Chapter 24 - Mafia

"Err... I won't sell this sword to you no matter what" Zoro stated as he sighed.

While Zoro and the owner were bickering, Kaito sneaked up behind Zoro as he secretly sticks a note at his back while Tashigi got close to the counter.

"Isn't this... this is Wado Ichimonyi sword, right?" Tashigi asked in excitement.

As the three were talking about swords, Kaito picked up several cheap blades that he could turn into cards later.

"What are you doing here?" Zoro questioned behind Kaito as he saw him.

"I told you before... I needed to buy some weapons and I just happen to come here" Kaito answered as he turned to looked back at him.

Zoro just shrugged off as he scoured around for swords that he could use as he tried them all out.

"You have three swords just like one of the pirate hunters" Tashigi stated as she came in from behind them.

"Oh? who might these pirate hunter be?" Kaito asked sarcastically as he secretly glanced at Zoro.

"Don't you know him? It's a man named Roronoa" Tashigi answered.

"Ah... I remember now, I heard that he's a very evil person and he eats children" Kaito stated as he acted like he was scared.

Tashigi and Kaito started bashing this guy named 'Roronoa' while Zoro popped multiple veins in his head as he listened to them.

Tashigi talked about how most of the famous swordsman are mostly either pirate or bounty hunter as she lamented about how bad people have become stronger these days.

"Everyone has his own reason for living, right?" Zoro commented as he looked at Tashigi while glaring at Kaito.

Kaito chuckled as he walked away at them and took the blades to the counter.

"This is too many blades for just one man" the shop owner stated as he narrowed his eyes at him.

"There are some questions that you shouldn't ask, old man" Kaito said as he smiled coldly at him.

The shop owner shivered and sweated as he saw his cold eyes looking at him, he counted all the blades immediately as he gave him the total cost amount for all of them.

Kaito paid for it as he exited the weapon shop silently as he glanced one last time at Zoro's back which still have the note and smiled mischievously as he walked away.

'Hmmm... now what?' Kaito thought as he wondered what to do next.

Kaito decided to explore the city as he wandered around places to places and tried all kinds of snacks.

Clang~ Slash~ Bang~

Kaito suddenly heard noises of fighting at a dark alley as he walked towards it in curiosity.

...

"Kill them!" a man in suit shouted.

"Kill their Leader and we can have all his territory!" a tall bald man in suit with gold chains on his neck stated.

Two groups of people clashed as they fought together with the intent to kill at each other.

...

'This looks like a mafia war... interesting' Kaito thought as he found something fun to do.

"Should I spice things up?" Kaito asked himself as he smiled evily.

Kaito was thinking whether to interfere or not when he saw a scene that changed his mind.

There he saw a tall man with a light green-colored hair in a mohawk style who seems to be the leader of the other group, jumped in to save one of his member as in that process he got hurt for it.

While the leader of the other gang with a bald head sacrificed his members to avoid getting hurt as he maniacally laughed.

The moment the arrogant prick of a leader saw that the green hair man got hurt, he used that chance to aim his gun at him.

As the gun was about to be fired, multiple cards fell as it rained down on the bald man and the others which made some members knocked out.

"Everyone retreat!" the bald man ordered immediately as he looked terrified and ran away first before the others could.

'Tch... coward' Kaito mocked him as he saw him escape first and used the others as shield for him to get away safely.

As Kaito was contemplating whether to chase the bald man, he felt someone staring at him as he looked toward it.

Kaito saw as the green haired man nodded which Kaito interpreted as thanks as he nodded back in response and walked away.

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"Are you okay, Bartolomeo-sama?" a slim man with headband and sunglasses on asked him worriedly.

"I'm fine, Gambia" Bartolomeo answered as he stood up and shrugged off at his injuries.

Bartolomeo and his members started cleaning up the surroundings in case the marines comes in and arrest them.

"I wonder who was that, Bartolomeo-sama?" Gambia asked in curiosity.

Bartolomeo stayed silent as he looked back at where that man was that helped them.

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Kaito wandered around for a while before deciding to meet up with the others.

"Hah~ I guess there's nothing interesting going on anymore" Kaito commented with a dejected sigh.

He initially wanted to have some fun with that mafia gang war going but after seeing that the green hair leader wasn't that bad of a person, he lost his interest on it and decided to help him instead.

"Hmmm... I remember Luffy saying he'll go to the execution platform, the others will probably go there to meet up" Kaito muttered to himself as he started to walked in the direction of the execution platform.

"I hope Luffy didn't get himself in trouble... but knowing his personality he probably will" Kaito sighed and stated as he started to slowly increase his pace.