two;; video [japanese] // double post with Nami

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[In light of all the posts with zapping, Robin decided to just switch on her video function for a little while in the hopes it counts, because getting shocked is not high on her list of priorities; she's clipped it to her belt, and is more or less ignoring it now, and has been for about twenty minutes. It's late at night, and she's in a dark room.

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Wait... something happened to Ace?

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[...Ace knew a lot of people Robin doesn't know.]

...He appears to no longer be here.

[prodigal_axe]

Damn...

...you got any idea if he'll be alright, back where he's from?

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[...Okay, so he's about to be executed, to the best of Robin's knowledge. If that hasn't happened already. Which is...you know, not "okay", as such.]

I had never met him back home.

[Which is a fact.]

[prodigal_axe]

Is that so...?

Maybe he'll show up here again. Happens sometimes.

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[Safer territory.]

One can hope.

[prodigal_axe]

...

Maybe that ain't the best thing to hope for. This place.

It ain't all bad though. [And while Ace wasn't a close friend, he'll miss the guy.]

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[Well, when the alternative is almost being executed by marines...

Or being enslaved on an island away from your crew (although she had been freed).]

It could be worse.

[prodigal_axe]

You're damned right about that.

[Or dead. Which is what he was, before he got here.]

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Who am I speaking with, by the way?

[prodigal_axe]

Aragaki Shinjiro. ...I run the bar in town, down on Bonito.

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Nico Robin.