There are billions in my world too. I'm not exaggerating about Blackbeard. He has the unheard of...
[He cocks his head to the side.] Mutants in your world, are they ever born with more than one power? In my world, a second devil fruit will make you explode. But Teach... Blackbeard, he has a special kind of body. He did the impossible. That's how he could destroy the world, and entirely on accident. He's not even trying to wake up those weapons I mentioned, but if this Apocalypse needs to be woken with keys and one of them is to charge him with powers... then Blackbeard would the idiot to charge him. Because he's running around stealing devil fruits and giving them to his own crew in the future I'm told and...
[A heavy sigh.]
Aye, I have sixteen hundred brothers in my crew. Not to mention some fifty thousand allies Pops called his sons and daughters all the same.
And several dozen islands of millions and millions of people he used to protect from slavers and the like, but even keeping my own family alive is a trial and a half. [He traces the giant tattoo on his chest.] This used to protect us, but now it's a target on all of us, and I'm supposed to turn it back into protection. [Gestures out to the ashen spade.] That's why I'm so dramatic, eh? [Switches the arm back to human to point to the spade tattoo.] Because it's a lot easier for me to promote my family's name than my own.
But no matter how many lives you think you're saving, no many how many worlds you think you'll save, you can still only do it by dying permanently once. If he's somehow in every world with signs of him, then who is protecting all those worlds? It can't just be you alone. If we still have all these stories of it, and all these dots to connect, then it might unravel things all the same. Time is a mess. And...
At least talk to Ikki first. He's actually died and been through hell itself more than once, because that's what phoenixes are cursed doing, eh? And he's promised me we'll beat up time itself together to get it where we need. And he connected the gods name thing for me, and knows more about that kind of fight than... anyone else. He hasn't traveled multiple worlds other than this one and his own yet, but he doesn't have my centur-- decades of losing people to color his vision either, eh? [Although he did also have brothers who willingly threw themselves into reckless martyrdom without the blink of an eye, but Marco doesn't share that, since he figures if anyone can talk Marco himself into letting Rogue do as she plans, it'd be Ikki.]
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There are billions in my world too. I'm not exaggerating about Blackbeard. He has the unheard of...
[He cocks his head to the side.] Mutants in your world, are they ever born with more than one power? In my world, a second devil fruit will make you explode. But Teach... Blackbeard, he has a special kind of body. He did the impossible. That's how he could destroy the world, and entirely on accident. He's not even trying to wake up those weapons I mentioned, but if this Apocalypse needs to be woken with keys and one of them is to charge him with powers... then Blackbeard would the idiot to charge him. Because he's running around stealing devil fruits and giving them to his own crew in the future I'm told and...
[A heavy sigh.]
Aye, I have sixteen hundred brothers in my crew. Not to mention some fifty thousand allies Pops called his sons and daughters all the same.
And several dozen islands of millions and millions of people he used to protect from slavers and the like, but even keeping my own family alive is a trial and a half. [He traces the giant tattoo on his chest.] This used to protect us, but now it's a target on all of us, and I'm supposed to turn it back into protection. [Gestures out to the ashen spade.] That's why I'm so dramatic, eh? [Switches the arm back to human to point to the spade tattoo.] Because it's a lot easier for me to promote my family's name than my own.
But no matter how many lives you think you're saving, no many how many worlds you think you'll save, you can still only do it by dying permanently once. If he's somehow in every world with signs of him, then who is protecting all those worlds? It can't just be you alone. If we still have all these stories of it, and all these dots to connect, then it might unravel things all the same. Time is a mess. And...
At least talk to Ikki first. He's actually died and been through hell itself more than once, because that's what phoenixes are cursed doing, eh? And he's promised me we'll beat up time itself together to get it where we need. And he connected the gods name thing for me, and knows more about that kind of fight than... anyone else. He hasn't traveled multiple worlds other than this one and his own yet, but he doesn't have my centur-- decades of losing people to color his vision either, eh? [Although he did also have brothers who willingly threw themselves into reckless martyrdom without the blink of an eye, but Marco doesn't share that, since he figures if anyone can talk Marco himself into letting Rogue do as she plans, it'd be Ikki.]