Chapter 984

While Ulti and Page One shrug off their wounds, Kaidou and the All-Stars climb the stage beside Orochi and the crucified Momonosuke so Kaidou can unveil his so-called New Onigashima Project. Reluctant to go along, Luffy first trades blows with Yamato, but once the two shake their pursuers he agrees to spare five minutes. Yamato admits he looks up to Oden and models himself on the man, and that he wants Luffy at his side to see Oden's wish of reopening the borders fulfilled.

Yamato recounts witnessing the Legendary Hour, feeling both Oden's magnificence and his fury at the killing, and he produces Oden's logbook, treasured like scripture and unknown to Kaidou and Orochi. With the Scabbards believed dead, he holds that someone must inherit Oden's will. Peeling off his mask and ripping his sleeves, Yamato bares a feminine body yet declares he chose to live as a man, exactly as Oden had. He likens Luffy to Ace, a comparison that leaves the pirate deeply rattled.

Jinbe, Robin, Hyougoro, and other rebels slip successfully into the banquet hall. Law warps his group ashore, teleporting the samurai along with Penguin, Shachi, and Bepo onto the island, where Nekomamushi, Marco, and a fully shown post-timeskip Izou meet up with them, and Izou reunites with his sister Kikunojo. Orochi recounts how Toki's time-leaping fruit carried Momonosuke forward two decades. It comes out that Yamato was born a woman and had personally known and once fought Ace. The cover has Pound announcing himself as father to Lola and Chiffon. The chapter belongs to the Wano Country arc.