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[Private message to Sasuke, left this morning]

Are you still here, little brother?

[End message]

[Itachi has remained surprisingly unaffected by the current event, something he is positive of and incredibly glad for. While such events had helped move along his relationship with Law in the first place, he has no desire to add further complications on top of this.

Not wanting to remain cooped up in the house, and hoping that any chance for him to be affected from here on out has since past, the ninja can be found feeding birds near the fountain at the center of town. It's been a while since he's done this, despite it being a past-time he enjoys. It's also a good way to get out and learn about current events without simply sitting with his journal laid open all day.

The only odd thing about this scenario is that, despite the variety of birds that can be found within the village, the majority of those alighting to pick at the scattered breadcrumbs are crows.]

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[So the issue of connection between people still stood.]

Are either of them here now?

Ace is. [And then he goes home too orz]

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The other name is familiar as well. I feel as though we may have crossed paths before.

...Though despite my theory being mostly correct so far, the Malnosso don't always keep those major connections here, so I end up wondering the point of it.

[Unless their ideas about who the connecting party is are wrong.]

Ace has been brought back seven different times though. Maybe they were just trying to get it right, eh?

He's usually pretty familiar to a lot of people. He gets out a lot. Orange cowboy hat and a billion freckles. He's friends with Law too.

I may have seen him around. [If not often. But Itachi has been here long enough to see someone with that description come and go more than once.]

I'm guessing you two are close.

He's my best friend. And my baby brother. I don't think there's anyone I'm closer with.

And you don't believe your view of him and his position in relation to others might be somewhat biased?

Not really. Ace is Ace. When he got in trouble, Pops and I had to round up ever ally I could. We had over fifty thousand ready to risk their lives just to give him a chance to survive, and some of them were just people he'd only met once, but they were willing to risk a war that would tear the world apart.

Ace means the world to me in a lot of ways, but he had that effect on a lot of people. I just gave up fighting it years ago and came to peace with the terms of it.

[The grin fades a little. He came to peace with Ace becoming an instantly wildly important part of his life, but not with the removal of that insertion. It was strange really. Back then, he would have sworn anything that coming to terms with Ace being an inevitable part of his life would have been the harder part, but it had wound up so easy. Losing Ace? It was becoming ever bit as difficult as losing his father. Or maybe it was just that he lost them both at the same time.]

[Itachi nods his head. He won't dismiss a bias, but it does seem like Ace is a fairly important individual in the pirate world.]

He has something of a presence, then.

[Marco obviously cares for him a lot, and the fact that he can't keep track of him in Luceti has to be bothersome.]

I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to put together a list... Though singling out such individuals even just for the sake of records might not be the best of ideas.

Very much so. He's the kind of kid who changed the world just by existing.

Mah, probably not a good idea, though it's interesting to consider.

Sometimes we must sacrifice organization for the sake of keeping such ideas from the wrong eyes.

Aye. Though I'm willing to bet that the Malnosso already have a good list of it themselves. Hell, if they aren't trying to bring people here, just send them home, it might be why Ace kept getting sent back so often.

This is true.

What we really need is some of their intel, but figuring out how to get that is nearly impossible, and we wouldn't even know if we could trust it then.

Aye. Could just be a plant, yoi.

Exactly.

It's a rather unfortunate situation all around, at least in that respect.

Aye. I wonder if we could devise our own code to keep everything in though. The wings translate languages, but not necessarily codes, right?

Codes can be cracked. But it's something to consider.

They can, but it would slow them down, and we have two of the best code crackers in the world at our disposal, and I doubt they have that at theirs.

If the idea is to keep the information private, simply slowing them down isn't enough.

If the code is good enough it could slow them down years, by which time it'd be outdated.

We know nothing of their hacking abilities, though. Given what they are capable of, and how here they have managed somehow to communicate without language barriers, it simply wouldn't be reliable.

Isn't it the wings that bypass the language barriers though? So if a code was made that bypasses languages entirely, it might be feasible. There is pretty much always a marine listening in on every den den mushi call made in the world back home, so the only way to get reliable communication is codes. And while they have Vegapunk on their side, they've tasked him with making robots or cyborgs or whatever, so the geniuses they have working on the codes can't figure out which one we were using until we've already changed it.

But we can't count on examples from our own worlds. That's just the problem. We simply don't know enough.

There are things at work here that can warp the very fabric of reality in a manner no genjutsu could ever accomplish. What is a code worth on this scale?

But if they warp the reality of which people seem most connected to others, wouldn't that force someone else to take that spot and by extension, continue a reaction? It would still help deal with the Malnosso, because just by trying to deal with us, they'd be changing the nature of it, eh?

If they cared enough to do so.

There are enclosures older than ours, and in the collected time everyone's spent here, we can't be the only ones to have had these ideas. Knowing the individuals may do nothing in the end, as we still don't have any control over who is brought in, attachments or no.

What would it really matter to them, I wonder, if we knew every individual's name?

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