royaliste:
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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.
“Save your strength. I’ll be fine. I’ve had worse wounds before. Just need to rest for a second.” He glanced down at the “knife” in his hand with a bit of annoyance and gave a roll of his eye. “You’ve got nothin’ to be sorry for. Was bound to happen eventually against these damn things. If I had my swords it’d be a different story. You alright?”














