## One Piece Chapter 972, pages 9-10: I Am Oden, and I Was Born to Boil - Chapter: 972 - Pages: 9-10 - Characters: Kozuki Oden, Kurozumi Orochi, Kaido, Kin'emon, Denjiro, Ashura Doji, Kanjuro, Raizo, Kikunojo, Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, Kawamatsu, Shinobu ### Summary Page 9: Orochi breaks the agreement immediately. When the crowd cries, "What did you say!? If you win, you win!!" he calls them fools and says he changed the sentence to a shooting execution one minute earlier. He adds that he will kill Oden's whole family. Oden realizes the promise has been betrayed, and in the final seconds he makes his choice. He throws the plank and the Nine Red Scabbards out of the pot, sending them flying away from the execution platform. Then he shouts the command that matters more than his own life: "You guys, I am counting on you!! Open Wano!!!" Kaido, watching the deception, calls him a kid who thinks with his ass. Page 10: The retainers are hurled free. Oden yells, "Run!!!" and Kin'emon orders, "To Kuri!!" as they sprint away with their bodies still smoking. Shinobu is cut loose in the chaos and calls after them. The execution ground turns into confusion while Kaido's men fire and pursue. The Scabbards do not have time to grieve; Oden has bought them seconds, and every second now belongs to Wano's future.