## One Piece Chapter 1041, pages 12-14: Komurasaki - Chapter: 1041 - Pages: 12-14 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Kaido, Big Mom, Eustass Kid, Trafalgar D. Water Law, Rocks Pirates ### Summary Page 12: On the rooftop, Luffy and Kaido both feel the shock of Big Mom's defeat. Luffy pants from the battle and asks whether Kaido felt that. Kaido calls out, "Linlin!!" and realizes, "They beat her!!" Luffy says Jaggy and the others really are amazing, and Kaido, in his weeping drunk phase, laughs and cries that Kid and Law actually did it. The two opponents face each other over the wrecked roof, both exhausted but still standing. Kaido asks whether Luffy's mouth is just for show and whether he knows how to speak, while Luffy breathes hard. The page lets Big Mom's fall echo into the main fight: Kaido has lost his old ally, and Luffy sees proof that the raid is finally turning. Page 13: Kaido remembers first meeting a young Big Mom. She was fifteen and called him too young, saying it was his first time teaming up with Rocks. She introduced herself proudly: "The name's Linlin!! I'm the woman who'll rule these seas!!" In the present, Kaido says she is a good-for-nothing and that he does not trust her, but he also remembers that she told him to come to her if something was bugging him. He says that now that he thinks about it, he and the old hag have a lot of history together. In a weeping drunk panel, Kaido cries, "How could I let this happen... We just swore that we'd help each other get the One Piece!" The page humanizes his reaction to Big Mom's defeat without softening the danger he still poses. Page 14: Luffy pushes forward into Gear Fourth, declaring, "Gear Fourth! Snakeman!!" as he prepares another barrage. Kaido tells him not to talk about dreams, saying Luffy's dreams made the people of this country starve. Luffy answers by unleashing a rapid stream of punches, beginning "Gomu Gomu no..." while Kaido tries to track where the blows are coming from. Luffy says he is giving Gear Fourth one last go and that he will not stop swinging until he has nothing left. The punches bend and whip around Kaido, battering him from multiple directions. The page shows Luffy turning the last of his stamina into a decisive assault, using Snakeman's speed and irregular angles to overwhelm Kaido's guard.