User blog comment:Fliu/One Piece Fan Short: Bartolomeo meets Shanks/@comment-24850639-20170822171724/@comment-1784001-20170822193712

As for the question of what brought him to Dressrosa, I'm sure he went there after hearing about the tournament for the Mera Mera no mi. And as for what makes him think he can act so reckless, I'm pretty sure alot of pirates are just like that. If I'm not mistaken, there are hundreds if not thousands of pirates that entered the Grand Line, thinking that they would reach the top. Remember what Crocodile said to Luffy while they were fighting back at Alabasta.