when one looks back to their childhood, one remembers the vivid springs of laughter, climbing trees and reaching out for the stars, and making flower crowns in fields of flowers. but when [name] looked back at her youth, her memories were void of th...
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chapter 018. say you want to live!
[ it's a declaration of war ]
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"i'm sorry for all the trouble i may have caused."
[name] held her head down as she did a light bow towards the rest of the crew members, a sight the straw hat crew wasn't expecting to witness once sanji, sogeking, and she had climbed aboard the rocketman that the rest of the crew had arrived on.
sanji wasn't in favor of what she was doing, but he let her anyways. she may not have caused trouble for them, but she did give them a lot of stress, and ultimately, it was the captain's decision whether or not he forgives her actions.
straightening her back, she held her head down, "as a pillar, i should have been the one to support everyone during a difficult time, but i ended up making reckless decisions and chased after robin...i'm sorry..."
the crew members remained in the dark and didn't say a word. even chopper held himself back from letting out tears at her state and sniffed his snot back, waiting for luffy to say what he wanted.
the straw hat captain only walked up to her and stood in front of her, face unreadable, before he muttered out, "...are you hurt?"
[name] nodded once, looking down.
luffy asked again, "does it hurt?"
she shook her head.
one last question, "did you do what you wanted to do?"
[name] gave a simple nod.
luffy placed his hands on his hips, grinning from ear to ear, "then it's fine, right?!" zoro broke into a chuckle and nami could only smile, while chopper let out the salty tears from his beady eyes, "as long as [name] returns to us safe and sound, then it's okay!"
raising his hand up to her head, he ruffled her hair and messed it all up from its place, giving her the brightest smile he could, "welcome back, [name]!"
[name] found herself gently closing her eyes, "i have returned, captain."
the second to run up to her was nami, with her arms spread, "[name]-chan!!" she snuggled her cheek against the child's, "hear me out! these guys have been so wild and all over the place, i nearly killed them with my own hands!! one got stuck between two buildings like an idiot and another got stuck upside down inside a stupid chimney!! i missed your obedient nature so much!!"
[name] stood in her place with nami's legs wrapped around her waist, listening to her complaints about the boys who she couldn't handle. in that position, she pointed to zoro and luffy, "especially these two!! these two don't have an obedient nature at all!"
