Ogre-Child-Yamatos-Golden-Harvest-Surrogate-Pilgrimage

Per-chapter log

Captions recorded verbatim from the printed title-page strip.

• Ch. 1110 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 2: “I want to travel throughout Wano!! Like Oden did!!” — Yamato and Momonosuke together in Wano; Yamato declares the intent that frames the whole serial: to travel all of Wano the way Kozuki Oden once did. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1112 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 3: “You can have that parting gift, Yamato, as long as you do something for me” — Yamato joyfully holds up a paper beside a stern, topknotted man in a striped kimono (unnamed on-page), who bargains a “parting gift” in exchange for an errand — the surrogate/proxy-errand premise of the pilgrimage made literal: Yamato is dispatched to do something on the man’s behalf. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1114 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 4: “Go enshrine this sword at Hakumai’senma Shrine in Yasuie’s stead” — Yamato (thumbs-up) stands beside a Wano elder over a pilgrimage map marked “START”; the errand is now spelled out — Yamato is charged to enshrine a sword at Hakumai’senma Shrine in the stead of Yasuie (the late Shimotsuki Yasuie, unlinked — no note yet). The “surrogate” (proxy/代参) premise becomes concrete: Yamato sets off on the pilgrimage proper, doing the observance on a deceased Wano figure’s behalf. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1115 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 5: “Hiyori and Otoko are packing me a bento lunch!” — Yamato in a Wano kitchen with Kozuki Hiyori and Toko (“Otoko”), who pack a bento lunch to provision Yamato for the pilgrimage set up in Vol. 4. A quiet provisioning beat before the road proper — the Kozuki household sending Yamato off with food for the journey. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1116 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 6: “Otsuru Gave Me Medicine and Dumplings” — Yamato in Wano with Otsuru amid Flower-Capital crowds; the teahouse proprietress (Otsuru of Okobore Town / the Flower Capital) sends Yamato off with medicine and dumplings — another provisioning beat as the pilgrimage proper gets underway. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1117 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 7: “I’ll Pay My Respects to the Code of the Yakuza Before I Go!!!” — Yamato in Wano beside a horned serpent-creature, with an old yakuza boss seated at lower left (unnamed on-page — no note). Before setting out on the pilgrimage road, Yamato resolves to pay respects to the code of the yakuza — a Wano-honor observance threading the Hyogoro / ninkyo (chivalrous-yakuza) ethos through the surrogate journey. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1118 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 8: “The Journey Begins!!!” — Yamato leads a procession out of the village, setting off on the surrogate pilgrimage proper. After the run of provisioning and respect- paying beats (Vols. 4-7 — the Yasuie-stead sword errand, the bento from Hiyori & Otoko, Otsuru’s medicine and dumplings, the yakuza-code observance), the road journey itself now begins. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1119 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 9: “Kibi — Pelted With Rocks By Children Who Hate Kaido” — Yamato stands in Wano amid stone spires while small figures pelt rocks at the lower right. The first leg of the road journey reaches the Kibi region, where children — too young to know Yamato as anything but Kaido’s offspring (the “Ogre Child”) — hurl stones out of inherited hatred for the late Beasts-Pirates Emperor. A bittersweet beat: the surrogate pilgrim is greeted not as Oden’s heir but as the tyrant’s child, the country’s lingering Kaido-trauma rebounding onto Yamato as the journey proper begins. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1120 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 10: “Denjiro, Daimyo of Kibi, Sentences the Children!!” — Yamato with Denjiro and the children of Kibi. A direct continuation of Vol. 9: Denjiro — now the Daimyo of Kibi (a Red-Scabbard installed as regional lord in Wano’s reconstruction) — passes (playful) “sentence” on the youngsters who pelted Yamato with rocks for being Kaido’s child. The comeuppance beat resolving Vol. 9’s stoning: local authority steps in on the surrogate pilgrim’s behalf, gently correcting the children’s inherited Kaido-hatred. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1123 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 11: “Sentenced to Eat Oden with the Person They Hate” — the payoff of the Kibi sentencing arc (Vols. 9-10): Denjiro’s ruling is now spelled out — the rock-throwing children are sentenced to eat oden with the person they hate, i.e. Yamato, the “Ogre Child” they pelted for being Kaido’s offspring. A reconciliation beat playing on the oden wordplay — the dish that shares its name with Kozuki Oden — turning the children’s inherited Kaido-hatred into a forced communal meal of Oden’s signature dish, shared with Kaido’s child. (Chapter note records the verbatim title-strip caption only; panel art not described on-page.) (p. 1)
• (Vols. 11–14 — the installments between Ch. 1120 and Ch. 1127 — are logged by their own cover-tracker runs; some intervening chapters carry no installment. MERGE in ascending order when reached; do not reconstruct from outside knowledge — §Forward guards.)
• Ch. 1124 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 12: “Preventing an Abduction on the Road to Kuri” — Yamato on the road to Kuri (Kozuki Oden’s old daimyo domain), stepping in to foil a kidnapping en route. The pilgrimage pushes on toward Kuri; a heroics-on-the-road beat — and the earliest hook of the Kuri-kidnappings / abduction motif the serial keeps returning to (cf. Vol. 14 @1126’s missing soba-shop girls and Vol. 15 @1127’s kidnappings weighing on Dogstorm, Daimyo of Kuri). (B&W title page, p. 1)
• Ch. 1125 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 13: “The Rebuilding of Oden Castle & Foreman Minatomo’s Disappearance” — Yamato oversees Wano carpenters raising the timbers of the rebuilt Oden Castle, while a “MISSING” poster flags the disappearance of the Flower-Capital carpenter foreman Minatomo. The pilgrimage turns to the literal reconstruction of Oden’s seat — Yamato shepherding the rebuild of the castle of the lord whose will he carries — the foreman’s vanishing seeding the installment’s errand. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1126 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 14: “The Girls from the Soba Shop in Kuri Have Gone Missing” — Yamato eats soba at a soba shop in Kuri as the caption reports that the shop’s girls have gone missing. The pilgrimage’s Kuri leg (cf. Vol. 13’s foreman Minatomo disappearance @1125) deepens a local abduction / “gone missing” motif — townsfolk keep vanishing around Kuri as Yamato passes through — seeding the kidnapping trouble that Vol. 15 (@1127) lays at the feet of Dogstorm, Daimyo of Kuri. An internal Wano side-mystery, with no on-page crossover into the main Elbaf storyline. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1127 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 15: “The Kidnappings Weigh Heavily on Dogstorm, Daimyo of Kuri.” — A bearded, straw-hatted elder sits seaside with horned Yamato beside him, amid Wano cloud motifs. The elder is Dogstorm, captioned as the Daimyo of Kuri (the Mokomo-Dukedom mink installed as a regional lord in Wano’s reconstruction). Yamato’s pilgrimage has reached Kuri, and the caption introduces a fresh local trouble — a string of kidnappings that weigh on Dogstorm. A worry-beat surfacing a kidnapping sub-thread on the surrogate route. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1129 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 16: “Ninja Training at Amigasa Village” — Yamato takes up ninja training at Amigasa Village in Kuri (the poor mountain village — canonically O-Tama’s home). The chapter note records only the verbatim title-strip caption (no cover-panel art described). The surrogate pilgrimage continues its Kuri leg (cf. Vol. 15’s seaside visit with Dogstorm, Daimyo of Kuri, Ch. 1127) — a light Wano-culture observance threaded through the journey. (@1128 carried a full-color reader-request spread with no serial installment, so the serial skips Vol. 15 @1127 → Vol. 16 @1129.) (p. 1)
• Ch. 1130 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 17: “Sword Got Stolen During Naptime.” — Yamato on the Kuri leg of the pilgrimage. The “Vol. N” counter skips from Vol. 15 (@1127) to Vol. 17 here — Vol. 16 airs on an intervening chapter’s title page and is logged by its own cover-tracker run (MERGE ascending). Comedic misfortune strikes the core errand: while Yamato naps, the sword is stolen — apparently the very blade entrusted to Yamato back in Vol. 4 (Ch. 1114) to enshrine at Hakumai’senma Shrine in Yasuie’s stead, the proxy-errand that frames the whole pilgrimage. The theft dovetails with the Kuri-region disappearance/kidnapping motif building across Vols. 13–15 (foreman Minatomo “MISSING” @1125; the kidnappings weighing on Dogstorm, Daimyo of Kuri, @1127) — a possible hook tying the stolen enshrinement-sword to the same Kuri trouble. (Title-page caption recorded verbatim; the cover art itself is not in the processed page set, so panel composition is not described.) (p. 1)
• Ch. 1131 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 18: “After that sword thief!!” — Yamato gives chase astride a komainu / lion-dog beast, a woman cradling a child and a second woman in flight/leap alongside. The pilgrimage tips into a chase set-piece: a sword thief has made off with a blade and Yamato pursues. Plausibly the very sword Yamato set out to enshrine at Hakumai’senma Shrine in Yasuie’s stead (Vol. 4 @1114) — the errand that anchors the whole journey — though the caption names neither the sword nor the thief, so the link stays inference, not assertion. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1132 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 19: “Udon Castle under reconstruction at the quarry.” — Yamato at the Udon quarry (the former prison-mine / excavation-labor camp of Wano), where Udon Castle is being rebuilt. The pilgrimage’s reconstruction motif continues — after shepherding the rebuild of Oden Castle (Vol. 13 @1125), the surrogate journey now reaches Udon, the country’s rebuilding extending to the old labor-camp region. Picks the thread back up at a fixed locale after the Vol. 18 (@1131) sword-thief chase. (p. 1)

• Ch. 1133 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 20: “Holden Attacks! Drop Your Valuables!!” — A horned ogre-bandit named Holden (unlinked — no note yet) and his beast mount waylay Yamato’s traveling party on the pilgrimage road, demanding they hand over their valuables; Momonosuke(?) throws his hands up. The journey meets its first overt highway-robbery threat — a bandit-ambush beat that extends the serial’s running lawlessness / “gone missing” motif (cf. the Kuri soba-shop girls missing Vol. 14 @1126, foreman Minatomo’s disappearance Vol. 13 @1125, the kidnappings weighing on Dogstorm Vol. 15 @1127, and the naptime sword theft Vol. 17 @1130). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — no on-page crossover into the main Elbaf storyline. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1135 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 21: “I’m Different Now!!” — title-page caption recorded verbatim; the chapter note lists the cover serial without describing the installment’s panel art (p. 1), so the scene and the speaker of the line are not on-page. Runs directly off Vol. 20’s roadside ambush by the bandit Holden (Ch. 1133) — Ch. 1134 carried a full-color summer splash with no serial installment, so the serial steps Vol. 20 @1133 → Vol. 21 @1135. “I’m Different Now!!” plausibly continues the Holden encounter as a reform / turnabout beat (the bandit, or a held-up traveler, declaring a change of heart), but 1135’s note names neither speaker nor scene, so the read stays inference, not assertion (§Forward guards). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — no on-page crossover into the main Elbaf storyline. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1136 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 22: “A Mysterious Base Deep in Udon” — title-page caption recorded verbatim; the chapter note logs the cover serial as a B&W title splash (no color spread this chapter) without describing the installment’s panel art (p. 1), so the base and who occupies it are not shown on-page. The pilgrimage returns to Udon — the locale of Vol. 19 (@1132, “Udon Castle under reconstruction at the quarry”) — and surfaces a fresh intrigue: a mysterious base hidden deep in Udon. This is the setup half of a two-installment beat: Vol. 23 (Ch. 1137, “Infiltrate the Sketchy Hideout!!”) then has Yamato’s party penetrate that base in disguise. Whether the base is the source of the serial’s running disappearance / abduction motif (the Kuri kidnappings, the Holden banditry Vol. 20 @1133, the stolen enshrinement-sword Vol. 17 @1130) is not stated on the page, so the link stays inference, not assertion (§Forward guards). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — no on-page crossover into the main Elbaf storyline. (p. 1)
• Ch. 1137 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 23: “Infiltrate the Sketchy Hideout!!” — the cover panel shows two oni-kimono figures (one is horned Yamato, the “Ogre Child”; the second oni-masked/oni-robed figure is unnamed on-page) with a girl peeking from the side — a covert-infiltration tableau. The “Vol. N” counter steps from Vol. 21 (@1133→@1135) to Vol. 23 here; Vol. 22 (Ch. 1136) — whose own chapter note records the verbatim caption “A Mysterious Base Deep in Udon” — airs in between and is logged by its own cover-tracker run (MERGE ascending). Read together, the two captions read as a single beat: Vol. 22 locates a mysterious base deep in Udon and Vol. 23 has Yamato’s party infiltrate that “sketchy hideout” in disguise. This sharpens the serial’s running disappearance / abduction motif — the missing soba-shop girls of Kuri (Vol. 14 @1126), foreman Minatomo’s vanishing (Vol. 13 @1125), the kidnappings weighing on Dogstorm (Vol. 15 @1127), and the roadside banditry of Holden (Vol. 20 @1133) — into a concrete lead: a hidden Udon base the pilgrimage now moves to penetrate. Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf “Introducing Shamrock” beat, with no on-page crossover between the two. (Chapter note records the verbatim title-strip caption and the cover-panel composition; p. 1.)
• Ch. 1138 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 24: “It was Who’s-Who all along!!!” — the cover panel shows Yamato among geisha at a cat-themed teahouse (a banner reads 猫 “cat”); no color spread this chapter. The payoff of the Vol. 22-23 infiltration beat: the occupant of the “Mysterious Base Deep in Udon” (Vol. 22 Ch. 1136) / the “Sketchy Hideout” Yamato’s party infiltrated in disguise (Vol. 23 Ch. 1137) is revealed to be Who’s-Who — the ex-Tobiroppo of the Beasts Pirates (a Cat-Cat Fruit, Model: Saber-Toothed Tiger user, which the cat-teahouse motif and the 猫 banner play on). Consecutive with Vol. 23 @1137. This lands the serial’s running disappearance / abduction / hidden-lair motif — the missing soba-shop girls of Kuri (Vol. 14 @1126), foreman Minatomo’s vanishing (Vol. 13 @1125), the kidnappings weighing on Dogstorm (Vol. 15 @1127), Holden’s banditry (Vol. 20 @1133) — on a named culprit occupying the Udon base. Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf “The Harley” beat, with no on-page crossover between the two. (Chapter note records the verbatim title-strip caption and the cover-panel composition; p. 1.)
• Ch. 1139 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 25: “We Captured a Rebellious Duo” — the B&W title-page panel shows horned Yamato (the “Ogre Child”) holding a long bō staff across two captured figures — one perched on a sunflower cloud, one dark/shadowed — beneath a recurring “猫” (cat) placard. Consecutive with Vol. 24 (Ch. 1138): where Vol. 24 revealed the occupant of the Udon “sketchy hideout” to be Who’s-Who (the ex-Beasts-Pirates Tobiroppo), Vol. 25 is the capture / apprehension beat — Yamato has taken a “rebellious duo” prisoner, closing out the serial’s Udon-base infiltration arc (Vols. 22-24) and the running disappearance / abduction / hidden-lair motif (missing soba-shop girls of Kuri Vol. 14 @1126; foreman Minatomo’s vanishing Vol. 13 @1125; the kidnappings weighing on Dogstorm Vol. 15 @1127; Holden’s banditry Vol. 20 @1133). The 猫 (cat) placard recurs from Vol. 24’s cat-themed teahouse (@1138), plausibly nodding to Who’s-Who’s Cat-Cat Fruit, Model Saber-Toothed Tiger — but the caption names neither captive, so the identity of the “duo” stays inference, not assertion (§Forward guards). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Aurust-Castle / Scopper Gaban (“Mountain-Eater”) reveal, with no on-page crossover between the two. (B&W title page, p. 1)

• Ch. 1140 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 26: “Ulti: If anything happens to Pay-Pay, I’ll hunt you to the depths of hell and beat you to death” — the cover panel poses horned Yamato (“Ogre Child”) before a dartboard hung with swords, with oni figures below. The captioned line is a threat voiced by Ulti — the ex-Tobiroppo brawler of the Beasts Pirates — vowing to hunt her target “to the depths of hell” and beat them to death should any harm come to “Pay-Pay,” her established pet name for her younger brother Page One (Page One is not shown on-page, and the addressee of the threat is left unspecified in the caption — §Forward guards). The “Vol. N” counter steps from Vol. 24 (@1138) to Vol. 26 here; Vol. 25 (Ch. 1139) airs on the intervening title page and is logged by its own cover-tracker run (MERGE ascending). The installment folds surviving Beasts-Pirates faces into the Wano pilgrimage — a comedic sibling-protectiveness beat one installment after Vol. 24 (@1138) revealed the Udon-hideout occupant as the ex-Tobiroppo Who’s-Who — and keeps the serial’s running sword motif alive in the dartboard-of-blades tableau (cf. the Yasuie-stead enshrinement sword of Vol. 4 @1114 and the naptime sword theft of Vol. 17 @1130). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf “Scopper Gaban” reveal, with no on-page crossover between the two. (B&W title page, p. 1)
• (Vols. 27–30 — the installments between Ch. 1140 and Ch. 1146 — are logged by their own cover-tracker runs; some intervening chapters may carry no installment. MERGE in ascending order when reached; do not reconstruct from outside knowledge — §Forward guards.)
• Ch. 1146 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 31: “I’ll never forget the debt I owe you!! I’ll be your follower for life!!” — the B&W title-page panel shows horned Yamato (the “Ogre Child”) flanked by two horned women (unnamed on-page); one pledges lifelong devotion — “I’ll never forget the debt I owe you!! I’ll be your follower for life!!” — apparently in gratitude for aid Yamato rendered somewhere on the surrogate pilgrimage. A grateful-debt / new-follower beat: the journey keeps accruing goodwill (and would-be companions) as Yamato retraces Kozuki Oden’s footsteps across Wano. The “Vol. N” counter has jumped from Vol. 24 (Ch. 1138) to Vol. 31 here — Vols. 25-30 aired on intervening title pages (@1139-1145) and are logged by their own cover-tracker runs (MERGE ascending). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf Holy-Knights assault (Gunko abducting the giant children; Saul shielding Robin & Chopper in an Ohara mirror), with no on-page crossover between the two. (B&W title page, p. 1)
• Ch. 1141 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 27: “Can’t see through the tears of anger.” — a rare open-combat beat for the normally light- comedic serial: horned Yamato (the “Ogre Child”), sword drawn, charges a knot of horned, kimono-clad foes (unnamed on-page) who bay “KILL!!” The “Vol. N” counter jumps from Vol. 24 (Ch. 1138, the Who’s-Who reveal) to Vol. 27 here; Vols. 25-26 aired on the intervening title pages (@1139-1140) and are logged by their own cover-tracker runs (MERGE ascending). The caption’s “tears of anger” and the drawn blade escalate the Udon-hideout raid that peaked with Who’s-Who’s unmasking (Vol. 24 Ch. 1138) — the pilgrimage’s long-running disappearance / abduction / hidden-lair motif (missing soba-shop girls of Kuri Vol. 14 @1126, foreman Minatomo’s vanishing Vol. 13 @1125, the kidnappings weighing on Dogstorm Vol. 15 @1127, Holden’s banditry Vol. 20 @1133) tipping into open violence. Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf Loki-in-the-Underworld beat, with no on-page crossover between the two. (Cover serial on the title page; p. 1.)

• Ch. 1142 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 28: “Give Back the Sword and Girls! Thunder Bagua!” — a B&W title splash: a tentacle-/striped-haired woman (unnamed on-page — plausibly Yamato, though the caption names no one) swings a large sword at an old man with a “DON!!” impact. The “Vol. N” counter steps from Vol. 24 (Ch. 1138) to Vol. 28 here — Vols. 25–27 air on the intervening chapters (@1139–1141) and are logged by their own cover-tracker runs (MERGE ascending). The caption reads as the serial’s long-running theft + disappearance motifs converging into a confrontation: “Give Back the Sword” recalls the stolen enshrinement-sword (entrusted Vol. 4 Ch. 1114, snatched at naptime Vol. 17 Ch. 1130, chased Vol. 18 Ch. 1131), and “Girls” recalls the Kuri missing-persons thread (soba-shop girls Vol. 14 Ch. 1126, the kidnappings weighing on Dogstorm Vol. 15 Ch. 1127, the “mysterious base”/hideout whose occupant was revealed as Who’s-Who Vols. 22–24 @1136–1138). “Thunder Bagua!” names a thunder-charged sword technique (bagua / Baguazhang martial-arts flavour). A demand-and- reclaim beat: whoever holds the stolen sword and the missing girls is being struck to give both back — though the caption names neither the swordswoman nor the struck old man, so the identifications stay inference, not assertion (§Forward guards). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — no on-page crossover into the main Elbaf storyline (whose host chapter runs the “What I’m Afraid Of” / Nika-fear beat). (p. 1)

• Ch. 1144 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 29: “Minatomo the Carpenter and the girls are freed!!” — a B&W title-page installment (the chapter note records the verbatim title-strip caption only; no cover-panel art described, so the scene is not on-page). The payoff of the serial’s running disappearance / abduction sub-thread: the missing captives are freed — the Flower-Capital carpenter foreman Minatomo (flagged “MISSING” back in Vol. 13 Ch. 1125) and the girls (the Kuri soba-shop girls “gone missing” in Vol. 14 Ch. 1126) are recovered. This caps the multi-installment rescue built across the Udon-base beats — the hideout located Vol. 22 (Ch. 1136), infiltrated Vol. 23 (Ch. 1137), its occupant revealed as Who’s-Who Vol. 24 (Ch. 1138), and the “Give Back the Sword and Girls!” confrontation of Vol. 28 (Ch. 1142) — now resolving with the captives set free. The “Vol. N” counter steps from Vol. 28 @1142 to Vol. 29 here; Ch. 1143 ran a full-color reader-request crew spread with no serial installment (Vols. 25 @1139 & 27 @1141 air on intervening chapters, logged by their own runs — MERGE ascending). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf fear-manifestation attack, with no on-page crossover between the two. (p. 1)

• Ch. 1150 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 34: “Enma Shrine in Hakumai — Yasuie’s sword is enshrined, and the pilgrimage is complete.” — THE PILGRIMAGE-QUEST’S PAYOFF. The B&W title splash shows horned Yamato standing before the Enma Shrine in Hakumai (Wano), flanked by two horned attendants, and the caption declares the pilgrimage complete. This lands the serial’s founding errand: back in Vol. 4 (Ch. 1114) a Wano elder charged Yamato to “go enshrine this sword at Hakumai’senma Shrine in Yasuie’s stead” — the proxy (surrogate / 代参) observance that gave the whole journey its premise. The blade weathered a comedic ordeal en route (stolen at naptime Vol. 17 Ch. 1130, chased Vol. 18 Ch. 1131, demanded back in the “Give Back the Sword and Girls!” confrontation Vol. 28 Ch. 1142) and is now finally enshrined at Enma Shrine on the late Yasuie’s behalf (the late Shimotsuki Yasuie — unlinked, no note yet) — closing the surrogate pilgrimage that retraced Kozuki Oden’s footsteps across Wano. NOTE — serial continues: despite the caption’s “the pilgrimage is complete,” the cover serial keeps running under the same banner — Vol. 35 (Ch. 1151) pivots to a “Sumo Tourney in Hakumai,” so what concludes here is the founding pilgrimage-quest, not the cover-story thread, which stays status: ongoing. The “Vol. N” counter steps from Vol. 31 (Ch. 1146) to Vol. 34 here; Vols. 32-33 aired on the intervening title pages (@1147-1149) and are logged by their own cover-tracker runs (MERGE ascending). The payoff is internal to the Wano cover serial — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf “Domi Reversi” beat (a bat-winged Holy Knight demonizing Captains Dorry & Brogy), with no on-page crossover between the two, so no cover→main-plot merge and no cover-story-payoff Foreshadowing entry is filed (§Forward guards). (p. 1)

• Ch. 1145 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 30: “Pay-Pay’s Still Alive!!” — the cover panel shows horned Yamato (the “Ogre Child”) sitting dejected amid ruins beside a striped-clad figure carrying swords and chains . A relief / coda beat to the serial’s disappearance-and-rescue arc: “Pay-Pay” is the canonical pet name Ulti uses for her younger brother Page One (ex-Tobiroppo of the Beasts Pirates; established Wano-side @0982+), so “Pay-Pay’s Still Alive!!” confirms Page One survived — the reassurance that answers Ulti’s captioned dread “If anything happens to Pay-Pay, I’ll hunt you to the depths of hell…” (Vol. 26 Ch. 1140). Follows directly on Vol. 29’s “Minatomo the Carpenter and the girls are freed!!” (Ch. 1144) — together the two installments close the Udon-hideout rescue built across Vols. 22-28 (the base located @1136, infiltrated @1137, its occupant revealed as Who’s-Who @1138, the “Give Back the Sword and Girls!” clash @1142). The “Vol. N” counter steps from Vol. 29 @1144 to Vol. 30 here (consecutive). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf wildfire / Jinbei-arrival beat, with no on-page crossover between the two. (Cover serial on the title page; p. 3.)
• Ch. 1147 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 32: “Thanked by Raizo, Daimyo of Udon.” — the title-page panel shows horned Yamato (the “Ogre Child”) beside a laughing Udon daimyo, captioned as Raizo — the Nine Red Scabbards ninja “Raizo of the Mist,” now installed as Daimyo of Udon in Wano’s reconstruction. Raizo thanks Yamato, apparently for services rendered on the Udon leg of the pilgrimage. This extends the serial’s Red-Scabbard-installed-as-regional-daimyo pattern — Denjiro, Daimyo of Kibi (Vol. 10 Ch. 1120); Dogstorm, Daimyo of Kuri (Vol. 15 Ch. 1127); now Raizo, Daimyo of Udon — and reads as the grateful denouement of the Udon sub-arc: the mysterious base (Vol. 22 Ch. 1136), the hideout infiltration (Vol. 23 Ch. 1137), Who’s-Who’s unmasking (Vol. 24 Ch. 1138), and the open-combat “tears of anger” beat (Vol. 27 Ch. 1141) resolving into the new Daimyo of Udon thanking Yamato (cf. the lifelong-devotion gratitude beat of Vol. 31 Ch. 1146). The “Vol. N” counter jumps from Vol. 28 (Ch. 1142) to Vol. 32 here — Vols. 29-31 aired on the intervening title pages (@1143-1146) and are handled by their own cover-tracker runs (MERGE ascending). The thanks lands late in the journey, two installments shy of the pilgrimage’s conclusion at Vol. 34 (Ch. 1150, the sword-enshrinement payoff). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf Holy-Knights assault (Sommers’ ultimatum to burn the Owl Library; Robin’s “I won’t let them do this!!!”), with no on-page crossover between the two. (B&W title page, p. 1.)

• Ch. 1148 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 33: “Onward to Hakumai, to deliver an Amigasa hat from Otama to Kawamatsu.” — the title splash shows horned Yamato (the “Ogre Child”) mid-journey with an amigasa umbrella and Wano companions. The caption spells out a fresh surrogate errand in the pilgrimage’s own proxy (代参) mode: Yamato carries an amigasa (woven-straw) hat from O-Tama — of Amigasa Village in Kuri (the poor mountain village where Yamato took ninja training in Vol. 16 Ch. 1129) — to deliver it to Kawamatsu, running the gift-errand on O-Tama’s behalf. The named destination, Hakumai, is the region of the serial’s anchoring errand: back in Vol. 4 (Ch. 1114) a Wano elder charged Yamato to “enshrine this sword at Hakumai’senma Shrine in Yasuie’s stead,” so “Onward to Hakumai” finally turns the journey toward the goal it discharges two installments later at Enma Shrine (Vol. 34 Ch. 1150) — where the founding sword-enshrinement errand is discharged. The “Vol. N” counter steps from Vol. 31 (Ch. 1146) to Vol. 33 here; Vol. 32 (Ch. 1147, “Thanked by Raizo, Daimyo of Udon”) aired on the intervening title page and is logged by its own cover-tracker run (MERGE ascending). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf Holy-Knights beat (Robin vs. the immortal St. Sommers; the Owl Library burning; Scopper Gaban crashing in), with no on-page crossover between the two. (Title splash, p. 1)

• Ch. 1151 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 35: “Sumo Tourney in Hakumai! Hurling Urashima’s Big Brother, Yokozuna Sukune.” — the B&W title spread shows horned Yamato (the “Ogre Child”) hurling a giant sumo wrestler clean out of a ring at a Hakumai sumo tourney. A pure sports/comedy beat with no surrogate-errand mechanic — the caption names Yamato’s opponent “Yokozuna Sukune,” billed as the big brother of Urashima (the ozeki/Ushi-Oni sumo wrestler from Wano’s Kuri, cf. Urashima; “Sukune” nods to Nomi no Sukune, the legendary founder of sumo — do not assert further backstory, §Forward guards). Set in Hakumai, the pilgrimage region of the serial’s founding Vol. 4 (Ch. 1114) enshrinement errand and its Vol. 34 (Ch. 1150) “pilgrimage complete” payoff at Enma Shrine — so this vignette keeps Yamato in the Hakumai orbit while the cover feature runs on past its stated conclusion. Serial continues: Vol. 35 airs AFTER Vol. 34 (@1150) declared the pilgrimage complete, so the thread stays status: ongoing (further Hakumai vignettes: Vol. 36 Ch. 1152, Otama’s amigasa hat to Kawamatsu). The “Vol. N” counter jumps from Vol. 31 (Ch. 1146) to Vol. 35 here; Vols. 32-34 aired on the intervening title pages (@1147-1150) and are logged by their own cover-tracker runs (MERGE ascending). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf beat (St. Killingham’s “Domi Reversi” demon-flip of the giant warriors; the “Mr. Ya” = Scopper Gaban reveal), with no on-page crossover between the two, so no cover→main-plot merge and no cover-story-payoff Foreshadowing entry is filed (§Forward guards). (B&W title spread, p. 1)

• Ch. 1152 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 36: “Otama’s amigasa hat delivered to Kawamatsu, Daimyo of Hakumai.” — the cover panel shows horned Yamato and Otama among Wano villagers, Yamato picturing a smiling Otama. A pure surrogate-errand vignette — the serial’s founding premise made literal once more: Yamato delivers Otama’s woven amigasa (straw) hat to Kawamatsu, now captioned Daimyo of Hakumai (the Kappa Red-Scabbard installed as a regional lord in Wano’s reconstruction, alongside Denjiro of Kibi and Dogstorm of Kuri). Callbacks: the amigasa motif recurs from Vol. 16’s ninja training at Amigasa Village (@1129, canonically Otama’s home), and Hakumai returns as a pilgrimage locale — the region of the Vol. 4 (@1114) enshrinement errand and its Vol. 34 (@1150) “pilgrimage complete” payoff at Enma Shrine. Note — serial continues past its “conclusion”: this Vol. 36 (and Vol. 35 @1151, the Hakumai sumo tourney) both air AFTER Vol. 34 (@1150) declared the pilgrimage complete, so the cover feature is still running as further surrogate-errand vignettes (status returned to ongoing; MERGE ascending — Vol. 35 @1151 slots in ahead of this). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf “A Horrible Day” beat (the Aurust-Castle massacre backstory; Scopper Gaban on Elbaf), with no on-page crossover between the two. (p. 1)

• Ch. 1153 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 37: “Daimyo of Ringo, Kikunojo and Boss Ocho.” — another Daimyo-installation vignette in the same register as Vol. 32 (@1147, Raizo/Udon) and Vol. 36 (@1152, Kawamatsu/Hakumai): the B&W title strip presents Kikunojo — Kikunojo of the Fallen Snow, one of the Nine Red Scabbards — installed as Daimyo of Ringo (the snowy northern region where she and her brother Izo grew up as orphans taken in by Oden), alongside the region’s yakuza boss Boss Ocho (Ocho the Bottle Gourd, a Kozuki ally). Extends the serial’s running Wano-reconstruction / Red-Scabbards-as-regional-lords motif (Denjiro of Kibi, Inuarashi/Dogstorm of Kuri, Raizo of Udon, Kawamatsu of Hakumai). The “Vol. N” counter steps cleanly Vol. 36 (@1152) -> Vol. 37 here (this fills the slot the Vol. 38 @1154 installment reserved as “owed”). B&W title-page line art — not a color spread. Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the all-flashback Elbaf origin “The Birth of Loki” (King Harald’s youth; Ida; Queen Estrid; Loki’s abandonment), with no on-page crossover between the two. (Title splash, p. 1)

• Ch. 1154 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 38: “Go pay your respects at the grave of the hero, born in the West Blue and raised in Ringo.” — the title splash shows horned Yamato and companions before a snowy, Ringo-style graveyard/shrine in Wano. Another pure surrogate-errand vignette in the serial’s founding mode: Yamato pays respects at a hero’s grave in someone’s stead, the pilgrimage now reaching Ringo (Wano’s northern snow region, home of the Northern Cemetery). The captioned “hero, born in the West Blue and raised in Ringo” is not named on the page, but the Ringo grave + “the hero” strongly implies the legendary swordsman Ryuma — and the “born in the West Blue” clause is a fresh lore drop layered onto him (§Forward guards: the Ryuma identification is inference, not stated). The “Vol. N” counter steps from Vol. 36 (Ch. 1152) to Vol. 38 here; Vol. 37 aired on the intervening title page (@1153) and is logged by its own run (MERGE ascending). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf history flashback (Big Mom’s 63-years-ago rampage; the Accursed Prince Loki’s origin; the closing Rocks D. Xebec reveal), with no on-page crossover between cover and main. (p. 1)

• Ch. 1158 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 40: “Here Lies the Heroic Pirate of Justice.” — a B&W paying-respects vignette: horned Yamato stands beside a kimono-clad woman (unnamed on-page) before a snowy grave, its footnote reading “GRAVE: KOZUKI MORIA.” . A pure grave-visit / observance beat, squarely on-theme with the serial’s founding surrogate-pilgrimage premise (Yamato carrying out respects and errands in others’ stead, traveling Wano “like Oden did”). The “Vol. N” counter jumps from Vol. 36 (Ch. 1152) to Vol. 40 here; Vols. 37-39 aired on the intervening title pages (@1153-1157) and are owed by their own cover-tracker runs (MERGE ascending). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Rocks vs. Harald God-Valley / Elbaf backstory (Shakuyaku-as-Kuja-Empress; God Valley named as the Holy Knights’ venue; the Shanks / Figarland Shamrock twin reveal) — with no on-page crossover between the cover feature and the main plot. (p. 1)

• Ch. 1159 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 41: “Time to munch on apples and return to the Flower Capital!!” — the cover panel shows horned Yamato with kanabō raised, striding among kimono-clad Wano children, apparently turning homeward toward the Flower Capital. A wind-down beat: after the Hakumai delivery-errands (Vols. 35-36 @1151-1152) the surrogate pilgrimage looks to be circling back toward its Flower-Capital starting point, with the recurring apple motif (Yamato’s signature Wano snack) foregrounded in the caption. Vol.-counter jumps Vol. 36 (@1152) → Vol. 41 here; Vols. 37-40 (@1153-1158) aired on intervening title pages and are owed by their own cover-tracker runs (MERGE ascending). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the God Valley flashback (“The Island of Fate”: Shakuyaku’s kidnapping from Fullalead, Rocks revealing his hidden name Davy D. Xebec, Garling fathering the Shanks twins), with no on-page crossover between the cover B-plot and the main story. (p. 1)

• Ch. 1160 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 42: “The Shrine to Oden and his companions overlooking the Flower Capital.” — the B&W title splash shows horned Yamato (the “Ogre Child”) paying respects at a Wano shrine dedicated to the late Kozuki Oden and his companions (Oden’s retainers), set on a height overlooking the Flower Capital of Wano. Another pure surrogate-respects / observance vignette in the serial’s founding mode — a memorial visit paid in another’s stead — and a thematic capstone of the pilgrimage’s stated premise of retracing Oden’s footsteps across Wano (established Ch. 1150, Vol. 34). It follows directly on Vol. 41 (Ch. 1159, “Time to munch on apples and return to the Flower Capital!!”), where Yamato turned homeward toward the Flower Capital — so this Oden shrine overlooking the Flower Capital reads as the pilgrimage’s home-stretch, and extends the recent run of grave/respect beats (Vol. 38 Ch. 1154, the Ringo hero’s grave; Vol. 40 Ch. 1158, the “Kozuki Moria” grave). “His companions” go unnamed on the panel — the Oden-era retainers whose reconstruction-era fates the serial has already tracked as Wano’s new regional daimyo (Denjiro of Kibi, Dogstorm of Kuri, Raizo of Udon, Kawamatsu of Hakumai) — so read the shrine’s honorees as Oden + his retainers generally, not a specific named roster (§Forward guards). The “Vol. N” counter jumps from Vol. 38 (Ch. 1154) to Vol. 42 here; Vol. 39 aired on an intervening title page (@1155-1157) and is owed by its own cover-tracker run, while Vols. 40-41 (@1158-1159) are already logged above (MERGE ascending). NOTE — atypical host chapter: 1160’s MAIN story is the God Valley Incident flashback (the Celestial-Dragon “rabbit hunt”; the Rocks Pirates vs. the Roger Pirates; Garp’s fleet arriving), NOT the Elbaf present-day — yet the Wano cover serial still runs entirely apart from it, with no on-page crossover, so no cover→main-plot merge and no cover-story-payoff Foreshadowing entry is filed (§Forward guards). (Cover serial on the title page; p. 1.)

• Ch. 1157 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 39: “He fought against Kaido to protect his village, but perished without leaving a body behind.” — the title splash is a solemn snow-graveyard memorial scene, continuing the Ringo grave-pilgrimage the Vol. 38 errand set up (Ch. 1154, “Go pay your respects at the grave of the hero, born in the West Blue and raised in Ringo”) and carried on by Vol. 40 (Ch. 1158, a grave marked “Kozuki Moria”): the serial’s founding surrogate-observance mode made literal — Yamato paying respects at a fallen warrior’s grave in the village’s stead, the pilgrimage lingering in Wano’s snowy north (Ringo / the Northern Cemetery). The eulogy caption is recorded verbatim; the deceased is not named on the page here. Note the tension with Vol. 38: that installment’s “hero of Ringo, born in the West Blue” strongly implied the legendary swordsman Ryuma, but this Vol. 39 clause — “fought against Kaido” — does not cleanly fit Ryuma (who predates Kaido by centuries), so the two captions are not asserted to name the same figure; the memorialized hero’s identity is left open (§Forward guards: assert nothing the page does not show). The “Vol. N” counter steps from Vol. 38 (Ch. 1154) to Vol. 39 here; @1155-1156 carried no serial installment (the counter runs Vol. 38 @1154 → Vol. 39 @1157 → Vol. 40 @1158 → Vol. 41 @1159). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf “era of Rocks” history flashback (the Rocks Pirates’ raid on the M Bezel “charity”; Shakuyaku opening her Rip-off Bar on Fullalead; the Five Elders’ “Kill Rocks” ultimatum to King Harald), with no on-page crossover between cover and main. (p. 1)

• Ch. 1161 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Vol. 43: “Where the Heroes Sleep.” — the title splash shows horned Yamato before a shrine of memorial lanterns for the fallen heroes of Wano, the lanterns inscribed with their names: Kozuki Oden, Shimotsuki Yasuie, Uzuki Tenpura, Fugetsu Omusubi, Shimotsuki Ushimaru, Otaka, Izo, Pedro, Ashura Doji, and more. The serial’s pilgrimage mode deepens into mourning: Yamato pays respects, in others’ stead, to all those who fell across the long fight for Wano’s freedom (Oden and the Scabbards’ era through the Onigashima war). It broadens the immediately-prior Vol. 42 (Ch. 1160, “The Shrine to Oden and his companions overlooking the Flower Capital”) from Oden alone to the whole roll of the fallen, and extends the recent grave/respect run (Vol. 38 Ch. 1154 Ringo hero’s grave; Vol. 39 Ch. 1157; Vol. 40 Ch. 1158 “Kozuki Moria” grave). The “Vol. N” counter steps Vol. 42 (Ch. 1160) → Vol. 43 here (consecutive). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s main story is the God Valley Incident flashback (the three-way battle royale; Rayleigh’s “Spider Lily Steel” saving Shakuyaku; St. Maffey recovering Garling’s hidden infant son), with no on-page crossover between cover and main. Status stays ongoing; no cover→main-plot merge, so no cover-story-payoff Foreshadowing entry is filed (§Forward guards). (Cover serial on the title page; p. 3.)

• Ch. 1162 — Ogre Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage, Final Vol.: “Dear Sir Luffy, Wano is Once Again at Peace!” — THE SERIAL’S CONCLUSION. The B&W title strip is billed the final volume of the cover feature: a letter-style sign-off addressed to Luffy (“Dear Sir Luffy…”), with Yamato in Wano festival attire reporting that Wano is once again at peace. This closes the surrogate-pilgrimage serial that opened at Vol. 2 (Ch. 1110, “I want to travel throughout Wano!! Like Oden did!!”) and ran 40+ installments across the Egghead/Elbaf chapters — the founding sword-enshrinement quest paid off @1150 (Vol. 34), and the later surrogate-errand and grave-respect vignettes (Vols. 35-42 @1151-1160) wind down into this peaceful farewell letter. Status flips ongoing → concluded. The prior installment (Vol. 42 Ch. 1160, the shrine to Oden) and any interposed @1161 title page are logged by their own runs (MERGE ascending). Stays wholly inside the Wano side-narrative — the host chapter’s MAIN story is the God Valley battle-royale flashback (Rocks vs. Roger vs. the Navy; Kaido eats the Fish-Fish Fruit; Kuma’s Paw-Paw teleport; the infant “Teech”), with no on-page crossover between the cover feature and the main plot, so this is an internal Wano conclusion — no cover→main-plot merge and no cover-story-payoff Foreshadowing entry is filed (§Forward guards). (p. 1)

Forward-payoff watches

• SERIAL CONCLUDED @1162 (Final Vol.) — the “candidate re-concluded moment” is realized: the wind-toward-close flagged at Vol. 41 (@1159, “return to the Flower Capital”) lands at the Final Vol. (Ch. 1162), whose title strip is explicitly billed the serial’s last installment — a letter-style sign-off “Dear Sir Luffy, Wano is Once Again at Peace!” This is a narrative conclusion internal to the Wano cover B-plot, NOT a cover→main-plot merge (the host chapter’s main story is the unrelated God Valley flashback). Per the merge rule, an internal cover conclusion does not warrant a technique/cover-story-payoff Foreshadowing entry — that is reserved for a cover plot rejoining main canon (the Caribou→Wano case). Status: concluded; no payoff_chapter.

• “Born in the West Blue and raised in Ringo” (Vol. 38 @1154) — a lore drop smuggled into a cover caption: the hero whose grave Yamato visits is unnamed but is near-certainly the legendary Ringo swordsman Ryuma (whose Wano grave and sword drive the Thriller Bark / Shusui material). The added “born in the West Blue” origin has no on-page confirmation beyond this cover line — treat as an evidence-to-verify hook (cf. the long-standing fan tie to Oda’s Monsters one-shot), not settled canon (§Forward guards). Purely a cover-serial detail — no cover→main-plot merge as of @1154, so no cover-story-payoff Foreshadowing entry is filed.

• Serial CONTINUES past its Vol. 34 “conclusion” (@1150) — status reopened to ongoing: the founding Yasuie-sword-enshrinement errand was fulfilled and the “pilgrimage complete” @1150 (Vol. 34), but the cover feature keeps running with fresh surrogate-errand vignettes — Vol. 35 @1151 (Hakumai sumo tourney), Vol. 36 @1152 (“Otama’s amigasa hat delivered to Kawamatsu, Daimyo of Hakumai”), and now Vol. 41 @1159 (“Time to munch on apples and return to the Flower Capital!!” — Yamato turning homeward). Treat the Vol. 34 milestone as the close of the sword pilgrimage, not of the cover serial; confirm-and-MERGE each later installment here rather than forking. Vols. 37-40 (@1153-1158) are owed by their own runs (MERGE ascending). The “return to the Flower Capital” caption at Vol. 41 reads like a wind-toward-close beat — watch whether an upcoming installment declares the whole surrogate pilgrimage finished (a candidate re-concluded moment). No cover→main-plot merge as of @1159, so no cover-story-payoff Foreshadowing entry is filed (§Forward guards).

• No on-page cover→main-plot merge as of @1146 — the installment stays inside the Wano side-narrative (its host chapter’s main story is the Elbaf Holy-Knights assault — Gunko abducting the giant children; Saul shielding Robin & Chopper). Vols. 25-30 (@1139-1145) are owed by their own runs (MERGE ascending). No cover-story-payoff Foreshadowing entry is filed (§Forward guards: assert nothing the pages do not show).
• Continuation expected (1146+): the “Vol. N” counter implies further installments on subsequent title pages — confirm-and-MERGE each into this thread rather than forking a new one; keep the chapters list and cast in ascending order.
• Kuri/Udon-disappearances sub-thread — RESOLVED within the serial @1138: the running disappearance / abduction / hidden-lair motif — missing soba-shop girls of Kuri (Vol. 14 @1126), foreman Minatomo’s vanishing (Vol. 13 @1125), the kidnappings weighing on Dogstorm, Daimyo of Kuri (Vol. 15 @1127), and Holden’s roadside banditry (Vol. 20 @1133) — built to Vol. 22’s “A Mysterious Base Deep in Udon” (@1136) and Vol. 23’s infiltration of that “sketchy hideout” (@1137), and Vol. 24 (@1138) reveals the base’s occupant as Who’s-Who (ex-Tobiroppo of the Beasts Pirates). Whether Who’s-Who is literally the culprit behind the earlier Kuri disappearances is not spelled out on the page, so that causal link stays inference, not assertion (§Forward guards). Watch later installments for the fallout of the reveal and for whether the thread stays self-contained or ever brushes the main plot (no merge as of @1138).
• Kuri/Udon-disappearances sub-thread — captives FREED @1144: Vol. 29 (Ch. 1144) “Minatomo the Carpenter and the girls are freed!!” resolves the serial’s running disappearance / abduction sub-thread — foreman Minatomo (“MISSING” Vol. 13 @1125) and the Kuri soba-shop girls (“gone missing” Vol. 14 @1126) are recovered, capping the Udon-base rescue (occupant revealed as Who’s-Who Vol. 24 @1138; the “Give Back the Sword and Girls!” clash Vol. 28 @1142). The payoff is internal to the Wano cover serial — no cover→main-plot merge as of @1144, so no cover-story-payoff Foreshadowing entry is filed (§Forward guards).