The answer
Chapter 971 · updated
Oden dances naked in the Flower Capital each week to save one hundred lives by honoring a bargain with Orochi. He performs the ritual as a public sign of apology to the Kurozumi family at an agreed time, and Orochi promised that the crew would leave Wano after five years once shipbuilding finished. ch. 971, p. 15 Every dance therefore prevented further kidnappings, sales, or killings of Wano citizens that Orochi's men would otherwise carry out. ch. 971, p. 14 The manga states this motive directly through Shinobu's later explanation to the crowd. Oden endured the humiliation alone for five years while still checking towns for changes, believing the promise would be kept. ch. 971, p. 15 Townspeople saw only the naked dancing and labeled him the idiot lord, unaware of the lives being spared. ch. 969, p. 8 "HE CONTINUED DANCING BECAUSE EACH TIME HE DID, HE SAVED 100 LIVES!" ch. 971, p. 15 "EVERY WEEK AT AN AGREED TIME, HE WOULD DANCE NAKED AS A SIGN OF APOLOGY TOWARDS THE KUROZUMI FAMILY." ch. 971, p. 15 "THAT'S WHY LORD ODEN ACCEPTED HIS PROPOSAL!!" ch. 971, p. 15
Where it happens
2 chapters · first raised in ch. 969From the chapter
HE CONTINUED DANCING BECAUSE EACH TIME HE DID, HE SAVED 100 LIVES!
Chapter 971, page 15EVERY WEEK AT AN AGREED TIME, HE WOULD DANCE NAKED AS A SIGN OF APOLOGY TOWARDS THE KUROZUMI FAMILY.
Chapter 971, page 15THAT'S WHY LORD ODEN ACCEPTED HIS PROPOSAL!!
Chapter 971, page 15
What this means for the story
Canon settled the fact. The meaning is still an argument.
Make the case for what the answer changes, and bring the chapters that back you — the same evidence that settled the question can settle this one.
- 01Write the claimOne sentence a reader can agree or disagree with.
- 02Cite the chaptersEvery point carries the page it comes from.
- 03Readers weigh itConfidence moves on the evidence, not on votes.