## One Piece Chapter 1024, pages 11-13: Nobody Important - Chapter: 1024 - Pages: 11-13 - Characters: Yamato, Kaido, Samurai, Kozuki Oden ### Summary Page 11: Kaido tells the imprisoned samurai that the same fate goes for the rest of them. He says he would like Wano's great master swordsmen to serve under him, and if they have a change of heart they should shout through the hole in the ceiling. He leaves one portion of food and says he supposes they can leave it there, because they will need to settle who gets it. Young Yamato panics, crying, "Father!! They're definitely going to resent me... for being your child!! I'll be killed!!" Kaido answers coldly, "But I thought you were Oden?" and exits. The page shows Kaido setting up a test meant to make the samurai kill Yamato or make Yamato abandon the Oden identity out of fear. Page 12: In the cave, young Yamato stares at the single bowl of rice and says, "I call myself Oden... but I'm also Kaido's son, the man who killed Oden." Yamato assumes the samurai must hate him for that, and that Kaido expects them to kill each other in a scramble for the rice. One samurai reaches toward his sword, and Yamato, terrified, thinks they are bound to kill him first. The tension in the cave is heavy: starving warriors, one child of their enemy, and one bowl of food. The page uses Yamato's fear to make the samurai's next action meaningful. Yamato expects vengeance and violence because that is what Kaido arranged, but the samurai do not choose Kaido's logic. Page 13: Instead of killing Yamato, the samurai offer the rice. One says, "Please eat," and when Yamato stares in disbelief, another says that samurai do not get hungry. Yamato cries, "But I'm... starving!!" and one samurai answers gently, "Eat up. You were born into quite the family, weren't you?" Yamato eats the rice with tears and snot running down his face, then holds up the empty bowl and says, "Thank you, samurai!! I'll remember this bowl... for the rest of my life!!" After being fed, Yamato asks whether even someone who gets hungry can become a samurai. The page becomes the emotional heart of the flashback: the samurai respond to Kaido's cruelty with compassion and give Yamato a model of honor that has nothing to do with strength alone.