Hawking nodded silently to the pirate captain and stood there without saying a word. None of them said a word for a few minutes until the Blonde sighed. "I'm just gonna go outside.. See what the others are up to. Luffy, we can talk when you're done with him." Sanji headed out the door to see if there were any others, leaving just Luffy and Hawking. "I should get you up to speed before anything else." Hawking announced, bringing Luffy's attention back to him. He spent the next few minutes telling the pirate captain about how he used to be in the navy before defecting, and how something had happened to cause Wolf's powers to act up. He never used his personal nickname for her while she was talking about her, since it was a serious matter.

"Well..." Luffy said as he scratched his chin in thought. After a moment, Luffy smiled. "We'll help you out! Seems like you've been through a lot recently, and whatever happened to her will get worse later on... We gotta open her up and find those mystery shards!" He called out as Hawking deadpanned. From what he knew, Luffy always called things 'Mystery things' when he didn't understand what they were or how they worked. "I'm thankful that you can help us, Luffy. This truly is a peculiar case, since nothing like this has happened before..."