Chapter 926

Throughout the Flower Capital, deliverymen pass along newspapers carrying the Kouzuki Family's coded message, and several readers grasp that the clan has resurfaced. One man resolves to join, and an elder notes that Orochi has stripped citizens of weapons, though the man insists he will fight bare-handed. Nearby, Usopp works his toad-oil stall while two officials inside a building discuss a huge arms order from a foreign buyer. Training as a kunoichi under Shinobu, Nami eavesdrops from the rafters until her looking glass gives her away and an official stabs upward. The pair flee his strikes, Shinobu's panicked screaming nearly exposing them before her ninjutsu carries them gliding clear.

Nami has learned the shipment's time and location, while Shinobu sheepishly confesses a terror of sharp objects. Spotting a queue at Sanji's soba stand, Nami fumes that he chases women rather than samurai allies, just as an angry-looking man strides up to the counter.

At the Udon mines, prisoners toil under threat of death, and an elderly inmate called Hyo receives a single dumpling for hauling five boulders before a guard beats him for lagging. Luffy and Kid, meanwhile, shift blocks so fast the guards lose count past five hundred, astonishing everyone given their Seastone cuffs. The two earn brimming bowls of kibi dango and squabble over who moved more. Their feast draws the gluttonous vice warden Dobon, furious to find only three dumplings left for himself. When he tries to discipline the pair by swallowing them inside the hippo fused to his body through SMILE, both burst out moments later, leaving Dobon and his beast flattened as the inmates cheer.

Orochi is shown to have banned all martial-arts dojos and citizen weapons to choke off rebellion. Shinobu's aichmophobia is revealed, Sanji opens a soba shop in the capital, and Caribou is confirmed as an Udon prisoner. The manslayer Kamazo and the thief Ushimitsu Kozo are mentioned. The cover request shows Chopper and Law studying medicine with a learned tortoise and crane.