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Flip a coin. If pachy heads, Ulti got Oven'd. If P1's aquatic tail, Ulti got Ace'd. Ulti once again easily dominates Nami but her thick head forgets there's a far bigger threat in the room. After Advanced CoC, this time Big Mom combines all three homies to demonstrate how little she was trying in the roof. Dinos, Ancient Giants, Momzilla and her Maser Cannon are just the latest kaiju references in Wano. If it was just Page One taken down by Big Mom, I would have accepted that his role in the arc had come to an end after also being used to showcase RS Sanji. Now with Big Mom eliminating a second Tobiroppo, I'm optimistic that Nami and Usopp won't leave Wano so easily and Ulti + Page One will return to receive proper finishers. If the mountain boar got stitched back together, a pachy after some bandages is good for one last hit.

Zeus, the electric black sheep of the family. Hera makes her formal entrance as a thundercloud with Charlotte daughter hair. Makes it seem like Prometheus was lusting after a Charlotte girl. Unlike Zeus, Hera is in sync with the others allowing a triple threat combo. If you think about it, we've seen Prometheus and Napoleon combine into a flaming sword, but where was the Zeus + Napoleon electric sword? Zeus + Prometheus combo? Zeus was a flawed creation from the start and there may be an explanation for this later, but he was only set on the path to ruin after a thunderball addiction that caused him to turn his back on Big Mom and created a rift between not-so-homies.
The Mother's Day showdown between the greed queens continues. Big Mom proves to be a selfish and demanding mother who immediately tries to take control of Tama's actions and thoughts about the Strawhats. The moment Tama tries to pull a Lola, she gets furious and threatens to kill Tama over reexperiencing her traumatic childhood where Linlin was abandoned by those she cares about. In a second dose of bad parenting, we see the consequences of leaving Big Mom on her spirit child Zeus. Zeus does not get forgiven. He is immediately replaced by much more loyal thundercloud. Zeus is sacrificed on the spot. Contrast that with Nami, who no longer allows her greed to poison the relationships around her based on value. She had a short term relationship and was not in any way related to Zeus, is initially upset the scared cloud abandoned and almost attacked her but forgives him and even tries to save his life in the end. Nami was invested in Zeus quite a bit and she's partially responsible for his demise, so it'll be interesting to see how she moves forward from here.
One idea to save Zeus is to abuse the ability of Big Mom's creations to collect people's souls on her behalf. With the power of BM's soul, the special homies could mimic the Soru Soru ability to take years of life from anyone choosing to relinquish part of their soul. As long as there is 1% Zeus remaining, Nami could offer her own soul so Zeus ends up being 99% Nami and thus a power of her own construct. Literally sacrificing some of her life to save Zeus. It wouldn't be as strong as Big Mom's creation and bring Nami down to her appropriate level, but it could diversify its cloud potential with rain, mist, hail, and the ability to ride Zeus.

Kid vs Mom, child vs parent, but which one is the adult in the room? The chapter title is a punk rock reference to Kid finally putting the screws on BM. A joy to witness Kid overpower Big Mom and flaming Napoleon, grab her face and slam it on the ground. Big Mom still not bleeding continues to be a concern, but this may be the precondition required for Kid to unlock Advanced Conqueror's. I still see Law showing up to support Kid, Gamma Knife and teleporting the homies away from Big Mom or redirecting their attacks would be super useful.

Crydo returns lamenting that he already broke his brand new rubber toy. Kaido got a good work out, but in the end just learning Advanced Conqueror's isn't enough for Luffy to bridge the gap. Just as Luffy needed Snakeman on top of Future Sight to finish Katakuri. Kaido says some interesting words about humanity and their unrelenting hope, distancing himself as a non-human and suggesting his worldview is more practical or even cynical. It could perhaps explain why he has non-humans like King and Jack in high positions, or why he's perfectly fine breaking strong pirates and making them bend the knee, even drugging them with SMILES to build his forces - it's a pragmatic approach to quickly gain power and he could never empathize with the broken animals below him.

A very nice and focused chapter. A round of applause for Kaido the Knock Out King being such a formidable opponent. G4 and Future Sight? KO'd. Advanced Ryou? KO'd. Advanced Conquerors? KO'd. Kaido VS Luffy looks to be headed for Round 3, and we might just get a new location like every other round 3. With Luffy out of the way, Kaido could end the raid and Act 3 itself, but luckily Yamato is on the way up for some family bonding time.
 
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kaido after zoro's asura shaking shivering huffing
kaido after the mighty coc sigh sigh sigh :suresure:
This is what I meant when I said Kaido is a daruma. Knocking him down does nothing, no matter how many times you do it. This is Kaido after having been sliced by the Scabbards, Killer, Law and Zoro, and he still bodied Luffy in a 1v1.

Meanwhile being cut by Ashura didn’t knock him down, but it had him trembling and saying Zoro did enough, in contrast to him mocking the Scabbards, telling them that the whole bunch combined isn’t good enough to open the old wound. Blades and lethal attacks are the key to beating Kaido and Luffy just doesn’t have it at this point.
 
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Kaido himself said that Luffy was the one who made him genuinely excited and fired up in a long time and these guys are saying Zoro > Luffy. :gokulaugh::gokulaugh:
Yep well they are complete clowns who thought Zoro would be taking out the arc villain who Luffy explicitly said he'd take down 400 chapters ago.
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Now they are falling for fake hype to prolong the fight until the subordinates have all had their fights conclude.
 
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