User blog comment:Roman à Klef/Questions on My Mind/@comment-27930128-20170620123146/@comment-24850639-20170628151215

After all that was set up between Big Mom, the Giants, and Carmel, I feel Elbaf is the place where Big Mom will actually go down. The Straw Hats got everything they wanted from Whole Cake: The poneglyphs, Sanji, the Vinsmokes, and even Jinbei. There isn't honestly any reason that they HAVE to fight right now. Killing Big Mom was Bege's plan, not theirs. Big Mom confirmed herself that securing an alliance with the Giants was practically a ticket to the strongest army in the world, and I don't think Luffy's relationship with Hajrudin alone is enough to do that. Luffy needs to do something BG for them, and I see that coming in the form of some kind of selfless retribution, like most kingdoms they visit lol. Luffy's eventual battle with Big Mom currently doesn't carry high stakes at all. Defeating Kaido will free the country of Wano, and allow it to be the open-border county that Oden always dreamed of. But as it stands, the people of TottoLand don't necessarily feel oppresed by Big Mom.