#ch 1044

Law gulped heavily, watching as the tiny, oh-so-tiny piece of paper moved weakly across his palm, getting smaller with every second as the edges burned more and more. There was barely anything left. Barely enough to hang onto any hope. “What are you doing?” Law growled, but he could barely hear himself. There was a hum in his ears, a white noise that didn’t mean anything, didn’t serve any purpose but to drive him even more mad. He refused to believe this. The paper had to be lying. There was simply no way, no way that Luffy lost. No way that his life was about to disappear, leaving behind nothing but a few specks of ash.

i'm really so delighted by the fact that luffy has a special gear 5 laugh. it's this あっひゃっひゃっひゃ/ahhyahhyahhya that he only does in gear 5, and he does it every time.

everyone else is giving their cool ass theories about 1044 and what it means for the future of op but i'm just gonna keep making my goofy little memes

joyboy:

And so begins the great fandom debate about ‘does the cloud scarf denote Awakening in Zoans [and insert several arguments about whether Yamato and Kaido are awakened and how they should be given other future characters who are]?’