Chapter-16 The Black Cat Pirates.

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BASEMENT OF KAYA'S MANSION,
SYRUP VILLAGE, GECKO ISLAND...

Zoro and Ussop were stunned standing there watching the lifeless body of The Accountant Merry...

"Zo-Zoro... ZORO...!
IT-IT'S...IT'S MERRY..!
HE'S DEAD..." Ussop says freaking out while Zoro get down to check Merry's body.

"Hmm...
Claw marks, Blades..?
5 of em, but not different..
The distance of the marks were same,
Like....Pack of blades...
I think i seen this before." Zoro says checking Merry's wounds and getting suspicious,

"Well--well--well...
It appears we have some rats in our celler.." Klahadore says walking from the shadows,

Ussop got freaked out as he dragged himself back running to the corner.
Zoro just get up standing next to Merry's body with hand on his Swords.

"Those Blades...
I knew i seen your face somewhere,
On a wanted poster...
Kuro, Right...?
Captain of The Black Cat Pirates..!" Zoro sas finally recognizing Klahadore's true identity.

"Wait..! Klahadore is a Pirate..?" Ussop ask with a confused yet terrified look,

"A dead one...
I heard Axe Hand Morgan killed him, turns out Kuro let Morgan think he killed him, so he can be in hiding.." Zoro says with a cautious look,

"The Infamous Pirate Hunter...
Playing Pirate, With a Rubber Kid...
Hahaha, How the mighty have fallen.
Even The Demon of The East Blue is not gonna interfere with my plane.." Klahadore aka Kuro says dangling his blades,

"And here i thought i won't collect any Bounty for a while.." Zoro says sheathing his Sword,

Zoro attack first as he swing his sword to at Kuro but he surprised Zoro, moving in such tremendous speed.
Zoro looked around to see Kuro stand behind Ussop, startling him.
Zoro take out his Second Sword and that is when he got hit in the back head with a sake bottle.

Turns out all The Butlers in The Mansion are The Members if The Black Cat Pirates aswell.
The Butlers then chase Ussop to kill him but he escaped through the window.

"Darn, He got away.." The Butler says with an angry grunt,

"No matter..
Let him scream whatever he wants,
It's not like any of em are gonna believe ehat he's gonna sat..
Expose of the body, No trace..." Kuro says to which The Butlers smirk and drag Zoro out of the house.

With Kaya and Nami,
Kaya tells Nami how Ussop is the only one who treated her like a normal person when others just took pitty on her. She explains How Ussop's always there for her even when her Butlers behaved real bad to him.
Nami can take the hints on how Kaya felt about Ussop but she just kept listening.

"So after tomorrow,
You're gonna ask Ussop to move in with you and help you with everything..?" Nami ask with a smirk knowing Kaya's innocent intention of being close to Ussop,

"Well, i wanted to...
But, I'm not gonna ask Ussop...
Even though i adore his made up stories so much,
I knew deep down he made up those stories from what he wanted to do..
I know he always wanted to set sail and experience the seas more than anything, like the stories.
I'm not gonna stop him from doing that." Kaya says with a genuine smile,

Nami understand and talked for a while until she let Kaya get some rest and exit her room.
She walked out with a smile thinking how cute Kaya's and Usopp's story was and wondered for a second with a sad face if only she would had some like Ussop in her life to go any lenths of her but then realized not everyone have that privilege and moved on.

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