Sabo thought it was funny that most of his squad were terrified of pissing him off, but he didn't really think he was that scary when he was angry. He thought Ace was far scarier, but as soon as that thought entered his mind, it was gone. He didn't know any 'Ace'.
"Did you know your eyes glow when you're angry?" Koala asked once.
"Ha," Sabo had replied without thinking about it, "you're mistaking me for…" and the thought was gone.
"What?" Koala asked, when it became clear he wasn't going to finish the sentence.
"I don't know," Sabo replied, and Koala didn't bring it up again.
It wasn't really normal, Sabo thought while chewing through a sixth large steak, to be so carnivorous. He had only had one helping of vegetables. Koala was making money on it, though, Sabo noted without moving the food away from his face.
"How can you even keep track of your hands and ours?" Koala asked him when he was stealing food off of Hack's plate with one hand, biting into a chunk of meat large enough to block his entire face, and yelling at the newbie for making a bet he couldn't win.
"If you can't keep track, there won't be any food left," Sabo said, mouth full of food, "we don't even know how he does it."
"Who's 'we' and who's 'he'?" Koala asked.
"Oh," Sabo said brightly, but once again lost track of who he was talking about, "I don't remember."
"I thought you were raised as a noble," Koala said, "How is it possible for you to be this unrefined?"
"Maybe that's why I left," Sabo joked, "I was too unrefined for those pricks."
"I almost believe that," Koala said.
"That's not a human bitemark," the doctor said, looking over the newbie, "I thought you said Sabo was the one who bit you?"
"It was!" The newbie cried, "he was stealing my food, and I tried to get it back!"
"I'm sorry," Sabo said, then blinked, "What do you mean not a human bitemark?"
"There are way too many teeth," the doctor said, "You have the normal 28."
Sabo inspected the bitemark, "Wow, how long were the canine teeth?"
"I don't know!" the newbie sobbed.
"Me neither," Sabo said, "But I do know I don't have twenty sets of teeth. What the hell got you?"
"You do though," Koala said, sliding into the infirmary without permission.
The doctor squinted at her like she was a strange creature.
"I don't?" Sabo tried.
"Only when you're eating," Koala said, "You really didn't notice?"
"Koala," Sabo said, "I'm a normal guy. I haven't eaten a devil fruit or anything, and I think I would have known sooner if I were some kind of demon."
"You still don't believe me, but I've seen the bitemarks you leave in your food."
There was a newspaper advertising the upcoming execution of Portgas D Ace, and Sabo didn't wait to talk himself down and said, "Koala, I don't remember, but I'm going to stop this." His blood boiled, and he didn't know why. He couldn't remember. He had to keep them safe… They aren't safe!
"Sabo," Koala tried to act as his common sense, pretending she had any herself.
"Every fiber of my being is screaming," Sabo said, his eyes unknown to himself glowing and his mouth filling with teeth he shouldn't have, "save him."
"How?" Koala asked, "We can't bring the revolution to war, yet."
"Then I'll go on my own," Sabo said, and Koala involuntarily flinched away from the fury in his glowing eyes.
"I'm coming with you," Koala said, "but we need a plan."
Sabo calmed slightly and they started planning. Koala ditched anything overly covert when Sabo started smouldering like the embers in a fire.
"You're going to burn your clothing," Koala told him and he stared at him like she was talking nonsense. Then he smelled smoke and freaked out.
Ace is going to live. I'm just straight up not letting him die.
Their interactions are basically like-
Sabo: I'm a normal person
Koala: no
Sabo: is something burning?
Koala: bruh
