#chapter 1067

How did we show this with Oden in everyday human terms? Severing a sibling bond by dragging Izo out to sea carelessly. Now here we have our current time-distorted girl bitter with Vegapunk over the same, subbing a father for a big brother. Soecifically with that "heartless" weapon framing. Yes, the grander ambitions matter. But the damage caused in their wake does too. This is a really good lesson for a Shonen series at this point in the journey. Luffy differing from Vegapunk & Oden on the same lines. Oden’s privilege and strength, Vegapunk’s intellect, neither had to work for them the same way Luffy has had to struggle to be great.

It's not like I needed this to say as much, but now that we have a decent chunk of Egghead yes, it is shaping up very much to serve as that soft "Act 4" of a Kishotenketsu plot. And like we hypothesized, feels bang on for internally having that structure itself. This chapter and the past couple feel a lot like my initial guess for part 2, Sho. We've set our pieces in a way that had a lot of potential for keeping Wano's core threads alive and now they're being developed in a way that makes it explicit. Tying in well with another part of this chapter of course.

Don't think I've ever been so glad to see Rob Lucci. And of course Hattori has a mask! Love it. Almost as much as how this all ties together. Pretty much instantly. Vega mentions the weakness of splitting himself, we see it on display with Lilith being willing to turn the pirates over.

There's something else I've noticed over the past two chapters by the way, something more explicit than I figured we'd be at this point.