User blog comment:AYET/An ante up over the DEATH game/@comment-3125914-20121228075834

Even though I don't mind the deaths of these two, actually I'm kinda enjoying them, I still get the feeling that something will happen, at least to one of them, and they will come back to life. This comes from the fact that One Piece is serialized in a weekly shounen magazine and this kind of deaths are considered too dark for this genre. However, there are some exceptions and I hope that this will be one.

In Monet's case: I'm sure she's clearly dead in my opinion. I can't see a way she could have escaped that.

Kinemon's case: There no known antidote for Shinkuni...yet. Someone might invent discover it by accident and bring him back to life, but the brokers won't witness this. So Shinokuni would still be considered a frightening weapon (not fore the readers though). Anyway, I would prefer if he is left dead.