The battle in the New World lasted three days. The Ice Continent kept collapsing, but fortunately, the icebergs below kept erupting, freezing the sea and giving them enough ground to fight on.
After three days, Rogge left. Kaido was simply too difficult to fight. Rogge could not imagine how Luffy and the others had beaten him. Their plot armor was even more terrifying than his own. Of course, Kaido's moods were unpredictable. Charlotte Linlin had her binge-eating disorder, and Kaido would sometimes suddenly burst into tears.
Ryokugyu's involvement had been quite unexpected, though. Because of Drake, the Marines had also dispatched forces to Wano Country, with the Whitebeard Pirates and Wano Country's samurai lending their support.
Rogge had even wondered how, with Kaido and Charlotte Linlin joining forces as they did in the original story, the Straw Hat Pirates could possibly defeat those two opponents who inspired such despair. The power scaling had fallen apart far too badly.
Still, Rogge had achieved his goal in seeking out Kaido for a fight.
It was simple: to distance himself from everything.
The whole world is in chaos right now, but that has nothing to do with me. I'm just a pirate, and I'm still fighting Kaido.
The World Government was bound to suspect him, so clearing himself would not be that easy, even if he wanted to. But fighting Kaido did draw attention elsewhere. After three days, Rogge returned to Nightfall Island as though nothing had happened.
"Will your Straw Hat Pirates come to fight us?" Rogge asked Ham and the others.
Luffy had once said he would defeat all the Four Emperors. He had encountered Charlotte Linlin, failed to beat her, and escaped. Then Rogge had killed her.
After that, Luffy had joined forces with several factions to defeat Kaido. Would