User blog comment:Giotis/Why Luffy and did not fight back when Bellamy hit him?/@comment-5227407-20120818062947/@comment-3387274-20120818080636

well since it's allready bumped I'll point out that if you actually explained why they would not have to bump jjust to ask.

What happened in the manga was that Nami said that if they got into too much trouble they couldn't go to sky island. and that meant Luffy went out of his way to avoid risking it, even when Nami told him to forget it and beat the guy. Luffy knew Zoro could take it, so he didn't react then, but It's a safe bet that if Bellamy had tried anything other than flirting with Nami he'd have been headfirst out the window. Also, once luffy had actually got a way to the sky island, he didn't need to avoid causing trouble, so he didn't hold back at all when he went after Bellamy. Answered?