A hunch, even tho akainu said they are not diverting forces cause they dont have them at the ready, sengoku then asked him a question about oden and why is it that so many strong pirates seem to be attracted to wano. They left things open ended on that front. Also, hawkins told luffy that after a month his chances of survival in wano would be 19%. I believe that is Oda giving us a deadline of how long the arc would be. Right now we are at the begining of the 3rd week and it is still the 3rd act, the act thats supposed to end in tragedy for the heroes.
I believe X Drake will be ousted as a spy amidst the chaos, that him and the alliance will lose this first battle, and that part of the alliance will escape through the SN boats, while the most notable ones( im thinking kidd,luffy,zoro,law,x drake) get captured and set for execution in the flower capital ( mirroring odens execution).
I believe they will televise it to the world to announce their alliance and the return of rocks, and the marines will see xdrake there. Akainu will want to save face and enough time shouldve passed for the things with the warlords( that will be happening in parralel while all of this is going on) are settled. They will divert forces to wano.
And all the while, we may finally get a kaido flashback describing his life and all that. The day of the execution, marines/grandfleet/bb come crashing through, and where Oden failed( trying to shoulder all the responsability), luffy will succeed by using his greatest weapon of all. His ability to gain allies and also accepting their help as he showed multiple times throughout the series.
Thats how act 4 will begin, triggering a huge war accross wano. Either way, luffy always defeated the main villain thats oppressing a country in plain view of its citizens. Wouldnt make sense for that to happen in onigashima.
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General question(s) for you,
@Fujishiro - let’s say I agree that Linlin is stronger now than ever before, which would totally defy the logic behind the aging process in any reality including fake ones; by that same logic, what’s preventing Garp from growing stronger in old age as well? Before you bring up the panel from EL when he said he wasn’t as strong as he used to be, what in the story leads you to believe that he isn’t still stronger than Big Mom even now? She can be more powerful today than she was at God Valley, that doesn’t automatically preclude the possibility that she’s still weaker than Garp.
Because garp himself stated that he is getting weaker, and im not talking about current times. I was merely disputing the fact that garp didnt beat prime bm back then since she wasnt in her prime as she was 28-30.
Because I believe that the current yonko while weaker than primebeard and roger, they are not by much, if roger is 100 then they are 96-99. Roger and primebeard were the cream of the crop but not in another tier imo, as nothing really showed that. So if we go by the logic that BM even back then was a thing that roger was wary off, ie he preffered sneaking in and taking her poneglyph rather than directly confronting her. Add to the fact that she ruled for decades with no one making her budge, nor ever getting any scar whatsoever.
And then roger considering admirals( sengoku /garp) to be a legit threat, leads me to believe that. So if we go by logic, and then have someone whose retired and a decade older than another person in the same tier who is also still active and ragdolling high tiers. It stands to reason to believe that the later would win is it not?