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"What?" This question surprised me. "What 'love-rival'? I knew that the Pirate Empress Boa Hancock has a crush on Luffy-ya, but he never did show any love interest back to her. So I'm not really worried about that. True she is strong, but she is still someone I can take care of without problems."

Giggling the archaeologist said. "You mean you never assumed that you are not the only one who had fallen in love with Luffy-san after meeting him?"

At that, I facepalm myself. Of course. How couldn't I think of something so obvious? Of course Luffy-ya would have a lot of admirers. I'm just a love victim like them. I have fallen to his innocent charm like everyone else. However unlike them, I will make him fall in love with me and he will be mine.

But how many love-rivals do I actually have? Probably a great number of them. "Who are they?" I asked hopping that they were just weak people that no one ever heard about them.

"Well there are quite a number of them. Like you said there is Boa Hancock and also Smoker, Cobby, Crocodile, Bellamy, Marco, Eustass,…" What! That punk bastard too?! Darn! At this point I stopped listening. Half of the people she continued to list I didn't even know who they were. "Of course then there is also Luffy-san family who is very overprotective over him like his grandfather Garp, his father Dragon and Shanks too. You should be cautious about them. They won't give Luffy-san to just anyone. You will probably have to fight them, to show them that you are worthy of Luffy-san." I was going to feel sick. How can I beat them all? They are really strong. Way too strong for me to fight them alone. "However they are not the real problem here." She finished.

"They are not? If they are not the real problem then who is? "Your real rival in love is Zoro." Figures, the one that Luffy-ya trusts the most. I was nervous about the answer I was going to get with my next question, but I had to know. "Are the swordsman and Luffy-ya together?" I didn't want to watch her in the eyes when I asked her this, so I was looking at the floor instead.

"No, they are not. Zoro does have feelings for Luffy-san, but Luffy-san sees him only as a friend." Hearing this, a big weight was lift of my shoulders. "Wait. Why are you helping me and not him concurring Luffy-yas heart then." I didn't understand, why would she help me, instead of her own crewmate.

"Because I know that in Luffy-sans eyes Zoro will forever be only a friend. If by now Luffy-san hasn't developed any feelings for Zoro, then I don't think he will ever develop them in the future." She said as a matter of fact.

"I guess. But why did you decide to help me. Why not choose one of all the other people that love Luffy-ya?"

Smiling gently she said. "Because you are the only person that Luffy-san can fall in love with." "What?" I didn't understand what she was trying to say. Why was I the only one? What was so special about me?

"Maybe you don't notice it, but you are the only person that Luffy-san looks differently. When he looks at you his eyes soften and when he talks to you or about you the tone of his voice is happier." Those words really made me happy. I didn't even notice those little details about Luffy-ya. And they were all because of me. I couldn't help but smile gently. I don't remember when was the last time I felt this happy.

"So Mr. Trafalgar, what are you still doing here?" she asked amused.

"Hm? What do you mean?" I asked the archaeologist.

"Well I assumed that it was clear, that if you want Luffy-san to fall in love with you, you had to start by staying close to him. Therefore my question is, why are you still here, when you could be out there making Luffy-san fall in love with you?" she asked me while smiling gently at me. At that moment I turned around and run down, leaving the ships archaeologist alone to go find my cute Luffy-ya.

TBC