[It's already starry out by the time Smoker gets over to the barracks again. He had more people to check in on than he realized, enough that it's almost starting to impress on him that Grune might be right. Then again, being stubborn as hell, he's almost equally determined to believe she's wrong for the principle of it.]
[For all of Smoker's claims that the time feels like it overlapped, it doesn't really. It feels exactly like it's been two years since he was at the barracks doing jitte training and teaching, just like it's been about that long since he was at Loguetown. Still, for all the time he spent there, it's familiar and the feeling of focusing on physical strength again instead of training haki and devil fruit as often as possible... it's nice.]
[He starts doing his own stretches and warm-ups, ears perked for a certain red-coated thief to appear out of the dark.]
March 10th; Night // Action
[For all of Smoker's claims that the time feels like it overlapped, it doesn't really. It feels exactly like it's been two years since he was at the barracks doing jitte training and teaching, just like it's been about that long since he was at Loguetown. Still, for all the time he spent there, it's familiar and the feeling of focusing on physical strength again instead of training haki and devil fruit as often as possible... it's nice.]
[He starts doing his own stretches and warm-ups, ears perked for a certain red-coated thief to appear out of the dark.]