If I wanted to feed you bullshit I would've gotten you drunk before I brought up the pirate thing.

[Openly, with a laugh as Baren sits himself on the kitchen counter with his own wine glass. It's not a hand he'd normally show, but well... he can't help but feel like it'd be a poor choice to play his usual cat and mouse manipulation games with Sanji.

See - it might've been a while since they've actually caught up again, but if there's one thing that Baren trusts in it's the fact that Sanji is just as suspicious of the world as Baren is. The difference between them is that somehow Baren ended up trusting Zoro unconditionally whereas with Sanji -

Well, something clearly happened there to fuck that right up.]

Not really, he's kinda tired of you. He turned into a five year old when he found out I knew you - how I knew you.

The fuck even happened? Z's got all the finesse of a soggy bowl of cereal so I figure it's something dumb.

[Well-meaning, foolhardy, full of heart but also so fucking dumb.]