Chapter 1164

Pain wracks Rocks during the change, yet his screams hide a stubborn refusal to give in, an obstinacy that prompts Imu to call him persistent. He tells Imu never to dismiss what a human can withstand, then asserts proudly that the planet once answered to a ruler named Davy D. Jones. That assertion sends Imu into a fury; he insists Jones held no crown whatsoever, though his panic over nothing more than a surname tells Rocks otherwise. Reading that fear, Rocks asks if Imu has lived for years terrified that someone would carry on Jones' will and the promise he spoke of, then prods him over which name unsettles him worse, Jones or Joy Boy.

Demanding quiet, Imu boasts that once Rocks is dead, that bloodline will never surface again, and that he has already secured perfect troops: the inwardly divided, presently harmless giants of Elbaf. Rocks rages and orders Harald spared, but Imu counters that Harald's hunger for peace is exactly the lever that will shape him into a puppet, and a final command to slaughter his own kin finishes the transformation. Rising as a demon, Rocks announces there is blood he must purge, flings Kaidou into the mountainside, dispatches Linlin, and meets Newgate blow for blow, the shockwave caving in the northeastern peak. He then races after Eris and Teach, but Kuma teleports the pair clear an instant before the Marine cannons and his slash arrive, scattering the warship to splinters.

Marines are told to keep clear and prioritize evacuating the World Nobles while crowds flee with whatever loot they can grab. Dragon despairs at failing to reach the baby Shanks, Taro is shown carting off the chest holding him, and Shiki robs Ganzui along the way. Catching sight of distant flames, Imu commands Rocks to finish every remaining soul. Garp and Roger step in front of him to stop further harm, notice the tears running freely down his cheeks, and somehow catch his voice inside their heads, begging for death, opening the fated three-way battle and confirming Garp can hear the Voice of All Things. The cover grants a request of Perona pursuing a watch-carrying rabbit, with Mihawk drawn in a fantasy aside.