## One Piece Chapter 972, pages 6-7: I Am Oden, and I Was Born to Boil - Chapter: 972 - Pages: 6-7 - Characters: Kozuki Oden, Kaido, Kurozumi Orochi, Kin'emon, Denjiro, Ashura Doji, Kanjuro, Raizo, Kikunojo, Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, Kawamatsu ### Summary Page 6: Oden declares that Wano, and the world itself, is waiting for a particular individual. When that person appears after traveling through 800 years of time, Wano must be a country that can welcome and support him. Oden says bluntly that Kaido and Orochi will kill him today, so he gives the task to his retainers: "I want you... to 'open' Wano for me!!" The retainers begin to protest because a third of the hour has already passed and he is still boiling, but the message lands. Oden is asking them to survive not for him alone, but for the future that he and Roger saw coming. Page 7: The retainers accept Oden's dream as their own. They answer, "If it's your dream... then it is ours too!!" and "If that's the case then we will do it with e-" but Oden cuts them off with a simple "Well said!!" The hour continues to burn away. The pot has become a deadly heated hell, and even the boiling oil itself seems to burn Oden, yet he does not die. The clock counts down: thirty minutes, ten minutes, five minutes, one minute, ten seconds, three seconds, one second. The crowd stares at a man who should already be dead and asks, "Even in this heat, you don't die? Who is this man?"