Clenching his teeth, Zoro lifted the four ton weights again. Remembering what De-Ji had said about them refueled his anger and hatred. 'You'll sink the ship someday with your weights, ya know.' Zoro sighed, and ignored the sore muscles that were sending their little signals to his brain. Luffy ran past him holding something, but Zoro just ignored him. He dropped to the floor when he saw a salty tear left behind from Luffy. Luffy almost never cried. Rubbing his arms as he sat up, he decided that that was enough lifting for today, and layed against the wall to nap. Trying to focus on sleeping was harder than he thought when he didn't need it, and De-Ji filled his thoughts. Grumbled he turned over and tried again.

Luffy ran past again, rubbing his cheeks. Running back to the head of the ship, he stumbled, and felt the sick moment of emptiness, but caught himself and started running again. Not watching where he was looking again, he smashed into the wood of the ship. Looking up, he clambered onto the top and looked out at the sea, wondering where she was. What was happening? Sniffling, he wiped tears away again and looked around to see if anyone was watching. Nobody could see him. He had to be strong for his crew. He had hoped so hard that the ship they had beaten practically to death had been slither butt's. Sighing, he gazed out into the waves to watch for more ships.

Sanji sluggishly made snacks for his crew. He missed Suta and De-Ji so much... They viewed him barely as a friend, but he still felt for them. His blood boiled, and the glass fruit cup in his hand broke, making little streams of blood run over his palms. Sighing, he picked up the pieces of glass off the floor and cleaned up the blood, and walked out to find Chopper. Chopper was listening to one of Usopp's stories, his eyes wide and staring off into space, imagining the narration that Usopp was vocalizing. Sanji crouched next to Chopper, and lightly touched his shoulder. He screamed, and tried karate chopping him, but only succeeding in a laugh from Sanji. Chopper frowned at a little droplet of blood hanging on the edge of his palm, then grabbed his trouser leg and started heading off to his infirmary. Once there, he gave Sanji a painkiller, then wrapped his hand in clean white gauze. While he was working, he asked what happened. Sanji rubbed the back of his neck nervously, feeling stupid. He told Chopper however. When it was over, he was glad that Chopper didn't laugh, but instead just nodded. He understood how the crew felt. There were people around, but it still felt lonely.

Robin looked at the pile of books sitting on her nightstand. De-Ji had been borrowing them, but Zoro had returned them because they were taking up space in his room. He seemed reluctant to, but she suspected that he had left them with her because they were reminding him of her. She picked up the top one, which had been one of her favorites as a child. There was a slip of paper stuck in the space between two of the pages. She opened to it, and read a little of it to see where she was. She was right in the middle of Joan of Arc's crusades. There was a doodle on her bookmark. It was a simplified version of Zoro. There were also little hearts around him. She chuckled, then frowned again. This must be really hard on him. Shaking her head, she returned to her bed and her own book.

Nami sighed. It was quiet. Too quiet. She was always complaining about the noise, but now she missed it. Why? Because she was used to it, she supposed. It had been louder for a while, since Suta joined, and now it was dead silent most of the time. Even at mealtimes. Luffy ate his food, then tried to steal a few morsels, then left. It was heartbreaking to see her captain so depressed. She put down her quill pen and leaned back in her chair. Her maps could wait a few minutes. Suta was just like Luffy, so she hadn't hung around her much, but she was still a part of her crew. She had talked to De-Ji a few times. She was pleasant, if a few times hyper. She hung around Zoro like a puppy most of the time, as Suta did with Luffy.