[One day someone will explain to him that Ace also learned showing off from Marco. At the moment, he still thinks they know Ace as well, Ace. Relatively the same way Marco knows him.]

Pops wasn't his captain back then, eh.

Ace never told you how he first met Jinbei? Mah, all right. Fireworks first came to us trying to kill Pops. We stole him instead.

Don't get me wrong, he's damned loyal to the old man, but it took him a little while to realize he didn't have to kill Pops in order to achieve his dreams. He's a funny kid like that sometimes.