Ace and Luffy have a much needed talk
Audio transcription under the cut!
Ace: but also...you know...just- if you look at the world what you see is things appearing and disappearing.
And humans are a part of the whole...of that. And humans appear and disappear.
That's just happens! Our egos personalize and we consider ourselves special cases....but we are really not. You know?
We-we-we're- are part of the whole and everything in the whole transforms all the time.
Changes form and transfigures
[pause]
Luffy (speaking in a petulant tone, albeit shaky voice): you are a special case.
Ace (with a teasing tone as he laughs): it's 'cause I'm your mama brother!
Luffy (also laughing, though the voice is tinted in a sad undertone): no! No this-I know this transfigures [voice crack]- I know, I know, I know [somber voice] but come on...there is no way to stop a heartbreak. How do you s- [Luffy cuts himself off].
What do you do about that?
Ace (immediately inquires): you cry!
[There is emphasis on cry]
[long pause]
Ace(spoken in a melancholic, somber tone): You cry...
Luffy (in a raspy voice, as if he just cried): Well I love you very much obviously.
Ace: I love you too.
[pause. There is an exhale through the nose like Luffy is sighing.]
And Duncan Luffy? That kind of love, it ain't going anywhere
[pause]
Ace: That's another thing you find. That...I may...leave this...plane of existence of existence, sooner rather than later, but the love isn't going anywhere.
[music starts playing]
Ace (in a brighter and definite tone): I'm as certain of that as I am of anything.
[pause]
Luffy (saying in a sad and shaky voice): I believe you.