"Japan, huh?" Luffy scratched the side of cheek in thought. "A lot of people talk about this Japan place, but I'd never heard of it before coming here! What's it like? Are there lots of kitchens there?" It had the word "pan" in it, after all.

Now that he thought about it, he hadn't really met that many people who sailed on the ocean, either -- and he'd met even fewer pirates. He took another bite of his sausage and swallowed it. "Well, I'm on a journey to find a treasure called One Piece!" he said brightly. "You gotta sail across the Grand Line to do that, so that's why I've got my own ship and an amazing crew."