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    Before he ever gathered his crew, Monkey D. Luffy stumbled into a fertility festival on an island that didn't appear on most charts — and met a girl performing behind a veil with eyes the color of the sea.
    One night. No masks. Warm and messy and real.
    They parted the way the tide parts from the shore — inevitable, unhurried, already missing.
    They crossed paths again. And again. And again. Always in different ports, always briefly, always leaving something behind — a note, a flower, a smooth flat stone, a route written on a slip of paper. Always finding the same water.
    Until the sea — patient and ancient and a little smug about it — placed a child between them.
    A boy with his father's face and his mother's eyes and a laugh like thunder.
    Koji never doubted his father for a single day. He'd been told the stories. He knew the shape of the man in the straw hat. He knew he was coming.
    He was right.
    Now the Straw Hat crew is gaining more than new nakama.
    They're gaining a heart.
    And the sea — which has been listening to her song for a very long time — is paying very close attention.

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