Translation
Wenn die Vergangenheit einen einholt (Teil 10)
When the past catches up with you (part 10)
Hello Hello!!
Fake! Well, you shouldn't overdo it, but I've already made 10 parts!
Hm ... the best thing to do is to start!
"Water-Insert-Sword !!" Ann yelled, clasping her hands. Then she spread her arms. Every inch that separated their palms exposed part of the sword that formed between them. Finally it was complete and she took it in her right hand.
"You don't impress me with your cheap card tricks!", Luffy said simply and jumped forward. "Gum-Gum-Kalashnikov !!" However, before he could hit, Ann pointed at Luffy with the tip of the sword, which caused his blow, which was intended for her, to ricochet off the tip and cut his hand.
"Aiaiaiaiai !!!", Luffy yelled and ran back and forth.
"Please be serious !!"
"I am!" He replied. "Well, then ... Gum-Gum-Bazooka!" But this attack was of no use either. Luffy didn't even touch the sword and still the bazooka ricocheted off and he got cuts again. "Aiaiaiaiai !!"he shouted again, but this time he stopped." I didn't even touch that stupid thing! ", he grumbled and Ann just smiled nastily and triumphantly.
"That's because of my barrier. As soon as I use this sword, a barrier forms that protects me from any attack. Five years ago, however, that wasn't the case ..."
"Huh?"
"Okay, I'll explain it to you. You're dying anyway. Five years ago, everything was different ..."
"Ann was in the same sword fighting school as me at the time. We were kind of like competitors. She was pretty weak. I won every fight that had taken place between us. But she did not let herself get down.
Kuina was long dead by the time. Ann tried to hold a candle to her, to outdo her. I told her that she would never hit Kuina. Not as long as she couldn't even beat me. "Zorro had long since put down the binoculars and was now staring at the sea.
Akiko swallowed and looked at him sideways.If she was being honest with herself, she had to admit that she hated it when he talked about Kuina. I don't know why, it just happened that way. And that Ann now also played a role in his life was all the worse. Akiko suddenly felt so unimportant. So not present. She looked at her hands, which were gripping the railing tightly. So tight that the knuckles were already white.
"And next?" She asked him.
"Then ... then when I wanted to go to sea, because ..."
"I knew then that it would probably be my last chance to tell him." Ann and Luffy had meanwhile sat down. She had put her sword aside and folded her hands. Luffy listened intently.
"Go on!"
"It's good! I don't know why I'm telling you this anyway."
"Zorro never said anything about it!"
"I'm not surprised," said Ann, looking to the side. "When I think about it today it was absolutely absurd. Anyway, it was the day Lorenor wanted to go to sea.He wanted to find and defeat Mihawk Dulacre Hawkeye. I was seventeen that day. I don't know which ten horses drove me to do it, but I realized that if he went, I would be missing something. Something important. Lorenor didn't want to say goodbye to the others, in his opinion that was wasted time. But I didn't want to let him go like that. That's why I ran after him and found him just before he could run away. We fought with each other for three years, we were competitors. For me even more than that. I wanted to say goodbye to him. I finally wanted to tell him. Actually, I would never have dared, but I told him that I fell in love with him. "
“I thought something was wrong with my ears. But it was true. Even when I was surprised, I turned around and said to her, 'Sorry, but it's not mutual!Take care!' and went I think I hurt her pretty badly. But that was just the real truth! I went out and over time I forgot about it! "
"But I didn't forget him. I heard a lot about him, pirate hunters, swordsmen ... Not long after he left, I went to sea too, founded my own pirate gang and worked my way up. It was tough but it was worth it. I was angry. I was so angry that he just turned me away and left. Away, far away. From then on I had only one goal: to kill him! When I found out that a pirate hunter was in the area, I knew that Zorro had to be there too. Without further ado, I 'invited' her to my place. I told her that she had to come in if she didn't want her friends to die. Akiko saw it, got in. I hadn't planned to kill Zorro and the other two clowns yet .. I gave her a distinguishing feature, a nice little tattoo on her left shoulder, which she still wears today.I fooled her into thinking that she'd become the eighth of the seven samurai. I think she never believed this. Yes, I remember how she resisted it. But since she didn't want me to kill the three ... Akiko broke away from them. I made a small gang of pirates available to her. Well, I guess you know the rest. You should have seen her face when I gave her the order to kill Zorro. She was angry and wanted to stand up. I countered her that otherwise eight hundred men from her village would die, all of them. Well, in the end, I had done that before. As you can see, my plan didn't work out. Didn't work. You and Zorro are still alive after all. "Ann took her sword in her hand and stood up." Can we go on now? I don't have forever. "Luffy got up too.
"Sure, I'm hungry and I want to get something between my teeth.Let's go!"
"Then I'll show you one of my special attacks."
"If it has to be!"
"Indeed! Four-Elements-Slash!" Luffy braced himself for one of the worst attacks there was, but instead nothing happened. The sword that Ann held in her hand glowed briefly in the color turquoise, nothing more.
"Was that ... everything?" Luffy asked, puzzled, scratching her head. "What's that special attack about that?"
"That's just it: it has already taken place!"
"Huh? How now?" She laughed softly.
"In your body! I called the four elements. Fire, water, earth and air. And these four together form a very nice mess. In other words, they slowly eat away at you from the inside. Slowly and painfully (* yummy ne? *)." You have had your day! "And suddenly Luffy realized what she was talking about. A sharp pain in his chest went through him, which made him collapse. "Has my little attack bothered you so much that you get on your knees in front of me?I expected more from you! ", she scoffed and laughed out loud. Luffy straightened up again.
"You won't get me that easy! I now know how I can defeat you!" Ann shrank back a little.
"Those are completely new tones," she said, still in the same provocative tone. "And how?!"
"You will see!" He replied and grinned. All the color had drained from Ann's face. “And hops!” Luffy sprinted forward and tried to grab Ann's sword, but she pulled it away in time before he could get his hands on it. But then he jumped off the floor, over her, now stood behind her and easily took it from her. She spun around and her eyes played with fear.
"You can't handle the sword anyway, so it's no use to you!", She said and tried to calm herself down. He didn't know how to use the special attacks, lucky, and so it can't possibly be beaten!But he didn't want that at all.
“Who says I have to deal with this?” Luffy took it in both hands and broke it apart. The two parts fell to the floor with a clatter. He turned around.
Ann stared at him in disbelief, then fell to her knees.
"Why ... why don't you kill me?" She asked him. "I tried to kill you and your friends, and you ..."
"Defeat hurts more than death," he replied. "You should know that as a pirate! And besides ..."
"And you should never turn your back on you!", She said suddenly and wanted to attack again, but Luffy gave her a gum-gum pistol, so that she was thrown into the nearest corner of the ship and remained there for good.
"And besides, you should start all over again!", He finished his sentence.
Victory for Luffy! (* Wasn't to be expected otherwise *)
Luffy stood at the rail and waved to the Flying Lamb. "Hey, we can go on !!" he shouted, extending his arms and holding onto the next best thing on the Fling Lamb.That 'next best thing' was poor chopper. Screaming, he clung to Zorro, breaking the silence that had reigned on board and trying not to be pulled away (* it's just a little easy our little one *).
"Would you let go ?!", Zorro snapped at him, but he couldn't get any further because Luffy flew with a "Juhuuuu !!!" straight to the crew. A few seconds later there was a big crash, followed closely by the wail.
“Did that have to be ?!” Nami straightened up. "Can't you move like any normal person?"
"Forget it! As long as Luffy lives that won't happen!" Zorro grumbled and stood up.
"I was still missing! Right on my wounds. Ouch!" Akiko wailed and screwed up her eyes in pain.
"Wait, I'll help you!", It came from two and instantly she was on her feet. Akiko looked to her left, where Zorro was and had grabbed her arm, and to her right, where Sanji was and was holding her right arm."Hey, did she ask you to help her?" Zorro snapped at Sanji.
"Are you playing bodyguard or what?" He replied. Both looked at each other with venomous looks. Akiko, who was rather uncomfortable with the situation she found herself in, broke away from both of them and deftly moved away from the two boys without them noticing.
"Like the little children!", She said to Nami, who had got up again and was watching the scene skeptically. "They never change."
"Hardly!" Akiko agreed with a smile. Nami thought for a moment and then grinned nastily.
"Akiko?"
"Y-yes?"
"I think you should break these two fighters apart ?!" Akiko looked at Nami questioningly. "You have such a big effect on both of them?", She explained and winked at her. The addressed blushed a little bit.
Well, trying doesn't hurt! thought Akiko. Maybe Nami is right. Let's go!
She went to Sanji and Zorro, who were having another fight."Boys?" Immediately the two looked at her. 100 points! it shot through her head. You can be really cute! "Would you maybe stop? I was so happy that we can do