Return to chapters in 1006, note that the Oda simply spend more than 1/3 of the 17 pages of a chapter to build a dramatic moment around the apparent death of Hyogoro (which did not work, because in this chapter even much of the fandom already knew that Hyogoro would not die). And in the next chapter (1007), the entire plot over Hyogoro's death is simply thrown away, proving to be completely irrelevant and unnecessary as it doesn't impact the war in any way.
I feel the right to get extremely angry at the Oda spending pages and pages with plots like this, or like the plots of Tama, or the mother so the plot of Big Mom ... When, at the time, that really should devote more, mainly in fights like Jack Vs Inu and Neko Vs Peros where there is a certain dramatic charge due to the "revenge" theme... the FDP goes and only us shows a fight conclusion without meaning or great impact.