One Piece (Love Story) [Part Two]

Chapter Two Hundred and Ninety Five [Rewritten]

-Chapter Two Hundred and Ninety-Five-

"Look at you getting wiped out left and right!" the man on top of the bison sneered.

"Oh crap! What the heck is that thing?!" Usopp cried.

"You're not the Gills Men, you're the Flying Fish Riders!" the man boasted as I stared at the mask he wore caged around his head. 'Didn't Pappagu say that Duval wore an iron mask—does this mean that this is him?' I quietly pondered, head tilting.

"Did he just crush his own house?" Usopp sweat dropped as he watched how the building the bison had crashed through crumbled.

"With the Straw Hats dead, I won't need this base! Don't hold back!" Duval ordered, cutting straight to the point despite only having just arrived.

"Head!" one of his men called out. "We're sorry—we'll drag them off to the ocean and finish them for sure!" he promised.

"Move it!" Duval snapped. "I don't care about Fishmen or mermaids or giant talking gloves—I'll give you five seconds to get the hell out of my way!" he snarled at Hachi, Cami, and Pappagu once he saw that they were in his way, causing the three to quickly crawl away from him. "Huh? I didn't get into the slave trade market 'cause I wanted to, you know that? Don't you?" he suddenly asked.

"Of course, Head! Good luck!" one of his men cheered.

"This is the greatest day of my life! The man that I've dreamed of killing is right before my eyes—I may have suffered to get here, but it's all been worth it!" Duval joyfully proclaimed. "I got to admit that miracles can happen after all," he blissfully sighed before his mood seemed to quickly sour, "I never did a damn thing to that bastard and he made my life hell! He ruined me!"

"Hey, what's his deal? Is he talking to us?" Usopp asked, confused by the man's sudden tangent.

"He's clearly talking to someone" I shrugged.

"I got nothing to lose anymore—I'm ending this! Even if I die, I'm killing you!" Duval proclaimed. "Do you hear me, Black Leg Sanji?!" he asked. "I've been waiting for this for a long time" his voice suddenly took on a southern drawl as one of his eyes seemed to just glow a bright purple from beneath his iron mask.

"He's mad! His accent, it's starting to come out!" one of his men cried.

"Me? What in the hell did I do?" Sanji frowned. "That's weird."

"Sanji, hey, what gives? What the heck did you do to piss this guy off so bad?" Franky asked.

"Maybe something back on the Baratie? " Nami guessed. "Come on, try to remember" she urged.

"Well, if we're going back that far, I...uh...did all sorts of stuff to piss people off" Sanji admitted, bashfully scratching the back of his head. "Geez, I can't even count them all..." he muttered as he started to think back to the countless things he had done before he had met and joined the crew.

"Well better let him kill you then" Usopp suddenly said as he threw an arm around the blond—Chopper nodding in agreement as he silently started to cry.

"A bit cruel there, don't you think?" I sweat dropped.

"Don't play dumb with me, Black Leg!" Duval snapped. "It wasn't that long ago! Dammit!" he sneered before shooting harpoons at us.

"Look out! Those are harpoons!" Usopp panicked as we quickly ducked, letting the harpoons embed themselves into the ship instead of into us.

"Aargh! If it was something recent, I'm even more confused!" Sanji groaned with a frown.