Epiloge, first then then chapter, its short.
After the fight luffy vs crocodile, crocodile saw the strawhat crew, and people around them, with something in there eyes he couldn't exactly pinpoint it but he would've guessed it was possessiveness?
When luffy and his crew were about to leave they were called by vivi and her father.
"Luffy! Wait we wanted to held a feast for you guys since you did so much for this kingdom.,, viví had managed to catch up to them and asked them for them to join them for the feast the kingdom is having.
Of course they couldn't deny cause their captain always ate like he has an endless void of an stomach that ate more than an 50 person army. His crew knew that, so they stayed for awhile, while luffy's crew noticed it, luffy, however had not noticed it at all. The crew noticed people looked at luffy with a slight protective look and also an possessive look the crew looked at them with a smug look knowing that they'll leave with luffy which meant them winning luffy's love. They were so smug that they'll win luffy's love that they asked who'll he rather stay with.
"Hmm? Who'll like to stay with if I had to chose? Well, it'd be you guys of course, your ny nakama which means I'll always chose you guys!,, luffy said happily, his crew,especially, zoro, looked satisfied, with that answer they had smug looks on them saying ,,hah, see that he'll always chose us,,
Luffy had been oblivious about everything but his crew wasn't through that whole night they stayed near luffy, and scowl at anyone who'll even dare get close to them. Sanji had made food for luffy to get on luffy's favorite list of people. Zoro had been flexing to luffy and telling storys of adventures he had in the past to get on his favorite list of people, everyone had tried to get on his list of favorite people through the whole night.