Well, at least she was starting to get how silly it was to say she was all alone here. That couldn't really be true for anyone. Even when all of Luffy's nakama were gone, he'd still had people like Brock who'd given him a helping hand when he'd needed it. A person just had to look in the right places! (And it wasn't like this place was all that big anyway, so it just made finding friends a lot easier, in Luffy's opinion.)

When she asked if they could be friends, Luffy's expression brightened and he gave a wide smile. "Sure!" he replied with a small chuckle. "You don't even really have to ask me." Sometimes people just started being friends because they acted like friends, with no other words said about it between them.