## One Piece Chapter 968: Oden's Return - Chapter: 968 - Pages: 0-17 - Characters: Gotti, Charlotte Chiffon, Gol D. Roger, Shanks, Kozuki Oden, Silvers Rayleigh, Scopper Gaban, Buggy, Sea Kings, Shyarly, Izo, Crocus, Edward Newgate, Amatsuki Toki, Kozuki Momonosuke, Kozuki Hiyori, Kin'emon, Kanjuro, Raizo, Kikunojo, Ashura Doji, Denjiro, Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, Kurozumi Orochi, Kozuki Sukiyaki, Shimotsuki Yasuie, Kaido, Kawamatsu ### Summary Page 0: The cover introduces Chapter 968, "Oden's Return," with the cover story "Gang Bege's Oh My Family Vol. 17: 'Save the lady! Gotti!!'" Gotti races through a town while someone cries "HELP!" and the side text advertises, "No one can stop my enthusiasm! The Wano Arc is at it's climax! Treasured volume 95 is now on sale!" This page is a cover serial extra and does not advance Oden's flashback directly. Page 2: After Roger returns from Laugh Tale, Redtaro asks him several questions and then begins to cry. The narration turns outward: with the birth of the "Pirate King," the whole world is in an uproar, and the Navy immediately takes action. Roger is now named by the world itself. People shout, "'Wealth,' 'fame,' 'power.' The man who obtained everything, 'Pirate King' Gold Roger!!" Others laugh at the title, saying, "It's Gol D. Roger!! ...But 'Pirate King' isn't bad at all!!" and "Seems that's what the World Government is calling you now. If they're hiding your name like that, they must know its true meaning...!!" Page 3: The world starts calling Roger's treasure "ONE PIECE!!" though Roger and his crew know that outsiders have no idea what they are talking about. Roger laughs, "They have no idea! Hahaha haha!" and tells his crew, "The whole world is after us, Roger... but thanks to that title, that treasure is all ours!" The age of pursuit begins instantly: pirates scream, "Guys! Let's kill Roger!" "Locate Roger, now!" and "We'll take everything Gold Roger has!" Yet Roger faces his crew with gratitude, saying, "Looking back, it's a total miracle. I didn't have much time left, yet we came this far!! It's all thanks to you guys!" When someone calls him formal, the men answer in their rough way: "You're making us blush! You bastard!" Page 4: Roger gives the words his crew has been waiting for and fearing: "The Roger Pirates!! Are hereby disbanded!!" His men collapse into tears, even while someone urges, "Well, say it already!!" and "C'mon, Captain!! We can take it!!" Far below the sea, the Sea Kings speak of the future. They say, "Our kings are soon to be born... They'll be born!!" Another voice says, "Looks like one will come from a far away sea..." and "I'm sure the whales will be happy too... On the day our two kings finally meet again..." They have waited so long, but the time is still ahead: "Even if it takes ten years until they're born... Even if they take another fifteen to grow strong... This time, things will surely work out... Now it's just a little longer..." Page 5: The same voices convince Roger and Oden that they are too early. Someone asks, "Who's there?! Where's that voice coming from?!" and Shyarly's prophecy is remembered: "Hey Shyarly, maybe you could tell us when Poseidon will be born?" "10 years." The voices say, "Those voices... they must be telling the truth. Someone will be born that is going to surpass even us!" Roger states plainly, "We... were too early." He wonders about the treasure: "One Piece... who do you think will find it?" and then answers with absolute faith, "Why, my son obviously!" Oden asks where he is going to find a son, and Roger laughs that he can always make one. Then he gives Oden his order: "After that, take Oden back to Wano Kuni!" and the crew drinks again as Roger says he will be first to get off and head to a sea with no Marine in sight. Page 6: Before leaving, Roger asks whether Izo is going back to Wano too, but Izo says no. He wants to meet "Whitey-chan" one more time before he bites the dust, and Roger accepts it: "He is part of their family now. Tell him to take care of Whitey-chan for me." Roger receives words from "Dark King" Rayleigh, his first mate, and a large amount of medicine from the ship's doctor, Crocus, though Oden notes that the illness is already beyond curing. Then Roger departs. The farewell is a man's farewell: "There should be no tears." "The men of the Pirate King's crew... do not cry!" The words are proud, but the faces show grief anyway. Page 7: At the coast of Wano, the ship confronts the violent waterfall and whirlpools guarding the isolated country. One man calls it "an impressive mess" just from trying to enter Wano. Oden explains that if a ship chooses the wrong current, it will be destroyed before reaching the country, but those waters also prove that Wano's closed borders exist for a reason. He declares, "The day 'Joyboy' finally appears...!!! But they will open those borders..." Oden leaves the crew smiling, not because he expects safety, but because he believes they will meet again:...