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[The message comes at night, as he's wandering on the deck. He's not up for guard duty tonight, but he still can't sleep, even if now that island is at a good distance away from them, the effects it had on him haven't vanished. He's still too close to his boiling point, or maybe he's already boiling and it's just a matter of time before he explodes in a ball of fire, anger and hate. Sleeping isn't an option in this state and he knows it better than anyone else. While asleep he may not be able to control his Cosmo, or he may enter into a nightmare that finally tips him over the edge. He may fall into sleep deep enough that he won't be able to know where he is when he wakes up, if someone comes to wake him up he may attack them driven by instinct and the thirst for destruction and release. He may attack Ace if his game of musical beds leads him to his bed, and while he doubts it would cause lasting damage, he would prefer to not do that.

So he doesn't even try to sleep, instead he wanders around the ship and enjoys the silence of the night. Not everyone is asleep yet, but it's calm enough that it could seem so. Eventually, he hits the journals after finding something floating in the water and that he picks up.]

Anyone else thinks that sleep is overrated tonight?

[There's a short pause.]

Right, I almost forgot, we're in Easter period. If anyone wonders why there are eggs in places there shouldn't be or weren't before, it seems this place wants to celebrate that with us.

I found a golden egg floating besides the ship just now, or an egg painted with a gold like color at least. If memory serves well those things should be made of chocolate or actual hard boiled egg-

[There's a cracking sound as the egg's shell starts to break, causing Ikki to stop talking. A few seconds later the chirps of a little chick are heard.]

Or a fucking fluffy chick apparently. What the hell?

[That's definitively not what he expected.]

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Not many would ask for a volcano eruption, you know.

[He would. He does. Oh, how much he does. If he could swim to the bottom of the ocean he would even try to create a volcano there just to make it erupt.]

People normally think those are way too dangerous.

You say that as though you expect me to be someone ordinary or...normal.

People might say that, but I enjoy a bit of danger in my life.

Fire and magma are far more than "a bit of danger". And I may be expecting you to be someone ordinary or normal, or rather someone who would melt the moment magma touched you.

[He can't help it, there is way too many people around that claim to be strong and what not only to end being kids.]

You're more than welcome to break my expectations though, if you have any stories that could do so.

I'm not asking to be melted alive. Or burned. My skin is much too sensitive for that.

I won't be jumping through hoops if flames, but I do prefer not to be lumped into the same bracket of every other woman you know.

Trust me, you're not. I don't relate with that many women and there's only one bracket for some of them, and if you were in it I wouldn't be talking right now.

[No point in lying or making it be what it wasn't. Women for him aren't special, they are equals to men. There are some women he may want to protect but so there are men who inspire the same feeling in him. However, there aren't men to whom he wouldn't talk if he can help it, not even his worst enemies, that was the only difference and it had been created by women themselves.]

It's good to know where your limit lays, though. Many people just talk and talk and not realize that they may as well be asking to be melted alive.

Well, good. You sure know how to make a girl feel special.

...and many people are idiots. At least of they're gonna talk their way into trouble, they should at least know how to talk their way out of it.

Oh, yes, I'm the best there is at making girls feel unique.

[So much obvious sarcasm. Though a dark part of him, small, twisted and full of nothing but hate is pretty sure that Selphie feels pretty unique right now, uniquely hated that is.]

There are some troubles you can't get out of just by talking though. Or maybe it's just that they have too big mouths. Going back to the Navy ball, though, minus the volcano you may end getting everything else.

[It's not hard to imagine after all. Even ignoring Marco and his own plans for after the end of the party, or Ace's plans, there aren't many other outcomes to putting pirates and Navy officers in the same place at once. Even one full of disguises.]

Hmm. Apparently so...

*How charming, Ikki, true as that may be*

True. But I'm usually able to...tease my way out of most things. Even minus the volcano, that'll be much more exciting than sitting around and wasting away.

[He doesn't want to charm anyone so it works for him.]

More power for you then, to be able to do that. How long have you been here anyway?

More power to me, indeed - just the way I like it.

Been a few weeks since I got here. But this place is so backwards it feels like much more.

Do you mean due the whole "you're now pirates" thing or due the world itself?

The pirate thing I can handle. The world thing? Urgh. So primitive.

Come from a time where motors, electricity and warm water are a thing, huh?

[And from a good enough background, at least one where she didn't have to go without those things for years, if she finds this so annoying.]

All of that at the very least. But what video? Computers? No point even asking for some space travel.

Space travel is pretty out of reach even for my time. Guess your world really is far ahead in the future, or has a huge technological level.

Could be that my world is a little bit of both.

Hn, then it's no wonder you find this place primitive. At least we have those books and the Nav, though. Imagine how it would be if we didn't even have those.

[Not that Ikki personally would notice their absence, really. He uses the journal but it's more a thing that's "there" than something he has active interest in.]

Urgh, don't. I'd rather not even think about it...

Exactly.

It's a pity the Doctor is gone, that guy not only was from a very high technological universe, he could make things to approach that.

[It's thanks to him that they have something close to a motor and that Ace got his fancy own sailboat after all.]

Ah, that is too bad.

Where did he go?

They say that back to his world. But no one can really know for sure, can they? I suppose it depends on how optimistic you can be.

And I guess it depends on how much you liked the guy, and where you'd rather he was.

Isn't that basically the same?

Not really. Some people are optimistic regardless. Me? I like to think that people get what they deserve, good or bad.

And how do you value what they deserve? Or is it something you leave to karma?

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