A few minutes had gone by and most of the Straw Hats had already finished eating, but they still seated, waiting for their Captain to return.
From afar, they could hear his voice and spot his shadow moving closer towards them.
"What's- Ehh?? What's up with that?" Usopp elbowed Franky.
"Dunno, looks like they're trying to pull off something new."
Franky responded, reacting to the way that Zoro and Luffy were acting, as they made it back to the dining room.
They were walking alongside each other, almost impossibly close, and waving their arms around, capturing the attention of everyone near them, at the time.
The movement in their arms was so peculiar and eye-catching that no one was focusing at all on the rest of their anatomy.
"Is this normal?"
Chopper asked, staring at the duo with worry clouding his mind.
"To them, it definitely is. To others... Not so much, but we're used to it already."
Nami mentioned, using a casual tone of voice as she watched the Captain and his Swordsman walk closer towards the table.
She caught a glimpse of when Zoro whispered something into Luffy's ear, seconds before he sat down.
Luffy didn't seem to react to the Swordsman's words, but from Nami's perspective, she could tell that the message Zoro delivered to his Captain in private was causing the boy to turn red.
"Hey Robin, are these two acting all lovey dovey, again?"
She spoke to Robin once Luffy and Zoro weren't looking.
"Oh, are they?"
"I think so. Look at Luffy's face. It turned red in seconds, just now."
The orange haired woman giggled softly, finding the Captain's behavior undeniably adorable.
"Now that you mentioned it, he is blushing quite a lot. I could notice it all the way from over here."
Robin said in response, placing her hand over her mouth to continue having her conversation with Nami, making sure that no one would hear them.
"So, who won the "slow poke" challenge?"
Franky asked as Sanji sat back down on his seat after returning from the kitchen.
"Oh, for sure I did. Did you see how much faster Luffy was walking?"
"That's what I noticed!"
"So did I. Luffy totally went by fast, he couldn't walk slow, even if he tried to."
The crewmates commented, all gathered at the table, staring at their Captain with a set of smiley faces.
"I was walking fast?"
Luffy thought to himself, looking at Sanji for a second.
Without realizing it, he had finished eating his meal, and was even asking for seconds, sensing that his appetite had been fully restored when his spasms started to ease after he took his medication.
Once everyone had finished consuming their meals, they all left in a collective fashion, closing their chairs and fixing the woven placemats the way they were, before they had sat down to eat.
"Thanks for the meal!!"
They told the Cook as he smiled proudly at them, taking the dishes they were handing over to him.
