[Voice]

[justicereigns]

All Shepherds, meet on deck for tea time and discussions.

Keimi check in as soon as you can.

And yes, we're getting low on coffee, and cigars. I'll survive, [No, he won't.] but I still refuse to switch to tea.

For all you pirates out there, what did you lot do before you came here? Occupations, careers, whatever. I need to know what freedom you're fighting for, let's just say.

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[Action]

[justicereigns]

Yes?

[He follows along to somewhere private.]

[Don't hit on him please.]

[He'll die.]

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[grizzly_tea]

Smoker this... isn't easy for me to say but...

[She wrings her hands around the parasol, fidgeting slightly with the wording she wanted to use.]

[Sorry Smoker, you're just too irresistible for your own good.]

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[grizzly_tea]

I want to say... thank you. There, I said it!

[Maribelle sighs, but then looks at Smoker, and feels she has to explain... at least a little.]

Sometimes I really do question myself and my morality when I am surrounded by all these scoundrels and cut-throats. Yet I feel that you and I are very like minded in our ideals, and your unshaking resolve has helped me to keep mine as well. We may not be the most popular crew on these seas, and people may jeer at us, or call us fools, but I want you to know that you have my utmost respect.

So I hope that I can count on you to stay by my side...

[There was a part of her that just... needed to hear that, still stinging from Kyouya leaving her crew.]

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[justicereigns]

[That's even worse!]

[Smoker flushes, looks away, and just grunts.]

Of course.

[alksdjaslkdj WHAT IS HE SUPPOSED TO SAY!? That he felt the same way? AND RESPECT?! DON'T RESPECT HIM DAMN IT! HE CAN BARELY HATE ALL THE PIRATES HIMSELF MOST DAYS laskdjalskdjasldkj]

[And he's just following his justice! That's not something to thank him for!]

[That's something to mock and hate him for and maybe yell at him or insult him the way Hina does.]

[He can't handle this at all.]

I wouldn't have anywhere to go anyway. [ARM FOLD. TSUNS MORE. Truth told he could hypothetically go elsewhere, but that is so much not the point.]

And I'm just... following my justice. So. There's that. [Yeah. Like. Gosh. Don't thank him for that. He can't handle it. Jeez.]

[And it's nice to know that someone else in the actual universe shares his sense of morality? Like. It's a first among thousands.]

[Millions even.]

[Well, there's Tashigi, but she's Tashigi. It's complicated.]

[The point is you are killing him here and he is way too goddam tsundere for this conversation.]

You should trust your own Justice more often.

[Have a light sort of shoulder-punch tap and he's going to run off to make coffee because his face hasn't been this red since... well okay since the last time Straw Hat and his brother riled him up, so really it's getting kind of often, but STILL.]

[If you want to add more, you'll have to have chase after him.]