## One Piece Chapter 1098: The Birth of Bonney - Chapter: 1098 - Pages: 0-15 - Characters: Brook, Bartholomew Kuma, Monkey D. Dragon, Emporio Ivankov, Ginny, Revolutionary Army, Celestial Dragon, Sorbet Kingdom Residents, Jewelry Bonney, Doctor, Sorbet Kingdom Children, Nika, King Becori ### Summary Page 0: Cover request page. Chapter 1098: The Birth of Bonney. The printed caption says: "Cover request by Skywalker: Brook powering his electric guitar solo with an electric eel." Brook stands in a dramatic rock pose with an electric guitar while a large electric eel coils around him, charging the performance with lightning-like energy. This is a reader-request musical gag illustration rather than part of Kuma, Ginny, or Bonney's story. Page 2: At Revolutionary Army headquarters in Baltigo, the army requests backup because the Toomi uprising in the South Blue is looking bleak and their hands are full dealing with the wounded at Goa. Kuma immediately says, "I'll go," but Dragon warns him not to be rash, saying Kuma has been acting reckless ever since Ginny was captured. The flashback shows the army's growing revolution and then cuts to Ginny's fate. Dragon learns that Ginny was captured because she caught the eye of a Celestial Dragon. Kuma runs through a burning battlefield, people asking where he came from and calling him huge, while the weight of Ginny's abduction drives him forward. Page 3: The Revolutionary Army eventually wins after three years of struggle, and people cheer that they could not have done it without the revolutionaries. Yet Ginny remains absent. It is explained that the enemy took her by surprise again and that she had been taken on a Government ship because the Celestial Dragon wanted her as his bride. Two years pass after Commander Ginny's kidnapping. A call reaches Dragon: Ginny says it is her and apologizes, saying she will not be able to return by ship. She has won herself out and would love to return, while the revolutionaries beg her forgiveness. The victory of the people is undercut by the personal tragedy of Ginny's forced captivity. Page 4: Around two years after Ginny's kidnapping, the Revolutionary Army hears that she has returned near Sorbet. Someone rushes to Kuma, saying it is Ginny and that she is on the line right now. Ginny says she finally made it back to the surface, but also reveals that she was thrown away because the Celestial Dragons did not want her around after she got sick. Kuma panics, asking what she is talking about and where she is so he can be there in an instant. Ginny stops him, saying she wanted to see everyone one last time but that this call will have to be their goodbye. She is at death's door and tells Kuma she is glad he cares about her, but he should not come when she looks like this. Page 5: Ginny's final call continues through the rain. She tells Dragon and Ivankov that Kuma has a big heart and asks them to take care of him for her. Kuma races toward Sorbet while the others shout for him to get out of the way and say there is only one place she would go now. Ginny tries to tell Kuma something important: "Kumachi, I just want you to know... I love you...!!" Kuma arrives back at the church in Sorbet, but Ginny is already gone. The people call out that Kuma is back and ask where Ginny is, expecting her to be there. Instead, Kuma finds only the aftermath of her return and the child she left behind. Page 6: Kuma learns that Ginny is gone and that her condition was caused by exposure to natural light. Her face, and eventually her whole body, turned blue in the sun and her skin hardened like stone. Kuma weeps in the church and asks what he could have done to help her, remembering Ginny's dream of getting married to him and asking whether it would make him happy. Ginny burned up her remaining time by crossing the ocean and exposing herself to the sun so she could bring her baby back home. Kuma finds the infant crying near Ginny's body and understands that she wanted to protect the child's safety even as the disease killed her. Page 7: In the church, Kuma wraps the baby in a blanket and mourns Ginny. He tells her, "You can rest now, Ginny... I swear... I'll raise her well." Kuma breaks down crying beside Ginny's grave, then begins caring for the infant with the help of the villagers. The people fuss over baby Bonney, correcting Kuma when he tilts the bottle too much and telling him she looks uncomfortable. They say she is so cute and joke that they cannot have Kuma smushing her in his sleep with that massive body. The page turns Ginny's death into Kuma's new vow: he will become Bonney's father and give her the love and protection Ginny could not live to provide. Page 8: Bonney grows up in the church under Kuma's care. As a baby she is called a heavy drinker while gulping milk, and Kuma laughs that she will be just as much of a glutton as Ginny was. As a little girl she says she is still hungry, is praised by the villagers, and happily calls Kuma "Daddy!"...