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[nishishi]

[The feed is going to start up easier than it did last time. Looks like someone's actually learning how to use his communicator--how about that.

Either way, the face that Luffy's making this time around is a little bit unreadable. A smile is on his face, but somehow, if you're someone used to the sort of expression this man usually makes--it's clear that there's something not quite right with it.

Even if the tone that lights up the speakers is a bright one.]

Everyone been having fun yet? It's been messy, right? I hope no-one got too hurt when it came to the big ugly swamp monster. [After all, he'd gotten quite beaten up by it. Look at the bandages and scrapes on his hands and face.]

Even if you did, there's lots'a people here to fix you up, Like Torao. But anyway.

Have any of you seen Ace? My brother. He's always flying ahead of me when we go on adventures together, and he did it again this time around. So I think he got lost.

I'm sure we'll find him when the mission's over, but you know!!
It's not fair, I wanted to be the one who got ahead this time.

[He's so steeped in denial, it might hurt to hear. Sorry.]

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[flashbanging]

[ McCree laughs. Eerily accurate, Luffy. ]

Yeah, that sure sounds like him. Did he refuse the offer?

[nishishi]

[He drops it moments after, and his face is right back to that cheeky monkey expression.]

Nah, he didn't. He said he'd think about it.

[Which, you can assume Luffy's taken it as a 'yes'.]

[flashbanging]

[ McCree rubs his bearded chin. ]

Yeah. That's about what he told me, too.

[nishishi]

Huwaa, McCree asked Hanzo to join his crew, too?

[He gives McCree a really wide, impressed look.]

Nihi, he's just scared of making friends, I think.

[flashbanging]

You could put it that way, yeah. Ain't so much a crew anymore, but we did used to be something.

[ He shakes his head. ]

You got the right of it. But that's why we're here, eh?

[nishishi]

...

[The little smile he gives over the video feed is odd.]

Aa, you're right. It's why we're here.

Maybe that's why McCree should join my crew, too.

[flashbanging]

[ He's not the kind to miss things, much as it seems otherwise. He observes Luffy's face carefully, thinks on the actual topic of this post. ]

So long as you don't mind me still bein' loyal to Overwatch.

[nishishi]

[What better way to try to make sure the friends he's made stay safe and with him than this? Besides, he's already decided he likes McCree enough, so...

His shoulders hunch up, and he pulls that hat down a little over his face.]

'course! You and Hanzo ain't coming back to the Grand Line with me and my crew, so going back to your own after the adventures we have here only makes sense, right?

[flashbanging]

[ but is there anyone that Luffy doesn't like ... ]

You're makin' a fair argument, partner.

[ McCree's voice is a little less cocky than usual. No, they weren't going to the Grand Line when this was over; they were all going back to where they'd come from, presumably, and everyone they met would be a memory. But, til then. ]

Best to stick together while we can.

[nishishi]

[HECK yes. Have you ever met that Rhys guy? God, what a jerk.]

Nihihi. I usually make the best kind'a arguments.

[What an ego.]

So that's a yes, then, right??

[What a suddenly loud whoop.]

[flashbanging]

[ Hey, McCree can appreciate a healthy ego. It's clear that Luffy hasn't got a malevolent bone in his body (admittedly it often seems like Luffy does not have bones, period), and Jesse's liked what he's seen of the others in Luffy's crew, too. So, sure. Why the hell not. ]

All right. Sign me up.

[nishishi]

[He gives another whoop, and while he can't exactly run a lap while the videofeed is on, the cheer is pretty apparent on his face despite the worries still in his head.]

Nyahaha, absolutely! Welcome to my crew, McCree!

We're gonna' have a whole lotta' fun--!!