## One Piece Chapter 1024, pages 15-16: Nobody Important - Chapter: 1024 - Pages: 15-16 - Characters: Yamato, Samurai, Kaido, Kozuki Oden, Beast Pirates ### Summary Page 15: After ten days in the cave, the samurai watch over Yamato and discuss the future battle Oden predicted in twenty years. Yamato asks whether they would really leave Kaido's child to die, but one samurai says that if this keeps up, Yamato will not be going to sea or fighting in the battle that Oden predicted. He decides that twenty years is a little too long for them to wait, but they can still contribute to that future battle by ensuring Yamato's survival. Yamato looks up in shock as the samurai prepare to act. The page reframes their choice as a sacrifice across time: they may not live to see the prophesied dawn, but they can protect the child who might carry their will into it. Page 16: The samurai tell Yamato, "That's the spirit. In that case... we can make our contribution to that future battle by ensuring your survival." Yamato realizes what they intend and cries, "Samurai-san! If you do this, my father will--" but the samurai answer that they cannot sit there and starve like stray dogs and that they never had any intention of yielding. They smash out of the cave and charge into the open, while Beast Pirates report to Kaido that the samurai have broken out of Amano-wato. Even young Yamato begins to understand the weight of what they are doing, starting to say, "Even I..." The page shows the samurai choosing death over submission and choosing Yamato's survival as their way to help the future they will never see.