Yeah, well. Maybe that was different, Red. But we'll never know now, so-- [What's the point in arguing about it or debating it, right? Maybe he'd have gotten more pissed off if Shanks had come after him, maybe he would have just been glad to not be alone after seeing... what they saw.

Impossible to say, and it's not like they can rewind time.]

I know damn well I don't have to do anything I don't want! [So if he's here, on some level, he must want, right? It's the closest he'll get to saying as much.]

And you don't quit just because you don't know how to do something. I'd never have learned to keep myself pulled together after that damned fruit if I'd just given up.