Of course Rue had panicked as soon as she saw the crowd of monsters, and may or may not have willed her weapon to grow just a little bigger. But in the moments following that, some strange madman started calling out random words, and the she saw him plowing through, fighting the creatures with nothing but his legs. It was at that moment that she recognized him as that pirate who'd come to help Fakir get Mytho from her that one time. The one with those odd ideas about friendship.

Around that time, a cloud of crows appeared overhead, waiting for their mistress to give them their next orders. Wordlessly, the directed them to the group of zombies near Sanji, not to help him or anything, but to get rid of them so she wouldn't have to fight them herself.