"Aye," a distant look. He was glad Chandra was planning to take Thatch and Ace with her no matter what, but it left him a little jealous too. Either way, part of him was going to be divided. A lot of the family was still back in their world, when they should all be together. "She'd never get over the idea of Ace being Captain," he laughed softly. It was an exaggeration. They'd all been planning to help Ace be Pirate King if he wanted it, and really the only thing that had changed that was Thatch's death and the way it happened. Still, the expression on her face would be priceless, and he liked imagining it.

"The others would roll with it a little easier I think. But Haruta is kind of the runt of the crew, so she liked having Ace around to baby a little, since otherwise we all kind of baby Haruta a bit, eh."