Chapter 1088

A flashback shows Garp quizzing recruits: faced with room in a boat for only a baby or an old man, Koby answers that he would step off and save both, which Garp rejects. The instructor insists the young must be prioritized because their future is boundless, drawing a rebuke from superiors who argue all lives weigh equally. Weeks earlier on Amazon Lily, Blackbeard seized eight hundred Marine soldiers and a battleship, and Koby bargained his own surrender for their release, which Blackbeard accepted. In the present, Pizarro's stone hand looms over Garp's ship as the cannons prove useless, prompting Tashigi to order an abandonment. On the island, Garp lays out a coordinated counter: he opens the way, Koby shatters the hand, Grus shields the ship from debris, and Helmeppo guards the other two from interference.

The trio charges out under fire. Garp barrels past Kuzan, reaches the skull-shaped rock Pizarro peers through, and splits it with Galaxy Divide, wounding Pizarro's true body and raising the giant hand. A second flashback reveals Koby secretly trained on the battleship bags until his fists bled. Seizing the opening, Koby unleashes Honesty Impact, cleaving the stone hand in two as everyone watches in awe. Helmeppo catches him while Grus spins a clay web to trap the falling rubble, and all three reach the ship. Garp radios that the mission succeeded but refuses to return, declaring the young the future of the Marines. Impaled and frozen by Kuzan's ice blade, Garp lies surrounded by the Blackbeard Pirates yet laughs. The next day's papers carry Koby's rescue, Garp's disappearance, and Luffy's standoff at Egghead.

This Egghead Arc chapter resolves the Hachinosu battle through combined effort and confirms Sanjuan Wolf survived the sea. Garp alone remains behind, last seen run through and being frozen. The cover is a color spread pairing the first five Straw Hats with major figures from the live-action adaptation.