User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 873: The Finale of the Opera - It Isn't Over Until the Fat Lady Eats/@comment-216.252.202.57-20170724212121/@comment-24850639-20170727192711

Very plausible. I'd hate it, but I def gotta admit that it makes a lot of sense as a final plot twist. Wano is teased to be starting in October, so any kind of serious fights going down is out of the window in my opinion. At least none that would reach any kind of impactful conclusion, in the 8-12 chapters we prob have left. There's a few unresolved plot points around Pudding that I think will take the spotlight instead:

- Lola Flashbacks: Pudding has expressed a disinterest in remaining under Big Mom's control several times. The only person that we know of, and now I'm assuming the Charlotte Family knows of, is Lola. They appeared to have a very positive relationship, and I imagine Lola was probably one of the few people that didn't tease her about her eye. We also know that Big Mom has had zero luck finding her. What sense does that make, when we've seen the depth of information that Big Mom is capable of acquiring? The only explanation that makes any kind of sense to me, is that there is some underhandedness going on, and Pudding is responsible. I can't imagine that the nature of her relationship with Lola would have changed in any kind of way in the time she's been gone. Because of Lola, I would be inclined to believe that the relationship between Pudding and Chiffon is positive as well.

- Bitch Pudding: I've had the hardest time discerning whether Evil Pudding is actually Pudding herself, or a split personality that just takes over a whim from time to time. We've seen Pudding go full bitch mode, and we've seen Pudding struggle with her own thoughts.

- Devil Fruit: We've only seen Pudding's DF be used once, and it's way too potentially OP for that to be the only time we're going to see it. I think we definitely still need to see it be put to use in some kind of climactic fashion before the arc ends, which will be either in present day to help slow down Big Mom, or some kind of use in flashbacks that will be a plot twist.