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Zoro glanced at the longsword beside him. "Back when I was in the Dao Coffin, I was very weak and no match for him at all. But I'm different now. One of my purposes in setting sail is to find him, challenge him, and defeat him!"
Luffy grinned and said, "Hehehe, I want to defeat him too. We really are destined partners, Zoro."
"Don't suddenly hug me!"
Zoro angrily grabbed his head and pressed it down.
"Don't be so formal, we're partners in fate."
"Don't call me that!!!"
…………
A sea breeze blew by.
The bounty poster in Zoro's hand was blown away.
The wanted poster fluttered in the air.
Ron the Traveler: Leader of the Sky Calamity Travelers, user of the Float-Float Fruit, and a notorious criminal who attacked Mary Geoise and Marineford!
Bounty amount: 1.75 billion Berries.
Current status: Fate unknown.
Luffy and Zoro are currently unaware of the significance of 1.75 billion Berries, or what kind of power it represents.
The vastness of this sea is still unclear.
It's unclear what kind of powerful figure they're trying to defeat.
That's a height they can't reach at all right now.
…………
The Grand Line.
In a small island town called West Asia.
A tall, blind old man with short black hair, a mustache, and wearing a light purple kimono and wooden clogs walked through the town's streets, probing the way with a cane and a sword.
Several children were running towards us, chasing each other playfully. One of them tripped over a protruding brick on the cobblestone street and was about to fall to the ground.
The boy couldn't help but close his eyes.
But the pain I imagined didn't come.
A gentle voice sounded in his ear: "Are you alright?"
The boy opened his eyes and found a blind old man in a purple kimono standing in front of him, who supported him with his hands.
"Thank you, thank you!"
The boy, who had straightened up, glanced at his eyes, which revealed only the whites of his eyes, and at the "X"-shaped scar on the left side of his forehead that extended to his eyes. After thanking him, he quickly ran away.
The blind old man didn't mind and continued walking forward.
He arrived at a casino, touched the money in his pocket, and then went inside.
He soon came out again. As he passed a noodle shop, he smelled the tempting aroma of noodles. The penniless, blind old man gently scratched his face with his fingers.
"This is really a headache,"
"If only someone could treat this old man to a bowl of noodles right now, wouldn't you say, my friend who's always been following me around?"
The blind old man turned his head and faced one direction.
"Oh dear, so we've been discovered."
A soft laugh followed.
A tall, slender young man dressed in black slowly walked from the end of the street and stood in front of him.
……
Inside a noodle shop by the roadside.
With their eyes closed, the two, who appeared blind to outsiders, sat facing each other, eating buckwheat noodles.
While eating his noodles, the blind old man asked, "I am but a blind wanderer. You have been following me for two days. Is there something you need?"
"It's nothing, I just think you're a bit like the person I'm looking for."
The young man took a sip of his noodles.
"Oh?"
"Are you named Issho, the user of the Gravity Fruit?"
The blind old man was slightly taken aback upon hearing this, and then raised his head.
"It seems I was right, you are the person I've been looking for."
The young man chuckled.
"There are really not many people who can manipulate gravity."
His voice, accompanied by the satisfying slurping of noodles, reached the blind old man's ears.
The future Admiral Fujitora, now a blind ronin, the old man whose true identity is to smile, opened his eyes, which were filled with whites, and stared directly at the young man opposite him.
"who are you?"
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Ron, and I am a traveler."
174, The mountain standing in front of Zoro
"Ron... that name sounds familiar, like I've heard it somewhere before."
Yi Xiao pondered.
Ron took a sip of his noodle soup and said, "Ron the Traveler, does that name ring a bell?"
His smile faded slightly, his expression hardening.
"Do you remember now? It seems that being famous isn't all bad."
Ron laughed.
"What do you want with a notorious criminal wanted by the World Government and the Navy, a nobody like me, a blind man?"
Yi Xiao buried her head and ate a mouthful of noodles.
"It's offensive to me to always call someone blind."
The young man said helplessly.
Yixiao paused in her chopsticks and looked up with a puzzled expression.
What does this mean?
At this moment, someone sitting nearby whispered, "Look over there, an old man and a young man, both of them are blind."
"Seriously, two blind people eating noodles together, that's really hilarious."
"Will those two really be able to pay the bill? They'll definitely get ripped off."
"Let's take a look later."
……
The conversation that the two thought they were whispering could be heard perfectly clearly by Ron and Yixiao.
"Why has the renowned traveler Ron become blind like me?"
Yi Xiao asked Ron.
"This is not a problem for me. I will be able to open my eyes again in a while."
"I'd like to ask you what's wrong with your eyes?"
Ron took a bite of noodles and asked, "Did someone else do it, or did you do it yourself?"
He smiled, remained silent for a moment, and then said sadly, "Myself."
"why?"
"There are so many filthy and despicable people in the world that it is unbearable to look at them; it is a blessing to not look at them."
"Is this your so-called benevolence? Or is it just an escape?"
Ron smiled.
Yixiao didn't say anything more, buried her head in her noodles, and quickly finished the whole bowl.
"Thank you, sir."
After smiling, she put down the bowl, stood up, picked up the cane and knife next to her, and walked outside.
Ron smiled, tossed a gold coin onto the table, and then left the noodle shop.
on the street.
Ron, dressed in black, strolled leisurely behind Yi Xiao.
"How much longer will you be following me?"