The blackening of the heavens begins with Hokage

Early the next morning.

Neither Zoro nor Luffy became depressed or lazy about exercising because of Kuina's death. On the contrary, they exercised harder than before!

Both parties know in their hearts that they are not working alone now.

They must work together with Kuina.

This is the promise between them and Kuina.

In this way, several days passed in succession.

Nothing special has happened in the past few days. Luffy and Zoro's life is still exercise, exercise, more exercise.

Until this day.

As soon as Zoro arrived at the kendo hall, he found an uninvited guest in the kendo hall. Master Koushiro was receiving this guy.

He recognizes this guy.

This guy is the masked man who brought Luffy here to learn kendo.

As soon as he saw the masked man, Zoro felt his heart tighten.

Then he rushed out without saying a word.

He kept running wildly in the gym.

It wasn't until he ran to the courtyard behind the gym and found that Luffy was already saying goodbye to the other students one by one that he stopped walking and asked Luffy breathlessly: "Are you leaving?"

Luffy had a look of reluctance in his eyes.

But he still nodded.

Zoro rushed forward and grabbed Luffy's collar: "Bastard! Didn't you promise Kuina that we would work together?! What's going on if you leave now?!"

"Even if I leave, I will not miss training."

"..."

After hearing this, Zoro slowly calmed down and slowly let go of Luffy's collar.

With Luffy looking confused, Zoro suddenly turned and left.

Cross the courtyard and return to the dojo.

Ignoring Koushiro and Li Yaoxiang who were talking, he passed directly by them, then took away the four real swords hanging on the wall and returned to Luffy.

He threw one of the real swords at Luffy's feet, bit the hilt of one of the real swords in his mouth, and said, "Before you leave, let's have one last showdown!"

Luffy smiled heartily.

Pick up the real knife.

The two sides took up stances and rushed towards each other.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of collisions between knives was heard in the courtyard.

Very dense.

Luffy's swordsmanship now is no longer as good as it was when he first came here. Even if he and Zoro's three swords flowed, there would be back and forth.

Zoro can't take down Luffy as easily as he did before.

Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!

They fought each other for quite a while.

Both sides come and go.

It's a pity that Luffy's talent in swordsmanship is never as good as Zoro's.

In the end, Zoro caught the moment of his mistake and took away the real sword in his hand, ending the competition. The two sides looked at each other panting for a long time.

No one spoke.

I don't know how long it took.

Zoro put the knife back into its sheath.

Then he said for no reason: "How can you become the strongest person in the world if you are so weak?"

"I will become stronger and stronger than anyone else!"

"Well, don't you always say that you want me to join you and become your partner? When we meet next time, if you can defeat me, then I will join you!"

The corners of Luffy's mouth quickly rose.

But Zoro immediately added: "Don't be too happy! If I find out that you broke your promise to Kuina and me, then I will kill you with my own hands!"

Luffy was stunned.

But his smile soon returned.

"OK!"

“It’s a deal!”

“It’s a deal!”

After a moment, Zoro seemed to have remembered something and suddenly asked: "By the way, you have been inviting me to join you. What do you want to do when you grow up?"

If it were before, Luffy would definitely answer without hesitation: I want to be a marine!

But after the Sabo incident, Luffy hesitated.

He discovered that not all marines were as good people as he thought.

He became confused.

Don't know what I want to do.

He only knew that he was yearning for the sea and freedom.

Seeing the complicated expression on Luffy's face, Zoro felt ashamed for a while. He just felt that he was really in trouble this time. He knew that this kid was unreliable and didn't even know what he wanted to do, so he just casually

Easily invite others to join.

What's even more frightening is that he actually agreed...

Not long after, Li Yaoxiang and Koushiro finished their conversation, came to the backyard, and were about to lead Luffy away.

Just as the two were about to step out of the dojo gate, Zoro chased them out, crying and shouting: "Luffy! You idiot! Don't forget our agreement!"

Luffy's eyes were also a little moist, and he readily agreed.

…

After leaving the Kendo Hall, Li Yaoxiang took Luffy to a secret place, called out the air gate, and took Luffy back to Gorbo Mountain.

Luffy walked back to Dadan's house as if nothing had happened.

"I'm back——! Huh? Are you eating meat? That's fine, I happen to be hungry too!"

In an instant, everyone who was dining turned their heads and looked at Luffy in surprise.

Ace rushed over quickly and knocked Luffy to the ground with one punch: "You bastard! You disappeared for so many days! Where did you go?!"

Luffy was a little stunned.

Covering his cheek.

He didn't understand why Ace suddenly rushed over and beat him.

"I...I...big brother took me to become stronger..."

"Big brother?"

Ace still knew a thing or two about Li Yaoxiang. During the time he spent with Luffy, Luffy often mentioned it to him and Sabo.

"Idiot! Even so, can you leave without any explanation?! Do you know how worried everyone is about you during this period?!"

"me……"

Luffy didn't know what to answer.

Ace also saw the real sword that Luffy was holding in his arms at this time. Luffy's current strength is not enough to suppress the silver sword, so Li Yaoxiang has not given the silver sword to Luffy yet.

What Luffy held in his arms was just a real sword he brought back from Koushiro's Kendo Hall.

Ace also picked up his weapon that looked like a faucet steel pipe, pointed at Luffy and said: "Very good! You said you ran away and became stronger, right? That is your weapon? Pick up your weapon, and follow

I'm going out for a duel! I want to see how strong you, the guy who plays missing, has become!"

After a while.

A group of people came to the open space outside Dadan's house.

Kalidadan and other bandits were watching.

Ace hand-held faucet steel pipe.

Luffy holds a real sword.

The war is about to break out!

Ace, who was filled with anger, took the lead in attacking. Before that, although Luffy was stronger than the 7-year-old him in the original book, Luffy still had never defeated Ace. After all, Ace was

He is three years older than Luffy and has trained for three more years than Luffy.

At this time, Ace is no weaker than Sauron, he can even be said to be stronger!

However, this competition is not just a swordsmanship competition.

Luffy won't just use swordsmanship like he did when fighting Zoro.

In this battle, Luffy took full advantage of his swordsmanship and rubber man skills! Often when the real sword was suppressed, he would decisively abandon the real sword and use a few floor moves plus rubber legs, rubber fists, etc. to crack Ace's

offensive.

When the crisis is over, he will pick up the real sword and continue fighting.

Sometimes he would use his feet instead of his hands, using his ankles to curl up the handle of the knife to fight.

Not only did Ace have to dodge Luffy's oncoming attack, but he also had to be wary of the attack when his rubber legs were retracted. This battle put Ace under quite a bit of pressure.

Finally, after hundreds of rounds, Ace's weapon was bent by Luffy's kick.

It was not impossible to continue fighting, but Ace did not do so.

He threw away the steel pipe and angrily yelled at Luffy: "If you dare to leave without any explanation next time, I will never forgive you!"

After that, he turned around and left towards the jungle.

He seemed very angry, but without anyone noticing, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Because he knows that from now on, his troublesome brother is no weaker than him...