Three sisters with no common knowledge

"What... sort of... person are you?"

Hancock instinctively rubbed her throbbing temples, her voice hazy from waking and filled with deep uncertainty. She sounded particularly doubtful about that last word, "person."

Ever since her birth on Amazon Lily, everyone she had seen or heard of had been female. She had never encountered a male.

The corner of Dawn's mouth twitched. Although he knew perfectly well that children from Amazon Lily had never seen men, having someone question to his face whether he was human was still a bit much.

Beside him, Stussy and Nojiko, who had followed him inside, covered their mouths and stifled their laughter at his rarely seen look of embarrassment.

Dawn shot the two unsympathetic women an annoyed glare, then turned back to the still-groggy Hancock, a gentle smile returning to his face.

"My name is Dawn..."

He briefly introduced himself, then used the simplest terms he could to explain the basic facts about men and women to this girl from Amazon Lily.

"Oh... so you're a man!"

Understanding dawned on Hancock, and an odd look crossed her face.

"I thought men were all hideous creatures with fangs, vicious and terrifying, just like the older girls in the regular crew said."

The regular members of the Kuja Pirates had always deliberately demonized men to keep apprentices like Hancock from becoming curious about the men of the outside world too soon.

"Then... why am I here?"

Having established what species Dawn belonged to, Hancock turned to the question that concerned her most, her eyes wary and uneasy.

Dawn gathered his thoughts and gave a concise account of how he had happened upon a group of human traffickers, intervened, and discovered Hancock and her two sisters, who had been abducted and drugged.

He deliberately glossed over the traffickers' exact