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[Nami gets home from her mission late evening on the 2nd and knows pretty must straight away that something is off. Having been gone nearly two weeks, running into Sanji the way she does puts a bad taste in her mouth. She was looking forward to seeing them.

Once Sanji leaves with his spooky darkness powers, she strides through the house in search of other nakama who are awake in search of answers. Don't worry, if nobody's awake she'll just shake someone awake. 8Db Maybe all of you!

...and that shows her quite plainly that the experiment going on isn't just affecting her chef.

FML.

In a temper the next morning, she heads through town, meets some very off-kilter people she knows, and at least thanks the powers that be that she's unaffected this time. It doesn't improve her mood any, so she heads for the battledome to try and work out some stress and try (yet again) to see if she can locate the way down to Catherine's lab.

Okay, yes. That was kind of easy. TOO BAD ABOUT THE MESS.]

[Irritated Voice]

Does someone want to explain to me what the hell happened in the battledome? If any of you are still sane, that is. [She flops down in the wreckage of Catherine's lab and pans the video across the rubble. Doesn't seem much need for secrecy. This has to have been noticed by now, right?] And if anyone is still sane, please tell me what the hell is going on today?

...preferably over alcohol.

[She'll vent her temper on killing a bunch of pirates at the battledome, drop by the battledome clinic on the way out, then swing past Raine's with a handful of papers in hand. And finally, she hits the bar to drink in moody silence.

Unless of course anyone wants to keep her company, because that'd be kind of cool. Worst homecoming ever. >E]

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Whatever I was told by a masked bitch. It was enough. [Ragna also doesn't know if he should be saying much about it to people. Some deep-seated fear of Hakumen suddenly arriving in Luceti again and smiting him for him is a little present in the back of his mind.]

[Nami has never met this Hakumen and is now more curious than ever. Though evasive answer is evasive and she knows it. She frowns.]

Is there anything I should be keeping in mind? He's not going to suddenly turn into a psychopath, is he?

With Terumi around? [Not that Ragna knows he's gone.] Definitely a possibility. That's all I gotta say.

...

...does he become Terumi later?

[No point in hiding anything drastic. Doing that shit got Nami hurt in the past.] It's more complicated than that.

[Okay, but she's sort of relieved to find her paranoid thoughts aren't actually the case.

...of course, it could be worse. Her eyes narrow.] Are you going to tell me how it's more complicated?

[Ragna sighs.] Something about Terumi taking Kazuma's body for his own. Complicated as hell.

[...or not.]

That's...kind of what I meant.

I guess. Thing is, Terumi already has the body here. [...] Dunno what he'd do with Kazuma.

[That's what Hakumen made it out like. Like there's no reason to fear Kazuma being here, but he can't get rid of that shitty feeling that Hakumen was wrong. Just like he's wrong about trying to kill Ragna.]

[Nami winces, mainly in sympathy because...man.]

Kinda sounds like Luceti is the nicest place a guy like Kazuma can end up.

[... Point.] Yeah, sounds like it. [He could say the same for Noel, but... well... she's missing because of Luceti.]

[Say the same for yourself, while you're at it 8|]

Does anything nice ever happen to you people at home?

We've gotta make it happen for ourselves. Otherwise, hell no.

So if you had a choice between staying in Luceti and going home, what would you do?

[She's probably asked him this before. But y'know, slightly drunken Ragna might have a different answer.]

[Slightly drunken Ragna is going to be blunt about it.]

Go home and finish business.

[Heh.]

You're pretty responsible for a terrorist.

[Said the pirate.]

[Smirk.] Hey, it's not the label I picked for myself.

So what would you call it?

[Hm. Good question. Maybe Tao had it right.]

Good guy.

Ahh. Well, given the sort of people who are responsible for law and order in your world, I suppose you can get away with that. [But seriously, she's amused as hell.]