## One Piece Chapter 973, pages 9-10: The Kozuki Line - Chapter: 973 - Pages: 9-10 - Characters: Kozuki Toki, Kozuki Oden, Kurozumi Orochi ### Summary Page 9: A figure flees through the night, exhausted and gasping "Huff huff." From the darkness, pursuers wonder, "Who is it?" and answer themselves, "It's not a samurai." In Kuri Bakura, common people watch the burning castle and feel the night closing around them. A child says, "Grandma, I'm scared. It's getting dark. This is different from other nights!" An elder says, "The night is coming." Others understand what the fire means: "It's the end... The Kozuki family... Lord Oden!" People say they are "being punished for not believing in them," that "this will be the start of a 'forever night'," and that these are "dark times where the sun will no longer rise!" Page 10: Toki stands beneath the moon and leaves her prophecy for Wano: "May your wish come true... The hope that after 20 years of endless moonlit nights, nine shadows will bring a blinding sunrise!" Then she falls, and the people cry, "Lady Toki!!" At the castle, Orochi hears the prophecy through panic rather than faith. He screams, "I told you to boil the water!!" A servant protests, "It's already boiled Lord Orochi," and another complains, "It's not hot! You want me to go into room temperature water?" Orochi shivers and demands, "I can't stop shaking, bring the bones of the Kozuki samurai! Why can't we find them!" Even in a tub of hot water, he is terrified: "Shut up, I'm cold!" while others warn, "Be careful or you will burn!" and "It's hot! The water is very hot."