Chapter 1095

Lesser Marines are ordered to keep their distance from the elder, since their rank makes them unfit to share Saturn's air, while higher officers hang back. The wound Bonney cut into him seals over on its own, astonishing Franky, and the elder waves off the soldiers eager to gun her down, remarking that he could simply have dodged had he wished. He pries her loose, lifts out the sword, and floors Sanji with the same eye-borne attack when the cook tries to intervene.

Saturn scolds a barely conscious Kizaru for his sluggish performance, then lunges a leg toward the spent Luffy. Franky shoves the captain clear with Strong Right and hauls him back. Holding Bonney aloft, the elder declares everyone on the island marked for an agonizing death for crossing the government, and tightens his grip while no one can reach her. He brands Kuma a Buccaneer, the supposedly extinct bloodline he says committed an old crime, with Kuma the last of his kind.

Saturn extracts the sword and heals instantly, captures Bonney, and disables Sanji. His attempt to finish Luffy is foiled by Franky, while Kizaru lies paralyzed yet awake from the captain's earlier blow. As the elder readies to execute Bonney, her memory drifts to Kuma, who once vowed he would become a savior in the mold of Nika and free her like the warrior of liberation would.

A flashback opens 47 years prior in the Sorbet Kingdom, where Kuma is born to the Buccaneer Clapp and a human mother. The family's blood data is betrayed to the authorities and they are enslaved by the World Nobles. After his mother dies and his father is shot for singing of Nika, the narrative jumps to the triennial culling tournament staged at God Valley in the West Blue. Saturn watches as a recaptured young Kuma is confronted, and a youthful Ivankov and Ginny arrive, with Ivankov noting the Buccaneers carry giant blood.

The cover request, by PN Nippi, depicts Buggy pursuing a squirrel monkey that swiped his signature nose. Figarland Garling appears in the flashback, having slain God Valley's king during the contest yet shrugging it off as a fair handicap for the other competitors. The chapter confirms God Valley sat in the West Blue and was seized by the government for the event. A piece of trivia notes that Ivankov, and likely Ginny, were drawn without shackles here, an oversight fixed for Ivankov in the next chapter. The meeting depicted follows directly from the memory Bonney glimpsed in Chapter 1074.