While Haruno was lost in his thoughts, the discussion about Sabo's death continued with Dogra saying: "Even a bandit like me understands how he felt! There are times when you don't want to go back home!" While Dogra's tone increased, he used all his strength to remove that on top of him, attacking. After coming Ace, Dogra continued, his tone becoming saddest and angriest at every word that he said: "If he was really happy! Why did he go to the sea with a black flag on his ship!?" Everyone became silent at that moment. After some seconds, Luffy broke the silence with a fierce cry and shout: "Sabo! He wasn't happy!!!" tears fell from everyone's eyes. Even Haruno that knew that Sabo was alive was crying right now. Then Ace angrily said to himself and others: "Why!? Why didn't we saved him!?" he jumped fiercely against Dorga again and asked shouting: "Wheres the guy that killed Sabo!? I'm going to kill him!" After Ace said it, Dorga became stunned for a second before saying: "K-kill a Tenryubiito!? Impossible!" after Dorga said it, Ace grabbed his weapon and rushed toward the exit door to leave the house, everyone became stunned by it and they even didn't move to block him!
But then, Ace's head was grabbed by a big hand and it was hit on the ground, breaking the ground and making Ace's head bleed. The owner of the big hand was Dadan, who was completely warped around bandaids like a mummy. She angrily shouted: "Stop it, you shitty!" Ace used his body and arm strength to remove Dadan's hand from his head and looked at her while shouting angrily: "Get out...! Get out of my way!" Ace tried to get up again just to be taken down on the ground by Dadan again, who said: "It's incredible that you have such confidence being so weak! All that you will do is die. Will die and no one will remember who you are! You are just useless! Sabo was killed by the country, by the world! What can you do!?!" Haruno looked at Dadan while tears fell from his eyes, then his sadness was switched by hate, he hates the world, the Tenryubiitos, the marine that is those Tenryubiitos dogs! He heard Dadan continue: "The death of your father changed the world when you became so important, then you can do what you want!!!" Ace stared Dadan with a hateful expression while Luffy was there, crying. Dadan calmed down a little and said: "Tie up this idiot!"
Haruno approached the crying Luffy and hugged him, he continued to cry and Haruno too, tears falling from Haruno's eyes like crystal pearls... Haruno tried to calm down Luffy, which didn't wok very much. Haruni then said slowly to Luffy: "I'm sad too if you want to cry, I will cry with you. Because I'm your brother." after this sentence Luffy cried harder until he fell asleep. Haruno smiled sadly and switched his clothes that were completely wet because of Luffy's tears. While Luffy was crying, Haruno could hear Ace shouting from outside: "Shut up! A real man doesn't cry! Luffy!" but he ignored it and went to the bathroom to take a bath and sleep beside Luffy... He really hopes that he doesn't develop a brother complex or something like that... Really hopes... The next morning, after he woke up, Haruno made a little breakfast to Luffy and went outside to see Ace, when he saw Dadan, Dogra and three other bandits that went out to see Ace, who was tied up in a tree outside the house.
Ace had an incredible gloomy expression, looking down at them. Dadan then asked: "Had you calm down, Ace?" Ace sighed and looked at Dadan, who said: "Untie him." while a bandit was untying him, a seagull was going to land near them and Dogra rushed toward it. Dadan looked behind herself and asked: "Luffy?" Haruno appeared and said sadly: "Cried until fell asleep. *sigh*..." while Haruno was sighing, Dorga grabbed his correspondence and shouted: "Boss! You won't believe it!!" everyone looked at him and he said: "It's a letter! From Sabo! I think that he sent it before going to the sea!" Haruno looked a little surprised and looked at the letter, on it was written: [To my brothers in Mount Columb— Sabo] after hearing it, Ace said: "Give me, I won't go to the city anymore. This letter is for us, right?" Ace looked at Haruno who nodded and grabbed the letter from Dorga's hands and untied Ace. Then he gave the letter to Ace and followed him while he was reading it while hearing, Haruno could hear literally Sabo's voice saying what was written in the letter:
[Ace, Luffy, Haru, I hope that you guys didn't were hurt in the grey terminal fire. I'm worried about you three, but I know that you are okay. I'm sorry guys, but when you receive this letter, I'm already on the sea. Things were happening and I decided to go before you guys. Where am I going to? Wherever place that is not here. And when I arrive there, I will train to become a strong pirate! We will become pirates with great strength and with strong freedom, and, one day, we four will meet each other! We will meet each other somewhere in the free sea. And... Ace, who of us is the older one? Two old brothers, one younger brother and one young brother that is like a big brother to us, it's strange... This is our family, our treasure. But Haru, I hope that one day you will the cooker on my ship! Luffy still a crybaby, but... He is our brother! Take care of him!]
Even Ace couldn't hold anymore. Tears fell down from his eyes, Haruno looked at the sky while more tears fell from his eyes too... Even if he knows that Sabo is alive... It can't be helped! Haruno stored the letter that Sabo made to it not be destroyed by their tears and continued to cry.