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Law had been in contact with Luffy for two days when the news landed. The Straw Hat pirates had been separated, just like they had been originally. Of course, they were all stronger this time around, but Luffy and Law had talked for a long time. There were things that Nami, Chopper, Usopp, Zoro, all of them only learned because they were sent away.

Robin, Chopper, Brook, and Franky hadn 't been trained by Luffy for a decade, and there 's only so much one can learn about swords when they lived in a forest with kids who didn 't really know how to wield swords ' at least not in the way that Zoro and Kuina wanted to learn.