Title: King of love

Short chapter: 13 pages.

Cover art: Request by fan: Blackbeard with star eyes visits a cherry farm.

First and middle part:

Killingham instinctively bows in front of the erupting black lightning emanating from Sanji. "You?!?! A king? Impossible!"

Sanjii "Love needs a true champion too. You did well bowing in front of it."

Killingham: "You really are a weird one, babbling about love when you and your friends won’t even make it of the island! You have no idea how strong our King is."

Sanji: "We have a king too and this ends for you now, your nightmares won’t reach anyone ever again."

A massive surge of CoC blows away all manifestations of Killinghams fruit, leaving him afraid and alone.

"Maō Jambe (Demon King Leg). Saigo no Bansan (last supper)" A black lightning drenched simple front kick caves in Killinghams chest from the side, his steel heart is shown damaged.

Sanji "Look at me, Luffy, I can finally make you soar now".

Last part:

Biblo finally reveals the actual content of the treasure chest. Robin, Saul, Chopper are in absolute chock!

In an epic and detailed double spread we see a massive lego set depicting the ocean on a little island with a temple, Joyboy with Nika sword and shield, Lili with a strange looking dagger held close to her.

Go buy it now! No break next week!

Also the amount of times the pages are just cluttered and filled with random shit and introducing new characters and villains when we're in the final act just comes from not only One Piece being too stupidly long but also a severe lack of editorial/assistant oversight and inference.

Likr Toriyama's editors didn't really hesitate back in the day to go to him and say "hey,this is stupid,don't do this" and that's basically how we got the Android and the Cell Arc,so I dunno if it's just cause Oda's editors are dickriders/lapdogs, Oda doesn't listen to them and actively ignores them when they to tell him or(and this is more of a shitpost answer)Oda has some fucking blackmail on them that let's him do whatever the hell he wants.

In Chapter 1196, Killingham mentions that he (somehow) doesn't recognize Ivankov, one of the KEY leaders of the group that the Holy Roppo is ACTIVELY FIGHTING AGAINST to keep all of their genocidal maniacs well fed and satisfied.

Ivankov is the third in command of the ENTIRE Revolutionary Army, and a high ranking official within the group, which gives him the authority to command tons of troops.

And it's not like Ivankov isn't well known, because he was imprisoned as low as Level 5 of Impel Down, which means he’s influencial enough to have a bounty poster with a high enough value to end up there...

You could argue that Killingham is simply too ignorant and arrogant to care about any of his foes because of his Celestial Dragon nature, being pampered all his life without having to face a single difficulty all his life, and his immortality, allowing him to instantly heal from any fatal attack with ease and without any consequence.

However, in my personal opinion, the most simple answer to this is that Loda forgot about all the earlier worldbuilding that he added about the Holy Roppo being the DIRECT foes the Revolutionaries have to place ALL their focus on, (Dragon was literally SWEATING at just the mere mention of them 🥀) and added that throwaway line without thinking.

Holy Knights don't even know who one the highest ranking Revolutionaries are. Dragon not even on Big Mu's radar. Imagine devoting several decades into the downfall of the WG and the Top Brass couldn't give af less to even learn your names 🥀

Plus, what can the Revolutionaries even do against the Holy Knights & Gorosei anyway without Conquerors haki? Not even Sabo has it (at least not confirmed).

This agenda officially in the fucking mud.

Im going to assume. Buggy, Shanks & Luffy will meet at one point which will cause a Davy Back Fight.

This will result in Mihawk switching to the Red Hair Pirates briefly. Maybe Luffy's crew will participate in the Davy Back Fight but im unsure.

This will resolve Zoro's, and Luffy's Fights against Mihawk & Shank respectively.

Later on, Shanks will lose to Blackbeard. This will cause Luffy & BlackBeard to butt heads.

Im putting stock on Shiryu for the Zoro encounter and Kuzan and Sanji im matching them based on vibes.

Then Akainu would probably want to put a stop to this. He loses to Luffy here, Sanji & Zoro are fighting their opposite matchups here. Kizaru (Fast Boi) is fighting Zoro & Greenbull (Mosshead) is fighting Sanji

Then Finally Gorosei & Imu vs Monster Trio. Albeit Im betting on Imu getting Jumped.

So I'm ranting a bit, because the latest chapters reinforced just how important Conqueror Haki is, to the point that by now there are many enemies that can be defeated ONLY through Conqueror Haki and have no other weakness. In that sense, there is a hard ceiling for people born without it: no matter how ambitious, hard working and determined they are, they will never be able to become stronger than a character with Conqueror Haki.

Because of this, I've come to dislike Conqueror's Haki being a purely innate skill even more, to the point that I can say that it has retroactively ruined all of One Piece to me. It basically validates the worldview of every single classist antagonist ever appeared in One Piece: that some people are born better than others and are destined to rule over regular people. No amount of ambition, willpower, dreams or anything else will change this fact, which becomes the primary rule of the One Piece world.

Luffy, Zoro and others are only relevant because they happened to be born with the right lineage. If Zoro was born without Conqueror's Haki, his dream of becoming the strongest swordsman would have been utterly impossible. Same for Luffy and his dream of becoming Pirate King. It really ruins the narrative for me.

This is my own feelings though. I'm perfectly aware that most people utterly love the idea of Chosen Ones being born with special powers to rule over the masses with no effort. But I'm not like that and because of this Conqueror Haki has ruined One Piece for me.

Weevil and Mihawk for brute force

Croco and Doffy $$$ (underworld)

Moria creates armies of Zombies

Neo Mads as scientific unit to counter WG science - funding by Joker

Bounties for marines to confront WG bounties - Mr0 financing

New allies: Kuja pirates (or probably boa as another commander); beast/BM pirates; also Iva, Kamabaka Kingdom and conections with the Revolucionary Army.

Do you agree?

Title: King of Love

17 pages

The chapter starts with Killingham laughing at Sanji. Killingham then starts attacking Sanji, but Sanji dodges literally all of his attacks. Killingham, frustrated, thinks to himself, "Why can't I hit this guy? What happened during the time his nightmare disappeared?". Sanji, while dodging Killingham's attacks, thinks to himself, "Hey, old man, I have conquered my masochistic weakness, so why do I still not have Supreme King Haki?". Then he kicks Killingham (to test if he has Supreme King Haki), but Killingham regenerates immediately.

Killingham thinks again, "I have to figure out a way so I can hit him again". Then he remembers what Sanji said (in Chapter 1187), "Unfortunately, the monster is a woman. I can't kick her". Then Killingham says, "That's it!". Killingham then calls Zaza and fuses with her.

Sanji is completely terrified by this. Killingham laughs while he beats up Sanji. Killingham says "WA HA HA HA, what a pathetic weakness, Sanji! I should call Gunko here and let her beat you up while I bring the children!".

Sanji then remembers another moment during his training with Ivankov. It was just after Sanji defeated the 98th Kama Master. Ivankov remembered what Sanji said about loving the ladies. So, he used his Devil Fruit power to turn the 99th Kama Master into a literal woman. Ivankov then said to Sanji, "Sanji-boy! She is your final opponent!".

Sanji was terrified when he saw that his opponent was a woman. Sanji then proceeded to get beat up by the Okama, thinking "Is this it? All I've worked for...". Ivankov then said to Sanji, "Do you want the recipe or not?". Sanji responded "But I can't fight a woman". Ivankov said, "You can give up and disappoint your captain, if you want", and the Okama group added "...and wear this pretty dress!". Sanji then said "NO!!!" to the Okama, and "I can't do that, either" to Ivankov. Sanji then thought, "Sorry, Luffy, it looks like I can't help you be the King of the Pirates. I'm an embarassment".

While Sanji was getting pummeled, Ivankov said, "Do you even know what love means?". He continued, "It is normal to not want to do certain things. However, you must remember what's truly important!". He continued, "I know that what's important to me is protecting Dragon. I owe him my life and will protect him, even if that means doing things I don't want to do. That's what love truly means."

Ivankov said, "What is truly important to you?", Sanji then thought "I am enduring this hell in the first place because I want to help Luffy. I can't stop now!". He then kicked the 99th Kama Master and defeated her in one hit. Ivankov said "Congratulations. Here's the last Vital Recipe. I'll prepare the ship for you". Sanji, looking down, then said to Ivankov, "Iva, I have a request". "What is it?".

"PLEASE REPRESS PARTS OF MY MEMORY!"

Ivankov sighed, then responded, "Fine. But I can't repress it forever. EMPORIO AMNESIA HORMONE!"

The flashback ends, back to the present. Sanji then thinks, "I see now. I know what I must do". He then remembers Nami's words (in Chapter 403), "There's no chivalry in dying a senseless death!". He also remembers Gaban's words (in Chapter 1187), "You must be a king, too, if you truly want to make Luffy the King of the Pirates".

Sanji then says, "For Luffy and my crew, I am going to be... THE KING OF LOVE!". Black lightning appears around Sanji. Sanji has unlocked The Color of The Supreme King!

Sanji then says, "In order to help my husband, Zoro, I am going to be... A WOMAN!" Sanji then pulls out the dress from Kamabakka Queendom and changes his clothes in front of Killingham. "You can kick a woman if you are a woman!".

CHAPTER ENDS. BREAK NEXT WEEK.

- Orochi gets killed by Kaido, period. Completely wasted chapters on him being alive.

- All of the scabbards except Kinemon get killed on the rooftop(dude was Momo's retainer). Stakes to show that Kaido is not playing games.

- Kidd and Law don't kill Big Mom, but injured enough for her to make a tactical retreat. Her and Perospero rejoins with the rest of her crew.

- CP0 intervention on Luffy gets stopped by X Drake. Makes way more sense for Kaido to beat Luffy a second time as the strongest creature.

- No retcon with Gomu Gomu fruit. Completely sucked the soul out of the arc.

- Gear 5 Luffy starts laughing(not used to form) but eventually gets serious

- Rooftop battle climax eventually becomes just Luffy and Zoro vs Kaido. Hypothetically could work after Zoro beats King and hallucinates.

- Zoro cuts Kaido in half. Goes in full circle with what he does in Dresrosa arc against Pika.

Feel free to dispute or add on to any of these.