One Piece Chapter 1038: Kid & Law vs. Big Mom

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The title page reads "Chapter 1038: Kid & Law vs. Big Mom." It continues Germa 66's cold-blooded voyage, volume 3: "Niji & Yonji, captured in Chocolate Town on Cacao Island." The cover-story image shows wanted-style displays or public boards for Niji and Yonji while townspeople gather and Judge and Reiju appear in silhouette at the edges. This is official cover-story material rather than the chapter's main narrative, so it is kept as useful extra material.

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Inside the castle on the third floor, the fire spreads around Raizo and Fukurokuju. Fukurokuju's head and body are burning, but he still demands, "Release your jutsu, Raizo... or we will both perish!!" Raizo, equally trapped and panting, refuses to be the first to give in. On the second floor, samurai and pirates panic as the flames trap them in a dead end. They shout that they must flee and that there is nowhere to go. The page shows the castle turning into a furnace while the two ninja stubbornly maintain their paralysis standoff, making their personal contest part of the broader disaster consuming Onigashima.

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The ceiling begins coming down as the fire eats through the castle. Fighters scream that the ceiling is collapsing and that there are only a few stragglers moving. One of the Straw Hats' allies is identified among the fallen, and the panicked survivors say that, at this rate, countless people will burn to death and that dying in battle would be less cruel. The chaos is not limited to one faction: injured allies, Beast Pirates, and samurai are all caught under falling beams and spreading flames. The page emphasizes that the raid's victories over commanders do not matter if the castle itself becomes a death trap before anyone can escape.

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On the live floor, people shout to get away from Big Mom and warn that they cannot get caught in the crossfire. Chopper has finally returned to normal after the side effects of his medicine made him withered and weak for a while. He says he has recovered, but he is worried about Zoro, whom Miyagi treated with the special remedy. Chopper explains that the super recovery also has a great cost: all the damage Zoro suffered will come back many times worse. He hopes Zoro has already won his fight, because before the medicine, Zoro's injuries were so bad he could not move, and if those wounds multiply, the aftermath could be catastrophic.

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At the dome interior right brain tower, Zoro lies helpless after defeating King. Chopper's fear hangs over him as a dark, skeletal figure with a scythe appears above him. Zoro asks, "Who the hell are you?" while his body refuses to move. The figure looms like death itself, and Zoro tells it to stop and get away from him. Elsewhere, Franky searches through the burning wreckage, shouting, "Zoro, you bastard! Where'd you go?" The page turns Zoro's victory into a new immediate crisis: the cost of the medicine and the strain of Enma have left him unable to defend himself, while a death-like apparition closes in.

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In the first floor attic, Izo drags himself through the wreckage, cursing Whitebeard's commanders as he decides he has to help the damned upstarts. Below, in basement level 1, he thinks about Kiku and Kinemon and says he hopes his actions allowed the two of them to escape. Izo is badly wounded and panting when he notices someone ahead. The page then reveals that he has crossed paths with CP0. One of the agents has been following the Straw Hats, while the other remains focused on the government's mission. Izo's duty to the alliance and his past as a Whitebeard commander put him directly in the way of the World Government's masked assassins.

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Izo recognizes the masked agents as Cipher Pol, and they answer that they are from the Aegis 0 branch. One agent says he heard Izo was on the island and suggests they pretend they never saw each other, because technically they are not meant to let him off the hook for being a member of a notorious crew. The agents say their eyes are currently set on the Straw Hats. Izo lets them pass for a moment, saying he is sure they will meet again, but then stops them with the warning, "Stop, not another step..." The page sets up a confrontation between a wounded former Whitebeard commander and CP0, because Izo cannot simply let them continue toward Robin and the Straw Hats.

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In the basement armory, Yamato races ahead of Kazenbo. The fire spirit swells above the weapons and gunpowder, and Yamato shouts for it to stop and not touch anything. She yells, "Please, hang on!!" while the enormous black flame mass presses toward the explosives. Yamato reaches the armory and says she has to make it, then attacks with "Namuji Hyoga!!" to freeze the stockpile and the area around the gunpowder. She warns that if the gunpowder goes off, everyone will be history. The wide page shows Yamato's desperate timing: she has arrived, but Kazenbo is already there, and only her ice can prevent Onigashima from becoming a midair bomb.

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Yamato tells Kazenbo not to touch the gunpowder and blasts the flame mass with "Mahoroba!!" Kazenbo groans under the impact, but the attack also redirects part of the creature. A piece of the burning mass reaches the treasure repository, where a servant cries, "Orochi-sama!!" and another voice asks whether that is a hand. Orochi himself is struck and screams. The page shows that even as Yamato slows the main body of Kazenbo, Kanjuro's hatred is still spreading through the castle and reaching Orochi. The crisis in the armory is connected to the political revenge thread: the fire spirit that Orochi unleashed is now turning back toward him.

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On the live floor, Big Mom stands over the fallen Kid and Law while bystanders beg her for mercy. They say the two captains cannot even move and that they will die if she keeps going. Big Mom laughs that their underlings are begging now and says Kid and Law have really hit rock bottom. Their crews shout for their captains and beg her to spare them. Big Mom, still confident and huge, towers above the wreckage with Napoleon in hand and her homies at her side. The page makes it look as though the battle is over, with Kid and Law lying defeated and their crews powerless to stop the Emperor.

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Kid's crew and Law's crew panic, calling for medics and asking whether their captains are still breathing. Big Mom ignores the pleas and tells everyone to quit bellyaching because this is a battlefield. She raises her power with "Tenman-Tenjin!!" and lightning crashes across the floor, blasting anyone who gets too close. The crews scream as she attacks them and the fallen captains. The page shows Big Mom's cruelty and stamina: even with the castle burning and her opponents on the ground, she keeps punishing the underlings and treating the battlefield as proof that mercy has no place in a fight between pirates.

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Big Mom prepares to leave for the roof, saying Kaido has not let out his usual victory cry yet and telling herself not to say the puny Straw Hat brat is still holding out alone. She asks Hera to take her to the roof and says she is beat, so they should finish this quickly. Law, still panting, activates "Kroom" and "Anesthesia," extending a massive blade through Big Mom from behind. He says, "This is the end!!" Big Mom is shocked by the sudden attack, but Law is pushing beyond exhaustion to keep her from reaching Kaido. The page turns the apparent defeat around: Law was down, but not finished.

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Law drives his extended blade deep through Big Mom and unleashes "Shock Wille!!" The internal shock makes Big Mom scream, and her homies panic, shouting that someone has hurt Mama and asking how he dares. Kid, battered and barely upright, watches Law's attack and prepares to follow it. The crews are stunned that Trafalgar is still moving after Big Mom's punishment. Big Mom tries to understand what is happening, and the page shows that Law's awakened technique is not simply piercing her body; it delivers a devastating internal impact that can still damage an Emperor even this late in the battle.

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Kid rises again and uses his magnetic fields to pull steel beams and scrap metal into a massive mechanical bull. Big Mom complains that she is sick of steel beams running their mouths and tells him to obey her magnetic fields already, but Kid is still standing. He laughs that it is weird: he feels like he has a new reason to keep fighting. He tells Big Mom that if she believes Emperors are invincible, that is a joke, because given enough time even mountains can be worn down by rain. Kid launches "Punk Corna Dio!!" with the enormous bull and declares, "I don't care if it kills me... you're not reaching that roof!!" The chapter ends with Kid and Law still refusing to let Big Mom join Kaido.

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