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Zoro is a pirate who wants to be the best swordsman in the world, Tashigi is a justice-loving Marine... how did destiny bring them together?

They first meet when the Straw Hat crew reach Loguetown, the last island in East Blue and the place where Tashigi lives and works as a Marine Sergeant Major.
Zoro sees her when she was walking down a street and she's attacked by two bandits. He's about to help her, but she draws her own sword and beats them in a moment.
Tashigi then trips and falls to the ground and loses her glasses, and when Zoro returns them to her and sees her face, he's totally shocked: Tashigi happens to resemble his childhood friend Kuina, who died a long time ago, after promising him they'd become the greatest swordsmen in the world. He's so shocked he accidentally breaks Tashigi's glasses, and then she asks him to pay for them... since he doesn't have much money, she takes him to the Marine building and puts him to clean floors and work for them (poor Zoro!)... but he manages to run away after Tashigi goes to teach some kendo lessons to her soldiers.

Later the same day, Zoro and Tashigi meet again in a sword shop... Zoro had lost two of his katanas and needed to replace them in order to use his three-sword techniques; while Tashigi just went to pick her own katana, Shigure, which she had left in the shop to be sharpened by the owner. She doesn't know Zoro is actually the famous bounty hunter and pirate Zoro Roronoa, and tells him "I'm glad you're OK, I was worried since I heard Zoro Roronoa was in this town!"
She then admires Kuina's sword and shares her swordscraft knowledge with Zoro, telling him about her dream: to find all the legendary swords in the world, that are mostly owned by pirates, bounty hunters and criminals, and confiscate them so they can't be used for evil purposes...

She helps Zoro choose his new sword, which happens to be one of the legendary katanas as well, but it's cursed!! Zoro decides to test his luck against the katana's curse, risking his own life, and wins. The shop owner, impressed, gives him another legendary sword for free, as well as the cursed sword. And Zoro leaves... leaving a deeply impressed Tashigi behind.

But, of course, the Marines are after Zoro and the Straw Hat Crew, and Tashigi doesn't take long to find out that the green-haired man in the sword shop is actually the pirate Zoro Roronoa. She thinks Zoro has fooled her and, angry, challenges him to a duel. She can't forgive him for using not one, but three legendary swords to make money and do evil things (according to her, of course), and she can't forgive him for cheating her and making her believe he was a good guy (according to her again). They fight, Zoro beats her easily and turns around to leave... which only makes things worse, because Tashigi, really angry and hurt in her pride, asks him: "Why don't you kill me? Is it because I'm a woman? Do you know how hard it is for a woman to become a swordsman? I hate being a woman!"
Now the angry one is Zoro, because she's saying exactly the same things his childhood friend Kuina used to say when she was alive... both Tashigi's face and personality resemble Kuina's too much... and he shouts to her, saying he hates her because she stole Kuina's face and personality.

And so, he leaves a shocked Tashigi, hurt in her pride and angrier than ever. She swears she'll chase Zoro, no matter how far, to take her revenge in a fair duel, beat him and confiscate the legendary swords that he owns. And she and Captain Smoker get a ship to go after Luffy's pirates to the Grand Line... and so, the endless chase begins.

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