## One Piece Chapter 1044, pages 0-1: Warrior of Liberation - Chapter: 1044 - Pages: 0-1 - Characters: Germa 66, Vinsmoke Niji, Vinsmoke Yonji, Monkey D. Luffy, Kaido, Kozuki Momonosuke, Yamato, Zunesha, Joy Boy ### Summary Page 0: The title page reads "Chapter 1044: Warrior of Liberation." It continues Germa 66's cold-blooded voyage, volume 8: "Mama's out at sea. Let's start our research!!" The cover-story image shows members of Germa 66 inside a laboratory-like room with tools and machinery suspended around them while Niji and Yonji lie captured. This is official cover-story material tied to Germa 66 and Whole Cake Island rather than the main Wano battle, so it is retained as useful extra context. Page 1: A resounding pulse echoes across Onigashima. Kaido, still on the rooftop after Luffy's apparent defeat, looks up and asks, "What's happening...?" and "How can he still stand?" Luffy's body beats with the rhythm "Doom dut da da" while he laughs and says, "I just lost... But I feel like I'm having a blast... Ahaha hahaha!!" Momonosuke tells Yamato that Zunesha said Luffy is Joyboy, and Yamato reacts in shock: "Zunesha said that?!" The page turns the previous chapter's despair on its head. The man whose voice vanished is moving again, and the sound Zunesha called the Drums of Liberation is coming from Luffy himself.