come up with something so no one has to get into any trouble. "Uh...actually, Klahadore, these people are—"
"Not now, Kaya." The butler cuts her off, not wanting to hear any excuses on why there are strangers on the property. "You can tell me all about this riff-raff after they've left. Now get out! all of you." He demands, approaching closer. "Leave now, unless you have some business with me."
Something in Ula's gut is telling her to be wary of the man before her and her friends.
His strides are taken like a feline's stalk. And the way he adjusts his glasses...It's just nagging at the back of her head.
For now, she'll just observe and dig around later to see what turns up.
"Alright! Do you think you can help us get a ship?" Luffy naively asks.
"Certainly not!" Klahadore declines without missing a beat.
Luffy groans disappointed, shoulders sulking. Zoro and ChouChou comfort him in their respective ways.
"Usopp!" Klahadore directs his attention to the long-nosed young man clinging to the side of the tree he was sitting in, hoping not being seen would give him a chance to escape a conversation with the butler.
"Crap." Usopp mumbles as he re-situates himself on the thick branch across from Kaya's window.
"You have quite the reputation. You are very well known in the village." Klahadore continues, though it's obvious he doesn't mean it as a compliment.
"Sure am." Usopp replies pridefully, either not getting the butler's sarcasm or not letting it bother him and takes it as a compliment.
"I hear you've been on many an adventure. Quite impressive for someone as young as you." The butler goes on.
'Something's fishy, and it's not my Fauna Anima form.' Ula eyes the butler, scrutinously.
"Usually, people who admire me so much call me 'Captain'. So, it's 'Captain Usopp' to you!"
"'Captain', huh?" Klahadore chuckles. "Your father also had something of a reputation."
"What?" Usopp questions, humor gone from his expression and tone.
'So that's his game.' Ula narrows her visible eye. She carefully shifts her glance towards Usopp, worryingly, knowing that if the butler keeps hitting sensitive buttons, Usopp is going to get physical.
"Klahadore, please just stop!" Kaya pleads to her butler, to no avail.
"You'll never be anything more than the son of a filthy pirate." Klahadore continues to jab verbally.
Ula holds back her tongue and fists. Usopp's resolve, however, is closely reaching its limit.
"Who knows what sort of trouble you're up to now. All I ask is that you and your kind leave this respectable young lady alone."
Trigger huffs, eyes and his namesake's fingers twitching. 💣'Our kind', he says.💣
"A filthy pirate?!" Usopp growls.
"You and she are from completely different worlds and you know it!" The butler keeps on going. "Is it money you're after? How much do you want?"
Kaya finally has had enough of her butler's hurtful words against her friend. "Cease this at once, Klahadore! Apologize to him!"
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