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chapter 699

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3rd POV
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It's been a week since the Straw hats left Punk Hazard. A week since Luffy formed an alliance with Law, the surgeon of death. A week since they kidnapped Caesar and Omasu. A week since Katsu was cut open and stitched back up.

Katsu typically healed faster than everyone else on the crew, that much was known. However, it was clear that the extend of the damage done to her was not quite done healing. The stitches had healed overall, all that was left were some more scares added onto her abdomen and some bruising. Her mind, on the other hand, had not healed.

It took the crew a few days to take notice of the drastic change in their artist. Though they had noticed the dark circles forming under her eyes, they had written it off as she was injured and was healing. In the end, Zoro was the first to notice something wrong by the third day.

"Oi, Katsu." Zoro called as he swiped the fuzzy blanket he knew Katsu typically napped with. The past few days Chopper had the artist stuck in the room to keep an eye on her as she was healing so she's missed out on the nap times.

The swordsman frowned when she didn't look towards him. Katsu sat on the stairs looking out towards the ocean, her sketchbook opened but nothing being drawn on the empty page. He leaned in closer to look at her with a raised eyebrow, a frown formed on his face when he realized her eyes appeared glazed over.

"Katsu." He called again, poking her cheek. The contact seemed to gain her attention, though rather than her typically loud energetic self, Katsu lazily looked towards him.

"Ah, Mr. Hottie." She mumbled, "What do you need?"

"Nap time." Zoro answered, holding up her blanket with a smirk. His gaze looked at her dark circles for a moment before looking at her.

"Ah, not today." Katsu answered, standing up and walking away from Zoro.

Zoro blinked his one eye in disbelief. He not only called for her to join in on the nap, which Katsu typically just dived into, but he even brought her blanket. His smirk dropped into a frown as he thought of the dark circles that had formed under her eyes.

Turning around he walked over to the two tanning females and crossed his arms. His shadow blocked the sunlight from them, gaining their attention. Nami frowned at him, calling out to complain.

"Has Katsu been sleeping in the room?"

Nami stopped her complaint and Robin lifted her sunglasses with a thoughtful look on her face. "Hard to say really, she typically stays up later than us, or she's out doing watch with you or Luffy. Even if Chopper has put her on room probation, we all know she typically doesn't stay still." Nami answered, then frowned as she thought it over.

"She hasn't been with me while I've been on watch." Zoro answered.

"She normally does sneak in after Nami-san and I've gone to sleep," Robin stated, a frown forming on her lips. "However, now that you mention it, I haven't seen her sneak in until it's nearly morning and she acts as if she's just gotten up. I assumed she was napping with you during the night."

"She's not sleeping then." Zoro answered, "Because she just refused a nap."

Both Robin and Nami sat up in shock. "That explains a lot." The three turned their gazes up towards Katsu, who had just made her way into the kitchen.

"Oi! Katsu!" Luffy chanted with a big grin on his face as he raced after the sluggish artist. "I wanna see the picture you drew of me on that dragon!"


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Sanji stared at the untouched plate sitting in front of Katsu. A deep scowl had formed on his face as he let out a puff of smoke. He had also noticed that Zoro, Robin, and Nami were strangely quiet and focusing their attention on Katsu.

When Luffy reached his arm out to steal Katsu's food, not only did Sanji stop him, but Zoro and Robin as well. Nami took the liberty of smacking their Captain on the back of his head. When he let out a loud complaint it gained the attention of everyone, including the zombified artist.

"Don't touch Katsu-chan's food." Sanji scowled, standing back up straight.

"Please leave her plate alone, Luffy-san." Robin stated.

Chopper looked towards Katsu, blinking as he realized her plate was untouched as well. "Katsu! You really need to eat! It's important for your healing!"

Katsu blinked at the order, looking at Chopper, then down at her food. "Ah, I didn't realize." She mumbled, numbly picking up the fork to take a bite. The crew silenced down when she didn't even try to take an actual bite of the food and instead just rested the fork in her mouth without anything on it.

"Katsu's gonna die." Luffy cried horrified.

"What?!" Both Chopper and Usopp exclaimed.

"Someone call a doctor!" Chopper cried, standing up to rush towards Katsu.

In the moment of the idiot trio freaking out, Zoro stood up and walked over towards Sanji. "Oi, shitty cook." When Sanji turned towards the swordsman ready to fight, he stopped when he caught the slightest glimpse of worry. "You got anything to make her tired? She refused to nap, and she hasn't been sleeping."

This wasn't exactly news for Sanji. He had seen the changes in the artist. Her food portions had gotten smaller as well, though she hadn't refused to eat before today. He had attempted some foods that could induce sleep, however he had given that up when all it seemed to do was darken the circles under her eyes. Instead he had tried to use something to help encourage energy at the least. Though that was going to be a bust, considering she wasn't eating now.

"We need to check with Chopper on that one. She isn't eating much of anything now." Sanji answered back, "Clearly she's being bothered by those memories."

Zoro frowned at the mention of the new memories that had resurfaced. "Luffy," He called out, hauling the Captain from gripping onto Katsu's shoulders as he was in the middle of shouting. "That's enough of that. She's not dying."

Luffy blinked, then gave Zoro a look as if he was crazy. "But she isn't eating Sanji's food! She calls him Mr. Husband because of his food."

A low sigh escaped Zoro as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

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"Lunch is ready!" Sanji called out, peeking his head out of the kitchen to look over the crew. A scowl formed on his face as he tried to pick out the artist. When Luffy tried to run past Sanji, the Chef held out his leg and stopped the Captain. "Oi, where's Katsu?"

Luffy rubbed his nose that had been assaulted and frowned. "She's refusing to leave her room again. I even tried to get her to play tag and she told me no." Luffy's frown deepened. "She's never told me no."

"She needs to eat." Sanji frowned, walking past Luffy.

However, the Chef came to a stop once more as Nami came walking up the stairs slowly training a deflated Katsu behind her. "Let's eat guys!"

A low chuckle made everyone freeze. "That's three days, very nice. Though, I do suppose my little experiment needs some nourishment-"

Omasu found his head being slammed into the dirt, his open mouth taking out a big chunk of grass. A gagging sound came from the doctor as he struggled to get back up from the leg keeping him down.

Zoro looked down and feigned surprise. "Ew, I got shit on my boots. I'll just have to throw these out, no cleaning up that mess. Ah, I feel bad for the trash, they don't deserve this shit." When he looked up his eyes landed on Katsu, her attention was still on the doctor. Frowning he snapped his head towards Law, glaring at him. "Why does this garbage still have it's voice box?"

Law looked down at Omasu and hummed. "I was trying to get information."

"Anyway!" Nami cut in, not hesitating to send a glare towards Law, she softly tugged at Katsu's limp arm. "Let's go eat!"

As Nami dragged Katsu into the kitchen, Luffy walked right back out with a piece of meat in his mouth. He hummed to himself as he reached down and grabbed his fishing rod with one hand and his other arm stretched out to grab the doctor that had been stomped into the ground.

Caesar's eyes widened as Luffy began to tie the doctor to the fishing line before throwing him overboard. He could feel sweat beading down his face as his colleague's surprised cries were cut off by gurgling.

Law held up his hand to stop Luffy, then paused. "What are you doing?"

"Fishing." Luffy responded.

"You're water-"

"We need bigger bait." Luffy added. "I just hope the bait isn't too gross for the fish."

With a sigh Law shrugged, "Just bring him up for air so he doesn't die then." Turning away from the Captain that was happily drowning the doctor, Law looked down at Chopper, who seemed conflicted with letting the suffering of another continue.

"Katsu needs therapy." Chopper declared, nodding to himself then rushing off towards his office. In the end, he's turned a blind eye towards Omasu. He prided himself in being a good doctor.

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"Alright, that's it." Zoro huffed, standing up. Robin and Nami looked up from either side of Katsu as Zoro approached. He was already equipped with the soft blanket Katsu liked, the first step needed was to get her to sleep. He reached down and wrapped Katsu up with the blanket.

Her eyes widened as the blanket made her look up. With part of the blanket falling into her face, Zoro could only make out one eye that was looking up at him. "What?" She mumbled out weakly.

Zoro simply picked her up and began to carry her outside onto the deck. "It's nap time." He announced.

"I'm not sleepy-" Katsu began to protest.

"Well I am, and you're a liar." He answered, plopping himself down onto the ground and ensuring the artist couldn't run off. "Sleep."

She shook her head. "No."

"Why not?" When she was quiet, Zoro tilted his head to get a better view of her face. His eye widened when he saw her flushed face.

"I don't want to relive it... again."

He frowned at first, then realized she was talking about the memories. "Like I'd let some shitty thing happen again. I'll cut that dream to pieces."

He needed to cut down that doctor first, but that wasn't something that needed to be said right this moment. Besides, Luffy was using him as bait again. According to Usopp, even the fish didn't want Omasu, but Luffy insisted on using him until he proved useful.

Katsu looked up towards Zoro. "You'll cut the dream? Those can't be cut."

Zoro frowned softly down at the artist. Since they returned back from their two years apart, she has been nothing but loud and a bit flirty. This side of her was completely different, and it wasn't something he wanted to see again.

"I can cut anything." He grunted, "How the hell am I supposed to be the worlds best swordsman if I can't cut a lousy dream. Now sleep. Then when you wake up eat some of the shitty cook's food. Otherwise Luffy will keep insisting that you're dying."

Katsu reached her hand up and extended her pinky towards Zoro. "You promise you'll cut the dream if it starts happening again?"

He frowned at the pinky, but stopped himself from shrugging it off. Rolling his eye he wrapped his pinky around hers and nodded. "Yeah."

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End of Chapter 100! That's a milestone guys! With that milestone I've had Katsu remember the rest of her memories, which as you can all see are going to take a toll on her mental and physical health. She'll heal with time, though you can all expect some times where she'll have her bad moments.

Enough with the sad news! The Fillers are over, for the time being. Now we're set to start the next arc, Dressrosa! Anything in particular ya'll wanna see? Even better question, who is the main ship with Katsu? So far the most I've seen have been Zoro, Law, and Luffy. Though I feel as though Zoro may have gotten a bigger lead with this chapter...

Here's some fanart from @SpaceDream9 that they took the time to draw I absolutely LOVE it! The siblings look great! Ya'll should also check out their Instagram, Sufferingartist3 there they have a bunch more art that they've drawn!