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[day 2 of the dust storm and...yo, Hadriel, Dr. Asshole needs a favor]

I don't suppose there's anyone who can give me a hand with something.

[he shifts the video from himself, past an enormous black flag tacked to his wall, to a gaping hole in the wall of his apartment. There's already a fine layer of dust collecting like drifting snow around the edges of the floor.]

My place took some damage in the Null battle. Fixing it wasn't exactly a priority until right about now, and I'm not exactly a carpenter.

If anyone can take care of this so I don't have to sleep in the hallway outside, that'd be great. In return I can use my ability to teleport you in and out, or anywhere else in the city.

[but Law, why can't you just find a new apartment? He has reasons, okay.]

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[ Hey, whatever she can do to help. Blabbing is definitely one of her specialties. ]

No kidding? That's pretty cool. Are people born that way sometimes or... is it caused by something?

No, it's a Devil Fruit. No one's born with it, you have to eat a fruit to gain its power.

[literally one of the easiest things to explain about his dumb world]

A... fruit.

[ Right. Okay. That's not actually the strangest thing she's ever heard. ]

I'm guessing they're not easy to get a hold of?

[Y E P.]

No, they're very rare. Mine was worth five billion, according to the Marines.

[not counting the exchange rate, of course]

And you didn't sell it... because...?

[ You could be rich, Law! Rich!!! ]

[aaaaaand there's the twist - the question that's much harder to answer.

Law's face goes rather suddenly flat and dark, and he turns to just sort of edge into his kitchen so Seel can't overhear him (though to be fair there's a lot of hammering going on)]

...because I needed it to save my own life.

[ Ah. Rose knows well enough to know she's struck a nerve and that maybe she shouldn't continue, but- He does. ]

Sounds like one of the best reasons to me, honestly. If I had been in your position, probably would've eaten it too.

Money means nothing if you're dead anyway.

[as long as the simple answer satisfies, good.]

That's a concept a lot of people seem to have a problem with. That there's a lot you can't do when you're dead.

[ It does. Rose doesn't need to know more than what he's told her. ]

You'd think it's pretty common sense, right? Maybe not. Especially not with the way death is treated like nothing in worlds like these.

I get that the resurrection thing makes people complacent. What, have you seen it before? Other worlds.

[granted, he's talked to one or two who have been to additional worlds besides this but...always good to have more info]

Yeah. Haven was the same way. Well, until it wasn't.

Near the end, the power that resurrected people... ended up broken. If you died, you died.

As it would here if anything happens to Hope.

[other worlds are so weird. But Law nods, grateful for the information]

Either way, I don't take it lightly. Death may not be the worst thing to happen to a person, but it does put a fairly permanent end to any plans and dreams you have.

Yeah, trust me, glad we avoided that disaster. I'd have hated for history to repeat itself.

And agreed, dude. There might've been times when living didn't seem like something I wanted to do but... Glad I pulled through.

Mm.

[conveniently that's about when Seel asks for some help holding something to the wall...]

I gotta go see to these repairs. Later.

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