## One Piece Chapter 888: Lion - Chapter: 888 - Pages: 0-13 - Characters: Ideo, Monkey D. Luffy, Charlotte Katakuri, Thousand Sunny, Charlotte Bavarois, Jinbe, Big Mom, Charlotte Smoothie, Charlotte Daifuku, Brook, Tony Tony Chopper, Carrot, Nami, Charlotte Perospero, Pedro ### Summary Page 0: Chapter 888, "Lion," opens with a cover request rather than the main story. The note announces, "Happy 888 day! We've added over 600 new characters to the official LINE One Piece account! Chat us the name of a character and they'll respond with a message! Some of them are even specially drawn by Oda himself!" Beneath the One Piece logo, Ideo and the Ideo Pirates pose under a huge Straw Hat flag in the cover story captioned, "Dropping in on the lives of the Straw Hat Grand Pirate Fleet, Vol. 21: 'Ideo Arc': The Ideo Pirates - 'I've decided to become a pirate.'" Page 1: Katakuri stands over the battered mirror-world battlefield and refuses to let Luffy's return pass without an answer. Calm but severe, he says, "Come now, don't let our reunion be such a violent one. I have a question for you." Luffy, breathing hard with "HAA-" and "HAA-," snaps back, "Even if you were to run, everyone knows you were up against me. None would have laughed in your face." Katakuri asks the question directly: "So why have you returned? Have you chosen death over the shame of being called a runner? Or have you seen the truth of the difference in our skills, and come to beg me to allow you to join us?" Luffy's answer is not surrender. With his eyes locked on Katakuri, he keeps panting, "HAA-," and prepares to face him again. Page 2: The duel resumes with a clash of fists. Katakuri's heavy blows hammer down through the air, but Luffy does not step back from the reason he came. He shouts, "I'm here to beat you!" Katakuri looks at him from within the storm of the fight and rejects the answer at once: "I don't believe that was one of the options!" The page is all impact and stubbornness, the black sound effects crowding around the punches as Luffy insists on victory rather than escape, apology, or submission. Katakuri's disbelief only sharpens the point: Luffy has returned not because it is sensible, but because beating Katakuri is the only path he will accept. Page 3: Out at sea, the cannonballs meant for the Straw Hats fly wildly through the air instead of finding their target. Voices shout "YAHOO!", "FIRE!", and "HEY-O!" as the crews launch round after round, but the living cannonballs are uselessly disorganized. One asks, "Huh? Who are we aiming for again?" Another laughs, "Hahaha! Here we go!" Others compete, yelling, "I'm gonna be first to hit 'em!" and "Nope, I will!" On the Sunny, the Straw Hats watch the chaos with disbelief. Someone yells, "The Straw Hat Pirates, stupid!" while another admits, "I don't see any Straw Hats anywhere!" A shot goes completely wrong: "My bad! The Straw Hats ran that way!" The cannonballs even call back, "C'mon! They're over there!" and "Thanks for the tip!" The ship swerves through the water as the crew snaps, "Agh! We don't have enough airtime left!" and, finally, "You idiots!" Page 4: The pursuit does not end with the useless cannon fire. On the Big Mom Pirates' side, a furious figure curses, "Why are all these bullets so damn useless?!" Lord Bavarois is introduced as "Charlotte Family, 26th son, Charlotte Bavarois," and he boasts, "Lord Bavarois! I promise you I'll get them!" Around him, the fleet keeps pressing forward while others argue over who should attack: "If Mama is not in her right mind, she can't control her souls!" "I guess." "Lemme at 'em!" "No, me!" From the sea, Jinbe reads the situation more coldly. Someone notes, "Mama hasn't slowed at all!" and another warns, "And we're going full throttle too!" When asked, "Why can't we catch up with them?!" Jinbe answers that he knows the waves better than anyone and thinks the enemy is already finished: "Anyway, Lord Bavarois, I think they're done for, now." Then a message comes in: "Huh?! We've just received word..." Page 5: The sea ahead fills with silhouettes. A lookout cries, "Crap!" and another reports, "I see a bunch of ships in front of us!" The trap has closed: "Damn... they got around us before we could shake our tail... We've been pin-cered!" The reports stack up from every direction: "Reporting in!" "Backup fleet!" "Commander Smoothie's!" "And from behind us," "At the front, Lord Daifuku's fleet has arrived!" Smoothie stands among the reinforcements, introduced as "Charlotte Family, 14th daughter/commander Charlotte Smoothie," and asks, "How many people did they call up for this?!" On the Straw Hat side, Brook and Chopper notice Carrot's strange silence. Chopper asks, "What's the matter, Carrot?!" while Nami and the others turn toward her. The page ends with Carrot shown apart from the panic, tense and focused as the encirclement tightens. Page 6: Perospero watches the enemy and complains to Big Mom, "Brother Peros, why'd you call us out he...