" " - Speaking
' ' - Thinking
[ ] - System Talking
!! !! - Crew Card
"Now, if you don't have anything else to say, then please leave," Nezumi said before turning his attention to the papers on his table.
The irritated expression on Leo's face quickly changes as a slight grin appears on his face.
"Oh yes, I have one more thing to say," Leo said in a cheerful tone.
Nezumi was startled by the change in his tone, but before he could look in his direction, he only saw him appear on his side with blinding speed.
"WHA..." Nezumi yelled in shock, but a hand quickly wrapped around his mouth.
Leo stood by his side with his hand tightly clamped on his mouth, making it impossible for him to alert anyone with his screaming.
"Mmhmm," Nezumi struggled against his hold while trying to use his hands to remove it. Even then, all his efforts were in vain as Leo's hand effortlessly continued to hold his mouth within his ironclad grasp.
"If you don't stop struggling like this, then things could get ugly real quick," Leo stated with a stern look in his eyes while he calmly pushed him back to his seat and sat on the table in front of him with his hand still on his mouth.
After Nezumi got pushed to his chair. He started to struggle even more to get out of his grip.
Leo seeing him struggle even more than before, tightened his grip on him to an almost painful level before saying, "Don't say I didn't warn you,"
Zappp
Electricity started to appear on Leo's hand as he began to give him painful electro-therapy.
"Mmmmm..." as the electric current started to travel in his body, Nezumi began to stumble on his chair with an exceedingly painful look in his eyes.
Leo, after seeing his pleading eyes, stopped channeling his electricity.
"Just nod your head if you don't want to die like this, and if not, then I will kill you as I have killed Arlong," Leo said with an icy cold look in his eyes.
Nezumi astutely nodded his head after hearing his words.
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After some time, Leo could be seen walking out of the Marine base with a sunny look on his face.
If someone saw him now, they would not think that this gentle-looking young boy could even hurt someone, much less torture someone, just to get him to agree.
After some minutes of walking, Leo quickly reached the black pearl, on which Nami was relaxing under the sun while waiting for him.
Nami seeing he had reached the deck with a happy look on his face, asked, "So, how did it turn out, and will you kill him or not?"
One can easily see that she doesn't like Nezumi much as he has taken bribes from Arlong and ignored their suffering under his rule.
"Na, killing him has no value, so I have already made him join the crew as a subordinate crew member, so you can't kill him," Leo replied flatly as he sat on the chair.
"As for the whole reason, I will tell you when all members are assembled," Leo says. "Now, let's quickly go back to your home island."
Nami just shook his head with a bitter expression on his face while putting the thought of killing Nezumi aside as she knew the rule that one cannot kill his crew member. She could not kill him, even if she knew that Nezumi was the reason Arlong could rule these islands without any fear. No matter how low ranking he is, he is still part of the crew, so she cannot kill him without any good reason.
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"Alright, that's it. I am done here. Fuck you, fuck the mission." Zoro said with an aggravated expression as he started to walk away.
"Wait, please wait, please, can you at least put me in the water so I can swim away on my own?" Take asked with a pleading expression on his face.
He tries to crawl toward the water but cannot do so because of the pain.
After seeing this, even Zoro felt little sympathy for the fishmen. He had seen them for almost two hours trying to call their fish since Take knew Momoo was his last hope as his body could not have swum such a distance.
But after seeing that she will not come to his aid, Take has to steel his heart and take this gamble on his life. Then he tries to swim to any other island on his own.
{An: poor guy, he doesn't know what will happen to him if he tries to swim.}
"Argh, fine," Zoro said as he began to move towards him, so he could put him in the water.
It appears someone doesn't want that to happen since the earth spikes quickly emerged from under Take, impaling him with them.
"W-wha..." Take was not even able to complete his last words before he died as he was too shocked by getting stabbed by multiple spikes coming from the earth.
When Zoro watched him take his last breath, he felt a conflict in his heart. He considered killing someone in a fight to gain something from their death, as he accepted killing them for Leo's mission. However, he still was a little disturbed seeing a broken unarmed being dying in front of him without even being able to fight back.
"Magi magi karp," Levi said as he emerged from the water.
Zoro understands Levi used his Nature Power to create earth spikes and impale this fishman with them. He has seen this move performed several times by him, and Levi is the only one Zoro knows who could manipulate nature in his surroundings.
"So, you are saying that you killed that Momoo fish an hour ago when it was coming here?" Zoro asked while trying to maintain his poker face.
"Magi magi," Levi replied with a cheerful look in his eyes.
"And you spend almost an hour eating that giant fish alone?" Zoro asked as even his poker face started to crack, showing glimpses of how irritated he was at the situation.
"Magi karp," Levi says before jumping out of the water as his size diminishes. He quickly became the size of an average cat and then started to float in the air using his favorite move, Nature Power.
Zoro quickly caught him in his arms and squeezed him as hard as possible to take out his frustration.
"M-magi k-karp..." Levi pleads as he starts to struggle in his arms.
"I guess that means the mission is complete," Zoro muttered as he took a last look at the dead fishmen before he began to walk towards the village with Levi still in his hand.
"I haven't eaten anything since morning, and you feasted on a sea king on your own," Zoro said to Levi as he continued to walk despite Levi's pleas.
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"Well, I didn't think it would take you this long to complete this task, Zoro," Leo said with a smile on his face as he and the girls were relaxing in the living room after dinner at Nami's house.
'Who am I kidding? I totally know that it could take a long time for him to complete it,' Leo thought with a mental chuckle.
"Glad to have you both back," Rindou greeted them as Zoro fell on the couch while Levi started to float towards Leo and sat on his lap.
"So glad to have you back too, buddy," Leo said while patting his head.
"Did that small fish just float in the air?" Nojiko asked with a stupefied expression.
"Don't bother about it, Nojiko. Things will stop making any sense with them involved," Nami lazily replied to her question.
"Now, all of you are here, so we can start the meeting now," Leo asked.
"No, not right now," Zoro replied almost immediately. "And Rindou, do you have some food left 'cause I'm hungry right now?"
"Magi magi,"
"Yeah, sure, I will just wipe something for both of you," Rindou replied before proceeding toward the kitchen.
"Fine, we will just do it afterward," Leo said with a sign while relaxing in his seat.
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