Okay lets just get into it
Everyone has noticed the lack of stakes in this battle. From Kaido being unable to kill a single person to the seemingly playful nature of the Luffy vs Kaido fight
Well, what if Oda had Kaido fail to kill Kin’emon coz it’d be particularly hard to have a redemption arc for Kaido if he did that?
Stay with me, do you remember the Naruto-Pain situation? Pain thought he was the child of prophecy that Jiraya foretold but turns out it was Naruto who was the prophesized one. Then Pain has a quick redemption arc and dies undoing the mess he caused
See where i’m going? Kaido thought he was Joyboy after King told him about Joyboy changing the world but turns out it was Luffy who would change the world as Joyboy. Then Kaido will have a quick redemption arc and die undoing the mess he caused.
For the death, My guess is Yamato stops the fire demon. Luffy beats kaido but then the island starts to fall coz the flame clouds disappear. Momo holds it up as everyone evacuates somehow. The castle is still burning though and Yamato is also trying to stop the castle fire but she is getting tired and injured. Kaido wakes up having had a change of heart and tells Yamato to save herself and evacuate. Momo is also tired now trying to push the island back and Kaido tells him to let it go, he will carry the island back himself. Kaido flies the island PLUS the explosives as the castle is burning all the way back until he comes across the CP-0 fleet that has come to take over wano. Kaido shouts “LUFFY WILL BE PIRATE KING” and drops the island on the entire CP-0 fleet with the explosives just starting to go off and BOOM. Kaido dies inside Onigashima destroying most of the CP-0 fleet that they retreat.
Of course somewhere along the way, we must have had the kaido flashback explaining this turn and all that.
Does this sound cringey? Yes. did that ever stop Oda before? No.
Everyone has noticed the lack of stakes in this battle. From Kaido being unable to kill a single person to the seemingly playful nature of the Luffy vs Kaido fight
Well, what if Oda had Kaido fail to kill Kin’emon coz it’d be particularly hard to have a redemption arc for Kaido if he did that?
Stay with me, do you remember the Naruto-Pain situation? Pain thought he was the child of prophecy that Jiraya foretold but turns out it was Naruto who was the prophesized one. Then Pain has a quick redemption arc and dies undoing the mess he caused
See where i’m going? Kaido thought he was Joyboy after King told him about Joyboy changing the world but turns out it was Luffy who would change the world as Joyboy. Then Kaido will have a quick redemption arc and die undoing the mess he caused.
For the death, My guess is Yamato stops the fire demon. Luffy beats kaido but then the island starts to fall coz the flame clouds disappear. Momo holds it up as everyone evacuates somehow. The castle is still burning though and Yamato is also trying to stop the castle fire but she is getting tired and injured. Kaido wakes up having had a change of heart and tells Yamato to save herself and evacuate. Momo is also tired now trying to push the island back and Kaido tells him to let it go, he will carry the island back himself. Kaido flies the island PLUS the explosives as the castle is burning all the way back until he comes across the CP-0 fleet that has come to take over wano. Kaido shouts “LUFFY WILL BE PIRATE KING” and drops the island on the entire CP-0 fleet with the explosives just starting to go off and BOOM. Kaido dies inside Onigashima destroying most of the CP-0 fleet that they retreat.
Of course somewhere along the way, we must have had the kaido flashback explaining this turn and all that.
Does this sound cringey? Yes. did that ever stop Oda before? No.

. 5-6 month from now you will get the answer, just bet on the right team 