Oda is building up to something here. I'm anticipating and dreading it, and have some thoughts on how this could end.

I'm thinking maybe blackmail? Ginny is captured by CP0, Kuma gets an audience with them including Saturn and is told he needs to surrender to the WG as the last Buccaneer and now a Revolutionary. He is forced to become king of Sorbet and rule them like Becori did where they have to give all their money as tribute maybe. And he is forced to participate in Vegapunk's experiments and have his humanity taken away. All for Ginny and the Revs. Or at least Ginny and his future daughter Bonney.

That would make him a reverse Oden which could be interesting. And that would explain why Bonney sees Kuma as a nice person and why the Revs are so intent on rescuing him.

Another interesting fact is that Dragon was a former Marine. I wasn't aware of that theory until recently, but it is now confirmed. That being said, the TCB translation choice of "I spent some time with the Navy" is more ambiguous than OP Scans' "I once served in the Navy".

And finally: we get three chapters in a row. It feels so refreshing after at least a month or two of only getting two chapters back to back.