Chapter 1114

The world splits over Vegapunk's claim that the seas will swallow it. In Impel Down, Doflamingo laughs and taunts Magellan about the flooding cells, reckoning most towns would drown if the water rose five more meters. In Ryugu Kingdom, Neptune dismisses the prediction as far-fetched, while Marines outside Egghead fear the words alone will spark panic. The Five Elders and York, growing desperate, decide to annihilate every living thing on the island.

Vegapunk recounts that his sensor data forecast a massive earthquake days after recording, followed by a one-meter rise that would drown beaches and render islands uninhabitable, a quake many realize already struck today. He insists the phenomenon is not natural. As Saturn rampages through the Straw Hats toward the power station, he abandons the crew to smash at the Mother Flame, a small flame held inside a large tank. Vegapunk confesses his first sin: a naive wish to bring peace and progress that led him, like Icarus, to fly too close to the sun.

The Marines' attacks bounce off the Iron Giant. Dorry, Brogy, and a re-transformed Gear 5 Luffy keep fleeing as fire spreads and Warcury pursues. Vegapunk explains he must reach back into the Void Century, the lost span between roughly 900 and 800 years ago, with Imu and the World Nobles watching and some growing curious. He names his second sin as deciphering the outlawed Poneglyphs using Ohara's documents, a deed he does not regret. As Edison stretches the clouds to launch the Sunny, Vegapunk reveals that a man born in an advanced kingdom, possessing a rubbery body like the Sun God Nika, was Joy Boy, the first man to take to the sea and the world's first pirate.

People across the world react to the sinking claim, with Doflamingo estimating most towns would drown under a further five-meter rise. Vegapunk's advance prediction of the global earthquake and its effects proves accurate, and he insists it is no natural event. The Five Elders resolve to destroy every lifeform to cut the broadcast, and Saturn fights past Nami's group to reach the Mother Flame room and smash the snails inside.

Certain World Nobles such as Shalria appear unaware of what the Void Century even is. The Marines' assault on the Iron Giant fails. Edison activates a device stretching the Labophase's clouds and the Sunny's position toward the shore. Vegapunk reveals Joy Boy as the first pirate, an inhabitant of the Great Kingdom with stretching powers, and identifies Nika as Elbaph's sun god.

The title casts Vegapunk as Icarus, his ambition for a brighter world the wax wings that doomed him. A relaxing Jaguar D. Saul laughs upon hearing the broadcast, and Imu's silent presence underscores the stakes of the revelations. The cover continues the Yamato Surrogate Pilgrimage serial.