when one looks back to their childhood, one remembers the vivid springs of laughter, climbing trees and reaching out for the stars, and making flower crowns in fields of flowers. but when [name] looked back at her youth, her memories were void of th...
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chapter 016. i want to see you again
[ we will save them! ]
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[name] didn't return to the ship that night.
sanji got the idea now; with the case of two missing ladies and usopp having left the crew, he understood clear enough that something wrong was going on. having finally left the ship in usopp's hands even after he lost, the crew rented a hotel room to share and spend the rest of their stay at water seven in.
the crew really had fallen apart, just like chopper had thought.
maybe this was their luck but nami wasn't satisfied at all. she sobbed while sitting in the corner of the rooftop, mumbling to herself if the crew would be saved. luffy slumped against the railing with his straw hat covering half of his face, upset about usopp's and his fight and worried about robin and [name]'s disappearance. he tried his very best to hold himself together, even hiding his tears when he won against usopp, but as zoro said, it was the captain's job to remain strong for his crew in difficult times.
in the meantime, zoro sighed and sat down on the smooth surface of the roof's floor, trying his best not to think about what had gone down. he was probably the only composed one; no tears, no sweat, and no blood spilled. he was the complete opposite of chopper who had been crying and pacing back and forth with anxiety, scolding himself for letting not only robin go, but even [name].
"do you think robin and [name] are kidnapped?"
sanji looked at chopper, "i hope not. i'll go look for them tomorrow morning. you wanna come, chopper?"
he nodded.
nami let out a long breath of exasperation, resting her forehead on her knees, "i'm worried...why did you two let [name] go? she's a child, she can't survive all by herself out there! what if she's lost, or even worse, kidnapped?!"
"stop worrying about her, she can take care of herself," zoro shrugged off. "she's strong, she survived the grand line for a long time before she met us. even if she's reckless, she can at least think before she acts."
sanji arched his curly brow at zoro, realizing that even if he didn't sound worried at all...there was a small hint of worry in his tone. he was staring up at the moon, recalling her and robin's conversation a few nights ago that he ended up hearing again.
