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1800 ships?! Seriously?? And people thought my Pops had a giant crew...

So she married her own son? [He's heard weirder. Maybe. But yes, he approves of this awesome story.]

Edited 2011-11-08 15:12 (UTC)

Hahhh. I remember mention of this pirate at some point, surely... Cheung Po Tsai... [Which is Jēung Bóu Jái right oh god chinese, can I just say チョン・ポーチャイ...]

Yeah, that's right, Cheung Po Tsai. [ He looks to Marco again. ] Some smaller groups kinda banded together until they had an organization that big.

[ He shrugs a little. ] I'm kinda infamous for pirates. [ Kinda mostly pretty much... in bad ways, yeah. But shh. ]

Nice. [Beeams and ruffles Hong Kong's head. Fufufu one little brother: stolen. Not getting back.]

Sure sounds like it, eh. And the rest of China tried to fight this with monks I take it?

[WOW MARCO YOU ARE SHARING HIM GET IT STRAIGHT.

YOU CAN TAKE KOREA.]

I recall no such thing. [As he answers Hong Kong's question for him. Is this jealousy? MAYBE.] Hong Kong-kun did not have ninja pirates, however. Fuuma Kotarou-san was a bit memorable for that, wasn't he?

[Memorable but not infamous, Japan... Why are you trying to change it back to you now...]

[ He's probably kinda sorta maybe possibly okay with being shared by you both. tsun tsun ]

[ But yeah, go ahead and take Korea if you want him. Just keep him in a separate room from Hong Kong or they will fuss at one another. ]

Marco, it was more like England doing the fighting. Except I already belonged to him, so it was kinda hard to tell who was on whose side for awhile. [ It was a hot mess of confusion between China and Hong Kong and all that was piled on top of an impending war and yeah. Stuff happened. It wasn't good. ] Though I guess he didn't really do it with monks, no.

[ And to Japan: ] Hey, not everybody can have ninja pirates.

[I don't think anyone wants Korea. Except North Korea. Maybe America. =\ I feel bad for Phoebe now.... ANYWAY.]

[Marco arches an eyebrow and glances back and forth.]

I see. Group effort, eh?

Ninja pirates? Is that better or worse than cowboy pirates? [Here's looking at you Ace.]

[to Hong Kong:] Naturally. [And to Marco, or in general]

Is that something that needs to be asked? Cowboys seem strictly American, while ninjas are strictly Japanese. [SO...]

I also had pirates like Shirahama Kenki-san... ...His actions actually lead to closer relations between Vietnam-san and myself. [A glance to Hong Kong DO YOU LIKE HOW HE WAS SHOVING THE CONVO OFF ON YOU EARLIER, AND NOW TRIES TO STEAL IT. Such a loser.]

Did Hong Kong-kun gain anything positive from his pirates?

[ Because Korea is a weirdo with a weird face who insults other people's (totally awesome) facial features and calls them unloved (untrue) and implies they were given away to European powers because of it (who would do that). Yeah. We're not bitter. Not a bit. ]

Why would you need to be a cowboy and a pirate? Aren't they kinda mutually exclusive?

[ He's only met Marine Ace, ironically. ]

Sure. I got richer. [ ... ahaha. ] But a lot of it happened during the Opium Wars. Not so much then, no.

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Of course not. Ace wears a cowboy hat. A lot of pirates in my world are a bit cowboy like. [Because Oda was originally going to make One Piece a western. True story. You should see his early designs for Nami.]

What happened with Shirahima Kenki and the Opium Wars?

...Hm.

[He assumes Marco is asking them to each tell a separate story there. So why not go first.]

Shirahama Kenki-san was a pirate who raided Vietnam-san's coastline. Naturally, this was not welcomed, and a son of Lord Nguyen Hoang led a fleet of ten ships to battle the pirates. Ah, I believe Shirahama Kenki-san lost two ships, and fled. They mistook him as a foreigner and left it as that...

But 14 years later, Shirahama Kenki-san's ship crashed at a port there. I believe it was Thuan An... Ah, anyway, a local magistrate attempted to attack him and was killed. Shirahama Kenki-san was imprisoned, recognized as Japanese, and so my newly appointed shogun at the time was contacted.

... Our governments worked together on quite friendly terms from that point. Vietnam-san and I, I mean. As for the Opium Wars, they were much later, and I am sure Hong Kong-kun could tell far too much on them. [glances to him]

Yeah, too much is right. I never heard that story quite like that before. [ Maybe he heard the other side's version. ]

Eh? How did you hear it? [He will just compare notes. B)]

[Just looks at Hong Kong. YES, TELL, HOW DID YOU HEAR IT... Of course Japan tells stories to make himself look good. Always.]

There was a lot more colorful language involved. [ Who knows. Maybe he's thinking of another story. ]

From his not admirers I take it?

And Opium Wars... That's what China calls England, isn't it? "Opium." And I assume it has something to do with the smoking habit. [Not that Marco has a problem with it. We are talking Marco after all.]

[He stays quiet and looks to Hong Kong. He'd. Rather not talk on China and England, really.]

Yeah, he has a few of those. Sorry, Japan.

[ He doesn't really want to talk about it either, it hits way, way too close to home. Literally. ] Yeah, that's right. It's a long story.

[Tilts head and looks back and forth before grinning softly. No worries guys, he can sense the mood.]

Ah, forget I asked. So got anymore stories about pirates?

[Japan is proud of you Marco. As for how it is, he just nods at Hong Kong. lmfao AS EXPECTED...

But pirate stories? Hm.]

Marco is always so interested in stories... I wonder if I will run out. [this soft smile shows he doubts that BUT YES]

[ WELL IT'S TRUE. ]

Yeah, there are a lot. I'll have to think of some more to tell. Man, if Macau were here, he'd tell some good ones.

I like stories. They remind me of Pops.

Macau?

Macao-san is... ...He is like Hong Kong-kun. [sideglance. it's a way of explaining okay??? also I spell macao the weird way or something]

[ Looking at Japan and then back to Marco. ] He's right. We're both special administrative regions of China.

[ It's not weird, it's totally normal! ♥ ]

I see. And he's good with stories?

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