Page 8: - Townspeople shout frantic warnings that freeing Zoro will cause deaths and town destruction, panicked mood. - Zoro growls about nine days of captivity and demands to be untied, offering future bounty in exchange, serious intent. - Luffy and Coby react with surprise at Zoro addressing them directly from below the wall. Page 9: - Luffy declares he would not allow Zoro to kill them, confident tone. - Coby pleads desperately not to untie Zoro, fearing immediate attack and escape. - Zoro reacts with sharp surprise and huff while children hide and Luffy shushes them. - Coby comments on Zoro's enormous head size while peeking over wall. Page 10: - Little girl offers homemade rice balls to Zoro, thinking he needs food, cheerful intent. - Zoro harshly tells girl to leave or risk death, angry mood. - Luffy questions why Zoro does not eat the food himself. - Coby urges Luffy to intervene before the girl is killed. - Girl insists she will deliver the rice balls despite danger, stomping in anger. - Zoro claims he is not hungry and tells her to go away. Page 11: - Helmeppo declares Zoro should not pick on little girls, dramatic tone. - Luffy asks who the flamboyant man is, surprised. - Coby assumes Helmeppo is a high-ranking naval officer and that the girl is now safe. - Helmeppo sneers at Zoro as the idiot son living off his father's wealth. - Zoro grunts dismissively at Helmeppo's appearance. - Outraged voice demands if Zoro just called him an idiot. Page 12: - Helmeppo yells in disgust that the rice balls taste sweet with sugar instead of salt. - Helmeppo mocks the little girl for bringing rice balls and calls them inedible after stomping them. - Little girl protests that she likes sweets so she used sugar on the rice balls. Page 13: - Little girl sobs that she worked hard to make the rice balls. - Helmeppo says he hates kids and tells the girl to stop crying. - Helmeppo points to the Marine sign and blames the girl for aiding the prisoner. - Tall-hatted Marine threatens to tell his father and orders the girl thrown over the fence. Page 14: - Luffy mutters that the man who threw the girl is bad. - Children ask the little girl if she is okay. - Marine laughs that Zoro will be freed if he survives a month tied up. - Zoro declares he will last the entire month without breaking. Page 15: - Marine warns Luffy not to let Helmeppo's father catch him. - Zoro asks why Luffy is still there. - Luffy asks what is wrong with becoming a pirate. - Zoro states becoming a pirate is his dream and he seeks good men for his crew. - Luffy notes Zoro has a bad reputation. - Zoro says he has not decided if he will ask Luffy to join yet. - Zoro questions whether Luffy thinks untying him means he will join the pirate crew.