#chapter 1178

Well alright, looks like we scored a quick win and are ready to wrap this one up! Seriously, this is our lull before a second wave and all but we'll get there. I do want to pay attention to this though because it's something that's been floating around and Imuko sorta confirms it. Something with interesting implications. While the shadows we saw were still a mystery, the legends of the Florian Triangle sure seems to be Loki's doing. Prowling on government ships in the murky waters. So yeah how the fuck does Moria fit into that? Like...did they post a Warlord there as a countermeasure? Our timeline is a little weird for all that.

Loki's era on the seas was an eight-year span that ended about four before the series started. We do have one nugget of Moria's timeline. He'd have started working with Hogback after Cindry's death in this stretch of years. And of course it raises questions about why Lola was in Thriller Bark as well. All interesting stuff, but it'd be retreading ground, simple point is yet again we're trying Elbaph to Thriller Bark and Gecko Moria's star keeps quietly rising.

IMU! IMU CAME OUT!

And Luffy had the best reaction when that started:

And then Imu goes straight for the Domi Reversi and:

THESE TWO JUST SHRUG IT OFF?!?!?!?!?

But for some reason Imu isn't surprised??

Okay I assume that's a Gunko-cicle, not an Imu-cicle but WELL DONE LOKI.

WAIT so Chopper isn't killing them with his punches? Or is he just too innocent to see that's what's happening, and Zoro is too much of a dumbass to see the same? Odacchi please clarify.

Biblio the Owl saved the books!! ...now to figure out where owl and books have vanished to.

DEEPLY disturbing immortality. Do not like. Not one bit.

Ooooooooooh Imu's gonna deal with this in person.

MY DARLING BOYS (and Tama)!

The little flashes of how it was all inevitable are so cool! All the threads Odacchi has been weaving together for the past nearly 30 years, all coming into focus...!

Yeah, they're definitely gonna make your ass suffer again, Imu buddy. But why do they want Vivi...? And why the painting of - I assume - Lily??

OH. MECHANICAL HEART. BREAK IT AND THEY DIE...!!

That was unexpected but also - yeah, void century technology/magic...!

Yeeeeeeeeeah, that is very kyaa. Very bad. No good.

WHAT

THE

FUCK

what the fuck

So now Elbaph is the goth version of Whole Cake Island???????????

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HIS POWER IS DEVIL FRUIT

I'm not even that surprised because Imu has been using all the powers and more but. Yeah. OKAY THEN. HIS POWER IS DEVIL FRUIT.

And he's #1 of the 20 who founded the World Government and I think:

King of the World, Nerona Imu

WHAT a character design! WHAT an appearance!

Oh things are HAPPENINNNNNNNNNNG.

"Omen" but written like maki... with the "ma" from "akuma"...!!

STUNNING.

He seems - he has horns like Yamato's? And the outfit is vaguely Elbaph??

Extremely horrifying yes.

Bad bad bad, very bad.

Imu just FLICKS Zoro away?? Mid-attack, too.

EXCEEDINGLY BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The black wings are very Lunarian...?

"Nemesis" - "Heaven's punishing sword"...

And now maki is "power"...!

Hm. HMMM. HMMMMMMMMMM.

OH HI JOYBOY

Who clearly did not agree with Imu's theory of the world delighting in domination...!

Ah. Imu may have won the war, but Joyboy still lives rent free in his head 800 years later, so who's the real winner here?!

Wait up hang on... wait a minute... why does Imu look so pleased to see Nidhögg back...??? (Nidhögg, just like Loki, is very much a harbinger of the end of the world in Norse mythology. Just saying.)

OKAY THAT WAS A WILD RIDE.

I really like how meta this is. "Hey, I'm the main character! The one who gets to do the finisher on the bad guy is supposed to be me!"