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He blinks at the question, glancing down to his wrist after a moment.

00:00:00

Never did Sanji expect this, but there it was. Taking the cigarette from his lips, he glances back to the red haired man, holding up his wirst to show.

" Nope. Zero for me too. ”

｡♔ — ITS BEEN SAID that sometimes zero hour goes badly; duds, like Shanks mentioned, or the others just flat out refusing to acknowledge or continue. The other's calm countenance is tame in comparison to stories he's heard.

    ❝ I don't suppose you're upset by this ... ? ❞ he asks carefully, ❝ That doesn't seem to be the case, but -- ❞

ITS THEN THAT Luffy enters the room again, toweling off his hair.

    ❝ Oh! Hey, Shanks! You two getting to know one another or somethin'? ❞

SHANKS HAS TO  laugh at that one, too.

｡♔ — SO IT TURNS to zero hour on Shanks’s wrist, eyes locked with someone he knows only to be Luffy’s friend. He knows the young person’s name, of course, but past that? Nothing. Of course he’s thought of who it’d be, dreamed of it when he was younger and hormonal.

     BUT THIS IS unexpected, and it makes him laugh. 

And liquor you do drink, opting to swig from bottles in this nameless college student's kitchen. You're not alone in this, thankfully. Halloween seems to bring out the very best in drinking ability.

Its when you go out onto the front porch that you feel your buzz, turning the edges of you warm and fuzzy. Its also when you recognize someone you didn't think you'd ever see in person -- Hell, you didn't think about him at all.

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