One Piece
	 Volume 1 : Romance Dawn - The Dawn of the Adventure
	  Chapter 5
	   Pirate King and Master Swordsman

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Chapter 5 - Pirate King and Master Swordsman

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Luffy: Tell me already!!  Where is Zoro's sword?

Helmepp: I... I'll tell yough...!!  Jdust sdtop drakging me awound!!

Luffy: Out with it.

Helmepp: In my room.
	W... which we passed awhile ago.

Luffy: You should have told me earlier.  Now we have to go back.

Helmepp: Owwww, you hit me again!!

Marines: Don't move!!  Surrender quietly.

Luffy: No way.

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Helmepp: Huh?

Luffy: Just try to shoot me now!!

Helmepp: Gyaaaaaaaa!!

Marine: Wha...!!  He's using Helmepp-sama as a shield...!!

Helmepp: AAAAAAA
	AAAAAA!!

Coby: AAAAAAAAH!!!
	I'VE BEEN SHHHHHOT!
	(bluk bluk)
	BLOOD!!  I'M BLEEDING!!

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Coby: I'M GONNA DIIIE!!!

Zoro: You still alive...?
	Get out now.
	They're coming down.

Coby: Huhhh...  Gasp...!!  (hahh)(hahh)
	No!!  Hahh... I need to untie your ropes...!!

Zoro: I'm fine.  As long as I survive for a month, I'm out scot-free.
	Hurry up and...

Coby: You won't be spared!!
	You're going to be executed in three days!!

Zoro: What the hell are you talking about...?!  That idiot son PROMISED to set me free if I survived for a month...

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Coby: HE NEVER INTENDED TO KEEP THAT PROMISE FROM THE START!!  (hahh)(hahh)
	Luffy-san hit him to stick up for you...!!!
	You were here trying your hardest to survive honestly, and he was going to walk all over you!!

Zoro: Wha... what...?!!!

Coby: The Marines are your enemy now!!  (hahh)(hahh)
	Please!!  Once I untie your ropes, save Luffy-san!!
	I owe him my life!! I'm not telling you to become a pirate, but...
	I'm telling the truth when I say he is very strong!!  If you join with him,
	you can surely get out of this village!!  Please make your escape!!

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Marines: Stop right there!!  You two are traitors to Captain Morgan!
	YOU ARE NOW SENTENCED TO DEATH!!!

Luffy: This room, right?!
	Ah!
	There it is!!  A sword!!

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Luffy: Wait, there's three of 'em.
	Hey, which one's Zoro's?
	Whoa, he fainted.
	Huh?
	Something's happening at the execution grounds...
	Coby!

Morgan: Surround the base!!  Don't let that boy with the straw hat get away!!!
	Well, look at you clever little runts...
	Did you think you could pull off a coup de'tat between just the three of you?

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Morgan: Roronoa Zoro...  I have heard of your reputation, but don't assume I'm a pushover.
	Your strength is shit...
	Compared to my authority...!!!
	TAKE AIM!!

Zoro: {I...
	I can't die in a place like this...!!!
	There are still things I must do!!!}

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Zoro: {I made a promise...!!}

<<Kuina: Yaaahh!

<<Sensei: And the winner is Kuina!!  

<<Zoro: Damn...!!

<<Sensei: Zoro of the Two Swords has lost!!

<<Boys: This is Zoro's 2000th loss to Kuina, with no victories.
	Yikes.

<<Kuina: Hmph!!  How pathetic can you get?
	As weak as always...  And you call yourself a boy!!

<<Boys: Hey!!  Zoro isn't weak!!
	Yeah!!  He's the strongest in our dojo!
	He's even better than the adults!!

<<Kuina: Oh really.  But he's weaker than me.
	Two swords or not, a weakling is still a weakling!
	You losers should just be quiet.

<<Zoro: Shit!

<<Boys: I hate that damn Kuina!!  (Even if she IS cute)
	She really pisses me off!!  Thinks she's so cool, cause she's the dojo sensei's daughter.

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<<Sensei: You lost again.
	But Zoro, you're so strong!

<<Boys: Sensei!
	Sensei!!  You aren't telling any special secrets to your daughter, are you?!
	Stop cheating!!

<<Sensei: No, no, I'm not!

<<Zoro: Shit!!!
	Why can't I ever beat that stupid sissy girl?!!

<<Sensei: But Zoro, Kuina is a little older than you.

<<Zoro: I've beaten adults before!
	I WANT TO GROW UP TO BE THE STRONGEST SWORDSMAN ON THE SEA!!
	SO I CAN'T BE LOSING TO SOMEONE LIKE THAT NOW!!!

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<<Kuina: Yaaaah!
	Yaaaah!
	(hahh)(hahh)
	Zoro...

<<Zoro: KUINA!!  LET'S FIGHT WITH REAL SWORDS!!!
	I KNOW YOU'VE GOT ONE!!

<<Kuina: With me?
	All right.

<<Zoro: Here I go.

<<Kuina: Come on!!

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<<Zoro: Uwaahh!

<<Kuina: Yaaaah!
	My... 2001st victory.

<<Zoro: DAMMIT...!!!
	I CAN'T BELIEVE IT...!!!!

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<<Kuina: Actually... I'm the one who's most frustrated...

<<Zoro: Huh?!

<<Kuina: When a girl grows up, she becomes weaker than a man...
	You guys are going to pass me up soon...
	Just like you've always said, Zoro...
	You say you want to be the world's strongest swordsman.
	But even my Papa told me...  No woman can be the world's strongest anything...!!
	You're lucky you're a boy, Zoro.
	...I wish *I* could be the strongest in the world!!
	My chest is starting to grow out now...
	If only I'd been born as a boy...

<<Zoro: YOU CAN'T BE SUCH A CRYBABY AFTER YOU JUST BEAT ME!!
	THAT'S NOT FAIR!!  YOU'RE THE ONE I'M TRYING TO SURPASS!!!

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<<Kuina: Zoro...

<<Zoro: Boys this, girls that!!  You better not use that as a cop-out when I beat you, someday!!!
	It makes me look like an idiot for training my hardest everyday just to beat you!!  So don't talk like that!!!
	Let's make a promise!!!
	Someday, either you or I will be the world's strongest swordsman!!
	We'll race to see who can do it first!!!

<<Kuina: ...you idiot...!!
	You're such a weakling.
	IT'S A PROMISE.

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<<Someone: Zoro!!  Terrible news!!  It's Kuina!!
	She fell down the stairs at her house...
	SHE'S DEAD!!!

<<Zoro: Dammit!!  You made a promise with me yesterday!!
	Are you running away from that, Kuina?!!

<<Sensei: Zoro, stop that!!
	Humans... are so fragile, aren't they, Zoro...?

<<Zoro: Sensei!!  Give me her sword!!

<<Sensei: ...very well.  You may have it.

<<Zoro: I'LL GET STRONGER, FOR HER TOO!!!
	I'LL BECOME THE GREATEST SWORDSMAN IN THE WORLD, SO GREAT MY NAME WILL REACH HER UP IN HEAVEN!!!!

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Zoro: {I made a promise...!!!
	I can't die here...!!!!}

Luffy: Gomu Gomu...
	Rocket!!

Morgan: OPEN FIRE!!!

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Zoro: ...what the-?!!

Coby: Luffy-san!!!

Morgan: Straw Hat...

Luffy: (heee!)

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Luffy: THAT WON'T WORK!!!!

Marines: OAAAAAHHH!!!

Luffy: Nahahahaha!!!

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Zoro: What...?!!  What the hell ARE you?!!

Luffy: I'M GOING
	TO BE THE PIRATE KING!!!
	Here!  Which is one is your "treasure"?
	I didn't know so I brought three of them.

Zoro: All THREE of them are mine...
	My specialty is using THREE SWORDS...

Luffy: If you fight against the Marines with me, you'll be an enemy of the government.
	Or you can die here.  Which is it gonna be?

Zoro: You must be the son of the devil...  
	All right... If I'm going to die here otherwise, I might as well...
	BE A PIRATE!!!

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Marine Captain "Axe-Arm Morgan"
How He Came to Be!! 
Morgan: I am great.

* As I thought up Helmepp first, my initial thoughts on how to introduce his father were this: "His chin has to have a cleft, cause his son's does."
"His hair would have to be better than Helmepp's.  Cause he's his dad, of course."

* And this is what I came up with.  His name wasn't "Morgan," but "Chop."  "Marine Captain Chop!!"
But he was a sailor, so it was "Sailor Chop."  Ahhh, it was pretty easy-going naming.  Thankfully I didn't go through with this guy.

* There isn't enough space to show it, but I went through 2-3 other versions of his face until I settled on his final design.  The reason he ultimately ended up looking kinda cool
was because one of the editors said, "This looks really lame."  And I told him that I agreed.

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