Chapter 1166

The last strike from Roger and Garp drops all three from exhaustion, but it does revert Rocks. Wondering if he might walk away alive, he spots Garling, Sommers, and Maffey closing in and accepts the end, silently thanking the two for halting his rampage and willing them to escape. Garling draws his blade and runs Rocks through, finishing him, while Rayleigh and Gaban haul the unconscious pair off the island. The land slips under the sea, its events left out of recorded history yet seeding countless tales to come. Aboard the Oro Jackson, Roger stirs awake and the crew, picking through their haul, traces a crying sound to a chest holding the baby Shanks.

Word of the crew's collapse and their captain's death travels everywhere, but the government's version is scrubbed clean, inflating Garp's deeds until he is branded the Hero, which leaves the real Garp outraged. He quarrels with Sengoku over the rot he refuses to overlook, vowing to stay a Marine and to end Sengoku himself should the man go corrupt, a challenge Sengoku accepts. On Elbaf, the news shatters a young Loki, who recalls Rocks turning him down for being a child and lamenting he could never land Harald, the lone giant able to rouse the slumbering Gallelia. Elsewhere, Harald beats a marauding giant well past any apology, blaming such giants for his people's tarnished name and his own failure to stand by Rocks.

Garp later visits the jailed Dragon and passes him the cell key, accepting it when his son swears to quit the Marines and declares he hates him. Saying his goodbyes to Ida and Jarul, then to Hajrudin and Loki, whom he asks to act as brothers, Harald sails to Marineford. There he begs the assembled Marines and government to let him answer for his people's past wrongs, wanting only a peaceful future alongside humans, and tears out his horns as proof of his sincerity, even offering to be enslaved. This chapter belongs to the Elbaf Arc, and its color spread fulfills a request of Yamato and Otama gathering fallen leaves and roasting sweet potatoes among foxes and tanukis.