Kathmandu Time
Coby has a dream of becoming a Marine/Navy officer. He tells Luffy about a scary bounty hunter being held by the marines named "Rononoa Zolo," the demon" with a sword who kills mercilessly. Luffy decides he's going to recruit Zolo, to Coby's horror, but they continue to make their way to the Navy base.
Coby thinks that Zolo would be in the holding pens underneath the base, but Zolo is outside, tied to a post, roasting in the sun. Zolo sees Luffy and Coby and tells them to piss off, fully aware than anyone caught helping him will be put to death. Oblivious to the danger, however, is a little girl (Rika) who sneaks down into the courtyard and tries to give Zolo some onigiri (rice balls) she had made herself. She's caught by Helmeppo, the commander's son, who steals her onigiri and grosses out, since she made them with sugar and not salt. He has Rika literally thrown up and out of the courtyard, her onigiri squished into the dirt by Helmeppo's foot.
Luffy manages to catch Rika and then scrambles over to chit chat with Zolo. Zolo tells him to piss off again, and Luffy ignores him, asking him to join his crew. Zolo ignores him, and asks Luffy to give him the onigiri. Luffy does, reluctantly, since it is more mud than food, but Zolo eats it. Zolo tells him to piss off because he just has to survive the month and he'll go free. Luffy demands that Zolo join his crew, and Zolo gets pissed and tells him he will never be a filthy pirate.
Confused, but determined, Luffy and Coby find out that Zolo is being imprisoned for saving Rika's life. Helmeppo, the jerk, was walking his wolf when it tried to attack and kill Rika. Zolo intervened and killed the wolf, scaring Helmeppo. Helmeppo threatened to have Rika and her mother killed for Zolo's insubordination, so Zolo bargained for their lives. While Rika is telling Luffy and Coby this tale, Helmeppo is eating dinner at Rika's restaurant. They over hear Helmeppo plotting to kill Zolo the next day. Enraged by the deception, Luffy punches the CRAP out of Helmeppo, making him cry like a 4-y/o girl with a skinned knee.
Luffy and Coby rush back to Zolo, Luffy making it first and Luffy tells Zolo he's going to be a crew member. Zolo screams for Luffy not to make decisions on his own, but Luffy just nods and says, "If I get your sword back will you join?" Zolo doesn't precisely say yes, but Luffy takes it as yes, and decides to look for the sword. Zolo yells at him that there's no way that Luffy could get in and survive the encounter with the marines. Luffy ignores him, saying "Yoshi" and wanders off to find Zolo's sword, which Helmeppo had taken.
Meanwhile, Major Morgan is having a statue of himself erected on top of the base. He kills one his men for questioning him, and tells the whining Helmeppo that he had never hit him because he wasn't worth hitting (ouch...). He's about to kill a careless marine who accidentally bumped the statue against the wall, when Luffy comes flying over the base.
In trying to get into the base, Luffy overshoots (as usual) and hits the commander's newly completed statue, which he accidentally breaks in half.
In the commotion and horror, Luffy steals Helmeppo and runs, while Major Morgan screams bloody murder, sees someone ELSE in the courtyard aside from Zolo, decides it a rebellion, and orders his marines to kill them all. Coby has snuck into the courtyard to try and free Zolo, but Zolo tries to stop him. Coby tells him what he and Luffy heard and how Luffy had punched Helmeppo, while the crying Coby begs Zolo to help Luffy because Luffy is strong, but with Zolo he'd be even stronger.
He tells Zolo he doesn't want him to be a pirate, but that Luffy saved his life, and that Luffy wants to be the Pirate King no matter what. Anguish and anger appear to collide in Zolo while he digests these facts. While still trying to untie Zolo, Coby doesn't notice the slew of marines that have gathered and are getting ready to shoot both he AND Zolo.
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