The Land Of Moonlit Secrets (Roronoa Zoro x Reader)

Chapter 4: Trouble in the Bar

As Zoro turned his gaze away from the menacing look in Eric's eyes, he saw Rika. The same little girl that has been somewhat observing him from the very beginning. She walked forward towards him with two rice balls with chocolate on a plate. "What's this?" He asked her, he knows that those are rice balls, but he doesn't know why the color is brown.

"Rice balls, for you!" Rika responded happily.

"You made them yourself?"

"Mmhmm."

"What's the brown stuff?"

"Chocolate, it makes everything taste better." Unfortunately, their conversation has been cut.

"Rika!" The little girl's mother called out to her. Rika turned around, only to bump with the blonde creep that was hitting on Calytrix earlier. The sudden impact made Rika drop the plate of rice balls to the floor.

"You are stupid, stupid girl." The blonde albino said while crushing the rice balls with his shoe. "Why don't you watch where you're going?"

"Rika, apologize to our guest." Rika's mother told her, but the girl is beyond frightened of the blonde mister in front of her. He is mean, so mean. Zoro side-eyed the girl, he could tell that it was an accident. But he wouldn't blame her if she fears the blonde guy that flirted with Calytrix earlier.

"I'm...I-I'm sorry." Rika apologized bowing her head low to show that she is sorry for what happened.

"I-I-I'm s-sorry. Next time, I won't be so nice." The blonde mocked her.

Right on time, Calytrix was just done serving other costumers when she noticed the scene unfold. She stayed behind a little bit far when she recognized the blonde guy that took a hit on her. Her curiosity increased more when Zoro decided to make something that would brighten up the kid's face.

"You dropped my food." Zoro stated coldly. Crouching down as he grabbed the plate and placed the still nicely shaped rice ball and getting a piece of the unformed one, tasting it. "Delicious." The single word brightened up Rika's face. Zoro once again leaned at the counter, placing the plate on the table in front of the albino. "Now you eat one and apologize to the girl."

Most people are now watching the scene, Calytrix, with the most interest in what's going to happen. Eric is already at her side; he slightly doesn't like the swordsman, but he wants to see what Zoro can do. Luffy was also currently watching from afar. He saw how Zoro helped Calytrix in getting away from the blonde dude earlier, so he is curious about what the swordsman will do next.

The blondie didn't listen to Zoro and instead laughed surprised at the swordsman's action towards the little girl. And instead of backing down, he walked over to Zoro, his head held high with authority and said, "Do you know who I am?"

"A shithead marine with a bad haircut." His comment made the blonde guy to unsheathe his sword. Pointing it towards the swordsman in front of him. "I wouldn't do that."

"Come on tough guy, three swords? I only need one." Blondie mocked the swordsman in front of him. "You're just playing hero, that is why you are just also pretending to be a swordsman. Just like on how you pretended to be her boyfriend." He stated, looking at Zoro then points his finger at Calytrix. "I'll have you later, beautiful lady." He told her with a wink, but it only made Calytrix want to throw up.

It made Eric want to strangle him in the spot, but he is thankful to the swordsman that he helped his sister. Eric knows the blonde dude is named Helmeppo. And Helmeppo is the son of a marine. Axe-hand Morgan they call his father, famous for his axe hand only. The black-haired guy pulls his little sister towards him, his hand rested on her shoulder. A sign that she needs to calm down, or a sign that he needs to calm himself down. The two of them are beyond annoyed at Helmeppo.

Helmeppo's last sentences made Zoro's blood fuel with fire. His anger at the guy in front of him is beyond unexplainable. And he doesn't know why he cares about Calytrix of who she will choose. Zoro stood tall, slightly facing the blonde in front of him. "You only need one? Okay, but it's going to hurt."

And with that a fight broke out between them. Calytrix immediately ran to Rika, taking her away from the fight. However, Helmeppo saw her and held her wrist to restrain her from getting too far. Eric, who saw the guy's action kicked Helmeppo's arm, making the said man scream in pain.

"You shouldn't disrespect my sister, you're lucky it's me with her in here, and neither one of the other two, the eldest to be more specific." Eric told Helmeppo. The blondie then backed down from Eric's menacing look in his eyes.

While Zoro was fighting the marines in the bar who decided to interfere, he also made sure that Eric could get to Calytrix. He can see that the guy cares about his sister. He can see that the black-haired guy is beyond protective of her. At the same time, an orange haired girl knocked out a marine before dragging his body away from getting noticed. She was seen by Calytrix, but she didn't want to interfere with what the orange girl was up to. But she did see her take the guy's marine uniform. Suddenly, many more marines came rushing into the bar from who knows where. Zoro might be outnumbered, but Eric decided to fight alongside him. The two just kick and punch marines that dare to fight them. However, one marine saw Calytrix at the corner and decided to pull her hair. She yelped in pain, and it caught Eric and Zoro's attention, as well as Luffy. Right when they were about to help her, Calytrix suddenly stepped on the marine's foot making him cry out of pain. She then elbowed the guy in the face and decided to twist his arm that he used to pull her hair. The hand that pulled her beloved hair. And let me tell you girls, when your hair gets pulled, it hurts like hell. Eric smirked at his sister's actions, proud that she taught a lot of things in protecting herself from harm and danger. Zoro and Luffy have expressions one of shock and surprise. Calytrix then kicked the marine right at the balls, making him feel a lot more pain than before. She then knocked him out. At least she already made sure that the marine got what he deserved from pulling her hair.

Soon enough, the marines were defeated. Zoro walked over to Helmeppo. While the blondie backed away from him on the floor. The two of them made a deal, on who knows what. Soon enough, Zoro left the bar, dragging Helmeppo with him. But not without sparing a glance at Calytrix's direction. She smiled and slightly waved her hand. To which he nodded with acknowledgement before completely disappearing through the door.