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Chapter 262: Pirate Chopper vs. Vassal Gedatsu

Arc: Skypiea · Saga: Sky Island · Released:

Summary

The Survival Game continues in Upper Yard: Tony Tony Chopper faces the Kami’s vassal Gedatsu (self-styled “Sky Boss”), who fights with a Swamp Cloud burger (a sap/bog-cloud he can mold and hurl, devastating against ground but neutralized by Chopper’s Milky Dial) and Jet/Lethal-type Dials embedded in his clothes and shoes that give him flight and superhuman punching speed. Gedatsu repeatedly nearly kills Chopper, who survives by switching between his transformations (Brain Point/Scope, Heavy Point, Guard Point, Jumping Point, Arm Point) and — crucially — by moving so erratically that Gedatsu’s Mantra (his future-sight) keeps misreading him. The fight turns when Chopper grabs Gedatsu and steals one of his Jet Dial shoes mid-grapple; Gedatsu, now unbalanced and his Mantra thrown off by his own panic (“I got distracted and let down my Mantra!!”), is caught by Chopper’s Arm Point and a finishing Cloven Cross strike that hammers him into the ruins. Chopper wins. A frightened goat-like Skypiean bystander whom Chopper saved mid-fight watches the upset.

New reveals

• Gedatsu’s combat kit detailed: a Swamp Cloud “Burger” (a sap/Swamp-cloud mass that acts “as light as a cloud and as sticky as a swamp” — the more you fight it the deeper you sink), plus Jet Dials in his clothes/shoes (flight) and Lethal-type Jet Dial punches (“the only drawback is that my clothes get torn up”). (pp. 3–10)
• The Swamp Cloud is countered by Chopper’s Milky Dial (“Effective on swamp clouds… Milky Dial!!”). (p. 4)
• Chopper’s transformation-cycling on display: Scope/Brain Point (sniping a weak point), Heavy Point, Guard Point, Jumping Point, Arm Point, and finisher Cloven Cross. (pp. 12–19)
• Mantra has a hard counter: a sufficiently chaotic, unpredictable fighter blinds the user. Chopper’s flailing terror keeps slipping Gedatsu’s prediction, and when Gedatsu loses composure he loses his Mantra outright (“I got distracted and let down my Mantra!!”, p. 17). (pp. 11–18)
• Gedatsu defeated; Chopper takes the priests’ bracket’s second confirmed Straw-Hat win of the Survival Game. (pp. 17–19)

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

• Tony Tony Chopper — POV combatant; cycles transformations, wins.
• Gedatsu — the Kami’s vassal “Sky Boss”; first sustained fight; defeated.
• Enel — referenced as “the Kami Enel” whom Gedatsu serves (p. 3).
• Wapol — cover story only (final installment).
• Upper Yard / Skypiea — setting (the swamp/ruins zone).
• Unnamed goat-horned Skypiean bystander Chopper saves (“Baa!!”, pp. 8–9) — left unnamed by the chapter; not minted.

Notable panels

• Page 1 (cover): Final installment of the Wapol cover story — “WAPOL’S OMNIVOROUS RAMPAGE, THE FINAL CHAPTER: ‘THE BIG EVIL IS BACK! WAPOL SETS HIS SIGHTS ON THE WORLD’.” Wapol surrounded by “WAPOL”-branded merchandise / “WORLD CHAMPION” imagery — the rags-to-riches toy-magnate B-plot closes with Wapol triumphant.
• Page 3, panels 5–6: Gedatsu names himself: “Heso!! I am ‘Sky Boss’ Gedatsu!!” and “I am a vassal who serves the Kami Enel!!”
• Page 4: “Effective on swamp clouds… Milky Dial!!” — Chopper’s hard counter to the Swamp Cloud.
• Page 10: “Lethal type Jet Dial!!” — Gedatsu’s flight pose with arms spread, Dials in his sleeves; “the only drawback is that my clothes get torn up.”
• Page 17: “Agh! I got distracted and let down my Mantra!!” — the line that codifies Mantra’s weakness.
• Pages 18–19: Chopper’s ”…Cloven Cross!!” finisher (Arm Point) hammers Gedatsu into the ruins; “KRAK!! / BAM!!”
• Page 20: A reader-requested coloring/lineart page (not a color spread): “GET BEFORE YOU! …” lineart by reader “World Champion Mika,” themed “Cricket Visits the Shop.” Decorative reader-submission art only.

Open questions raised

• Does Gedatsu’s defeat (and his self-admitted Mantra lapse) generalize — i.e., is every Mantra user beatable by unpredictability, including Enel himself?
• How many of the four priests remain, and how does each Straw Hat’s matchup map onto the Survival Game’s “four ordeals” structure?