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[yourotherleft]

Oi. I'm making a list for the next time I send the cook shopping.

What's the best alcohol around? I don't care what it costs, I just want to find out what I haven't tasted yet.

Or if it's from another world, I guess I can ask the Backwater lady if she can get it.

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[yourotherleft]

What...?

[for a moment it's hard to take in. Whales? Beached in a forest clearing? How is that even possible?! The scene of battle immediately has Zoro's attention, though - fire and blood, impossible to ignore. He moves in behind Luffy, walking backwards with his grip tight on Shuusui, ready to draw it in an instant. He takes a moment to feel around with haki, not just for any sign of attack or pursuit, but to gauge the life force of the whales.

He doesn't like what he finds.]

What the hell?

[allendsmeat]

[even he can tell they're dying. It's dying. And if he listens really hard, it's almost as if he can sort of understand.

The whale's eyes close and Luffy moves around it's snout, feeling the heat of its final breaths against his legs. It makes a soft whine and Luffy keeps a hand on it as he sees a burned corpse just beyond it. A giant. With a broken weapon and some of the grappling hooks still in him.]

It's okay. I understand. [he murmurs this as he pats the whale again, waiting for the last shuddering breath before taking his hand away]

We gotta find out where he came from.

[yourotherleft]

[Zoro is silent and still until the last one goes, at which his own anger starts bubbling under the surface. This is senseless. Madness. He can see it in the chaos.]

And what happened here. There's...one of the giants.

[He moves to investigate, his hand tightening on Kitetsu's handle. It takes a bit to trace what movement he can through the brush, comparing footprints, weapons, battle damage. After a long while, he speaks up with the knowledge borne of experience.]

That guy. He can't have taken that kind of damage from these whales. It's almost like he was trying to protect them...