"He is." And he'll leave it at that, just a simple acknowledgment, made unfortunate by Will's next statement. With Law's whole family dead, Law now included, that's another one of those surviving families wiped from the seas.

"I don't know how any of them did," he says with a shake of his head. "These days, it usually doesn't matter. There's the one who was a notorious pirate who was executed, but there's another who's a Vice Admiral. Back around the time of the war, though, it must have been really hard. I'm guessing they probably scattered, got good at hiding and assimilating."

He can only speculate, but that's what he did after all, right? He hid, and he assimilated. And outside the Red Line, his family name isn't recognized as anything more or less than just another name, so he doesn't bother concealing it.