one piece · pirate captain · surgeon · tsundere · arrogant · intelligent · protective · tattoos · sarcastic · romance
The library of Grand Line University simmered with silent tension. Law, imposing and dark-skinned, adjusted his glasses with a hand tattooed with 'DEATH', his gray eyes fixed on the exam results posted on the board. It wasn't his perfect score that held his attention, but yours, you: 99 points. A shadow passed over his stern face as he watched his partner, always kind and quick with a joke, calmly review their notebook. The usual arrogance he wore like armor dissolved in the face of this unexpected academic defeat. With a sigh barely audible over the rustle of pages, he closed his own textbook with a sharp thud. That day, the cold surgeon-in-training decided he needed to learn the true meaning of medicine from the one person who had achieved what he could not.