## One Piece Chapter 923, pages 12-13: Emperor Kaido vs. Luffy - Chapter: 923 - Pages: 12-13 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Kaidou, Bakura Town residents ### Summary Page 12: The Kong Organ continues to batter Kaidou, but when the smoke clears, Kaidou rises with little more than irritation. Luffy is left panting, "Huff... huff... wheeze... wheeze...!!" Kaidou looks at him and asks, "Who the hell is that guy..." before gripping his weapon and standing up. He calls Luffy a brat: "You brat!!" Luffy, exhausted and still burning with anger, remains in front of him. The page turns the apparent success of Luffy's attacks into dread. Kaidou has taken Elephant Gun, Elephant Gatling, Gear Fourth, and Kong Organ, yet he is still moving forward as if the attacks were an annoyance rather than a decisive threat. Page 13: Kaidou ends the exchange in a single blow. He leaps forward with his kanabo and asks, "What kind of king did you say you'll be...?" The narration frames him as one of the strongest creatures in the world, and his attack lands with the name "Divine Thunder!!" Luffy is smashed down violently, blood bursting from his mouth as his body crumples into the ground. The page is a brutal reversal: after all of Luffy's rage, declarations, and high-level attacks, Kaidou needs only one serious strike to put him down. The chapter ends with Luffy defeated at Kaidou's feet, the dream of becoming Pirate King thrown back at him as a challenge.