Oda is gonna face humongous backlash if he, in the middle of the climax of the war, wasted precious panels so that he could bait us into thinking that Zoro has a backstory with the Shimotsuku.
![Milaugh :milaugh: :milaugh:](https://i.ibb.co/ypRqMmV/Mihawk-Laught.png)
![Milaugh :milaugh: :milaugh:](https://i.ibb.co/ypRqMmV/Mihawk-Laught.png)
I mean even neutral readers probably are thinking why suddenly in the middle of a war, Kaido is bringing onigashima to wano when he could have done that during 22 years, or talking about ushimaru now when he was just a random guy, talking about fate/shuusui, linking zoro to shimotsuki and a guy called Ryuma the same guy who killed a dragon above wano + all the hints from the manga or anime.
Just for what ? nothing at the end ?
OT : All things Oda is revealing right now is for giving motivation to the readers to accept that Zoro will kill Kaido.
I mean people were asking Zoro has nothing to do with Kaido, why he needs to kill him ?. But now knowing his lineage or all the parallels are related to Wano, yasu's introduction and his speech before he died ... to give us valid reasons that Zoro is with Luffy the one who need to deliver Wano.
Luffy can beat Kaido multiples times, but Kaido will always be back if he stays in his character and doesn't drop his brain and become a cheerleader ... You can't also put the WSC forever in jail like that ...