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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[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.