#chapter 1050

Bepo in 1046 (also sad that Oda didn’t really show us the core Hearts fighting too much, preferring to make them pretty dependent in words. But Law’s fruit is handy). The anime reinforced this by deleting the crew’s statement that they couldn’t get to Onigashima to fight when Kaidou moved the island, but that’s an aside.

Law and Bepo in 1049. Bepo still not doing great. I thought Law’s expression above was due to the water (which it probably was), but maybe he heard his crew too.

1050: Reunited! Bepo bear hugging law? 

Law piggybacking (not bear backing, no! no! no!) Bepo? 

Bepo having saved Law? Law, Bepo? 

Reunited, regardless. (RIP Shachi and Penguin? They’ll be okay).

AND (1051) Edited June 4:

We get updates on 

Kin’emon, Kiku, Zoro 

(and wondering if Law would be better help for Kin’emon and Kiku, but time to let Chopper shine)

Hiyori and Denjiro (colouring by GREISH for TCB scans).

Zeus and Marco

Apoo, Law, Bepo, Kid, Killer, Denjiro (again), Hiyori (again), Raizou, Kawamatsu, Inuarashi and Nekomamushi... Among others, but

Where’s

Izou? Last seen chapter 1038, facing down Cipher Pol.

(Special shout out to Big Mom and Kaidou falling to the lava depths of the earth [was that in part enabled by shock wille?] and then erupting in a molten underwater volcano. It will look great animated).

But seriously. Hope we see him next chapter.

I haven’t got time to track down sources just now, but I think that Yasu’s vivre card data says that he didn’t eat a SMILE and Oda has said in an SBS that devil fruits can’t be shared—that is, one fruit, one person, even if another person takes a bite of the fruit after the first person. It might work differently for SMILES, but it’s still a good concept if he didn’t get affected by the fruit, that Yasuie decides to act as if he did to help alleviate Toko and Ebisu’s suffering.

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