Chapter 1136: The Land That Awaits the Sun

Arc: Elbaf · Saga: Final Saga · Released:

Summary

The Straw Hats are guests at a giants’ feast in the Sun World of Elbaf, where Luffy devours moose, Usopp boasts of “finishing off” the legendary warrior Oars, and Sanji revels among the colorful giantesses. Talk turns to the Sun God Nika: the elder chief Jarul explains the Harley, Elbaf’s ancient, no-longer-translatable religious text, which says the world has been destroyed twice before and that Nika appears whenever the world is about to undergo “a great transformation.” the giants recount the cursed history of Prince Loki (over Chief Jarul’s sympathetic defense): prophesied by King Harald to kill his own father, Loki slew the royal Lucky Horse as a newborn, terrorized the giants from the Underworld, and finally murdered Harald and stabbed Jarul in the head. The crew reveals their real reason for the feast — getting the giants drunk to lift a treasure from the castle (and to humor Nami). Meanwhile, in the Underworld, the chained Loki rejects the Holy Knights’ offer of knighthood; Gunko and a cloaked partner threaten his wolf and seal his fate, and Loki vows to feed on his rage and bring the world to ruin.

New reveals

• The Harley (The Harley) — Elbaf’s ancient religious text, so old that no one can translate it anymore, hence its “many interpretations.” It is closely tied to the Sun God Nika in every reading, and states the world has twice been destroyed in the past (p. 6).
• Nika cosmology expanded: he appears “when the world is about to undergo a great transformation”; interpretations call him a god of laughter / destruction / liberation; he wears white clouds, white hair and clothes, and jolly laughter; “the great and mighty of the day always fear Nika’s arrival,” while “those without hope seek him the most” (pp. 6-7). Luffy privately connects this to what Bonney told him and to why everyone says he reminds them of Nika.
• Prince Loki’s full backstory (pp. 8-11): “the accursed prince.” King Harald prophesied before Loki’s birth that he would be killed by his own son. As a newborn Loki killed the royal family’s Lucky Horse; at age ten he tamed and unleashed the Underworld’s vicious beasts on villages; his pranks (arson, devastation) terrorized the giants; finally he killed Harald in his own castle and stabbed Chief Jarul in the head (Jarul’s helmet “didn’t do anything” — he survived).
• King Harald (King Harald) — the late, “kind and radiant,” “greatest king in Elbaf history,” who tried to connect warlike Elbaf with the outside world. The queen died a year after giving birth to Loki.
• Timeline link: the year Loki was born (and the queen died) was the same year Linlin killed the legendary warrior Chief Jorul (p. 9) — pinning Loki’s birth-era to Big Mom’s childhood Elbaf rampage.
• Shanks caught Loki rampaging at sea “about six years ago” (p. 10). Loki, now imprisoned, has been telling Usopp he knows where Shanks is in exchange for freedom — which Nami warns is manipulation.
• The feast is a heist cover: the crew got the giants “properly hammered” to take a treasure from the castle; Nami is the navigator brought along for the job (pp. 12-13).
• Holy Knight Gunko debuts and, with a cloaked partner, descends to the Underworld to recruit-or-erase Loki. Loki refuses their “most noble knighthood,” likening them to Celestial Dragons; they threaten his wolf; Loki vows to “bring the world to ruin” (pp. 14-17).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Mentions / appearances

• Straw Hats: Luffy, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Brook
• Elbaf giants (present): Jarul (Chief, elder narrator), Gerd, Rodo, Hajrudin (provided the moose, with Stansen)
• Elbaf giants (referenced / historical): Prince Loki (chained, Underworld), King Harald (dead), Jorul (legendary warrior, killed by Linlin), the late Queen (unnamed)
• Holy Knights: Gunko + a cloaked, unnamed partner (with Loki’s wolf)
• Referenced: Charlotte Linlin, Shanks, Jewelry Bonney, Oars
• Lore: The Harley, Sun God Nika, Holy Knights, Giants
• Cover serial: “Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 22 — ‘A Mysterious Base Deep in Udon’” (Yamato)

Notable panels

• Page 1 — Title splash + cover serial: Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage Vol. 22 (B&W; no color spread this chapter).
• Page 2 — Luffy gorging on moose at the giants’ feast in the “Sun World”; “the Underworld is Elbaf” misconception lore.
• Pages 6-7 — The Harley exposition + Nika cosmology (god of laughter/destruction/liberation; world destroyed twice; herald of transformation). Lore-dense. The dancing-Nika legend depiction (p. 7: white clouds, blade held over the shoulder, taiko drum) re-installs the Nika dancing-figure mythic-image grammar — its 6th on-page render, here the Elbaf giants’ own depiction.
• Pages 8-11 — Loki’s cursed backstory montage (the prophecy, the Lucky Horse, the Underworld beasts, the murder of Harald, the stabbing of Jarul).
• Page 13 — The heist reveal: the feast was cover to drain the castle’s treasure; “So that’s why you’re here, Nami.”
• Page 15 — Splash: “HOLY KNIGHT GUNKO” full-body reveal (cap + goggles, double-breasted coat, heeled boots, spinning ring weapon). Major new-faction member debut. Fires the villain label-splash grammar (full-figure on the vertical axis + DOOM!! black-shard SFX + HOLY KNIGHT / GUNKO name-card) — Gunko’s first solo firing, escalated into the paired Shamrock+Gunko coronation in Ch. 1137.
• Pages 16-17 — Gunko’s star/arrow projectiles strike Loki’s wolf; Loki’s defiant close-up vow to “bring the world to ruin.” Cliffhanger.

Open questions raised

• What are the two past world-destructions the Harley records, and is the Void Century one of them? Is a third cataclysm coming?
• What is the “giant crow” the Holy Knights’ Elbaf agents saw before going dark?
• Will the crew free Loki, and is his Shanks intel real or a trap?
• Who is Gunko’s cloaked partner, and what does it mean that the Holy Knights consider Loki worth either knighting or erasing?
• What treasure is in Harald’s castle, and how does it connect to Elbaf’s deeper history?