## One Piece Chapter 942: Yasuie Shimotsuki, Daimyo of Hakumai - Chapter: 942 - Pages: 0-15 - Characters: Charlotte Mont-d'Or, Shimotsuki Yasuie, Kozuki Oden, Kozuki Sukiyaki, Komurasaki, X Drake, Tonoyasu, Kurozumi Orochi, Shutenmaru, Kaido, Kin'emon, Kozuki Momonosuke, O-Toko, Roronoa Zoro, Kozuki Hiyori ### Summary Page 0: The cover request shows Mont d'Or carefully selecting cheeses from the World Cheese Encyclopedia while mouse sommeliers carefully select wine from the World Wine Encyclopedia. Mont d'Or sits surrounded by books, bottles, and cheese as if conducting a refined tasting, while the mice imitate the same scholarly seriousness around their own wine choices. It is not part of the chapter plot, but it is useful official cover art featuring Mont d'Or's bookish theme. Page 2: The story turns back to the past, when Hakumai alone among Wano's regions had a true harbor, where good and bad ships alike arrived. Yasuie taught that this made Hakumai the gateway of the country and that its samurai had to be an iron force of righteousness. His men roared with pride at the sight of Wano's fearless samurai. Yet Yasuie also understood the burden placed on Oden: the whole country spoke of the passing of Sukiyaki Kozuki, but if Oden lost himself in admiration and self-pity, Yasuie would rise as shogun instead. Oden, driven out of the castle and singing that his blood meant nothing now, was still reminded that he remained the son of the shogun. Page 3: Yasuie beat sense into Oden with the blunt affection of a lord who expected more from him. He called him an imbecile and told him that the future of the Kozuki clan would one day rest on his shoulders. When Oden protested that he wanted to sail the seas and that isolationism was terribly stifling, Yasuie silenced him until he proved himself a warrior. Lord Sukiyaki's disownment, Yasuie said, was strictness born of love. He demanded that Oden show his true worth. From the crowd below the execution platform in the present, people cry out that they were born in Hakumai and are glad Lord Yasuie is still safe. Page 4: The present reveals how far Yasuie has fallen in appearance and status. People ask if the bound man is truly the former daimyo of Hakumai, Yasuie Shimotsuki himself, now living as a jester in Ebisu Town. The authorities announce that the man committed robbery in the town just last night, has terrorized the capital as Midnight Boy, and is sentenced to execution as a sacrifice to die alongside the courtesan Komurasaki. Some in the crowd think it must be a lie; they expected him to die anyway, but he says he might as well claim a little fame on the way out. Page 5: Drake reports that the townspeople of Ebisu have made their way into the Flower Capital. The officials realize Yasuie is far more important than they imagined. At the entrance to the capital, the people of Ebisu beg to see him, crying, "Let us see Tonoyasu!" and "Yasu! You can't die on us!" Guards try to turn them back and call them paupers, but the townspeople shout that if Yasu goes, no one will support them. Their loyalty makes clear that the penniless people do not see him as a thief; they see him as the man who kept them alive. Page 6: Yasuie laughs that the illustrious shogun is an utter fool. Orochi's decision to broadcast the execution may cause riots, but Yasuie turns the broadcast into a stage. The guards warn him to watch out, and the people bristle at his words, but he tells everyone to look around at the beauty of the Flower Capital and the splendor of Wano. Standing before the gathered city, he begins to speak not as a condemned thief but as a former daimyo addressing the country. Page 7: Yasuie says the vistas and citizens of Wano are its pride, protected for generations by the Kozuki family. Orochi, riding toward Rasetsu Town, hears the words and snarls, "Orochi Kurozumi... that bastard." His men hurry him along, warning that Yasuie has started blathering. Yasuie then turns the accusation directly on Orochi: "Do you hear me, Orochi?! These vast forests! The prairies! The rivers and the villages! All you have done is sully them with the dirt of your greed!" Page 8: The crowd is stunned by Yasuie's insult. Some call him a pest, others plead with him to stop and curse him for saying too much. Yasuie refuses to back down. He brings up the picture puzzle card that has caused so much commotion and says he must apologize to everyone for it. The Kozuki name has been dead for twenty years, he claims, with no forces left to carry out revenge, and therefore the supposed secret signal was nothing more than his doing. He declares, "I made this!" while thinking of the disgrace the Kozuki loyalists have suffered. Page 9: Yasuie calls the whole affair a prank. Twenty years after Oden died, Orochi had asked the four remaining daimyo whether they would serve the Kurozumi name or fight. To the crowd's shock, Yasuie describes himself as the man who was indebted beyond measure to Oden. Shutenmaru a...