Usopp laughed too. "Don't worry about it! Our swordsman was a bounty hunter too before he became a pirate. You wouldn't hunt down bounties who weren't bad guys, though, right?"

He closed his notebook again. "The government's just afraid of pirates right now. There's plenty of rotten pirate crews out there, but being a pirate is more about freedom than anything. We wind up in a lot of fights with other pirates, more than with the government really."