## One Piece Chapter 1022, pages 4-5: The Stars Take the Stage - Chapter: 1022 - Pages: 4-5 - Characters: Raizo, Fukurokuju, Kozuki Oden, Momonosuke, Orochi, Kaido, Nine Red Scabbards ### Summary Page 4: Fukurokuju attacks Raizo and mocks his loyalty. He asks where Raizo's loyalties lie, saying he is "clinging onto a ghost," and when Raizo asks whether he means Oden-sama, Fukurokuju snaps, "You've given away where your real body is!!" The earlobes strike and Raizo groans in pain. Fukurokuju then says Raizo was never suited to be a ninja, no matter how skilled he became at ninjutsu, because he always wore his heart on his sleeve. Raizo answers from the smoke that those feelings are the reason the retainers cannot rest. The page makes the duel ideological: Fukurokuju sees emotion as a fatal flaw for a shinobi, while Raizo treats the bond to Oden as the very thing that keeps him standing. Page 5: Raizo invokes the memory of Oden and the retainers' shared death-defying resolve. He says, "That day, we cried, laughed, and died alongside Oden-sama!!" and declares, "We are all ghosts, hell-bent on fulfilling our master's dream!!" The page cuts across wounded allied fighters and retainers as Raizo continues: "We are not here merely out of a sense of duty!! Every last one of us... is fighting because of that emotional bond!!" He says they cannot rest, even if the effort kills them, until they have seen the fight through. Tonight will mark the end of Orochi and Kaido's reign, and tomorrow will bring "a brilliant new dawn" with Momonosuke as shogun. Raizo's speech turns the Scabbards' grief into the future they are trying to secure.