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Chapter 1123: The Void Fortnight

Arc: Egghead · Saga: Final Saga · Released:

Summary

The Thousand Sunny breaks free of Egghead amid the giants’ Viking fleet, the Marine besiegers all knocked cold; Luffy in his Nika form thanks the reawakened Iron Giant as the crew and Dorry & Brogy set sail for Elbaf (p.2–4). Sanji, unsettled by something Vegapunk said, frames a long flashback: the “Void Fortnight,” the two weeks before the raid. Two weeks ago, Shaka detects a hidden abnormality — the power-plant numbers were forged and the Seraphim’s energy draw is creeping up: someone has siphoned off the Mother Flame (p.6). Only a Vegapunk could have faked the data so perfectly; the satellites go on “stealth mode” so the culprit won’t know. One week ago, Pythagoras cracks it from the infiltration cam-snails and a wiretapped White Transponder Snail: the thief is York, who controlled the sea-beast weapons, faked Punk Records with dummy memories, and transmitted to Marijoa that “Dr. Vegapunk is studying the Void Century” (p.7–8). Six days ago, Lulusia vanishes — Vegapunk blames himself (“I should never have tried to isolate greed from the human mind”), declaring the WG now wields an ancient weapon fed by the Mother Flame (p.9). Rather than flee, Stella resolves to die at Egghead, which has the facilities Ohara lacked 22 years ago to “maximize the reach of my voice” (p.10–11). Two days ago, he records his confession into a transponder snail hidden inside York’s giant machine, set to transmit on his death; the satellites then erase their own memories of the whole fortnight, leaving a handwritten note so they’ll act out the pre-laid countermeasure they no longer recall (p.13–16). Back in the present, Sanji begs Vegapunk not to throw his life away while the giants toast the Straw Hats becoming “the ones who get” the One Piece — onward to Elbaf (p.17).

New reveals

• The two weeks before the Egghead raid were a covert satellite investigation, the “Void Fortnight” (chapter title; the term is Vegapunk’s own).
• York is the traitor confirmed in-flashback: she siphoned the Mother Flame, handed it to the World Government, controlled the sea-beast weapons, faked the cam-snail footage and synced dummy memories into Punk Records, and wiretapped a White Transponder Snail to leak to Marijoa that Vegapunk is studying the Void Century (p.7–8).
• York is the satellite into whom Stella tried to “isolate greed from the human mind” — her betrayal is framed as that experiment’s failure (p.9, “this is all my fault”).
• Vegapunk is “certain the World Government is in possession of an ancient weapon” and that the Mother Flame York handed over powered the strike that erased Lulusia — but he “cannot go public with it” (p.9).
• The satellites used the Memory Mass Testing Lab to erase their own memories of the Void Fortnight so the culprit wouldn’t know they were onto her; Vegapunk left a handwritten note (“there is now a Void Fortnight, but it was done of your own volition”) and a pre-laid countermeasure (p.14–16).
• Vegapunk chose death over flight: Egghead has facilities Ohara lacked 22 years ago to broadcast his voice worldwide, and dying anywhere else “would be to die in vain” (p.10–11).
• The death-triggered transponder snail was hidden inside York’s giant Mother-Flame test machine — the mechanism behind the posthumous broadcast (p.13).
• Egghead’s Cloud Plant produces island clouds that “might be the foundation of humanity’s survival” — one thing the satellites “cannot afford to lose” (p.12).
• The reawakened Iron Giant (Emet) covered the escape; a giant (Dorry & Brogy’s Elbaf crew) notes the haki/aura that flattened the Marine besiegers was “even stronger than Red-Hair’s” yet carried “no hostility” (p.3).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

• Characters: Luffy (Nika form), Sanji, Nami, Jewelry Bonney (mentioned), Vegapunk (Stella), York, Shaka (Punk-01), Pythagoras (Punk-04), Edison (Punk-03), Lilith (Punk-02, mentioned/cleared), Atlas (Punk-05), Dorry, Brogy, Iron Giant Emet, Kizaru (mentioned), St. Jaygarcia Saturn (mentioned)
• Groups / crews: Giant Warrior Pirates, Vegapunk Satellites, Cipher Pol 6 (mentioned), the Marines/giants blockade
• Locations: Egghead, Elbaf (destination, not yet reached), Mariejois (as “Marijoa”, transmission target), Kingdom of Lulusia (mentioned, destroyed), Ohara (mentioned)
• World-building / objects: Mother Flame, Seraphim, Sea Beast Weapons, Punk Records, White Transponder Snail, the Cloud Plant / island clouds, the Memory Mass Testing Lab, Void Century, an ancient weapon, Thousand Sunny
• Referenced: Red-Hair (haki comparison)

Notable panels

• p.1 — Title page + cover story: “Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 11: Sentenced to Eat Oden with the Person They Hate” (Yamato cover series).
• p.3 — Luffy (Nika form) runs thanking the “Giant Robo”; the giants marvel the aura was “stronger than Red-Hair’s” with “no hostility.”
• p.4 — “SET SAIL TO ELBAPH!!!!” Dorry & Brogy grin and rally the giants.
• p.5 — The Thousand Sunny dwarfed beside the giants’ colossal Viking ship on a cresting wave; Sanji frames the flashback. Visual mirror: restages the Ch. 128 Little Garden departure splash (Going Merry a speck against the Island Eater) with the same giants Dorry & Brogy → Going Merry Sails Past Sleeping Island-Eater.
• p.6 — “TWO WEEKS AGO, EGGHEAD”: Shaka reveals the Mother Flame was siphoned.
• p.7 — Pythagoras names the culprit: “IT’S YORK!!!”
• p.8 — York’s leak to Marijoa: “DR. VEGAPUNK IS STUDYING THE VOID CENTURY.”
• p.12 — York atop the giant Mother-Flame test machine; the Cloud Plant reveal.
• p.13 — Vegapunk records the death-triggered broadcast snail hidden inside the machine.
• p.15–16 — The handwritten note: “there is now a Void Fortnight, but it was done of your own volition.”
• p.17 — The giants’ toast; “Onward to Elbaph!! Onward to my dream!!”

Open questions raised

• Where exactly did York take the Mother Flame and what does she ultimately want from the World Government?
• What is the “perfect countermeasure” Vegapunk says he already laid before his death — beyond the broadcast?
• Which ancient weapon does the WG possess, and was the Lulusia strike its first on-page use?
• What “other memories” did the satellites sacrifice when they erased the Void Fortnight?
• Whose voice is the present-day “Vegapunk” Sanji is pleading with on the Sunny, given Stella’s death at Egghead?