[even after listening to Brooke and Luffy and giving a tiny chuckle at Brooke's silly joke, all kinds of suspicions ran through his mind. What if this friendliness was only a front to get people to lower their guard? What if he got captured? How was he going to explain that to his crew? Why did they seem so completely unbothered by his bizarre appearance? Those hesitating thoughts and many more tried to convince him not to go, but with another look up at Luffy, he ignored those thoughts. There wasn't even a hint of guile in that guy's eyes. Brooke didn't have any eyes but.., he got a similar vibe from the skeleton]
[besides, he'd learned to trust his instincts in his world and they almost always served him well. They could say all the friendly things in the world and make all kinds of promises and he still wouldn't believe them if he got an instinctual sense he was being tricked. But he got no such sense here... Every bit of him was telling him these two were fully genuine]
Well, ok.... Just for a bit.
[using the claws on his hands and feet, he climbed up the side of the ship until he could reach Luffy. He cautiously looked him in the eye one more time briefly before reaching up to grab his hand (hopefully the one he was not picking his nose with) and accept his help.]
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joke, all kinds of suspicions ran through his mind. What if this friendliness was only a front to get people to lower their guard? What if he got captured? How was he going to explain that to his crew? Why did they seem so completely unbothered by his bizarre appearance? Those hesitating thoughts and many more tried to convince him not to go, but with another look up at Luffy, he ignored those thoughts. There wasn't even a hint of guile in that guy's eyes. Brooke didn't have any eyes but.., he got a similar vibe from the skeleton]
[besides, he'd learned to trust his instincts in his world and they almost always served him well. They could say all the friendly things in the world and make all kinds of promises and he still wouldn't believe them if he got an instinctual sense he was being tricked. But he got no such sense here... Every bit of him was telling him these two were fully genuine]
Well, ok.... Just for a bit.
[using the claws on his hands and feet, he climbed up the side of the ship until he could reach Luffy. He cautiously looked him in the eye one more time briefly before reaching up to grab his hand (hopefully the one he was not picking his nose with) and accept his help.]