And every time Luffy had been asked if he had never regretted spending his life on the ocean, he would grin and gaze into the horizon.
His answer was and always remained the same.
.
At the end of his journey, Luffy stood in a cave on Laugh Tale in front of the last stone cube.
He was facing the One Piece.
Robin stepped up to the stone without being told. She inspected it and pulled her previous notations out of her bag. The Straw Hats were waiting in patience as she completed her notes and began to decipher the One Piece.
And her eyes widened after some minutes. In disbelief, she looked at the cuboid and back at her notes. And she began to decipher it again. And then again. And when she came up to the same conclusion the fourth time, she turned to her captain and stared at him for a long time. Then she turned to her friends and gave them a look.
And the longer she thought about the One Piece, the more sense it made to her.
Luffy had started his journey in the East Blue and had met Zoro, Nami, Usopp and Sanji there. He had picked up the rest of the gang on the Grand Line.
And it had all been no coincidence, no.
It had all been fate.
It had been fate that Luffy had met the not-so-normal people in his crew on the Grand Line. And it had been fate that Zoro, Usopp, and Sanji had mastered Haki, so that they were no longer the most normal either.
So, for a long time Robin had assumed that Nami was the only one between these incredibly strong and definitely strange characters, who was the most ordinary.
But that she could be so completely off the mark, no, she certainly would never have thought of that.
She began to explain to her friends exactly what the secret of the One Piece was, and the more she talked, the more disturbed they looked, until finally all eyes were on Nami except for Luffy's, who sank to his knees with a hollow look in his eyes.
After Robin finished sharing the mystery of the One Piece, they were all sitting on the ground except the navigator, whose gaze was glued to her captain.
Nami was also the one who broke the silence as she walked to him, her footsteps echoing in the dimness. She knelt down and embraced him from behind. The soft splashing of a river in the very depths of the cave was the only thing that could be heard.
One by one, the straw hats left the cavern except for the captain and his navigator.
The mood on the Sunny was somber and neither dared to talk about what they had discovered.
This secret was too mighty, and a far too heavy responsibility weighed on the young captain's rubber shoulders.
For a whole two days they waited for Luffy and Nami, until the two of them finally stepped out of the cave and told their comrades their final decision.
And this decision was to change everyone's lives forever.
