Unexpected Reunion

Surpirse guests?

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The tension was high here as well. Laws family tried to lift up Laws mood, but he just remained stiff and slowly bit into his rice ball.

Leo sighed as he munched on a piece of meat as well.

It was oddly silent considering how many people were here.

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Everyone was eating, the silence was heavy in one side of the table while on the other, people were bustling and talking.

The atmosphere of the place lifted quite a bit. Considerably more compared to how it was before.

Everything was calm, nothing happening except for the common chatter, and the scrap of cutlery against plates.
When all of a sudden a huge portal randomly appeared in the middle of the ground.

The new arrivals were a bit shocked but the current residents don't seem that startled by what was happening, seemingly already used to it.

And out of that portal a bunch of people suddenly flew out and landed on the ground around it. All of the new guests groaning in pain as they landed.

There was silence as everything registered to their brains. The new guests and the current visitors as well as the residents of the mansion were all shocked when they saw each other.

The first few people to dash across to greet the new comers were Ace, Nami, Chopper, Franky and Kuina.

Ace ran as fast as he could and lifted and twirled Otama around above his head before bringing her down and hugging her close to his chest.

It took a while before it registered to Otama what was happening. The poor girl clutched tightly onto Aces shoulder and started to bawl her eyes out.

"Big Bro.....?" She sobbed as she clung to Ace.

Ace smiled at her and patted her head softly.

"Yea 'Tama, it's me, it's me" he comforted calmly as he slightly rocked the poor girl.

"But- but-! Big bro Luffy-! He-" Tama sobbed out not being able to create a coherent sentence, too overwhelmed with the feeling of having Ace close by. It all felt surreal, like a dream.

"What Luffy said was true Tama, I did die" Ace confirmed as softly as he could, he didn't want to lie to the poor kid.

"But-!" Tama started as she pulled back a bit to stare at Ace, her eyes wide with confusion and sadness.

"I almost died anyways. If it weren't for Leo-san and Rose-san" Ace explained softly, smiling lightly at the girl.

'Tama although still confused just relished in the fact that Ace was alive? She was just happy Ace was here with her right now, so she clung to him.

After the girl had calmed down, she was approached by Luffy, Yamato and Sabo.

"Waaah! 'Tama! Long time no see!" Luffy greeted happily to the girl who was still clinging to Ace.

"Big bro Luffy!" 'Tama also greeted back with a slight smile.

The five of them then proceeded to engage in a sweet conversation with each other with Sabo introducing himself to Otama and receiving the nickname 'Sabo-nii' which definitely didn't bring him to tears became it reminded him of baby Luffy. Definitely didn't.