## One Piece Chapter 1024, pages 13-15: Nobody Important - Chapter: 1024 - Pages: 13-15 - Characters: Yamato, Samurai, Kozuki Oden, Kaido ### Summary Page 13: Instead of killing Yamato, the samurai offer the rice. One says, "Please eat," and when Yamato stares in disbelief, another says that samurai do not get hungry. Yamato cries, "But I'm... starving!!" and one samurai answers gently, "Eat up. You were born into quite the family, weren't you?" Yamato eats the rice with tears and snot running down his face, then holds up the empty bowl and says, "Thank you, samurai!! I'll remember this bowl... for the rest of my life!!" After being fed, Yamato asks whether even someone who gets hungry can become a samurai. The page becomes the emotional heart of the flashback: the samurai respond to Kaido's cruelty with compassion and give Yamato a model of honor that has nothing to do with strength alone. Page 14: Young Yamato introduces himself to the samurai with embarrassment: "Huh, how is a disgraced samurai meant to introduce himself? I'm... nobody important... Hehe!" Yamato asks whether the samurai knew Kozuki Oden and whether they were his friends, saying that Kaido captured all of them too. Yamato then shows them a book and says, "I want to read this logbook, but there are lots of big words." One samurai recognizes it immediately: "Is that Oden's navigation log?!" Yamato smiles while the samurai gather around. Later, after days pass, Yamato has been reading Oden's words and says that when the time comes he will fight for Wano, then go out to sea and become much, much stronger. The page shows how Oden's log and the imprisoned samurai give Yamato a future to believe in. Page 15: After ten days in the cave, the samurai watch over Yamato and discuss the future battle Oden predicted in twenty years. Yamato asks whether they would really leave Kaido's child to die, but one samurai says that if this keeps up, Yamato will not be going to sea or fighting in the battle that Oden predicted. He decides that twenty years is a little too long for them to wait, but they can still contribute to that future battle by ensuring Yamato's survival. Yamato looks up in shock as the samurai prepare to act. The page reframes their choice as a sacrifice across time: they may not live to see the prophesied dawn, but they can protect the child who might carry their will into it.