User blog comment:The ASL Pirates/My Take on WCI/@comment-26058050-20160929053917/@comment-26058050-20160929105420

I had a feeling that might have been the case, but I want to keep my options open here, he may return. It's a possibility that Oda might do, since there have been times when someone briefly gets mentioned and gets overlooked (great example is during the Inpel Down Arc the prisioners that join Blackbeard all get mentioned earlier and I easily overlooked it), but who knows.