Kaidou: "I would have been fine with letting myself killed.
There will never be any samurai as strong as Oden!
Your power isn't enough to kill me!!"
If only there was a samurai-like man who inherited one of Oden's swords, has connections to the famed Dragonslayer of Wano, and is on a trajectory to surpass Oden :zorothink:
I honestly don't see all 8 Supernova + Marco being needed to beat Kaido, especially since it seems like the Scabbards have wounded him a little bit beforehand. The Scabbards are strong, no doubt, but I doubt they're THAT strong. People just gassed them up recently because of their performance against Kaido.
And Toki's prophecy just mentions 9 shadows. Could be Asura, especially since last chapter we had 8 swords doing Togen Totsuka...Zoro using 3 swords to Oden's 2, and Asura using 9 swords to the Scabbards' 8.