"Thousand Sunny?"
Zoro emerged from the woods, his shoes stepping onto the white sand.
"How did I end up here?"
He was sure he'd sprinted straight toward where the black dot had fallen. That should've been in the opposite direction from the Thousand Sunny...
How had he ended up back here?
"Hey! Zoro!"
"Was hell fun?"
His crewmates spotted him and waved.
Maybe I should pretend I didn't see them...
The thought flashed through Zoro's mind, but he quickly dismissed it.
He came up with an excuse.
"Nami and the others are already on the island. Why are you still here?"
"And you, Perverted Cook! Just because it's hell, that doesn't mean you can leave two ladies stranded on the island!"
That sounded like something Usopp would do...
Zoro carefully recalled how Usopp usually acted in a situation like this. Combined with his usual level-headed image, what he said would be all the more convincing.
It was easier to spot a lie when it came from an honest man...
Besides, everything Zoro said was true.
He smoothly turned the tables and started blaming his crewmates.
"You know exactly what Nami's going to auction off. Are you really going to count on Joker to protect her?"
"Are you just going to stand here and watch your crewmate get surrounded by the Marines?"
"Who's she hosting the auction for?"
"Never!!"
Sanji charged ahead, his face set in a resolute, death-defying expression, kicking up a cloud of dust across the beach.
Chopper dropped to all fours and sprinted. Brook and Franky took off after him.
As for Luffy...
He stretched his arms back like a slingshot and launched himself forward, his voice still echoing in midair.
It worked perfectly.
Maybe he really had underestimated Usopp all this time.
"Great. Now nobody knows I