thinking about little zoro tugging on mihawk's pant leg to ask for help calling his friend on the phone.
mihawk dials a certain restaurant and hears chef zeff answer on the other end. "your little chef has a customer" he says and passes the phone to zoro's small hands.
zeff laughs and hollers for sanji, "you got a customer kid, come get the phone!"
sanji jumps down from his little stool where he was peeling apples and grabs the phone with excitement. he clears his throat and with all the professionalism he has, says "thank you for calling baratie how can i help you?"
"curly cook?"
sanji beams, "marimo! my favorite customer. do you want food today?" he blabs at him for a good 20 minutes about what's going on in the kitchen and the dessert he's helping with.
on zoro's end, mihawk only hears "uh-huh. sounds yummy. hm" before he eventually hangs up.
"did you have a good talk with your friend?" mihawk asks, knowing zoro did very little talking at all.
zoro smiles quick and bright, turns bright red, and runs off to play in the garden. par for the course, mihawk anticipates sanji and his father will be visiting with dinner soon enough. he thinks about his silly son, only ever shy when being doted on by his little yapper friend, and smiles to himself. the kids are alright.















