## One Piece Chapter 1022, pages 3-4: The Stars Take the Stage - Chapter: 1022 - Pages: 3-4 - Characters: Raizo, Fukurokuju, Kurozumi Orochi, Oniwabanshu, Kozuki Oden ### Summary Page 3: Inside the castle on the third floor, flames spread while Raizo confronts Fukurokuju. Someone shouts "Kurozumi Orochi!!" and another voice demands, "How could you swear allegiance to a man like him, Fukurokuju?!" Fighters cough and wheeze in the smoke, yelling "Fire!!" and "Put it out!!" Fukurokuju answers with ninja techniques rather than remorse. He uses "Ninpo: Clone Jutsu!" and creates multiple images of himself, then follows with "Ninpo: Earlobe Crackers!!" as his long earlobes lash outward like weapons. He declares that "the Oniwabanshu must always serve the current shogun," making his loyalty an institutional principle rather than a matter of conscience. The page sets Raizo's duty to Oden against Fukurokuju's loyalty to whoever holds power. 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.