Their planned departure had to be delayed. Wyper and the others had returned blind drunk, vomiting everywhere, and Enel needed a few days of Stillness and observation after his treatment to make sure he did not actually die.
Lying in his hospital bed, Enel stared at the ceiling like a man who had given up on life. He opened his mouth whenever someone fed him and chewed without reaction, even when the food contained extra-hot peppers.
He had been invincible for so long that he had come to believe he was a god.
Then Loa appeared and shattered that myth with ease, pinning him down and grinding him into the dirt.
Even that, Enel could accept. Loa was an exception to every rule, so losing to him gave Enel a way to console himself.
But his earlier battle with Crocodile had shown him the truth: he was not invincible against Loa, or against anyone else.
Even when he unleashed such immense lightning at the end, Crocodile had countered it with ease. A single Disaster Descends produced a colossal mass of Plague that canceled out the lightning and planted a terrifying Plague inside Enel's body, leaving him unable to move.
Completely immobilized, Enel could no longer use his Devil Fruit Powers to kill the Pathogens. He was defeated on the spot.
It drove home one fact: lightning was powerful, but it was not invincible!
Enel had not suffered a breakdown. He simply needed time to reflect and break free of the limits he had placed on himself.
The epidemic prevention work in Town was over. Cricket led the residents cautiously back to their ruined homeland. Crocodile's reputation carried some weight: once they learned he was a former Shichibukai, the residents finally felt safe enough to begin rebuilding.
After all, he was