#ch 567

It just did not sit right with me. I hate to complain but like, she froze her bodily functions so the fear poison couldn't be absorbed into her cells and she's alive solely on reishi? How are her muscles moving then?

Okay I really could be reading too hard into things on this one, but, listen. 

Luffy’s line is エースはおれの世界でたった一人の兄弟なんだぞ/ēsu wa ore no sekai de tatta hitori no kyoudai nanda zo! Basically, ‘Ace is the only brother I have in this world!’ 

The thing that stands out to me, here, is that he uses 兄弟/kyoudai to mean ‘brother.’ And he doesn’t, usually, when talking about Ace. Every other time he’s introduced Ace or talked about their relationship, he calls him his 兄ちゃん/nii-chan (a particularly informal and imo quite cute way of saying ‘older brother.’)

Kyoudai does also mean brother/sibling, but it’s like... a more general term? Like, in my experience, it’s almost always a plural, used for a group of more than one person. It’s a bigger statement, what Luffy is saying here, placing harder emphasis on Ace being the only one.

(Bonus point: the only time I’ve seen kyoudai used by them before in the story, actually, is here. In the little memory of when they became brothers.)