User blog comment:Ghmorello/Chapter 887: Hot Pounding/@comment-192.64.124.119-20171201164149/@comment-53539-20171202001849

I normally stay quiet as I have little to say... This reminds me of how Oda said also he hadn't really thought about how Shanks will fight.

The other option is that he is delaying the moving on to get all ideas out of the bag at once. Oda has a lot of ideas and many simply do not make the mix. Daddy Masterson was one such example. In the past, Oda was pushed to rush out things and content got left out. These days, he is able to slow things down and get all ideas on the table since there are far less pressures placed upon him. So to me, this is what is happening.

I do however like some moments in the panning from time to time that Oda likes to do as we get some of the best character moments from it. Whether or not Pund survives isn't the point, but rather the willingness to put his life at risk strengthens the kind of selfless character he is. He lost everything, sure, but he held onto the idea of seeing his daughters as a survival drive all these years. This was closure to his story.