User blog comment:Fliu/The Upcoming Battle with Jack/@comment-24769684-20160311231642/@comment-24850639-20160314145618

Its time out for this "long way" shit, seriously. They're ready. Luffy has a Grand Fleet now of 5600+, he's defeated his 3rd Shichibukai, they now know the other Yonko hold extremely important keys to them reaching their goal, and at this point way too many targets are on their back for them to NOT be ready. Give the crew more credit. Luffy absolutely annihilated Doffy in Gear 4th, and that little skirmish Zoro and Fujitora had isn't long enough to say anyone got "punked". People also said there was NO WAY Jack was coming back to Zou, you included I believe, or has everyone suddenly forgot how sure you all were about that?

Not only that, THEY'RE GOING TO WHERE THE BEAST PIRATES ARE, probably in the next arc. Since when has disparity in bounty meant anything, and since when do bad guys "need" a W? Jack HAS to go down here. He "got his W" when he took the Minks down the first time. He got plenty of Ws to have a Billion bounty in the first damn place. Why make a big deal of the Straw Hats having saved the Minks in the first place just to have the country go down forreal this time? Way too big a deal was made about Zou's history, the poneglyph, and the fact that we don't even know how Zunisha came to be for the elephant to die. Your logic is sound in that the Minks really have the odds stacked against them with their injuries, but what better way for the SH/Heart crew that stays there to step up? Your boy will get plenty of chances to earn his rep during the war, but this isn't a fight that the story should allow him to win.