"And here you go my dear." Sanji croons, passing her a milkshake of sorts.

The weather is rather pleasant today, given that they've been subjected to both extremities in both days Vivi welcomes the change with gladness.

"Thank you, Sanji-san." Vivi graciously accepts the offered drink, sipping delightedly on the cooling beverage.

"It is of no problem, Vivi-chan!" The cook says, he goes to twirl away but she asks quickly, "Excuse me, Sanji-san,"

"Yes, Vivi-chan?" He comes back, ready to obey her whims.

"Why did you join Luffy?"

He seems to freeze briefly but only for a moment before he's smiling warmly again, "Because he truly made me open my eyes,"

She waits for him to elaborate, sipping slowly on her drink. "See, my old man gave up a sacrifice for me to live, and I always stayed at the Baratie to work off my debt but he would have preferred me to be out living my dream, Luffy made me realise that."

"Hmm, he truly has a way with that, doesn't he? Ne, Sanji-san, may I help you in the kitchen?"

He seems taken aback before he grins widely for her, "Of course my dear, what would you like to make?"

"I confess that I am not as good as I wish I was, maybe something simple like cookies?"

"I can do that." He leads her into Merry and begins to pull out the correct ingredients, "Which variant?"

"Pardon?"

"Chocolate chips? Raisins? Oats?"

She truly isn't in her element right now so she sits back and watches Sanji knead the cookie dough carefully and then fold in cinnamon and more sugar for one of the batches, choc-chips in another and then he fries up some bacon – but barely so it is only teetering on the edges of cooked.

Humming he chops it finely and places it into the dough and then rolls them up into little balls and separates them accordingly.

Being in his element has taken his eyes away from Vivi and she can see the happiness it truly causes him to bake.

She thinks that Luffy could not have found a finer chef.