This chapter was a solid 4/5 from me. I loved the scenes with the Scabbards and it was the highlight of the chapter for me.
The short scene of the Rooftop battle was nice, and it was pretty information-dense from a powerscaling perspective.
First things first, the 10 minutes has long since concluded. In fact, the Supernova continued to fiercely fight the Yonkou while while all the events under the Rooftop were ongoing:
(From Chapter 1006).
Momonosuke and Shinobu's dialogue confirms that what we see of the Rooftop battle is what is currently happening, and not a snapshot of the past:
While all the events under the Rooftop were happening, the Supernova continued to bravely face the two Yonkou.
This becomes obvious in what we see of this short scene:
- Kidd's massive robot has been completely destroyed and he's moved to just using two arms as weaponry.
- Zoro has ditched Santoryu and has been fighting with just one sword for a while
- Luffy also seems to have just run out of another round of Gear 4
Zoro and Kidd's words in the earlier scene suggest that Hybrid Kaido is substantially more durable than his Dragon form. The first 4 chapters of the Rooftop established that Luffy and Zoro had the arsenal to properly damage Dragon Kaido, but now Kidd says that none of their attacks are working, and Zoro questions how they can win against them.
Even Luffy is no better, just stubbornly insisting that they must be feeling it as they are the same humans as them:
Luffy affirms himself that his stubborn insistence that they can prevail is just taking the right attitude:
Killer's words further suggest that the battle has been going on for a long time:
All the above events paint the scenario that the Supernova have been fighting Hybrid Kaido and Mama for a long time (several tens of minutes? A few hours? Who knows, at the very least, we seem to have picked up as Luffy just exited yet another round of G4). Over the duration of the fight, victory has seemed impossible as the Yonkou showed themselves to be inhuman monsters.
Mama has changed her offensive strategy:
- For the first time ever, we see her using all three homies.
- She's switched from riding Zeus to riding Prometheus.
- She now wields Zeus in her right arm.
- Perhaps she moved away from Prometheus' fire based attacks because of Zoro neutralising them?