As if her Sulong form is her only worth. Besides, I feel she still stands out. Just that she shares the same panel space as Wanda. Either that or Oda just favoring female designs over others because outside the Dukes, the rest of her tribe's Sulong forms look very generic. I would have expected Pedro to have a cool design though.
Besides, as this chapter has shown here, her development doesn't end with Perospero's defeat or even if she manages to defeat Perospero. Beating Perospero isn't going to answer this:
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Any of the Minks could have avenged Pedro, like we're seeing with Wanda now. Any of the Minks could have hyped and shown Sulong back in Whole Cake Island like Pekoms eventually did. The question around Carrot has always been why is she here? What was something she could do or know that none of the other Minks (alive) could do or know? That's how we had so many contrived arguments to explain why she was there. Because as all of you have heard me say countless times before and countless times ever more, she was not required for the Sanji retrieval mission to begin with and didn't hold value entering Whole Cake Island till Chapter 877 happened. She wasn't the focal point of the narrative, she didn't move the narrative significantly, she didn't provide exposition, she wasn't the primary cause the Sanji Retrieval Team went to Whole Cake, and she definitely didn't have any history with the island till recently. When you factor all that together, her inclusion was very odd.
When she does find out what Pedro meant, the question now becomes why is this relevant for her to understand and what will she do about it? Pedro made it a case that it was imperative for her to know the Straw Hat's significance in the grand scheme of things that their tribe and the Kozuki Clan have awaited for, the past 800 years. When she understands, that will determine her course in the story. Besides, she already has one of the strongest cases of actually traveling and being with the crew considering she has been doing so for the past 180+ chapters on her own for no reason and she has nothing holding her back from doing so unless she convinces herself that she shouldn't. As I said before, the only thing holding her back is herself.
She may have luck on her side this time.
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