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Ace didn 't really get why his new crewmates were always sending each other sly looks whenever Ace was around Marco. Marco was the first person on the ship that Ace really trusted with his back, and in the year and a half Ace 's been part of the crew, that trust has only grown.

Trust was something that he didn 't just give out, it took months for him to trust the Spade Pirates the point that he did before they joined Whitebeard. Ace couldn 't just trust anyone, not like he trusted his brothers and Cora-san, but Marco was surprisingly easy to get close to ' to trust, to care for. Ace didn 't really know how he felt about that.

Marco really was a wonderful person, but he just made Ace feel a bit sick. Which is weird since he 's only gotten sick like four times in his life.