East Blue, Baratie.
"You've got the wrong person! I'm only nineteen this year. Seventeen years ago, I was two years old—I hadn't even started learning swordsmanship yet!"
As Zoro's words fell, an extraordinarily strange atmosphere suddenly spread through the scene.
Seventeen years ago, he had only been two...
Upon hearing that, a trace of bewilderment flashed across Hawkeye's face.
After a long silence, he activated his Observation Haki before asking again, "Is what you said true?"
"Why would I lie to you? I really am only nineteen, and today is the first time I've ever met you."
"..."
Hawkeye carefully sensed the changes in Zoro's emotions through his Observation Haki and found that the other man was not lying in the slightest.
This was rather awkward!
Never in his wildest dreams had he expected to pick a fight with the wrong person!
Just as Hawkeye was feeling at a loss, he sensed an extremely vicious, bloodthirsty aura faintly emanating from the second floor of the Baratie restaurant.
That familiar yet unfamiliar feeling made him instinctively look up toward the open glass window on the second floor.
Then, he saw Sephiroth, dressed in a black suit with two long swords at his waist, staring at the Butcher Blade.
Back then, that Demonic Sword had radiated this unique vicious aura...
"So you're the real Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro!!!" Hawkeye said coldly as he looked at Sephiroth.
Zoro: What the hell (´◑д◐｀)!?
"Heh heh! Hawkeye, why do you keep saying things no one can understand? Isn't Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro right over there?"
Sephiroth chuckled and pointed at Zoro on the side deck.
If Hawkeye had privately said that he had once used an alias while working as a pirate hunter, he would not have minded admitting it. It would not have made