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[allendsmeat]

[there is silence a moment, just the sound of the sea to let you know the journal is open and then:]

I've decided I don't care about dating or that kind of stuff anymore.

[sent mostly to Ace and Smoker but he doesn't know how to private it or even if that's a thing really. Anyway it seemed a lot of people hadn't wanted him to think about that kind of thing in the first place so he should let them know]

I wanna be Pirate King and have all the friends I want and all the meat I want.

[and the rest of it... it didn't matter. Nothing could be better than nakama anyway. That done, he closes the journal and goes to find Smoker. He wants to spend more time with him before the race is over]

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[allendsmeat]

[that's not what he meant but that's okay since nakama are better than anything]

I wanted to hang out with him. He's a good guy, you know. But he's a Marine so I had to kidnap him first.

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[hiken]

Hmmm. Good point. Still, that's a poor way to make friends with a Marine, isn't it?

[Ace didn't say it as if it were a definite. He was wondering the truth of the matter...]

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[allendsmeat]

We're already friends. Smokey wouldn't have come if we weren't. [since he wasn't strong enough to beat him yet]

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[hiken]

Well, I remember seein' him try to arrest you in Arabasta. Didn't think he was quite chummy then.

[Then again, he was pretty sure nobody would have been on Smoker's good side at that time.]

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[allendsmeat]

But he let me go when it was important. [nods] And blushed. I guess he's always been kind of weird.

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[hiken]

...You're talking about Smoker? That Marine jerk?

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[allendsmeat]

Yeah. [nod] He reminds me of Jii-chan sometimes. ... only not as scary.

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[hiken]

Yeah, he's way too nice to be gramps. Gramps would chase us to the end of the world if he wanted.

[The scariest possibility was always present in Ace's mind.]

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[allendsmeat]

I don't want to think of him like Jii-chan at all. [cuz now that he thought about it that just made things really gross]

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[hiken]

... [Ace didn't get it, but...]

Alright. Uh. Why?

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[allendsmeat]

Cuz it's weird. [obviously] Anyway it's okay cuz I know what to do now. [or what not to do anyway]