One Piece: The Cryo Doctor on the Straw Hat Ship

Hawkeye frowned in confusion:

"With your movement skills, you shouldn't have been able to get a fatal blow from me, right?"

Why avoid it?

Zoro grinned, and blood seeped from between his teeth.

The excruciating pain of the cross-shaped knife piercing his chest burned through his nerves like flames, but his eyes were sharper than the blade, burning with an almost insane determination.

"I promised my comrades I would fight to the very last moment!"

Before he finished speaking, Zoro's body suddenly moved.

—It's not about backing down, but about facing the knife that's deeply embedded in your heart and shoving your chest hard against the hilt!

puff!

Blood gushed out like a fountain, staining the tattered clothes and Hawkeye's hand gripping the hilt of his knife.

Hawkeye's golden pupils suddenly contracted.

Even he rarely saw such a crazy gambler.

Risking their lives just to close the gap, just to gain a fleeting, perhaps non-existent, opening!

"Successful!"

Pain, like a raging fire, burned away the shackles of reason, leaving only the most primal, savage desire for victory.

Just as Hawkeye was momentarily stunned by this crazy act, Zoro swung his arms!

Two longswords tore through the air, carrying the resolute determination of their master who was willing to risk his life, and crossed to slash at Hawkeye's head from the left and right!

Before the blade even arrived, a chilling killing intent already enveloped Hawkeye.

This attack was completely chaotic, devoid of any aesthetic appeal, and even carried a sense of suicidal devastation.

But at this moment, it was incredibly fast and terrifyingly ruthless!

"Zoro!"

On the deck of Baratie, Luffy, Nami, Usopp, and even the chefs who were watching the spectacle... everyone couldn't help but shout out loud.

however--

Just as the two blades were about to touch Hawkeye's hair.

Time seemed to have been paused by some invisible force.

"amazing."

Hawkeye's deep voice rang out, calm yet carrying an indescribable, almost solemn admiration.

He gripped the wrist of the cross-shaped knife and, with an extremely slight yet incredibly fast movement, lifted it upwards beyond the limits of everyone's vision.

puff!

The dagger was pulled from Zoro's chest, leaving a trail of vivid, tragic blood.

Immediately afterwards, the blood-stained knife drew a simple, unadorned arc in the air, yet it seemed to contain some profound truth of the universe.

He simply swung his sword lightly upwards, at the twin blades Zoro was swinging at him.

Om-!

There was no deafening explosion, only a barely audible soft sound as if the air was being smoothly cut.

An invisible slash spread out like ripples on the surface of water.

The strike was so pure and so refined that it seemed not to have been emanated from the blade, but rather from the very concept of "slashing."

It swept past the twin swords in Zoro's hand.

Click!Click!

Two crisp sounds, like the snapping of dry branches, rang out almost simultaneously.

In Zoro's astonished gaze, reflected in his pupils still burning with fighting spirit...

Two finely crafted longswords were smoothly split in two from the center!

The broken edge was as smooth as a mirror, reflecting the shimmering light of the sea.

The sea breeze seemed to stand still at that moment.

The only sounds in the world were the gurgling of blood from Zoro's chest wound and his suddenly widened pupils, filled with disbelief and extreme resentment.

Chapter 32 Off-field Rescue, Round Two!

"Zoro!!!"

Luffy's roar, like that of a wounded beast, echoed throughout the entire sea.

Seeing the blood flowing from Zoro's wounds, the others were also shocked.

Usopp even pulled out first-aid supplies from his bag, ready to go and rescue Zoro.

However, at this moment...

"Don't rush!"

V, who had been silent all along, broke through the frozen air with his voice, which reached everyone's ears precisely.

Before the words were finished, a silver light mixed with white shot out from the direction of the Baratie Restaurant!

When it came up behind Zoro, everyone could see clearly that it was actually a hand wearing a white glove.

In his palm, he also carried a strange blue light potion jar.

Meanwhile, on the Barratier deck, beside V, the space rippled gently like water.

Bucky the Clown, now "shattered," appears silently.

His signature red nose twitched, and his face showed a hint of reluctance.

Thanks to V's reasoned and empathetic communication, Bucky has now officially become V's "partner".

V and Bucky made a three-year agreement.

For the past three years, he has followed V's orders.

Three years later, V set him free.

At the same time, Bucky can also obtain an invincible high-level prosthetic body from V.

No matter how convenient the puppet program is, it can never replace Bucky's unique personality.

For V, Bucky, who possesses consciousness, is far more useful than a controllable assembly robot.

This is a win-win collaboration.

Puff-!

The potion pierced Zoro's heart with pinpoint accuracy, triggering the mechanism.

Cyber ​​Specialty: Fuerkang Type 2.

Effects: Contains nano-repair robots, synthetic stem cell factors, and metabolic accelerators, making it a battlefield-level "life restart agent" for immediate emergency treatment of massive bleeding, shock, and organ arrest.

Priced at 150 trading points per unit.

For V, which currently only has a reserve of just over 7000 trading points, this is undoubtedly a luxurious luxury.

But—it's worth the sacrifice to make Zoro stronger.

The moment the potion was injected, Zoro was jolted!

The wound in his chest, pierced by the Eagle Eye knife, stopped gushing blood at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Uh……!"

Zoro grunted, his previously unfocused gaze refocusing.

He looked down at his chest—the wound was still there, but the bleeding had stopped, and he could even feel the muscles twitching and healing slightly.

"This...this is...?"

Hawkeye's golden pupils narrowed slightly.

He didn't intend to kill Zoro, so he deliberately avoided fatal areas during the attack.

In fact, if Zoro hadn't gone mad, he wouldn't have been so badly injured.

Nevertheless, the fact that a single dose of medicine could restore the injury to this extent is beyond imagination.

Such power is rare even in the New World.

"I'm sorry, but my partner doesn't seem to want this battle to end."

You probably won't mind, will you?

Zoro grinned, staggered to his feet, blood seeping from between his teeth, yet his laughter was incredibly arrogant.

As the drug took effect, the fighting spirit in his eyes returned.

Hawkeye's gaze passed over Zoro's shoulder and landed on the figure of the mechanical-armed man on the Baratie deck.

The blue prosthetic eye reflected a cold gleam in the sunlight.

Even though V never harbored any intention to belittle the world.

But the arrogance unique to time travelers was still fully captured by Hawkeye at this moment.

Hawkeye's pupils focused slightly.

He slowly withdrew the cross-shaped knife, the blood at its tip congealing and dripping in the sea breeze.

"Your partner... is no ordinary person."

He slowly withdrew the cross-shaped knife, the blood at its tip congealing and dripping in the sea breeze.

"But injuries healed by external forces can never bridge the gap in strength."

"I know."

Zoro gripped the Wado Ichimonji tightly—his only remaining sword.