Part nine - Once, a liar, a cheater and a deciver met 16/??

- Can one of you two explain to me where he got such ideas? - Zoro asked Nami and Johnny. He spoke not very loudly, but the notes sounded in his voice clearly did not bode well if the answer of the mentioned couple did not suit the swordsman. - How could a simple sitting in a tree lead to something like this? Before answering now, I advise you to think very well over your words, otherwise the next training session with me will be remembered for a long time.

At such moments, Johnny, Yosaku and Nami vividly recalled that Zoro was not only a strong swordsman with topographic cretinism in an especially sharp form and a strong love for drinking, but also Luffy's first mate. No not like this. Luffy's First Mate. Yes, that's it. Zoro may have incredible strength, but Luffy made him his first mate not only because of his strength alone, or because he became the very first member of the Straw Hat family, not counting Luffy himself. First Mate is a position meaning that, in Luffy's absence, Zoro had all the rights and responsibilities of a captain. Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates. And this is not at all the position that, albeit temporarily, someone could take on the basis of sheer strength. And sometimes there would be times when Zoro, meaningfully or not, would remind other members of his little family of this. For example, like now.

- It's all Jango, disguised as a marine! - Nami was the first to make excuses . - Now it dawned on Luffy!

- And he began to carry nonsense about zombies almost from the very landing on the island! - Johnny nodded his head in agreement. - It turns out that he has long wanted to find a real zombie in our family, hence the glass coffins.

- It's clear, - Zoro nodded. And he really understood everything, including what was left behind the scenes. - Luffy, why do we need zombies? - turning to his captain, asked the swordsman.

- So cool!

- They stink and brainless, what could be cool about them?

- Zoro ... it's a zombie. - Luffy looked at his first mate as if he had said some complete nonsense.

- And?

- Zombies can't be not cool - it's against their nature! Seriously, Zoro, you should understand such things, if not intellectually, then intuitively for sure! Otherwise, what kind of a swordsman are you?

Zoro had no idea how the swordsmen, zombies and intuition were connected in Luffy's head, but he was not going to clarify, so after listening to his captain's answer, the guy could only say one thing:

- Okay, zombies so zombies.

- ZORO! - Nami exclaimed. - Do not try to agree with him!

- Then please start persuading him. - With a slight wave of his hand in Luffy's direction, Zoro offered her.

Nami looked at Luffy, and Luffy smiled happily in response, which made the girl immediately visibly drooped - some things really could only be reconciled.

- This is all good, of course, - Yosaku, who had withdrawn from the conversation, said up to this point, - but how are things with Usopp? Wasn't that the whole point of our coming here? And even so early?

There was a short silence, which was broken by a loud snap of Luffy's fingers.

- I knew that I had forgotten about something! - slightly poke his tongue, said the guy. - But now we will know for sure whether he can become a zombie or not.

- He's dead ?! - Nami exclaimed, shocked.

- Judging by the 'voice' of Usopp and the 'voices' of the pirates surrounding him, he won't have long to live. Still, he has no luck. It happens.

Nami, without even listening to the rest, rushed in the direction of Usopp with such a speed that the earth flew from under her feet.

- Why did you lie to her? As you said yourself, judging by the "voices", no one is going to kill Usopp yet. - After watching Nami, Zoro stared back at his captain.

- She kicked me, set the price, took away my shirt, and then read all my plans out loud, - Luffy snorted indignantly. As expected, the guy's rancor made itself felt. - For naked boobs, you can forgive one thing, but not all.

- I do not know, I don't know… - Johnny said, shaking his head slightly. - In my opinion, for such boobs, and even on such a body, it is quite possible to forgive everything.

- I agree! Such beauty is simply priceless! - immediately hurried to support his friend Yosaku. - We have sailed the whole East Blue several times, and Nami is one hundred percent the most beautiful girl in these waters.

- Firstly, you are two inveterate womanizers, not so much inferior in this regard to Sanji, and he, I remind you, is ready to flirt with a wooden post if it is wearing a skirt. - Luffy's words were almost an outright insult, but Johnny and Yosaku's faces still spread into happy smiles, and Zoro couldn't help laughing. And it's not so much about Luffy's words, but about the memories of one well-known cook to all of them. Cook, who has been regularly bullied by Luffy for two years now. And he scoffed in a very peculiar way ... but this is a topic for another day. - Secondly, no matter how amazing Nami's boobs are, they certainly are not worth half a billion belly just for just one viewing.

- For just one viewing? - stretched his lips in a satisfied grin, Yosaku, immediately catching in the answer of his captain the most "important". - That is, you admit that if she gave them to you to properly feel, then it would be quite possible to give half a billion belly for this? Fu Fu Fu! Captain, I am so ... - and this is all that the guy had time to say before his brains flew out through the back of his head.

- You also want to say something? - holding a revolver slightly smoking after the shot, Luffy asked Johnny with an expression on his face to match the most inveterate bully in the world.

Casting a sympathetic glance at the body of his complete idiot friend, Johnny hastened to put on the most obedient look he was capable of, after which he depicted a pantomime with closing his mouth to the lock and throwing the key to the side. It is foolish to argue with a person in whose hands there is a weapon. And complete idiocy if this person's name is Luffy. However, Zoro, unlike Johnny and Yosaku, has always been a stronger guy, so he only slightly raised an eyebrow in response to Luffy's gaze. Even more surprising, Luffy grunted slightly and almost immediately put the revolver back into its holster. Johnny did not understand the meaning of the silent conversation, although he did not for a moment doubt that it took place. The captain and his first mate - what else can I say here? Zoro and Luffy used to have these "silent conversations" among themselves quite often.

- Since we've discussed everything, I suggest we go after Nami, - Luffy said in his usual voice. - I'm interested in seeing this Fake Zombie.

- Then we'd better hurry, - Zoro strode after Nami, who ran ahead. - Otherwise, it might end before we can get there, - he added, stepping over Yosaku's corpse lying in his path.

- You're right, - Luffy nodded, - we really better hurry. Judging by the location of the "voices", there is going to be such a sickly drama, I would not want to miss anything.

Johnny opened his mouth to ask about Yosaku, but almost immediately closed it - so everything was crystal clear. Considering the degree of rupture of the skull and the area of ​​expansion of the brains, Luffy was not too lazy to pump the bullet with his haki, so there was nothing to catch in the next fifteen minutes from the guy.

- Still, somewhere you and I made a mistake, - Johnny sighed softly, examining the corpse of his friend. - In a normal world, a person does not estimate, based on the area of ​​scattering of brains, how long his friend will stay dead. And it certainly does not leave such a friend lying dead just because it will be boring to sit next to a corpse, - Johnny muttered under his breath, turning away from Yosaku's body. - Hey, wait for me, I'm with you! - shouted the guy, hurrying after his captain and his first mate.

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