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Chapter 1090: Kizaru

Arc: Egghead · Saga: Final Saga · Released: 2023-11-19

Summary

Inside the besieged Labophase of Egghead, Luffy grabs a transponder snail and broadcasts a clumsy bluff to the Marine fleet ringing the island — “If you value York’s life, move all your ships away from the shore!! We have Dr. Vegapunk!!” — over Robin’s objection that “information is a weapon.” The Five Elders, listening in, are unmoved: Saturn names the three things the WG must retain on Egghead — York’s safety, the Punk Records brain, and the power plant that creates the MOTHER FLAME — and declares “everything else is disposable,” dismissing even Lucci’s trapped CP0 group and calling human lives “nothing more than insects.” The captive York screams that hurting her will burn the island “just like Ohara.” Below, the Vegapunk side regroups: two satellites (Shaka and Pythagoras) are dead, Edison survives, and the rogue Seraphim (including the Hancock-model S-Snake) have been caged in Pacifista Mk. III “bubble shields” made of a sea-energy material — “the perfect weapon for trapping power-users.” Luffy begs S-Snake — “Hey, Hancock!!” — to undo the petrification of his friends, and she complies, an anomaly the staff note “shouldn’t be part of her programming.” The crew settles on an escape plan: ride the Sunny out on the flying Vegaforce-1 within Egghead’s airspace, then Coup de Burst the final kilometer past the blockade — but they must first deactivate the Frontier Dome, whose code Lucci refuses to give. Their heading: Elbaf, the Isle of Giants, where the log pose needle from Wano points. Topside, the Five Elders order Kizaru to break the laser dome; Saturn tells him to “leap over” his old friend Sentomaru, who is defending Vegapunk below. Kizaru descends via “Sacred Yata Mirror,” Sentomaru rallies fifty Pacifistas to “eliminate all hostiles,” and the two collide — Sentomaru declaring “My defense… is the world’s greatest!!!” — as Zoro senses “someone strong” and a “light from below.”

New reveals

• The Five Elders’ three Egghead priorities (Saturn, p. 3): York’s safety, the Punk Records brain, and “the power plant that creates the MOTHER FLAME” — “everything else is disposable.” First on-page utterance of the term “Mother Flame.”
• Two Vegapunk satellites are dead — Shaka and Pythagoras (“Two Vegapunks dead,” p. 5); Edison is confirmed still alive.
• The Pacifista Mk. III “bubble shields” incorporate sea energy into their material (like sea-prism stone), “making it the perfect weapon for trapping power-users” — now caging the captured Seraphim.
• S-Snake obeys Luffy. At Luffy’s plea (“Hey, Hancock!!”), the Hancock-model Seraphim undoes the petrification of his friends; the staff flag it as off-spec — “Strange. That shouldn’t be part of her programming.” Bloodline elements carry the model’s personality.
• Next destination: Elbaf, the Isle of Giants. The one steady log pose needle the crew kept from Wano points northeast to Elbaf (pp. 10-11).
• Escape plan: the flying Vegaforce-1 carries the Sunny over the Navy’s blockade but can only fly in Egghead’s airspace; the Sunny then Coup de Bursts the last kilometer. The Frontier Dome must be deactivated first — Lucci refuses the code (“my brain isn’t synched… you won’t get it from me”).
• Rob Lucci fed the WG everything from inside (“He sent all the information I wanted to know… a very capable agent”); the Five Elders order Kizaru to breach the dome, Saturn telling him to “leap over” Sentomaru rather than fight him.
• Kizaru engages Sentomaru. Kizaru arrives by “Sacred Yata Mirror”; Sentomaru commands ~50 Pacifistas to “eliminate all hostiles” and meets Kizaru with “My defense is the world’s greatest.”

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

• Shown (Vegapunk side): Luffy (transponder-snail bluff; begs S-Snake), Nico Robin (“information is a weapon”), Nami (navigator; plots the Elbaf heading), Tony Tony Chopper (“Are you feeling okay, Robin?”), Zoro (senses “someone strong” / “light from below,” p. 17), Lilith, Edison (alive), Stussy (“Welcome back, Miss Stussy!”; reports ~100 ships / ~30,000 men), Vegapunk (as “Stella,” via comms), S-Snake (caged; releases the petrified)
• Shown (WG side): the Five Elders / St. Jaygarcia Saturn (names the three priorities; orders Kizaru in), Kizaru (descends via Sacred Yata Mirror; attacks Sentomaru), Sentomaru (defends Vegapunk; commands ~50 Pacifistas)
• Captive / freed: York (threatens the Ohara Buster Call), Rob Lucci (un-petrified; refuses the dome code; “very capable agent”), the rogue Seraphim in Mk. III bubbles
• Referenced / off-page: Shaka (dead), Pythagoras (dead), Sanji (praised “a good cook AND a good fighter”; freed from petrification), Kaku (CP0, with Lucci), Hancock (S-Snake’s model — Luffy’s “Hey, Hancock!!”), Morgans / World Economic Journal (“Really, Luffy?!”)
• Locations: Egghead (Labophase; “Labophase Basement / B1”), Elbaf (heading), Ohara (referenced), Wano (log-pose needle, referenced)
• Concepts / fruits / tech: Punk Records, Mother Flame, Frontier Dome, Vegaforce-1 (flying robot), Thousand Sunny (Coup de Burst), Pacifista (Mk. III bubble shields), Seraphim, Sea-Prism Stone (sea energy), Bloodline Elements, Mero Mero no Mi (S-Snake’s Love-Love), Pika Pika no Mi (Kizaru / “Sacred Yata Mirror”), Six Powers (Rokushiki), Sea Beast Weapons, Den Den Mushi, Log Pose

Notable panels

• Page 1 — Title page (B&W). Reader-request illustration: “A black cat and Kuro quietly reading” by Tomokiya — Captain Kuro of the Black Cat Pirates reads in a window seat flanked by two black cats, a crescent moon behind him. A one-off reader-request illustration, not a serialized cover-story installment.
• Page 2 — Luffy seizes the snail and broadcasts: “Hello?! This is Monkey D. Luffy!!! If you value York’s life, move all your ships away from the shore!!! We have Dr. Vegapunk!!!”
• Page 3 — The Five Elders listen; Saturn states the three priorities — York’s safety, the Punk Records brain, the power plant that creates the MOTHER FLAME — “everything else is disposable.”
• Page 4 — Saturn: “Think of human lives as nothing more than insects.” Bottom: York’s Buster-Call threat — “this whole island will go up in smoke!! Just like Ohara!!”
• Page 6-7 — The caged Seraphim: the Pacifista Mk. III bubble’s sea-energy material is “the perfect weapon for trapping power-users.”
• Page 8 — Luffy begs S-Snake (“Hey, Hancock!!”) to undo the petrification; she complies — “that shouldn’t be part of her programming.”
• Pages 10-11 — Elbaf set as the heading (“El-baaaph?!!” · “The Isle of Giants at last!!”); the Wano log-pose needle points northeast; the Vegaforce-1 + Coup de Burst escape is worked out.
• Page 16 — Kizaru arrives in a flash — “GLINT!!” · “Sacred Yata Mirror.” Sentomaru: “You’re finally here… old man.”
• Page 17 — Kizaru: “Here I go… Sento-maru!!” → Sentomaru: “My defense… is the world’s greatest!!!” Zoro: “Someone’s here!! Someone strong!!” · “Light from below?!” “To be continued.”

Open questions raised

• What exactly is the Mother Flame, and what is the power plant on Egghead that “creates” it?
• Will the crew get the Sunny onto the Vegaforce-1 and Coup de Burst past the blockade before the Frontier Dome drops or the Marines attack?
• Will Kizaru truly fight Sentomaru — his “old man” / friend — to breach the dome, or hold back?
• What becomes of the captive York and the un-petrified Lucci inside the dome?
• How deep does the Seraphim’s bloodline-personality inheritance run, now that S-Snake answers to Luffy like the real Hancock?