User blog comment:Rhavkin/Countdown/@comment-30127592-20171010232533

I'll honestly be surprised if Luffy vs. Katakuri doesn't last for the next 5 chapters, as Hanata already stated. The last time luffy had a match-up like this, in my opinion, was when he fought Lucci, and even with his win then, his sheer exhaustion gave him no choice but to bet on the well-written Merry-ex-machina to get him out. His situation now is clearly worse: even should he manage to beat Katakuri without completely exhausting himself, he's still stuck in the mirror world, with the only believable quick save i can think of being brulée, who i imagine would be thrilled ​to be complicit again.

Katakuri has thus far adapted to anything luffy threw at him before throwing an improved version back, likely with the use of his future sight; the same future sight Luffy seemingly blindsided last chapter in his conversation with the rescue team, which could possibly be the first step to a winning strategy. However, Katakuri has repeatedly shown he's more than worth his monster bounty since his introduction, and while we all know who's going to win this in the end, I at the very least don't see Luffy doing so without being put through mochi hell several times over first, nor do i see Katakuri going down without a clear explanation on his "Special" Paramecia. Finishing a fight like that, even in 2-3 chapters, would be a waste of all the build-up Oda's given us, and Luffy needs a good "power-up" if he wants to believably stand against Kaido.

Then consider there's still the Vinsmokes, BM's reaction to the wedding cake of "Ultimate sweetness" and Sanji baking said cake, the rest of the rescue team's journey to Cacao island, the respective fates of Pudding and Reijiu, the standing dead threat to Zeff, and of course the inevitable post-Rescue-arc showing the effect of the whole thing on both the SH and the rest of the New World....

It's nearing an ending, sure, but that doesn't mean it won't take 20 chapters and probably more to wrap it all up.