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Chapter 893: Flampe, 36th Daughter of Charlotte

Arc: Whole Cake Island · Saga: Four Emperors (Yonko) · Released: 2018-01-15

Summary

Inside Mirro-World, the Luffy–Katakuri duel is being secretly tilted: Charlotte Flampe, the 36th daughter of Charlotte and Katakuri’s self-proclaimed #1 fan, has been blowing “silent” numbing needles into Luffy from a hidden vantage, then crowing to her entourage that she alone “turned the tide of battle.” Katakuri pieces it together — Luffy’s focus faltered for an instant because of Flampe’s blowgun, and that was the only reason his belly-gouging blow landed — and is disgusted: “Do you really think I want to win that way?!” Flampe, full of herself, brags that she is Katakuri’s favorite sibling. Katakuri silences her by stabbing his own leg to even the handicap and then deliberately baring his hidden mouth — a fanged, ear-to-ear maw — telling the jeering crowd that if they will laugh at Luffy they must laugh at him too. Flampe, horrified by the face she once idolized, recoils and calls her brother a monster, vowing to photograph the “hideous face” and shame him across Totto Land. Both fighters, fed up, simultaneously erupt with Conqueror’s Haki, flattening the spectators. Katakuri concedes he no longer assumes Luffy is beneath him; Luffy grins, “That’s great! Thanks — but I’m still going to win!”

New reveals

• Charlotte Flampe — 36th daughter of Charlotte, named in this chapter’s title (first appeared Ch. 891); a fanatical Katakuri “fan-club” superfan who has been secretly interfering in the duel with a long-range “silent” numbing-needle blowgun, targeting Luffy (pp. 3–9).
• Katakuri’s hidden face — beneath his ever-present scarf is a wide mouth full of sharp fangs that runs to his ears (“pelican-eel” mouth), the secret he has hidden his whole life out of shame (pp. 11–13).
• Katakuri’s code of honor — he self-inflicts a leg wound and exposes his own shameful mouth rather than accept a tainted, interference-assisted victory: “When two men are fighting… the last thing I need is half-hearted assistance!!” (pp. 11–12, 15).
• Both Luffy and Katakuri wield Conqueror’s Haki — they release it together to knock out the spectators; the Big Mom crowd notes the King’s-disposition aura coming “from the monkey too?!” (pp. 15–16).
• Katakuri acknowledges Luffy as an equal — “I no longer assume that you are inferior to me” (p. 17).
• Luffy is beginning to glimpse a moment into the future during the standoff (“I think I saw it!” / “Maybe that was my imagination…”), nascent advanced Observation Haki (p. 6).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

• Characters: Luffy, Charlotte Katakuri, Charlotte Flampe (recurring — first appeared Ch. 891), Leo (cover)
• Groups / families: Charlotte, Big Mom Pirates (Katakuri fan-club spectators)
• Locations: Mirro-World, Whole Cake Island, Totto Land (referenced)
• Concepts: Haki (Conqueror’s / advanced Observation)
• Techniques named: Anémone (Katakuri mochi technique, p. 5); Flampe’s Silent Needle / silent blowgun and numbing needle (pp. 7–9)

Notable panels

• Page 1 — Title page + cover. Cover story “The Saga of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Fleet, Vol. 25” featuring Leo of the Tontatta on the heart-and-mushroom “Usoland Pirate ship”: “We’re sailing on da Usoland piwate ship.” (Deferred to cover-tracker.)
• Page 11 — Katakuri stabs his own leg to handicap himself; blood splatters onto Flampe.
• Page 12 — Full-panel reveal of Katakuri’s fanged, ear-to-ear mouth: “If you’re going to laugh at that idiot… then laugh at me too!!!”
• Pages 15–16 — Twin Conqueror’s-Haki burst from Luffy and Katakuri drops the entire spectator gallery.
• Page 17 — Katakuri: “I no longer assume that you are inferior to me.” / Luffy: “But I’m still going to win!!!” (chapter-closing equal-footing beat).

Open questions raised

• Why does Katakuri hide his mouth — what childhood backstory produced the shame?
• Can Luffy actually develop reliable future-sight Observation Haki in time to beat Katakuri?
• Will Flampe’s threat to broadcast Katakuri’s face across Totto Land go anywhere?
• Does winning “honorably” cost Katakuri the fight he had effectively already won?