Yucca didn't change a face. She just sighed deeply. "Why are you still defending yourself? You will die either way ..."
Yurikko turned pale and she looked at Yucca with a look of fear. Then she fell over and lay motionless.

"What ..?" Zorro stared at Yurikko. The red-haired Yucca also looked at the apparently lifeless Yurikko with an unmoved expression. "What about her…?" Luffy asked, kneeling next to her. When he tried to touch her, however, Yucca held her diamond-studded dagger to his neck. "Don't touch her," she said curtly to Luffy.
But now Luffy had had enough of the two strangers. "Tell me what you want now or get out of here!
And if not then ... "
“We want something that this little brat carries with her.” Yucca's gaze flickered to the lifeless body of Yurikko.
"And that would be?" Sanji asked irritably.
"Maccalania" breathed Lulu, who until now hadn't said much. You could hear Robin inhaling sharply.
The others, however, looked unimpressed."What's this?" Luffy wanted to know.
"The Maccalania is a stone that comes from the Forests of Mysteries." Began Yucca "The Forests of Mysteries have many paths but each leads to the sea. But one, the Hidden Path of Yuro, leads to a sunken city."
"Man ... that's cool ... where are these forests?" Luffy was visibly delighted. "Rara avis" said Yucca shortly.
"And what is so special about this stone?" asked Nami. Yucca and Lulu didn't answer. The redhead began to search Yurikko's pockets. Suddenly they heard a sneering laugh. Yurikko blinked and grabbed Yucca's arm. She held it with her right hand. (Yurikko always wears a black glove on his right hand, but don't ask me why ^ - ^ ... She's always a bit strange ...)
“Do you think I always carry it with me, don't you?” She laughed scornfully. "Well YuccaSan you've always been a bit stupid"
“You don't know what you're talking about, you crazy!” Yucca tried to shake her arm away, but Yurikko held her and laughed."Because you too, dear Yucca and dear Lulu, listen to what the sea tells you" With that she let go of Yucca and went into the girl's room.
Without looking at the others, Lulu and Yucca slid off board the Flying Lamb onto their little boat and disappeared with it. "

“What did that mean now?” Zorro scratched his head. Luffy, however, had become thoughtful. He'd heard the sentence somewhere before. ~ Listen to what the sea is telling you ~ He tried to remember where he had heard this sentence before ...

Luffy looked out to sea. The waves had been lashed by the storm and pounded furiously against the stone cliff. A hand came to rest on Luffy's shoulder. “It'll be fine,” said a deep voice behind him.
A man with long black hair stood behind him and also looked out to sea. Luffy's brother Ace.
~ Everything will be fine ~ Luffy was angry and so sad that he could cry.
Ever since he knew Shanks and who had sacrificed his arm for him, he wanted to be a pirate.But now little Luffy had to find out that the people were not friendly towards pirates and even wanted to ban them from the city. Luffy didn't understand. In his opinion, pirates were people who lived for freedom, and not the brutal beasts portrayed by the people in the village. But Shanks wasn't like that. Or does it? Why did everyone talk badly about him? What did he do to them? Tears swam in Luffy's eyes.
“I don't want people to hate me.” He suddenly sobbed “I want to be the king of the pirates, and not be hated.” “They won't hate you. You will be the pirate king. Listen to what the sea tells you ... "

It was all almost eleven years ago. But Luffy knew now where he had heard this sentence before.
The others were already eating and speculating about the two strangers you the woods of mysteries.
It was already dark when Luffy went inside. He finished his dinner more quietly than usual and then went back outside.“Is Luffy sick?” Chopper looked worried. Zorro, who had known Luffy the longest, knew that her captain was a bit strange at times. He grinned but said nothing.
Yurikko, who never said more than was absolutely necessary, lay on deck and watched the stars with a telescope.
They had got used to their strange ways. Falkenauge's daughter planned to travel with them only for a short time. She wanted to go ashore on Lossa Island and find her partner, whoever that was.
It was strange. Thoughtful and a little condescending at times. But on the other hand, she had a way of not taking anything seriously, not worrying and always forgetting something.

At the same time, Ace, the vice of Whitebeard's pirate gang, wished to find his partner. At that time in Logê she had just left it there and left alone with Cold Coffee, as her ship was called.
They couldn't live together, but neither could they live without each other. When one needed help, the other was there to help.An unwritten law for both of them. ~ My partner ~ she once said ~ is where I am and where I am not ~ Something held them together. A kind of steel band that no one could break. A shared dream.
She had never been long in coming. Where was she?