OOC EXPLANATION: Ace and Roxas decided to sent message in bottles to their respective "brothers" and given prospective Luffy I figured I might as well write it up XD. So the following is the full note so that I don't have to make a sneaky!golem post since Ace would burn it for showing the letter to anyone else.
Dear Luffy,
It seems like everything that needed to be said, I did. And yet, I still have so much to tell you. I should by all rights be dead I think, but I find myself in another world. And at first I thought it was just the afterlife or that I'd gone crazy, but that stupid marine Smoker is here too. And I still have my fire logia so I can't really be dead, can I? This place is pretty weird. A lot less ocean, and demons hooked up to machinery called "akuma" that want to wipe out humanity. Or rather their boss does.
But that's not important.
I hope you're okay. Smoker didn't know if you made it out of the battle alive, but I don't think Jinbei or Marco would let you die for anything. I'm really sorry about Akainu. And Blackbeard.
Luffy... I know you don't listen well to me, but don't go up against him yet. And when you do, take your whole crew, and everyone you can count on. And even ask my crew. I thought I could do it alone and I was wrong. And he's gotten stronger since then. I love you, I know you're strong, but I don't want him to win for anything. I want you to beat him and really humiliate him with overwhelming power, okay?
This place is pretty neat when you get used to it. I'm in a big castle because the mad scientist here -- err that's Komui -- he made a time machine that sort of went awry and screwed up time and space. That's how Smoker and I got here. There's all kinds of people from way in the future, even a few spacemen. AND A DRAGON!!! I have a dragon best friend!!! ISN'T THAT GREAT!?! I wish you could meet him. He'd really like you. I even met some shinigami-death gods and I agreed to a be shiki protector of one called Tsuzuki. He's a lot like me ironically. Smoker agreed to be his shiki too. It's strange. Tsuzuki gave me a bird that will tell me if you're ever in this world. I keep it with me all the time.
Some days I'm not sure if I should want you here or not. I miss you and want you to be safe, and you'd have fun here, but I want you to become the pirate king and get back to your nakama too. I guess I don't really know. Even now, I'm a pretty selfish guy sometimes.
Anyways, I just wanted you to know I'm still alive. Kind of a miracle. I don't know where I'm going from here... I... don't think I'll ever be able to go back home. But please don't worry. Because I think for the afterlife even if I can't find Sabo and Thatch and Pops again, I'll keep protecting Tsuzuki as long as he needs me.
-- Love,
Ace.