[Oh Thatch.] Ace is here and having a blast. So I guess three out of sixteen hundred is probably a weird sign that it's not a dream.

[Though he still pulls Whitebeard's trick, closes his eyes, and tries to conjure up sake. Hm. No magic sake. Probably real.]

Maybe it's a devil fruit user? [But if Marco was in the past, why did Ace remember dying if Thatch was there. Maybe it really was purgatory after all.] Mah, we'll work something out. I think I should warn you though. I'm not sure if it's my phoenix thing, or something else, but I'm a bit ahead of you as far as time goes. Or maybe it's just memories. [Did it matter? It didn't really, right? Because Thatch was here now, and they were together, and they could have fun, so that was all that mattered. Still, people had a habit of making a big deal of things like that, and Marco didn't want Thatch to say Marco could have warned him earlier. It was hard for Marco to keep track of all the things he "could" have warned people about, after all.]