Alright… so I guess I have some explaining to do. First off, let me apologize for taking so damn long to get back to this story but it was really for the sake of my mental health. See, when I wrote the last chapter… I had spent that previous year still working on the story so I had most of it all written out. But, long story short… my computer got fried and I lost it all. I know, right? All those hours of work, just gone… and there was no way of getting it all back.
To say that it was the most soul crushing thing would be an understatement. I had started righting this story because I loved One Piece so much but after that… I just couldn't bring myself to try and rewrite it. It was no longer fun for me and so I pretty much turned away from One Piece for a very long time after that and so, I just wanted to say that I'm so sorry for it all.
So… what made me start to write again? Well, believe it or not, you can thank Kuma for that. And yes, I mean Bartholomew Kuma. I have a really good friend who was crying about how Kuma had the most tragic backstory out of all the One Piece characters and I couldn't help but ask how that was possible? I mean, just about everyone in this story has a sad story… how could Kuma's be worse than Brook, Robin, or Law? So I guess I had to see it and so I caught up to One Piece, which includes all of Wano and Egghead. I only recently caught up and I was so touched by Kuma that it strangely worked as inspiration for me.
And then I decided that I would write the parts that I think I really wanted to write from the very beginning and that was the Straw Hats pasts. The floors in between are just a retelling of their battles throughout the story anyway and I think that we all know what happened to them. I mean, after the story is properly finished, I may go back in and write them as bonus chapters… but you know what, I am going to finally get back to work on this story and finish it. So, yes, I will be back and I am going to be getting done with the Straw Hats viewing their own memories as well as wrapping up the story. For those who are asking me about if I would consider doing another memory story with more current arcs like Egghead, Wano, etc… no, I doubt that. Though I would like to write another story involving Jimbei but that's down the line.
This should be a lot easier on me now that I will be focusing on the interesting things and the Straw Hats reactions to viewing their own memories besides Luffy… though I do still have a special scene involving Luffy and Zoro at the end when they finally get that talk. The first will be Brook's so that will be the next chapter after this one so I hope that it was well worth the weight. As to the next one, it will be Franky… which should be out next month as well.
Again, I do want to apologize to keeping everyone waiting and I want to thank you all for your patience and understanding after all this time. I am in a much better place mentally than last time and I won't take the work as seriously as I did back then. But this story has been on my mind for a long time and I always felt so bad that I never could bring myself to finish it, it's just the idea filled me up with dread but I do have to say that after finally finishing Brook's chapter, it does feel good to be back. So that's it for now, I do hope that you enjoy the next chapter!