## One Piece Chapter 1038: Kid & Law vs. Big Mom - Chapter: 1038 - Pages: 0-13 - Characters: Vinsmoke Niji, Vinsmoke Yonji, Vinsmoke Judge, Vinsmoke Reiju, Germa 66, Raizo, Fukurokuju, Samurai, Beast Pirates, Straw Hat Allies, Tony Tony Chopper, Miyagi, Roronoa Zoro, Big Mom, Franky, Grim Reaper, Izo, Kikunojo, Kinemon, CP0, Whitebeard Pirates, Straw Hat Pirates, Yamato, Kazenbo, Kurozumi Orochi, Kurozumi Kanjuro, Eustass Kid, Trafalgar D. Water Law, Napoleon, Hera, Kid Pirates, Heart Pirates, Kaido, Monkey D. Luffy, Prometheus ### Summary Page 0: The title page reads "Chapter 1038: Kid & Law vs. Big Mom." It continues Germa 66's cold-blooded voyage, volume 3: "Niji & Yonji, captured in Chocolate Town on Cacao Island." The cover-story image shows wanted-style displays or public boards for Niji and Yonji while townspeople gather and Judge and Reiju appear in silhouette at the edges. This is official cover-story material rather than the chapter's main narrative, so it is kept as useful extra material. Page 1: Inside the castle on the third floor, the fire spreads around Raizo and Fukurokuju. Fukurokuju's head and body are burning, but he still demands, "Release your jutsu, Raizo... or we will both perish!!" Raizo, equally trapped and panting, refuses to be the first to give in. On the second floor, samurai and pirates panic as the flames trap them in a dead end. They shout that they must flee and that there is nowhere to go. The page shows the castle turning into a furnace while the two ninja stubbornly maintain their paralysis standoff, making their personal contest part of the broader disaster consuming Onigashima. Page 2: The ceiling begins coming down as the fire eats through the castle. Fighters scream that the ceiling is collapsing and that there are only a few stragglers moving. One of the Straw Hats' allies is identified among the fallen, and the panicked survivors say that, at this rate, countless people will burn to death and that dying in battle would be less cruel. The chaos is not limited to one faction: injured allies, Beast Pirates, and samurai are all caught under falling beams and spreading flames. The page emphasizes that the raid's victories over commanders do not matter if the castle itself becomes a death trap before anyone can escape. Page 3: On the live floor, people shout to get away from Big Mom and warn that they cannot get caught in the crossfire. Chopper has finally returned to normal after the side effects of his medicine made him withered and weak for a while. He says he has recovered, but he is worried about Zoro, whom Miyagi treated with the special remedy. Chopper explains that the super recovery also has a great cost: all the damage Zoro suffered will come back many times worse. He hopes Zoro has already won his fight, because before the medicine, Zoro's injuries were so bad he could not move, and if those wounds multiply, the aftermath could be catastrophic. Page 4: At the dome interior right brain tower, Zoro lies helpless after defeating King. Chopper's fear hangs over him as a dark, skeletal figure with a scythe appears above him. Zoro asks, "Who the hell are you?" while his body refuses to move. The figure looms like death itself, and Zoro tells it to stop and get away from him. Elsewhere, Franky searches through the burning wreckage, shouting, "Zoro, you bastard! Where'd you go?" The page turns Zoro's victory into a new immediate crisis: the cost of the medicine and the strain of Enma have left him unable to defend himself, while a death-like apparition closes in. Page 5: In the first floor attic, Izo drags himself through the wreckage, cursing Whitebeard's commanders as he decides he has to help the damned upstarts. Below, in basement level 1, he thinks about Kiku and Kinemon and says he hopes his actions allowed the two of them to escape. Izo is badly wounded and panting when he notices someone ahead. The page then reveals that he has crossed paths with CP0. One of the agents has been following the Straw Hats, while the other remains focused on the government's mission. Izo's duty to the alliance and his past as a Whitebeard commander put him directly in the way of the World Government's masked assassins. Page 6: Izo recognizes the masked agents as Cipher Pol, and they answer that they are from the Aegis 0 branch. One agent says he heard Izo was on the island and suggests they pretend they never saw each other, because technically they are not meant to let him off the hook for being a member of a notorious crew. The agents say their eyes are currently set on the Straw Hats. Izo lets them pass for a moment, saying he is sure they will meet again, but then stops them with the warning, "Stop, not another step..." The page sets up a confrontation between a wounded former Whitebeard commander and CP0, because Izo cannot simply let them continue toward Robin and the Straw Hats. Page 7: In the basement armory, Yamato races ahead of Kazenbo. The fire spirit swells above th...