'Humans are meant to struggle and come out of the fires of hell alive. '

Once upon a time, Smoker spoke those words within their cold shared cell ' and Anne hasn 't forgotten them for even a second in her life. Even after they got out of that place, even when she wandered alone across Grand Line, even as she joined Baroque Works and met Gin again, she hasn 't forgotten it for even a second.

It was a laughable philosophy to live upon.

To first tell a creature that has been in the fire her whole life that she was human at all ' and then, trying to bargain with her the pipe dream of something beyond the hellscape she was born in.

(The worst thing was, he 's right.)

(Each day Anne spends out in the blue sky, she knows he 's right.)