streamed down her cheeks. Zorro had no idea what to do. Yurikko stood next to Nami and took her in his arms. "Nami" she whispered, "You mustn't give up now."
With that she went on to free the others. Zorro took an unsteady step towards Nami, who was sitting on the floor and howling.She looked so desperate. Zorro felt so sorry for her. He doesn't know what he would do if he couldn't see. A little shyly, he wiped the tears from his navigator's cheek. He took her hand and pulled her to her feet.
Leaning on his shoulder, Nami let Zorro lead him.

Yurikko had freed the others. Sanji was bleeding heavily on his shoulder. Zorro asked Sanji to take care of Nami and stay downstairs. He himself wanted to sneak up onto the deck with Yurikko. A steep staircase led to the upper deck.
Zorro peeked around a corner and saw the others. The others had been hit harder, they were all chained to the wall by their hands. Zorro wanted to grab his swords out of habit, but then realized that they had been taken from him.
Yurikko gave him a condescending look. "Do you think they'll leave the famous Lorenor Zorro his three swords?"
Zorro looked at her angrily from the side. "But we have to help you" "No" Yurikko shook his head "We can't do anything now.If we untie her, that bad guy from the Navy will notice something and where should we go then? We can't just jump overboard. "" But we can fight, "said Zorro." How about without weapons, "Yurikko then remarked mockingly." Nami and Sanji are injured and ... "" ... you too "Zorro finished the sentence.
She glared at him, "You see ... so it doesn't work ... We have to think of something else."

"Well ... who do we have there?" Yurikko and Zorro were hit hard in the neck. The marine officer who caught her immediately locked her back in her cell.
"So ... I think it's time for a little explanation ..." Yurikko looked at the swordsman in astonishment ~ What did he mean? ~
"Well, you just explain to me what it was about the two women the other day and why you broke down."
Yurikko took a deep breath "Ok then I'll explain everything to you from the beginning"
She let herself slide down the wall and sat across from Zorro."Since you fought my father back then, he's been looking for an opponent who is your equal. I was damn angry because he wasn't thinking about his own daughter. I trained so hard. He thought that only a boy could take on you, he wanted you to get stronger because then you will eventually be able to defeat him.
So he was constantly looking for a suitable opponent for you ... "
Zorro snorted. As if he were a toddler. Yurikko ignored that and continued:

"I trained harder and harder and couldn't find rest. I couldn't even sleep anymore.
When I was little he always prophesied that one day I would be as strong as him. But the older I got, the less he trusted me and he criticized me at every opportunity.
Then at some point a young girl came to him and asked for a lesson. He laughed at her and sent her away. I felt sorry for her when he treated her like that.I went to her and offered her my help, because she had no parents or relatives to go to.
She told me that she had come here from the south on a pirate ship as a small child. She had heard from my father and wanted to learn to fight with the sword in order to be able to defend herself. That girl was Eva.

I was doggedly looking for an opportunity to prove my skills to my father and Eva was looking for a sunken city that she always talked about. On the pirate ship that she took with her when she was little, people always talked about a sunken city. Eva believed that it really existed and was determined to find it.
I decided to go with her and we stole my father's ship and sailed south ... "

Zorro suddenly understood why Yurikko had always defended Sanji when the others claimed that All Blue does not exist.
She also believed in legends and tales."At some point we got into a terrible storm and Eva was washed overboard. I didn't find her again. I was more sad than ever before ... I felt so abandoned and alone. I tried to look further on my own, but got caught by one Pirate gang attacked. They stole my ship and everything that goes with it. The leader of this gang was Yucca.
She threw me overboard and left with my ship.
I saw only water and not the slightest sign of an island or a ship. Just the sea. I almost drowned because I no longer had the strength to swim. Suddenly I saw a shadow under the water and suddenly I saw a gigantic tower rising out of the water - the sunken city.

With the last of my strength I swam to the tower and pulled myself up. There I sat and waited for a ship to pass. But none came. I was almost at the end when I saw the stars above me. I hadn't noticed that it was night.Then I saw more lights: a ship! It was a huge ship with black sails and it took me home.
When I woke up I was still on the roof of the tower. Then suddenly I understood: no ship would come and save me. I had to do it myself, so I pulled myself up and started swimming. I had to hold out somehow, I thought to myself. And then I felt new strength in me because I didn't want to give up now that I had come this far.
I made it and found a coast. I was so exhausted that I stayed on the beach until my father found me.
He sat down next to me and gave me a necklace with a green pendant: The Maccalania.

My father had changed since then. He no longer despised me. He told me I had managed to prove my strength and believe in myself.
But suddenly that was no longer so important to me. I lost my best friend. I withdrew and stared out to sea every day.Eva once told me that I should listen to the sea, because it always had an answer, if you could only hear correctly ... I listened but couldn't understand anything.
The next morning I saw that the sea had washed something on the beach and ran over to see what it was.
A girl of about fourteen was lying there in the water. It was Eva.

She was torn from our ship in the storm and almost drowned. At some point she was found by a ship with a cat's head depicted on its flag. The ship of Yucca and her gang of pirates. They had Eva
and let them work for them. At some point she managed to escape them.
Yucca and her gang had found out about the mysterious stone from somewhere. I didn't know then what it was all about. She has haunted me ever since.

Later I learned from Eva that the stone is something special. "She paused and Zorro looked at her expectantly" What is so special about the stone now? "He asked."Eva's life hangs on the stone. If Yucca got it, Eva would die."
“Huh?” Zorro still didn't understand. "It's like this: If you find the stone you get two lives. And she sacrificed one of her two lives for me. It was the night I lay on the tower and gazed at the stars. There was very little life in me and she knew it through the stone. As she gave me a life, Yucca, on whose ship Eva had to work, realized what kind of stone it was. She wanted it at all costs. Eva threw it into the sea. There found it mine Father, who knew what it was all about.
"So if Yucca got the stone now, Eva dies." Zorro looked at Yurikko, who suddenly looked very dejected and silently nodded her head.

A tear ran down her cheek. "It sucks" she sobbed "I wish she had let me die ..."
Zorro put an arm around her and stroked her hair.
"I'm ... I'm sorry ..." she said, wiping the tears from her eyes.We have to help Nami and the others first. I still have the stone ... "

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