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Marco✖️

The story of Ace begins with this 'story-line'/'plot'-ish thingie.
Part 2/2.
You can read without having read part 1.

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Ace was heading to the ship as Marco stayed behind in the brothel named Devilish Dreams. Still sitting in the chair. His eyes locked on the woman on the bed. He gazed on her.

Visiting someone he had met many years ago, but got in trouble with someone close to the World Government. Causing her to pay it off in a brothel.

'No money from outside of the brothel will be accepted.' A sentence that still rang in Marco's ears and it made him crazy.

"When is it paid-yoi?"

"A year. If I'm lucky." The woman explained, while braiding her long hair to appear less nervous. This subject was always brought up by him... every time he visited.

"That's what you said last time and the time before that."

"You know I can't leave!"

"Yes, you can-yoi!... You can leave with us. With the Whitebeard Pirates. I know he will accept you."

She wanted to accept the offer, but the consequences were too much to handle. For her especially. Those were mostly 'what ifs', but that was enough to stay where she was.

"I want to, but that isn't the life I want to have..."

"Nonsense." She lied and he knew it.

"I changed my mind."

"Don't lie to me-yoi."

She glanced away, feeling his eyes burn on her exposed skin. He could see right through her. Like always. She puffed some air, before breaking the silence.

"I have grown out of that kind of stuff."

"Nikki..."

"Don't! Please, Marco! You make me suffer enough..." She admitted, quickly covering her mouth with her hand, not believing she actually said it.

"What do you mean-yoi?"

"Every time you visit... I want to go with you... but every time I feel more scared of the sea..."

"Why?"

Why?!

She almost broke into tears, wanting to go with him and enjoy the rest of her life with him. But that was it. She wanted to be happy with him. Without fearing for losing him, being afraid of falling into the sea or getting killed in battle. She was done with that business.

"The stories, Marco. They make me run from it... It maybe- It maybe sounds stupid. I, at first, laughed at it. Thought to know how it was on sea, just because I was a pirate once myself... but after all these years... It causes more death than freedom."