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[The journal picks up a bit of coughing as Emil's hand bumps it and knocks it open in his frantic search, followed by some mumbling.]

... w-wait, I think I found it.

[He coughs again, then clears his throat.]

Can anyone hear me? Fina and I... we were in my house, and... I-I think it collapsed. Please... someone help us! It's getting hard to breathe in here... please hurry!

[He sounds close to panicking as he coughs again.]

Get us out of here...

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Shit. On the way. What number?

House 20, a l-little south of the plaza.

[Immediately starts digging and lifting off larger pieces of rubble before experimentally testing the idea that barriers were down meant full power so he could muse the smoke logia without being nearly as drained.]

Oi, if you've got enough strength to make a sound start doing it.

[Make a sound? Does he mean banging on things or talking?]

What kind of sound? I... I can try hitting something with a stick...

The talking's fine. [Small nervous chuckle despite the situation and pounces in the general direction, prying away more rubble and getting through it.]

Thank you for helping us, um...

Smoker.

[Kicks some wood aside irritably.] Fucking hell, there's no place to put all this. [Keeps digging and stacking anyway.] Can you see anything down there or is it all black?

I'm Emil.

[He flinches slightly at that curse, and, out of instinct:] I'm sorry. We can't see anything down here... it's all dark, and it's getting hard to breathe too. I... I'm scared.

Don't worry. I'm a marine. So long as I can hear you, I know right where you are, and this won't slow me down. [Speaks with the even steady confidence that only comes from weathering out wars and keeping a crew of marines in check.] Your friend conscious?

Y-yes, she is. I don't think either one of us is hurt, either-- at least, I'm pretty sure I'm not hurt, and Fina sounds okay even though I can't see her in the dark.

All right, then I'm not going to call for a medical backup.

Just how many stories did this building have? Tch, all right... hang on. I'm starting to uncover ground here. [Grumbles to himself.] You'd think Whitebeard himself atta-- [Shivers and doesn't finish that sentence, just digs a little faster.]

Just two, but we were on the first floor. I think... I think the whole house is on top of us.

Don't worry, I'm getting through it and I've got backup on the way.

[There's silence for a moment.]

Just... what happened, anyway?

Earthquake.

The causes of that are currently unknown, but it seems the barrier is down as well which could cause problems with certain... enemies.

The barrier is down? Then that means... that means we can leave!

... I don't think so. Since those other people try to keep destroying the village to kill us all, it's probably a bad idea.

[Shoves off a couple of large pieces and reaches out a large gloved hand attached to an arm... made of smoke.] Where's your friend?

[Don't mind him just yelping and scrambling away from that hand at first-- it's nothing personal, just that... well. He wasn't expecting an arm made of smoke and that makes him think vaguely of ghosts or something.]

[Stares at, waiting for an answer and then just moving more stacks.]

Relax, it's just logia. ["Just" he says. Like that's even normal in his own world.]

Wh-what's that?

[He'll relax a little bit, but he's still not touching that thing.]

[Smoker is more than used to this reaction from people. He also doesn't care.]

My devil fruit. In my world there are cursed fruits. You eat one and gain a special powers, but you're cursed to never swim again and always be weak to the ocean. I ate the moku moku no mi so I can turn completely into smoke and control it around me.

[Most of that goes right over Emil's head, but he thinks he understands enough to get the gist of it.]

So... you ate a special fruit that gave you the ability to control smoke, but now you can't swim. Is that right?

Correct. I can turn into smoke as well, so the smoke you're seeing is mine.

And it won't hurt me if I touch it, will it...?

No. It should feel like a cloud if anything. I can focus it to be a lot stronger, but it doesn't hurt on its own.

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