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I didn’t expect to see you so soon, Kuma.

I thought Oda would drag the St. Saturn situation out more, but here we are. Bartholomew Kuma landed on Egghead and is ready to give Saturn the beating of a lifetime. Yeah, right! I know better. Do you really think Saturn’s getting taken out this easily? We don’t even know his devil fruit’s name. And, whatever it is, I’m sure it’s one of the most powerful we’ve seen so far. I’m still putting my money on it being a demon-demon fruit class or something like that. Basically, whatever the opposite of the human-human fruit class is. If I’m right I’m giving myself a million dollars. Aren’t I generous?

We get confirmation Saturn isn’t Bonney’s father. Good. But, the old bastard experimented on both Ginny and Bonney. Bad. My question is why? I doubt Marijoa had no shortage of slaves from back then, so why use the eighth wife of a Celestial Dragon? My guess is Ginny’s sexual assaulter/husband couldn’t deal with Ginny’s rebellious nature and gave her to Saturn as punishment. Will we ever learn the Celestial Sleazebag’s identity? Probably. Like with most info reveals, Oda’s waiting for the right time to tell us. No doubt this person is an important character connected to world building tidbits we’re not meant to see yet. Be patient, my friends. It’s coming.

Bartholomew Kuma. A great Warlord. A greater father.

And there we have it. The life of Kuma fully revealed to us. What I absolutely love is how Kuma continued to secretly pursue his personal agenda behind the World Government’s back. Not only by helping out the Revolutionary Army (As shown in a previous chapter), but by putting his faith in Monkey D. Luffy by giving him a chance to survive in order for him to reach his full potential.

Dragon going to Roguetown. Kuma helping Luffy in secret. Gotta say I love that Luffy has had help from others along his path to become Pirate King. It makes his journey more believable that someone so young could even hope to achieve such a difficult goal.

Did Kuma figure out that Luffy ate the Nika fruit?

Warlord of the Sea and Professional DILF, Bartholomew Kuma, knows all too well that the Sun God Nika has rubber like abilities. I’m sure he put 2 and 2 together or at least suspected it could be possible. It does explain why, in addition to secretly helping the Revolutionary Army, Kuma also helped Luffy on the down-low whenever he could. Yeah, I’m going with that.

Ah, Oda. Using Kuma’s tragedy to help justify Dragon (mostly) abandoning his son. Now I’m even more interested in who Luffy’s mother is. Was she a Navy officer, Revolutionary, or simply a regular person. Hmm… Perhaps, she was a pirate?!

Did Bartholomew Kuma know all along Monkey D. Luffy ate the Nika fruit?

It makes sense the World Government would send their most “loyal” Warlord to investigate. And that would also explain why Kuma helped the Straw Hats several times throughout their journey. Kuma basically put his cybernetic faith in Sun God Nika/Luffy to eventually bring joy to the world. Hmm… Is that why Kuma’s currently flying to Egghead Island? To help Luffy one last time? What a bro!

What’s so special about Buccaneer blood?

If we’re to assume Blackbeard is also a Buccaneer, then my theory is the blood negates devil fruit weaknesses. I’m not sure if Blackbeard can swim, but at the very least I’m guessing Buccaneer blood is why Blackbeard can eat multiple devil fruits without dying.

Staying on the topic of devil fruits, are you wondering why Eiichiro Oda didn’t elaborate on how Bonney obtained a devil fruit? The only reason I can think of is that it has something to do with the very nature of devil fruits and Oda isn’t quite ready to reveal that secret just yet. Put in pin in it, Y’All. It’ll turn up later on the quiz.

How the heck do monarchies work in One Piece? You have the country of Alabasta/Arabasta where rulership is passed down through the Nefertari family, and then you have Sorbet Kingdom where, I don’t know, there’s an election, maybe? The World Government picks their ruler? It’s never mentioned if King Bekori is related to King Bulldog. I’m totally confused on this. Maybe I should run for King of Sorbet Kingdom? Seems like any bozo can get in.