Chapter 32: See you, Ace.
= Days Later =
The Gray Terminal went back to being a dump. Ace and Luffy are training, well more like fighting... as usual. Right now Rin is sitting at the side while watching them fight. After Luffy lost to Ace they argued.
Suddenly Ace point to a rock and yelled "Sabo! You're too easy on Luffy!"
"I'm stronger than yesterday as I thought!" Luffy screamed cheerfully.
Rin's eyes widened a little. She look to where Ace points and see a rock. ' They really miss him huh... '
"Hey Sabo!" Luffy and Ace yelled.
"..." Their face slightly flushed when they realized they're talking to a rock.
Luffy move a little farther from Ace and sigh. "Sabo was a good brother..."
Ace snap and shouts "What?! You mean it'd be better if I had died?!"
"I didn't say that!" Luffy yelled.
"Both of you, calm down!" Rin interfered their argument.
"Shut up!" Ace yelled.
"... okay..." Rin murmur.
Ace and Luffy continues their argument.
= The Next Day =
Rin went to join Luffy and Ace after having some food at Party's Bar. When she arrived she saw Luffy and Ace sitting inside a weird looking wooden shelters. Ace sits inside the one with a sign that said "Ace's Country" and Luffy sits inside the one with a sign that said "Luffy's Country".
"... Um.. I was gonna ignore the "Country" stuff but did you by any chance did this because of the fight yesterday..." Rin asked.
"..." The both of them kept quiet not even wanting to look at each other.
"... You know what, I'm going back to the village. I'll come back after you reconciled with each other." Rin stated.
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= Days Later =
"Rin! I'm going to the mountain with some drinks, can you help me carry them?" asked Makino.
"Sure!"
They went to the mountain to deliver some drinks to the bandits. When they arrives, Ace asked Makino about how to talk properly and how to respect people because he wanted to say his thanks to Shanks for saving Luffy.
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The days went by and everyone is doing what they do daily.
Rin's daily life involves, training with Ace and Luffy, stopping their fights (most of the time failed and got scold by Ace), saving Luffy from wild beasts with Ace, doing quest to get money and points, stopping Garp from bullying Ace and Luffy (if failed they'll just run away from Garp), fighting thugs at the Gray Terminal and inside the city, etc, etc.
= 7 Years Later =
Ace is 17 years old, Luffy is 14 years old and Rin is 16 years old.
Ace is leaving today so the mayor, Makino, all the bandits excluding Dadan, Rin and Luffy came to see him off at a shore near Mt. to Corvo.
"Take care, Ace!" Luffy said while smiling and waving.
"Yeah. See you Luffy, Rin! I'm going now!" Ace said.
Rin nodded with a smile.
"Uh-huh! I'll be a lot stronger when I leave here in three years!" Luffy proclaimed.
Ace smiled "Rin, Luffy... Let's meet at the sea someday!" Ace shouted.
"Of course!" Luffy said excitedly.
Rin smiled and said "Yeah! See you, Ace."