#chapter 1040

I think she’s out for the count for this particular battle, and probably for the rest of Wano, but you can’t keep a good woman down. And so it seems that Kid and Law have more strength than Germa 66 or than Niji and Yonji, although we don’t know the whole circumstances of their capture (see the cover below).

Seems that Big Mom isn’t keen on wiping out the Vinsmokes any more, and would rather keep them pinned like butterflies.

Makes you wonder what kind of slaves she would’ve made Law and Kid if she’d won, if that came about, and the 50 years she threatens to take of their lives is the same amount she took of Pedro’s, I think.

She took all of Zepo’s lifespan, because he only had 30 years left to live (it’s via Mama’s roulette wheel, and it’s a bit complicated, so best to read Zepo’s and Pedro’s wikis if you’re curious). Zepo was Bepo’s brother, so it’s probably just as well that Bepo doesn’t seem to be an onlooker here. 

AND Kid’s attacks 

by their nature

are bigger than him, so we don’t get so many cool shots of him in action, but more so of his devices (which are also very cool). 

There are so many side by side shots of Kid and Law, with their dialogue more levelled at Big Mom than one another (I think), and the back in forth is great.  These chapters animated should be golden. 

The battle ends, not surprisingly, like this:

with Kid and Law’s crews and the Marys (I think) declaring victory.

Love that equal time and respect is given to each crew. and that we get to see all these new faces.

What do you think? Devo vs Scissor Sisters? 

And surprisingly in the final scene, or second to final is Law sitting there on a rock (see two panels above) which is a fairly common pose for him by now. I think the nodachi might play into it). And Kid is perhaps slumped back, but the picture quality is too bad too determine. 

It is just that Law was about to be pulverised last week (two seconds ago in the battle) after he lost stamina from using the puncture/shock wille move and 

From chapter 1039 (above).

his crew were warning of imminent death, but they were worried this week too. Both crews were.

The R.Room doesn’t look as if Law would have to exert as much energy (but he’s gotta keep it in place until Big Mom crashes into the ocean, right? Cora keeps his ‘room’ active until Law survives. Law keeps his active until Big Mom is defeated. Maybe. Just musing).

Orochi told Kanjuro that the crypts of the Kurozumi were buried at the bottom of the castle?

(Chapter 1030), and so he drew Kazenbo

I think there’s going to be something about the current form of Kazenbo (below discovering that there are no crypts, no bodies, no bones

that brings us back to this stage of Kanjuro from chapter 974:

Where better for Kanjuro, or the dark ink (Kurozumi means dark charcoal, but sumi is often made from lamp soot) of his soul, to bury his bones than the burial crypt of the Kurozumi at the bottom of the castle on Onigashima? Kanjuro’s one wish since the trauma of his childhood has been to find a place to die, and look at the wording.

This is gonna come back and bite Orochi on the ass (also, def gonna get up a small meta on this. Sorry if it will be repetitive).