## One Piece Chapter 5.3, pages 14-15: THE PIRATE KING AND THE GREAT SWORDSMAN - Chapter: 5.3 - Pages: 14-15 - Characters: Roronoa Zoro, Shimotsuki Kuina, dojo master, dojo students ### Summary Page 14: Zoro stands up, gripping his sword, and shouts at Kuina, 'Does this mean that if I beat you one day it is not because of my strength?! Doesn't this make me who has been training extremely hard to beat you look like an idiot?' Kuina looks up at him, tears still in her eyes, and softly says, 'Zoro...' Zoro points his sword forward and declares, 'Let's make a promise!! One of us must become the number one swordsman of the world!! Let's see who can reach that goal first!' Kuina wipes her tears, smiles, and replies, 'Stupid...!! You are a person who lost to me!' They clasp hands firmly, and Kuina says, 'I promise you.' Page 15: The next day, a devastating revelation hits. A young dojo student runs up to Zoro, crying, 'Oh no! Zoro! Something terrible has happened! Kuina... she... she fell down from the stairs... and died!!!' Zoro is shown with a blank, shocked expression. Later, Kuina's body is shown covered with a white cloth. Zoro stands before her father, the sensei, and demands, 'Sensei! Please gift me with her sword!' The sensei agrees, 'Okay... Humans are really fragile beings, Zoro.' Zoro is then seen holding Kuina's sword, crying uncontrollably. He yells at her memory, 'You bastard! Both of us made a promise last night! And now you're running away? Zoro, please don't be like this.' With tears streaming down his face and a fierce grimace, Zoro vows, 'I will be even more greater!! I will become the world's number one swordsman, so famous that even heaven will hear of my great name!'