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Looking out at the New World's ocean, beset with lightning rain, Smoker took a long drag on his twin cigars. It had been 24 years since that fateful day in Loguetown. The town of the beginning and the end. Prologue, and Epilogue. The birth and execution place of one Gold Roger: King of the pirates. Actually, it was Gol D. Roger as Smoker had learned better over the last few years sailing the Grand Line. It was almost ironic that growing up in the same city; walking the same streets, seeing the same sights for over thirty years, Smoker hadn't learned much about the man who had so captured a twelve year old boy with his smile on the execution stand. Even as a captain, Smoker hadn't been able to learn that much more about the only pirate to reach the end of the Grand Line and come back.
It took following a dumbass kid for Smoker to really start learning about Gol D. Roger. Like his name. Or that the stupid fire-brat was his biological son. That Gold Roger even had a son. There was still the mystery of what "D" meant though. It seemed the deeper into the Grand Line Smoker traveled, the more it came up. What did it stand for? Did even the "D's" themselves truly know?
Smoker sipped at a bottle of his favorite rum and ignoring the crackling weather. Gol D. Roger's smile... had it really been 24 years? 2 years to the day since Smoker had left Loguetown, chasing a straw hat wearing brat with the same smile on the execution stand. Did Monkey D. Luffy know all that much about the first pirate king when he made his declaration to be the king? Doubtful. No, Straw Hat hadn't even known about seastone, or which way the execution stand was; or to even avoid asking a marine for directions. And yet it always seemed to work out for him. Straw Hat Luffy seemed to have the devil's luck at acquiring people to help him out of his messes; which just meant Smoker would have to be strong enough to fight off all of them, didn't it?
For his justice. Straw Hat wasn't the worst threat as a pirate. There were others more evil, others more like to brutally murder someone, some pirates who already had. But Smoker knew there were no other pirates more likely to be the next Pirate King if he didn't stop him. Because other marines hadn't see what he did those two days exactly 22 years apart. Right before dying, right as they accepted their fate and death, both Gol D. Roger and Monkey D. Luffy smiled upon the execution stand. Who did that? No other pirate Smoker could think of. Even Gol D. Roger's son shed some tears for the things he hadn't done when he died. Yet at only seventeen, Luffy saw his death and embraced it. Was it a life already lived? No, it was acceptance of anything for a dream. And a man like that was the most dangerous of all.
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Looking out at the New World's ocean, beset with lightning rain, Smoker took a long drag on his twin cigars. It had been 24 years since that fateful day in Loguetown. The town of the beginning and the end. Prologue, and Epilogue. The birth and execution place of one Gold Roger: King of the pirates. Actually, it was Gol D. Roger as Smoker had learned better over the last few years sailing the Grand Line. It was almost ironic that growing up in the same city; walking the same streets, seeing the same sights for over thirty years, Smoker hadn't learned much about the man who had so captured a twelve year old boy with his smile on the execution stand. Even as a captain, Smoker hadn't been able to learn that much more about the only pirate to reach the end of the Grand Line and come back.
It took following a dumbass kid for Smoker to really start learning about Gol D. Roger. Like his name. Or that the stupid fire-brat was his biological son. That Gold Roger even had a son. There was still the mystery of what "D" meant though. It seemed the deeper into the Grand Line Smoker traveled, the more it came up. What did it stand for? Did even the "D's" themselves truly know?
Smoker sipped at a bottle of his favorite rum and ignoring the crackling weather. Gol D. Roger's smile... had it really been 24 years? 2 years to the day since Smoker had left Loguetown, chasing a straw hat wearing brat with the same smile on the execution stand. Did Monkey D. Luffy know all that much about the first pirate king when he made his declaration to be the king? Doubtful. No, Straw Hat hadn't even known about seastone, or which way the execution stand was; or to even avoid asking a marine for directions. And yet it always seemed to work out for him. Straw Hat Luffy seemed to have the devil's luck at acquiring people to help him out of his messes; which just meant Smoker would have to be strong enough to fight off all of them, didn't it?
For his justice. Straw Hat wasn't the worst threat as a pirate. There were others more evil, others more like to brutally murder someone, some pirates who already had. But Smoker knew there were no other pirates more likely to be the next Pirate King if he didn't stop him. Because other marines hadn't see what he did those two days exactly 22 years apart. Right before dying, right as they accepted their fate and death, both Gol D. Roger and Monkey D. Luffy smiled upon the execution stand. Who did that? No other pirate Smoker could think of. Even Gol D. Roger's son shed some tears for the things he hadn't done when he died. Yet at only seventeen, Luffy saw his death and embraced it. Was it a life already lived? No, it was acceptance of anything for a dream. And a man like that was the most dangerous of all.