## One Piece Chapter 974: Onward to Onigashima!! - Chapter: 974 - Pages: 0-14 - Characters: Gotti, Chiffon, Denjiro, Kozuki Hiyori, Kurozumi Orochi, Kozuki Oden, Kaido, Kin'emon, Kanjuro, Raizo, Kikunojo, Kozuki Momonosuke, Kozuki Toki, Kurozumi Higurashi, Kurozumi Semimaru, Monkey D. Luffy, Trafalgar Law, Kawamatsu, Inuarashi, Ashura Doji, Shimotsuki Yasuie, Jack, Eustass Kid ### Summary Page 0: Cover page. Chapter 974 is titled "Onward to Onigashima!!" The cover story continues with "Gang Bege's Oh My Family, Vol. 22: Gotti saves Chiffon from the Marines!" Gotti charges through the Marines with Chiffon in his arms. Page 1: After long years in hiding, Denjiro speaks privately with Hiyori. He tells her, "Witching Hour-san, I got some money, so...!!" then corrects the plan with calm precision: "You're pushing yourself again... Alright, I will scatter them in Ebisu Town." Hiyori answers, "Yes." The two have hidden their identities for a long time. Denjiro warns her, "Please carry some blood in your kimono every day. Orochi has completely fallen in love with you, not knowing that you're Lord Oden's daughter... It must be hard for you!!" Hiyori stays silent. Denjiro adds that if something happens, they will separate "Komurasaki" from Orochi with "death." Hiyori tells herself to endure: "Just a little longer, just a little longer, it'll be fine... Just a little longer till... 20 years!!" Page 2: A few months earlier, news reaches Orochi that should be impossible. Someone reports, "They're here! The spirits are..." and another cries, "They really came back!" The truth of Toki's power strikes them: "Toki's power was very real!" Orochi and Kaido's men list the names with alarm: "Kinemon, Kanjuro, Raizo, Kikunojo, Momonosuke... Those 5...!!! They time-traveled here from that day 20 years ago!!!" They wonder, "Does an ability like that really exist? They came from that burning castle?!" Orochi orders caution, not mercy: "In that case, make sure you don't kill them. If they are actually alive, then I have something that I have wanted to ask the remnants of the Kozuki for the last 20 years." He also orders, "Continue to keep watch at the coast!!!! There should be some fellows entering this country." When asked if someone is just messing with him because he is scared, Orochi insists, "There's no doubt about this!!! Look at it, this letter!!!" Page 3: The old Kurozumi conspirators reveal the origin of their future spy. The old woman says of the boy, "This guy can be trusted. He was born in a public theater... and lost his parents on stage due to Wano country's persecution!!!" She explains the wound that made him hollow: "It's the clan who killed the daimyos! The man who only knows the way to live on stage." The old man confirms his bloodline: "You are the descendant of the head Kurozumi family?!" and the boy answers that he got rid of the people who killed his parents. The old woman says, "But it's only the prologue of this story of revenge!!!" The boy, already empty, is given a role grand enough to consume him: "That's the important role that's given to you on this grand stage!! Can you do it...?" He is told to "live as a real 'Kozuki'!!" and "die as one, without anyone noticing it!!" Page 4: The young Kanjuro accepts the role without resistance. He says, "I've been looking a place to die... I'm honored." To him, "to completely become something in it's entirety" is "his only source of pleasure!!!" In the present explanation, Orochi explains how the deception worked. Every time Kanjuro went to Oden's castle to borrow money, he took double what he needed from his safe and was able to join hands with Orochi precisely because he had those funds. The peak of his madness came when he legitimately intended to die with Oden and the others during the execution. Orochi says the information Kanjuro supplied on Oden's raid was useful, but Kanjuro had no emotions and, before he was stopped, genuinely lived as one of Oden's vassals. The only thing he did was slowly but surely feed Orochi information, and he did it with such devotion that Orochi found it creepy. Page 5: The story returns to the present Flower Capital. Twenty years have passed since Kozuki Oden's tragic death. The deep-rooted fate between the Kozuki clan, the Kurozumi family, and the pirate Kaido has moved from old legend into the present day. The legendary samurai has been spoken of from generation to generation, and now the samurai flung twenty years into the future have gathered allies willing to risk their lives. Their purpose is clear: to fulfill Kozuki Oden's dream of opening Wano's borders. Page 6: At dusk on the day of the Fire Festival, the raid should begin. The forces that are meant to fight are ready: "Who stood up for them!! Weapons and ships are ready!!!" and again, "Who stood up for them! Weapons and ships are ready!!!" Yet that is only what was planned. Instead, under the storm, Momonosuke and the retainers are left in a small boat in violent seas. T...