Cross Guild only exists as a way for us to get Mihawk v. Zoro.
Luffy aint fighting Buggy, nor is Sanji fighting Crocodile.
Zoro has to beat Shiryu before that, so BBP will 100% fall before Cross Guild faces off against SHP.
Imho the fight for the 4th RP is going to be a jumbled mess across multiple islands.
Currently, my theory is that Elbaf is a Marine Centric arc that initiates this conflict. Eventually, that conflict will involve the 4 Yonko completely. I feel there are 2 avenues for this:
- We either get this huge war/mess/thing between Marines and the 4 Yonko where someone like Zoro ends up facing, Fujitora, Shiryu and Mihawk in a free for all until it ends up just being Mihawk by the end. Same idea with Luffy, Shanks, Blackbeard and Akainu.
- Things are sequential to the end of the series. I.e. Elbaf is Akainu centric (or Blackbeard or Shanks, the order doesnt matter), the next island (Lodestar) is Blackbeard or Shanks, followed by Laugh Tale with the Yonko who didnt fall prior. CG is a means to just get Mihawk to LT to fight Zoro, so where they are involved frankly doesnt matter.
Thats my thought in it currently.
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God valley is in the west blue why would they go there
Ita also been confirmed to not really be that important in this Flashback. We know Rocks went there now because the Celestial Dragon's stole something from him, not for something special with the island