the only reason i think zkk is going to happen is stuff like this btw. even outside of databook and magazine stuff, the story of wano itself sets up and really emphasizes the ideas
- orochi is a personal villain to the kozukis but ultimately a figurehead, kaido is the "real" villain of wano
- kaido is obsessed with wano specifically and he's not here because it's convenient, he's here because its wano.
- kaido won't leave or stop coming back unless he's dead. specifically, unless "his head is cut off" which like 9 different characters have said, from kin, to oden, to asura doji, to shinobu, etc
- oden was the best samurai in generations and kaido thinks there will never be a samurai like him again
- wano doesnt take kindly to outsiders. theres even a big scene in udon prison illustrating this where they DONT get behind Luffy, they need Momonosuke to actually convince them to get behind the alliance.
theres more, but like. zkk is probably the most foreshadowed theory ive ever seen the fanbase come up with. if it doesn't actually happen, ill be surprised, and i feel like at this point you have to address WHY it doesnt happen, because it's a naturally foreshadowed conclusion.
like, oda really goes out of his way to establish that zoro has one foot in each world. he's an outsider and a free pirate but he's also familiar to the people of wano and acts like a samurai. if he's the one who saves the day, the people won't feel like they were saved by a foreigner, they'll feel like the samurai of wano beat kaido, even if that's not what really happened.
