Chapter 809

Inuarashi dozes off mid-sentence, which prompts Wanda to lay out the dukedom's divided schedule: he governs by day, Nekomamushi by night, two once-close friends now at odds for reasons even she cannot explain. Every mink in the fort lives by this split, while those of the Whale Forest shoulder all nighttime work, fighting included.

The flashback picks back up with the musketeers striking at the rampaging Gifters. Inuarashi gallops in, throws down his blade, and offers Jack free rein to search for Raizo if the bloodshed halts. Jack spurns the deal and lashes out with his trunk, only for the duke to stop the strike with ease. As six o'clock arrives and the Eruption Rain breaks up the Gifters, Nekomamushi's roar carries across the field; the duke pulls back, and the Whale Forest's master grabs Jack by the trunk and slams him over, dragging him out of mammoth form.

The arms chain is spelled out: Caesar builds the weapons, Doflamingo passes them along, and Kaidou takes delivery. Inuarashi presides over the dukedom by day while Nekomamushi guards the Whale Forest by night, the two wielding roughly equal authority despite their bad blood. Inuarashi personally knows Shanks. Jack's bounty stands at one billion Berries, the first ten-figure figure in the series. Both the squad of musketeers and the guardians are put on display, Wanda, Carrot, and the gatekeepers counted among the former, Pedro seen plainly, and Nekomamushi making his entrance.

The cover is a color spread of Luffy, Robin, Franky, and Brook lounging with cats in shades. The rulers' feud reshapes daily life so completely that warriors and townsfolk all shift with the sun and moon. Inuarashi eyes Brook's bones hungrily but pledges to hold off until the musician mends. Nekomamushi warns the felled Jack that any samurai who set foot on the island would already be dissolving inside his belly.