? '------ {. ' 'OPE OPE NO MI ' '.} '------ '?

Luffy had to hurry. His Observation Haki wasn 't the greatest at the moment, unrefined, untrained, and it wasn 't all that reliable. He was simply using it to find that one painfully familiar presence. Law had told him of this day, so Luffy didn 't need his Haki to be refined, perfect, practiced.

Snow crunched under his feet, breath fogged around him, and the cold bit at his elastic skin in an uncomfortable way. Luffy liked the snow, of course,

it was much nicer than fire

but he was less stretchy when he was cold. However, none of that mattered.

All that mattered was getting Law and Cora-san away from here, safe and sound.

Luffy wasn 't a hopeless optimistic, wasn 't na 've, anymore. He was harsh and

broken

. The world had broken him down and he stubbornly built himself back up. He knew how the world ' the

marines

' were.