@Greg:
LJSR,
The reason I believe this helps Pedro is thus.
His handlingof Pound directly tells us that Pound is safe.
This also means he has an end-game for Pound.
What could Pound's ultimate use be? Getting a reward.
How does Pound get a reward?
A happy ending.
This means reuniting with his family.
This strongly suggests a major change in the family.
This suggests the arrival of Lola to straighten out Pudding's deceptions.
This suggests a potential happy or at least peaceful resolution with the C family if not Mom.
A happy ending is call for celebration.
Ain't gonna be no celebration if Pedro is dead.
My current belief is that Pedro was either able to get far enough away (Pedro of the trees) or conceal himself in some remaining Candy Maiden. He took heavy damage. However, what if the full moon also has rejuvinative powers for mink?
Im just hoping his body was blown to bits and big moms powers bring him back in some form, maybe even putting the 50 years of his soul left into him will fix his body. Thats the main thing a pedro pinned on the ground shouldnt be able to move anyway if he comes back as a pumpkin (why show that scene if its nothing that he reacts so oddly about some pumpkin mook) or if big mom's souls go into him and somehow can piece together his body.
Pedro leaving on his own is like oh pell must have thrown the bomb upwards and dived down levels of headcanon, at least if its closer to like where paulie noticed something and moved before the cannonfire where it makes sense. Pedro wasnt in the mind to try and escape anyways he totally planned to die. His revival shouldnt be due to him leaving
I want the feeling to be pedro almost died and the strawhats are lucky big mom ended up helpingthem but they realize they need to get their shit together because kaido aint gonna be that nice of a guy
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@Alucard_LX:
https://imgur.com/a/5QAnkhttps://thumb.ibb.co/gQqVCw/comparison.jpg
Apologies if this has been brought up already in this thread, but it's eerie how similar Oven looks to Kaido in this particular panel!
If kaido is oven's dad then he'd also be katakuri's dad. That'd be interesting to say the least.
A real power couple ba dum tsss…