The title page reads "Chapter 1040: Falling on Deaf Ears." It continues Germa 66's cold-blooded voyage, volume 4: "A creature that science cannot overcome." The cover-story image shows Big Mom looming in the background while Vinsmoke Niji and Vinsmoke Yonji remain trapped or displayed in Chocolate Town, with Germa 66 imagery tied to the aftermath of Whole Cake Island. This is official cover-story material rather than the live Wano battle, so it is retained as useful extra context.
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The chapter resumes at the current location as Kid's "Damned Punk" continues firing. Big Mom is blasted by the electromagnetic cannon while the recoil and impact tear through the live floor. A caption shouts "Damned Punk unleashed!!" and Big Mom laughs or cries out under the pressure, but she does not vanish from the attack. Kid smirks at the force of his shot, while the battlefield below buckles and cracks. Big Mom, still conscious despite being hammered by Kid's beam and Law's prior attack, snarls, "You damn brats!" The page keeps the focus on the same clash from the previous chapter: Big Mom is being forced downward, but her durability makes it unclear whether even this combined finishing sequence will be enough.
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The crews panic when Big Mom is still not blown away. They shout, "Wha?! She wasn't blown away?!" and "That's not enough to put her down?!" Others see that Kid and Law are already at their limit and yell, "You've gotta be kidding me!! She's taking it!!" Big Mom turns the fear back on everyone with Soul Pocus. She says, "I'll let you choose your fate... When this attack is done tickling me, you can either give me 50 years from your lifespans... Or you can live on as my slaves!!" Her mouth opens wide over the words "Life or... Slave!!" and a fighter realizes, "Crap! She's using Soul Pocus!!" The page shows that Big Mom's threat is not only physical; she is trying to regain control by weaponizing terror itself.
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Big Mom's Soul Pocus reaches the nearby crews, and fighters scream, "Gyaaah!! She's stealing our lifespans too!!" Kid's men yell, "Boss!! Maybe we should fall back!!" and others stare at Big Mom's continuing strength, saying, "What a monster!!" and "She doesn't look like she's anywhere near death's door!!" They beg their captain, "Captain!! We've gotta get outta here!!" but Law tells them, "You guys go ahead." Big Mom's face fills the side of the page as she is still fighting through the cannon blast and the crater. The scene shows why Soul Pocus normally works: everyone around her is afraid enough to lose lifespan, except the two captains who are too committed, angry, or exhausted to give her the fear she needs.
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Kid and Law refuse to be intimidated. Kid asks, "You think the last gasps... of an old windbag scare me?!" while Law activates "R-Room!" and says Big Mom's death screeches are doing his ears in. The crowd realizes, "Their souls aren't coming out!!" and wonders whether Big Mom's power is failing because "She's an Emperor, and they're not scared at all?!" Kid curses her, "Damn Emperor! You just don't know when to quit!! I'm sending you packing straight to hell!!" Misery tries to rescue Big Mom, crying, "Hold on tight, Mama!! I'll save you!!" but Law prepares to handle the homie and says he will do it like the man who saved his life. The page ties Law's silencing move to Corazon's legacy and makes fearlessness the counter to Big Mom's soul theft.
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Law throws a silent room over Big Mom and the battlefield. The attack lands with "Silence!!" and someone realizes, "Huh?! There's no noise!!" Another voice explains, "This technique cancels out every sound you make!!" Big Mom tries to shout, "What the hell?! My voice...!!" but no sound reaches the outside. Her homies call for her, and Misery says, "I can't hear you..." while Big Mom's own "Mama!!" calls are swallowed. Kid, seeing the opening, says, "Have another...!!" and fires "Damned Punk!!" again. The page turns the chapter title into the mechanism of victory: Big Mom's commands, screams, and Soul Pocus are falling on deaf ears because Law has sealed them in silence.
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Big Mom continues falling through the wreckage as Kid's cannon forces her down and Law's silence keeps her from calling for help. Her homies shout "Mama!!" and Big Mom calls, "Prometheus!! Hera!! What are you doing?! Come help me!!" but the silence means her orders do not reach them. In the basement armory, Yamato watches the chaos and asks why the attack did not make any noise. Big Mom crashes past the frozen bombs and rubble, still desperate for her homies to save her, but the scene makes clear that Law has separated her from the sound-based command structure she depends on. She is physically falling and strategically isolated at the same time.
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Yamato realizes that "Nothing I touch makes a sound!!" as Big Mom and the attack pass through the armory. Big Mom pleads for the fall to stop, shouting, "Wahhh!! Stop that!! You'll set off the other bombs!!" The silent impact continues, and the bombs or black explosive masses streak downward while Yamato reacts in alarm. In another corner, Orochi's burning form is still nearby, with voices calling "Orochi..." and "...sama..." The page links two disasters: Big Mom's silent descent through the armory threatens the frozen explosives, and Orochi's fire-driven survival thread remains tangled in the same basement crisis. Law's silence makes the scene eerie because destruction is happening without the expected roar.
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Big Mom falls through the sky and debris while the bombs descend with her. She complains that this is all their fault and coughs as the hole Law carved stretches below Onigashima. In her thoughts, she turns on Roger: "Are you listening, Roger?! Why did you have to go and say all that?!" She rages that the whole world bought into "The Great Pirate Era?!" and says their time was up, so it did not affect them, but all the brats came flooding in looking for their chance to shine and the old generation was left to deal with it. She also asks, "The least you could've done was tell us about the One Piece before you croaked!! It is real, right?!" The page turns her defeat into a generational grievance against Roger's final words.
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Big Mom keeps falling and wonders what the One Piece is and where it is, asking whether this country holds some of the answers. She curses in frustration and then addresses Kid and Law directly: "Kid!! Law!! I'll never forgive you for this...!!" She warns them, "You better not think... this is enough to kill me!!" The explosion below Wano finally erupts, and the live floor battle is declared over. A box announces "Emperor Big Mom vs. The New Generation" and then "Victors: Eustass 'Captain' Kid and 'The Surgeon of Death,' Trafalgar Law!!" The blast and silence leave Big Mom buried below while the official narration confirms the result: one Emperor has been defeated by the two supernova captains.
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Kid and Law stand battered and bleeding as the battlefield realizes what happened. Fighters scream, "They defeated Big Mom!!" and the crowd explodes with shock: "This is huge!! This is really huge!!" Kid's and Law's crews rush toward them, shouting "Captain!!" and "Boss!!" The two victors are still barely conscious, panting after spending everything they had, but the page lets the scale of their achievement land across Onigashima. Big Mom was not simply pushed back or delayed; the live floor witnesses understand that an Emperor has fallen. Their victory shifts the raid's morale and proves that the new generation can genuinely overthrow the old monsters.
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The chapter closes by moving from the live floor victory to Yamato and Momonosuke beneath Onigashima. Yamato greets him, "Oh! Yamato!!" and Momonosuke notices the damage, asking, "Why is there a hole here?! Is that the basement?!" Yamato says she is glad he is okay and explains that one of the bombs just went off, but thankfully she was able to freeze the others before the whole armory blew. Momonosuke tells her he has a lot on his plate and asks her to listen because "Zunesha is... getting pretty close now!!" Yamato is shocked and asks whether he means the elephant Oden mentioned in his journal. Momonosuke confirms that Zunesha committed a serious crime 800 years ago, back when it was Joyboy's companion.
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Discussion
p7Big Mom continues rampage while noting soundless effect.
p7Warning issued about nearby bombs being triggered.
p7Scene shifts to shadowy figures mentioning Orochi.
p8Explosions rip through the battlefield during the scene.
p8A cloaked figure with top hat appears on the page.
p8Past voices reference the Great Pirate Era and Roger's time.
p9Emperor Big Mom battles the new generation near a castle cliff.
p9A colossal explosion erupts from the sea cliff.
p9Kid and Law are shown mid-air during the blast.
p10Citizens react in shock to the massive smoke cloud.
p10Kid and Law are shown screaming in agony and rage.
p10Kid Pirates members react to the outcome of the battle.
p11Yamato holds a kanabo on a rocky outcrop.
p11Momonosuke appears in dragon form near an explosion.
p11Zunesha's leg and face are visible in the scene.
p11A girl with pigtails reacts to Zunesha's appearance.
What is said, page by page
p0Narration introduces Germa 66 volume 4 story about a creature science cannot overcome.
p1Kid shouts at opponents with furious glare after unleashing attack.
p2Kid Pirates report that Big Mom is taking the attack without being blown away.
p2Big Mom offers crew choice between giving lifespan or becoming slaves.
p2Big Mom declares she will let survivors choose fate after attack ends.
p3Pirates scream that Big Mom is stealing their lifespans.
p3Crew member suggests falling back to captain.
p3Big Mom calls opponents monsters while continuing attack.
p3Remaining crew urge others to escape while some stay.
p4Big Mom yells furiously that Kid's death screams annoy her ears.
p4Kid retorts defiantly that an old windbag does not scare him.
p4Kid activates R-Room ability while continuing his taunt.
p4Kid declares he is sending Big Mom straight to hell.
p4Kid calls Big Mom a damn emperor who does not know when to quit.
p4Subordinate shouts to hold on tight while trying to save Big Mom.
p5Kid unleashes Damned Punk attack on Big Mom.
p5Allies react in shock that their voices produce no sound.
p5Technique described as canceling out every sound made.
p5Kid's crew urges him to continue the assault.
p5Crew warns Kid to look out during the attack.
p5Big Mom's ally cries that she cannot hear Mama.
p6Big Mom screams for Prometheus and Hera to help her.
p6Big Mom cries out in pain with MAMA and GYAAH.
p6Observers shout Big Mom's name in alarm.
p6Onlookers question why the explosion made no noise.
p7Big Mom states that nothing she touches makes a sound.
p7Ally desperately warns Big Mom to stop or trigger other bombs.
p7Shadowy figures call out Orochi's name repeatedly.
p7Orochi-related speech fragments appear in dark panels.
p8Samurai-like figure angrily demands information about the One Piece before the listener dies.
p8Voices from the past shout about the Great Pirate Era and how the world was deceived.
p8Cloaked figure with top hat blames Roger for leaving the new generation to handle the aftermath.
p8Furious man yells that he needs water while glaring intensely.
p9Big Mom yells that the country might hold answers and expresses frustration.
p9Law shouts Kid's name while both are caught in the blast.
p9Kid growls that he will never forgive Big Mom.
p10Onlookers shout that the explosion is huge and that Big Mom was defeated.
p10Kid Pirates members desperately call out for their captain and boss.
p11Yamato explains freezing others before the armory blew up.
p11Voices call out to Momonosuke and Yamato after the explosion.
p11Girl questions the hole and references the elephant from Oden's journal.
p11Zunesha states it is getting close and asks to be listened to.
p11Zunesha mentions committing a serious crime 800 years ago as Joyboy's companion.