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#26

-------No One's Pov------

Back in Luffy's situation, in the middle of the afternoon, he ended up visiting Law.

He left Moocy at home, enjoying at home.

Someone opened the gate for him, it was Shachi, "It's surprising you visited here.. is there any problem?" Shachi asked out of astonishment across his face, Shachi looking at Luffy's expression is quite rather sad. "What's.. What's wrong?" Shachi asked, his eyebrows knitted as he crouched slightly down on his knees, just to see Luffy's face that was covered by the edges of his round Straw Hat.

Seeing his shadowing and indescribable expression from his face, his lips are being bitten. "Does Torao not want to talk to me? Is it because he had an argument with Shanks?" He asked with such a low whisper of his tone, Shachi couldn't answer the fact that Penguin was with Law and not him by the time. Inquiring questions that Luffy starts to give Shachi, Shachi hesitates to somewhat answer what he wants to answer.

Shachi wouldn't be able to answer if he couldn't find the correct answer for it.

"Do you want to come inside? We have enough food and desserts!"

Shachi insisted on changing the awkward topic for now, "Where's Torao?" Luffy asked again, Shachi stopped crouching down and stood straight up, he let Luffy inside and closed the gate. "He's at the Underworld, Bepo and Ikkaku are with him. Penguin is just here to stay here to clean some stuff that the Highness ordered him around." Shachi frankly just said it all. Mentioning Penguin in the conversation, "Penguin is here?" Luffy asks, seems to be lightened up.

That  made Shachi silent for the moment he mentioned Penguin's name. He ignored it at first, so he doesn't mind asking, "Yeah, why? Do you specifically want to see him now?" it was particularly a joke, a teasing and a joking question that bought up.

"Yeah, I want. Penguin seems more friendlier than that moron.. Torao.." He pouted at the end after that response, that kind of response made him frowned or for the moment, surprise. That response has no hesitation.

"Are you that eager?"

Luffy looks up to Shachi, showing his round, pure, innocent eyes of his under that Straw Hat of his. Shachi also met his eyes the fact that they were walking side by side and asked the question out of nowhere.

"What makes you say that I'm eager? Shachi, do I look like I'm eager to see him?"

Shachi took back that question, however, he indeed thought that Luffy was eager. Part of it is his words, part of his sentence and question. He shuts up for a moment, he mutters under his breath.

"You look like one."

"What?"

Consciously, Shachi knew that words that escaped from his lips, the words that he muttered, made Luffy look up to him. Shachi didn't seem to have taken back those words he released, if Law was here, Law might explode out of jealousy, however, Law is not here with them. It's only the two of them, walking to the path, directly at the Mansion.

Walking side by side and leaves of petals start to fall because of soft wind crossing their play that they were walking in. "Luffy, what made you.. become close to Penguin?" Shachi was asking about "Friendship" or about any "Lovers" as he spoke. He just straightly asked that question, he didn't mention any of that.

"Penguin's.. Nice, he's.. nice, very kind and gentle. He's a demon but Penguin.. has a very kind Human heart. And he's..."

'He's what?....'