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Luffy grinned seeing Usopp’s development, not because he just murdered a pirate, no. It’s because his aura had now changed, now it was of a seasoned warrior.
For Coby, it happened gradually while he fought the pirates and looked over his goal in life, and it became firm when he finally accepted his offer and became a pirate himself. And it seemed that for Usopp, it was finally finishing of Kuro.
Usopp did view himself as inferior to the pirate butler, because of all the ridicule he had to listen to over the years.
The other straw hats and even Anchor were finished with the other pirates, but they had a bit of mixed reactions seeing Usopp’s deed. Though pride was a common thing among those emotions, though some like Nami and Coby were a bit disheartened and sad about the step Usopp took. They were also a bit scared that Usopp might change for the worse.
But then again this was pirate life, sure it was filled with freedom and joy… but it also was backed by sacrifice and tough decisions.
Luffy didn’t say anything as Usopp fell on the floor after finally losing his consciousness. He walked over to him and knelt down, inspecting the wound on his shoulder. “Sparky, use your powers to slow down the blood loss and get some bandages… you might have to stitch the wound close.”
The six-armed monkey nodded and fired off his slow beam at Usopp, making the blood flow slow down to a crawl… When Sparky got his powers he could only use it to slow down objects for thirty seconds. Now he could do it for over a minute and control what aspect he wanted to slow down.
In theory, Sparky could one day slow someone’s heart with his beams, only the heart, knock out or kill the enemy due to cardiac failure. And wasn’t that just scary… it just showed how some fruit powers were underdeveloped in the series.
Luffy shook his head, he was a bit concerned about Usopp.
The stab went right through the muscles, missing the bones, it would be a bit difficult to use that arm for a while… but he should make a full recovery. ‘We really need a doctor… Sparky should be able to handle this wound, but I need to be more careful, and not let my crew get critically hurt.’ Luffy thought. He almost wanted to stop the fight when Usopp was about to get stabbed.
But he saw a fire in Usopp’s aura, a passion and dream to prove his worth. It would be a crime to take it away from his friend. It was a good thing that Sparky was knowledgeable enough to deal with this kind of wound… still he would find the doctors in the island and let them check Usopp up, before going to Logue Town.
Sparky quickly came back with the necessary things and got to work.
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Now that the two pirate crews were dealt with the people of Sakura Island came back to their port town. And celebrated that a hero like Mario came to save them. Luffy didn’t even bother with them.
Instead used that fame to pull the Island doctors in to check on Usopp. It seemed that Usopp was in good condition. But needed a small injection in case an iron infection occurred. All in all, it was good that it worked out.
Even though the town celebrated the victory over the pirates and the fact that the pirate group didn’t steal all their livelihood… there were still some who lost their family members. And quite a few graves were dug to burry the unfortunate.
Coby, Johnny and Yosaku were mainly who helped with that. The pirates that were still alive were executed by the small-time law enforcement in the Port town, and along with the rest of the pirates they were given a sea burial… for a few days, sea kings and big fishes would be very lively around the island.
It might seem cruel, but for lawless criminals that took away people’s lives and ruined others Luffy didn’t make the effort to stop them. And besides, it was their laws… he didn’t want to shove his view on them.
