Laughter

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They see the people from ebisu town laughing like there's no tomorrow

They just don't stop and the beast pirates laugh along with them

Hygoro: I can scarcely believe it, sir Yasue, he was alive all these years

Raizo: He knew about our strategy and that the enemy had thwarted it, sir Yasue, I see now, you let them seize you, your sacrifice has given us another chance

Luffy: there be some reason, right?

Ryo: yeah? There has too be, It doesn't matter who it is, no-one deserves to be laughed at when they die

Luffy: it's just not right

Hygoro: This is due to the side effects of the smile fruits, they're here as well, people who can only laugh even when they're sad

A few years ago, kaido and Orochi started importing them in exchange for weapons

When you eat them, you can no longer swim, but in return you'll gain the strength of a wild beast and their appearance as well, kaido wanted to give that power to as many of his underlings as possible, he wanted the strongest pirate crew the world had ever seen, but there's a catch, they had a 10% success rate, so if ten people ate one of those fruits, only one of them would gain the ability

The other nine would face the consequences without gaining anything in return, they can't swim and there's something else too, they lose the ability to express sorrow or anger, all they can do is laugh

Kaido's crew is divided into three categories

Waiters are the ones who are well waiting for a chance to eat one

The lucky ones who gained a power are called gifters

And then unlucky ones are the pleasures

That's why they are called smile fruits

But that's not it, that's not even the worse part, most smile fruits where discarded after only one bite, they couldn't make gifters but still passed on the negative side effects, So if he wanted to turn people into pleasures out of cruelty then he could, the town of leftovers where people are suffering Orochi was disgusted by them so he mixed in the failed smile fruits knowing they would eat them, of course after the first few times they knew what they where getting into, but they didn't have any choice, they where starving so they had to eat, so then Ebisu town was born where all the residents laugh no matter how much they are suffering where children can't even mourn the death of their parents

Speaking of children, here comes Yasue's daughter, desperately trying to heal her father, trying to bring him back begging him to get up, Orochi doesn't like that, so being the ruthless bastard he is aims his gun at the child and shoots, but in that second Zoro and Sanji appear to protect her

Luffy: Zoro,Sanji, Nice one!

Ryo: yeah great job you two! I only wish I was there

Then the Samurai rush at the duo under Orochi's orders but they take them down

Then two then immediately start arguing

But then they start attacking them again, but they fend them off

Zoro hands over the girl to Orochi and Zoro stares Orochi down, Sanji protects the girl

Zoro takes out all the Samruai who charged at him, then the flying blade attack headed right for Orochi, then another samurai appeaes and blocked it

Orochi is taken back to the castle, Zoro then gets shot at but franky appears and stops the bullets

He then grabs Yasue's body to get it out of there, Then ussop and Robin help him out, The Nami appears and strikes them with lightning

Luffy: You got this! Go kick their asses hell yeah!

Ryo just grins watching it

Hyogoro: Mr strawhat, Mr Ryo, those people showing on the display and they your crewmates

Luffy: guess I shouldn't cheer it's supposed to be a secret, 'he does his lying face' well it's probably ok 'he goes back to his normal face' Beat em up! Yeah nice! Like that! Show me whose boss! Zorojiro you can do it!

Queen: Oh so that moss head is your friend, that is the magistrate killer zoro-juro, he must be part of your crew

Luffy lying face: never seen the guy before nope!

Ryo groans

Queen: you really take me for a fool! Hahaha! I love it! This maniac really think he can get away with killing Orochi

Ryo: The guy deserves it anyway

Luffy: you bet he does! Kick his ass!

Queen: but that guy he's fighting is kyoshiro, there's no way he's going down easy

There's a new prisoner coming In apparently, a fearsome killer from the flower capital

He's a man covered im bandages, long blonde hair, purple lips and is laughing a lot

Hitokiri kamazo

Ryo: (He looks familiar) 'he then catches a familiar scent' (Kid?)

And then there's another guy, eustass Kid is back in prison

Then everyone starts laughing at him

Luffy: it couldn't of been easy to break out of here, so why would he just surrender himself?

Ryo: Good question

Hitokiri keeps on laughing

Kid: Hey stop it! Come on dammit! I said stop, you always hated your laugh, this is wrong, this is messed up, you never laughed out loud, you couldn't stand to let anyone else hear it right and if someone else was stupid enough to make fun of your laugh, you'd beat the bastards half to death

Hitokiri keeps laughing

Eustass: Stop it 'he falls to his knees' I'm begging you, you started wearing a mask because you didn't even like to show your face right?, that's the man I knew, what the hell did they do to you, I've got no clue what happened after we were separated, did kaido do this?, Orochi?, where's everyone else!?, say something! Come on turn around, why won't you answer me!? Killer!

Ryo's eye snaps open: No way!

Luffy: that's who he is!?

Hyogoro: you've met that man before?, the murderer from the capital

Ryo: Yeah luffy's met him once, but it's been twice for me, this is not the fearsome warrior I met, he'd of seen this guy and sliced his head off

Luffy: Jaggy must have got caught when he tired to save him

Hygoro: he suffered a cruel fate, they must have gave him a smile fruit, now all his emotions are locked away, trapped behind a mask of endless laughter, Orochi you really are a heartless monster

Eutass: what in the hell did those bastards do to you? How dare you he's my partner! Who ever did this will pay! You sons of bitches where is everyone? Where's my crew!?

Killer is laughing but it's easy to see, that's he is also crying

Luffy: Hey balloon, Hurry up

Hygoro: Mr Strawhat?

Ryo: he said! Hurry up!

Queen: Huh? I'm kind of busy here

Ryo: we're sick of waiting

Luffy: let's do sumo

Luffy/Ryo: We'll end this

And that's a wrap

This was another weird chapter but I had to include it

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