Luffy's Short Story: A Long Way Home

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“Maybe it’s a supernatural phenomenon!” Ace encourages from his place across Nami and Vivi. “Aliens could’ve done it!”
Luffy chokes on his food. “Mhphh—!”
“Don’t do that.” Zoro frowns at Ace as he reached over and pats Luffy’s back. “You’ll get him all excited over nothing.”
Ace grins mischievously. “What if she’s an alien herself and she’s come to take over the planet!”
Luffy’s arms are going everywhere and he’s babbling nonsense behind all the food in his mouth. Law, who’d been quietly watching the entire time, slowly directed his gaze at Shanks, who caught it. Though there was no reaction from the man the silent exchange was clear between the two of them. They’d need to talk later.
“It’s not aliens.” Law says, closing his eyes and leaning forward to rest his elbows on the table, taking his beer into his hand. “I can’t reveal all the details, but just know that a very real person did this.”
Nami and Vivi instinctively scoot closer to each other in discomfort, hands intertwining under the table.
“That’s it, I’m going to buy a taser on the way home.” Vivi asserts.
Nami concurs with a, “Pepper spray for me.”
Luffy, in his haste to declare that he would protect his friends from whatever dastardly alien-kidnapper-human-thing that was abducting people and so evilly leaving them in the middle of the road, sent chunks of sushi flying everywhere as
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In fact, ‘Zoro’ and the word ‘pale’ had never gone together in the same sentence before, and this wasn’t even in the proper context where you would find ‘is not’ between those two words. But it was true, Zoro is not pale. Or, he had never been until this very moment. Sanji, to his merit, isn’t shouting obscenities or laughing at him either. Curiously, they stare at each other for what seems like a stretching eternity. Try this: In fact, ‘Zoro’ and the word ‘pale’ only belonged in a sentence where ‘is not’ is between them. Then you can change the word ‘but’ in the next sentence to

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