Chapter 435 - 437 (1/2)

East Blue.

It was a fairly ordinary island with a lot of villages.

But one of these villages was a little special.

This village was called Shimotsuki, in honor of its founder — Shimotsuki Kozaburo.

Kozaburo was a famous blacksmith of the Country of Vano, who created two meito classes About Wazamono (21) — Wado Ichimonji and Enmu.

Many years ago, he secretly left the closed Country of Vano, taking Wado Ichimonji with him, and went to East Blue, subsequently settling on one of the many ordinary islands.

There he founded his dojo.

It is called the Isshin Dojo, which is now run by Kozaburo's son, Shimotsuki Koshiro.

Not far from the dojo, on the outskirts of the village of Shimotsuki, a large number of people gathered.

The atmosphere here was very gloomy and depressed.

”I'm sorry...we can't pay such a sum.”

Koshiro bowed in front of a dozen pirates and handed them a small bag: ”This is all the money that my dojo could collect, spare the village, please...”

”Just like that?!”

The man at the head of the group of pirates reached out and snatched the bag of money from Koshiro's hands, then weighed it and snorted coldly: ”Yes, you must have just hidden most of the money!”

The pirate stepped forward and grabbed Koshiro by the neck, lifting him up in front of him, and then grinned cruelly: ”Don't take me for an idiot! Our boss...The Golden Lion!! Didn't pay the required amount? The village will be destroyed! Everything is easier than simple!!”

”This is really all that we managed to collect...”

Koshiro looked at the pirate who was holding him by the neck and said helplessly: ”Please...spare us...”

”Shut up!”

The pirate roared furiously and waved his hand, throwing away Koshiro.

Koshiro flew a few meters and crashed with a crash into a building on the outskirts of the village, but it seemed that he was not injured at all.

But.

Just at this moment, two children's voices came from the side.

”Father!”

”Master!”

Two children ran out of the village and screamed loudly when they saw what was happening.

It was a girl and a boy.

The girl, who looked about twelve or eleven years old, had short hair and wore simple clothes, but was holding a sword in a white scabbard, which was one of the meito class of O Wazamono(21) — Wado Ichimonji.

The boy with short green hair running next to the girl was carrying two simple swords in his hands, and his gaze was filled with anger.

Shimotsuki Kuina!

”The bastards...”

Zoro drew his swords from their scabbards and looked coldly at the pirates.

Quina held up the Wado Ichimonji in front of her and looked worriedly at the large number of pirates opposite.

”Quina! Zoro!!”

When Koshiro shouted, in an attempt to stop Zoro and Quina, the pirates had already paid attention to them.

The pirate at the head of the group laughed out loud, looking at Quina and Zoro holding swords in their hands: ”Hahaha, where did puppies like you get real swords from? Do you really think that you can cut me with them?!”

”You're not welcome here.”

Quina said softly.

Zoro angrily exclaimed, looking at the group of pirates opposite: ”Get out of here!!”

”Ha ha ha, arrogant puppies.”

The pirate laughed loudly and took out his sword from its scabbard, coldly addressing Quina and Zoro: ”Now the uncle will play with you!!”

Klang!!

At the moment of the clash of swords, a lot of sparks flew to the sides.

Two Zoro swords and one Quina sword.