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“We'll say hello again.”

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Been waiting for Oda to tell Smoker and Tashigi’s backstory since 1999

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That one time Tashigi drank too much at the end-of-arc party she and Smoker happened to run into, and found a very comfortable pillow to lean on and dream of swords.

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“So, you really have a barmaid in every port, as the saying goes?”

He laughed, shaking his head. Then, looking at her from beneath strands of red hair, said, “Would you believe me if I told you there’s only ever been one girl?”

“I don’t think it would matter if I believed you, Captain. You’d have to ask her.”

“I’m asking her.”

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“I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun,” she said; “and behold the Shadow has departed! I will be a shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.”