[You know, it almost sounds reasonable, the way Law says it. One step leads to another, everything has its purpose. That's sort of reassuring, until he remembers how absolutely batshit absurd it all is that the kid he toted around North Blue for half a year is now apparently just out there earning himself the World Government's ire and aligning himself with someone who sees himself as Roger's successor - and unlike most of the others who thought that, Strawhat sounds like a candidate for actually achieving it. Whatever "it" really ends up meaning.
Something that scares not just the government, but the ones above them, too.
Anyway, Law's goal is concrete and personal and that he can definitely support.]
I don't know much about them, poneglyphs. That's another one of those words that feels like more mythology than reality. Law, I - I have to ask, though. With all this talk of what you've seen, and what you want to do next... You're here. Which means there's something you're not satisfied with. You don't have to tell me what deal you made, what regret you have, but I've asked for something too. And hearing what you've done, where you're going...
[His sentences keep trailing off because he hates having to raise this topic. But it's necessary, isn't it? Their lives intertwined at one key point in time, and what one does here might affect the other in one of the many linked worlds they must share, based on his newly-learned understanding of how the universe might work.]
I don't want to be the one to undo everything you've worked for. I wanted to find a way to keep us together. I didn't know if you'd even survived.
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[You know, it almost sounds reasonable, the way Law says it. One step leads to another, everything has its purpose. That's sort of reassuring, until he remembers how absolutely batshit absurd it all is that the kid he toted around North Blue for half a year is now apparently just out there earning himself the World Government's ire and aligning himself with someone who sees himself as Roger's successor - and unlike most of the others who thought that, Strawhat sounds like a candidate for actually achieving it. Whatever "it" really ends up meaning.
Something that scares not just the government, but the ones above them, too.
Anyway, Law's goal is concrete and personal and that he can definitely support.]
I don't know much about them, poneglyphs. That's another one of those words that feels like more mythology than reality. Law, I - I have to ask, though. With all this talk of what you've seen, and what you want to do next... You're here. Which means there's something you're not satisfied with. You don't have to tell me what deal you made, what regret you have, but I've asked for something too. And hearing what you've done, where you're going...
[His sentences keep trailing off because he hates having to raise this topic. But it's necessary, isn't it? Their lives intertwined at one key point in time, and what one does here might affect the other in one of the many linked worlds they must share, based on his newly-learned understanding of how the universe might work.]
I don't want to be the one to undo everything you've worked for. I wanted to find a way to keep us together. I didn't know if you'd even survived.