The Navy medical ship finally docked.
Several white warships lowered their gangplanks at once.
Before the ships had even fully stabilized, military doctors, stretcher teams, and escorting Marines rushed onto the ruins in wave after wave.
"This way!"
"Get the severely injured out first!"
"Bring two more stretchers!"
"Don't touch his back, the wound has split open again!"
The streets, once covered in scorched earth and rubble, suddenly became a flurry of activity. The six members of the Sunshine Adventure Group were quickly separated for examination.
Zoro had just been helped onto a stretcher, but he still had a death grip on all three of his swords.
The military doctor tried to pull them away twice, but could not budge them.
"Let go."
Zoro did not even lift his eyelids.
"No."
The military doctor's mouth twitched. In the end, he could only have Zoro carried away along with his swords.
Sanji's condition was even worse.
Pizarro's claw had torn open his entire back, and blood had dyed his shirt a dark red.
The moment the military doctor cut open his clothes, Sanji's eyes snapped open.
"Where's Luffy?"
"Alive."
"Worry about yourself first."
Sanji turned his head.
Only after confirming that the figure on a nearby stretcher was still lying there, shriveled up like an old man with a piece of meat somehow still clenched between his teeth, did he close his eyes again.
Usopp's nasal bridge was reset, while Chopper had yet to fully wake up. The military doctor simply placed their stretchers together.
Nami's injuries were relatively minor. After being bandaged up, she stayed by Luffy's side.
As for Luffy, he was awake, though his body still looked shriveled from severe exhaustion.
But his mouth did not stop moving for even a moment.
"Meat..."
"Give me another piece..."
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