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One Piece, 493-495 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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This is an unspoiled network podcast. This is spoil Me, covering one piece
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episodes four ninety three through four ninety five Loofy and Ace, the story of
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how the brothers met. Here comes Sabo, the boy at the Gray Terminal,
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and I Won't Run Ace's desperate rescue operation. In these episodes, we
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get a really fun and satisfying story about Lufy and Ace's relationship and Sabo who.
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I'm feeling like I might be supposed to know who this is. They
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are somebody later, but maybe not. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to
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the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Florian for
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commissioning this episode, and I also just want to mention, Oh, and
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Florian's here in the chat. Hi Florian. Uh? This so I was
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instructed to skip over episode four ninety two as it is like a filler episode.
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I guess the Hulu like lineup skips right over four ninety two. It's
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not even here, and I am super curious about that. I don't know
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if that's something that's like, you know, the episode has been taken off
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the air entirely for some reason. If it's like the way that Hulu has
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structured seasons means that if it isn't, if it is a filler episode,
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they have just started to like omit that. But I just was very surprised
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by the fact that I didn't have to like manually skip past four ninety two.
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So I don't know if there's any info out there about that, and
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it's not important really, but I am curious about it. So, okay,
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four ninety three, Lufi and Ace the story of how the brothers met.
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You know, guys, we have seen them as children and the way
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that they met, So I was sort of like, well, we didn't
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see how they met, that's wrong, But we saw some of the backstory
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about Ace as a kid and the way that he was treated, So I
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sort of thought that we were going to be joining them in that scenario,
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that situation, and this turns out to be like a very different setup at
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this point in their lives. Oh, Florian says four ninety two is a
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crossover between one piece and another anime. Maybe they do not have the rites
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for the other anime. That's interesting. What's the other anime that they crossed
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over with? Oh and I should mention too that this episode had a whole
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new theme song, which in my opinion, is a banger, and I
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have actually stopped fast forwarding past the opening credits. I don't watch them because
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I know that they can have spoilers in them, but I let them play
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out in the background while I do something else until the episode begins, because
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I actually really really like this new song, and I am I'm sad knowing
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that eventually it's going to be replaced with something else, because I'm sort of
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like, oh, let's just keep this one. This one's really good.
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But yeah. So we begin things with the narrator reminding us of everything that
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happened at Marine Ford and the fact that Ace has died, and telling us
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that you know, we're going to go back ten years and go to the
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East Blue and that there is this place, a town called Windmill Village where
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people live quiet, peaceful lives, but it was the nearby Mount Corvo where
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few would dare to set foot, for only the strong could survive in its
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dark woods, faced with beasts that would make quick work of trespassers. And
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we start with Lufy being carried by the mouth by Garb and continuing to yell
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about how he's going to be a pirate. He doesn't understand what's so wrong
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about this and the situation here. He's turned into rubber boy already, He's
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already eaten this gumgum fruit, and Garp is still determined that Lufy and Ace
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are both going to become marines. But obviously I don't see how he thought
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that was going to happen, and he sends them to live with literal outlaws.
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Garp. I know that you had limited options, and I get that,
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and I'm not judging you for that at all. I understand the difficulty.
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However, I must say you were sending them to live with like underworld
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shtheads and the fact that you thought they would turn around and become marines after
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this is frankly laughable, and you really have nobody to blame but yourself.
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So sorry about it, but you really played like a major factor. I
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feel like and where they both wound up. Florine is saying to Rico is
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the other anime one about finding great food? I think, Okay, Hi,
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why has nobody commissioned to Rico? Please? Because interested you guys?
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Just an aside. I have become increasingly aware over the past couple of years
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between some reading that I have done, and some like eating at different locations
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in Dallas because there's like a big Korean population down here. I really am
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deeply unfamiliar with like most Asian cuisine, really really unfamiliar, and I need
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to like get on that, guys. I really want to know and learn
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more. And it's difficult when you don't have like the money to eat out
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all the time, because I'm not going to try and prepare shit myself when
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I've never even tasted it, because I want somebody who knows what they're doing
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to tell me how it should taste first, you know. But it's not.
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It ain't cheap out here to eat anymore. And so there's just a
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lot about Asian food in general that I have realized I didn't know. I
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didn't know, and I would be very very interested in an anime about food
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anyway. Okay, So uh Doadan, Yes, exactly, Florience. So
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do Don is this very tall, broad redheaded woman who uh is later called
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a hag many times over and is evidently the leader of this gang of like
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mountain bandits, and Dedan is like she's a hard ass in in a major
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way, Like she I'm I'm not trying to pretend that she is just oh,
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a heart of gold underneath it all, if only you'd give her a
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chance, because like, she tries to find a way to offload these kids
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and keeps being basically blackmailed into taking care of them. So it's not like
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she's at heart a great person. It's more that she seems like pretty easy
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to manipulate, Like she doesn't think too far ahead, and she doesn't have
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a real complicated mind, you know. So she answers the door, and
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she's very aggressive right out of the gate with like, whoever's here, I
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don't want anything that you're selling or giving away or a lecture or whatever.
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But then she sees that it's garp and she's like, shit, what are
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you doing here? And the people who pop out from behind her, there's
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like this little guy with a turban and another dude who's got like a mohawk.
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She is called Curly Dedon, and then we've got uh, what is
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his name? Mountain bandit. Oh, I'm sorry, guys. I For
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some reason, the way that Hulu works is like if the the little like
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thing that you go forward and backward on that shows you, like where you
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are within the episode is up, it blacks out sort of the bottom of
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the screen, which is exactly where the title is that tells us their names.
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So when I tried to like jump ahead a little bit, it completely
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blacked out the names of the other two people. And she's, Oh my
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god, she's got like a booger hanging out of her nose and a cigarette.
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It's a real one two punch, so Curly didn and Mountain Bandit Dogra
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or maybe Dogra Mountain Bandit Magra is the guy with the mustache and the mohawk,
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and she's like immediately going, I hope you're not here for another fucking
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favor, because Ace is already ten years old and we don't need to be
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dealing with another kid. And these guys are like, just take the bread
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away. We've had him for long enough. And Garb tries to be like,
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don't mind that, and he's like, but we do mind, And
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Garp says, well, that's a little bit too bad, because here's Loofy
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and I love this, he says, tell them hello, And in the
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dub, Loofy just lifts a hand and goes yo, and I know that
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they just had to have him say something one syllable to match up with,
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like the mouth flaps. But yo, it was just so funny in this
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like little kid voice. I really really enjoyed a lot of like the little
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kid loofy dialogue. I found it very, very fun. And it's honestly,
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like a little bit easier for me to forgive some of the loofyish behavior
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because he's so small. He's meant to be about seven years old here that
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I couldn't help but think a few times that, like, I can excuse
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this. He's little enough that this doesn't feel as foolish as it does when
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he is older and still low key pretty much acting the same way. Florian
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says, we have not seen her, but we have talked about her because
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Lufy and Ace mentioned her, and you said she looks like a woman who
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just wants to watch her program and not be bothered. I don't remember saying
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that, but yeah, that's I was correct. Like this lady, she's
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just got a vibe of somebody who's like, doesn't ask that much of life,
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but what she does ask, she better fucking get it, do you
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know what I mean? Like, there's some people who are just super ambitious
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and never satisfied and always want more. Honestly, I can be like that.
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And then there are people who it's like they don't have huge aspirations,
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but the things that they do aspire to, if they're not even gonna get
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that, they really feel a way about it, because that's part of the
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deal. If you have lowered your expectations, then you expect them to be
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met. And I see that, you know, so this lady is just
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like disgusted that Garb wants to leave yet another kid with her. Garb presents
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him as his grandson, which you would really think they would make more,
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they would make more of an effort to care for Lufy, just out of
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the fact that Garp is claiming to be directly related to this kid, where
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I don't think he made any claim of the sort with A's but when they
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try and protest, of course he immediately is just like, or you could
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spend your time in prison because you've committed plenty of crimes and the deal being
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that you watch these kids and don't go to jail. I feel is pretty
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good. And doggra who's like no offense. But there have been some times
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when Ace really made me wish I was in prison. That was what I
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would have preferred. And Loofy is out here just sort of like running off
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and into the woods and he gets like something hit in his face. It's
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I didn't realize that it was meant to be spit right away. I was
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just sort of like, wait, is this something from the woods? Like,
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you know, he looks around and is yelling who did that? And
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then you see Ace who's just upsitting on this like tall boulder, watching him.
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And Ace is really not here for Loofy at all, which wasn't what
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I was expecting. And I'm curious how other people were expecting him to be
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because I just really thought we were going to have a sort of reaching out
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being protective of Loofy right away, and no, not even a little bit.
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He is frankly like unwelcoming isn't even the word. You spit on somebody
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the first time you meet them and they have done nothing to you. That's
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just hateful And for what reason? What reason, sir did he give you
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for behaving like this? But it kind of makes sense after having seen the
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way that he was treated by everybody that Ace just has a chip on his
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shoulder and really seems to be kind of coming at the world in a real
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aggressive, fuck you first sort of way. And also I have to keep
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in mind and this is something that like I personally don't have a lot of
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experience with, but I have seen it with friends and I have heard about
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it secondhand, So now I feel like I get it, and I would
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have felt the same way. I didn't grow up with siblings, and so
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I don't have the sort of hang ups about I'm older and I want to
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be given my own like space time with my friends and not be like bogged
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down with this actual infant who's super annoying. But I know that there's a
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lot of people out there who were made to like care for siblings who were
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much younger, and it just really sort of brought the whole vibe down when
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they wanted to hang out with their friends and they were made to watch their
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kid sister, kid brother or from my point of view, when I went
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to hang out with friends and their little brother or sister was like foisted upon
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us when we we wanted to just like be like cooler than shit, act
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like total adults even though we were still children, and it just completely ruined
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the vibe to have this, like, you know, eight year old tagging
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along with us everywhere, and there there was an element of that I felt
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as well of just like man, I had my own shit that I was
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up to. And I guess now you think me and this kid that I
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have nothing in common with who I only just met, are going to be
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fucking buds. And let me tell you, then, ay happening. I
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have no interest and I don't care if he does, because it's not up
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to him. So Loofy later on, when Ace is like, I don't
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get it. I've never made you think that I wanted to be friends with
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you. I've never been nice to you. Why do you want to be
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friends? Lufy just straight up says because I'm lonely, like who else is
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there? And it seems like that never occurred to Ace, and he has
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to take a minute and just be like, think over the way that he
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had been treated as a kid, and the way that he was made fun
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of for who his father was, and just the people were just really shitty
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to him and sort of try and put himself into Loofy's shoes. And once
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he stops and does that, he's like, oh, yeah, okay,
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I see that, but it isn't like an automatic thing that he understands,
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which is sort of interesting because Sabo is that his name is like his only
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friend, and you would think that it would have occurred to him. This
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kid doesn't even have a Sabo, but evidently it never did occur to him,
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which, uh, you know, sir, you just gotta think sometimes,
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just think for like a second about how you'd feel. That's all it
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takes, and all of a sudden everything looks different, you know. Sorry.
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Florian is in the chat he was talking about like their initial meeting and
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says, yeah, this was not what I was expecting at all, And
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it does make sense and is sad in a way I was the younger sibling,
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but yeah, it is true that is the sort of thing that I
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would have hated, like but at the same time, like I am somebody
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who's always hyper conscious of not wanting to be in the way and be any
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trouble, so I minimize myself a lot anyway, And if I were a
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younger sibling foisted upon an older sibling, I can only imagine how much like
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worse that would have been. But also I remember as a kid, like
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finding out that friends of mine had older siblings who had already gone to certain
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classes, been with certain teachers, and so when we started in like middle
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school or high school, a teacher would be like, oh, you're so
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and So's brother, and would recognize them and have like a point of reference,
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and also that that kid had an older sibling who would have warned them
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what this teacher was like, or they would have just been socialized a little
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bit more. And I remember being really jealous of that because I was an
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only child, and as much as I mostly really enjoyed being an only child,
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there were a lot of times where it was very apparent to me,
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how uh, what's the word I want here, how undersocialized I was in
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comparison to a lot of other kids, and it took me longer to understand
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how to be. And there were kids that just knew because they had been
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surrounded by older kids and had a bit of a leg up. But anyway,
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okay, so yeah, they keep trying to protest about how they're not
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going to take loofy, but in the end, of course, sir,
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as you wish, sir, and Garb says, I'll stop by later when
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I have time. You can put him on my tab, like he doesn't
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even want to offer them any money to care for Loofy, which is like
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really particularly shitty, you know. And when Ace comes inside, he walks
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right past Lufy, who was like demanding that Lufy or Lufy is demanding that
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Ace apologize for spitting on him. But we see the next time that they
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interact with each other that Lufy has decided to sort of take a leaf out
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of Shank's book and forgive because it's just not a big deal, and it's
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kind of a nice, like throat callback to see Lufy just deciding, you
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know what, I would rather be friends. I'll just let this go and
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let it roll off my back. That's a good policy. And you can
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see the Ace is sort of plussed by that. Let me have Lufy who
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walks into the house, and some dude comes up behind him and wraps his
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arm around his head and holds out a knife and says, give us all
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your money, or go tell your parents to bring us their money. And
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when he says I have a grandpa, tell us his name and we'll go
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find him, and Dograss says it's Garb, and all of them immediately begin
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to freak out. And I was just like, were you really trying to
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rob a child that was in your house? That's how you wanted to play
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this, Like y'all deserve everything you get. You are bad at this.
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What are you even? What are you doing? And they all try to
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do the same, like we aren't running a daycare. But at this point,
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de Don pulls out all of this meat and it is just like it's
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dinner time. Argue about this later and we see some of the Uh,
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it's not like this is where Lufy gets his appetite, because he's reacting with
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strong appetite on his own anyway, But it's funny to see how he reacts
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to this food in every adult here, which is not usually the reaction that
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we see from other grown ups. And because of like later on we find
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out that food is a little bit scarce, and the ace is the one
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that usually is like going hunting and stuff, it's a lot more understandable why
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everybody is like basically ready to throw fists to get whatever bit they want.
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And there's one last piece of meat that Lufy is reaching for and the dog
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takes it, and he has given a glass of water and a bowl of
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rice and Don tells him, you are going to have to fend for yourself.
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This is the den of the Didon Mountain bandits. We don't have enough
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to just go around, so you are going to have to figure out your
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own meals because we got stuck with you and we don't have the resources.
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He looks over at Ace, who's got a big plate full of meat,
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and Ace is not sharing. He has no interest, does not He's just
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like every man for himself. So to Don, when she's telling him,
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like, you have to earn your keep, she's expecting Loofy to be like,
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oh no, but Lufy instead is like, oh all right, well
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yeah, yes that makes sense, and she's really like wait what, And
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he's like, yeah, well, you know, my grandfather just dropped me
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in the fucking woodszone one time and expected me to survive, So I guess
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that's just gonna be the same thing living here, no problem. And I
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really enjoyed that reaction and like, I know how to tough it out just
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fine. I was not expecting him to just immediately think to himself, oh,
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I'll just use the resources that I've been taught to use. I thought
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it was gonna be kind of like well, that's not fair, you know,
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and I should have known better. Immediately, he's like, well,
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there's plenty of water to drink out in the woods, and I can eat
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frogs and snakes and mushrooms and stuff all I want. I'm going to be
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a pirate someday, so I've got to be strong. This is gonna be
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real fun. And you can see like Ace doesn't look over at him or
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anything exactly, but you can see that he's listening and it has sort of
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made an impression on him, the reaction that Lufy is having. So Ace
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leaves, and Lufy just like chases right after him, clearly expecting Ace to
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slow down and wait for him, and he does no such. He just
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goes out into the woods and is clearly trying to shake Loofy, and it's
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really like hard to watch. At one point, he knocks down a tree
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sends it at Loofy and like, if Lufy hadn't been made of rubber,
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he could have been seriously hurt. But since he is, he's fine.
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But I definitely felt a bit of a way about that Ace that just was
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like, you know, this is a seven year old boy, What the
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fuck? Dude? And Ace is like go crossing this bridge. There's all
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kinds of places where Lufy has like caught up with him, and he is
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trying to get him to leave him alone. When Lufy like catches up with
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him on the bridge, Ace like smacks the bridge so that Lufy gets flung
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off it into the air, and Ace is just clearly if this kid dies,
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he could not have cared less, and later on is straight up saying
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we should kill him, and I was just like, what in the fuck?
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Ace, Jesus Christ. So we find out later exactly what's going on
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here, but basically Ace is just trying to keep Loofy from finding out where
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he's hiding out with his friend and what it is that they've got going on,
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because they've got pirate treasure and they're saving up to get a ship of
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their own, and they do not trust that this literal child is going to
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be closed mouthed about this, which they're right to think that. Frankly,
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it turns out Loofy can keep his mouth shut when he wants to, but
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he has to like understand the threat in a way that he often doesn't,
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you know what I mean, Like he'll just blurt it out without really thinking
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about it, And it's just the fact that he has threatened so immediately and
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directly that he knows that this is somebody that I don't want to say that
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too, but yeah, like lufy. When he gets thrown off of this
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bridge, it takes him a long time to get back to the house,
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and everybody is just sort of thinking that he might be dead, Like,
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what are we gonna say to Garp when he finds out that his grandson is
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dead. Dedan is being really weird about it, and it turns out that
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she's drunk, so that's part of it. But she's starting to just be
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like, well, you know, who cares one less crappy kid in the
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world. Maybe he should have thought about what would have happened to him before
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he left him with a bunch of bandits in the woods. Does this look
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like a damn daycare to you. If he can't take care of himself,
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he has no If he can't take care of the kid himself, he has
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no right to talk. Which is all very fine and well to say here,
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but as they keep reminding her it's Garp, she's gonna have to say
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all of this shit too. And I don't see that happening. Eventually,
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Loofy does come back and there's no real, like hard feelings about the way
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that Ace treated him. He is just like, well, I'll try again
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and will not let up. It's been I think a full week by the
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time he turns back up, and he's like, you know, clearly been
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through it. He's got a cut over one eye, part of his shirt
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is torn. He's just really beaten up, but he's here. And when
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he goes outside to Don is like, why did you scare us like that?
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And stretches his face. What the hell were you doing? This whole
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thing? It's so funny because to Don acted like it didn't matter. But
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as soon as he turns back up again, is like, I can't tell
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if she's lying about not giving a shit about him, or if it's just
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that now she's sober, she does or what. But she's just like,
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as soon as she's done being relieved that he's okay, she then starts complaining
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about how it's another mouth to feed and she tosses him in the room with
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Ace, and he just like immediately passes out, and you can see Ace
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looking over at Lufy and there being a sort of oh, he's fucking back,
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and like I said, the next day, Lufy's like, hey,
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Ace, I know I was gone for a while, but I still want
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to be friends. Where are you going? Can I come with you?
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And Chase is after him. Meanwhile, they have been intending to make both
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of these kids do chores, and they act like that never happens. This
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is a recurring theme when it's just Ace, when it's Ace and Lufy,
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and then later when it's Ace, Lufy and Sabo, they always just fucking
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bail And I don't know why they keep thinking we'll make you do chores,
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because when has that happened? Like literally ever? So we then sort of
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like we have another montage of Ace trying to lose Loofy, and finally Loofy
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gets like attacked by this tiger, and it really looks for a second like
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there's going to be a moment where Lufy gets eaten. Lufy does get eaten,
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actually later on by an alligator, but this attack by the tiger gets
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interrupted by the attack from the bear, and this gives Lufy just enough time
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to flee and get out of there. Ace is watching the whole thing,
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but he doesn't actually step in I'm not sure if there's anything that he could
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have done, so I don't blame him for that, but he does seem
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pleased when Lufy manages to get away. Right. So we'll jumping into the
31:00
second of these two episodes or these three episodes. Loofy has like run off
31:08
and found this weird area which we later find out is called, uh Gray,
31:17
I'm trying to find it. It's like Gray interior. It's not interior.
31:22
I can't remember the name of this. Florian says, Loufy just does
31:26
not want to be lonely and thinking of his crew. This makes sense.
31:30
He wants good people around him. Yeah, definitely, But yeah, he
31:37
comes across this place, Gray terminal, that's what it is. Uh.
31:42
He has found this what basically amounts to like a dump on the edge of
31:51
town, and it is full of all kinds of junk that the merchants will
32:00
buy up. It's like taking things and going to like a pawn shop basically.
32:08
And there's a couple of dudes who are heading in there and have made
32:13
a killing apparently going to some merchant and got a lot of money. And
32:17
they are not on their guard at all because they're both big, strong,
32:22
dudes, and so I just feel that they aren't worried anybody is going to
32:29
come for them, and they are not ready for Ace, who is out
32:34
here lying in wait, looking for anybody who has money, and he just
32:40
beats the hell out of them and takes it. And the fact that he
32:44
is a kid is part of why they don't see him coming, because he
32:46
just does not look like a threat. And the people who live around here
32:53
are also like they're described as like rogues and misfits, cast out by society.
33:00
Crime and disease run rampant, with neither marines nor doctors present. So
33:07
it's just very much sort of like a wasteland where anything goes. And this
33:14
is where Ace is going to, like, you know, to try and
33:19
make his fortune. And Lufy follows him out here and doesn't know what Ace
33:23
is up to either, and we're just getting this like little montage of Ace
33:29
fighting, but we're not seeing who it is that he's up against. So
33:34
it comes as a big surprise when you see like this grown man sprinting away
33:39
in terror and then finding out that it was Ace who like took his shit,
33:45
and there's just it's a lot of scavengers and people fighting over things.
33:50
There's a whole scene with like a guy stealing somebody's uh, some poor dude
33:54
found a pearl necklace and there's a big fist fighter and somebody else takes it
34:00
and then they get got one hand to another, you know. But eventually
34:08
we see Ace with a big sack of loot coming up to this huge tree
34:15
and he is meeting Sabo and it says Sabo ten years old, a boy
34:22
who lives in Gray Terminal, and he's got what looks like a chipped tooth.
34:27
It's not even a missing tooth, it's like the tooth is broken.
34:31
And they have got a lot of money. They're talking about how this might
34:37
not be enough for a ship, but I really feel confident it is,
34:40
and the two of them have been at this and like really making a killing.
34:46
It's surprising in a way that they're not that more people aren't on their
34:52
guard regarding these kids. But at the same time, I could understand how
34:59
people don't want to that they got jumped by like a child, because that's
35:04
so embarrassing, Like it reminds me a little bit of if. For those
35:08
who haven't seen the movie Hustlers with Jennifer Lopez. I highly recommend it.
35:14
I'm not like a Jennifer Lopez fan in general, because she's just she's a
35:20
very problematic woman. But that is one of my favorite movies ever, and
35:24
it's a true story about some strippers who after the crash in two thousand and
35:31
eight, they had been making really good money and then all of a sudden,
35:36
all of these like different you know, hedge funds, businesses, bear
35:40
Stearns and whatnot, they all went under, and so their top customers at
35:45
the strip club didn't have any money to spend and they were just not showing
35:50
up, and so they had to devise a new way to make money.
35:54
And what they decided to do was drug these men and take their credit cards
36:00
out of their pockets and use them to give themselves huge tips. And the
36:07
guys would wake up after having been drugged, and they wouldn't admit to anybody
36:14
that this had happened. They would play it off like they spent the money
36:17
on purpose because they have the money to spend and they had a great time,
36:22
and sometimes they'd even go back a second time and just pretend that it
36:27
was just like, oh, it was a debauched night out where I don't
36:30
remember because I got fucked up, not because these women actually drugged and took
36:35
advantage of me. So they got away with it for a long time because
36:40
nobody really wanted to cop to the fact that this was what was going on,
36:45
and that's what I was just assuming was sort of happening here. But
36:49
yeah, eventually they get approached by Loofy, and this is like their secret
36:55
hangout and where they're dashing their money. That means everything to them. So
37:00
the fact that Lufy is here and sees them is a fucking problem. Like
37:06
they are really upset about this, and Ace had thought for sure that he
37:12
had given Loofy the slip, so the fact that Lufy is here, he
37:15
is so irritated about it. And eventually they grip Loofy up and tie him
37:21
to a tree and they decide to kill him. Kids, I wasn't the
37:29
only one shocked by this, right, Like they're literally like, all right,
37:32
well, go ahead kill him then, Like it's not they it's not
37:37
that they don't know what it means to kill They don't kill him because neither
37:42
of them has done it before and they just don't really know what to do.
37:46
But I wouldn't say that. They say they're gonna kill him and chicken
37:52
out. I want to say that because it suggests a line in the sand
37:59
of morality, but I can't honestly say it because I don't think that line
38:06
is there for them. I think that had each of like either of them
38:12
owned a gun, for example, and knew if I just pulled a trigger,
38:16
this problem is no longer a problem. I think they would have done
38:22
it. I just, you know, I just kind of think they would
38:27
have done it, and it's upsetting. Eventually, when Lufy realizes that they
38:34
are going to kill him, like he's trying it first to just sort of
38:37
be like, oh, you guys, but then he realizes they are actually
38:43
serious about it and begins to sort of try and yell for help. And
38:47
once he begins to like cut up, it draws like the attention of some
38:53
people nearby, and even oh Lufy attempts to stay quiet, it's no use.
39:04
He gets got by this dude, this huge, purplish haired dude whose
39:12
name is something sort of weird. It's like pork Garris something like that.
39:19
But he asks loofy if he knows where the money is that's been stolen from
39:24
them, all because they took from this dude who turns out to be a
39:30
Blue Jam pirate. Blue Jam I really don't know what to think of that,
39:35
guys. I feel like that's a bad name, but I can't exactly
39:39
articulate what's so bad about it. I think it's just that it sounds so
39:43
close to Pearl Jam that it just makes me giggle a little bit. I
39:47
think that's all it is, to be perfectly honest. But this dude,
39:54
they didn't know like who they were fucking with, and once they realized that
39:58
that's who they s stole from, Ace is like, oh shit, and
40:04
uh Loofy attempts to lie that he doesn't know where the money's being kept,
40:10
but we get to see like the most terrible like staring off to the side,
40:17
speaking out the side of his mouth like no, I have no idea
40:22
where it is. And it's really funny how like they're immediately like oh boy,
40:30
And this is the exact kind of animation that we get later when the
40:34
bandits are all trying to lie as well. And I just find it really
40:37
funny that this is meant to be like the way that you know somebody is
40:42
full of shit. It makes sense like it does. I see this being
40:49
a you know, a bad liar, but I did think it was funny
40:52
because it just it's there's something about it that's so specific, you know what
40:57
I'm saying. But anyway, so because he was a bad liar, these
41:06
pirates are like, oh, bet, we'll just grab this kid and then
41:13
once we have him in our clutches, we'll be able to get the story
41:15
out of him, no problem. And understandably, Ace and Sabo assume Loofy
41:23
gonna fold, like there's just no doubt about it to them. So they
41:30
go to their stash and very quickly get everything out of there to make sure
41:34
that nobody is going to find it, which is totally fair, but they
41:39
underestimate the situation for Loofy as far as how much it means to him to
41:49
be a friend and be loyal. And so there is a genuinely upset setting
42:00
sequence where this dude goes and gets spiked gloves and begins to beat the shit
42:13
out of Loofy demanding to know what he knows, and Loofy won't talk.
42:22
And you guys, this was, like I said, it just it was
42:25
upsetting. It made me there's a point where one of these pirates is like,
42:34
this is a kid and this is getting hard to watch? Can we
42:38
not? And yeah, you know I was also like kind of in that
42:46
space, just like I would rather So all this to say that lou Fee
43:00
is absolutely willing to die to keep this secret, which I can't. I
43:14
just could never you, guys, I have said it before, I'll say
43:17
it again until the day I die. I am not made to withstand torture.
43:24
I am so sorry everybody out there whom I love if I were to
43:29
give up your secrets. I really don't want you to take it personally.
43:31
Don't think that it's because I don't love you. It's just that I am
43:37
weak. I just am. I admit this. I know this about myself,
43:42
and I'm not even really like apologizing for it exactly. It's just don't
43:47
tell me shit then you know this about me. I've admitted it to you,
43:52
So if I have some info that they could use against you, it's
43:54
your fault for telling me because you knew this about me, and you know,
44:00
like, what did you want? What did you expect? Frankly,
44:04
and I just personally the moment that I saw this man take out those spikes
44:08
gloves. That would be a rap, that would be it. He has
44:14
those gloves out and I am telling him literally anything he wants to know.
44:20
I just couldn't. I couldn't withstand it. It would not happen. And
44:27
it's just something that I have known about myself and have grown. I have
44:34
come to peace with it. How's that so? Anyway? That's what's going
44:39
on here as these guys are like, you know, frantically finding a new
44:44
place to hide all of their money, carrying it in boxes to like this
44:50
other location, and they're they're doing it because they fully assume that Lufy's going
44:54
to crack and tell them, And Sabo is like final at one point,
45:00
after watching the spot where there shit had been hidden, realizing like nobody is
45:06
coming, he goes to Ace and is like, dude, I don't think
45:10
he's told them, which means he's still being tortured right now and hasn't spilled
45:19
his guts. And we actually see Portuy that's his name. We actually see
45:29
Captain blue jam and he is so weird looking. He has these teeth like
45:35
jack O lantern teeth. But he's saying, how like maybe Portumy hasn't come
45:42
with his money because he thinks he's going to be able to get one over
45:45
on as captain and take off with it. He doesn't know that portum Me
45:52
got robbed yet, and later on when it turns out that's what happened,
45:57
he has absolutely no patience for at whatsoever. Like instantly, his response is
46:02
basically, if you got robbed, that is fucking sad, and there is
46:08
no way that you are going to remain on the top tier of my pirates
46:15
after being taken by a child. And on the one hand, I can't
46:23
where he's coming from on that, but I also I can't help you,
46:28
guys. It's like it's a fucked up thing where porture Me is out here
46:32
literally torturing a kid hanging from the ceiling. When somebody dares to be like,
46:38
don't torture this child anymore, he punches this man across the room and
46:43
says, if you have time to bitch about this, you've got time to
46:45
go find ace. This is a bad man. And yet when he's like
46:52
on his knees crying in front of his boss and telling him like I'm so
46:58
sorry, I couldn't help but feel bad for him, like getting killed,
47:02
I did. I just you know. So the next episode begins with Loofy
47:10
like Portumy had basically decided at this point it's just no use, like Lufy
47:17
isn't going to tell, so I'm gonna put an end to this, and
47:23
he gets his, uh, his sword and is about to like cut Lufy's
47:29
head off, but Sabo and Ace run in and save Lufy at the last
47:36
second, and Ace is like, giving Sabo enough time to get Loofy down
47:43
from the ceiling, and it's supposed to just be once we've got Lufy,
47:47
we're gonna, you know, take off from here. But Ace refuses to
47:53
run and he says like, I don't run from my enemies, to which
48:00
porch me. He's like, well, I don't show mercy to my enemies,
48:05
so I'm done playing games. You've got something that belongs to us,
48:08
be good and give it back. You're just a kid, and I don't
48:13
blame you for acting stupid, but you better give us the fucking money or
48:17
you're gonna live to regret it. Now. I'm gonna be honest with you
48:22
guys once again on expectations that I had, and that is to say I
48:30
fully expected this to end up being basically a trade of the money that they
48:39
had saved up for Lufy's life, that they were going to turn out to
48:46
like realize that Lufy had kept his mouth shut and that he was a decent
48:52
kid, and that they were going to like take the hit, maybe not
48:57
giving up all their money, but giving back like a good portion of it
49:01
in exchange for Lufy, and that being part of the sacrifice that they were
49:06
making. And I like this the way that this goes down. I was
49:15
genuinely surprised at all of this. So first Sabo just drops Louviy and is
49:22
like, you wait right here, I'll be right back, and he rushes
49:24
forward to like help Ace fight, and U portraed me Like it looks for
49:30
a second like he has really beaten, Like he takes a swing at Ace
49:37
and he seems like he goes flying, but instead it turns out that they
49:44
are actually kind of badass. And you see Louvi's face as he's watching all
49:50
of this go down in utter shock, because I just don't think that even
49:53
at this point he had expected to be beat or had expected to be saved.
50:00
And then we have the Captain blue Jam coming to find Portray and being
50:06
like I heard the whole story, and you should be fucking ashamed of yourself.
50:12
And when port Me tries to explain, he just says, you're not
50:15
fit for my crew and pulls a gun and just shoots porch Me in the
50:21
head. I never thought that it was just gonna be I'm gonna shoot you
50:29
in the head like this. I thought Portramy was going to be like an
50:32
ongoing issue because, like the end of this three episodes is not the end
50:38
of this story arc. So the fact that he has just been completely taken
50:44
out of the mix, I was really shocked by. And Blue Jam just
50:49
says, all right, so then, which one of y'all is going to
50:52
get my money back? Because I'll be damned if I let these these infants
51:00
get away with money that belongs to me. That is not happening. We
51:07
have got to show them we are not to be fucked with. So let
51:12
me go to Ace and Sabo and Looviy, and Sabo is saying, Ace,
51:16
that was fucked up. I get that you want to make a point,
51:20
but those were actual pirates and next time we have to run. I
51:24
don't know what your deal is, but it's not worth dying over Ace meanwhile
51:30
completely ignores him, and Sabo says, we made a huge mistake pissing off
51:39
pirates like that. They've probably told their captain like what are we supposed to
51:45
do now? And Lufy is out here like crying, and Ace yells at
51:55
him to stop. You're not hurt that bad? When are you gonna stop
52:00
being a baby? And I was so mad at him? I was so
52:07
mad at him, you guys, I really was, like he said,
52:12
like, and movie rightfully is like, have you ever been hit with gloves
52:16
that are all spiked like that? You know? But I really Ace,
52:23
he kept your secret. He got the shit kicked out of him, and
52:29
you're gonna come over here and tell him to stop being a baby? Is
52:35
that really how you want to play this? My friend? Is this it
52:38
come on like that? Just Ace? I am, just, for the
52:44
record, deeply disappointed in Ace. I'm just deeply disappointed. He just was
52:55
willing to do some pretty awful things these episodes that I would not have expected
53:01
of him. And I know that he grows and is better eventually, and
53:06
that's great, but for now, I was just bummed. And when he
53:13
says, do you want to be a pirate or not? Lufy finally like
53:15
manages to make himself shut up. But this is the moment where he's asking
53:22
Loufy, like, why didn't you just tell them? And Lufy says,
53:25
because I was afraid that if I did, you wouldn't want to be my
53:29
friend, And he's like, okay, even if I didn't, though,
53:32
it would still be dying, Like why do you even want to be my
53:37
friend so bad? It's not like I've been nice to you. I've been
53:39
giving you hell ever since we met. It's been months. Why haven't you
53:43
just given up? And Loofy, who is by the way, all bandaged
53:49
up, like covered in cuts and whatnot, he says, because I got
53:53
no one else to turn to. I can't go back to Windmill Village.
53:58
I don't like the Mountain Bandits. I'd be alone all the time if I
54:01
didn't follow you. Getting beat up hurts, but being lonely hurts more.
54:07
And then you see these flashbacks of Ace being just like made fun of by
54:15
people and him realizing like what the loneliness is and says, well, I
54:22
get it, but you're still annoying. Weak little cry babies piss me off.
54:28
And they wind up just sort of like screaming in each other's faces about
54:31
this. Sabo finally is like, all right, look, I can't stay
54:40
out here, guys. I've been sleeping in these woods. But eventually there's
54:45
gonna come a point where I am too tired one night and I pass out,
54:52
don't notice them sneaking up on me, and I'm dead. So I'm
54:57
gonna come and stay with y'all. I need your help. And I do
55:01
enjoy the fact that, like, even though they're sleeping with these bandits,
55:07
they don't feel any need to contribute really, like they bring food back and
55:10
stuff, but the whole thing with the chores that was supposed to happen is
55:16
just not on the table in any serious way. And I really do enjoy
55:22
that when they come back, like they're all covered in bandages and Dogra is
55:28
just like, what is going on with these guys? And eventually we have
55:31
dedn coming and seeing that there's an extra kid, and it, you know,
55:37
there's this long ongoing like counting and realizing there's an extra kid. Nobody
55:42
said that you could stay here, and Sabo just farts repeatedly and is just
55:49
laughing. It's such a weird sequence all this to say, Sabo eventually like
55:55
tells her, I heard you're a tough old. I'll be sure to mind
56:01
my manners. And she's like, all right, the tough part is true,
56:06
but start calling stop calling me, hag And he's just grinning at her
56:12
and she's getting angry, and eventually, as they're like sort of going head
56:17
to head with her anger and his smile, she just collapses. And it's
56:22
like, all right, fine, but no free rides get to work this
56:30
instant and Sabo says, you got it, thank you, and they don't.
56:37
Long story short, he says you got it, and then they do
56:42
not. I should mention too that what Sabo is wearing here is wild.
56:46
So he's got blonde hair and this little like upturned nose, and he has
56:52
what looks like and like an outfit from like the eighteenth century, with a
57:00
cravat and a wide collar and a very steampunky cat like, uh, what
57:07
do you call it? I keep wanting to say, captain's happitth that's not
57:08
it top hat with a pair of goggles on it. But you never see
57:13
him actually wearing these goggles. But his whole like look is actually kind of
57:19
dope. And I just really want to know about where he's from and what
57:22
the deal is with this guy. But yeah, eventually we have like the
57:25
sequence of them all in the woods playing around and eventually them joking about what
57:32
like how Loofy can turn into rubber and Ace is trying to act unimpressed with
57:39
this power, but Sabo is like, I don't know, that sounds like
57:44
it could be really handy, actually, and so Loofy turns into a balloon
57:50
gum balloon, which we've seen him use and it is really useful, but
57:53
it looks just kind of goofy, and the two of them decide to mess
57:59
with him by just kicking him back and forth like a huge rubber ball,
58:02
but they have forgotten the fact that Lufy can't swim, so eventually, as
58:08
he's being bounced back and forth, he just winds up landing in the water
58:13
and almost drowning. And when he comes up out of the water, he's
58:16
in the jaws of an alligator who tries to eat him, and the alligator
58:22
attempts to leave and the boys jump him and are just like, you don't
58:27
get to just eat a guy and then leave, And the next shot is
58:31
of all of them marching back to the cabin and carrying actually I think they
58:37
call it a crocodile, but they're carrying it and just telling Lufy to stop
58:42
crying about almost being eaten because now they've got crocodile for dinner and it all
58:45
worked out. I can't get over how often Lufy is told to just like
58:50
stop crying about having almost been eaten by an animal or killed or whatever.
58:57
Truly, I do not understand these people. I just don't. Eventually,
59:04
when they are going past one of their old hideouts, they see a bunch
59:07
of pirates who have found the spot and opened up the like little secret hiding
59:14
area and there's nothing in there, and they're just like, well, thank
59:15
god, we moved everything. But it's unclear how they found it. I
59:22
think it's just meant to be that he's like sending pirates into the woods to
59:27
just comb every inch of the place. So they're still searching for these kids,
59:31
and at one point when they try and go back into like the town
59:37
area, they run into pirates who have the like have you seen these children?
59:43
Like illustrations of what these kids look like. And it's really funny because
59:49
they're standing here watching this and some guy is like, oh, hey,
59:52
there they are, They're right here, and they flee. But the it
1:00:00
just really feels like they had thought they could keep doing what they were doing
1:00:05
to like save and money to steal it from people, and the shit is
1:00:10
too hot now, like they're not going to be able to pull this off
1:00:13
anymore. So yeah, Sabo is saying, like, we have got to
1:00:17
lay low for now because there's too many of them and we have to be
1:00:21
we have to wait until they get bored so that we can resume activities.
1:00:29
Ace, for his part, is like, why should we wait. Let's
1:00:34
just if they find us, we'll just fight them, And Sabo's like,
1:00:37
why would we pick a fight with like a hundred guys. We can't beat
1:00:42
them? What do you? What are you doing? And it just becomes
1:00:46
increasingly clear Ace is kind of reckless and foolhardy. Sabo is his bud,
1:00:54
and they're like in this together, but Sabo has a much more realist take
1:01:00
a view about what they can accomplish. And it's just I don't know,
1:01:08
I feel like Ace is gonna fuck this up. I feel like he's gonna
1:01:10
do something stupid. So then we have the final scene where uh Dedan is
1:01:19
in a meeting with her crew, who are all basically like, well,
1:01:23
I guess it's a rap for us as bandits because we can't stand up to
1:01:28
these Blue Jam guys. So we had a good run, but we had
1:01:32
to know that there was going to be an into it. One day and
1:01:37
she loses her temper and stands up and it's just like, don't you have
1:01:43
any fucking pride at all? This is pathetic? Are you really just giving
1:01:46
up? If they come by asking for the breath, then we'll just hand
1:01:51
them over. And then they're like, but what about Garp. He'll be
1:01:55
really pissed. And plus Blue Jams a monster finds out we know them,
1:02:01
he'll just kill us because we know them. So then she's like, oh
1:02:06
all right, well then we'll say we don't know them, and they she's
1:02:09
like, pretend you don't know them, and she does a little role playing
1:02:15
and they do the we don't know and she's like, oh god, that
1:02:19
was really bad. Oh shit, and I did really enjoy this, Like,
1:02:25
let's rehearse together. And as they're all talking about this, here these
1:02:30
three come walking up the way with the crocodile for dinner, and it just
1:02:37
really feels like they're realizing there's gonna be a major change on the horizon,
1:02:46
and it says from the narrator, Fearing for his life, Sabo left Gray
1:02:53
Terminal and found a home with Ace and Lufy, much to Dedan's dismay.
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For the three unwanted guests, it was a never ending party, making any
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excuse to get out of their daily chores. They hunted wild animals and the
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mountains, tussled with hooligans in the city, dueled with pirates at the cove.
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Within time, news of their wild exploits reach far and wide, even
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over the high wall surrounding the center of the Kingdom. And that is the
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end of the episode. So yeah, this is a really good trio of
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episodes. I'm really looking forward to seeing where we go from here. This
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will be fun and I like Sabo a lot, so he's a fun new
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character. All Right, guys, I'm going to wrap this up. Thank
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you again so much for hanging out with me. Thank you to Florian for
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commissioning this. I hope they y all are enjoying the coverage. And until
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next time to the loom, motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network past