## One Piece Chapter 1043: We Die Together!! - Chapter: 1043 - Pages: 0-14 - Characters: Vinsmoke Niji, Vinsmoke Yonji, Germa 66, Big Mom Pirates, Monkey D. Luffy, Kaido, CP0, Kozuki Momonosuke, Yamato, Kawamatsu, Samurai, Beast Pirates, Alliance Fighters, Nami, Trafalgar D. Water Law, Eustass Kid, Kid Pirates, Heart Pirates, People of Wano, Big Mom, Zunesha, Joy Boy ### Summary Page 0: The title page reads "Chapter 1043: We Die Together!!" It continues Germa 66's cold-blooded voyage, volume 7: "Arriving at Whole Cake Island." The cover-story image shows a giant Whole Cake Island figure and a book-like transport carrying the captured Vinsmoke brothers into Big Mom's territory. This is official cover-story material connected to Germa 66 and the aftermath of Whole Cake Island rather than the Wano rooftop battle, so it is retained as useful extra context. Page 1: The chapter opens on the immediate aftermath of Kaido's overwhelming blow to Luffy. The spiked club comes down with crushing force, and Luffy coughs as he is driven into the broken rooftop. Kaido's attack continues through the debris while the CP0 agent who interfered stands nearby, silent and grim. Luffy's body is limp after the hit, and Kaido's expression is not triumphant so much as hollow and disturbed. The page carries the weight of the previous chapter's unfair interference: Kaido has landed the decisive strike, but because CP0 froze Luffy in place, the victory has the same bitter taste as Kaido's old battle with Oden. Page 2: Kaido stands over the crater and pants while the CP0 agent watches from the side. The agent says nothing, but the situation tells him everything: he has completed the Five Elders' impossible order by interrupting Luffy's final attack. Kaido glares down at the fallen Luffy, then the smoke and Haki around the battlefield begin to settle. Momonosuke suddenly reacts from below, saying, "What?!" as he senses the impossible. He tells Yamato, "Luffy's voice... it's gone...?!" The page shifts the meaning of Luffy's defeat from physical damage to spiritual silence. In the world of Observation Haki and the Voice of All Things, Luffy's voice disappearing reads like death. Page 3: The rooftop battle is formally declared over. A narration box identifies the Skull Dome rooftop battle and announces the victor: "Kaido, 'King of the Beasts.'" Luffy lies motionless in the rubble while Kaido breathes heavily nearby. The CP0 agent stands alone on the roof, and Kaido turns toward him with a grim question: "Do you know what you've done...?" The agent's silence says that he does. Kaido's weapon hangs in the air as the mood becomes more terrifying than celebratory. The page confirms the worst possible outcome for the alliance: Luffy has lost, Kaido is the official winner, and even Kaido himself understands that the victory has been polluted by outside interference. Page 4: Kaido descends through the skull dome with a devastating crash, causing the ceiling and debris to fall. The surviving fighters below shout, "There's no end to it!!" and warn that the ceiling is coming down. The CP0 agent remains inside the castle corridors, silent after carrying out his mission. Kawamatsu is warned to move as rubble rains around him. The page moves the rooftop defeat into the wider raid: Kaido's return is not a distant announcement, but a physical disaster that shakes the whole dome. The alliance had been fighting through fire and collapsing floors already, and now the victorious Emperor is coming down into the same space. Page 5: Kawamatsu shouts that thousands of comrades are still inside the burning castle and that there is no water around, because if Onigashima were not up in the sky they might have another option. Flames roar everywhere, and samurai beg everyone to find a way out, saying there is no honor in burning alive. The collapsing rubble and fire throw fighters through the air while panic spreads. This page grounds Kaido's return in the raid's practical crisis: even before his victory announcement, the alliance is trapped in a floating fortress with no easy escape, no water, and countless wounded people still inside. Defeating commanders has not solved the problem of survival. Page 6: Kaido appears in dragon form inside the dome and declares, "Straw Hat Luffy is dead!!" He asks where the alliance's leader is and demands that Momonosuke declare surrender. The Beast Pirates celebrate, shouting that Kaido has achieved total victory, while Luffy's allies refuse to believe it. Nami screams that Luffy cannot have lost and that he is not dead, while others cry that Luffy has been killed. Kid and Law's side says Straw Hat's voice has vanished, confirming what Momonosuke sensed. The page captures the emotional collapse of the raid's morale: for the enemies, Luffy's defeat is proof of victory, but for his friends it is an unbearable lie. Page 7: Kaido hears the refusal from below and says that some spirits still will not break. Nami calls him a liar and sa...