User blog comment:Imhungry4444/One Piece Chapter 690 Review/@comment-1729477-20121129025843/@comment-79.182.223.246-20121130003402

Why? Law destroyed Smoker in a second and he's Shichibukai - of course he's stroger than the bamboo stick chick magnet. Maybe he was stickin' that bamboo in the wrong places? that's traumatic. Vergo sounds like Pedoro anyway.

You make out Oda to be too cruel -  guy doesn't kill a bird if he can get away with it for shtick's sake.