And there’s absolutely no narrative that dictates Luffy defeat either Kizaru or Saturn this arc. Absolutely none, which is what I have been saying for months now and why I’ve gotten nearly every prediction correct.
Every main character has been screaming in our faces about escaping, not fighting or defeating anyone. To compare this situation to WCI is just stupid as hell, it was established really early on that Luffy wanted to have an explicit 1v1 with Katakuri while Sanji baked the cake which would allow us to escape. Here Luffy’s had almost ten chapters to state he intends to fight or defeat Kizaru/Saturn, and we’ve gotten absolutely nothing.
The people who (correctly) claim Egghead = Shabondy, also conveniently ignore the fact that no one was defeated on Shabondy at all lol. It’s also just incredible to me that people think we won’t have an EOS war where all 5 Gorosei and all 3 Admirals are present. You literally have to be on drugs to think Oda won’t draw that scenario lol.