User blog comment:Dragon018/Real or Fake??/@comment-4908812-20130323192516/@comment-1595565-20130325170339

Remind me, did Ace make any friends/comrades after leaving Dawn Island? If he did, I suppose it wouldn't be impossible for him to tell some of them about his childhood. And who says they're the same cups from when he was a kid? A lot of sake cups look alike, not just those three. And Sabo didn't try to save Ace because before Ace died Sabo didn't exist as any kind of story element. Also, he couldn't save him because he was dead. Whatever Oda said about it in the SBS was meant as a tease because Sabo has to be the one character he gets the most questions about, and all the questions are the same. You can guess which one I mean. If anything his name is going to come up again, probably when Dragon says "Yeah, that midget in the top hat totally bit it at the end, but he reinforced my beliefs and I tried to save him, but I'm an idiot and decided to wait upwards of 7-8 hours before getting his charred ass any kind of medical care. Oops."