The Chronicle

Chapter 26

After my wound got treated again, I was eating five bubblegum in one time and preparing myself to start my battle with Hiro-kun. I was swinging my bo staff as I blew the bubblegum before it popped and I chewed it again.

As Zoro walked away from us, Nami asked him stuffs and he answered her that his pride was wounded, because he almost got stabbed and they stabbed me instead. I felt a little offended of course! What’s wrong being saved by a girl?!

But then he added that they injured one of his Nakamas and said that they will pay for hurting his Nakamas, making me smiled weakly at him and shook my head.

Then Luffy said we will go to Grand Line and need a Navigator, which making him invite Nami to join his crew. She refused, obviously, but she accepted the invitation of traveling together and reaching they own goal, making me smiled softly at her.

As both Luffy and Zoro were walking away together with Flame and Takao; I was walking away from them with Hiro-kun before Nami tried to stop me.

“Where are you going? Don’t tell me you’re going to fight him?!” she said, “With that wound?!” she added again.

I just glanced from my shoulder at her and grinned, “Don’t worry. I’m too stubborn to die, especially with this small wound.” I replied and turned to Hiro-kun, “So, where should we battle then?” I asked him with smirk.

He grinned, “Come on, follow me!” he said and then we ran toward an empty place. We stand facing each other and took out our weapons. I take a good looking at his weapon, which is a double-bladed scythe and I think it’s a kairoseki scythe. I smirked, guess this gonna be an interesting battle, eh?

“Ready?” I asked, bracing an attack.

“Ready!” he replied.

We ran forward, our weapons in front of us and warded the other weapons. We kept pushing our weapons at each other until he let it go and about to slash me, but I already predicted it and stopped the blade from slashing me using my bo staff.

The weapons were gritted at each other, making disturbing sound. I gritted my teeth and squatted down, attacking his footings instead using my foot. It eventually landed on one of his knees, despite of him being fast. He’s quite fast and strong, I admit. And my damned injury was throbbing like hell and totally didn’t help.

He lost balance of one of his footings and fell on his knees; I stood up and was about to attack him directly but the prediction I got is my abdomen gonna get cut if I don’t jumped away. I jumped backward, and sure enough, he swung the blade near my abdomen. He tch-ed as he missed, I skidded backward a moment and stayed alert. He smirked and he suddenly ran, surrounding me. I just deadpanned and stayed alert as the throbbing started disturbing my focus.

“Soru Sakkaku!” he exclaimed as he stopped, revealing many copies of him, grinning at me.

“Rokushiki eh? What an interesting opponent I got here.” I grinned and gripped my bo staff with both hands before closing my eyes, focusing to the real one.

“Here we go!” he and the copies exclaimed and jumped toward me, the scythes facing me. And as the blades came closer, I opened my eyes and swung my bo staff around, passing all of the illusions except for the real one.

The real one was eventually right behind me; I warded his scythe in time before it cut me in half. He was a little surprised about it and I just smirked at him before I swung by bo staff to the side, making the scythe slipped of his hands and flew away a few feet before pierced through the ground, I pushed him off as he still shocked about me disarmed him and he fell on his butt. I stood up properly and swung my bo staff toward his head, only stopped right a few inches from his left side of his face and smirked at him.