About thirty minutes after the others had wandered into the jungle island, Zoro was getting into the pocket of his workout when he heard engines off the coast of the island. He walked to the edge of the Merry's deck and stared out over the water at the approaching waivers. They were the extra large ones with extra deck space for two more companions on board. He wondered who the jokers on board these waivers were.

They were the recruitment agents of Baroque Works, and they had spotted the Going Merry from Banaro's shores, departing in the distance far away, but able and confident enough to pursue them in their waivers. If they'd wanted to. Mr. 7 had been the one to wisely say, "Let's hang back and see where they're headed. What they're doing. If they have unexpected allies, we'll be all the worse off for it."

"Nothing would be worse than exposing Baroque Works' name to the world unduly," Ms. Independence Day said in back up to his judgment, and they had remained far off shore, staring at the Going Merry through their binoculars. Though after some time without a majority of the crew, they decided to rush the Merry. "What better time to try and scalp Pirate Hunter Zoro than when his pirate captain is gone?" She cackled as she proposed such a thing on their approach to the Straw Hats' ship.

"Aye. We provide a good enough deal, he'll turn coat yet again and join another side," Mr. 7 said confidently. The axe across his back itched to fight with Zoro's swords, but he was ready to do his job before he fulfilled his passion for battle. Mr. 0 was not a man to be let down; his true identity was threat enough for his subordinates to follow their orders to a T.

The recruitment agents pulled their waivers up to the sand alongside the Going Merry, and Zoro stopped his workout to look over the railing at them prudently. They stared back up at him with queer smiles before they offered any sort of greeting, but it could not be more obvious they were here for the Straw Hats in some capacity. Zoro even inferred they were here for him. "What do you want? Who are you?"

"I'm Mr. 7," said the male partner of the crew as he grabbed hold of small handholds on the Merry and climbed his way up to the deck. Ms. Independence Day shot strings out of her wrist bands, wrapping them around the railing of the Going Merry and they both shot themselves over the lip of the Merry, landing side by side in opposition to Zoro.

"I'm Miss Independence Day," the female partner of the recruitment agents crooned in her most sing song voice, sauntering toward Zoro and tracing a seductive line along his shoulder. "We're here to strike a deal."

Zoro raised an eyebrow, not understanding who these people are exactly, and definitely not feeling privy to whatever conversation they were in on. He was automatically annoyed with Ms. Independence Day, if that was really her name; seduction was a weak trick. But Mr. 7 intrigued him slightly. His muscles bulged almost uncomfortably against his clothes as he glowered down at Zoro. Every inch of him is toned. There isn't a muscle he's missed. He's strong, Zoro thought, judging Mr. 7 harshly but fairly. "What sort of deal?" he asked them with a cocky grin.

Luffy, Usopp, Sanji, Nami, and Talisa wandered through the jungle in search of Boss. Talisa and Luffy would call out to him, sometimes joined by Usopp. But that stopped as the attacks from random animals increased as they got deeper and deeper into the jungle Some of the animals had been ridiculous; a half chicken, half dog. A bright blue hen. A frog with an elephant's head and trunk, sized down its scale. A half vulture, half snake. A micro sized giraffe herd that barely came up to Usopp's ankle.

And there were other, scarier animals that Luffy and Sanji had to protect the others from; one animal was a half ape, half shark that punched out at them with big gorilla arms and snapped at them with an emotionless face. There was a lion that had the face and balls of a tanuki, which Sanji called unseemly and battered off deep into the jungle so he'd never return. There was a half wolf, half rooster that chased them incessantly for a mile. There was also a cobra with pigeon's wings that nearly bit Usopp on the head if Luffy hadn't snatched it out of the air and tied it around a tree sapling.

"This island sure is weird," Luffy said, staring around as they entered a small clearing. They weren't even sure where to go next through all this vegetation; Luffy had merely seen Boss descend somewhere into the island. But this island was huge to traverse on foot easily. Already, the day wore into the afternoon.

"Should we just head back to the Merry already?" Usopp complained after a couple hours of exploring and fighting off strange hybrid or unusual animals. "Boss isn't responding to us if he's really here."

"Boss is here! Why would I lie about this?" Luffy asked defensively, holding his hands up high. They heard a shuffling through the undergrowth; Sanji huddled Nami and Talisa together, standing in a defensive position in front of them as a guard. Usopp readied his slingshot, now more tired than scared of the constant harassment from these strange animals. Luffy was ready but made no motion as if he were.

"TURN BACK!" cried a deep voice through the jungle, and it sent shivers down the five of their backs.

"Who said that?!" Usopp prattled, looking from person to person in the small clearing. "Luffy, that wasn't funny!"

"That wasn't me!" Luffy responded, throwing his hands up - as a gunshot rang out and he was shot through the gut.

His skin expanded in a vibrant way, springing out far as Luffy grunted and finally shot it back in the general trajectory it had been shot from. Luffy sighed as he sprang back to form, looking deep into the jungle. "Who is that?"

"Who are you?!" the voice asked back in damn near panic. Whoever it was cleared their throat. "I am the God of the Forest! Turn back now and harm these animals no more!" It was a demand, not a request, not even an order.

"We're here looking for a friend of ours! A beetle that breathes fire named Boss! I saw him land here!" Luffy said to whoever this God of the Forest was. Everyone else was scared of whatever this could be, except for Luffy; he just wanted answers and he wanted answers now. "We've been searching forever! Stop fooling around and don't you dare shoot us again."

A gunshot rang out! It hit Luffy in the face and stretched his face back, far, far, stretching out, and out, and finally sprang back, sending the bullet careening forward into the undergrowth yet again. "I saw you that time!"

"No you didn't!" the booming voice of the "God of the Forest" said in return, but Luffy stretched his arm out into the trees, fishing his hand around for a sure grip on what he thought must be there. "Stop that! What sort of freak are you?! You ate a Devil Fruit, haven't you?" the voice shouted back, and then it yelped without the same power it commanded before. Luffy's arm began springing back to form, his tongue sticking out of his lips in concentration as he fished their attacker out.

Usopp, Sanji, Nami, and Talisa were shocked as Luffy's arm fished out a wide treasure chest from the trees holding a bush inside of it that grew out in great growth; but no, it wasn't anything like a bush! That was a man's hair, deep green like the undergrowth of this forest - yet indeed he was trapped in the treasure chest. His feet poked out of holes on the bottom and his hands poked out of the top along with his face as he cried, sent catapulting forward by Luffy's will. A simple pistol fell from his hand as he flew out from the trees.

"Don't hurt me, please! You're the strongest pirates I've ever met!" the man cried as Luffy dropped the box-man at his feet, towering over him. He placed his hands on his hip as the box-man continued. "You've just been beating the animals of the island up! I can't have that, I just can't!" He nearly cried as he said it, panicked.

The Straw Hats and Talisa studied the man in the box as he cowered beneath Luffy, hands raised in vain defense against whatever Luffy had planned for him next. Usopp could tell it was nothing; Luffy was more intrigued than threatened, even upon the first bullets fired. Luffy finally grinned and asked the box-man, "We're the strongest pirates you've ever met, huh?"

The box-man opened an eye, staring up at Luffy, before answering, "Y-yeah, pardner! That's a sure fact! And I'm not playing around."

"What's your freakin' name, man? You're the craziest thing I've ever seen," Luffy proclaimed, scratching his head underneath the straw hat. "Did you eat some sort of Devil Fruit?"

The box-man laughed as he managed to stumbled himself back to his feet, with Luffy's help of course. "No, I wish! That's the only thing that can save my life. No, I got stuck in this damn treasure chest when I was far younger and I got abandoned on this island full of strange animals." He laughed as he rubbed dirt from his cheek. "I'm Gaimon! I'm no god of no forest!"

Gaimon ended up being far more friendly than the Straw Hats expected, as they quickly explained their reasoning for defending against the animals of the island. Gaimon nodded inquisitively, sighing. "The animals long plagued me. I suppose I became a staple of the island and they neglected to consider me as prey anymore considering my state - but I understand now. Most pirate crews that come here poach them of their strange nature. These animals are said to fetch a high price if the rumors I've heard are true." Gaimon's eyes were shaded as he said such a thing in the clearing.

"Well, we're just here to reunite with an old friend, as we've been saying," Luffy said. "I assume you heard us and that's how you found us, right?" Gaimon nodded in affirmation. "Well, maybe you can help us, if you're the unofficial God of the Forest. He's a fire breathing beetle - he'd fit right in here. Know who he is?"

Gaimon gasped. "Boss?"

"Yes! You know Boss?" Talisa asked the man who was more than four times her age but exactly her height from his trapped chest. She took a few careful steps toward him, unblinking. "Are you . . . Boss' other friend?"

Gaimon's face lit up as a smile brimmed across his lips and his eyes warmed to the newcomers. "Wait, you're Talisa? This is unbelievable! How did you come to find this island?" He looked around at them all. "I don't know you. Are you other friends of Boss'? I saw your Jolly Roger; I didn't know he had other pirate friends."

"Other pirate friends?" Luffy asked, but he stooped and shook Gaimon's hand. "I'm Monkey D. Luffy! I'm the man who'll be King of the Pirates! Nice to meet you, Gaimon!"

Gaimon laughed. "King of the Pirates?" he said, incredulous at the title. "What sort of position is that? Sounds cool, though! I like you, Luffy!" He wondered why Luffy's name sounded familiar, but shook it off to be a gracious host to the other Straw Hats. "Now that I know you aren't poachers, forgive me, and introduce yourselves. You look like a friendly bunch!"

"I'm Usopp, First Mate of the Straw Hat Pirates," Usopp proudly proclaimed.

"I'm Sanji," the cook said with a wave.

"Hi! I'm Nami . . . interesting to meet you," she responded sheepishly.

"Well, come now, forgive me! Any friend of Boss' are friends of mine! He's sleeping at my camp now or else he'd have come with me!" Gaimon retrieved his pistol and tucked it away inside his chest. "Come, come! Allow me to host you!"

He led them through the jungle to his camp which was nestled in the safe but unhomely crags of a ravine carved out in the island's mountainous region. The walk was spent with much talk of Talisa and Gaimon coming to get to know one another. "So Boss is your friend?" Talisa asked him. "He's never told me much about you."

"Really?" Gaimon asked as they took the lead, somewhat hurt on a deep but superficial level. "He's told me everything about you . . . it's a joy to meet you! You sound like a brilliant person!" He laughed as he said so. "Boss has really taken to you."

"Well, you, too," Talisa said simply. "He's always running off to you when you need him." She felt down at the thought, wondering why Boss didn't feel the same way toward her. Gaimon clued in to this, remembering the loneliness youth could bring for the first time in decades.

"I was in some bad trouble," Gaimon revealed to her vulnerably, but also letting the Straw Hats behind them hear the news of why Boss had scurried so fast from Banaro during Luffy's fight. "I was trying to gather some coconut for some makeshift curry, and I fell from my perch . . . I was stranded in the ditch below, rather unhurt, but trapped. If he hadn't come to my aid quickly, I'd have starved to death there."

Talisa considered this, wondering what exactly life would feel like inside of a treasure chest, trapped. "It's okay. I understand now. I'm sorry if I was being selfish with Boss' time." She patted Gaimon's afro happily, and Gaimon chuckled in response, as did the Straw Hats at the new budding friendship.

The Straw Hats soon reached Gaimon's camp and Gaimon led the way through the ravine. There was a large set of space set away in the depths of it where it was obvious Gaimon could relax and rest. At the mouth of this space of a hearth, a small fort for shelter, and a rain barrel for fresher water, Boss sat, sleeping soundly and snoring loudly.

"Boss!" Talisa cried as she ran forward, wrapping her arms around Boss' neck once more to awaken him. He was shocked and thought himself to be a dream as he saw Talisa here at his second home, but was even more confused as she and Gaimon had entered with the same Straw Hat fellow that Boss had fought. He was accompanied by the same longnose fellow from before as well as two others; the one in the suit was strong too. He and Straw Hat could easily take me down, Boss thought bitterly, wondering if this was an inescapable situation.

"Boss, you've got some explaining to do," Gaimon declared. "I'm glad to have met your other half! Talisa is a kind young girl, why didn't you ever tell her about me?" Gaimon pouted as he walked past Boss to get the fire started. "Wipe that sour puss off your face!" Gaimon declared as Boss glared back at him, angry from his sleepy nap. "There's nothing wrong here."

Boss looked about at the Straw Hats as they walked forward, but made no move to attack on them. He found the ability to at least nod a truce to Luffy, who understood the gesture and nodded right back. Luffy sat by Gaimon as he lit his fire up while Usopp walked over to Boss and extended his hand out. "Truce?" he offered, and Boss had to consider him a second before clapping his hand with one of his massive beetle legs. This is not some mere bug, Usopp thought as he interacted with Boss personally for the first time.

"How is this our strangest journey thus far?" Sanji asked Nami, the two of them held up at the edge of Gaimon's camp as they studied the scene. Talisa was already prattling on about there small journey to this island as if it were a month long voyage, while Luffy was grilling Gaimon about getting to know him.

"Come on, let's just try and relax a moment," Nami said as she walked to the fireside, sitting along with Luffy and Sanji.

"Gaimon, tell us your story from the top. How did you get trapped here?" Luffy asked as everyone began to join around the fire as it sparked to life from Gaimon's kindling.

"Well," Gaimon said, eyeing Boss briefly before continuing. "I was a pirate long ago - almost fifty years ago now. We came to this island, guided by a treasure map. There was no treasure here . . . but in my last endeavor to find it, I fell from a cliff and plunged into this damned chest." He tapped the treasure chest that encased his body. "I don't know what to do about it, besides eat a Devil Fruit."

"Why is that your only way out?" Sanji asked Gaimon as he warmed his hands by the fire.

"A Devil Fruit reconstitutes your body in most cases," Gaimon explained. "There are some exceptions, like the more abstract Fruits. But for the most part, a Devil Fruit will reconstitute to a base level strength. And that matters because this chest has atrophied my body." He grimaced as he admitted it. "I've felt it more and more every year, until last year, where I felt no more degeneration. I think I'm as bad as I'm gonna get."

Talisa began to cry at the short diatribe about his life. "Gaimon . . . I'm so sorry! Boss, you horrible beetle! Why didn't you tell me about Gaimon?"

"It was probably for the best!" Gaimon said in defense of Boss' decision, though Luffy recalled him being offended by it earlier; he was beginning to understand Boss. "My story is a drab one. I exist to depress folks." He laughed loud and long as he said, "That's why I instead took up the invisible role as the God of the Forest. All I can do now is protect this forest."

Luffy noticed the downward glance Boss spared to express some sort of sentiment about a loophole in Gaimon's story. Luffy grinned as he said, "So your crew was here for treasure? And you guys found nothing?"

"Nothing," Gaimon reported, waving his hands back and forth. "I had the brilliant idea to check out the tallest peak here to our right, high above us. But no avail. I fell and was cast into this chest, like I said."

Luffy now looked at Boss, sucking on his teeth. "You never went to go check for Gaimon?" he asked the beetle. Boss looked downcast, grunting something that Luffy understood in response. He laughed at whatever Boss said, though Usopp, Sanji, and Nami could not understand it. Usopp even realized he was the only one of the three of them to pick up on it. Gaimon has whatever communication style they have! he thought gleefully, wanting to find some in to figure out what Boss was talking about.

"They're empty," Gaimon declared assuredly with a nod of his head. "I trust Boss' word."

Boss bowed his head further, glad to hear such.

"Wow!" Talisa exclaimed. "You dedicated your life to a treasure that didn't even exist, Gaimon." Her words were pure scorn to Gaimon; he dared not even respond to give her more ammo as his face contorted, almost fifty years strong under this island's yoke. Yet she spoke more and he realized there was no scorn whatsoever. "You're amazing! I've made up my mind! I'm going to be a pirate! Luffy, invite me to your crew!"

"Wait, what?" Gaimon said flatly.

"No, no, no, no, no!" Usopp exclaimed, waving his hands over the fire. "Let's stop this in its tracks. We are not bringing a child aboard our ship! Period!"

"Why not? Who are we to turn her away from her destiny if being a pirate is her destiny?" Luffy retorted, not at all on the same page as the other Straw Hats.

Gaimon rubbed the bridge of his nose, shaking his head as he said, "No, girl. Don't be persuaded by my story! That's the exact opposite reaction you're supposed to have!"

"But you're showing me what drive can do - send you into survival state! And that's just awesome!" Talisa exclaimed, pumping her fists in the air. "Survival state keeps you alive, even if you're in a box!"

"Talisa, you're too young to decide such things," Sanji said, interjecting himself in between Talisa and the others in the group. "I know this is all happening very fast and you must be intrigued by everything, but you have a lot of growing up to do. I was older than you before I first left my home!" he said, trying to bridge whatever gap might exist between them.

Talisa firmly crossed her arms and shook her head. "Mm-mm! I don't believe you or trust you or anything, old man! I think I like the sound of being a pirate and I'm not gonna take no for an answer!"

Great, look what you've done now, Luffy, Nami thought as she looked between the young girl and their captain. How are you gonna get us out of this one? This is almost worse than some grand villain.

"But there's one thing I'm confused about," Luffy said as he stared up the mountain that supposedly had the treasure Boss had confirmed as being empty. There was some reason his pirate crew came here. Treasure maps don't just lead to nowhere casually, Luffy thought as he stared high into the air. "There's no treasure up there?"

"Not according to Boss. I trust his word," Gaimon said, still raising an eyebrow at Luffy's inquiry. Luffy then stood without another word, shooting his arm high into the air where his fingers could clasp on the edge of the cliff and sprang himself up and out of the ravine to spring up into the air and rebound back down to the mountaintop.

"What are you doing, Luffy?" Sanji called up impatiently, but Boss sprang to his feet, beginning to tremble as he wondered what Luffy's next plans were. Why are you ruining this for everyone, Straw Hat? Why don't you just shut up?! He was desperate for Straw Hat to hear him; he knew he could. So why aren't you stopping?!

Luffy walked over to the center of the mountaintop where five treasure chests laid together, their lids closed shut. He slowly lifted the top on one, staring deep into its depths as the truth dawned on him. He smiled.

He gathered up two chests under each shoulder and walked over to the edge of the cliff where he could stare down at the others. He called down distantly, "Yup! It's as Boss says! These chests are empty." Luffy set them down gently on the ground by him as he sat at the lip of the cliff, swinging his legs out over open air.

"Wait, what?" Talisa said, the wind knocked out of her sails from her most recent exploration of passion.

Gaimon nodded, having known the truth already. He bowed his head all the same and said, "Yes, thank you, kid. Thank you for rubbing it in. I'm kidding, of course. Yes, they're empty. I trust Boss."

But Usopp noticed Boss was staring firmly up the mountain at Luffy, unperturbed by any of the others' presence. The beetle's eyes teared up and he fought hard to subdue his tears back into their ducts, but was largely unsuccessful. No one noticed but Usopp, and suddenly, he heard in his head: Thank you. It was a voice he'd never heard before, and yet he instinctively knew it belonged to Boss.

Luffy grinned back down at Boss and the others. "Don't mention it, guy! Thanks for helping Gaimon get up properly." Usopp realized he was tapping into a conversation between a very different language. One he could not identify as of this world.

"Wow," Nami said mournfully as she kneeled to her knees once more. "Gaimon, I'm so sorry. That's . . . so many years to stick around and wait for the hope of treasure."

"Well, I stopped doing things for the treasure after a while. It was a small hope," Gaimon explained as he bowed his head. "You still think you want to be a pirate, kid? This is commonplace happenstance."

Talisa seemed to take a second as she thought this over; Gaimon had struck her as a truly unique individual, but the thought of pursuing the life he'd led thus far was shocking and horrifying to her. She wondered how he wasn't more crazy; she wondered why her emotions were spring boarding off one another. She wondered why she missed her dad all of a sudden, and missed Banaro too. She stooped down, wrapping her arms around her knees.

"I just wanted to travel and see things," Talisa said depressingly, staring into the roaring fire that was to cook their meals but now did nothing but crackle before them all. She had heard Boss give Luffy his thanks, too, but had no connection to understand why he was thanking Luffy. "As a Marine, you have to do as you're told, no questions asked. But as a pirate, you're subject to all the dangers of the world."

"You're subject to that as a child," Sanji told Talisa frankly, leaning down beside her as he stared into the fire as well. "That's why we were so shocked when you stowed away. We're impressed you were able to. You're clearly strong."

"Yeah! No one's doubting that," Usopp chimed in, leaning down across from the fire to stare into Talisa's eyes. "I think things have been rough for you in your short six years. But what would your father do at your age if he returned home and didn't know how to search for you?" Usopp tilted his head to the side. "It's been fun enough tagging along with you, but isn't it about time you made for home?"

"I don't wanna kick you out or anything, but you can't be a pirate. You're a Vice Admiral's daughter," Luffy said from atop the cliff where he sat, lounging against one of the treasure chests. "Besides, look at the dedication and disappointment it takes sometimes. To be honest, I'm really hating my life decisions right now." He let his straw hat shade his eyes.

Talisa cried for a bit, burying her face into her elbows tucked around her knees. "I just want my dad to come home more," she wailed into her limbs. Nami kneeled behind her, rubbing her back reassuringly as the others around them had their gazes cast downwards, suddenly quite grief stricken for this little girl that had entered their lives quite randomly. They saw her desperate scrabbling to find a place to belong in the place of her birth; so many loved ones around her had moved on to different planes. Yet it could be none of them to transport her to new heights.

None but Boss, who wept as he stomped over to Talisa's side to comfort her. He nuzzled up against her and made them close, ignoring the others around them who were bearing witness to this. Gaimon, too, was crying, though. "It's true," Gaimon whimpered. "If I were still your age, on my home island, I'd never decide to leave to be a crummy pirate!" Gaimon spat the last words out into the fire as he gripped his fists in tight balls. Luffy stared at him, his mind turning like working gears.

"For ages I sat here on this island . . . and even Boss told me the truth, but I assumed . . . I assumed it was a lie to shield my feelings . . ." Gaimon explained sullenly. He walked over to Boss and Talisa, extending a hand to the young girl. "I'm glad to have met Boss' other friend! Thank you for coming, Talisa! But you should head home now. I'm sure your dad would love to see you."

"I'm sorry this happened to you, Gaimon!" Talisa said as she hugged Gaimon around his big treasure chest. "Won't you come with us? I'll explain everything to my daddy and he can help get you out of there!"

Gaimon shook his head. "There's no getting me out of this box, child. My body has morphed to it after decades being inside of it. Like I said, a Devil Fruit's about my only hope of leading a normal life now. I don't think I'm ready to reintegrate to society without standing tall, honestly."

Talisa sniffed, utterly moved by Gaimon's story and worried about what it would mean to leave him on this scary island alone. "Boss'll still come to see you all the time, and I'll come sometimes, too! You won't be all alone, Gaimon." She turned to Boss teary eyed and drowsy, though. This had been a huge twelve hours for her; Boss remembered what it was like to leave home for the first time. "Will you take me home now, Boss? I just want to crawl into my own bed . . ."

Boss rumbled softly to her as he bent down and let her clamber up onto his shoulders to sit comfortably. Goodbye, Gaimon. I'm glad you're alright, Boss said to Gaimon. He looked at the Straw Hats who lacked communication abilities with him and he roared at them aloud as his wings began to flap hard.

"Did he saw goodbye?" Sanji wondered as the three of them waved to Boss and Talisa.

"Bye, Mr. Chef, and Nami and Usopp! You're still pretty even though you're scary, Nami! And you're really nice, Usopp! The nicest pirate I've ever met! Let's meet again someday!" Talisa called from on back of Boss, turning up to face Luffy as they reached eye level with him. He beamed at the pair. "Bye, Luffy! You stink, but I'll be sad if I ever hear you died!"

"You suck, too, kid!" Luffy said as he waved. "Hope I meet you guys again really soon!" Boss smiled at Luffy and said to him telepathically, Thank you again. Luffy didn't reply, only nodding to him quietly. Usopp again heard this exchange. How could animals talk, though, even something as amazing as a huge beetle like Boss? And what was he thanking Luffy for?

They watched the form of the beetle fly away from the island and make back across the open sea toward Banaro. "Must be nice to be an animal, not needing a Log Pose," Usopp complained. "Hey, Gaimon. Where are we, by the way?"

"This is the Island of Lost Animals, m'boy! Creatures spliced together by humans and cast away here to remain a secret! At least, that's my theory! But I've gone a little cuckoo since I got left behind!" Gaimon said with an innocent laugh even though it became quite evident he was a bit cracked after so much time alone.

Suddenly, one of the chests slammed into the ground near Gaimon and the Straw Hats; they all bucked and reared away as the lid popped off its hinges and gold, beris, and jewels spilled out onto the ground. Everyone gasped, then looking up at Luffy as he held the other chest over open air. "There's two more like this," he said, dropping the chest onto another safe part of the ground where the gold could spill out from its crashed bottom and sides. Luffy grinned. "You've been guarding one helluva treasure here, Gaimon!"