三刀流

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🐏 》 ❝ I– I can defend myself! Really! ❞ Albeit poorly with no more than her trowel at hand, seeing him attack with such ferocity using a kitchen knife invalidates her excuses! Alas, willpower without strength is still insufficient; her attempt to deflect the beast fails, and she even manages to get him hurt in the process. ( How, she’s quite uncertain,but it surely happened during her tussle onto the ground. Did he end up compensating for her failure? )

          ❝ …! Just hold on a moment, I’ll patch you up right away! ❞ Without Mi’Lady at full power, the power of these ‘sages’ can be quite handy. Hopefully he’ll let her tend to that scratch on his arm.  ❝ …I’m sorry. ❞

The typically white plastic of the kitchen knife he’d been forced to wield was enveloped in a black essence. Armament Haki, the ability to focus his own fighting spirit into his strikes in order to lend them some strength. Though as it stood, he didn’t have much in the way of strength. He felt weaker here. Like something was weighing him down. It wasn’t just the fact that they’d taken his swords but all that hard training he’d done seemed like it didn’t mean jack here.

That’s probably what pissed him off most.

The beast managed to get a good strike in but not before he jerked his knife free of the thing’s skin and jabbed it into the damn thing’s eye socket, driving it as deep as it could go. It gave a terrible roar and shook free of him before barreling off in some random direction. Likely to terrorize someone else or lick its wounds. Zoro slumped to the ground, panting a little bit and furrowing his brow as he placed a hand over his wound tightly. He hadn’t been fast enough to spread Armament Haki there. Frustration got the better of him.

“I’ve never felt so helpless in my entire life…” There’s only so much a normal girl like her can do when it comes to something as tragic as this.

“I want to do more, but… What else can I do?”

“So we just have to go and get some stuff, right? That doesn’t seem too hard. Just stick close to me and when we see it, I’ll hold ‘em off while you gather it up. Sound fair?”

“ I don’t recall asking for your input. You should look at yourself before giving unnecessary advice. ” Although Thorfinn preferred to have his two daggers on hand, he could make due without them and certainly refused to bother with the balloon knockoffs the gatekeepers gifted him upon arrival – and he could not fathom why the man troubled himself holding onto such a flimsy fake. “ Do you intend to fight with that? ” 

“Well, well. Look who decided to show up for the party. You sure it isn’t past your bedtime?”

He was more alluding to the young looks of the youth before him rather than his actual age, something Zoro didn’t know in the slightest. He was pretty young himself, after all. But given that he was a demon, Hiei was likely another beast entirely. Once more Zoro found his outfit torn to shreds and a few scratches here and there. But the knife was still in tact, and that was all that mattered.

“What’s that supposed to mean, huh? I like guys, too!” that’s…not what was wrong with the statement, Titus.

that train of thought doesn’t get very far, though, as he’s now fixated on the other’s talk of a ship. he hadn’t been on a big ship since he was an infant, which he couldn’t remember anyway. “The ocean… Man, that’s admirable! Sounds like a whole bunch of fun, but I can’t swim really well, so if I fell over the side, it’d be real bad. Drinking on the deck sounds mighty enjoyable, though.”

“Calm down. I just meant you look like the type of guy to flirt with just about anything that moves. I know the type. I basically live with one.” And he sure as hell didn’t miss that idiot one bit. But this one seemed alright.

A rather random question perks the interest in the merman; this individual was someone he hasn’t meet as of today. It seems this world is getting more and more residents so to speak. “I do know a bar around here that would interest you.” He did slip by the place occasionally and a few times did he took a drink there but didn’t consume too much, knowing what happened the last time he did.  He liked the scenery at best, “Although, I have never met you before, are you perhaps new to the place?” 

“Great! I knew I had a good feeling about you.”

“Oh, i’m not saying i doubt you a single bit! I’m in complete agreement that we’re in the calm before the storm stage. Weather  an attack by supernatural forces.. or civil unrest coming from those areas in the mist..” cue her lips pressing together. “Well, we’ll just have to be on our toes, won’t we? But in the mean time, will you tell me of your ship? it sounds like you have quite a few tales.”