That night, with the Marines searching everywhere, the Straw Hat Pirates had no choice but to rest at Shakky's Rip-off Bar. One of their three days had already passed. They had to find a way to rescue Zoro.
Rayleigh took his tools elsewhere to coat the Thousand Sunny. As if he knew nothing about the situation, he told Luffy and the others neither what to do nor what he thought.
This was the Straw Hat Pirates' adventure. Whether it ended here was up to them.
Luffy lay in a hammock with his hands behind his head, gazing at the moonlight outside the window. He knew Zoro was strong. Apart from Luffy himself, probably none of the others could beat him.
Yet according to Shakky's information, the enemy had sent just one robot called a Pacifista and defeated Zoro. Its strength was no joke!
So what should they do?
Abandoning Zoro and hiding until the coating was finished had never even crossed Luffy's mind.
Just then, a figure flashed past the window and stopped in front of him.
"Tra-guy?!"
In the original story, Trafalgar Law had allied with Luffy on Punk Hazard to take revenge on Donquixote Doflamingo, the "Yasha."
This time, without Doflamingo as the reason, Law still proposed an alliance to Luffy—and he did it two years earlier!
Law was different now. After losing the man he wanted revenge on, he had drifted through life without purpose. With help from Bepo and the others in the Heart Pirates, he finally came to his senses and made a bold decision!
Doflamingo was gone, but the rotten Seven Warlords of the Sea system remained! Law would become a renowned pirate, take a seat among the Shichibukai, and destroy the system from within!
With a new goal, Law came to the Sabaody