[color=gray]“Just let him do his thing. It’s a waste of time trying to talk sense into him.”[/color] Shigeuchi descended the gangplank, stepping onto solid land for the first time since leaving the Grand Line, and looked around the bustling port of the infamous Loguetown. This was where Roger began and ended his journey, becoming Pirate King somewhere in the middle, and it was also where Luffy’s journey began according to some; it was where he first drew the world’s eyes to himself anyway. It was also where Nikko began and ended his first novel and where he planned to start his next one.

The captain dismissed the crew, as he usually did whenever they reached port, before diving nose first into his notebook. Shigeuchi grabbed one of the crewmembers as they walked past him, placing a hand on his shoulder to bring him to a stop and consequently stopping everyone else behind him as well. [color=gray]“Hold on. Before you all run off, you guys unload the treasure we got during the last raid and try to fence it in the city; not all of it, we don’t have time, but as much as you think you can manage. The rest of you head into town and buy supplies; Captain’s about to cause enough trouble we’ll be running all the way back to the Grand Line in a hurry, so this is the last chance we’ll have for a while.”[/color]

As the group dispersed, some to have fun and others to help keep the ship running, Shigeuchi turned to follow Nikko down the main road towards the centre of town and the execution platform that was the end of one Pirate King and the beginning of another. There was a poetry to it that wasn’t lost on Shigeuchi, though he didn’t have quite the same appreciation for such things as his captain did. Rather, it was a continuous point of annoyance that the boy preferred following the footsteps of other pirates instead of making his own. [color=gray]“Have you ever..."[/color] Here we go again; despite telling the crew not to try and talk sense in Nikko he was about to try doing the same thing. Again. [color=gray]"Have you ever considered making your own story, instead of writing about someone else’s? Why write about the last Pirate King when you could become the next one?”[/color]

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