There could be a high possibility some marine take care of the 10th... Its not really necessary. Or maybe one of the strawhat take down two of BB pirate.
The thing is though the Blackbeard Pirates are meant to be an evil reflection of the Strawhats. The growth of one crew mirrors the growth of the other. I don't think there'd be any reason to even have a tenth captain if there was only going to be nine Strawhats under Luffy
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So one thing I've noticed about Egghead is that they seem to be drawing a lot of explicit parallels to what happened at Ohara
Earlier in the arc Lucci said that the World Government wants Bonney dead, although he never said why. Which isn't all that different from Robin's situation before the crew met her. So I'm getting the impression that they're trying to draw an intentional parallel here
I'm gonna wait to see how things play out before trying to draw any definite conclusions, but I definitely think this is worth paying attention to
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This might be going too far into theory territory, but I get the feeling that they're building up to a reveal that Bonney is a clone
1. We know that Bonney has a history with Vegapunk and he last saw her when she was very young
2. We know that Kuma has some kind of secret in his memories that he doesn't want Bonney to find out about as it would "hurt her"
3. We've already established that clones do in fact exist in the story right now
4. Bonney seems to be younger than Stussy, so it would line up with the timeline
5. There's also the way this page is structured. Vegapunk has a monologue about cloning, and then it immediately cuts to Bonney on the ground. Maybe a coincidence, but it also might not be
I also think the dialogue he says in that monologue is a bit conspicuous since he seems to be talking about Stussy. He's reaffirming that clones are in fact human beings, but this isn't really something that Stussy is ever shown struggling with. She doesn't show any insecurity over her existence, so I do think that dialogue there is a bit odd although that might just be me reading into it
I think the implication here is that Bonney is a clone. I'm not certain on that, but it does seem to be the case.
Additionally, I think what Vegapunk says here about Devil Fruits users getting punished by nature for being unnatural does tie into what Vegapunk says about cloning quite nicely, so I get the impression that's going to come into play later in the arc
So it's definitely speculation right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up having Bonney discover that she's a clone, and then paralleled the conflict that Robin went through during Water 7/Enies Lobby about how her existence shouldn't be considered a crime
Anyway this doesn't necessarily mean she's joining the crew, but I think this is probably how her storyline is going to play out this arc, though I could be entirely wrong on that
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Also it was implied all the way back during post-War that Bonney was important to the World Government somehow, so I do think that her being a clone would play into that
