["Hey, Ace, did you fall asleep while eating again?"]
["Hahahaha, Ace is such an idiot!"]
["No wonder we didn't see Ace, even with all that commotion just now."]
Moli looked up at the person who shone like the sun. For some reason, her eyes suddenly grew red, though they were especially bright. She hurried toward the boy and grabbed his wrist, visibly excited as she asked in somewhat halting language, ["Um, are you Ace? Portgas D. Ace? Is it really you?"]
Ace scratched his head, at a loss as he looked at the girl, who was inexplicably so excited. "Yes, that's me." The moment he answered, the girl before him burst into tears. Shocked and bewildered, he instinctively turned to Marco for help.
The next second, the crowd burst out laughing. ["Hahahaha, I can't believe Ace has no idea what to do with a girl who's crying!"]
["Yeah, hahahaha! Did he fool around and leave some girl, and now she's come looking for him?"]
["Hehehehe, who would've thought? Ace is such an idiot, someone actually followed him all the way here!"]
["Looks like we have no choice but to keep this little one around."]
["She's family, after all! Hahahahaha!"]
(P.S. Please ask me to update, because I really have no self-discipline.)
Theme: It's both regret and reluctance to let go.
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