Speculations What did Joyboy mean by "Just like I always do, don't I?!"

[Blax Blah]

Hey, there are two main translations I have seen of what Joyboy said to Emet

One translation said something like "That's right! I will save you from the past! Just like always!"

I think that translation especially emphasizes the saviour part of the Nika legend, but I have mostly seen what he said be translated not as the translation I mentioned, but as the one in the panel I have linked, "That's right! I will save you all the way from the past! Just like I always do, don't I?!"

The thing is, either way, the scene is happy, Joyboy with a happy pose and Emet being happy and careless too

Emet didn't disagree or ask what "Just like always" meant

So, just like always implies something like the haki knot happened before right?

And how many times did something like "being saved from the past" ( again I like this translation the most, being saved from the past in the sense of being saved from past mistakes, like for example the dawn will save people from the past darkness ), or "being saved all the way from the past" happen that Joyboy would reffer to that happening as "just like always" or "just like I always do, don't I?!" and Emet would find it a regular or even really happy and agreeable statement?

What do you think?

 

[Monster Zoro's Tesla Supplier]

I think it's as simple as he helped him out before in the past.

 

[Blax Blah]

I think it's as simple as he helped him out before in the past.

Yeah that's possible

I just wouldn't think of for example Luffy saying he saved his crew or something like that, but maybe I am looking too much into it

 

[Cruxroux]

Again it's very similar to dialouges like

Roger - " I ain't dying " to rayleigh during their final meet.

Xebec - " I'll be back " to imu.

They are probably talking about their wills pass3d on and someone will once they pass away.

 

[NikaInParis]

"I will save you all the way from the past" - continuation of the dialogue where Joyboy says Emmet will continue on living long after Joyboy is dead.
"Just like I always do" - Joyboy saved Emmet multiple times in their era (when this sentence was Present Tense)

Nothing more to it really

 

[OykotsTreasure]

I honestly wouldn't be too surprised if Joyboy was modeled a bit after Joseph Joestar circa Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 2 Battle Tendency.

Joyboy could have some amazing Future-Sight, that allows him to set up traps for his enemies. Predicting what they're going to do quite a bit ahead of time.

"Take it easy. I already saved you 30 minutes ago."

His go-to move could even be setting up Haki Knots like landmines around a future battlefield, getting the drop on his enemies before they even know what's happening.

I don't know, it's possible at least. It'd be fun to see something like that in One Piece. And Oda does like to reference other manga, from time to time.

 

[Kung-Fu Dugong]

He's possibily talking about the previous Nika, the Nika before him (maybe from the "first world", according to the Harley). Emet could've been even older than Joy Boy, a remnant from the first world.