"Maybe. Hold that thought, though," he says with a finger raised to ask him to pause as he finishes off his cigarette, then snuffs it out and drops the butt in his ashtray before continuing.

"Paramecia's the type of fruit I have. I guess I never really explained all that." So little from home carries over to how things work here that some topics just never once came up.

"There's three types. Zoan fruit lets people take on animal-like features, and even transform completely. Logia fruit lets someone control or become a natural non-animal material, like fire, or ice, or light. Then the rest of us have what's called Paramecia fruits, which... don't fall into neat categories like those, though some people call it being 'superhuman'. So the guy who can become ice, he has a different type of devil fruit. So that's what I was saying, it'd be interesting to talk to someone like that, because I bet he thinks about water differently than how you or I do."