Lorenor Zorro was a very serious opponent, almost everyone knew that! He was feared by everyone, in the days when he was still a bounty hunter, every middle-class pirate had only one wish never to fall into this guy's clutches ...

When he went out as a pirate to find the One Piece and freed one city after another from the tyranny of their evil rulers, it was also clear to the last one that this guy was very successful in everything he did.

Outwardly he looked hard, his gaze was penetrating and his muscular body made men tremble and women's hearts beat faster.

But despite these facts he never had a woman by his side, and nobody knew what it looked like inside him, only a few knew that Zorro was actually anything but the tough guy he always played so well. A heart beat in his chest so wounded and deeply wounded it would have brought tears to the eyes of even the greatest enemy.

Zorro had had many injuries, some so bad that he almost died from them, but none of this was compared to what he had endured the last few years.In his childhood he had a girlfriend, her name was Kuina and for him she was the most beautiful girl in the world, even if she was 4 years older, they did everything together and vowed to never let this friendship break.

But one day she fell down the stairs and died as a result. He couldn't get over it and suppressed his pain by training, he trained to fulfill Kuina's wish one day to become the best swordsman in the world.

Therefore no one was allowed to experience what it really looked like inside him, how much suffering he felt and how much he would have loved to have cried and given up everything.

But he wasn't like that, he was a fighter, with a strong will and he wanted to prove that to humanity.

One day, however, he met a girl who was neither particularly beautiful nor particularly clever, but she reminded him so strongly of the late Kuina that her facade began to tear down.These new feelings, it wasn't even real love but more confusion, sparked such a hatred of this girl from the Navy, by the name of Tashigi, that he kept vowing to kill her if she approached him armed.

He swore to himself every time, but in the end he couldn't do it, maybe it was because it was harder for him to kill women, maybe it was also because Tashgi made a monkey out of himself every time she fought against Zorro that it was just too stupid for him to kill someone who was not up to him, but it was probably just because every time he looked into her face he saw Kuina's face and then tore his heart a little more apart.

But Zorro just couldn't go on living like this, the days on the Flying Lamb passed very slowly and nothing had happened for weeks.

He and Sanji usually had arguments and got tired of hearing the same arguments every day.Therefore, Zorro decided to leave the ship in a night and fog action to visit Tashgi and finally get his pain out of the world.

All he had left his crew was a note saying where he would meet them when he was done.

He knew where Tashgi was and so he waited day after day that there was finally a chance to meet her alone.

3 days later he ambushed the brunette woman when she was about to go home. She was amazed to see him, it didn't seem as if chance had driven him here.

She stared at him with wide eyes, his face so full of hatred and pain, an expression like she had never seen him on the swordsman's face.

His arms were trembling with anger and beads of sweat ran down his forehead.

He drew his sword and looked at her urgently, without another word he went up to her and struck, she could only avoid the targeted blow by a hair's breadth and only now did she notice how serious the situation was, she too drew her sword and countered his precise strokes as well as possible.She didn't understand what it was all about, he didn't say a word, you could only hear his fast breathing and the clashing swords.

Tashgi was getting more exhausted from minute to minute and could hardly stand on his feet, Zorro on the other hand only seemed angrier, he fought and fought and shortly before he could meet Tashgi, he suddenly fell to the ground.

The young woman didn't know what had happened, she was confused, why had Lorenor Zorro attacked her so suddenly, but above all why was he now lying in front of her and not moving anymore?

The question answered itself as she got closer to him and saw the bullet hole in his chest.

She looked around in fear, who could it have been? Was it someone who wanted to protect you? If so, why didn't this someone show up?

She leaned down to Zorro and looked into his eyes, which flashed weakly: "Why did you want to kill me, Lorenor Zorro ?!"

He stayed still, couldn't meet her gaze, and closed his eyes.Tashgi didn't know what to do, he had just wanted to kill her, but now that he was lying in front of her and struggling with death, it tore her heart apart.

From the first second she fell in love with the swordsman. Back when she met him in Loque Town and had to choose swords for him.

But he hadn't liked her from the first second, or at least that was how it seemed. The fact that she was in the Navy only added to this and turned them into enemies.

Tashgi thought it was her duty to fight against him, she took her job far too seriously for that, but how often had she lay in her bed at night and wished he would long for her hugs as much as she longed for his.

She couldn't let him die so easily, she would never be able to forgive herself. She ran into the building of the naval headquarters and ordered some of her subordinates to carry Zorro to their apartment, there she would call a doctor, in the hospital he could be discovered too easily, then it would be child's play to catch the man and his 60.000 Berry bounty.

Zorro slowly came to and felt the hellish pain all over his chest, it was almost as if his chest was bursting.

He didn't know where he was, he only vaguely recognized that 2 people were sitting next to the bed, the room he was in was small and it smelled a little like disinfectant.

Tashgi looked at Zorro, he was lying on the bed in which she usually slept, he had a high fever and was sweating profusely, but even more than the fever, she and the doctor who examined him worried the bullet hole in his chest!

He looked her in the eye and looked very serious: "You definitely have your reasons why you don't want to take him to a hospital, but you have to know one thing, although I removed the bullet, you can tell exactly whether vital organs have been hit , I could only if I examined him properly, but that doesn't work here ... I'll get the fever away, so whether he gets through is entirely up to his will to live and how severe the internal injuries are.I hope with all my heart that the lung has not been hit, but as bad as his condition is at the moment, I wouldn't rule it out! "

Tashigi nodded: "Doctor, I know if he could talk he would choose that, he is a fighter and he will not give up! He has never done that before ..."

She lowered her gaze and a tear fell from her eye, on the bedspread that the doctor had put on Zorro after he was finished.

The doctor sympathetically put his hand on Tashigi's: "I'll come by again tomorrow, his condition should improve a little because he is being given the anti-fever medication, but if he worsens, please let me know immediately! "

"I will, thank you very much!"

Then she was alone with Zorro, she took care of him touchingly, changed his bandages and gave him a drink. The fever remained as high as it had been at the beginning and he didn't really notice anything.

She was so afraid for him, why did she have to fall in love with someone like him?She stayed by his bed all night, she was almost paralyzed with tiredness, but she didn't want to leave him alone.

Suddenly she heard him talking in his sleep: "Kuina, don't leave me, I love you so much, don't leave me alone!"

His voice sounded like he was crying, it was so dark that she couldn't see it. Oh how her heart ached! He had to torment himself terribly, not only because of the pain he already had ... No, there was still something! Who was Kuina and what happened to her?

She felt his forehead and lit a candle to put a new envelope on his forehead.

She leaned forward and looked at him for a long time, then kissed him on the heated cheek and carefully stroked his tender, full lips ...

Then he opened his eyes and stared at her, first a little horrified, then his face relaxed and he even smiled: "Kuina, you're finally here, I've missed you so much!" "But Zorro, it's me, Tashigi !"But Zorro didn't hear anymore, he had stepped away again, but his face was no longer so contorted with pain, he even looked a little happy!

It had to do with this Kuina! Did he really think she was her? Maybe that's why he didn't like her, maybe this Kuina had once been abandoned and now had a hatred of all women who looked like her!

How wrong she was!

In the end Tashigi fell asleep after all, and the first rays of sunshine of the new morning woke her. Immediately she saw how Zorro was, he slept very calmly and wasn't so hot anymore. She changed the envelopes again, covered him up again and took a short walk around the block, she first had to process everything that had happened in the last 12 hours.

The sun shone gently down on her and the cool wind blew around her ears, when she thought of Zorro, who was lying up there in her apartment, she got butterflies in her stomach, but when she considered under what circumstances he had come to her and as he was now, the butterflies turned into needles that pricked her heart ... Why did love have to be so complicated and painful?On the way back to her apartment she met the doctor who was also on the way to her, he looked at her worriedly what surprised Tashigi: "Good morning Doc!" "Good morning! How is the swordsman ?!" " Better, the fever has dropped considerably, he had a very high fever all night,