but when I woke up this morning he wasn't that hot anymore! "

The doctor looked as if a stone had fallen from his heart, he put his hand on her shoulder: "My dear, I'm really very relieved, but also amazed. I didn't mean to tell you both like that, but I had when I saw you yesterday didn't leave hope that he would even survive the night! Something must have given him new hope! "They came to the bed where Zorro was lying.

Tashigi whispered, “What do you think? Will he make it?” “If it's really like they say he has such a strong will, then the chances are very good! I've never seen anyone go through febrile alone survived at such an extremely high temperature without going to the hospital!However, if he is responsive again and can walk reasonably, he should definitely come to my practice so that I can examine his lungs! "

"Okay doctor, I'll tell him!" "I'll leave him something for the pain, everything else will tell!"

He left the two of them alone again. So now Tashigi had no choice but to sit next to him and wait until he woke up. How would he react when he saw her, would he be grateful or hate her? She was so afraid of the answer!

The longer she just sat around and waited for something to happen, the stranger the whole situation seemed to her.

Just 24 hours ago she was doing her normal job in the Navy, sometimes hiring a few pirates, but spending most of the time doing boring office work and now she was sitting with one of the most famous and dangerous swordsmen in the world who any normal person would have died leave alone to collect the gigantic sum that was outstanding on his head.Most of all, as a member of the Navy. And yet she let it go because she had to fall in love with him, of all people. Why him? Why did he just have to look so good and why was he so perfect with swords? Her gaze fell on his Wado-Ichi-Monji (???) that she had placed next to the bed.

She went very close to him, stroked his cheek with the back of her hand and looked at him with tears in her eyes: "Oh Zorro, if you only knew how much I love you! Why do you have to hate me so much? Why would you you just kill me? How can your hatred be so infinite that you go ashore to find me ?? "

The tears ran down her cheek and she couldn't stop, she had never loved so much ...

Zorro slowly opened his eyes, he only heard a sob and couldn't remember anything, he straightened up a little, but collapsed again immediately because he could hardly bear the pain in his upper body.He looked to the side and discovered a girl who was holding her hands in front of her eyes and crying, she noticed that Zorro was awake and looked at him with wide eyes, Zorro too was only hit by the blow: "Kuina!" Tashigi was confused, yes again he called her Kuina. "No Zorro, it's me, Tashigi!" He held his head with his right hand: "Oh damn, what happened to me, where am I ?!" "At home, you were shot ..."

Zorro felt sick, not only because of his injury and the fever, he remembered why he had actually come to town. He had wanted to kill Tashigi, he had just attacked her and she had found it difficult to defend herself. But why was he here now?

He had memories of last night, he had dreamed wildly, Kuina had kept appearing to him, so he had thought at first that it was she who was sitting by his bed. But how should that work?

He looked up at Tashigi again, the two were already very similar to each other, at least he assumed that Kuina would still be alive today ...Suddenly Zorro took her hand: "Tashigi, I'm sorry ..." She looked at him with big, wet eyes: "I eh ..." A pained smile came to his lips: "Thank you for not having me let die! Before I die, I have to fulfill a promise! "

He thought back to that night, that night that had been so long ago, the night when he had promised Kuina that one of the two would one day be the best swordsman in the world.
Then she died and until today, he had hardly done anything other than exercise, he had sweated blood and water, and often almost went on it. To die over such a small thing just wouldn't have been fair to his Kuina.
How much he wanted her back right now. He rarely showed his feelings, but at that moment he just couldn't hold back the tears.

When Tashigi saw that a tear from his eye was pearling down her cheek, she almost started crying again, but she wanted to be strong in front of her Lorenor Zorro.She was the first to find the language again: "Oh Zorro, I'm so sorry, I don't know what happened, but you had to have a reason for wanting to kill me!"
It seemed like he was thinking and slowly began to speak: "It was a stupid mistake I made, I just couldn't look myself in the eye anymore ..."

The two did not speak much more ...

To be continued ...