## One Piece Chapter 1044, pages 4-5: Warrior of Liberation - Chapter: 1044 - Pages: 4-5 - Characters: Five Elders, Sun God Nika, Monkey D. Luffy, Kurozumi Orochi, Kozuki Hiyori, Kozuki Oden, Kaido, People of Wano ### Summary Page 4: The Five Elders describe Nika's power as "the most ridiculous power in the world!!" They say its user's body gains the properties of rubber in combat, and that awakening exponentially strengthens that rubbery body and grants even more freedom. Far and wide, they say, Nika was the embodiment of "the warrior of liberation," putting smiles on faces. While the explanation continues, the chapter cuts back to the treasure repository on the second floor, where Orochi calls for Hiyori and begs that it was all Kaido using him. He says he always admired Oden, but Hiyori calmly asks who would still believe him after he spat in the face of a samurai he owed. She says her father kept his promise, did he not? Page 5: Hiyori recounts Oden's sacrifice to Orochi. She says Oden danced like a fool for five long years because he believed Orochi and Kaido would honor their secret arrangement and free Wano, yet he never even told his own family. He still expected the same of Orochi when he agreed to let the hostages go. Hiyori says her father was a man who kept his word, even while he withstood being boiled for an entire hour and his body burned by oil. Despite everything, Oden always smiled, but she cannot even fathom the suffering he carried by himself because the entire nation was held hostage. Orochi, cornered and pinned, can only ask what is the matter with Hiyori as she keeps playing and laying out his crimes.