trelldraws:

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look: once again: you just don’t pour thirteen years of your life and all of yourself down the drain for the sake of one single goal and then let it go. with all-consuming obsession you succeed or you die, because to expend everything, every last resource, every last part of your being, and fail—and be left, for your trouble, with the emptied shell of your life—is nothing short of unthinkable

so this is about law, and total personal annihilation, and being left alone after zou. certainly he walks aboard his ship and staggers into his cabin and spends the next n weeks utterly and intractably catatonic, right up until luffy needs him again (and really: “get up, your ally is doing something insane” is the most appropriate motivation)