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[For a moment, nothing happens. The camera is focused on a patch of grass. There are rustling sounds and a woman's voice mutters indistinguishably to herself, and eventually the journal is righted so that the camera focuses on Sally's face. There is a leaf in her hair. She does not look happy.]

Right, I think I've worked out what this thing does, and I just want to say that if this is someone's idea of a joke, I'm not laughing. See this? [She lifts up a police badge containing her ID.] This is a police badge. It's my police badge, yeah? It says I'm Sergeant Sally Donovan of London PD, which means that when I find out who's responsible for this, for...this [She gestures down the length of her body, at the dress that isn't hers] and for this [She turns the journal to take in the unfamiliar surroundings] and I don't even know how to start about this [She jerks her thumb over her shoulder at the pair of dark brown wings that definitely aren't supposed to be there] that person or persons are in a world of trouble.

My advice to you, whoever you are, is to come forward immediately. That's less trouble on my part and a lighter sentence for you, so it's in everyone's best interest. Do not make me find you.

[Sally fumes silently for a moment, and when she decides her point has been made, the recording ends.]

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There are pirates here, in Luceti. My world, at least, seems largely free from pirates except in basically the same places. The ones here aren't really the...swashbuckling types. I don't think the word means quite the same thing there as it does here.

And yea, that...sounds like a pretty horrible case. I've had a few of those, chasing some real sickos over the years, but nothing quite like that. Its good to hear that you saved those girls. What happened to the guy?

...Which, "swashbuckling" or "pirate"?

He died in prison, actually. They said it was suicide, but I don't think it was. All the girls he kidnapped were underage; the youngest was thirteen, and even murderers and rapists seem not to take to a criminal who would hurt children. That, and we could never prove anything, but it came up in his trial that he might be linked to heinous crimes committed against several young women over the years that we weren't able to save. Obviously a hunch isn't enough to convict, but I think everyone who worked on the case really believed he'd done it, those other crimes.

...I don't think it's right, people taking law and punishment into their own hands, even in prison and even against monsters like that; I really don't. But all the same, I can't say I'm particularly sorry.

Pirate.

[Zenigata listens to her story, and just shakes his head. Vigilante justice isn't something he condones, even with a partner as insane as Melon-Kichi. It really sounds like Sally's world is just a lot more fucked up than his. Sure, the mad scientists, and even Cagliostro were pretty bad but he'd never dealt with kid-killers, or even heard about it on the news. He's honestly GLAD for the weirdly whimsical nature of his reality sometimes...]

Yea. Definitely agree with you there. Freaks like that get whats coming to them. One way or another.

Then...what does it mean?

I'm just glad the law gets to them first, and that's all I have to say about it.

Apparently, in that place Pirate just means someone who sails the oceans but isn't affiliated with the Marines or a merchant group. From what Smoker tells me, a lot of the pirates don't go around pillaging or robbing, but seem to just be out seeking adventure or freedom or something. I've talked to one or two of them myself, and they don't really remind me much of Long John Silver, more like something out of a goofy comic book.

I expect you'll run into a few.

Sort of like the romanticised notion of pirates people like to put in films where I come from, then. That's actually rather...cute. Smoker's from the same world as the pirates, then?

Yea, its something like that. Reminds me of some pirate movies from when I was growin' up.

And yea, Smoker is. He's with their law enforcement division.

Errol Flynn and that lot, sort of thing? I loved those as a kid.

Mm. He said he was a Marine, which is the same thing in his world the Navy is in mine.

Yea, exactly. Me too.

I'm given to understand from Smoker and some of the pirates, that most of their world is covered in water. And most people live on islands, or boats, not continents. So, while its like our Navys...is more like the law. I think, too, that there is a more centralized government, like the UN only with more power. He explained it to me once, but it was a while ago.

He told me the bit about the world being mostly water, but not much of anything else. Well, aside from something about "devil fruits". That struck me as a bit...weird.

Yea, get used to that happening. Devil Fruits give people superpowers or something, but they make it so you can't swim. Kinda screwy.

There are a lot of people 'round here with superpowers though. Real comic book people. Hell, I think for a while Clark Kent actually lived here.

The woman who lives on my floor comes from the same place as Batman.

Yep. And I live in the same apartment complex as three Jedi Knights. This place is pretty weird sometimes.

I don't think anyone's arguing that.

Yea. Well, hope you adjust alright. If ya need somethin' use your journal and keep in touch, yea?

I am and I will. Thanks, Inspector.

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