## One Piece Chapter 1048, pages 10-11: 20 Years - Chapter: 1048 - Pages: 10-11 - Characters: Kurozumi Orochi, Kaido, Beast Pirates, Orochi's Forces, Wano Workers, Wano Citizens, Kozuki Toki, Ebisu Town Citizens ### Summary Page 10: Wano is transformed into an industrial prison. Orochi orders his men to track down every able-bodied young man and bring them in, while smokestacks rise across the country and someone declares, "This entire country will become our weapons factory!!" Workers are beaten and chained while families cry, "Daddy!!!" and beg, "Wait! Please don't take him!!" The land dries out beneath factory pollution: people ask why the river has gone dark, say there is no more drinking water, and cry that the crops will not grow and there is nothing left to eat. The page shows Wano's suffering as deliberate policy: people, water, farmland, and labor are all consumed for weapons. Page 11: Orochi's rule grinds the country down further. Guards tell workers, "If you can still breathe, you can still work!!" and warn them not to count on miracles, because the borders are staying closed. The citizens try to endure by believing in Toki's words, saying it will be a long winter. Orochi and his followers mock starving people who ate the leftovers of defective SMILE fruits, calling them gluttonous fools. They decide to make the rest of Ebisu Town follow suit, and say the victims' beliefs will stay empty while their loved ones keel over, because they will be able to do nothing except grin brightly and never stop laughing. The page defines the cruelty behind Wano's forced laughter.