So why again are there no download links?

Am I the only one who is getting a 'kirby' vibe from blackbeard?

I mean it would perfectally explain most things if his fruit lets him copy things but only one at a time. The alternative is that special cape pulls out the DF and he has two or three stomaches. As that's where the DF goes right?

You really have to think does the WG win this battle?

In terms of future story, if the WG loses this fight who will the adversaries be for luffy in teh rest of the series. Baring smoker trying to redeme himself and dogging him, you have to put him up against the other emperors for crossing their territory.

If the WG wins the fight you have luffy as the survivor of that incident and knowing the truth making him an even bigger target of the WG.

How much of whitebeard's crew will survive this? Will ace even be saved. We can recall luffy's dissapointment at being unable to save anyone on his crew, then feeling slightly better that he saved people from the prison, but can he really save ace? If he saves ace then what? Ace+Luffy and whatever's left of the WB pirates try and escape, with ace as the new defacto head of the WB pirates given WB surely wont live past this battle.

Going to be exceptionally interesting how this ends. Kumabots will no doubt be far stronger then people give them credit for.

Random thought, what if Kuma and the others are androids the only difference is kuma bot ate the DF which distinguishes him from the others or he was the prototype. After the last incident he was reset or rewrote so in fact he is dead in a manner of speaking and it explains why we saw the DF and the laser. Either that or kuma's been dead for a long time and somehow became the new line of kuma bots with his memories based in his image or somesuch.

Awesome chapter all the same :)

The easist explanation is that they are cyborgs and not full robots. There is any number of methods to explain why they look like kuma. For starters it creats something people fear and wouldent ask too many questions. That and people generally wouldent be facing more then one of them at a time. So they would be less likely to catch onto the scheme.

As for why they have blood? If they are cyborgs then they need a minimum ammount of human components. While noted a macabre method would be frankenstien style, another method would be to extract the brain and the organs necessary to keep the brain from death. We dont know how little human is needed for being a cyborg. You typically need some form of blood to keep the human parts alive.

This whole clones thing is almost nonsense. I mean if we're introducing clones of kuma and then augmenting them with bits you open an entire other can of worms. Which is just tacky. Furthermore nothing says a clone gets the devil fruit. We dont even know if the dna of a person with a devil fruit is changed. If two devil fruit users produce a child that doesent mean that it gets a devil fruit. Its an attribute attached to them not transferable. We know too little about how devil fruits work, but its almost safe to say you cannot replicate them. The devil in them and all.

As for how the kuma cyborgs have lazer beam action. It could be kizaru is what powers them. He is a logia so perhaps part of him is powering all the kuma bots. We dont know that this couldent happen. Hell we dont know if the blood from a logia user retains its effects once it leaves the body. The most logical explanation for their power some huge ass battery aside (which kizaru or someone else powered) is they have a charge.

If its a female mechanic then its almost certain that they will join.

Thanks Indeed! :)

Taleran you wouldent happen to have any more :) Thats simply a awesome find.

Given this is a flashback as stated when the fight started, it is completely possible he is dead. But going by the trackrecord…. unlikely he wont show up again.

Mihawk did not fight shanks as its kinda like having a memory or a challenge you dont really want to destroy that memory. They were rivals, so that puts them at least within spitting distance of eachother back when. Now that shanks has lost an arm Mihawk most likely felt that if he won, he would not be able to discern if it was the loss of the arm that resulted in his win, or if he truly is the better swordsman.

All signs point to the fact that mihawk is the world's greatest, but given that they were rivals and undoubtably friends at one point in time. I dont think that mihawk would want to test that and possibly injure part of his fond memories by that.

Shanks fights with a sword, whats really so hard to grasp about that?