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It matches perfectly with Luffy's scream way back at the Baratie.

monkey d. (physical touch is my love language) luffy and- zoro? i see that little smile of yours🫵

in shellstown zoro tells luffy 'if you stand between me and my goal i'll force you to commit harikiri'. after his fight with mihawk his dream is already starting to shift, and suddenly he doesn't just want to be world's best swordsman for himself and kuina but also for the king of the pirates. at thriller bark, he asks "what's the point of great ambition if you can't protect your captain?" closely followed by dracule mihawk looking zoro in the eyes and saying 'i see your priorities are different now.' because his dream has now become SO entangled with luffy's that he can't imagine a reality where he achieves his without the other. he tells kaido, 'i'll follow my captain to hell if i have to' because he's not going to leave luffy again, not even in death-- he will not continue without him. a far cry from his original statement when the first met, but to be loved is to be changed.