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* Usopp's 'crew' managing to give ] a decent fight. Luffy then tells Kuro to his face he'll ''never'' be like him. * Kuro's LackOfEmpathy for even his own crew hits Luffy's BerserkButton, so what does Luffy do? Stand there taking his slashes until he gets an opening to grab Kuro and slam him down. * Kuro deserves credit for putting up a much better fight than Buggy did ''without'' a Devil Fruit power of any sort. * Luffy's ShutUpHannibal to Kuro, telling him that in his eyes, Usopp will ''always'' be better than him. He even voiced his intent to stand against his crew at the seashore before he had any reassurance that Luffy, Zoro and Nami would help him out. ** Just the fact that, as scared as he was, he was PERFECTLY willing to go up against Kuro and rescue Kaya the instant he found out his true plans. Kuro gets one in return for ''dodging that''. * Usopp not hesitating to try and shoot Kuro point blank in the face with the pistol Kaya dropped to protect her. And let me remind you that this is all the way back ''before'' he got to the Grand Line. How? He nearly captures all the Straw Hat Pirates ''without fighting once.'' Just using careful deduction and being an overall, ''but he tore off the figurehead and part of the keel of Kuro's '''ship''''', easily three times his height and massive enough that the mooks did a Mass OhCrap when he threatened to swing it at them. Despite being the main antagonist of a Filler Arc, he proves himself to be a Badass.