## One Piece Chapter 1048, pages 11-12: 20 Years - Chapter: 1048 - Pages: 11-12 - Characters: Kurozumi Orochi, Kozuki Toki, Ebisu Town Citizens, Wano Citizens, Orochi's Forces, Beast Pirates, Kozuki Hiyori, Denjiro ### Summary 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. Page 12: In the present, the burning Orochi lunges at Hiyori and calls her "Komurasaki," coughing, "Curse you!!" He roars, "Gufuhaha!! I'm taking you with me!! You shouldn't have underestimated the wrath of the Kurozumi clan!!" Hiyori screams as the flaming Yamata no Orochi form coils through the room. Orochi promises, "I'll be seeing you in hell," and raves about drinking together down there, while Hiyori remains pinned in the wreckage. A new presence notices that things are getting out of hand. The page folds the flashback's oppression back into the present: Orochi's whole regime may be collapsing, but his last instinct is still to drag Oden's daughter into death with him.