[He stops evading for a moment and fixes her with a dead serious look.] Kicking someone I like is really hard. Either I have to trust their strength so much that I know I can't damage them, and do something I'll regret, or I have to not care.
Of all my brothers, Ace is the only one I'll kick. Not because he's the strongest, he's just the most reckless. If I don't kick him, he'll do something crazier and worse, so I have to trust that, and trust him to hold his own.
Otherwise figuring out how much I can kick someone before they'll die, or how much is too light, it's a pain. It's a lot of control, and that's fine, but getting me to stop holding back is going to be a lot harder for you than you think.
Even without devil fruit. I wasn't Pops' right hand man by not knowing how to fight. If anything, fighting seems like all I know.
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Of all my brothers, Ace is the only one I'll kick. Not because he's the strongest, he's just the most reckless. If I don't kick him, he'll do something crazier and worse, so I have to trust that, and trust him to hold his own.
Otherwise figuring out how much I can kick someone before they'll die, or how much is too light, it's a pain. It's a lot of control, and that's fine, but getting me to stop holding back is going to be a lot harder for you than you think.
Even without devil fruit. I wasn't Pops' right hand man by not knowing how to fight. If anything, fighting seems like all I know.