## One Piece Chapter 1033, pages 12-13: Shimotsuki Kozaburo - Chapter: 1033 - Pages: 12-13 - Characters: Roronoa Zoro, Shimotsuki Kozaburo, Kuina, Enma ### Summary Page 12: Young Zoro returns to Kozaburo after losing to Kuina again and says he needs to train nonstop. Kozaburo offers him practice swords, saying, "It's fine, take 'em, they're not much anyway," while Zoro protests that he has no money. Kozaburo explains his philosophy: swords exist to cut people down, and when smiths create them, they ensure the blades can take as many lives as possible. Zoro is shocked, but Kozaburo continues that each blade is like a person with a unique disposition, and a swordsman is someone who tames a sword's wild nature and bends it to his will. The memory gives Zoro the key to understanding Enma's behavior in the present. Page 13: Kozaburo rejects the idea that deadly swords are simply cursed. He calls it a joke that named blades are said to be cursed just because weak swordsmen fear them. To him, if a blade fulfills its purpose well, that is praise, and weak people can spread whatever nonsense they like. He remembers crafting his magnum opus when he was young, a blade so terrifying that someone would get chills merely holding it. He says he named that blade after "the lord of the underworld": Enma. In the present, Zoro realizes the meaning of the name as Enma continues to burn and pull from him. The old man's lesson turns Enma from a cursed inconvenience into a proud, demanding weapon.