How so? At this point he's treating her like he treats every other attractive woman. We know she's not actually an adult. He doesn't. Dude wrote a whole article based on a presumption that they animated him acting inappropriate towards an underage girl, except that fact hasn't been revealed yet and is only known by manga readers and people who got spoiled. As for struggling against S-shark, Luffy and Lucci struggled against S Bear, so not that bad that it wasn't a no diff situation.