- Chapter 1,048: "the beginning of the end".
- In the cover, the mysterious characters are still silhouetted and chocolat town is in shambles, someone is contacting Oven and compote.
- Chapter begins with orochi and Hiyori, there's some dialogue about how Hiyori has suffered through Kaido and orochi's tyranny.
- Denjiro appears with caribou, pulling the ame no habikiri out of caribou and throwing it to Hiyori.
- In an amazing doublespread Denjiro and Hiyori perform a combination attack on orochi, there's a few panels of Denjiro and Hiyori flashback
- the scene cuts to zoro and Franky, Enma starts vibrating to Franky's surprise and Zoro starts to awaken, on the same page a few of the other Strawhats have some dialogue with each other.
- back to Luffy vs Kaido, as Luffy's punch closes in on Kaido, Kaido closes his eyes and begins to remember his life
- in another amazing double spread (possibly the best one so far) we see young Kaido being recruited by rocks. young big mom, shiki and whitebeard are all present
- rocks: "come! I need a strong apprentice"
-break next week
Sorry no dialogue yet, wait for lance
