This is a guilty pleasure of mine. No real time frame on when its being updated, although I have the next little bit written up. It started off as a one shot I couldn't get out of my head and grew into a monster 20,000 word still incomplete story. Basic premise is that Luffy has a sister. No promises that canon changes or that it stays the same. No promises that you're going to like it either; the style is very different from my other story. Personally I like writing this more then Born from Shadows, but this is MUCH more difficult so it probably won't get updated often at all.

Please review letting me know what you think or what you think can be done to improve it.

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For as long as she's been alive, theres always been Luffy. He is the one constant in her volatile childhood. Of course, their grandfather visits them and helps train them. Theres also the kind barkeep, in a surrogate mother role for the two of them. But her earliest memories are of her and Luffy —together.

It's still just the two of them when the pirates come. Luffy is infatuated with the crowd. She follows him at a more sedate pace. She's always been more curious then Luffy, never able to let a mystery lie; but just like now, she's sometimes painfully shy, too cautious compared to Luffy.

Luffy clamps on to the captain with his bright red hair. The crew opens its circle and lets the two join them. Of the two twins, Luffy is the clear favorite. She doesn't mind. After the initial awkwardness of her first meeting, she feels just as welcome as Luffy. Often Luffy can be seen sitting at the bar next to Shanks, demanding stories of his bravery. She sits behind the bar next to Makino and joins in whenever she can.

She is more curious then Luffy, but she's still more cautious. Luffy opens up the little chest and eats their cursed fruit. She looks on clueless. Makino pulls her in a hug to her chest with relief, however she scowls; Luffy is now a rubber man, while she hesitated to touch the fruit. Jealousy doesn't become her, and she gets over it quickly as children do. After all, it's Luffy. Her brother would never have eaten the fruit if he knew she wanted it.

She's there for every step of his childhood. When Luffy declares he will be the pirate king, the red hair crew laughs at him and Yasoop turns to her, jeering, "And what are you? Future pirate queen?"

She's affronted. She throws her hands on her hips. "How could I take Luffy's dream from him?!"

The men are quick to laugh again, but she's serious. Luffy has never broken a promise to her. When he says he will do something, even share his meat, he does it. In her mind she cant imagine a world where Luffy doesn't achieve his goal. Its like imagining that the sky is suddenly the ground or that water isn't wet—incomprehensible.

She spends the next day and a half bugging Makino about the question anyway. "Why would I have to be the pirate queen anyway? Why can't I be a king too?"

Makino tries her hardest to explain that a king a queen are equal, but she knows better because a queen is just a grownup princess, while a king is just a grown up prince.

And she knows that princes rescue princesses and not the other way around. She doesn't want to be a queen; the very thought of such an inequality bothers her but she's not quite sure why.

"It's only words" Makino explains, but thats exactly the problem she cant find words to express: It's words that are failing her, words that are not allowing her to explain the inequality, the metaphorical lessening of what should be an amazing accomplishment. Pirate queen and Pirate king are not, and never will be, the same thing, not to her—and not to the world either, she privately thinks.

She declares loudly that she never wants to be a queen and Luffy cheers her on, happy for her as always.

When the crew leaves for the final voyage from their tiny village, she watches on quietly. Her exuberance can match Luffy's pound for pound on her best day, but when she's sad, there's nothing quite like the cloud that hangs over her. Everyone seems to feel it and Luffy has trouble swinging the mood back to one of positivity. But because of who he is, he manages it.

Shanks, lacking one arm leaves his hat with her brother. He leaves her with a smile and well wishes.

She frowns at the goodbye. For all that his crew was to her, none of them expect from her what they see from her brother. She decides, as she watches the ship sail over the horizon as far as her eyes can track it, that she must be missing something. Something that Luffy has. Something that makes them believe in his future.

She's young, so it takes a while to put together her thoughts. When she finally comes to her answer, she decides all at once that what makes her and Luffy different isn't something obvious.

It's not his devil fruit.

It's not that he's a boy.

It's not even that he's more outgoing then her.

She decides that the difference between them, the only one that she can really see mattering, is that Luffy has a dream.

So, she decides to have one too.

When their grandfather comes back again, he decides the small village has been too much for the twins. He relocates them deep into the forest. For all his eccentricities, he is trying his hardest for his grandchildren. Unfortunately, the two don't know this and fear that each step further into the forest brings them closer to a ravine he will use to train them.

Instead he offers them a home. Or what he calls home. He tells them they will live here now. But she's confused.

"There's already people here." She points out, quite reasonably. That sets her grandfather off into big guffaws of laughter. Luffy joins in with his lighter 'shishishishi', not at her comment but at the happiness the older man exudes.

The bandits— and they are clearly bandits, reminding her of the men that Shanks and his crew faced down just a few short weeks ago—looks less amused at her comment.

They start to scream back and forth, a bandit and her grandfather, but she's no longer paying attention. Her and Luffy have discovered a boy walking out of the forest. He's dragging a giant animal behind him and a child so near their age is an amazing thing. Luffy and her have no real friends down in their village, the children all much older or younger then the two. She starts forward to say hello, and Luffy beats her with his cheerful greeting.

The boy is unamused. He looks at them with something that she doesn't recognize—not yet, she's too young— and it makes her stand straight up, tall and strong through her fear. He spews words that are so angry, but more then angry, they are so hateful that she is shocked. But she doesn't drop her chin, nor does she take a step back.

That's what Luffy does. Her brother looks broken hearted and doesn't quite manage to dodge the rock that the boy flicks at Luffy's head. And thats the final straw.

She doesn't like him. She doesn't like how he treated Luffy. And he had better not do that again. She tells him all this.

His eyes stay flat. Why would he care what she thinks?

That's how gramps leaves them. He does nothing else to help them get along. And so she decides to play peacemaker. Luffy, her lovable brother, wants nothing more then to be friends with Ace. She's more reserved. She wants to be friends too; who doesn't like meeting new people?

But Ace isn't a nice person. He's rude and mean. He hurt Luffy. More importantly, he continues to hurt Luffy; everyday the pair trail after Ace through the forest, trying to go wherever he is going. Everyday the two fail. Once, she was certain they'd caught up to him, but then Luffy was falling and she didn't even have time to think before she was jumping into the ravine after him.

When they finally make it though the forest, the siblings are assailed with the ugliest sight they've ever seen. The smell is almost intolerable. The people look like walking skeletons, wasting away in their skin, their eyes already dead.

Thats not that they focus on; instead they find Ace. And another boy. Sabo. The pair look like unlikely friends. She wonders how Ace can change from the rude boy who lives with her to this vibrant kid. Because here, with this other boy, he is showing life that she hasn't seen before. His cheeks look like they hurt from how much he's smiling. He bounces, unable to sit still.

And the other boy looks just as happy. He has a near constant smile on his face. Even though she doesn't like Ace, eve though she's waiting for him to apologize for hitting her brother, she allows Luffy to pull her into the clearing and introduce the two of them.

Ace hits them wth the same venom they are used to. He is furious that they have managed to follow him. Still, this time she joins Luffy in his persistence. These two boys look fun. She's never seen Ace look so alive in all the time she's lived with him. Why wouldn't she want to be friends with the other boys?

Of course it doesn't actually do anything. More shouting yelling and arguing. She ignores it; she's never bothered listening when someone is saying something she doesn't want to hear. Luffy is just as bad as her. They persist in following the two around all day.

Until, of course, something goes wrong. Luffy is made of rubber. He will carry no scars from that day.

She will always have the reminder of her pain. Luffy was hurt worse; his body could handle worse pain. They bring out a glove with spikes on it that make her whimper in sympathy.

But just because Luffy was hurt worse doesn't distract from her own pain. She has a big blotchy scar on her cheek, just over her jaw line where the pirate had struck her face and her face had torn open. She doesn't mind as much as Ace and Sabo do. Luffy just giggles and point out that they match—he has a scar on his face too from when he was much younger.

Thats how it begins, this new chapter in her life. And it is so different from the small, enchanting life that Luffy and her shared down in their small village. But she wouldn't trade it for the world. Because now she has brothers. Brothers to fight with, play with, take care of, to love.

She loves all her brothers. If you ask her who she loves more, she can't answer you. Because each one has a special place in her heart. Luffy is her twin. He's always been there and she cant imagine him not being there, as permanent and necessary as her right hand.

Ace too is there for her now. He reminds her of her grandfather. Ace is gruff with his love. He tells the younger siblings to stop crying and to stop being weak. They comply as best they can. But he still loves them, still dotes on them. Just privately, in his own brusque way.

But truly, it's Sabo that she spends most of her day with. In Sabo she finds learning and knowledge. Makino had taught her and Luffy how to read. And she's not stupid. Neither is Luffy, or Ace for that matter. But Ace and Luffy have their own private ambitions. They have their own dreams and skills. To them, books and newspapers are pointless.

But to her, they are a gateway. And Sabo gets it. Because she's not stupid, but Sabo is so smart sometimes she wonders if she isn't just a little bit dumb. Sabo is so intelligent, but kind. He shows her how to read all the newspapers they find in the grey terminal. He practices writing letters with her in the dirt. Everyday he has a new word for her to learn. She feels guilty for taking up his time, but she wouldn't trade it for the world.

She doesn't have a dream yet. Not like her brothers. She confessed it to them after they swore their vow over a cup of stolen sake each. But that doesn't bother them. Ace latches on to something other then her lack of a dream: what does bother them is that she wants to be their brother.

"But you'd be our sister." Luffy is exasperated.

She refuses, her face set. It's the same annoyance she had with being called Pirate 'Queen'. Its a title, a formality, something that detracts from the value of being. She is first and foremost a person. So why does her title, any title, have to be detracted by anything else. She doesn't want to be a 'sister' someone that needs protection. She wants to be a 'brother' someone that is just free to go on adventures.

Sabo gets is first. He's been teaching her for months now, he knows how she thinks. He's seen her correct him when she says gender proper words. ("Its not a fisherwoman, just call them a fisherman and say whether its a boy or a girl! Why do you need a whole different word for the same thing?!") He hasn't managed to impress on her that sometimes words matter. But there's no helping this. He tries to explain that being called a sister isn't demeaning or bad. It just is.

But in this, she feels like she is years ahead of Sabo in her thoughts. He doesn't yet get that words have control over thought. And that by changing a title or a name changes how people think, without even realizing it. Because she's not weak, but calling herself someone's sister feels inherently weaker then someone brother. It had connotations, not that she even knows that the word connotations means. And thats something she cant stand—to be judged incorrectly based on word choice. Word choice that she doesn't get a say in.

"I don't think she wants to be a boy." She shakes her head, agreeing with Sabo's assessment. "She just doesn't want to be known for being a girl. It's weird but I kind of get it." He shrugs, allowing it.

Ace grunts. "As long as you're not a cry baby." He agrees.

Luffy is the only one that hesitates. "But your my sister."

She nods, her trademark goofy grin on her face. "And now I'll be your brother too."

Thats all it takes to convince him.

They are both her older brothers; neither one is older or if they've decided that one is, they never bothered to mention it to her and Luffy. Similarly, both Luffy and her have taken the 'younger brothers' role. They're not quite sure whose older, and the question has never come to mind with Garp around, perhaps the only person who really knows the truth.

It doesn't bother her, but Sabo is curious. He explains that his dream is to navigate the whole globe and write a story about it, about what happened.

"So many books are—lies. I want to write something that is just the truth. About my adventure. How can you start your journey without knowing the truth about yourself?"

Its as true a comment as any and she shrugs laughing it off. "I guess I'll have to ask Grandpa then!"

That proves a fruitless task. Gramps is scary when he comes to visit. He's shocked to find that another kid showed up, almost more surprised then Dadan, the kind bandit that takes care of them. But he gets over it quickly and starts in with his personal training on all the kids around him, sparing no one. When she finally remembers and asks, right before he leaves again for who knows how long, Luffy sits up surprised at the question. Ace too looks up curious but trying to hide it.

But gramps is surprised by the question, unable to answer his eager charges. "I never asked actually."

Such a simple answer, completely expected of someone from their scatterbrained family. It leaves her, Ace, and Luffy laughing and Sabo face palming.

When Sabo leaves, its as if a sudden rift is opened in her life.

If you ask her which brother she loves more, she wont have an answer for you.

But if you ask her which brother she is around more…well it's obviously Sabo. He teaches her every morning, reviewing past words and introducing new ones. Sabo land is full of books that he reads to her every night. Luffy and Ace fall asleep early on, but she finds that she can't just stop reading without knowing the end of the story.

So when Sabo leaves, she cries. And when Ace tells Bluejam that the three of them will work, she complies. She moves boxes and crates with tears streaming down her face, snot running down into her frayed shirt.

And she only stops crying when Bluejam tells them what is actually happening. When she finds out about the fire, about all the people in danger, themselves included, she forces herself to stop crying, a mental voice that sounds just like Ace's commanding her to stop being a cry baby.

She's no help at getting free. But she doesn't cry. Her ever present smile is absent from her face. When Ace cuts her free, she drops to the floor. Without any preamble, she moves towards Luffy, helping him get up. Because they need to get away from this fire. It's raging, this evil fire, for all that fire can be good or evil and its dangerous to be here. The flames are much to large to stay and help any of the unfortunate souls who call grey terminal their home.

When the pirates come back, she is terrified. But she doesn't cry. Because theres no time to be a crybaby right now. Because Luffy is in danger, and so is Ace and theres no way out. And just when she's going to cry out, to try and let out the bubble of panic that has been building in her, Ace lets out a roar.

Everyone around them drops. She doesn't question it, instead scrambling closer to her older brother. "Do it again!" He has no idea what she's talking about, but he wont take his eyes off of Luffy. She doesn't know how to describe it but she doesn't have to. Suddenly Dadan is there, and so are the rest of the bandits. She is quickly snatched up, and luffy as well. Ace however refuses to go. No one listens as she hotly shouts that she wont leave either. Maybe they don't listen because as she breathes into shout, the thick smoke chokes her, leaving her gasping for air.

Her eyes sting from the smoke the entire way back. She still doesn't cry. She will cry, she decides, when Ace is there to tell her to stop crying. She tells Luffy the same thing, and it leaves him sucking back his tears and nodding in agreement. She doesn't try to fall asleep, instead lying awake late into the night, straining her ears to hear for any sign of Dadan. She doesn't remember falling asleep.

When she wakes up, she jerks up from the mat on the floor. Luffy is next to her, still sleeping, although not for long if she has to guess. Ace is no where to be found. Her heart sinks because Sabo is not here either. Her only comfort is that he was no where near the fire. Privately she thinks that she will never again feel like she is away from the fire. The scent of smoke is heavy even here at Dadan's house, many miles away.

Dadan is not here either. The other bandits are nervous, huddled in small groups, eyeing the trailing smoke coming from grey terminal. None of them say anything to Luffy or her though. Instead they bring them food and leave them alone. She eats as much as she is able, but it tastes like ash. She only manages a few mouthfuls. Luffy manages even less.

One of the words that Sabo taught her is pregnant. He explained that it was when a woman was expecting a baby. But he also explains that it can mean for a situation. When you expect something to happen. She didn't understand, not at the time, but she dutifully memorized the definitions.

Now she feels like she's walking through sludge. Every movement is heavy and hard to make. The next few days are long as they wait for some sign, some kind of news. It's as if she knows that lightening is going to strike, she just doesn't know where. This heavy anticipation, she understands now, is the pregnant urgency that Sabo was speaking about.

When they finally come back, and its both Dadan and Ace, its like the lightening missed and the storm broke. She can finally breathe again, because she has one of her brothers back. Luffy too perks up. She has a brilliant smile back on her face, and its like the whole world is right.

She has yet to drop the smile on her face when the hut receives news of Sabo's death. It's a stab to the gut. She laughs because that just cant be true. Ace survived that giant fire and carried Dadan back on his back. Sabo was safe. Inside of walls meant to protect him. Sabo, her older brother was meant to be alive.

She stops laughing when Dadan gives her a firm slap. The she cries. Deep gut wrenching sobs. Ace reads the letter outlaid to them all. It gives no satisfaction. No closure for her. Sabo hadn't managed his dream; he hand't died free. He'd died, still in the shadow of the kingdom that oppressed him. Luffy begs Ace for comfort and he complies. He promises that he'll never die.

Ace has taken a special place in her heart. Just like Luffy's promise to be Pirate King, she believes Ace when he makes her a promise. Still, she has to squash back her disbelief of Ace's newest declaration. Because she's sure that Sabo would've said the same thing just a few days ago. When he was still alive.

Life on the mountain is quiet for the next few days. After a while, they fall back into their old habits. They learn how to smile again. They also learn how to laugh, although thats more difficult. Sometimes, then they least expect it, when the forget that Sabo's dead, they turn to hear his snarky retort. Only empty air greets them.

Ace loves his siblings. He's awkward in his love, but she knows its there. Luffy accepts Ace when he slides his mat closer to the group so they all sleep together. She accepts it when he gives her a belated birthday gift months away from her birthday.

"I'll treasure it." Its a top hat. So similar to the one Sabo used to wear. Goggles are on it as well, broken, but there.

He burns red and looks away from her. "It's not the same one. It just looked similar so…" He trails off, but she laughs at him and jumps up giving him a giant hug. He lets her get away with a few extra seconds before he pushes her off into the dirt.

Their few short years with Ace fly by. He asks for her help in learning manners, and she realizes that she is slightly more polite then her twin. She explains Makino's influence. The bartender has been up to visit and was sad to hear about their lost brother. She's sure that Makino will teach Ace what he wants to know. She promises to go with him so he's not learning alone.

He grumbles but let her hold his hand the whole way down the mountain, his palms sweaty with nerves, so she knows he doesn't mean it.

The years fly by. She grows strong. Luffy even more so. Ace far surpasses both of them. Even as a team, her and Luffy lose. One day, before she begins fighting, Ace passes her a pipe. Its not Sabo's— they have no idea what happened to his— but Ace's old one. Still, its how Sabo fought, and she picks it up in earnest.

Before Ace leaves she lets her brothers know that she's finally decided on her dream.

"Sabo didn't die." She explains. "Because I'm going to let him live on through me. I'm going to write a book. About the world. About my adventure. And I'm going to change the world."

She doesn't explain any further, doesn't quite have the words to describe the change she wants to enact. Because sometimes that change is as big as ocean, and sometimes as small as making sure she can smile through the day. But it's her dream, one of her two dreams she decides. To change the world, somehow, someway. And to write about it. To write a book that lets the world know about her adventure and the truth of the world.

Luffy just laughs and gives her a hearty pat on the back.

"About time you finally picked a dream." He doesn't voice any doubt that she will manage it and for that she's grateful.

Ace just smiles, lost in thought.

He settles on a grin. Before he leaves, he tells them to keep training hard. He tells them that he'll be waiting for them. He tells them that he loves them, even though they're his stupid annoying younger siblings. He tells them all this and more.

Out loud he only says, "Welp, Ill be off then. See you guys in a few years!"

The two just smile and give their obnoxiously large grins back. We love you too, they don't say as they watch him sail off.

Her and Luffy train hard. Luffy has a training partner in her, a dutiful sparing partner who will always get up and never complain that he punches too hard. Gramps comes by a few times and trains them as well. She's trying her absolute best to replicate 'fists of love' and while initially a rare occurrence, she's slowly getting better them. Gramps cried when she first did it in front of him. It was all very strange, but just like the Monkey family, so she didn't question it and just took the advice he passed down to her.

She goes down to visit Makino more often. As she gets older she looks more similar and more different to her brother. All her childhood she'd left her hair cropped short, in the same style as Luffy. She decides she rather likes it short and cut off all the hair that Makino has coerced her into growing out since Ace has left.

She's thin and wiry. Unlike Luffy, who is made of rubber, her limbs are taut with muscle. Theres no excess fat on her body, although there are plenty of scars. The only one that bothers her is the one on her arm. She'd received it the day of the grey terminal fire and it reminds her of fire, something that occasionally pops up in her nightmares. She's deceptively thin; however, her body is like a grasshopper: she packs a punch, and has more speed then someone would expect.

Although Luffy opts for a bright red vest and while she agrees with the color choice, she chooses something different.

It doesn't suit her, for all their similarities in appearance. It suits Luffy though; It matches his straw hat and his personality.

But for her top hat—and her personality— she decides on a white ruffled tank top that she found in the grey terminal. There was a whole parcel there, as if someone had thrown out an entire children wardrobe. She'd snapped them all up. Something about the style was just like Sabo and she couldn't leave them along. While the ruffles and the shirts themselves take after Sabo, the sleeves cannot be tolerated and she rips them off. With the sleeves ripped off, she can feel Ace's influence.

She ignores the fact that her burn scar shows with the sleeves removed; it's so tiny and faded that it can almost be mistaken for a weird freckle or a misshapen birth mark. Almost.

She need wear nothing to remind her of Luffy; they have the same face, identical hair color and smiles so that when she looks in a mirror, its like seeing Luffy with the scars in all the wrong places.

She may have lost her smile after Sabo died, but over the years, she's found it again. Almost constantly, its plastered on her face. Just like her twin and her gramps, a smiling face is her default look. However, unlike her brother, her eyes show a sharp intelligence. She never stopped reading and she's only grown Sabo's collection. This is a feature all her own. She's never unlearned her caution form childhood and now she wears it openly—curiosity tempered with wary intelligence.

She's visiting the tiny windmill village today, gathering supplies, preparing to leave. Her and Luffy's birthday is finally arrived. She knows she cant take all her collected books with her. She loves the now thrice large collection. However, on the ocean, it's not feasible to bring a small library with ones self. But she only needs one, really.

She used some of her portion of the treasure in advance. She's ordered a book, a journal. It's not a true captains log, much larger and more fine then a typical ships log. She admits she splurged a bit. The pages are thicker and absorb the ink, letting her words settle into the pages. The books is no larger then any other book in her library, but it is wide, with an obscene length of pages for her to desecrate.

Inside she's already begun her story. She doesn't know who her parents are. To be quite honest, she knows nothing about her family, besides the fact that her grandfather is a marine and Luffy is her brother. Without her constant readings of newspapers, she would be surprised to find out that Gramps is a world renowned Marine, a war hero.

But because she discovered that later, thats not how her journal starts. Instead, she begins by explaining her upbringing in the small windmill village. She tells the story of meeting her brothers, in all its unpleasant details. It hurt to remember how mean Ace had been upon meeting the twins. But she writes its as true as she can remember: this book with be a factual and true accounting of her experiences.

She likes the way that sounds and inks a title on the front of the book:

"A Factual Accounting of the World's History" By A Traveler

The journal so far is up to date. She has included snippets of newspaper and even dedicated a full page to each of Ace's bounty posters. She's thrilled to see his name, wherever it is and the journal reflects Ace's transition from lonesome pirate to captain of the Spade pirates. Lately she's seen articles about Ace becoming second commander to Whitebeard. It's an impressive accomplishment and she's bursting with pride.

She also ordered a new leather cord that she can wrap around her wax treated pouch.

The pouch is another acquisition of the grey terminal trash heap, along with her library and her clothes. It's a small satchel that she keeps attached to her waist, next to her trusty pipe. The bag is waterproof, as best as it can be, and it is where she keeps her log. The strap is a safety precaution, something she wants across her body as an extra assurance of the safety of her book.

Luffy is already ready to leave the island. He's been ready for weeks now, but he has kept his promise and will leave on his 17th birthday, the same as Ace; the same as Sabo had planned.

Makino and the rest of the town is there to see them off. Luffy asks her one more time to join him, be his first crew member. She laughs at him and tells him to leave the invitation open.

Deep down, they both know she has no interest in taking it. She has no desire in following someone else's foot steps— she wants to make her own way through the world. Its why she's not leaving with Luffy; She will leave from the port near Gao kingdom, where she has purchased a cheap ticket on a small merchant vessel. While Luffy and Ace both immediately headed north, towards the eventual Grand Line, she will head west towards whatever she finds, before she heads north.

She waves off Luffy and wishes him a safe trip. He yells exuberantly that he will be the pirate king and she just laughs and grins back, knowing without a shadow of doubt that he's telling the truth.

She doesn't cry when Luffy leaves, although she watches until he crosses the horizon. She did the same thing when Ace left, and she didn't cry then either. Their older brother doesn't like cry babies— has impressed on her that tears make her weaker. As such, she tries her best to not let her tears show, even when Makino tells her "A good cry can make everything better."

Luffy had swept into the town and left in a whirlwind. There was hardly anytime for goodbyes, and while everyone had known he was leaving eventually, it was still a shock to just have him gone.

She's much slower in her departure, while she finishes gathering supplies in a waterproof backpack. Makino gets a heartfelt goodbye, although there are no tears from either girl—she makes sure to stress that this is a happy occasion.

The mayor too gets a goodbye, he's always been there for her and Luffy, like a grumpy uncle.

Few other townspeople get more then a wave and a cheerful grin. They haven't been part of her life in years. She grabs the last few items and, task completed, heads back to Dadan's house. All of the bandits get a goodbye. Individually and by name. If Ace and Luffy have been her brothers, then the bandits have been cousins and close neighbors. Makino had been a surrogate mother in some ways. In other ways Dadan has been the same. She drinks all night, reminiscing with Dadan. She doesn't touch the alcohol Dadan pulls out, instead opting for water. When she leaves in the early morning, Dadan is still passed out from the night before. The bandits too are still asleep.

She doesn't bother waking them. If their memory of her is the party of the night before, she will be satisfied.