Chapter 1078

Stussy relays to Sentomaru that Kizaru is inbound and that Cipher Pol was to wait for him after wiping out the doctor and his satellites. Sentomaru hurries the evacuation while the crew keeps grappling with the Seraphim. When S-Hawk slips away, Zoro and Kaku give chase. A flashback reveals the so-called Egghead Incident actually began three months earlier, when someone leaked the doctor's secret work, and that the traitor was York, hungry to be the only Vegapunk and to claim World Noble status.

Stussy warns the affair may eclipse Ohara's destruction, since the doctor carried on Ohara's research and Egghead has the firepower to fight back. S-Snake crushes Pythagoras's head in an explosion. Sanji proves immune to S-Shark's strikes while Brook slips into soul form to search. Atlas leads Robin and Chopper toward where she suspects the Stella is held. The flashback explains that three months ago someone told the Five Elders the doctor was probing the Void Century, and after CP5, CP7, and CP8 vanished investigating, the elders concluded he had betrayed them and sent CP0 with one elder in person.

In the hidden lab, the shooter steps forward as York, who gleefully tells the doctor she wants to become a World Noble despite having witnessed how cruel Mary Geoise's residents are. She declares the world is better off with a single Vegapunk, namely herself, and dismisses the dead Shaka. This chapter closes out the long-running Germa 66 cover serial, whose final installment shows Judge and Caesar forming the new outfit NEO MADS.