So....dragging or not, I'm wondering how Oda will develop the future events.
Whether we are gonna have a Gear5, Awakening, or whatever, this attack should put Luffy at least on a non-haki state when he needs to recover once again.
So, there are a couple of possibilities.
- Kaido will deal with Cp0 dude and allow Luffy to take the minutes he needs to get his Haki back.
- Maybe Luffy gets a Senzu Bean like Zoro.
- Luffy just shrugs it off and goes "get a new PU when you're about to die" shounen bread and butter trope.
- Luffy actually loses and somehow Zunisha saves the day.
- Raid fails and Morj wins.
I'm completely NOT interested in seeing a Kaido flashback that is gonna last god knows how many months. I think Kaido is just lackluster and some generic sad backstory won't do anything other than drag this arc even further.
Thankfully "no break next week", so, unless we get a WSJ break, we should get our answers pretty quickly.
Overall, the fight looked really cool. There seems to be some "trick" to Luffy's Snakeman. Maybe it has something to do with the "secret" of his fruit?
We shall see.