Perhaps! But I have it on good authority that girls have cooties! [Teasing, teasing. But he'll leave her be for a moment so as not to upset her too. He doesn't need two beatings in one day. Instead, he just continues sipping his tea, quietly thinking over... things.

When he came down from the mountains, it wasn't long before Ginko intercepted him and filled him in on the situation with Sanji. Brook spent the next several days lying low and catching up on everything that happened.

He hasn't had time to think about everything he went through in the week before that. Seeing Katara reminds him briefly of a pain-filled scream. He can't imagine the smell anymore, and he's grateful for that, but he can still see the meaty corpse when he thinks about it.

He needs to put this out of his mind.] ...You're leaving for the war tomorrow as well, yes?