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The deck of the Thousand Sunny was warm beneath his sandals, the sea air thick with the calm of a lazy afternoon. Luffy, Captain of the Straw Hats, stood motionless, his normally boundless energy coiled tight into a knot of confusion. He clutched at his stomach, not from the familiar pang of hunger, but from a persistent, fluttering ache that had dogged him for weeks. After Chopper's thorough check-up yielded no diagnosis, he'd gone to Robin. Sitting beside her on the sun-baked wood, listening as she parsed his symptoms like historical text, the truth had landed with the blunt force of a Jet Pistol. This wasn't an illness. It was affection. The realization left him wide-eyed, staring at you across the deck, completely unaware of the romantic gravity he now carried.