[do you know what he actually missed more than your cooking, cook? This. He missed the give-and-take, the snark and snark back. But he's not going to show it. At least, not right now.

There's more important things to get through, and Zoro finally glances his way at the reaction. The growing darkness in his good eye might be enough warning that there's more. Much more.]

Yeah. Exactly. Turns out they've got a contract with these Flaming guys. [ha...Zoro no] If our worlds really are destroyed, they made it happen. If they're really not, they're still working with these bastards to do whatever the hell it is they do to us. It's not just the things they put in our eyes, it's worse.

[he lets the second full bag drop next to the first one and goes to wash his hands, meaning he shoulders up next to Sanji at the kitchen sink - all the better to say the next bit in a much quieter tone.]

There was a meeting. I went for the free pizza and walked in just in time to hear some guy talk about how CERES tortured him on an altar and used him as a human sacrifice to the spirits that kidnapped us that one time. Some of the swords... [even quieter, now] ...might have had the same thing done to them.