## One Piece Chapter 1030: The Impermanence of All Things - Chapter: 1030 - Pages: 0-14 - Characters: Brook, Army Ants, CP0, Scratchmen Apoo, X Drake, Inbi, Fuga, Zanki, Kaido, Samurai, Komachiyo, Tama, Nami, Usopp, Beast Pirates, Kin'emon, Hamlett, Kikunojo, Orochi, Kanjuro, Trafalgar D. Water Law, Kurozumi Clan, Kazenbo, Kozuki Momonosuke, Wano citizens, Fukurokuju, Kozuki Clan, Big Mom, Yamato, Eustass Kid, Napoleon, Hera, Prometheus ### Summary Page 0: The title and cover request page gives the chapter title as "Chapter 1030: The Impermanence of All Things*". The cover request by Ebi reads, "Brook carefully side steps a file of an army-ants." The translator note says the title quote is from the opening verse of the epic poem, "Heike Monogatari." This is cover-request material rather than chapter narrative, but it preserves the title, request, and translator note, so it is useful extra material. Page 1: Away from the battle, a CP0 agent reports by Den Den Mushi that the target is a Navy spy from what he can gather. In the Iwato Room, he says that is not important now and that all he cares about is whether the pirates and samurai want to take Kaido down. No matter how the war ends, he says, the winner is not coming out unscathed and the survivors will be easy pickings. Elsewhere, Scratchmen Apoo approaches Drake with Numbers Inbi, Fuga, and Zanki behind him. Apoo proposes, "How 'bout it? We could team up, swoop in and steal victory at the last moment!!" Drake answers that neither of them has a horse in the race and there is no point in going at each other. Apoo says opportunities like this only come around once in a lifetime. Page 2: Drake says he is speechless and asks whether Apoo honestly thinks Drake would trust him. Apoo snaps that trust has nothing to do with it and argues the arrangement would be mutually beneficial. The scene then shifts to the stairs between the first and second floors, where allies cough through spreading smoke and fire. Someone urges Komachiyo to hang in there, while others shout that the fire is spreading fast and they need to hurry. The page moves from opportunistic scheming to the immediate survival problem inside the burning castle. Page 3: Nami, Usopp, and Tama react in alarm when a strange crawling half-body appears, with someone yelling, "Gyaaah!! A yokai!!" and "A torso-less yokai!!" The lower half calls, "Somebody help me! Poot!" Usopp realizes it is Kin'emon and asks what he is doing. The half-body insists, "This is Kin'emon!! I need to find my allies!! Poot!" Usopp protests that he is Usopp, but the lower half cannot recognize him properly. The page turns Kin'emon's survival into slapstick horror: his severed lower half has found the crew and is desperately trying to reach help. Page 4: Nami and Usopp realize Kin'emon is bleeding heavily and ask whether he is all right. Usopp notes that this half of him has no ears and cannot hear. Kin'emon finally recognizes Usopp and says the crescent mark is the mark of the rebellion. He says he has finally found one of them and has an urgent request: there is a passage on the first floor that leads to the attic of the left tower. He tells Hamlett to go with him and the others to stay with Tama. Hamlett complains that Usopp just cannot get enough of him, but Kin'emon says he is in Usopp's debt and calls him a true friend. Page 5: Kin'emon explains that Kiku is barely clinging to life and begs, "Please save her, I implore you...!!" In the attic area, Kiku lies wounded while Kin'emon's upper half thinks that he still cannot believe he survived being severed in two. He says Law-dono did not completely reattach his body before, and now he prays that Kiku will be spared. A Den Den Mushi rings, and Kin'emon recognizes Orochi's voice, noting that Orochi seems unaware of Kanjuro's demise but that he was beheaded. The page reveals that Kin'emon is trying to save Kiku while another old enemy is still moving in the shadows. Page 6: Kin'emon answers the call by pretending to be Kanjuro, saying, "I am here... Orochi-sama..." Orochi says it sounds like Kanjuro is at the brink and praises his performance as masterful, while Kanjuro's voice says he has nothing but praise for Orochi as well. Orochi asks whether Kanjuro can hear the cheers he earned and says their ancestors remain unsatisfied, demanding a stupendous encore. He tells Kanjuro to use his painting to depict the burning wrath of the Kurozumi clan, to consume everyone in the clan's vengeance, and to drag all the stragglers in the castle into the abyss of hell. Orochi ends with, "Free their souls, Kanjuro... Free us in a final blaze of glory!!" Page 7: Kanjuro accepts Orochi's request: "As you wish... Please enjoy my final show... The suicide pact of the Kurozumi clan." His last painting rises from the wreckage as a huge burning specter. People scream and warn, "Don't touch it! You'll be roasted!!" and ask what the monster is. The creature is named "Kazenbo." The page turns Kanjuro's d...