The last demon in the One Piece world

Chapter 122: The Strongest Family

2 days later......

Water Seven

Remains of Galley-La Company's Headquarters , Iceburg's residence

Since Yushiro assumed that their belongings had been lost with Merry in the deep sea, he was still wearing his outfit from the battle.

He had tried to rinse out the blood, but it still showed around his neck.

It didn't stink though, which was good.

Paulie built Yushiro a small desk so that the latter could work on the crew's logbook.

He wrote the battle scenes, Merry-chan's sacrifice.......

He quickly wiped the tears in his eyes, not wanting to seem weak in front of his friends and continued writing.

Luffy had yet to awaken, his injuries proving to be quite bad.

Usopp was still out there in the city somewhere.

The crew is still silently coping with the death of Going Merry and are now trying to figure out how they want to proceed after that with a New ship.

On the bright side, Robin had now started calling everybody by their names and not titles.

Chopper had been going around, doing checkups on the people who were on the rescue mission.

He closed the logbook and put his head in his hands.

He was mentally exhausted . "I need a break...."

"And sitting in here all day won't make that happen."

Zoro was standing behind him with his arms crossed, his eyes narrowed at his much paler complexion. "You didn't rest."

He blinked at him before looking down at his logbook. "I guess.", he confessed before he got up and walked outside, Zoro following him.

They were walking for a while and Yushiro was trying to sniff Usopp out, but Zoro noticed. "You've been searching for him, right?"

They had reached the shore and Yushiro stopped in his tracks, Zoro following him at his side.
"Don't patronize me about this, Zoro. I know about his pride--"

Zoro sighed. "That's not what I came to you for."

"Eh?", Yushiro finally looked at him.

Zoro turned his head at the side and Yushiro spotted faint pink on his cheeks and snorted.

"What ..?", Zoro turned to him.

Yushiro raised an eyebrow and poked Zoro's shoulder teasingly. "You.... Are you checking up on me?"

"Wha...?! No, i'm not!", Zoro grumbled with an embarrassed look.

Yushiro finally laughed after many days. "No need to be embarrassed, Zoro.", he waved him off and gave him a genuine smile. "Thank you."

Zoro also gave him a small smile before it became mischievous.

Yushiro let a bead of sweat roll down his forehead at the sight. "W... What...?"

He grabbed Yushiro's head with his arm and rubbed his fist into his hair and ruffling it.

Yushiro pouted and tried to swat him off. "Stop It, Zoro! You're ruining my hair! Eh...?"