A Legendary Samurai - The Man Who Roger Admired!

Still reeling from the revelation of time travel, Luffy's friends listen as Kin'emon traces the past of Wano and of Momonosuke's father, Oden. Once a wild ronin banished from the Flower Capital by Kouzuki Sukiyaki, Oden wandered into the lawless Kuri valley, cut down its swarming bandits, and bested their boss Ashura Doji in a duel, earning the criminals' loyalty. He set them to rebuilding the region into what is now Bakura Town and was named daimyo despite his rough nature. Inuarashi recalls how Oden rescued him and Nekomamushi as castaways, his kindness admired even by Whitebeard and Roger. Twenty years prior, on the night of the betrayal, Oden died fighting, and Kin'emon, Kanjuro, Raizo, Kiku, and the two minks fled to save his family. At the burning castle, Toki refused rescue, revealing her Toki Toki no Mi let her send the samurai and Momonosuke forward in time to fulfill their vow.

Kin'emon narrates Oden's banishment, his conquest of the Kuri bandits, his duel with Ashura Doji, and his appointment as daimyo. Inuarashi remembers Oden sheltering him and Nekomamushi. Oden falls on the night of the mutiny twenty years earlier, and the samurai flee toward his castle, losing the two minks to capture along the way. Toki declines escape and uses the Toki Toki no Mi to hurl Kin'emon, Kanjuro, Raizo, Kiku, and Momonosuke into the present. Arriving to find their own graves and an industrialized, propaganda-soured Wano, they nonetheless discover citizens still loyal to the Kouzuki name.

This episode debuts Kouzuki Toki, Kouzuki Oden, Ashura Doji, and Kawamatsu, along with the Toki Toki no Mi, and runs under OVER THE TOP. Because it predates the manga's detailed Oden backstory in Chapters 960 to 974, the adaptation invented Oden's design, his first meetings with Ashura and Inuarashi, and his death, and the source flags this portrayal of his demise as non-canon since Chapter 972 later told it differently. The original Chapter 920 contained no flashback, only reactions, so the visual storytelling here was added wholesale, including Zoro's victory over the white tiger.