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Maa, well... the wind seems to be dying down a bit.

[though it's still howling outside. He's been in the hold for the better part of three days because, among other things, his sleep mask kept blowing off. An ice shield on the deck was always an option, of course, but when it melted, Coby gave him long dramatic inward sighs and went to get the mop bucket.

So here he is, cross legged in the hold, playing cards, contemplating life and generally trying not to get a crick in his neck]

I hereby petition for a bigger ship. Though I'm not entirely sure which island would be the best choice for that.

[Flips over another card. Diamond. He can't help but think of Diamond Jozu -- Though he is not here. Twelfth Division Haruta, then. Haruta diamond, Portgas spade, Phoenix Marco the club and the hearts were for an entirely group of pirates all together so a high and low joker, then for the two relative uknowns. Fishman Namur. Fourth Divison nee Headhunter Thatch, rumored to have been assassinated by a former nakama but very much alive here. Though perhaps he was in the same boat with Portgas.]

Otherwise, who else would want to make peace with the Navy? [Club. Spade. Heart... he thought he'd shuffled all those out. To the side it goes. There was not a card for Marines of course. They were generally supposed to be the players]

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Smoker is... [well it's sort of odd to say, since his first thought is subordinate but--] ... my nakama.

[even for him it's hard to give up the illusion of rank once you have it]

Straw Hat seems mostly interested in stirring up trouble from where I sit.

[So Smoker sails with this guy now? It makes sense. Keimi was sure that Smoker would rather make peace with the Navy too.]

Luffy-chin does what he has to to protect those who are important to him.

[There's a lot of dreams riding on this ship, after all.]

[here he could say: "No matter what innocents get in his way" and yet, curious thing about Straw Hat, he was in Alabasta-- with the Princess of Alabasta according to Smoker and yet the country is better off despite the havoc being wreaked there and Crocodile's deposition.

Enies Lobby had been destroyed largely by the incompetence and hubris of someone else and it was enough that the people of Water 7 were charmed by him afterwards to party and shield him somewhat.

In the end, Kuzan still wasn't entirely sure what to think about him. He was dangerous to the world order, no denying that, but the people only seemed to benefit from his interference.]

Regardless... He will always be a pirate, and while he exists as one, the Navy will always be tasked to catch him.

[though even to say that is somewhat dishonest. A pirate cannot unbecome a pirate. As soon as the black flag is raised, they are marked for life. It seems a somewhat broken system in the end]

[Keimi has witnessed this logic firsthand with the Tenryuubito. You either make yourself useful to the government, or you will be hunted forever. It's why she became so supportive of pirates in the first place. In a world where you can be enslaved or murdered just for looking at someone wrong, how could she support that system?]

We'll all be pirates for as long as we have to be. If they're going to keep attacking us, then what else can we do?

[Even being useful with the government is no guarantee that you won't end up being hunted. It could happen due to an honest mistake, political maneuvering, an accident of birth. Though he has heard pirates, captured and otherwise, bring up these points, it's an excuse. A broken system cannot be fixed by picking at the edges of it like jackals and it's certainly no excuse for inflicting savagery on innocents.

However, Keimi being what she is, has an entirely different problem altogether and one that grates him to the bones. He wishes the Navy could pull away from the spoiled rotten from the inside Tenryuubito-- but that creates a power vacuum and the idea of 'who watches the watchers'

But as for right here and right now]

Not everyone takes it as well as Straw Hat Luffy.

[and he wants to tell her about... people taking advantage of it and terror on the seas and etc and so forth but it's all very tiring in the end]

Maa... well... forget it, forget it.

[waves a hand and yawns and flips over a card.]

...I think bad people exist no matter what the rules are.

[But if this man wants her to drop it, then she'll drop it. There was no need to get into an argument over this here. The fact of the matter is, they're pirates, and they're going to be attacked. Were it up to Keimi, she would just see them incapacitated, but she knows there are crews who would take it further than that.]

Sorry.

They always do, Miss Keimi. But between ourselves, we can at least make the world a more peaceful place.

[He couldn't change this world. He couldn't even change his own. But insofar as it was in his ability to protect, so he would]

You're right. I don't want to hurt anyone, but I won't let anyone hurt my friends.

No one should be allowed to do whatever they want, including the Navy.

[unless what they want is whatever it is Straw Hat wants. What is it with that kid]

Agreed. You're an astute young woman.

[The Navy especially had to be careful. True freedom, perhaps, was only for those who knew how not to abuse it]

[The freedom of adventure, that's what's with him.]

I don't really know much about this at all. I just know what I've experienced.

Experience is often a better teacher.

[an education could end up tangling you further if you didn't have the experience to know how to apply it]

Take care of yourself out there.

[though he means the others in that crew as well by extension. He has no desire to interfere with Straw Hat. At least not yet]

You too. And make sure Smoker-chin stays out of trouble, okay?

[That rebellious scamp.]

[it would be easier to build a snowman in a volcano. Even agreeing to it, should it be overheard, would send that idiot into a fit of rebellion over the principle of the thing]

Maa, well, I'll save him from whatever trouble he can't get out of...

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