Future Present from God

Bran is a habitual pickpocket who keeps relapsing despite his wish to reform. Hoping to curb his future misdeeds, God resolves to end his life using the Pen of Fate, a tool that makes whatever it records come to pass. The plan goes awry when the deity meant to write that a meteorite would strike Bran's home but instead scrawled the name of Branchi, a sprawling department store, a blunder pointed out only when an angel notices. Rather than fix it cleanly, God hands the thief the notebook framed as a gift and watches him puzzle over its predictions.

God later sets the terms: to earn forgiveness and survival, Bran must spare everyone inside Branchi, since only the Pen's writing binds fate and the reversing Eraser has gone missing. Bran swipes a gun from passing bodyguards and tries warning the store's executive, who only laughs. Desperate, he seizes the building's radio booth and broadcasts a bomb threat, emptying the place. His ruse works too well, leaving him alone with seven minutes left, and when he steps outside the mocking CEO recognizes him, prompting Bran to fire a warning shot and insist the meteorite is real.

A mother realizes her son Yoshio remains inside, so Bran charges back in, finds the boy on the sixth floor, and leaps from a window seconds before the rock obliterates Branchi behind them. He lands unharmed, returns the child, and shrugs off any gratitude. In Heaven, God and his angel agree to let him live, only to discover Bran has stolen the Pen and written his own happy ending, signing off with a taunt. Oda admitted he conceived the piece simply to draw a huge building's destruction, and it marks the debut of his recurring gag figures Domo-kun and Nnke-kun.