immamartillo | 5th Hat Flip [Voice/Action]

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5th Hat Flip [Voice/Action]

[Voice]

[It's early in the morning-after a night of much boredom and little sleep- when Firo opens his journal.]

I've been wonderin': what kinda weapons do people use back where you guys come from? Where I live, people'll fight with anything from fists to tommy guns, but I figure everywhere's gotta have somethin' different.

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[Later that morning, Firo sets off running for the Battle Dome. He hasn't been too pleased with himself lately: he failed to be effective against the droids that attacked a few weeks ago, and then he couldn't even protect his friend from being mallynapped. Actually, ever since Ennis was kidnapped before his arrival in Luceti he's felt nagging feelings of uselessness. They've only been intensified by recent events.

He has to get stronger. The capos of his Family would be disappointed if they saw him like this. In the back of his mind Firo can practically hear Yaguruma berating him.

He spends most of the day at the Battle Dome, focusing on training until he's ready to drop (though feel free to interrupt him). Maybe trying to go so long without a break isn't a good idea, but that doesn't matter to Firo at this point. When nightfall comes, he wanders outside and slumps by the door, exhausted.

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How..? Wait a second, wouldn't you just blow away if you did that?

You're underestimating how concentrated it can be.

Well... Maybe, but it's still smoke. How concentrated can it get?

Very.

I capture pirates with it and I can hold them easily enough. Ever get knocked over by strong winds? Or seen a tornado?

[...Okay, wow, he's going to try and avoid mentioning his criminal activities to this guy. Just in case.]

You can do all that just by bein' smoke? I guess that sounds pretty useful...

[That would be for the best. Though lately Smoker only seems to collect criminal friends.]

It is. I think most devil fruit users secretly think theirs is the best, but they'd be hard-pressed to do better than mine.

[He laughs.]

Oh, yeah? What kind of stuff have they got?

Anything you can imagine, someone somewhere probably has.

Anything? Is this somethin' everybody has where you come from?

No, they're quite rare, but there's a lot of versatility in what someone has or not. My world has billions of people, so even if there are thousands of devil fruits, that's still rare.

Zoans are given an extra animal species: like dogs, cats, koala, leopard whatever, logia are elements like smoke, fire, sand, magma, light, and paramecia is even more "anything." Rubber, earthquakes, iron cuffs, duplicating body parts; things like that.

That is quite a range... Is that "iron cuffs" person another Marine like you?

[The name seems to lend itself pretty well to the occupation. Since what Smoker mentioned about catching pirates, Firo just has to wonder how much of this stuff is used against criminals.]

She is. My best friend back home in fact. Black Cage Hina.

Oh, that's, um... nice.

[Since hearing about all these people, Firo has never been more grateful for the incompetence of the police back in his city.]

So, have you run into any pirates with stuff like that?

Dozens. There are a few of them in the village no less.

Here?

[He can't help but sound excited; he's never met a real pirate before! He clears his throat.]

I mean, um... Are any of 'em ones you've tried to catch before?

Yes.

I've had run-ins with most of them in our world, but it's complicated.

Complicated? Why?

[A pause, then a self-conscious chuckle]

Or does that mean I shouldn't ask?

One captain is my prey, but catching him here is pointless. His crew I don't care about except to get him.

His older brother runs interference, but he was captured by someone else, and Portgas has yet another older brother that I have no intentions of going near. [Because Marco. Just. Marco.] Trafalgar Law is nothing but complicated, and Blackbeard's gone, but he was the one to capture Portgas D. Ace who is the older brother of my prey; Straw-Hat Luffy.

They all have devil fruits, and Blackbeard would have two, but I believe he came from a point before that.

...That does sound pretty complicated.

[He almost wishes he hadn't asked.]

If ya don't mind me askin', how come ya only want the captain and not the crew?

[RICO won't be around for a few years in Firo's time, so the police are limited to mostly going after the low level members of gangs rather than the leaders. He would have guessed that the situation is close enough to the one with the pirates.]

Because he's their uniting force. Without him the others aren't as much threat, and he's the one more likely to be such a danger. He was the one to do the worst of the crimes, and he's the one who wants to be Pirate King.

[The one who was caught by Buggy and smiled at his own death just like Roger, in the very same place in the very same way...]

The others are mostly weaklings anyway or could be dealt with by others. Roronoa Zoro is his swordsman, but my second-in-command wants to deal with him. [Nico Robin still concerns him, but that's a huge headache all on its own with his friend & ex-boss: Aokiji, world government politics, and things Smoker knows he doesn't have all the facts about.]

I guess that makes sense...

Why's your second-in-command want him? They have some sorta history?

She's probably after his swords. Tashigi wants to "liberate" all the named swords from oppressive users.

You'd have to ask her what the fuck that really means.

She sounds like an... interestin' person. I don't suppose she's told you how the hell somebody can be oppressive to a sword? I mean, it's a sword!

I usually try to tune her out.

She says the swords' souls cry for release. Something about them being harmed by being used for evil.

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