User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 877: The Candy Shop is Closed/@comment-2125188-20170831163331/@comment-24850639-20170831185424

My thing is, we got to know Pedro as a character much better than we ever did with Pell. Pell wasn't made out to be this super cryptic character with all these under-baked plot points that have serious story implications. Pedro was our intro to the "Guardians" portion of the Mink's combat forces, and to date he's still the only one who's received any kind of character development. Oda made a point for him to stand out during the Zou arc, and made an even bigger point of his stealth capabilities. His death just feels very anti-climactic, for the kind of significance that he placed around Pedro. Yes, personal sacrifice has been a huge theme of his personality for this entire arc, but doing that now seems kinda foolhardy when it's not even guaranteed that they will escape Big Mom's territory safely after he does this. I'm expecting more.