User blog comment:AYET/An ante up over the DEATH game/@comment-4899461-20130102190247

I think that Shinokuni has lived out its course as a "fearful weapon", so it's ok for it to be proven ineffective now. We've already seen it kill several people, and we've seen it force every character to run throughout the facility. We've even seen Caesar merge himself in with the gas in attempt to be some kind of super-awesome hyper-mode Caesar (only to see him get punched out instantly). And now everyone's nearly out of the facility, and the gas shouldn't really kill anyone else. We even know that Law et. al aren't even after Shinokuni, but Caesar's Smiles/SAD production. We know pretty much everything about it now, and it's been nearly fully dealt with (except for healing Kinemon). I think a lot of parallels can be made to Moriah and his Zombie Army here: Once the full story is known, they aren't really fearful anymore. And that's ok, because that's how the fear of the unknown works. Oda's still a good writer.