In Ch 42, Johnny tells Zoro that Hawk-Eye visits the Baratie.
I don’t have a Japanese copy for this chapter, but I think Johnny says something like, アニキがずっと探してた 「鷹の目の男」も現れたことがあるって話だ。
That’s along the lines of, “They say the ‘Hawk-Eyed Man’ you’ve been searching for is sometimes seen there.”
Johnny says it so confidently… He’s kind of a doofus and I love him. He and Yosaku act like they’re some kind of renowned bounty hunters, but this scene is only a few pages after Yosaku almost died of scurvy and they proved themselves to be entirely clueless of how to survive at sea. As bounty hunters, they rely on rumors and gossip, which of course, sometimes turns out to be false. Except this time, the Takanome no Otoko actually
will visit the restaurant.
Johnny may have heard a rumor about a different red-eyed man and assumed it was Hawk-Eye. But in Ch 49, we find out that it was just a guy who drank so much that his eyes turned red and he exploded. What a legend.
:cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers:
Hopefully, this clears up a common misconception. As far as we know, Mihawk wasn't a regular customer at the Baratie; people were just confusing him with someone else.