## One Piece Chapter 965: The Kurozumi Plot - Chapter: 965 - Pages: 0-16 - Characters: Capone Bege, Charlotte Chiffon, Kozuki Oden, Amatsuki Toki, Edward Newgate, Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, Marco, Kozuki Momonosuke, Izo, Marshall D. Teach, Kozuki Sukiyaki, Kurozumi Orochi, Shimotsuki Yasuie, Kinemon, Denjiro, Ashura Doji, Kurozumi Higurashi, Kurozumi Semimaru, Kozuki Hiyori, Gol D. Roger, Shanks, Buggy, Silvers Rayleigh, Scopper Gaban ### Summary Page 0: The cover presents Chapter 965, "The Kurozumi Plot." The cover story reads, "Gang Bege's 'Oh My Family' vol. 15: 'Do me a favor and keep it down. I'm tryna lie low here.'" Bege's group continues hiding and moving through Dressrosa while the cover serial advances separately from the main Wano flashback. Page 2: Oden's voyage continues, and the world keeps expanding before him. He learns that the world is made up of four regular seas and one long one, and he marvels, "And apparently it's as round as a marble! How wondrous!" Sitting with Toki, he compares the map to tiny Wano and asks, "So this is how small Wano is compared to the rest of the world, huh..." When he asks where she was born, Toki says she does not know; her parents always said their homeland was Wano, but she has nowhere else to go back to. Oden worries that the ship will not venture near Wano for some time. Toki smiles and tells him, "That's okay! When I'm with you, I feel like I've already reached my destination." Page 3: On Whitebeard's ship, Inuarashi drags Nekomamushi back while shouting, "Get back here, you stupid cat!" and someone asks where Lord Oden has gone. The ship suddenly breaks into action: "It's the Marines! Run!" Whitebeard had sworn enemies too, and the crew explains that even if they fight the Marines, more will come to take their place because the Marines are part of an organization that spans the whole world. Toki is stunned that her country is still free. Whitebeard tells Oden to judge the world for himself as they continue traveling, while others wonder if the enemy team has crazy people of its own. Page 4: In the second year of Oden's voyage, Toki gives birth aboard the Moby Dick. The crew shouts, "He's born!" and celebrates, "Hogya! Hogya!" Oden looks at his son and says that a name conveying invincibility would be better. Others throw out food-themed suggestions like "Tamago!" "Kombu!" "Chikuwa!" and "Tsukune!" but Oden raises the baby proudly and declares his name: "Kozuki Momonosuke!" As wanted posters spread for Oden abroad, Toki asks whether he should return to Wano soon for her and Momonosuke's sake. Oden says he has not yet found the answer he is looking for, and Toki agrees they will be fine. The crew notes that newspapers still never carry information about Wano, leaving Kinemon and the others unreachable. Page 5: As Whitebeard's crew grows, the idea of divisions is born. Someone asks, "You're appointing division captains?" and Whitebeard says they now have so many people that they will split into five divisions. Oden is assigned the second division, though he protests, "Er, I don't really want-- I mean..." and Whitebeard simply tells him, "Do it!" In another port, a desperate child begs, "Please! I don't have anywhere else to go!" Whitebeard takes him in as "another orphan," while Oden continues chasing his own answer. Even after seeing islands, battles, and strange phenomena, he thinks, "I still feel that I haven't seen enough! I haven't the slightest clue how to bring this adventure of mine to an end." Page 6: Meanwhile in Wano, something serious enough to call the daimyo of every village to the Flower Capital is happening. Lord Sukiyaki is deathly ill. He says that he would like Oden to continue after him as the next shogun, but since Oden is not currently in Wano, he will appoint a regent until Oden returns. The man he chooses is Orochi Kurozumi, whom Oden had doted on like a younger brother. The room erupts in shock: "Orochi?! Why are you--" and someone asks if he is like a younger brother to Oden. The appointment gives Orochi a legitimate step toward power. Page 7: Orochi performs humility before the gathered lords. He says, "Humbly accept this gracious opportunity to clear the maligned Kurozumi name." For being given such a chance, he claims he will remain indebted to Lord Sukiyaki and Lord Oden for as long as he lives. He says he will use his little capability "to prepare the throne for Oden's ascension" and swears, "I swear to serve as a mere puppet till the day Lord Oden returns!" When asked why he kept his Kurozumi identity secret, he apologizes. But in private, his apology becomes something darker, repeated under his breath as he grins: "I apologize..." Page 8: Orochi remembers the night his path changed. In the rain, an old woman cracked with laughter and told him, "I see it... I see the future!" She foretold, "You... will be shogun!" Orochi panicked and shouted, "Don't scare me like that, old lady! Who even are you?!" but her words lodged in him....