✉⋰⋱❤[ Comic #02 - Looking for the way home - Zoro x Noryah ]⋱⋰❤⋱⋰✉
I hope you're doing well!! it made me happy to see likes on the first part of my comic with my beloved Zoro!!
I'm writing it little by little and the lovely Koei is doing her side with the illustrations!!😁🤭✨❣️
For me, Zoro is someone who helped me feel connected with myself again, to feel calmer and to be happier, I started smiling again since he came into my life and my story reflects a bit of that! I hope you like my emotional visual therapy hahaha👉👈
I wish you a beautiful week already!🥰
🥰🙏 I hope you enjoy it and be respectful! 🙏🥰 🖍️[Illustrated by the artist @koei.art]🖍️
[Continuation of the first comic]
Noryah was trying to help her new friend but the truth is both of them had the sense of direction of a carrot.
Z: Are you sure you know where we're going? N: Yes, I do... this place feels familiar so we’re probably close to the port!
But she clearly recognized the area yet they were absolutely not close to the port.
Z: starts hitchhiking on the road
N: I swear I know where we are! come on, let's go this way
Said the blue-haired woman, grabbing the swordsman by the hand and dragging him toward a path she recognized a little but not for the right reasons.
The roads and routes became so long that the scenery began to change without them noticing, but at least they were together taking into account the dangers they might face.
They weren’t very sure how, but they ended up on top of a wall watching some people she recognized fighting against giant titans (They walked so much they switched anime)
N: We shouldn’t be here, it’s very dangerous, the titans can eat us…Z: I’ll be able to tell the others that we saw titans and made it to the Chinese wall Happy
(Clearly Zoro had no idea what wall he was on but it felt like a good anecdote to tell)
She laughed at the man’s innocence about where they were, she found it a bit interesting.
Although I think Zoro felt so confident that he could defeat the titans peeking over the walls that he just took it as another trip, a sightseeing moment.
He was sure that if they tried to attack them he could defend them both, he was already used to defending his nakamas, so he assumed she would also be a woman he should defend just because she was there with him (but that was a very wrong assumption on his part)
They both continued their journey, both a little tired so they decided to rest under a tree.
Zoro didn’t think much about it and pulled out a sake he had kept in his clothes only to drink in moments of solitude and calm.
She took out her cigarettes that she kept to smoke in those moments where she didn’t need to fight anymore and could rest.
Both doing a very similar action but at the same time not alike at all, they exchanged looks, without judging but confused, as if they were talking about the same thing but in different languages, and that was rest and refuge for both of them in that simple action of drinking or smoking.
On the road through so many worlds and different animes, Zoro had seen a small stone on the path, very pretty, and he picked it up without thinking too much, it reminded him of the girl’s hair and he simply thought of giving it to her as a detail so she wouldn’t be so defensive.
Z: I found this stone on the way, do you like it?
Said Zoro kindly trying to be friendly with the young woman.
N: … Stone?? that’s shining…
And it was true, the stone started to shine…
That wasn’t a stone… He had taken a ghost crystal from one of the animes they passed and they had accidentally activated it…
From the crystal came out a ghost ready to attack them both, what they didn’t know is that those two strangers actually shared more in common than they thought, and that was their love for fighting.
He unsheathed his katanas and she summoned her scythe, both ready to fight as a duo.
They didn’t need words between them.
They knew the language of battle.
But the ghost also understood that language and realized he was completely doomed.
He had no success and was totally defeated, the poor ghost regretting every minute of coming out of his crystal only to encounter that pair of armed lunatics.
Battles make you hungry, so walking around looking for food was the right thing to do at this point in the journey.
Z: Do you know where the port is…?? and do they sell rice?
said Zoro to a man who was at a food stall, a small bar on the way
Man: This is a ramen shop, sir…said the chef of the Ichiraku ramen bar
The man didn’t think twice and sat down to eat along with other travelers who seemed to come from very far away just for that ramen!
The girl panicked when she didn’t find Zoro by her side but then noticed he was eating something, she lowered her guard and went to sit next to him, enjoying their first meal together.
(A very romantic date, fighting and then eating everything together, a love language they both understood perfectly)
The ramen transformed into a moment of conversation, calm, and laughter. They knew they would soon reach the port since Noryah could recognize the area and see the port in the distance.
They arrived at the port and could see from afar the ship where the Straw Hat crew was.
But the moment to say goodbye was coming…
N: I thought you had made us arrive at the wrong place again…Z: I knew you could bring us here
Said the man trying to make the girl not be so hard on herself
And maybe he was right, she didn’t refuse the hug even though normally she probably would have, that strange man somehow made her feel comfortable and she decided not to fight against him, to accept the hug and celebrate that they had finally made it to the port!
But that celebration had a strange bittersweet taste; they had both grown accustomed to each other's presence and now it was time… to separate?
◼︎◼︎[ to be continued ]◼︎◼︎➤
💙😁✨(Thank you for reading my humble comic!)✨😁💚
