Luffy sat there. He was sitting in the ground, feeling the soft yet cold grass grazing his legs. His eyes, almost the same as empty, stared at the clear blue sea.

He was in a dazed.

Usually, Luffy would already wander around the place, considering his always curious mind seemingly having a consciousness of its own, gaining control to Luffy every time. Luckily, despite his seemingly empty head and his stupidity, he managed to survive every single time he nearly faced death.

But this time? He wasn't sure.

You might think that he's already dead, but he himself knew what's happening. Aside from his promised to become the Pirate King, which he already is, there's also something else. He also promised something to someone.

To came back.

Luffy's doesn't understand what kind of 'coming back' did he promised. Either it's about him going back to reality, or this; going back to this special place.

This place, the cliff, was shared not only by him and his brothers, but also him and.... That girl.

Luffy looked down. Slowly, the blue sea seemed to paused. No- Not seemed. It really did paused. The clear and soft waves stopped, and Luffy's eyes widen as he felt the unusual feeling- Like everything around him just stopped.

"Luffy?"

Hearing a whisper behind him, Luffy froze. He exactly knew who it was. He clearly remembered her, or rather, his memories now came back clear after countless of years of joy and sufferings.

Luffy bit on his lower lip, his body trembling a little as he suddenly felt cold.

It just have to happen, doesn't it?

For his memories to be rewritten to erased his pain. But was it worth it? If you asked him before, he would answer an affirmative yes, due to the fact that he's truly grateful to meet his crew, along with his friends. Although there's some pain, with Ace's death along with some others like Bon Clay, who sacrificed himself for Luffy many times, also Pedro who did the same...Luffy was still thankful. Because he managed to learn, much more he did feel the freedom he longed for.

But now....

He doesn't know. He have no idea what to say.

Taking a deep breath, only for him to realized the fact that he's shaking once he released the breath he took in.

Is he nervous?

Luffy doesn't know. So with clear hesitation and fear, Luffy slowly turn around.

And when his eyes met her, his breath hitched.

No. He wasn't ready just yet. Even after his many years of journey to become who he is now, he still felt that he wasn't yet ready to faced her.

More like....

He's ashamed to face her.

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"You can sleep now." Facing them all, the cloaked girl softly muttered.

"Ehhh?!"

Sounds of shock echoed throughout the whole Pandemonium, the girl who is under everyone's suspicion as the 'culprit' of this situation, the one responsible for this whole ordeal and messy memory fixing work-was now looking at them calmly, a smile of happiness was even shown.

How many times have they seen her smile?

Many times throughout the whole time they were watching, of course.

But how many of those were genuine?

How many of those smiles were filled with mocking and just plain amusement?

All of those smiles except this one.

Ace could see it. His train of thoughts running at high speed, eyes slowly widening before a wide excited grin broke out. His spine shivered from anticipation and excitement.

"Where are we going to sleep?" Nami voiced out a question. Her eyes looked at the cloaked girl, hoping they wouldn't be told to sleep on the floor.

While it's okay to sit in it, no one could ignore the natural coldness coming from the ground. Everyone shivered the first time they've sat (of course, except for some modified prince right at the side *cough*), feeling something heavy that makes them choose to just stand.

But their legs wouldn't cooperate.

Once sitted, it's like the cold floor have a tight grasp on you, as though the floor is weighing you down like some sort of gravity.

Nami didn't want to lay down in that very cold floor. She could even imagine herself gaining frost from the floor.

And to think Luffy was under there.

The cloaked girl smiled, the genuine expression of happiness vanished and was replaced by calmness.

"Of course, I do have a place for you all to stay."

The girl raised her hand, and with a click, everyone's eyes widen.

Questions like;

"What the hell are those?!"

"What's happening?!"

"What's this?!"

The questions were directed towards the bright Aurora-like waves coming from the air. Slowly, those light seemed to swallowed them all, the ground and ceiling above slowly turned into darkness that none of them could see it.

Ace stared up in fascination. It wasn't his first time seeing this. The same goes for Whitebeard and Thatch, who also experience something like this. They didn't said anything though, afraid that despite the similar process of what they've experience, this might be different.

Well they were correct.

Everyone's eyes shut close when a bright light appeared and enveloped them all.

Ace squinted his eyes, the first one to see once the light subdued. He could see rows after rows of large beds. It was large enough to fit four people in it, something none of them pirates have enjoyed due to the fact that they all sailed the seas with nothing but normal size beds.

Especially Ace. He have never have the pleasure to feel the difference between his old normal bed and this one, who looks so bouncy and soft.

"This will be your room. As you can see, the beds were large so you all have to share."

"Wah!"

Everyone screamed when the cloaked girl just magically appeared. They knew much that the girl could use some transportation or something, but her sudden disappearance and reappearance just scared them all.

The cloaked girl smile. Due to her slightly bend down body, silky white locks fell and everyone could see the unusually snow white hair with a hint of red in it.

"You guys could choose where you want to sleep. Also, there are countless bedsheets and blankets right at the corner in case you need some."

"Woah! This beds are bouncy!"

Being the first one to walked over and claim a bed, one of the largest that is, Ace's eyes twinkled as he tried to jump. However, when he did jump, a hand grabbed his feet and pulled him down, causing the freckles to hit his back into the bed.

"What the hell?!" Shocked and petrified, Ace glared at the person only to be met with Ruby eyes.

He paused, and in a blink his sight disappeared for a while.

"I forgot to warn you, Portgaz."

Hearing the cloaked girl's voice, Ace calmed down. Despite the fact that his sight was obvious blocked by those invisible force, he looked unbothethered and even hummed in question

Everyone watched the interaction of the two and felt as though they are close. But they dare not say anything, since they heard the girl saying that what she's about to say is a warning.

Looking coldly at the man, who's eyes were staring at her in dazed but in truth, cannot even see anything, the cloaked girl frowned a little.

"Your body, although it appears to be completely healed, was still in the process of recreation." She stated, and the eyes of everyone close to Ace, especially the Whitebeard Pirates, widen. They became focused and they listened carefully.

The girl continued, "While it is true that you aren't the only one who died, you recklessly destroyed the orbs, which makes the recreation slower and for the energy that fixes your body to flow in a small amount."

"But I didn't know about that..." Ace trailed, his words sounded like a whine.

Suddenly, Marco decided to invite himself in. "So that means Ace have to rest yoi?"

The girl pursed her lips, slowly turning her head to Marco before nodding. "Indeed. He does need to rest, especially in here. Not even an ounce of energy from the pandemonium flows here so it means that the recreation of his body would stopped for a moment. "

"And what would happen if this energy leaves my son's body? " Whitebeard suddenly asked. His eyes showing worry.

He already watched his son died, not exactly but he saw his son's dead body in the middle of the war. So he doesn't want to see it again.

The cloaked girl sigh, "It's simple, really. If he didn't rest properly and used up the energy that keeps him temporarily alive, the pandemonium would swallow his body once he came back."

Everyone's eyes widen.

" You mean, staying here might caused him to disappear?!" Sabo intervene, starting to feel panicked rising in him. He already suffered so much trauma after seeing his brother's death, through a newspaper! How much pain would he go through if he watched it in front of his eyes?

Sure Luffy did managed to stay sane, with Jimbe's help that is. However, Sabo doesn't think he'll be able to stay sane if he have to watched Ace getting swallowed by that cold-horror like place. He just can't!

Just thinking about it caused Sabo's breathing to become unstable.

Thankfully, The girl managed to eased his worry with her answer, along with her calm voice.

"You don't have to worry. I'll be able to bring him back if that ever happens. It'll be a long process though." By now, Ace's was already able to see, but it was still focus on the girl's face. Not that he could see something. Because all he could see is her mouth, and the shadow that seems to blocked the girl's whole face. He was listening, a little, but his busy trying to uncover that others face.

However, his attention was caught by the next set of words.

"To be honest, those who died that appeared here doesn't have their real body. It was a purely created doll." Stepping away from a shocked Ace, the girl made a movement and everyone watched how she grabbed something in the air. In an instant, a white doll appeared.

"See? This is how they look like!" The girl said calmly, showing a small faceless doll.

(A/n: The pic isn't mine, but it resembles the one in my mind. Credits to the right owner.^^♥♥♥)

Everyone deadpanned as they stared at the doll.

"What the fuck? That's ugly!"

Trafalgar raised an eyebrow and throw a glance at Kid before asking, "It's completely faceless, how the hell did it became ugly?"

"That's exactly why!" Eustass Kid stated.

Robin chuckled, "It looks cute."

"To hell it is. It's completely faceless and...naked." Zoro stated, also staring at the small doll. Then he wondered out loud, "How come it's so small when the other who died have big and bulk figure?"

Before the girl could answer, an annoyed voice decided to invite themselves in.

"Who're you calling bulky yow?!"

Zoro glanced at his side, and saw Mr.2, or Bon Clay, glaring at him. Zoro blinked and cough, "Okay, except you."

The girl chuckled in amusement, "I would explain it once you're all back in pandemonium. Also, you all better take a rest, else you'll simply fall when you came back into pandemonium." She smiled and placed the small doll in front of Ace. The boy looked curiously and with his childish nature, grabbed the doll out of the girl's hand, but paused when he made a physical contact.

The description of soft came second, because the first thing that Ace felt is the coldness of her skin.

"Woah, you're so cold!" Ace unconsciously blurted out, grabbing her hands.

"Ace!" Sabo, shocked out of his wits, immediately appeared beside his brother. His hand was already in Ace's mouth, while the blonde continue to rain down genuine apologies towards the cloaked girl.

She smiled, "It's alright." She said, pulling her hands out of Ace's own.

Everyone noticed the softness in her voice, but decided to ignore it when she faced them all.

"You all better rest. No fighting is allowed in this place or else... "

Of course, everyone listened. They weren't in control in this place, and many of them wanted to save Luffy, including Smoker since his group, the G-5, have a soft spot for the straw hat pirates. Of course, they weren't here right now but still, (Because Smoker doesn't want to admit it himself that he cared for Luffy) He wanted to have a fight with Straw hat.

Before everyone else could asked, The girl disappeared.

"SHE JUST LEFT US!"