## One Piece Chapter 970: Oden vs Kaido - Chapter: 970 - Pages: 0-15 - Characters: Capone Bege, Vito, Kozuki Oden, Kin'emon, Denjiro, Ashura Doji, Kanjuro, Raizo, Kikunojo, Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, Kawamatsu, Amatsuki Toki, Kozuki Momonosuke, Kozuki Hiyori, Kaido, Kurozumi Orochi, Hyogoro, Edward Newgate, Gol D. Roger, Shimotsuki Yasuie, Shinobu, Kozuki Sukiyaki, Fukurokuju, Kurozumi Higurashi ### Summary Page 0: The cover introduces Chapter 970, "Oden vs Kaido," with the cover story "Gang Bege's Oh My Family #19: Bege and Vito immobilized." Bege and Vito are held back in the cover serial while Gotti's situation continues elsewhere. This is useful extra material and does not advance the Wano flashback itself. Page 1: The counterattack begins with the sound of strings and footsteps, as Oden's retainers march out under the title call of "Au son de la contre-attaque!" Oden stands at the head of the group with the Nine Red Scabbards behind him, while Toki remains with Momonosuke and Hiyori. Momonosuke reads a book about swordsmanship, and the children watch their father leave. The mood is no longer humiliation or delay; Oden has chosen battle, and the samurai who followed him through disgrace now move as one. Page 2: Oden reaches the battlefield and finds Kaido waiting. Kaido says, "Here he is, what a surprise...!!" but Oden sees through the situation immediately. Kaido admits, "There might well be a spy inside your palace, Wororororo..." Oden explains that he was on his way to Kaido's deserted land to cut off his drunk head and that he did not plan an intense fight. Kaido answers that he does not want to transform his new home into a battlefield, so he came to meet Oden's group instead. The two forces face each other in the open, and the battle Oden tried to avoid has been forced upon him. Page 3: Oden realizes the five-year promise was a lie and shouts, "Kaido!!! It was all a lie, eh?" Kaido confirms it without remorse: "That's right... Wororo. It was all a lie." He explains that if Oden had teamed up with Hyogoro upon his return, the samurai and gangsters all over Wano could have gathered as enemies, and at that time Kaido's side was at a disadvantage. They were short on men, and a war then would have become excruciating for them. Oden understands that his years of endurance were used against him, giving Orochi and Kaido the time they needed to strengthen their hold on Wano. Page 4: Kaido describes what Oden could have been if he had stayed true to his name: a dangerous psycho who was not afraid of casualties. He says Oden is like Whitebeard and Roger, powerful but with a certain softness, because he chose the path that did not harm anybody. Kaido mocks the result: "You are the same!! The fool who dances and dances!!" Oden, naked, mocked, and despised for five years, stands before him with nothing left, not even his family's name's authority. Yet Oden does not regret the choice he made that day. Instead of arguing about the past, he says, "Let's talk about the imminent future, instead." Page 5: The Beasts Pirates roar with weapons raised, but Oden charges through them with his swords drawn. His eye is fixed on Kaido, and the Nine Red Scabbards follow behind him into the mass of enemies. The panel becomes a rush of bodies and blades: Oden cuts his way forward, while his retainers split the battlefield beside him. The battle is not a clean duel at first; it is a full clash of Oden's handful of samurai against Kaido's army. Page 6: Oden and the retainers carve through the enemy line. One voice orders, "March forward, step back Lord Oden!!" as men are thrown aside. Kaido's side begins to panic: "Wait, there are 'samurai' here?! Aren't they too strong?!" Another tries to restore order: "Do not panic, we outnumber them!!!" The faces of the Scabbards show no hesitation. They have waited through five years of shame and now fight with the pressure of everything Oden endured. Page 7: At Kuri, Yasuie arrives after receiving Oden's letter. He says, "I received Oden's letter. He asked me for help... because his wife and children are in danger...!!" He sits with Toki and the children, and asks about Momonosuke's age. Then he gives the grim instruction: "O-Toki, you must prepare yourself... If Oden is beaten... then it would be the end... of this country!!" The battle outside Wano's walls is not just a fight for Oden's pride; if he loses, Wano itself will lose its future. Page 8: Shinobu bursts into the battle, cutting through enemies and announcing herself with, "Forgive my impudence, but I came to your aid!!" Oden recognizes her and says, "Shinobu?!" She explains why she came: "You must have forgotten, but when lord Sukiyaki was still alive... I stayed on duty at the palace because I had faith in the return of the Kozuki family, but..." She has left the palace because Orochi's forces have finally swallowed it. The unexpected ally arrives not as a spy, but as someone whose loyalty to the Kozuki clan survived inside enem...