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Chapter 987: Vassals of Glory

Arc: Wano Country · Saga: Four Emperors (Yonko) · Released: 2020-08-02

Summary

The Nine Red Scabbards’ surprise strike sends Kaido — in dragon form — crashing down through the Skull Dome; their blades, infused with Ryuo (Armament Haki), reopen the very scar Oden once carved into him, and for the first time Kaido screams in pain (“Why do their blades pierce me?! Why does it hurt?!”). The Beasts Pirates realize the “yakuza” they imprisoned in Udon were the real vassals of Oden in disguise, and the party erupts into open war. Elsewhere on the floor Yamato repudiates Kaido outright — “let my father die,” “I’m not on your side anymore” — and trades blows with the Tobi Roppo’s Ulti while vowing this is the day Yamato becomes Kozuki Oden. Big Mom charges Luffy bellowing “Straw Hat!!!”; Nami (with the homie Zeus) zaps her with Eleclaw / Lightning Cloud Rod and flees with Carrot. Kaido lectures Luffy and Kin’emon — recapping Punk Hazard, Zou, and the twenty-year plan — and warns that pirates always betray; Kin’emon answers that Luffy will one day stand at the pinnacle of this sea and that daybreak will come to Wano even if every Scabbard dies. A report names Marco the Phoenix at the entrance with Charlotte Perospero, the former Warlord Law, and the Udon prisoners, all working together; Queen scoffs at “a few hundred men.” Luffy roars that it’s an all-out war and he came to whoop the whole lot of them; Kaido accepts the challenge and, having “sobered up,” carries the fight up to the open Dome Roof — “an open space is best, just like the last time.” There the Scabbards spring their trap: they brought Mink warriors from their kingdom, snow falls “like flower petals” beneath a full moon, and a grinning Mink purrs “the purrfect night… to watch the full moon” as Sulong is primed.

New reveals

• The Scabbards wound Kaido and reopen Oden’s scar. Kaido recognizes the injury: “The scar I got from Oden!!” Their Ryuo-infused blades pierce his hide and make him scream — Beasts crew react in disbelief (“Kaido’s… screaming?!!”). (Pages 3–7)
• Yamato openly defects from Kaido. “Let my father die!!” / “I’m not on your side anymore!!” — Yamato fights Ulti, who demands payback “for what you did to me,” while declaring “This is the day when I become Kozuki Oden at last!!” (Pages 9–10)
• A multi-faction raid is confirmed converging. A Beasts scout reports Marco the Phoenix and Charlotte Perospero at the entrance, the former Warlord Law, and the Udon prisoner-samurai — “they’re all working together… and they just keep coming!!” (Page 15)
• The Scabbards’ open-roof trap. They anticipated Kaido wouldn’t fight in dragon form inside the dome and deliberately drew him to the Dome Roof, recreating Oden’s last stand — “an open space is best.” (Pages 18–19)
• Mink warriors brought from Zou + full moon = Sulong primed. “So we brought many a warrior from our kingdom with us… the snow is light, like flower petals, to watch the full moon… the purrfect night.” (Page 19)
• Luffy declares total war: “It’s an all-out war!!! I came here to whoop the whole lot of you!!!” Kaido accepts. (Pages 14, 16)

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

Kaido (dragon form) · Luffy · Kin’emon · the Akazaya Nine (Nine Red Scabbards, in disguise then revealed) · Yamato · Ulti · Big Mom · Nami (with the homie Zeus) · Carrot (Mink) · Queen · Marco (reported) · Charlotte Perospero (reported) · Trafalgar Law (reported, “former Warlord”) · Nekomamushi · Inuarashi · Kozuki Oden (referenced) · Momonosuke (referenced) · Orochi (referenced) · Animal Kingdom Pirates (Beasts Pirates) · Minks · Onigashima (Performance Floor; Dome Roof) · Wano Country · Zou (referenced)

Notable panels

• Pages 1–2 — Color spread: all ten Straw Hats arrayed with beast/animal motifs, captioned “We’re gonna live like tomorrow doesn’t exist.” Decorative, thematically keyed to the do-or-die raid. (No discrete foreshadow element — kept as a notable panel, not a Color-Spread note.)
• Page 3 — Title page: “Chapter 987: Vassals of Glory.” The struck Kaido recoils; the Scabbards cry “Open Wano’s borders!!!”
• Page 4 — Kin’emon: “My soul will live on!!! They can forget me, for all I care.”
• Pages 6–7 — Kaido bleeds from “the scar I got from Oden!!” and screams as the Scabbards’ Ryuo blades pierce him.
• Page 9 — The Beasts realize the imprisoned “yakuza” from Udon were Oden’s true vassals in disguise.
• Pages 9–10 — Yamato vs Ulti; Yamato: “Let my father die!! …I’m not on your side anymore!!”
• Page 11 — Big Mom: “Straw Haaaat!!!”; Nami’s Zeus Eleclaw / Lightning Cloud Rod blasts her as she and Carrot flee.
• Page 14 — Luffy at the “Performance Floor”: “It’s an all-out war!!! I came here to whoop the whole lot of you!!!”
• Page 15 — Report: Marco the Phoenix + Charlotte Perospero at the entrance, plus Law and the Udon prisoners, all allied.
• Page 18 — Label “Dome Roof, Onigashima”; Kaido carries the fight up to the open roof, “just like the last time.”
• Page 19 — Snow “like flower petals,” the full moon, and a grinning Mink: “the purrfect night…” — Sulong primed. (“Next chapter hits Aug. 23!”)

Open questions raised

• Will the full moon trigger a controlled Sulong transformation in the Mink warriors on the Dome Roof?
• How badly is Kaido actually wounded — is the reopened Oden scar a real vulnerability or merely a shock?
• Yamato has openly broken with Kaido and beaten/fought Ulti — will Yamato now fight alongside the alliance?
• Can Marco, Perospero, Law, and the prisoner-samurai hold the entrance against the full Beasts–Big Mom force?