## One Piece Chapter 1015, pages 8-9: Chained - Chapter: 1015 - Pages: 8-9 - Characters: Kaido, Kin'emon, Kiku, Kanjuro, Momonosuke, Shinobu ### Summary Page 8: Back in the castle interior, first floor attic, the aftermath of Kaido's attack lies in rubble and dust. Kiku and Kanjuro's bodies are down, and Kin'emon is barely moving beneath the damage, shown only by a faint "Twitch twitch." Kaido stands over the wreckage with his kanabo, his silhouette and tail filling the room as smoke coils around him. Momonosuke and Shinobu have fled, but the devastation behind them is fresh: broken boards, shattered beams, fallen weapons, and bodies spread across the floor. Kaido's face tightens with grim irritation in the lower panels as he tracks the escape. There is almost no dialogue on this page, only the sound of ruin and the small sign that Kin'emon is not instantly dead. The stillness after the blow is more frightening than another speech, because Kaido has already decided that Momonosuke must not leave this room alive. Page 9: Kin'emon remembers a tender moment with the young Momonosuke. Momo once asked him, "I'm to call you father?" and Kin'emon answered, "Yes. We must hide your relation to Oden-sama!!" In the present, Momonosuke cries out, "Father!! Stop saying 'sama'!!" while Shinobu shouts, "Hey, Momonosuke...-sama!!" Kin'emon, remembering the role they played together, laughs in the memory, "Wahaha! Maybe we should switch roles?!" and tells the boy, "Pull yourself together, K... father!!" Now, however, Kaido stands over the wounded Kin'emon and asks, "What's the point in buying time? What's the point in trying to run?" Kin'emon, bleeding and exhausted, calls, "Momonosuke!!" while Momo screams back, "Father!!" The page shows why Kin'emon's sacrifice matters. The disguise of father and son began as a strategy, but over the long journey it became emotionally real enough for both of them to cling to it at the end.