## One Piece Chapter 1048, pages 2-3: 20 Years - Chapter: 1048 - Pages: 2-3 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Kaido, Kozuki Oden, Wano Citizens ### Summary Page 2: Kaido and Luffy face each other in the sky beneath the enormous fist. Kaido looks up and accepts the challenge: "Very well. I'll take this one head on." Luffy, still poised above the island, smiles when Kaido says, "Have you heard, Straw Hat?" He begins invoking the past: "This country's hero... burned to death... 20 years ago!!" The page sets Kaido's final answer to Luffy's giant punch as both physical and ideological. Rather than dodge, he chooses to meet it directly while using Oden's execution and Wano's two decades of suffering to frame the clash. Page 3: Kaido transforms his dragon body into a blazing form and declares, "Flaming Drum Dragon!!" A note explains that the kanji means "great blazing dragon torch" and that it sounds like "Kane Daiko," the flaming drum from a classic rakugo tale. Kaido says that Wano has been a lawless land since Oden died and that the people waited all this time for their "saviors" to show up. Luffy tells him, "Don't worry, it's okay to let go. I assure you, I won't run!" and trusts that his right hand will not crash down on the capital because he is going to vaporize Kaido. The page raises both attacks to apocalyptic size.