So will Zoro and Sanji also job next?
Predictions are either A) Imu coughs more blood and decides to leave. B) dragon or shanks save his ass C)Imu receives an emergency call of Blackbeard raiding the holy land then leaves?
I think it would be better for the series if they do and this is a Saobody defeat for the Strawhats
We are in the rare position where the villains do need to leave quite sharpish, so it makes a bit of sense for them to beat the Strawhats but leave them alive, with Imu needing to get back to mariejois and Sommers and Killingham needing to get away with the kids.
The Strawhats having an outright defeat would have:
Imu gets firmly established as the top of the world
The Omen powerup maintains it’s threat level for EoS with Zoro and Sanji
unable to even beat the lower tier users, let alone the Gorosei and Shamrock
All the Strawhats get another “we’re not hot shit after all” moment and start to take things really seriously. Luffy should be so badly injured that he’s out of commision for like a month, and the others from Zoro down to Usopp should take that time to seriously train (and that means every one of them having worked on their Haki for it)
And maybe that can explain Usopp’s so far inexplicable treatment so far this arc, where them failing to protect his beloved Elbaf’s children causes him to decide to man the fuck up for the future. All the other Strawhats will be hit by this as well, but mostly Usopp.
Does modern Oda have the balls for it? Probably not.
