User blog comment:Kaizokuking/Sabo/@comment-1595565-20100927001934/@comment-1736597-20100927024105

but all those characters had a purpose they all served towards a main characters development not to say sabo didn't but he could have just as easily been written out it seems silly just to add him in for a minor bit of depth in a background story to luffy when really ace could have served the same purpose all on his own as a multimedia designer who has taken literally spent over 5 years of my life studying media I can say i'll be surprised if he doesn't reappear based on how he's been written

on a side note i think sabo will have been with the revolutionary's or at least associated with them this entire time and will meet up with robin during the next few years