You do realize that Wano is also the same arc where Oda actually killed off some characters.
Yasuie, Orochi, Kanjuro, Ashura Doji, Izo, are all pretty much confirmed to be dead, and there is that possibility that Kaido, Big Mom, and Hawkins are also maybe dead.
This isn't like in the past where Oda is scared to kill off characters, yeah he will sometimes still do fake out deaths but if he truly wants to kill off a character now he will do it.
In this current arc, Oda killed off Mjosgard, Shaka, and Pythagoras.
Maybe Kuma could still survive but the chances of that are very low, look back at this entire flashback as well as the summary for this one.
Kuma is a dead man walking, the chances of him being killed off is very high.