[ He's not one of those scumbags... Okay, he wasn't expecting her to come out and just start calling him the worst because he has a really high bounty and has likely done some questionable things on his own journey. But hearing it now in comparison to before, when he'd get called "Good Guy" or something because he decided to buy food, or not being as terrible as the wanted posters or NOL would have the public believe... The otherwise pensive expression on his face lifts some, ebbing away into a more relaxed smile as the gentle rocking of the 'ocean' carries them away.

Huh. So this is what it feels like, huh? Being seen as something else. Somebody else. Someone that he thought he'd buried along with the rest of the rubble and ash. Nami is rewarded for it with the deep yet more relaxed tone of his voice as he looks up at her. ]

You know...before I mighta shrugged that off. [ Not since coming here. Not since he's had all this time, so many months with the Azure Grimoire no longer a liability as much as it was a necessity. Calmer now. ] But...that feels good. To hear, I mean.

Thanks, Nami.

[ That deserves grace in turn. It's not obligatory, but if she's going to speak her mind... ]

If you're a pirate, there should more people like you then.

[ Neither of them were "saints", but he also knew when a person's heart was in the right place as well. ]