Mushuro blinked at astonishment at this foolish stranger's incredibly odd statement. He in fact got quite angry and indignant at the idea that he should just run away now and give up, and he really didn't see why a bounty was a bad thing at all. He stared right at the odd guy. Although the Pangog with him seemed really nice and friendly enough, it was a serious insult to any true pirate for someone to say they should give up at all, at least in Mushuro's head, and he wasn't going to stand for it!

"Well, I dunno who exactly you are Mister, but that's a pretty strange thing to say! How's anyone ever gonna know I'm the strongest person in the world if I don't beat up enough people to get a really really big bounty? Everyone knows all the strongest famous pirates have big, big bounties! Even more importantly, all the best marines and bounty hunters go after guys with huge bounties on their heads! So if I never get a bounty big enough to attract super-strong marines and bounty-hunters I'll be missing out on a huge section of guys to fight! Bounties are awesome exactly 'cause the more stuff you do and the scarier people you beat up the higher they go! They're kinda like an awesome power-level-y thing, y'know? Also you're seriously asking a man of the sea to quit on his dream?! It'd be easier to ask me to die than do that, 'cause a person's only ever really dead when their dreams die! So I'm gonna be a pirate with a gigantic bounty for sure, got it?!"

Mushuro tried his best to munch on some fruit angrily and pet the Pangog in an insulted manner after that.