When the death is so demeaning that you have to cope he must be alive
I just don’t think that this is Oda’s usual style, and it feels like he isn’t fully comfortable pulling off this kind of death. Even the fakeout deaths are much more dramatic than this. The whole existence of the burned scar man is also suspicious, and there aren’t many characters who even fit that role.
and neither was Waffey beaten ofc 


