#chapter 1013

...to eat him. Poor little cloud.

Zeus tries to find refuge with Nami (panels above), but he did try to kill her before, so she’s not having any part of it. But we know Nami, I think it would have been so she had the greater bargaining power. 

Finally, Zeus knowing that he was going to die anyway (also above), offers up his life (especially as Big Mom has just taken Tama in the way that she took Brook, as a cute addition to her collection of sentiment beings. This collection includes her children). 

Zeus doesn’t do such a good job, but it is a distraction, and Nami sends some of her thunder balls, are they? Zeus’ favourite snack, his way to help save him. But Mama’s already squeezed his life spirit out of him, and the new homie gobbles hims up.

But it is enough of a distraction, cos’ by now Usopp has Tama thanks to Zeus acting as a decoy, so his sacrifice was not in vain.  Nami and Usopp are hotfooting it out of there with Big Mom zeroing in on them with the super-homie-charged Napoleon.

Big Mom showing how her “compassion” works. Earlier she stated that she hated being deserted (see above). The dangerously childish part of her is portrayed really well. And that intervention from Zeus was also enough for

the contraption above to appear out of nowhere (Law is heading this direction too). And of course it belongs to

the guitar-brand-naming Eustass

Captain Kiiiid! Big Mom shakes her way out of that attack pretty easily (above). More angered than ever, but look how happy Nami is. I think she and Kid could definitely become besties. But she was ready to be besties with Ulti and Big Mom last chapter too! Opportunities to cheat death and injury have that effect.

Meanwhile, up on the roof...

“Luffy falls. What’s going to happen to Wano?” the narrator asks. Kaidou’s words about everyone having blind faith unless he showed them Luffy’s head are good ones, but to answer the narrator’s question, maybe he’ll get picked up by these guys:

This is my hopeful answer to nearly everything, if you haven’t figured that out yet.

Though more likely that Yamato’s gonna find a way to intervene. Got two weeks or more to find out.