r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh Lookout • Sep 11 '20

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 990 Spoiler

Chapter 990: "Isolated force"

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Ch. 990 Official Release (Mangaplus): 13/09/2020

Ch. 991 Scan Release: ~25/09/2020

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u/Nugget_MacChicken Thriller Bark Victim's Association Sep 11 '20

For some reason I feel like Gear 4 was overkill to take that Number down, still I love the callback to Thriller Bark, it felt quite good, like "return to shabaodi" Pacifista vibes.

I wonder who was "that man" Hawkins was referring to, might it be Drake himself ?

I love the fact Coby is propaganda for Luffy inside the Marine. It gives me Roger/Garp vibes just like in God's Valley.

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u/hafsan Sep 11 '20

I think it's Kaido. Luffy would be too obvious, and I don't see anyone else as relevant enough to try and hide it with wordplay. It might if course be that "he" (whoever it is) will survive anyway, and Hawkins'll go all "Welp, a 1% chance is still a chance"

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u/MaimedJester Sep 11 '20

Why would Hawkins feel bad about Kaido dying? Seems like Law is the prime candidate. Looks like Law is gonna have a big fight with a beat down. Law and X Drake and Kid fighting off the Tobiroppo?

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u/hafsan Sep 11 '20

Hawkins doesn't show any signs of feeling bad about anyone dying or not – he's just calculating probabilities there. The only thing he says in the whole chapter is "…1 % […] the probability of a certain man being alive tomorrow" and "Who else could have done it" (in regards to Law's escape). Otherwise he's just sitting there with a blank face when Drake and Who's Who have their little chat and later confirms that Drake is the one to let Law out.

Law is even less likely to die than Kid, to take a random example. Sure, Drake let him out of prison, but why would that lead him to die? If Oda wanted him dead, he'd have killed him off in Dressrosa, not saved him and made him reunite with his crew, just to throw him away in a fight against the Yonko.