## One Piece Chapter 943: SMILE - Chapter: 943 - Pages: 0-17 - Characters: Nico Robin, Shimotsuki Yasuie, Kozuki Oden, Kin'emon, Kanjuro, Raizo, Shinobu, Kawamatsu, O-Toko, Roronoa Zoro, Kurozumi Orochi, Kozuki Hiyori, Monkey D. Luffy, Hyogoro, Kaido, Shutenmaru, Inuarashi, Sanji, Donquixote Doflamingo, X Drake, Queen, King, Komurasaki ### Summary Page 0: The cover request shows Robin knitting with thread spun by a tarantula. Robin sits calmly in a bright room, working the needles while the spider provides the thread, and the scene turns an unsettling creature into a quiet domestic helper. It is not part of the chapter plot, but it is useful official cover art featuring Robin. Page 2: Long ago in Hakumai, Oden and his rough followers kept troubling Yasuie. When they tried to steal a large sum, Yasuie did not merely punish them; he gave them even more money and told them to spend it on themselves as his treat. The men panicked, thinking it had to be a trap, but Yasuie explained that if layabouts like them stayed as Oden's ministers, Oden's honor would be nothing. They were to learn manners, buy books, educate themselves, and use that money to take back their lives. Oden, who had been saved by Yasuie, asked whether they liked Oden. Yasuie answered that of course he did, and that Oden had saved his life. Page 3: Yasuie declared that Oden would one day be shogun of Wano and that none but the best samurai should stand at his side. He told the retainers that they must not only protect their lord, but the capital itself, because eventually the country would rest in their hands. In the present, those words strike the surviving allies as they watch him die. The guardian deities of Wano hear him; Raizo, Shinobu, Kawamatsu, and others all understand that the man on the platform is still carrying Oden's future on his shoulders. They call out, "Lord Yasuie!" Page 4: At Rasetsu Town prison house in the Flower Capital, Yasuie is dead, yet laughter spreads through the crowd. People mock that Yasu is dead and order the fools from Ebisu kicked out. Others are horrified, saying Lord Yasuie was just killed and the idiots are laughing. One man calls it Shogun Orochi's gravest sin. O-Toko cries for her father while her face laughs helplessly. Zoro watches the grotesque scene, and the laughter around a public execution becomes more disturbing than the death itself. Page 5: Yasuie's body lies before the prison, and Hiyori explains the cruelty behind the laughter. The people are trapped in misery yet prevented from truly expressing it. O-Toko sobs, "Zorojuro, please... If this is not hell, then... what is?" Zoro realizes the truth: SMILE is not just a synthetic Devil Fruit. Orochi, riding nearby, laughs that Yasuie's end is fitting and calls him a hedge-rat, delighted that someone he hated still spent his final moments in Wano. The grief of Ebisu is being twisted into a joke before everyone. Page 6: Orochi orders everyone to laugh, smile, and send Yasuie off with cheer, calling Wano bright and mirthful. Zoro and the others arrive too late, and the people of Ebisu collapse around their beloved friend. Hiyori kneels in tears, while others wheeze, laugh, and mourn at the same time. Lord Yasuie is gone, and one man says he was a fool for not knowing it was him until he had already been crucified. The forced laughter turns the mourning into something unbearable. Page 7: At Udon prisoner mine, the broadcast shows people laughing as their former daimyo is executed before their eyes. The prisoners shout that the Ebisu people have lost their minds and call Orochi cruel. Luffy, swollen from food and furious, says there is no one out there whose death should be laughed at. Hyogoro, however, sees the reason: some people there cannot do anything but smile. He identifies it as the SMILE fruits at work. The tragedy reaches Udon clearly enough for Luffy to understand that the laughter is not joy. Page 8: On Onigashima, Kaido laughs at Orochi's cruelty and calls him sick. In Bakura Town, Shutenmaru asks Inuarashi and Kin'emon whether they know of the SMILE fruit. The smiles of Ebisu Town, he says, are only masks that can never be removed. The truth that Hiyori hinted at now spreads across the allies: what looks like cheerfulness is not happiness at all, but a permanent wound caused by Kaido and Orochi's artificial fruit scheme. Page 9: A few years earlier, Kaido and Orochi began trading Wano's weapons for artificially made synthetic fruits called SMILEs. Sanji remembers hearing from Kin'emon that these are synthetic Devil Fruits, the kind whose factory the Straw Hats destroyed. In return for the terrible curse of a Devil Fruit, the fruit grants the feral power of a beast to those who succeed. Kaido aimed to use them to strengthen his followers and build the most fearsome pirate crew in the world. But these fruits carried a catch. Page 10: The artificial power works only for about ten percent of those who eat it. If ten men eat the flesh of the f...