"What the hell?!" Zoro's eyes went wide. First the kid had been challenging him, baiting him, and now...! His teeth clenched and he leaned back in his seat, scowling darkly at one nurse and then at the other.

"I--! The kid started it." The pirate answered weakly, face still caught in an unpleasant grimace. In retrospect, smacking a little kid probably wasn't the best thing to do but damn it, the kid had started it!

What kind of boy cried when he got hit, anyway???