Chapter 158: Shimotsuki Village's Location (22)
Chapter 157: Shimotsuki Village's Location
Hearing Leo's words, Zoro's eyes widened.
He hadn't expected Leo to know his teacher.
Almost instinctively, he turned his head toward the room where Tashigi was, even thinking that she might be Kuina.
"Don't overthink it. She isn't Kuina." Leo shook his head. "Tashigi is Tashigi."
Zoro fell silent for a moment. "Why did you become pirates?"
His sense of justice was strong, and Koshiro had taught him from childhood to be an upright person. If Luffy hadn't been different, if Luffy had ever committed evil, he never would have followed Luffy out to sea as a pirate.
"Who said we were pirates?" Leo smiled and asked in return.
Zoro was momentarily speechless. Only then did he realize that the people who had destroyed Krieg's fleet were absurdly powerful, yet they weren't the kind of pirates he had imagined. No, they weren't even pirates at all. His previous assumption had been nothing but wishful thinking.
His face heated up in embarrassment. It was humiliating enough, but what made it worse was that he had embarrassed himself in front of Tashigi, a woman with Kuina's face. That was simply too mortifying.
He took the bandana off his head and pressed it against the wound at his waist, which had gradually stopped bleeding. Then he asked, "Why did you wipe out Krieg's fleet?"
"You don't look like pirate hunters either."
"Because they were blocking our way." Leo's domineering answer left Zoro speechless.
He suddenly realized that these great figures of the sea truly had the strength to back up such actions.
The one who spat fire and the one who summoned lightning could effortlessly wipe out the warship group of Krieg, the East Blue's tyrant—a force that made the entire East