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"Winter swimming?" Usopp repeated. He and Vivi had barely managed to survive the avalanche and had run into Zoro who had been buried under the snow after getting lost during a mid-winter swim. The swelling on Usopp's face had finally gone down and his shocked facial expression could be seen clearly as he and Vivi listened to the shirtless and shoeless swordsman's explanation about what he was doing out in the middle of nowhere buried under a blanket of snow.
"That was the idea anyway," Zoro replied. "But after swimming in the river for a while I had no idea where I was anymore. I started walking around and some strength training workouts."
"Dressed like that in cold weather?" Usopp inquired. There were pink patches all over Zoro's bare torso and arms due to the harsh cold on the winter island. "You're real stupid aren't you?"
"That isn't the point!" Zoro snapped. "Now just shut up and gimme your coat?"
"Not a chance," Usopp promptly refused. He wasn't about to give up his only protection against the harsh cold just because Zoro got lost during his idiotic training session.
"Maybe Nami's sick from the mental exhaustion of dealing with these two," Vivi thought to herself as she walked silently along beside Zoro and Usopp.
"Then how 'bout your shoes?" Zoro requested.
"Nope!" Usopp answered.
"Just one then!" Zoro exclaimed.
"I said no!" Usopp insisted. "You brought this on yourself."
The trio reached the crest of a snowy hill and Vivi spotted a cluster of people off in a distance. "Look at that guys," Vivi pointed out to the two bickering pirates. "There's people over there."
Two groups of people were standing on a fresh blanket of snow. One group was made up of uniformed soldiers with weapons while the other group was civilians. As they walked closer, the buildings seemed familiar to Usopp.
"Hey, those buildings seem familiar," Usopp commented.
Vivi took a good look at the half buried village and the familiar houses, "You're right Usopp," Vivi realized. "This place is Big Horn. We just came back. It looks a lot different buried in snow though."
"STAY BACK, ALL OF YOU!" a uniformed solider ordered the group of civilians as he held his sword out in front of him. "Dalton's already dead anyway."
"It'd take more than a couple of flimsy arrows to kill him!" one of the civilians objected. "You're his men, or you used to be at least, don't you care at all about what happens to Dalton?"
"Things have changed!" the lead solider retorted. "We're all King Wapol's soldiers now. Any one of you who opposes King Wapol is as good as dead!"
"Hey, what's going on here?" Zoro asked one of the civilians in the back as he, Usopp, and Vivi walked over.
"What's going on here?" the civilian repeated, he turned around and stared in surprise at how Zoro was dressed. "Wait, what's going on with you? Why are you dressed like that?"
"Dalton is buried under the snow that came down with the avalanche," another civilian explained to Usopp and Vivi.
"What? Dalton's buried under that?" questioned Vivi as she stared at the deep blanket of snow that was nearly burying the houses.
"That's right," said the other civilian. "And we can't get over there to dig him out because those guys are blocking us!"
"For the last time!" the lead soldier called out. "STAY BACK! But if you really want to dig your friend up, I guess you could try fighting us all! Hahahahaha!"
