Chapter 1063

Once the feast ends, Atlas returns to her duties and Luffy finds a device that swaps the group's outfits in an instant. Their fun ends when a Kuma-shaped Pacifista in a police uniform charges them, claiming the food and clothing were never free. As Luffy moves to retaliate, Bonney throws herself in the way, weeping that the figure resembles the only family she has left and pleading that no one harm her father. Luffy insists the machine before them is not the real Kuma even as it blasts a crater into the ground.

In a distant stretch of the New World, the Blackbeard Pirates corner the Heart Pirates and flood the Polar Tang. Law and his crew abruptly transform into women, but Law reverts himself by flooding his body with Haki, a trick learned from his battles against Kaidou and Big Mom. Doc Q reveals he carries the Shiku Shiku no Mi, which manufactures any illness, and that he caused the gender swap. His crewmates have also gained fruits: Van Augur can teleport people with the Wapu Wapu no Mi, Jesus Burgess gained monstrous power through the Riki Riki no Mi, and the horse Stronger now flies on the mythical Uma Uma no Mi, Model: Pegasus. Blackbeard arrives and tells Law he intends to seize his Poneglyph copies, and Law accepts the winner-take-all challenge on a nearby island.

The revelation that Kuma fathered Bonney lands as a shock to the Straw Hats. Doc Q, Augur, and Stronger make their first appearances since the time skip, all now Devil Fruit users. The Germa cover side-story shows Cracker iced over and Brûlée mourning Pudding's abduction. A trivia note flags that Kuma is drawn without his bear ears, and that Law's feminized look matches his earlier Horu Horu no Mi gender swap from an SBS corner.