Mink Tribe, Guardians Chief Pedro

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The chapter begins on Pedro and Perospero, with the label "CHAPTER 878: MINK TRIBE, GUARDIANS CHIEF PEDRO." Pedro remembers the past after Big Mom stole fifty years from him. Big Mom tells him, "MAMA-MAMA... A TRUE MAN, I SEE..." and Pedro answers, "TRY AND SURVIVE THIS!" Big Mom replies, "LET'S GO WITH 50 YEARS..." In the present, Perospero stands on the candy-covered sea and says, "KUKUKU... WELL DONE, PERORIN." He asks, "HOW OLD ARE YOU NOW?" Pedro answers, "27." Perospero cruelly calculates, "WITH 50 YEARS OF YOUR LIFE TAKEN AWAY, YOU'VE NOW, IN EFFECT, LIVED 77 YEARS. HOW MANY YEARS DO YOU HAVE LEFT IN YOU, I WONDER?" Pedro chooses his death calmly: "I'LL MAKE SURE TO AT LEAST CHOOSE WHERE I DIE." He remembers the "NOX" in the "NOX PIRATES" while Perospero's chain closes with a "CLANK."

Pedro's memory turns to the meaning of his old crew's name. Someone asks, "DOES IT REFER TO THE NIGHT?" and another says, "THAT'S A PRETTY DEPRESSING NAME!" A translation note explains, "T/N: NOX = NIGHT IN LATIN." Pedro's captain rejects the despair behind the word: "I GUESS IT MEANS THAT THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS AN ENDLESS NIGHT." In another memory, he asks to follow Roger: "ROGER! LORD ODEN!! ALLOW ME TO ACCOMPANY YOU!" but Roger tells him, "BOY! YOU'VE GOTTA STAY ON STANDBY FOR NOW!" Pedro hears the news of Roger's death and cries, "PEDRO! THEY SAY... ROGER'S DEAD!" Pedro can only answer, "WHA-?!" The lesson that remains with him is spoken like a final inheritance: "MY TIME IS LIMITED! LISTEN UP, EVERYONE, SOONER OR LATER, GETS THEIR OWN TIME TO SHINE!" Pedro concludes, "IN OTHER WORDS, NOX, THE NIGHT, REALLY MEANS THIS:"

The memory completes Pedro's resolve: the word Nox means "THE DARK BEFORE THE DAWN." He reflects, "WELL, I COULDN'T ASK FOR ANYTHING MORE," and adds, "IF I CAN SERVE AS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE WORLD THAT THE MASTERS AWAIT, AND I SHOULD HAVE TIME ENOUGH TO DO JUST THAT." In the present, the explosion from his suicide attack blooms across the coast, swallowing the candy around the Sunny and the surrounding sea in a black cloud. The blast roars with "PEDRO!" as ships marked with numbers crowd the water nearby. Pedro's death is framed not as surrender, but as an intentional use of his remaining life to open a path toward the dawn he believes Luffy and the others may bring.

The Straw Hats and their enemies react to the blast. Katakuri stares and says, "NO WAY... BROTHER PEROS!" while Carrot screams, "PEDRO!" Luffy also cries, "PEDRO!" The explosion has done what Pedro intended: the candy binding the Sunny begins to liquefy and run down the hull. Chopper and Brook are no longer sealed in the same deadly coating, and someone shouts, "HIS CANDY'S MELTING AWAY!" Perospero is hurled and burned by the blast, groaning, "GGU HHH!" The page stays with the physical result of Pedro's choice: the trap that would have killed Chopper and Brook and stopped the Coup de Burst is breaking apart, but the cost is Pedro himself.

The Sunny surges free as the candy melts into the sea with a "SPLASH!" Perospero stares at the chaos and snaps, "WHAT CRAZY... PEDRO!" The Charlotte forces ask whether their commander survived: "LORD PEROS-PERO!" and "WAS HE BROUGHT DOWN WITH THE EXPLOSION?" Others call him "THE FIRST-BORN!" On the Sunny, Carrot cannot accept what happened. She screams, "PEDROOO!!" and tries to leap back, but Nami stops her: "NO, CARROT!" Brook and Chopper surface from the melting candy in panic, and Brook says, "BUHEHO! GAHGAH!" while Chopper cries, "BUWAAAH! I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA DIE!" Jinbe calls to them, "YOU GUYS!" The ship has been saved, but the crew has no time to mourn properly.

Nami understands exactly what Pedro bought them. Crying, she says, "HE SAVED US!" and explains, "UNTIL JUST NOW, THE CHANCE WE WOULD GET OUT OF THIS SAFELY WAS 0%!" The crew cannot waste that chance. Someone reports, "PREPARATIONS ARE COMPLETE!" and Jinbe asks, "CAN WE FLY, NAMI?" Nami answers by launching the next step: "WE'RE OFF, MEN!" The Sunny shakes into motion while Big Mom is still roaring below. Nami adds the grim condition of survival: "IF WE LET THIS SECOND GO TO WASTE," leaving the consequence unspoken but obvious. Pedro's sacrifice has become a single narrow window, and the crew must use it immediately or everything he did will be lost.

Luffy is furious and refuses to move blindly after Pedro's death. He shouts, "WE'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO FACE PEDRO AGAIN!" Jinbe forces the plan into order. Nami calls, "LEAVE THE SAILS AS THEY ARE!" and asks, "CHOPPER, BROOK! YOU GUYS CONSCIOUS?" Jinbe gives the heading: "SET BEARINGS TO NORTHWEST! FIRE COUP DE BURST!" Luffy turns to Jinbe, shocked, "HUH?! JINBE?!" and demands, "TELL ME WHAT TO DO! I'LL DO IT!" Meanwhile Katakuri begins reforming himself, muttering, "MMKKK" and "UUGH..." as he says, "EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU BASTARDS..." Nami says, "GETTING ALL FIRED UP..." because anger alone will not save them; they need every person doing the exact job Jinbe assigns.

The Big Mom Pirates' ships close in and prepare to fire. Their order goes out: "ALL SHIPS, AIM FOR THE ENEMY VESSEL, AND PREPARE TO FIRE!" Another voice asks, "HOW DARE YOU HURT LORD PEROSPERO!" Luffy throws himself toward the enemy and yells, "GET OUT OF HERE, BIG MOM PIRATES!" Nami snaps through her grief and rejects a weak objection: "SHE ISN'T CUT OUT FOR THE SWORD." Pedro's remembered words continue beneath the action: "DOESN'T MATTER HOW YOU DO IT. BECOME A STRONG WARRIOR. AND WAIT! EVERYONE, SOONER OR LATER, GETS THEIR OWN TIME TO SHINE!" Carrot, trembling, remembers being told, "CARROT WILL BECOME A GREAT SWORDSMAN UNDER ME!" The present is forcing Pedro's lesson onto her before she is ready.

Katakuri tries to stop the launch himself. He grabs at Carrot and Nami, declaring, "AS LONG AS I'M HERE, YOU WON'T BE GOING ANYWHERE!" Carrot cries out, "CARROT!" and Nami screams, "KYAAH!" Luffy answers from across the deck: "THIS SHIP WILL SET SAIL!" Katakuri still stands in the way, but Luffy plants himself as captain and makes the responsibility explicit: "I'M ITS CAPTAIN!" Katakuri tells him the condition: "IT WILL ONLY IF YOU CAN MANAGE TO DRIVE ME OUT." Luffy begins again, "GOMU GOMU NO..." The page narrows the whole escape to a duel over the ship itself: Katakuri must be removed, or the Sunny cannot leave.

Luffy drives Katakuri backward with "ELEPHANT GUN!" The huge Gear Third fist slams into him, forcing him across the deck and toward the mirror access. Katakuri reads Luffy's intention at once. He says, "I SEE... YOU'RE RIGHT. IF YOU DO THAT, I WON'T BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ELSE!" Luffy is not simply attacking to win a punch exchange; he is trying to move Katakuri into the mirror world and remove him from the Sunny. The blow sends both combatants toward that route as the ship rocks under the pressure of the battle, the bombardment outside, and the imminent Coup de Burst.

The enemy ships open fire. Cannonballs rain across the coast and around the Sunny as the crews yell, "FIRE!" and panic with cries like "WAAH!" "WAH!" "GYAAH!" and "WHOOA!" Someone shouts, "STOP! STOP!" but the attack continues. Luffy understands the situation and says, "UNDERSTANDING IT ISN'T GONNA HELP YOU DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!" The Sunny begins to lift, and Jinbe says, "I STILL FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT A SHIP CAN FLY, THOUGH!" Another voice calls, "HERE WE GO!" Big Mom realizes what is happening too late, screaming, "WAIT! WHERE IS IIIIIT?!" while the ship rises away from her reach.

As the Sunny launches, Nami sees what the smoke and wreckage reveal. She cries, "WHA-?" then begins, "PED-" before realizing the figure near the blast site. She says, "THAT IS..." and Perospero, badly damaged, hisses, "THAT BLOODY PEDRO!" His candy arm has been destroyed, and he snarls, "DAMN..." Big Mom continues to roar, "CAAAA AAKE!" while Perospero explains the cost of the explosion: "BLAST! I'M SHOCKED... MY CANDY ARMOR'S BEEN COMPLETELY DESTROYED..." Nami calls out, "NAMI!" through the chaos. Pedro did not take Perospero down, but he destroyed enough of his candy to break the Sunny free and save Chopper and Brook from the lethal coating.

Luffy makes his choice. As others cry, "BROOK!" "CHOPPER!" and "JINBE!" he struggles in Katakuri's grip and shouts, "LET GO OF ME!" Brulee appears near the mirror and is recognized with "BRULEE?!" Carrot is still consumed by Pedro's sacrifice, and Nami calls, "CARROT!" Luffy turns the mirror route into a plan. He tells the crew, "I PROMISE I'LL BE BACK!" and then makes the transfer of command clear: "I'M LEAVING THE REST TO YOU!" Someone reacts, "WHA-?!" Luffy is not abandoning the escape; he is deliberately staying behind with Katakuri so the Sunny can launch without its strongest enemy aboard.

The Coup de Burst sequence begins under fire. Brook cries, "WHOOAAA!" and starts the words, "COUP DE..." as the Sunny prepares to launch. The cannonfire is closing in: "THE CANNON-FIRE'S GETTING CLOSER TO US!" Chopper panics, "W-WE'RE FLYING, RIGHT? THEN TAKE MR. SHARK OVER HERE, PLEASE..." Jinbe grips the controls and says, "HERE WE GO!" The ship erupts forward with "BURST!" and rockets up from the coast. From below, the enemy reports, "THE ENEMY VESSEL HAS ESCAPED." Another voice asks, "THE SKIES?!" and Amande confirms, "AMANDE HERE." The Sunny escapes into the air, but Luffy has already separated himself from the ship.

On the flying Sunny, Nami suddenly realizes the cost of the maneuver. She shouts, "WAIT!" then asks, "WHERE'S LUFFY?!" A mirror glints nearby, and the answer comes immediately from the enemy side: "MIRROR WORLD." Someone identifies him, "IT'S STRAW HAT!" Luffy has dragged Katakuri through the mirror, leaving the ship behind. In the mirror world, he lands hard in front of Katakuri and Brulee, surrounded by the strange mirrored landscape. He sits up silently while Katakuri stands over him. The crew has escaped the coast, but their captain has locked himself into the enemy's territory to keep Katakuri away from the Sunny.

The chapter closes in the mirror world. The Sunny's side can no longer return through the broken mirror; someone cries, "WAAAGH! THE PASSAGE BACK TO THE SHIP!" Luffy smashes the mirror access behind him, making the separation deliberate and final for now. Katakuri calmly says, "WELL DONE." Luffy answers the danger with confidence: "HERE WE CAN FIGHT ALL WE PLEASE!" The two stare each other down, and the final caption asks, "WHO WILL DECIDE THE FUTURE?!" Luffy has turned the escape into a bargain: the crew gets the ship away from Big Mom, while he remains behind to face Katakuri alone.

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