Two Peas in a Pod

On the live floor, Zoro and Sanji stand shoulder to shoulder after blasting King and Queen back. The crowd cheers, "Zorojuro is back in action!!" and "Go get 'em, Sangoro-san!!" Kawamatsu watches Zoro's recovery and says it really did heal him, though he is afraid to think what will happen afterward. King and Queen rise from the rubble, enraged by the attack. Someone shouts "Queen!!" and "King!!" as the All-Stars recover. The page establishes that the fight has shifted into its decisive phase: Zoro is moving again because of the emergency medicine, Sanji is at his side, and Kaido's two top commanders are the only obstacles in front of them on the live floor.

Beast Pirates try to interfere after Zoro and Sanji strike the All-Stars, with one sniper asking, "How dare you attack the All-Stars?!" Someone yells "Drop it!!" and Kawamatsu addresses everyone: "Nicely done, Kawamatsu!! Everyone, listen up!! We can't let anybody interfere with their duel!!" A Beast Pirate objects that Zoro and Sanji are up against the All-Stars, but the samurai insist that it does not matter whether friend or foe tries to step in, there is no place for meddling in that fight. Sanji studies King and Queen's expressions and says, "Just look at the expressions on their faces, we would only get in their way!!" Marco, lying exhausted nearby with Izo, speaks of the distant past and recalls believing that only Mary Geoise was above the Red Line, hinting at King's hidden origins.

As the battle resumes, Marco's mind wanders and Izo snaps, "Wake up, Marco!!" Marco asks Izo whether he believes in God, and Izo tells him, "Oh, shut up!" Marco sounds like Pops when he was drunk, asking strange questions while lying in the chaos. King and Queen challenge the Straw Hats: "Yo, if you wanna take us down... you're gonna have to put your backs into it." Sanji answers that the previous blow did not even hurt a bit, while Zoro and Sanji attack again. Queen boasts that the drought, the plague, and the wildfire are Kaido's calamities. The page keeps the banter sharp: the All-Stars present themselves as disasters, while Zoro and Sanji refuse to treat them as unbeatable.

King and Queen keep pressing Zoro and Sanji, claiming that their unstoppable toughness is why they are called All-Stars. Sanji blocks and looks unsettled. When Zoro asks what is wrong, Sanji says it is nothing, then admits, "It's just... since my second time using the raid suit, I've been feeling kinda off... My body just feels a little odd..." Zoro tells him he is not going to slow down, and Sanji snaps, "My body, not my face, doofus!!" Queen notices and teases, "Well you do have weird eyebrows." Zoro and King clash blades again, and Zoro tells Sanji, "You owe me one!!" The page reveals Sanji's private concern: the Raid Suit may be awakening something in his body, even as he must keep fighting Queen.

Queen attacks Sanji with "Bridal Claw!!" and Sanji blocks with his burning leg, saying, "Now we're even!!" Queen laughs and remembers that all of Judge's children are enhanced, calling them "Germa 66." A translator note explains that the furigana uses the word cyborg while the kanji still uses modified human. Sanji rejects the comparison immediately: "Hate to break it to you, but I'm a regular human, unlike my siblings!!" Queen mocks that claim and asks what kind of human can burst into flames, saying Sanji is not like King because King is a Lunarian. Sanji says his passions burn hotter than any real flame ever could, then kicks Queen with fire and declares, "Cooking up sea beasts is my speciality, you dino-bastard!!" The page ties Sanji's identity crisis to Queen's Germa obsession and King's mysterious race.

Queen tries to prove that his own cybernetic enhancements are superior, shouting that he will show Sanji how devastating they can be and that they are so advanced even Vegapunk cannot match them. Sanji continues spinning through the air with fire around his leg, while Zoro and King cross the battlefield in parallel. Zoro watches King's movements and flames carefully, while Queen keeps firing his body and mechanical weapons in pursuit of Sanji. The page keeps both duels intertwined: Sanji's opponent talks about science, modifications, and Germa, while Zoro's opponent remains a silent, flame-wrapped mystery whose body and swordplay are difficult to read.

King attacks Zoro with sudden, unconventional swordplay. He warns, "Don't get distracted, you black mummy!!" and strikes hard enough that Zoro notices, "That blade...?" King's weapon snaps and shifts in a strange way, catching Zoro's swords and forcing him to react. The clash sends blades flying and gouges through the floor, while Zoro studies King's technique with a sharp stare. Unlike a normal swordsman, King uses his blade, body, wings, and brute force without concern for form. The page makes Zoro's duel more complicated than a standard sword fight: King is not simply matching him with polished swordsmanship, but fighting as a dangerous all-purpose predator.

Zoro calls King "just a blood-thirsty brute" and says he has never understood why anyone would stick to traditional forms and techniques in a real battle. King answers that Zoro has a point and that Zoro never claimed to be a swordsman after all. Zoro accepts the dirty fight, saying, "Have it your way! Just remember, when it comes down to it... I might be willing to bite through your throat too!" King replies that he cannot afford to lose here. Below, Hyogoro and Kawamatsu watch Zoro and talk about Enma. They recall that Hiyori offered him that sword and that there was a reason they did not protest too hard. The page begins linking Zoro's present battle to Wano's sword lineage and history.

Hyogoro and Kawamatsu say Zoro and Shimotsuki Ushimaru are "like two peas in a pod," down to their sword handling. One says it is peculiar because Zoro may be a foreign pirate, but he reminds them so much of the former daimyo of Ringo when he was young. They also recall that Ushimaru was a fantastic swordsman and a direct descendant of the god of the blade, Shimotsuki Ryuma. The page points out that Zoro was the one who returned Shusui to Wano, calling it fate or something close to it. Then the thought deepens: "After all, Ryuma... was a one-eyed samurai!!" As Zoro clashes with King, the page strengthens the visual and thematic connection between Zoro, Ushimaru, and Ryuma.

In the second floor treasure repository, Inuarashi fights Jack. Allies shout, "We've got to back up Jack-san!!" but other voices refuse to let that happen. Jack swings "Bar-aag!!" and says Inuarashi must be getting tired, promising to put him to sleep forever as "Duke of the Day." Jack insists there is no need to draw the fight out and that he has already forgiven Inuarashi for lying to him about the samurai. Inuarashi answers that Jack's country has already paid the price for sheltering Raizo, and that they would not have been able to live with themselves if they had sold Raizo out. Both fighters pant heavily, and the page frames their rematch around Zou's suffering and the minks' choice to protect a comrade at any cost.

Inuarashi declares that everything the minks went through would have made it impossible for them to come back to Wano if they had betrayed Raizo. Their struggle since the day Oden left was always meant to bring them to this point. Jack answers that he does not know this Raizo, and if Raizo is here, he will slice open his own stomach. The page connects Jack's assault on Zou to the twenty-year burden carried by Oden's retainers and allies. Inuarashi's anger is not only personal revenge; it is a refusal to let Jack reduce the minks' sacrifice to a mistake. The fight is now a reckoning for Zou's torture and for the loyalty that protected the Kozuki cause.

Inuarashi tells Jack that twenty years after Oden's death, they have all tormented themselves with the same questions: "Are things different now?" and "Do we still have the right to claim to be Oden's samurai?!" The full moon appears through a hole in the roof, and Inuarashi's transformation begins. Jack sees the Sulong form and growls, while Inuarashi says they endured everything to reach this decisive battle. Their millennia-old city was razed to the ground, but the dawn of the world is finally upon them. Inuarashi declares that they do not care if they have to lay down their lives to usher it in. The page gives his Sulong transformation the emotional weight of Zou's destruction and the minks' hope for the dawn.

At the skull dome front entrance, Nekomamushi faces Perospero under the same full moon. Perospero argues that without Pedro, Luffy and the others never would have made it here, so the raid would have failed for sure. Carrot shouts, "Master Nekomamushi!!" while the moon shines overhead. Perospero sneers, "Pedro, just pour yourself a drink and watch! Your Sulong form!!" Nekomamushi transforms and roars, "This is the last moon you-gara will ever see! Big Tongue!!" The page makes Nekomamushi's vengeance match Inuarashi's resolve: both mink leaders use the moon not as a miracle escape, but as the final form of the loyalty and grief that brought them back to Wano.

Inside the castle on the second floor, enemies mock Momonosuke and Oden, saying, "Oden is dead, and now you serve a glorified child!" Samurai and allies reject the insult. One says that everyone needs time to mature and that even misfits eventually become samurai. Another declares, "Wano itself will shape Momonosuke-sama's growth!! We won't let you take that hope away!!" The scene then cuts to Udon's Tokage Port, where fighters panic because a huge dragon has appeared. People shout, "Why is Kaido here?!" and "Do we even stand a chance?!" The page pivots from faith in Momo's growth to the startling result of Shinobu's power: a dragon that looks like Kaido has appeared at the port.

At Tokage Port, Shinobu explains through tears, "I followed Momonosuke-sama's orders!! I aged him till he was 28 years old!!" The shocked onlookers ask how the child who was just there could have changed so much. Luffy asks why Shinobu is crying if she did not know she could do that, and she says it is because Momonosuke looks just like someone. The huge dragon, now Momonosuke's adult form, growls before Luffy. When the dragon warns, "Straw Hat, get back, it's dangerous!!" Luffy smiles and refuses to be treated as a snack, saying that if Momo tries to eat him, he will devour him whole. Luffy calls, "Momo!" and then shouts, "Momo!! Let's go take back Wano!!" Momonosuke answers, "That's right!! Yeah!!" The chapter ends with the adult dragon and Luffy ready to return to Onigashima.

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