Ch. 1144Animal Transformation

Imu regenerated after Vic kicked her head apart, then unleashed her full power and transformed into a gigantic Human-Beast Form. Vic prepared to face her as the watching pirates and emperors reacted to her enormous size.

  • Vic deliberately waited for Imu to regenerate after kicking her head apart, hoping to provoke her into revealing her strength.
  • Imu regenerated and, furious at Vic's humiliation, vowed to destroy his soul and began a true battle.
  • Imu transformed into a towering, armored beast as Vic retreated to a shattered cliff and watched her with Observation Haki.
  • Imu reshaped herself into an enormous Human-Beast Form, and Vic questioned whether growing larger was wise.
  • Big Mom compared Imu's size with Kaido's Human-Beast Form and mocked how small Kaido looked beside her.

Ch. 1145A Long-Awaited Transformation

Imu completed her enormous, full-power transformation and prepared to face Vic, while the fighters around them reacted to the display and continued their own battles. The chapter ended with Vic calmly confronting Imu as the final battle was about to begin.

  • Law stared at Imu's transformation, and Katakuri suggested that Devil Fruit Awakening might not be the ultimate limit.
  • Garp recognized Imu's aura from the battle at God Valley, while Garling urged Shanks to surrender and Shamrock brooded over his defeat.
  • Shanks rejected Garling's offer and demanded to be killed if the enemy won rather than live without freedom or hope.
  • Rebecca, Uta, Barat, and Wendy expressed their confidence in Vic as they faced their own opponents and watched the enormous shadow nearby.
  • Imu completed her eighty-meter battle form, raised her claws, and threatened to make Vic's bones an offering to her loneliness.
  • Vic faced Imu with his sword in hand as the battlefield fell silent before their final confrontation.

Ch. 1146The Might of a Single Strike

Imu revealed her monstrous Human-Beast Form and demonstrated the power of her Law artifact by splitting the sky, land, and sea with a single strike. As the battlefield faltered in fear, Vic urged his allies to keep fighting while he prepared to face her.

  • Imu transformed into an eighty-meter-tall scaled beast and summoned her hundred-meter demonic trident.
  • Imu lashed her spiked tail into the earth, carving a trench through the valley.
  • Imu swung her trident once, opening an abyss through the land and sea and cutting a rift through the sky.
  • The battlefield fell silent, and Hawk-Eye, Kuina, and Zoro recognized the overwhelming reach of Imu's attack.
  • Vic shouted for his allies to ignore Imu's display and give everything they had to killing the other enemies.

Ch. 1147Counterattack

Vic counterattacked Imu with a slash that tore through space and sent her flying off the island, lifting his allies’ morale and shaking her followers’ confidence. As the battle continued, Big Mom, Hawk-Eye, Kaido, and Red-Hair each reflected on Vic’s strength and what it meant for the war.

  • Vic unleashed a slash that tore open space, and Imu blocked it with the Devil Trident before being hurled through a mountain and off the island.
  • Vic’s allies celebrated his power and regained hope, while Imu’s subordinates reacted with worry, awe, and defiant loyalty.
  • Big Mom felt relieved that Katakuri had stopped her from fighting Vic, while Hawk-Eye wondered what higher realm of swordsmanship Vic and Imu had reached.
  • Kaido reflected that sparing Vic as a young navy soldier had been the right choice and believed Vic might help overthrow the World Government.
  • Red-Hair acknowledged that even with his restored arm, he remained far weaker than Vic and Imu, and planned to ask Vic about his power if their side won.

Ch. 1148The Core Battlefield

Vic faced Imu after demonstrating his mastery of spatial swordsmanship, while Zoro and other observers reflected on Vic’s strength and the World Government’s past. Imu returned in her gigantic lizard form and struck Vic into a crater, where he calmly blocked her attack with Blood Wither.

  • Zoro recalled Koshiro’s advice and realized the vast gulf between his swordsmanship and Vic’s.
  • Law sensed a connection between Vic’s Space Slash and the spatial abilities of his Op-Op Fruit.
  • Kizaru, Akainu, Fujitora, Sengoku, and Dragon considered Vic’s role in confronting Imu and changing the world.
  • Imu flew back to the battlefield, landed with enough force to shake the island, and swung her Devil Trident at Vic.
  • Vic was driven into a crater but blocked Imu’s blow with Blood Wither.

Ch. 1149A Contest of Strength

Vic and transformed Imu fought a contest of strength and speed without using Haki or Laws, and Vic wounded her with a precise two-sword attack. Imu’s immortal body healed the deep cuts almost immediately, leaving Vic unsure how he could defeat her.

  • Imu’s trident overwhelmed Vic in midair, but his Armament Haki shield absorbed the force when he crashed into the ground.
  • Vic drew his second sword, Allen, and used his Two-Sword Style to meet Imu’s next trident thrust head-on.
  • Vic matched Imu’s immense strength, knocked her trident aside, and used Geppo to attack her neck with both swords.
  • Imu blocked Vic’s swords, but he curled into a spinning attack that carved two deep wounds across her body and leg.
  • Imu’s wounds healed before Vic could follow up, and he recognized that her immortal body made her difficult to defeat.

Ch. 1150The Second Battlefield

Loki returned to the battlefield and killed a retired Five Elders member, while Garp crushed a primordial demon with his Haki. Kuina rejected an offer of long life from an Elder and prepared to finish him off.

  • Loki realized he was not the person Rocks had spoken of and returned to fight the Five Elders and God's Knights.
  • Loki killed a retired member of the Five Elders with a blow from Iron Thunder.
  • Garp used Galaxy Impact to shatter a primordial demon's Haki armor and destroy its head.
  • A wounded Elder offered Kuina a position among the Holy Knights and a chance at eternal youth if she joined Imu's side.
  • Kuina refused the Elder's offer and said she only wanted to cut him down.

Ch. 1151Meeting an Old Enemy Again

Kuina killed a retired member of the Five Elders and went to aid Nami against Gunko while Dragon fought Maffey, his old enemy from God Valley. Dragon and Maffey traded blows and revealed their opposing views on strength and justice as their battle continued.

  • Kuina killed the retired elder with a single sword strike, then headed toward Gunko to help Nami, who was struggling without lightning.
  • Dragon and Maffey fought fiercely, each driven by decades-old resentment stemming from the God Valley Incident and Shamrock's abduction.
  • Maffey recalled how Dragon had been a weak Marine recruit at God Valley and expressed regret that she had not killed him then.
  • Dragon said Maffey's cruelty had driven him to grow stronger so he could overthrow the World Government's darkness and restore freedom.
  • Maffey rejected Dragon's ideals, arguing that strength justified doing whatever one pleased, and prepared to charge him.

Ch. 1152Ripping Out the Horn

Dragon challenged Maffey’s account of history and defeated her attacks by using the Law of Wind to evade and reflect them. He tore the horn from her head, leaving Maffey alive but screaming in agony as the battle continued around them.

  • Dragon questioned Maffey’s claim that the victors wrote history, pointing to the Poneglyphs and the war’s connection to the conflict from 800 years ago.
  • Maffey attacked Dragon with a rapid sword technique, but he dodged her blades and broke the attack with an Armament Haki strike.
  • Maffey fired a crimson beam from her horn, and Dragon’s defensive wind redirected it through her shoulder.
  • Maffey followed with a purple lightning strike, but Dragon dodged it and announced he would rip off her horn.
  • Dragon grabbed Maffey’s horn with his Haki-coated hand and tore it from her head, leaving her alive and in intense pain.

Ch. 1153Fighting Side by Side

Dragon killed Maffey with her own horn and rushed to aid his allies. Elsewhere, Big Mom and Kaido struggled to damage Yeti, whose petrified body withstood their attacks and left him unharmed by Big Mom’s fire and lightning.

  • Dragon drove his horn through Maffey’s heart, killing her and ending his third fight against an immortal Celestial Dragon powerhouse.
  • Dragon confirmed Maffey was dead, sensed his allies’ auras with Observation Haki, and hurried toward another battle.
  • Big Mom and Kaido teamed up against Yeti, whose petrified body was too hard for Kaido’s Thunder Bagua to crack.
  • Big Mom struck Yeti with Heavenly Fire Thunder, but he emerged unhurt and mocked their attacks.

Ch. 1154Invincible Defense

Kaido and Big Mom attacked Yeti, whose petrified body endured their blows and whose grip trapped Napoleon. Kaido discovered that Yeti could merge with the island to strengthen himself and that his stone ability was beginning to petrify Kaido’s arm.

  • Kaido dispersed Yeti’s Haki attack with a punch, while Yeti caught Big Mom’s flaming Napoleon in his other hand.
  • Kaido struck Yeti with Ragnarok, knocking him away from Napoleon and into Imu’s leg; Imu kicked him back onto the battlefield.
  • Yeti threatened Kaido and Big Mom, but Kaido charged and found that Yeti’s feet had merged with the island, anchoring him in place.
  • Yeti counterattacked and sent Kaido rolling across the ground, then left bluish-gray stone spreading over the arm Kaido had used to block.

Ch. 1155Hakai: The Deadly Finisher

Kaido and Big Mom joined forces to unleash Hakai against Yeti, whose Assimilation ability had made him a dangerous opponent. The attack left a vast crater and no trace of Yeti, and the exhausted pair began recovering while remaining on guard.

  • Kaido broke the stone covering his forearm with Haki, while the fragments failed to damage Yeti’s petrified skin.
  • Kaido asked Big Mom to combine their strength, and she agreed to use Hakai with him.
  • Kaido and Big Mom unleashed Hakai, and Yeti fled as the destructive attack pursued him.
  • The attack struck Yeti and left a huge crater, but no body or aura remained.
  • Kaido concluded that Yeti was dead, and Big Mom told them to recover without lowering their guard.

Ch. 1156The Might of the Iron Fist

Garp battled Saint Shepherd Ju Peter and a primordial devil, refusing to accept the World Government’s claim that it had spared him at God Valley. After Ju Peter launched a lightning-fast attack, Garp prepared a powerful counterstrike.

  • Ju Peter joined Garp’s fight against a primordial devil and attacked him with a stream of corrosive black wind.
  • Garp drove back the black wind with the force of his punch and rejected Ju Peter’s claim that the World Government had shown him mercy at God Valley.
  • The primordial devil attacked Garp with its claws, but Garp dodged while reflecting on why he had stayed in the Marines after God Valley.
  • Ju Peter condemned Garp’s defiance and charged at him with his worm body, combining Armament Haki and Conqueror’s Haki.
  • Garp blocked Ju Peter’s charge with his palm, then braced the creature’s head and raised a Haki-coated fist for a counterattack.

Ch. 1157Frail as a Reed

Garp defeated Ju Peter and the primordial devil with overwhelming punches, then killed Ju Peter after fear left him unable to recover. The battle shifted to Bullet, who faced a God's Knight transformed into an enormous prehistoric rhinoceros.

  • Garp crushed Ju Peter's head with Fist Bone: Star Shatter and sent him crashing into the ground.
  • Garp met the charging primordial devil in midair and punched through its skull, heart, and dantian, killing it.
  • Ju Peter watched the primordial devil die, lost his will to fight, and was killed by Garp with a punch to the head.
  • Garp left the devastated battlefield and headed toward another fight.
  • Bullet watched the deer-head-masked God's Knight transform into a giant rhinoceros and focused on its horn as a potential weapon.

Ch. 1158The Secret of a Race

Bullet fought the transformed deer-headed man, then learned that his homeland, Galzburg, had been subjected to endless wars by the World Government because its people had sided with Joy Boy 800 years earlier. The deer-headed man revealed that Bullet belonged to the Evil Oni Tribe and that his strength showed his bloodline had reached full mastery.

  • The deer-headed man charged Bullet, who used the rhinoceros horn as a pivot to flip him onto his back and mocked him.
  • The deer-headed man asked whether Bullet came from Galzburg, also known as the Endless War Country, and Bullet's expression changed at the name.
  • The deer-headed man revealed that a plan had targeted Galzburg because its ancestors, a special race, had fought alongside Joy Boy and lost.
  • Bullet concluded that the World Government had caused the wars that tormented his homeland, and the deer-headed man confirmed it.
  • The deer-headed man identified Bullet's people as the Oni and said Bullet's imposing build and strength marked him as an Evil Oni whose bloodline power had reached full mastery.

Ch. 1159The Power of a Single Punch

Bullet learned that the World Government had orchestrated Galzburg’s destruction and redirected his hatred toward them. He killed the deer-headed Celestial Dragon after defeating his rhino form and overpowering his strongest form in a clash of Haki.

  • The deer-headed man revealed that the World Government had schemed to destroy Galzburg and had pursued Bullet after he fled.
  • Bullet thanked the deer-headed man for telling him the truth and challenged him to take his strongest form before dying.
  • The deer-headed man insulted Bullet and transformed into a towering, armored warrior wielding a death scythe.
  • Bullet and the deer-headed man clashed with their Haki-infused attacks, and Bullet’s fist shattered the scythe and crushed the man’s head.
  • The deer-headed man’s headless body fell to the ground as Bullet stood over him.

Ch. 1160My Name Is Shura

Bullet killed the deer-headed man with a single punch after learning the truth enraged him, then turned his hatred toward a more distant target. Elsewhere, Aokiji and Zoro confronted Shura, whose poison gas Aokiji had frozen, and Zoro’s taunt about Shura’s height provoked a threat of a gruesome death.

  • Bullet killed the deer-headed man by smashing through the Death Scythe with one punch.
  • Bullet’s hatred surged as he fixed his gaze on a more distant target.
  • Aokiji froze Shura’s illusion poison in an iceberg before it could reach Zoro.
  • Shura praised Aokiji’s ability but dismissed Zoro as insignificant.
  • Zoro mocked Shura for being short, and Shura threatened to kill him in the cruelest way possible.

Ch. 1161Utterly Deranged

Zoro and Aokiji faced Shura, whose poisonous mist corroded Zoro’s Haki-imbued sword slash and threatened to overwhelm them. As the mist pursued them, both fighters armored themselves with Haki and ice to test whether they could withstand its effects.

  • Zoro attacked Shura with a Conqueror’s Haki-infused Two-Sword Style: 72 Pound Phoenix, but Shura’s poisonous mist devoured most of its force.
  • Aokiji identified the mist’s corrosive properties, and Shura claimed it could cover the valley and kill everyone inside.
  • Aokiji challenged Shura to pit his ice against the poison, while worrying that Zoro’s fighting style depended on Haki.
  • Shura sent waves of poisonous mist after Zoro and Aokiji, who retreated before deciding to hold their ground near the other battles.
  • Zoro covered his body in Armament Haki, and Aokiji formed translucent ice armor over himself.

Ch. 1162Surging Poison Waves

Aokiji and Zoro fought Shura inside his poisonous mist, landing devastating attacks that his regeneration quickly healed. Shura then unleashed Surging Poison Waves, flooding the battlefield with stronger poison and forcing Aokiji and Zoro to retreat as they realized they had to stop him quickly.

  • The poisonous mist engulfed Aokiji and Zoro, but their defenses kept it from spreading toward their allies.
  • Zoro used Two-Sword Style: Rashomon to slash Shura, and Aokiji pierced him with a poison-filled ice spear, but Shura regenerated both wounds.
  • Aokiji noted that Shura’s internal green poison could corrode ice, while Zoro insisted they could still defeat him.
  • Shura unleashed Surging Poison Waves, flooding the ground and air with stronger poison.
  • Aokiji and Zoro leaped back from the advancing poison, and Aokiji urged them to take Shura down quickly.

Ch. 1163Poison of the Mind

Aokiji and Zoro were caught in Shura’s illusion-inducing poison, which attacked their bodies and minds. Aokiji broke free and froze Zoro’s poisoned arm to stop the toxin spreading, but the two still had no cure for the venom.

  • Aokiji froze Shura and the poison wave while Zoro charged in and struck the ice sculpture with Lion’s Song.
  • Aokiji realized the apparent victory and his attempt to drain poisoned blood had been an illusion, while Shura was gripping his arm and poisoning Zoro.
  • Aokiji froze Zoro with Ice Age to halt the poison’s spread, then sent cold into his mind to wake him.
  • Aokiji freed Zoro from the ice shell but kept his poisoned arm frozen, and told him to cut into it so he could remove the contaminated blood.
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