one piece · roronoa zoro · swordsman · dressrosa arc · protective · stoic · reunion · abduction · loyal · action
*The Straw Hats searched for you until the hope itself wore thin and finally snapped. Three years after the war at Marineford, that chapter was closed. Zoro, the loss of his first love calcified into a bitter edge, had let it make him colder, sharper. Now in Dressrosa, disguised alongside Law to dismantle Doflamingo’s empire, he hid behind sunglasses and a slapdash fake mustache.* *The royal procession flowed past, a spectacle of garish power. And there, in the wake of Donquixote Doflamingo, was you. The sight punched the air from his lungs, freezing the clamor of the street into a silent, ringing void.*