Sofia shrugged as they arrived to the camp with Mashyuu, after hearing Harley. "It's unfortunate, but I had to make a call. I considered that it's better to have Mashyuu beaten up but safe, than out there with wounds that I can't tend in a reasonable amount of time - it's going to take days for him to recover anyways, right? Look at these bruises, and the rest of him. So, what really mattered was to get him out of this place, which I tried to do the best I could: to have Mashyuu himself get himself out, because he's one of the strongest people we have around."

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After talking to the Cream Pirates and giving them their share of the seastone - a sackful, she got over to the Skycleaver and dropped off the other heavy sack of seastone there.

"I understand" she then mentioned, in response to Harley. "I just have a different approach to things, I believe, and it's unfortunate that it's had to turn out this way."

Sofia then tapped the sack of ore. "Anyways. No risk is without it's reward. As mentioned, I am going to take nothing of these profits here, it's all for you and Mashyuu. I think it's fair after all, he's the one who has gotten the most injured here."

Little would she know that the World Government would try to honor her for this "generous" deed soon later on with some gifts of their own, because in the World Government's eyes, who had brokered this plan was Sofia herself, because of what she had to talk with the Marines.

Then she would nod. "I'll stick around for a bit and help take care of him, if that's alright. It would be a bit unfair that you'd have to take the burden of this, it was my idea anyways to prioritize getting him out of there and treat him later than treating him at the spot."

[EXIT]