I think 2 big possibilities on how the story goes from here:
- Teach is the villain of Elbaf. Buggy and Shanks ally; Luffy vs Shanks and Zoro vs Mihawk in Lodestar.
- Burned Man or some other new character is villain of elbaf. Teach is villain of Lodestar. Shanks and CG get hypetooled.
If the latter happens, Teach will probably beat Shanks while Nusjuro and the marines beat CG. Nusjuro beats Mihawk and becomes WSSM. Teach beats Shanks and becomes WSM.
Still I feel like this would shit on two massive characters that Oda heavily respects and has been hyping for over 20 years. So I’m leaning on possibility #1. Teach pulls a dumbass move and invades Elbaf and loses. It’s his god valley.
But I still feel the appeal of #2.