Great. Of course this is where he'd push for answers. There's a moment where he only wants to laugh — what else would it be? Is there anything, anything meaningful he's done in his life that doesn't revolve around exactly one person?

Maybe he's being unfair. Cora's been dead for all that time. And when he did... hell, all of it, he never once expected he'd have to explain the memorial he's constructed around him, the black ink in his skin a permanent reminder of exactly what (who) he'd lost, and what he owed.

"... it's the same shape as my crew's jolly roger," he admits, because it is, he's not lying! He only hopes Cora hasn't looked at the actual insignia too much... would it have been on any of the newspapers? Perhaps not. It certainly was on his clothes from Wano, but maybe he hadn't paid attention.

Still — he's looking away very determinedly, and to someone else it'd probably just seem like he's uncomfortable... but to Cora, who knows him, he likely seems just as embarrassed as he actually is.