[Blinks. His eyes narrow for a moment. That's... a little too close to comfort if he's perfectly honest. His relationship with Straw-Hat is nothing short of "fucked up" and Smoker does have his own love of adventure. And an obsession that would lead him to chasing Straw Hat well over choosing to be with a family, so it's just as well that he's not married and told Grell as much (that his job comes first and that's why he's single) a thousand times in advance.]
[There's a grunt and a nod.]
[Should he aspire to even be as close as Lupin and Zenigata accidentally were? Or would that be its own kind of accidental failure?] Sometimes there are worse criminals out there. [Pretty much the best acknowledgement that Lupin and Luffy are pretty good guys that anyone will ever get from Smoker. And that it's better to team up with the likes of them to take the others down even if it means using a thief to catch a thief.]
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[There's a grunt and a nod.]
[Should he aspire to even be as close as Lupin and Zenigata accidentally were? Or would that be its own kind of accidental failure?] Sometimes there are worse criminals out there. [Pretty much the best acknowledgement that Lupin and Luffy are pretty good guys that anyone will ever get from Smoker. And that it's better to team up with the likes of them to take the others down even if it means using a thief to catch a thief.]