So in this chapter, it appears as if Pound might actually be alive and that he some how escaped WCI. This just doesn't sit well with me for several reasons.
Pound had a really good death. It was one of the highlights of WCI. Making pound alive would ruin what he did in WCI. While Oda did revive Pell, I don't think most of the fans liked that. I think Oda learned from his mistakes as he's killed many characters post-skip, whereas literally only Ace and Whitebeard died pre-skip.
Furthermore, it just seems implausible for Pound to be alive. Oven had a clean shot at his head. Oven was also on Cacao island for several hours, meaning that even if Pound survived the initial blow, Oven had ample time to kill him. Cacao island was literally surrounded by beast pirates and ultimately, big mom herself even came to the island. How did Pound escape all of that?
I feel like making Pound alive would ruin a genuinely good moment in WCI as well as needing a large amount of plot armor to be believable. What I think is more likely is this.
After pound died, Oven put his body on a ship and cast him off to sea. Cacao island is made of chocolate after all, and what's the point of creating islands made of food if you bury corpses inside of them. Pound's corpse just happened to find its way to dressrosa where it will then by taken by the tontattas. The tontattas being good hearted people, will naturally want to hold a funeral if they find a dead corpse.
Capone, Chiffon, Lola, and Pez will attend the funeral for whatever reason. None of them will find out the true identity of Pound, however Pound will ultimately get a happy ending as he will be laid to rest with his daughters and grandson by his side.
I think this would be so much better and would carry so much more emotional weight than if they just retconned Pound's death
but ...
at this point it's more than enough clear he should be alive
... let's pray Pedro be dead at least
