We see Oden's death in this chapter. He can hold an hour in the cauldron, winning the challenge but it was an intuitive thing given the level of the character.
Shinobu tries to tell the people about the truth about Oden, but is interrupted and blocked by the ninja chief Fukujuro. I don't understand why the latter didn't have her captured and killed.
Oden, from the pot, makes a whole speech about Wa's future opening, etc.
Once the challenge was overcome, as could be expected, Orochi and Kaido do not respect the pacts and make their men's rifles point at the Nine.
Oden throws his companions into the air, and they take advantage of it to escape while they are chased.
After Oden's death, a flashback of Oden is seen discussing with Toki and talking to him about the impending battle that would take place in twenty years, which should be Onigashima.
Then says Oden: "If I am not able to defeat Kaido, then none of our time will be!"
This for me is the most false sentence of the whole saga.
At the time, in fact, there were many people, however, who had the ability to beat Kaido: Whitebeard, Garp, Sengoku, Kong, Rayleigh, Gaban and Big Mom.
It is also the journey through time twenty years later, it becomes completely senseless after seeing this flashback.
In your opinion, was it easier to defeat Kaido twenty years ago or now ?!
Of course, now both he and his army have become abysmally stronger.
Therefore, it made much more sense for samurai to go into the future for only a year. They would have had a lot more chance with Kaido than 19 years ago. Then, this thing that, in OP, without Luffy nothing can be done, really broke the so-called.
The flashback is understood to be over.
So, we don't get to know how Whitebeard reacted to know about Oden's death and we don't see Dog-storm and Cat-viper how they managed to leave the country, and why they started fighting. I think we will see both explained later.
A further inconsistency on the two minks. In Zou, they had been introduced to us as ex-members of the White and Roger crews. Capone himself, when faced with one of the two, whitened and ran away.
At the time, things seemed to square, given that we still didn't know anything about their life, nor their age.
In fact, they looked like old and legendary pirates a bit like Rayleigh, who had retired. In addition, it seemed that they had been doing particular businesses for many years. If we had known they were 60-70 years old, there would have been no inconsistency.
Unfortunately, then, we discovered that they were 40 years old and that their pirate career had started 30 years ago, when they were about ten years old. In practice, they were children and had to be considered a little more than just hubs.
The point is that, if the two were young boys during their pirate period, then, always in this period, it is impossible that they had accomplished legendary exploits or that they had defeated particularly strong people.
In this case, Capone should not have been afraid of the two, since the two were of nobody. The only thing that could explain Capone's fear is the fact that they have done something very important during these twenty years.
Oda, in this case, is still in time to parry the dethane with a flashback.
Rating: 6/10
