User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 870: There and Back Again/@comment-3529684-20170629145205/@comment-24850639-20170629163136

And leave Chiffon and baby Bege behind? Nah.....

Oda has depicted him as being a great father who truly loves his son, which is something we don't really get to often in One Piece. Oda can't kill him off for that alone.