Trust

As Elsa looked on this eclectic group, protectively cradling Anna's head in her lap, she had to reflect on their situation. Not only did they seem to be lost, again, but Elsa once again found herself onboard a pirate ship with no allies nearby or a easy way off. Of course Anna was here, but Elsa didn't even know what effect her own powers would have against this group, whose leader seemed to possess strange abilities that made her own gifts seem normal. It seemed strange to Elsa that a boy so young would be the leader of a group of pirates & would be brazen enough to declare himself the king of all pirates, especially since some in this group seemed rather strong themselves, but she figured that this Luffy character could just tie the dissenters up with his rubber-like arms & submerge them under the ocean's surface until they consented to follow him.

Before she could decide to take chance that her ice could slow this group long enough for her to try and get Anna out of here, Elsa felt Anna stir in her arms as she let out a groan. "Anna?" Elsa asked frantically as she carefully supported Anna's shifting weight, "Are you okay?"

"Elsa?" Anna said as she rubbed her eyes to clear them, "Well, my head hurts a bit, but otherwise I feel fine. What about you? You had a nasty bump on your head, and I was afraid you wouldn't wake up."

"Your head…?" Elsa asked in concern as she examined Anna from every angle. Then she took a hissing breath through her clenched teeth as she spotted the yellowing bruise just under her hairline. "They struck you!?" Elsa growled as she turned and glared at Luffy's group.

As she felt her power rising to her command, Elsa hesitated when she felt Anna restraining hand fall on her shoulder and she said, "No, Elsa. I'm pretty sure that it was from bouncing around inside your sphere while on those rough seas, all while trying and failing to keep the remaining hole in it blocked and the sea from coming inside. Of course my headache may instead be from being inside it for so long without a warmer coat."

"I would say it would be both," the little reindeer-man Elsa thought she heard the red-head call Chopper say, "You're definitely looking better, but I would still recommend that you rest for a bit longer, preferably under some warm blankets. If you're feeling up to it, I can show you to one of our spare cots."

Anna blinked her eyes to focus them, then she smiled friendlily at Chopper and said, "Hello again there, Little Sven."

Chopper looked rather irritated as he yelled at Anna in indignation, "I told you! My name's Chopper, not Sven! Tony Tony Chopper!"

Anna looked confused as she asked, "What kind of name is 'Chopper'?"

"Well what kind of stupid name is 'Sven'!?" Chopper indignantly countered, "Sounds like it was made up by an idiot who never learned how to use vowels properly!"

Now it was Anna's turn to look indignant as she said, "For your information, it was my boyfriend who came up with that name! Sven is the name of the reindeer who happens to be Kristoff's best friend in the whole world, and he's one of the bravest, most noble creatures I've ever known next to the Gargoyles. He saved me and Elsa more than once."

"And that's why you called me 'Sven', because you thought I was him? That doesn't make me happy at all, you big jerk!" Chopper responded, though the strange face and the odd swaying motion he did told Elsa that he was lying about not being pleased about Anna's unintentional comparison.

Elsa's head was still swimming with everything that was going on, trying to get everything straight, when she saw a hand extended into her peripheral vision. Looking up, she saw that the gentleman had gotten back onto his feet, and he was extending his hand towards her and Anna as he said, "If you ladies would permit me, I would be honored to escort you both to the sleeping quarters."

Before Elsa could decide whether she would accept his offer to help her up or if she was going to freeze this creep solid, the fiery red-head struck the man on the head with her fist again as she yelled, "The hell you are, you letch! Chopper and I can get them to the cots by ourselves!"

Sorry, guys, Elsa thought to herself, deciding that she had enough, but it's time for Anna and I to be taking our leave. As she reached her hand up to her neck she gasped in shock. There was nothing there! Elsa looked all around frantically, straining her eyes for the tell-tale glint and glow that would betray its presence, but she found nothing. It was gone! "My pendant! Where is it!?" Elsa cried out frantically, fear and desperation coloring her tone. When her eyes fell once again on Luffy's group, Elsa's eyes narrowed in suspicion as she asked in an accusatory tone, "What have you pirates done with it? Give it back to me now!"

"Please, take a deep breath and calm yourself, miss," the raven-aired young woman said to her gently, "What is this pendant that you're talking about?"

Although the woman's gentle nature threatened to soothe her again, Elsa determinedly refused to lower her guard again. Setting her jaw, Elsa fixed her glare on the woman and felt her anger rising to its peak, nearly overshadowing the fear and despair she felt as she snarled, "Don't play games with me, pirate! If you don't return my pendant to me this minute I swear I will send the lot of you to the bottom of the sea with my own hands!"

"Look, miss, none of us saw anything that looked like a pendant when we fished you in that overgrown hailstone out of the sea," the red-head said in a sincere tone that had a touch of irritation coloring it, but then Elsa saw her face change, the undeniable glint of greed in her eyes as the woman continued eagerly, "But if one of us happened to find it somewhere, then what kind of reward would we be looking at here?"

This last comment nearly sent Elsa over the edge, and she swiftly got to her feet & prepared to fire an ice blast at the deck. Before she could, however, Elsa once again felt a hand on her shoulder. Looking back, she saw that Anna was unsteadily on her feet, a pleading look on her face as she said, "Please, Elsa, just calm down. For me, okay? Everything is going to be all right."

Seeing her sister trying her best to be brave and strong, even though Anna probably currently didn't even have the strength to knock over a feather, caused all the anger to drain out of Elsa, leaving her with only her fear and despair as she said, "But Anna, we have no idea where we are. That pendant might be our only way of getting back home."

"I know," Anna responded calmly, though she was panting as she did, "I kinda guessed that when I first saw this ship and crew. However, I don't think that they had anything to do with your pendant disappearing. In fact, I think I might have seen it fall out of the hole in your sphere when we were rolling on the waves, but as we were tumbling around at the time I couldn't be sure. Regardless, we had made it back home before, so I'm sure we can get back there again."

"Come on, miss. Let's get you into the sick bay before you collapse again," Chopper said to Anna, and Elsa's eyes bugged out as she saw the little reindeer man change abruptly into a large, muscular creature who was nearly as big as Stoick the Vast, though his head remained about the same size and shape. Anna, however, showed no overt reaction as she accepted the offered arm as he escorted her to a door leading to the inside of the structure rising from the quarterdeck. After they had stepped inside, the raven-haired young woman said, "I'm sorry about the circumstances that lead to our meeting, but I don't believe we properly introduced ourselves. My name is Robin. The red-head is Nami, our navigator, and the guy she clobbered is Sanji, our ship's cook. You've already met Chopper, our ship's doctor, and the skeleton is Brook, our musician."

Elsa wasn't sure about how she felt her sister being left alone with a doctor with the name of "Chopper". However, her mind was currently fixated by the latest of Robin's revelations as she asked in stunned disbelief, "I'm sorry, but did you say 'skeleton'!?" When she caught a movement to her side, Elsa tuned to look and had to stifle a scream. Standing a short distance away, dressed in the gaudiest clothes she had ever seen was a skeleton. She didn't know how she could have missed it, as this….thing outstripped even Alvin the Treacherous for height (although, being a skeleton, it was much skinnier), or how it could be standing or moving, as there wasn't any skin, muscles, or ligaments Elsa could see to hold it together. Nonetheless, move it did as it tucked his cane under his arm, held his crown-like top hat on his hair-covered skull and said in a low and friendly voice, "Forgive me for not introducing myself earlier, as you were unconscious at the time. However, now that we've officially met….can I see your panties?"

"No!" Nami yelled as she punched Brook hard in the back of the head, causing him to fall forward into a prone position on the deck.

"Ouch! Nami, that really hurt! I think you might have knocked my eyes out of my head," Brook complained from his prone position, "Although I'm a skeleton, so I don't have any eyes to knock out. Ho ho ho ho ho!"

The skeleton's laughter must have been contagious, As Robin chuckled briefly as she continued, "Sorry about that, Brook's always been that way. Anyway, the guy with the long nose is Usopp, our expert gunner, and the big guy with the metal arms is Franky, the shipwright who built and modified this ship. The one with the green hair and the scar over his eye is Zoro, our ship's first-mate and expert swordsman. Finally the kid with the straw hat and the scarred chest is Monkey D Luffy, our captain."

Elsa's instincts still told her that she shouldn't trust these people, that they could turn out to be exactly like Black Adder's men. However, she could not summon up the energy to maintain her guard, so she sighed and said simply, "I'm Elsa, and my sister your doctor took into the back is Anna."

Robin smiled warmly and extended her hand daintily towards Elsa as she said, "A pleasure to meat you, Elsa."

Elsa took Robin's hand briefly, and even managed a small smile. Then she released it and leaned back against the railing behind her as she asked, "I'm sorry to ask this of you, considering how I'd treated you initially, but I was hoping that you could tell me just where it is that we are, how Anna and I managed to get here."

"This is the half of the Grand Line known as the New World, a rich and hazardous stretch of water which lies in-between the North Blue and West Blue," Robin explained, though the way she calmly said it was 'hazardous' unnerved Elsa, "As for how you had got here, I was hoping you could tell us. You see…"

Hours earlier….

Luffy is draped backwards over the railing, his tongue lolling out of his mouth as he complains, "Ach, it's too hot here! Franky, can't we go any faster?"

Franky, at the ship's wheel, clangs his two arms over his head as he smiles and says, "Suuuper-no can do, Luffy! The wind isn't strong enough, and our cola reserves are seriously depleted. Until we get to the next village to restock, we only have enough to run the engine for an hour or for a single Coup-De-Burst, so we better save it for an emergency."

Luffy groaned again, then a sudden shade fell across his face, catching Luffy's attention as he focused his gaze on what caused it. Apparently Usopp also saw it, as he pointed up at the large object casting a shadow over the ship, yelling, "Look out! Franky, turn the ship!"

Franky managed to alter the ship's course just before the falling object splashed into the water just off the ship's port bow. Luffy, who had been leaning against that railing, felt himself momentarily weakened as he was drenched by the splash. Although she and Chopper had also been well within range of the splash, Robin managed to create a shield wall with her Hana-Hana Fruit power that sheltered both of them, and although the exposure of her extra limbs to the ocean water also affected her she seemed fine. Only Brook, Franky and Nami managed to stay outside the range of the splash, but neither Zoro, Sanji nor Usopp were Devil Fruit eaters, so they were all fine.

"What was that?" Luffy said somewhat groggily.

Sanji looked over the railing before announcing, "It looks like a giant hailstone."

Usopp also looked down at it, screaming loudly before he yelled, "It's huge! That could have sunk us! Nami, you're supposed to be our weather-wise navigator, why didn't you warn us!?"

"Usopp, you know that weather can be rather unpredictable here in the New World!" Nami snapped back, "Besides, there was no indication we were entering a giant hail storm." Nami then licked her finger and held it up in the air for a moment before saying, "there doesn't seem to be any more on the way, though."

"Are you sure?" Usopp said uncertainly, "If any more like that fall here we could be goners. Maybe we should use Coup-De-Burst to get out of the area, just in case."

Luffy, however, wasn't paying any attention to either of them. Staring down at the huge hailstone, drool poured out of his huge grin as he said, "That looks so cold! I bet it would be great crushed up into our drinks! I'm gonna bring it up here right now!" Before anyone could advise him otherwise, Luffy swung his arm back and forth, which stretched and flexed with each pass back and forth, as he cried out, "Gum Gum Fly Fishing!" Then he snapped his arm down towards the huge floating ball of ice. As soon as his hand made contact, however, Luffy screamed out in pain and his arm snapped back into shape, and he began blowing on it as he complained, "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow! Geez, that's cold!"

Robin chuckled and said, "That's okay, Luffy, I can do it."

"Are you sure, Robin?" Nami asked in concern, "Seems like it's pretty cold."

Robin smiled at her and said, "Compared to the time I spent out at Tequila Wolf and Baltigo, I'm sure that it'll feel like little more than a cool breeze to me." Then after concentrating for a moment, she cried out, "Cien Fleur! Spider Net!" The others then watched as her arms sprouted out of the ship's mast, multiplying as they grew out of the palms and at right angles out of the elbows, forming a then that reached down around the ice ball and into the water. Luffy and is friends saw Robin experience some discomfort, though whether it was due to the cold or her weakness to the ocean she didn't say, but in a matter of moments the ball of ice was hauled onto the ship's deck just before the net of arms vanished into a cloud of cherry blossom petals.

"Hmm, this is strange. This hailstone seems to be hollow," Nami announced after inspecting it for a moment. Then, squinting into the darkness within, she suddenly took a stem back as she said, "And there seems to be something moving inside!"

Usopp screamed in fright as he said, "Quick! Push it back into the water! It's probably some horrible monster that's gonna eat us all!"

Zorro and Brook drew their swords, and Franky prepared his built-in cannons. Robin, however, cried out to stop them, saying, "Wait, look!"

As they watched, a dainty hand gripped the edge of the hole before a young woman with long, strawberry blond hair leveraged her face up to it, groggily calling out, "Hello?"

"After that, we broke you and Anna out of that hollow hailstone, and Chopper treated you both," Robin explained, "Of course your sister wasn't in any shape at the time to explain how you guys had gotten in it in the first place, and you were unconscious at the time. Strangely enough, while your sister seemed to be suffering from extreme exposure to the cold, you yourself apparently were only made unconscious by a blow to the head according to Chopper. It was as if the cold of the ice didn't bother you at all."

"Never has, so long as I can remember, although I'm as susceptible to a blow to the head as anyone else," Elsa told her, "As for how we got here, your guess is as good as mine. Suffice it to say, I don't believe that we're from anywhere around here. I certainly hadn't heard of this Grand Line, West Blue, North Blue, anything like that. Our major bodies of water are the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean…"

"I see, fascinating," Robin said thoughtfully, "What about that pendant of yours?"

"Excuse me?" Elsa asked in confusion.

"Well, I overheard you telling your sister that the pendant you lost might be the only way you have of getting home," Robin explained, "I just thought it might possess some sort of teleportation abilities, that it might have been what brought you here in the first place."

"Oh!" Elsa said, "No, it's nothing like that. The pendant was a gift from….a friend. He is the one who can travel between worlds, between timelines. The pendant simply has a stone in it that, when activated, emits an energy signature that he can detect wherever and whenever it is."

"I see," Robin said, sounding somewhat disappointed, "I thought it might have been like how the Nexus Cave is, or at least how it is supposed to be."

"The Nexus Cave?" Elsa asked her.

"It's a rather fascinating place, one that is said that the laws of physics don't apply," Robin told her, "If one were able to unlock its secrets, then one could potentially learn as much from them as we can from the poneglyphs. Some believe that it was from this cave and from others like it that the Devil Fruits had originally come from. It's even said that one could use them to go anywhere they wanted just by thinking of it. However, supposedly anyone who's foolish enough to use them would be cursed just as severely as if they'd eaten a Devil Fruit, which grants great power in exchange for losing the ability to swim ever again. Unfortunately it's impossible to know for sure. Much of the information from during and even before the Void Century was lost, or perhaps hidden, as I suspect that it was by the World Government. The scientists of Ohara, which had effectively been the closest thing I had to a family I had since my mother went off to discover the true history of the world, had been studying the Poneglyph on our own island. Even though such research had been forbidden (ostensibly on the grounds that they contained information on the locations of the Ancient weapons that could destroy the world), the scientists still did it in order to discover the secrets hidden in the unrecorded Void Century. When they deciphered what was there, the World Government had them and everyone else on Ohara, including my mother who'd returned to warn them, killed in order to keep the dark secret the scientists had learned from ever seeing the light of day. I would have been killed too, but with some help I was able to escape that massacre."

"I….I'm sorry to hear that," Elsa told her, "I know what it's like to lose a loved one, although mine was taken back then due to an act of god rather than an assassination."

"Thanks," Robin acknowledged with a smile, "Anyway, that's why I started to sail with Luffy, as any 'legitimate' sailor would turn a fugitive like me in to the Government, though I continued to stay with them when I learned just what true friends they were. Of course I'm still determined to find out what it is about this Void Century that the World Government is so determined to keep hidden, but my friends will always come first." For a moment Robin was silent, and Elsa guessed she was reminiscing on some special memory. Then she focused on Elsa again and said, "Sorry I got off track. About the Nexus Caves, there used to be quite a few of them, but the World Government had most of them destroyed, likely for the same reason they destroyed Ohara. Now only this one in the New World remains, probably because most who venture here never return, and the island it's on isn't very far from here. If you'd like, we can take a little detour that way, so you can see if you can use it to get back home."

Elsa started to open her mouth to say "of course", but she closed it again before any sound came out. On one hand, a place where she and Anna could get back home just by thinking about it sounded great. On the other hand, it sounded too good to be true, and the one who's offered this option to her was, after all, a pirate.

"You're having trouble trusting us," Robin said in a sympathetic voice, "That's okay, you probably have a good reason to distrust pirates. I too had some major trust issues, due to everyone betraying me once the World Government put such a huge bounty on my head as a kid. Even when I started sailing with Luffy I didn't fully trust them, despite how fond I was growing of them. That's why, when CP9 caught up to me at Water 7, I gave myself up to them. I figured it would be better to sacrifice myself to save them before the pressure from the World Government caused Luffy and his crew to think I was too great a burden, before they hated and betrayed me. It wasn't until they chased after me, despite my apparent 'betrayal', even penetrating so deep into the previously impenetrable Enies Lobby and effectively declaring war on the World Government all in order to rescue me, that I had seen just how badly I'd misjudged them and sold them short. That was when my heart truly opened up enough to truly trust other again."

"I'm sorry," Elsa told her, though she wasn't sure exactly what it was she was apologizing to.

"I told you, there's no need to apologize," Robin replied, "I completely understand. If you feel you can not trust us about the Nexus Cave, then if you prefer we can instead drop you and your sister off at the nearest inhabited island to make other arrangements you'd feel better with."

"Really?" Elsa asked her.

Robin nodded as Nami added, "Absolutely. Believe me, I can completely understand your stance on pirates, due to my experiences with Arlong and his crew. We were originally heading to this one island to refuel and resupply, and if you'd like we could let you off there."

The gentleman named Sanji, back on his feet, lit the cigarette in his mouth and exhaled out a thin stream of smoke before saying, "Wherever my beautiful damsels want to go, that's where we'll go."

"Aww! I wanted to see the Nexus Cave! It sounds so fun!" Luffy groaned in complaint.

"Luffy!" Usopp admonished him.

"Okay, okay!" Luffy reluctantly conceded, "Boring village it is. At least there'll be meat."

How can I be mistrusting these people now? Elsa thought to herself, Especially after they've been so accommodating? As Elsa considered to herself just what it was she really wanted to do, she heard the unmistakable sound of a cannon blast which was subsequently followed by an impact splash off of the ship's starboard side. Following the blast to its source, Elsa saw a trio of ships behind them and closing fast. Even if the flags they were flying weren't clue enough that these new ships were the enemy of Luffy and his crew, the fact that the fact that the flag's logo was also printed in the huge sails with "Marine" printed right below that would leave no doubt.

As the pursuing ships fired off another huge volley of cannonballs, Luffy leaped up into the air, and Elsa watched as Luffy took a deep breath and inflated his chest like a giant balloon, bouncing the cannon fire with his rotund form.

"The Marines!?" Usopp cried out in a panicked voice, "How did they find us!?"

"We must have crossed paths with a Marine patrol route while we were too busy with Anna and Elsa to notice," Nami explained as Brook, Sanji, and Zoro also got involved in the defense of the ship, deflecting and destroying the shells with a series of sword slashes and kicks.

"But how are they catching up to us with hardly any wind?" Usopp asked them again.

"Marine ships have special engines that allow them to traverse the calm belt, which has no wind at all, or had you forgotten what Luffy's friend told us back at Water 7?" Robin responded before crying out, "Gigantesco Mano!" Elsa watched in amazement as a multitude of arms grew out of the side of the ship, which soon melded together into a pair of gigantic arms. Then, as Robin cried out, "Spank!" the huge arms began to swat away the incoming cannonballs.

"What's going on?" Chopper asked frantically as he came out of the room he'd entered earlier.

"The Marines has found us!" Nami explained quickly, "We've got to get out of here!"

"Chopper, can you go below and make sure that the cola engines are primed and ready?" Franky asked him as he blasted the cannonballs out of the air with his own cannons which were previously concealed inside his shoulders.

"Got it!" Chopper acknowledged as he opened a hatch that had been camouflaged in the deck and descended through it.

As the conflict seemed to stretch on, though in reality not much time had passed, Elsa couldn't see how it would end well. Though this crew was fighting astonishingly well (even Usopp, who was showing remarkable still with his huge slingshot), the incoming fire was only intensifying, and Elsa figured it was only a matter of time before one got through. When that happened, everyone here would be killed, including her sister. That thought brought her anger boiling back to the surface. As Elsa strode towards the starboard railing where she saw the ships coming from, Robin suggested to her, "Why don't you go inside with your sister, where it's safe? We've got this."

"No," Elsa adamantly declined in a determined voice, "Maybe I'm still not sure if you guys can be completely trusted or not, but there's one thing I'm sure of. This indiscriminate fire is threatening the safety of my sister, and nobody threatens my sister!" With a huge burst of energy, Elsa unleashed a blast of arctic air towards their attackers, the sudden cold causing ice to form on the incoming cannonballs and sending them splashing harmlessly into the water beside them. Then Elsa unleashed another blast of power into the water, sending a wave of ice to radiate out from their starboard side to surround and trap the pursuing vessels, stopping them cold.

"Wow!" Nami said in astonishment, "Did you see that?"

"Just like Aokiji," Usopp said in just a dumbfounded voice.

"But that's impossible," Robin countered in disbelief, "Former Admiral Aokiji is still alive, isn't he? And for Elsa to have taken his Devil Fruit power he would have needed to die first."

"The cola engine is ready!" Chopper announced as he emerged again from the deck hatch, then when he saw what happened to the Marine vessels he asked, "When did Aokiji get here?"

"Later, Chopper. Now brace yourselves, everyone!" Franky called out, "Coup De Burst!"

Had it not been for Franky's warning, Elsa might have toppled over the railing and into the water as the ship suddenly shot forward into the air. As it was, she felt that she had left her stomach behind with the Marine ships, which were rapidly shrinking away and vanishing into the distance. When the ship finally splashed down moments later, Elsa felt she could finally breathe again.

"First time flying?" Nami asked her.

"Not really," Elsa answered them honestly, "I flew a couple of times on my dragon, Aurora, and before that I flew in a sleigh that was pulled by Sven and sprinkled with some pixie dust, but both times I was sitting down for the flight." When she was met with blank stares, Elsa continued, "It's kinda a long story. I know that you guys must have some questions, but if the offer's still open I'd like to go to the Nexus Cave with you."

"Of course," Nami agreed readily, "We'll just need to pick up some cola and other supplies real quick from the village, as we may need to make another quick getaway, but after that we'll gladly take you where you need to go."

Robin gave Elsa a quick grateful hug as she said, "Thank you for trusting us."

"No. It is I who should be thanking you," Elsa replied, "for saving us earlier and for helping us now."

"You're quite welcome," Robin told her.

"Okay, now that that's over, Elsa do you think that you could send some of that wind of yours into our sails, at least until the wind picks back up again?" Usopp asked her, "That is, before the Marines manage to get free and come after us again?"

"Of course," Elsa agreed, then she caused a firm and cool wind to blow into the ship's sails, driving the boat forward at a good clip."

"Woohoo! Alright!" Luffy crowed from atop the ship's figurehead, "Adventure, here we come!"

Meanwhile, on a nearby island…

"What!? Are you sure!?" a Marine officer shouted into the Den Den Mushi. As the response came over it, the officer replied, "Well just get free as best you can. We'll head that way shortly." After he hung up the call, the officer turned and saluted as he said, "Admiral Fujitora! I'm afraid I have some distressing news to report. A patrol a short distance from here had spotted the Straw Hats, but before they could capture them Admiral Aoki….sorry, I meant former Admiral Aokiji intervened and helped them escape."

Admiral Fujitora, with his admiral's coat draped loosely over his hakama, touched his hand to his heavily scarred face as he said, "Oh dear, this is not good."

"Oh really?" A deep voice retorted, "My old 'friend' Aokiji finally shows his true colors? It sounds as though this assignment has just gotten interesting!"

"No!" Fujitora retorted adamantly in a firm voice, "I already told you, Akainu, I neither need nor want your help."

"Well, what you want or think you need makes no difference," Akainu retorted, not shifting from his relaxed position of leaning against the ship, "Had you managed to capture Straw Hat at Dressrosa, like you were supposed to, instead of letting his 'revolutionary' brother get in your way, then this situation would not have come up in the first place. Because of your failure, the Gorosei have put me in charge of this operation, and if Aokiji has truly joined forces with the Straw Hats then there's no way you can take them down without me. So like it or not, you're under my command for this operation. If you have a problem with that, I suggest you take it up with the Gorosei."