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, it was void of those colorfu...
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chapter 044. lineage
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there was organized chaos as shakky went around the bar the moment hatchi walked into the bar with an injured [name] on his back, taking charge of taking her here while the straw hat pirates were busy warding off the marines alongside eustass kid and trafalgar law (it made sense the marines came, luffy had just wrecked havoc against the celestial dragons.)
shakky ordered the boys to move out of the way where to set the bed for the crimson butterfly member to lie down; the last thing she expected was seeing the infamous member of her old friend's guild come on hatchi's back with her eyelids shut close and a gunshot wound on her shoulder.
the little reindeer was wiping his tears and had snot running down his blue nose, but he still tried his very best to treat her wounds that were piling up one after the other. nami patted his back in an attempt of comfort, staring at [name]'s peaceful sleeping face.
...how much more did she need to get hurt?
why...why was she so reckless? her actions were starting to affect not only her body, but seeing their pillar and their beloved nakama bleed out like that...nearly broke them apart.
camie laid her head next to her, admiring her bravery for keeping hachi safe. for a fishman to be protected by a human was a shock indeed, but the mermaid needed to worry about that later.
she just hoped that [name] would wake up soon.
robin watched from where she sat as a majority of her crew circled around [name], thinking about how and why all of this happened in the first place. she wasn't there herself when luffy punched that celestial dragon, and now didn't seem like a good time to ask anyone else.
clutching the red string in her hand, robin closed her eyes. [name]...
zoro stood by the bedside as hachi began to speak, "i'm sorry guys...it's all my fault..."
the blonde cook took a much-needed smoke from his cigarette, "[name]-chan chose to save you so that you didn't need to say that. we, as a crew, are responsible for what has happened to her. don't be sorry..."
"i think...[name] would be happy if you thanked her instead," robin suggested with her usual grin, "our pillar loves receiving compliments."
hachi sobbed, looking back at the unconscious girl, "yeah...i'll do that!"
luffy smiles, continuing to steal more food from the refrigerator, with no regard for anything else now that the problem is resolved. chopper did say she would wake up soon, so he held onto that.
