week three | dates

[showhost]

You worked up your courage and asked someone out on a date! Good job!





Now you have to hope the producers are kind re: where they send you.

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[hgeegh]

[A childhood accident, maybe—that's what he'd thought it might have been. But no, it's something much graver than that, so much so that Sanji gives it the moment of silence it's due before he straightens with a sigh.]

What a bastard.

. . . But you know, [he starts as he follows Akechi's example by stepping into his own boat,] not expecting your father to betray you . . . That's just human.

[flaweddetective]

[Bastard is putting it so very lightly.]

No, I did know better. He's betrayed everyone he's ever come across. My mother too. I would be no different and I was foolish to ever think otherwise.

[And he was. No matter how useful he made himself. How he gave Shido the crown on a silver matter... It wouldn't matter. And he paid for it.]

Anyway, it doesn't matter now. So is what I've been hearing true? You're a pirate?

[He settles in his boat as he asks his questions.]

[hgeegh]

[It's not foolish, he wants to say, but he knows better than to push and pry. Akechi's like a raw nerve, and some things will always be too fresh. Sanji files away the detail of the mother and focuses instead on getting comfortably seated.

He grins at the question.]

Yeah, I'm a bonafide pirate with a bounty on my head.

[flaweddetective]

[Quite a bout of criminals they have here in this little house.]

How much?

[Asking the important questions.]

[hgeegh]

77 million.

[It'll be higher with a better picture someday, once the marines finally take him seriously (wishful thinking).]

[flaweddetective]

[In DOLLARS???? YEN??? Gold pieces???]

What have you done to have a bounty that high?

[hgeegh]

[None of the above.]

My crew launched an attack on the World Government's judicial island to rescue a dear crewmate. If we hadn't gone, she would've been killed.

[flaweddetective]

[Huh.]

The World Government on judicial island. [That's... something alright.] So you have a seventy-seven million dollar bounty on your head because you attacked the World Government?

[That... He has some questions.]

Are there a lot of pirates where you're from or is it just you guys?

[hgeegh]

Berries, not dollars.

[Not that he knows the conversion rate on that, so he neglects to elaborate as he positions his paddle.]

The age of pirates has been revitalized for years now. There are pirates from all over the world.

[flaweddetective]

[Well. He's decided this is a baffling world. And he will contently assume that this is 77 million berries, aka fruit. It's just more amusing to think of it that way.]

Do you... If this is the age of pirates is your bounty even that much or are there higher ones?

[hgeegh]

Of course there are higher ones. The captain's head is worth more than any of ours on our crew.

[Alongside a certain swordsman, but whatever. That'll change!]

The highest bounty in the East Blue around the time we left was 30 million, and that was the captain's. He's valued at 300 million now. [Sanji propels himself into the water proper with a single stroke of the paddle.] I'll get there someday myself.

[flaweddetective]

[Akechi follows suit and pushes off into deeper waters and adjusts his ores. Shinji's world sounds rather... ridiculous. But color him intrigued.]

Why are you a pirate and not a chef somewhere?

[That seems to be his passion, after all. He could probably make more of himself by doing that and not whatever being a pirate where he's from entails.]

[hgeegh]

I was a sous chef before a pirate, but I left to find the All Blue.

[With his eyes still on the water around him, he breaks into a wide grin. This is a dear dream, and he never fails to light up when he talks about it.]

It's a legendary ocean where you can find all the fish in the world. [He does an enthused forward stroke, sending himself farther along the waters.] Because the four seas intersect there.