Sabo is back to being raised by his rotten royal family, and we’re left to hope he becomes a street urchin again. See, in One Piece, outlaws are often the good guys and the nobles, government, and marines are almost invariably disgustingly evil. What a wacky world.
Luffy and Ace join with the Bluejam pirate crew, and lay packages all around town. Sabo finds out from his adopted brother that thos packages are actually explosives meant to burn everything on the island except the nobles and their houses to the ground. This carnage is intended to leave a good impression on the visiting Tenryuubito.
The Bluejam pirates are doublecrossed by the nobles of course, and Luffy and Ace are stuck in the fire. The fact that this is a flashback kind of kills any suspense about whether they’ll get out, of course. Dragon pops up in the noble part of the island and is disgusted at what the place did to Sabo. He wishes he had the power to change it. I wonder if he ever managed to? What’s Goa like in the present? I like that they’re setting up some things for the present timeline in the flashback. I’m interested to see whether Sabo lives, and what the reunion with Luffy would be like if he does.
Tags: One Piece
