He calls us his children. And he means it, you know? He'd go to war for any one of us. [ there's something very sure in ace's tone ] When the great pirate age started, twenty two years ago... There's this island everyone has to pass through to find the One Piece. It's got fishmen, and mermaids, and the rush through-- pirates ransacked the place. Stole people as slaves. And then one day Whitebeard came, and he put that island under his protection. And just his name was enough to get people to stay away from them.
He's got tons of islands like that. Government doesn't do squat for these people, but Pops takes care of 'em. He even took in a hopeless idiot like me, despite...
[ stops abruptly and laughs, a little sheepish and sudden ]
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He calls us his children. And he means it, you know? He'd go to war for any one of us. [ there's something very sure in ace's tone ] When the great pirate age started, twenty two years ago... There's this island everyone has to pass through to find the One Piece. It's got fishmen, and mermaids, and the rush through-- pirates ransacked the place. Stole people as slaves. And then one day Whitebeard came, and he put that island under his protection. And just his name was enough to get people to stay away from them.
He's got tons of islands like that. Government doesn't do squat for these people, but Pops takes care of 'em. He even took in a hopeless idiot like me, despite...
[ stops abruptly and laughs, a little sheepish and sudden ]
I'm talking your ears off. You get the idea.