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Does this open the door to others awakening Conqueror's Haki, and it being revealed that the whole Conqueror's Haki is something one needs to be born with is a lie the WG spread?

Like the Luffy fruit's true name being spread and covered up to make people believe that its name is the Gum Gum fruit, just to decrease the number of people that can awaken it and by extention decrease the number of foes that can actually kill a holy knight.

I have heard theories like this once in a while and this new Mihawk conversation sort of add more weight into this theory.

First King sold the fight and reminded Cath the info he needed to weaken Ban now Lancelot gave his body to Cath... I am starting to see a patern here, those of Fairy blood tend to mess things up and help Cath when he is down.

Also Cath was on his last leg and personally I think he could not even maintain the giant form for much longer so they could have won if they stalled for a bit of time also considering that Percival and Tristan where there, so long as they managed to get Guinivere before she is dead, they could have healed her.

I know it is emotional choice that pushed Lancelot to do this but that's kind of hipocritical coming from him after what he said to Arthur and Merlin. Still, in hindsight, maybe that is what is needed for Lancelot to become loyal to the real Arthur in the future, since from what the future kids said, Lancelot worked for King Arthur.

Also knowing that Cath has defied fate by going against Guinivere's prediction twice, at the very least, then the kids coming to the past might be the "retaliation of fate" that is to fall on Cath in the form of a domino effect meaning that it will trigger series of events that will cause Cath's downfall.

It's pretty much guaranteed or expected that Chopper will talk to Bibelot, and I feel like what Bibelot is going to talk about relates to how to repel Imu from Elbaf. So far, Bibelot has been a background character that has not been in the spotlight but has pulled his weight in thwarting the Holy Knight's plan, since he is the one who moved all the books.

Now, the reason why he would want to talk to Chopper would obviously be related to the Holy Knights/Imu that are currently wreaking havoc through Elbaf. Due to Bibelot being old, potentially from the void century, there is a chance he knows about Imu and the abyss summoning circle, and I think that is how Imu is going to be repelled: by destroying the abyss summoning circle, the same one he used to go to Elbaf.

There is also a chance that Bibelot might reveal to Chopper that his DF is not a regular zoan human DF but a mythical one, which has the ability to counter Imu's power, like it did with the Domi Reversi Gaints and that might be what is needed to destroy the abyss summoning circle, since in Egghead, the Straw Hats needed Joy Boy's Conqueror's Haki to send back the elders.

Since they don't have someone who possesses Haki of that level, so far none of those on Elbaf have displayed such feats, they will need something else that can affect Imu's power, like how Luffy managed to hit Crocodile using water, then his blood instead of Haki or seastones.

So, after Cath got his ass handed to him (Karma is finally coming for him), the survivors in chapter 245 said that he is looking for something. Maybe the reason Cath is attacking convoys of the kingdoms that are returning back to their home is that he is looking for Guinevere, since now that he is at his weakest state, he needs to know the future if he wants to win. And as we have seen before, Cath doesn't care about the consequences of going against fate, since to him only a few humans/knights have died so that is no real loss to him.

In Wano, it was shown that Zoro had/revealed Conqueror's Haki as well as being able to use Conqueror's Haki coating before Luffy used it. Sure at first he used it unconsciously and briefly before finally using it against King, and even in that fight he still didn't know he was using Conqueror's Haki coating but that does not change the fact that he used it before Luffy.

You can even say that his attack with Kaido serve as a hint on what was the next advance stage of Conqueror's Haki. At this point, the only stage left in Conqueror's Haki is Observation Haki which Shanks uses, since there is new level of Conqueror's Haki for the Holy Knight's immortality.

It's pretty much certain that Luffy will have to face/meet Shanks at one point during the following arcs and Shanks to this day is the only character that is known to use Observation Killing. For Luffy to become Pirate King he will need to surpass even Shanks and it wouldn't make sense for Luffy to Surpass Shanks without being able to use Observation Killing, like how he surpassed Katakuri by learning Future Sight, Luffy will surpass Shanks by learning Observation Killing.

This is why I believe Sanji is going to awaken Observation Killing during his fight with Killingham, he isn't going to master it or realize what he just awaken. Like how Zoro didn't know he was using Conqueror's Haki coating and believe he was just using regular Armament Haki but in a larger quantity due to Enma, Sanji is going to mistaken Observation Killing for the regular effects of Conqueror's Haki which is the stunning and knocking someone out (I am exagerating the comparison but that is to make my point clear).

This would work in great parallel with Sanji and Zoro being the wings of the future Pirate King (Luffy) because for a bird to rise further above (A.K.A fly or in Luffy's case reach his dream), its wings (Sanji/Zoro) have to go above it at first to carry it higher in the sky when they go down (like when they defeat enemies or obstacles in Luffy's way).

I think it is pretty much clear that Shuri made a deal with the WG, her freedom in exchange for her kingdom or Brook's life, because from the way I see it, there is no way that Brook could have survived after seeing a Gorosei and a holy knight when even marines below the rank of rear-admiral get killed for looking at a Gorosei that has gone full or partial zoan.

From the moment we first saw brook and even after seeing his appearance before he died, Brook always had a scar on his head and the scar seems to be deep enough that as a skeleton, he can open his own skull.

I think that Brook's memories of the events stop at this point (the first image). He is likely either going to be spared on purpose due to the deal Shuri made, only to attack and get his skull cracked, or if I am wrong about Shuri making a deal with the WG, Brook is going to be left for dead, meaning that Mars or the holy knight is going to attack him and leave thinking he was dead.

If it is the latter and it's Mars that attacks Brook, this could be a sort of proof or hint that Mars is the traitor because he let Brook go then again it could also be that famous world government "assuming things went there way and did not double check which will lead to it coming back to bite them in the ass later on".

What do you guys think?

While we are waiting for the full spoilers and the entire chapter that is coming this week, I had this question (not a theory or speculation but just a question I would like to hear someone's else answer to it). Imu said it himself that, essentially, craving strenght can lead one to be corrupted, i.e. Domi Reversi, and from the brief spoilers we know that Luven and Gunko got both Domi Reversie so i wonder if at the core of it all was Gunko's desire to get strong enough to be Brook's type what made her suseptible to Domi Reversi?

I am asking this cause if that were the case than it further proves how nearly unblockable Domi Reversie is.

Also Luven's case could be more or less understood since with how his kingdom is going through tough time in the brief spoilers, he would be feeling incompetent and weak which would make him, deep inside, crave power one way or another.