At this point it's highly likely kaidou is using his awakening
What we can expect is a top notch haki attack
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Nah oda wouldn't do it at this point he is setting up all just so luffy can defeat him alone,otherwise no reason to give him his rare awakening
We Just can't assume that kaido is already using awakening especially when we consider that oda clearly highlighted awakening whenever someone has used it till now.
Luffy had all the reason to get awakening. Infact, we all knew that luffy will use Gear 5 right from the beginning.
What we didn't anticipate and trust me there is not even a single user who actually anticipated Kaido to be this monstrous and a beast. He clearly surpassed all expectation.
So, kaido to destroy G4 Luffy with Advanced haki and putting him to death bed was something unexpected and thus making awakening a fitting PU. We expected G5 but not G5 to be awakening which luffy has no idea about
Also, till Luffy was using G4 kaido was destroying him. Even after G5, kaido landed more hits on Luffy than what luffy did to Kaido.
So you tell me when actually you or anyone felt that kaido is pushed far enough to use awakening?