## One Piece Chapter 1022: The Stars Take the Stage - Chapter: 1022 - Pages: 0-14 - Characters: Tontatta Tribe, frog, Otama, Black Maria, Who's-Who, Ulti, Page One, Sasaki, Flying Six, Samurai, Beast Pirates, Onigashima, Kaido, Wano citizens, Raizo, Fukurokuju, Kurozumi Orochi, Oniwabanshu, Kozuki Oden, Momonosuke, Orochi, Nine Red Scabbards, Killer, Basil Hawkins, Eustass Kid, Trafalgar Law, Big Mom, King, Queen, Marco, Sanji, Tony Tony Chopper, Miyagi, Roronoa Zoro, Perospero, Charlotte Pudding, Nekomamushi, Pedro, Whitebeard Pirates, Hyogoro, Monkey D. Luffy, Straw Hat Pirates ### Summary Page 0: Chapter 1022 is titled "The Stars Take the Stage." The cover request by Rye reads: "A frog playing hide and seek with the Tontatta Tribe on hydrangea flowers." The Tontatta hide among large clusters of hydrangea blossoms while a cheerful frog searches around them. The page is not story action, but it preserves the chapter title and an official cover request featuring the Tontatta Tribe, so it is kept as useful extra material. Page 1: The battle summary opens with the raid still raging. The narration recalls that the samurai-pirate alliance began with an army of 5,400 against the Beast Pirates' 30,000-man crew, but after a valiant struggle and Otama's kibidango strategy, the disparity in military strength has shrunk. The page shows the defeated Flying Six across the map of Onigashima: Black Maria, Who's-Who, Ulti, Page One, and Sasaki are marked down, and the narration declares that "the mighty Flying Six... have been defeated!" The page frames the raid's momentum as a real shift. What began as a desperate assault by a much smaller force has now removed Kaido's elite Tobiroppo from the field, making the enemy army less overwhelming than it once seemed. Page 2: Onigashima itself continues drifting toward mainland Wano. The skull dome floats through the sky above the sea while the narration warns, "Now Onigashima... approaches mainland Wano." Only fifteen minutes remain until it reaches the Flower Capital. The page shows the gigantic island hanging over the land, with tiny figures below and the skull's face looming like a falling disaster. The raid is no longer only a battle inside Kaido's fortress; the fortress has become a weapon aimed at the capital. The page raises the pressure on every battlefield at once, because even if the alliance wins individual fights, they must still stop the island before it crushes the people below. Page 3: Inside the castle on the third floor, flames spread while Raizo confronts Fukurokuju. Someone shouts "Kurozumi Orochi!!" and another voice demands, "How could you swear allegiance to a man like him, Fukurokuju?!" Fighters cough and wheeze in the smoke, yelling "Fire!!" and "Put it out!!" Fukurokuju answers with ninja techniques rather than remorse. He uses "Ninpo: Clone Jutsu!" and creates multiple images of himself, then follows with "Ninpo: Earlobe Crackers!!" as his long earlobes lash outward like weapons. He declares that "the Oniwabanshu must always serve the current shogun," making his loyalty an institutional principle rather than a matter of conscience. The page sets Raizo's duty to Oden against Fukurokuju's loyalty to whoever holds power. Page 4: Fukurokuju attacks Raizo and mocks his loyalty. He asks where Raizo's loyalties lie, saying he is "clinging onto a ghost," and when Raizo asks whether he means Oden-sama, Fukurokuju snaps, "You've given away where your real body is!!" The earlobes strike and Raizo groans in pain. Fukurokuju then says Raizo was never suited to be a ninja, no matter how skilled he became at ninjutsu, because he always wore his heart on his sleeve. Raizo answers from the smoke that those feelings are the reason the retainers cannot rest. The page makes the duel ideological: Fukurokuju sees emotion as a fatal flaw for a shinobi, while Raizo treats the bond to Oden as the very thing that keeps him standing. Page 5: Raizo invokes the memory of Oden and the retainers' shared death-defying resolve. He says, "That day, we cried, laughed, and died alongside Oden-sama!!" and declares, "We are all ghosts, hell-bent on fulfilling our master's dream!!" The page cuts across wounded allied fighters and retainers as Raizo continues: "We are not here merely out of a sense of duty!! Every last one of us... is fighting because of that emotional bond!!" He says they cannot rest, even if the effort kills them, until they have seen the fight through. Tonight will mark the end of Orochi and Kaido's reign, and tomorrow will bring "a brilliant new dawn" with Momonosuke as shogun. Raizo's speech turns the Scabbards' grief into the future they are trying to secure. Page 6: On the third floor, the fight shifts to Killer versus Hawkins. Killer asks, "How many meat shields do you have left?!" while Hawkins, sweating but still composed, answers that there are not too many and says he really feels for Killer. Killer cuts through another straw doll with a heavy slash, but Hawki...