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Chapter 1173: Warrior Generation

Arc: Elbaf · Saga: Final Saga · Released:

Summary

On Elbaf, three fronts of the Holy Knights’ assault run at once. At Chief Jarul’s position a horde of demon-transformed giant warriors — the Giant (Warrior) Pirates, “flipped” by St. Killingham — charges to “KILL JARUL,” and Zoro, Hajrudin, Stansen and the giants defend the chief while trying not to kill the vaunted warriors they respect; Zoro leaps overhead and cuts the attackers down non-lethally with Secret Art — Three Sword Style: Crossing the Six Paths, though the demonized captains Dorry and Brogy are struck. Along “Branch Route 8,” giants drag the rope-bound Brook to safety when the winged Holy Knight Gunko descends; Brook, staring, insists she is the spitting image of “Princess Shuri” — a father-killing princess he knew fifty years ago who stole the life of “the man to whom I owe everything,” and who loved his music — and Gunko, seized by a returning memory, grips her head, half-says “Brook, I…!!” and her hold on a captive briefly slackens before she rages “Who in the world are you?!” Elsewhere, Killingham’s nightmare-monsters (“sleeptids”) herd captured giant children toward a ship at the port, taunting a bound captive as “Gaban’s son”; the children’s parents and Grandpa Oimo arrive from above, and the young giants — the self-proclaimed “Warrior Generation” — reject a monstrous sleeptid paraded as a “God of Destruction / Nika,” felling it with Gokoku Sovereignty. Its collapsing body smashes down onto the enemies’ port and abduction ship. To be continued.

New reveals

• Princess Shuri — named for the first time (p.8–11). Per Brook, a princess he knew ~50 years ago (would be nearly 80 now if alive), a “father-killing princess” whose crime “stole away the life” of “the man to whom I owe everything.” She had blue hair, mismatched eyes, ties to the Holy Land, and loved Brook’s music. Not shown on-page (referenced only).
• The winged Holy Knight Gunko is Princess Shuri’s near-double — “all of it aligns perfectly” — implying a blood tie or reincarnated-memory link (p.9–11). Gunko is visibly shaken by a surfacing memory on seeing Brook, half-saying “Brook, I…!!” (p.11).
• Gunko exerts a mental/control power over a captive giant that briefly “goes slack” while she is distracted, letting him break free (p.12) — corroborates the Holy Knights’ mind-affecting powers.
• Zoro uses Secret Art — Three Sword Style: Crossing the Six Paths on the demon-transformed giant captains (p.5–6), fighting to subdue not slay respected warriors.
• The demon-transformed captains Dorry and Brogy are among the attackers and are struck (“Captains!! Brogy!! Dorry!!”, p.7).
• Killingham’s “sleeptids” are tasked to keep the giants occupied; one is dressed up as a “God of Destruction / Nika” to terrorize the giant children (p.14).
• The young giants brand themselves the “Warrior Generation” and defeat the fake-Nika sleeptid with Gokoku Sovereignty (p.15–17); its falling body destroys the enemy port and abduction ship (p.17).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

Zoro · Hajrudin · Stansen · Dorry · Brogy · Jarul · Gunko · Brook · Killingham · Goldberg · Collun · Oimo · Olav · Ylva · Ange (referenced — “took off running”) · Nami · Sanji · Usopp · Nico Robin (referenced — “tied up with something else”) · Scopper Gaban (referenced) · Princess Shuri (named, not shown) · Giant Warrior Pirates · New Giant Pirates · Holy Knights · Sun God Nika · Giants · Elbaf · Western Village · Branch Route 8

Notable panels

• p.1 — Title page + reader-request cover illustration: “Usopp, smearing honey on the tip of his nose to lure in rhinoceros beetles” (by Hoshimiya); Usopp and Chopper in a jungle. Standalone reader-request art, not a serial cover-story installment.
• p.2–3 — Battle splash: the demon-transformed giant horde (“KILL JARUL!!!”); an elder giant laments “Dorry and Brogy, what has become of you?”
• p.5–6 — Zoro overhead: “SECRET ART. THREE SWORD STYLE… CROSSING THE SIX PATHS!!”
• p.8 — Gunko’s winged full-figure reveal on the ridgeline; Brook cries “Is that you, Princess Shuri?!!”
• p.9–11 — Brook confronts Gunko; her memory disturbance (“Brook, I…!!”).
• p.14 — A sleeptid paraded as “THE GOD OF DESTRUCTION!!… IT’S NIKA!!!”
• p.15–16 — The “WE’RE THE WARRIOR GENERATION!!!” young giants; “DOUBLE GENERAL… TRIPLE GENERAL…”
• p.16–17 — GOKOKU SOVEREIGNTY!! — the giants fell the sleeptid.
• p.17 — Its body crashes onto the port and the abduction SHIP (“KABLOOSH!!”). To be continued.

Open questions raised

• Who was Princess Shuri, and who was “the man to whom Brook owes everything” that she killed? What is Brook’s pre-Rumbar tie to a “Holy Land” royal?
• Is Gunko literally descended from (or the reincarnated memory of) Princess Shuri — and what surfaced when she said “Brook, I…!!”?
• Are Dorry and Brogy recoverable from the demon transformation, or permanently “flipped”?
• Did destroying the port ship stop the child abduction, or only delay it?