Chapter 1079

An opening flashback shows what York did once she grasped that the government intended to be rid of her as well. To save herself, she commanded the four Seraphim to cut down everyone confined within the lab, keeping alive only the Stella, the captured hostages, and herself. Out beyond the shore of Egghead, a craft belonging to the Blackbeard Pirates eases quietly into position. On Elbaph, a confrontation between Kid and Shanks is arranged, and the Emperor settles it almost at once. Afterward, Dorry and Brogy crush the rival vessel and the Kid Pirates are left in ruins.

Conceding that she cannot hold her own should her treachery surface, York arranged for S-Snake to petrify her as a disguise, to be undone the moment no eyes were upon her, and she flagged certain rooms in the facility to be spared. On Elbaph, several lesser captains pledged to Shanks bar Kid's way. After clearing his feeble subordinates from the field, the Emperor reads Kid's railgun through Future Vision before the Damned Punk can launch, then boards the Victoria Punk and fells Killer alongside Kid with a single swing of Kamusari. The desperate crew surrender their Road Poneglyph rubbings to spare their captain, yet Shanks pays them no heed as the giants tear the ship apart with Hakoku.

A central point of the chapter is that the underling crews serving the Red Hair Pirates are genuinely weak and could not last in the New World without their Emperor's shielding. Shanks observes that Blackbeard has departed Hachinosu and brands Kid a troublemaker. The closing narration formally pronounces the Kid Pirates, headed by Eustass Kid with a 3,000,000,000 Berry bounty, completely destroyed. The cover, requested by PN Himawariya, shows Luffy mistakenly watering a lion in place of a sunflower. The chapter belongs to the Egghead Arc.