Luffy chokes on his food. “Mhphh—!”
“Don’t do that.” Zoro frowns at Ace as he reached over and pats Luffy’s back. “You’ll get him all excited over nothing.”
Ace grins mischievously. “What if she’s an alien herself and she’s come to take over the planet!”
Luffy’s arms are going everywhere and he’s babbling nonsense behind all the food in his mouth. Law, who’d been quietly watching the entire time, slowly directed his gaze at Shanks, who caught it. Though there was no reaction from the man the silent exchange was clear between the two of them. They’d need to talk later.
“It’s not aliens.” Law says, closing his eyes and leaning forward to rest his elbows on the table, taking his beer into his hand. “I can’t reveal all the details, but just know that a very real person did this.”
Nami and Vivi instinctively scoot closer to each other in discomfort, hands intertwining under the table.
“That’s it, I’m going to buy a taser on the way home.” Vivi asserts.
Nami concurs with a, “Pepper spray for me.”
Luffy, in his haste to declare that he would protect his friends from whatever dastardly alien-kidnapper-human-thing that was abducting people and so evilly leaving them in the middle of the road, sent chunks of sushi flying everywhere as …show more content…
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