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Chapter 990: Army of One

Arc: Wano Country · Saga: Four Emperors (Yonko) · Released: 2020-09-13

Summary

A recap montage opens on the dome’s chaos — Big Mom’s tsunami-scale wave, the toppled “sacred tree,” and the cry “KYOSHIROOO!!!” as Orochi realises the yakuza boss “Kyoshiro” was Oden’s vassal Denjiro in disguise. Up on the roof the Nine Red Scabbards keep striking Kaido in his dragon form, with Inuarashi and Nekomamushi joining as the moonlit “Dog” and “Cat.” Inside the Skull Dome, the alliance pushes onto the Performance Floor: King radios the headliners that their power-struggle over capturing Yamato is on hold and the situation has changed; Hawkins names a 1% survival chance for “a certain man.” Ulti and Page One squabble while idolising the escaped Yamato. X Drake breaks away — refusing to talk his way clear of being exposed as the man who let Law escape — and, cornered for torture, attacks the giant Number “Juki” with his Allosaurus “Calibur.” Hyogoro’s yakuza and the Udon prisoners carve a path so the Straw Hats can climb to Kaido; Luffy goes Gear Fourth against a Number that the crew compares to Oars. On the final pages Drake begs Luffy to let him fight at his side — “for reasons I cannot say now, I am an army of one!!” — and Luffy answers with a Gear-Fourth Kong Gun.

New reveals

• X Drake is exposed inside the Beasts Pirates. The headliners reveal they had someone watching when he let Trafalgar Law escape in the Flower Capital (p. 14). Cornered and threatened with torture, Drake refuses to talk, attacks the giant Number with his Allosaurus form, and asks to join Luffy: “I am an army of one.” (pp. 14–17).
• The internal Yamato contest is suspended. Capturing Yamato would have earned the right to challenge a Lead Performer; King declares that “internal power struggle is on hold” given the raid (pp. 7–8).
• Scale of the raid stated: “5,000 intruders upon our feast for 30,000” — the biggest disaster in Onigashima’s history (p. 7).
• Hawkins’s reading: “One percent” — the odds of “a certain man” surviving until tomorrow (p. 7).
• The Numbers are deployed on the Live Floor and explicitly likened to Oars (“If that’s supposed to be like Oars…”, “Why, he looks just like…”, p. 13). One giant Number shouts its name — “Juki.”

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

Appear on-page: Kaido (dragon form, roof) · Kin’emon · Denjiro · Inuarashi · Nekomamushi · Luffy (Gear Fourth) · Zoro · Sanji · Nico Robin · Franky · Brook · Hyogoro · King · Basil Hawkins · Scratchmen Apoo · X Drake · Page One · Ulti · Orochi (recap, p. 2) · the giant Numbers (“Juki”)

Mentioned / referenced (not shown): Big Mom · Yamato · Sasaki (captured) · Queen (Apoo & Hawkins head off to report to Queen, p9) · Trafalgar Law · Babanuki · Oars

Groups / places: Animal Kingdom Pirates · SWORD · Straw Hat Pirates · Akazaya Nine · Onigashima (Skull Dome — Performance / Live Floor) · Wano Country

Notable panels

• Page 1 — Title page. Cover story: “Gang Bege’s Oh My Family, Vol. 34” (“Mama told us our father is a clingy man who never gives up, no matter how many times he’s kicked!!”). Big-lipped Charlotte women shown holding lettered placards (“R U 4 A”).
• Page 2 — Recap/transition: Big Mom’s giant wave devastates the dome and topples the “sacred tree”; Orochi laments that “Kyoshiro” was Oden’s vassal in disguise; fox-masked figures below note the battle and that Kaido is now on the roof.
• Pages 3–5 — The Scabbards strike Kaido’s dragon form on the roof; Kin’emon calls “Dog!! Cat!!” as Inuarashi/Nekomamushi (moonlit Sulong) join the assault (“This one’s ours, Kin’emon!!”).
• Page 6 — Wide shot of the Performance Floor inside the dome; “Tobi Roppo!” summoned.
• Page 7 — King by Den Den Mushi: “5,000 intruders upon our feast for 30,000”; Hawkins’s “One percent.”
• Page 8 — Ulti & Page One (“Pay-pay”) squabble while gushing about Yamato; the Yamato-capture contest is paused.
• Page 9 — Drake leaves the headliners to “kill the man I want to kill”; “We’re going to Queen!!”
• Pages 11–13 — Hyogoro’s yakuza carve a path; the Numbers compared to Oars; Luffy goes Gear Fourth.
• Pages 14–15 — Drake exposed (he let Law escape); threatened with torture; refuses to talk.
• Page 16 — Drake’s Allosaurus attack “Calibur!!!” strikes the Number.
• Page 17 — “Please let me fight on your side!!! …I am an army of one!!”; Luffy answers with Gear-Fourth Kong Gun.

Open questions raised

• Who is the “certain man” with the 1% survival chance Hawkins reads, and does the reading hold?
• Will Luffy accept Drake’s offer, or is the Kong Gun a rejection? (Cliffhanger.)
• What is Drake’s actual objective inside Wano — who is “the man I want to kill”?
• What are the Numbers, and why do they resemble Oars?