? '------ {. ' 'SCRATCH ' '.} '------ '?

Luffy wondered, sometimes, what had caused him to time travel.

For the most part, Luffy liked to not think about

before

.

Before

was dark, bloody, and it made him seize up. His breaths would quicken, and his vision would blur, his skin growing sweaty and clammy, yet his body felt cold. But then

that

would burn, and then his body would feel like it was flooded with molten lava.

He didn 't have his scar anymore, yet sometimes he could still feel the itch ' the

burn

.

People have noticed, Luffy knew, that he would dig his fingers into the fabric of his shirt and itch, itch, itch. Law ' and Seas did it

hurt

to looked at Torao, but not his Torao ' had even made Luffy sit while he inspected his chest, trying to find a reason for why Luffy would scratch.