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• Chapter 1,163: “Promise”.

• Reader request in the cover: “Luffy doing parkour and jumping between buildings with 2 monkeys”.

• Chapter starts with Imu (over Saturn's body) attacking indiscriminately all pirates and Marines in God Valley. Then Imu came face to face with Rocks.

Rocks: "Hey!! King of rats over there!!! You are here to kill me aren't ya!?"

Imu: "To think it was you... Davy Jones!!!"

Rocks: "I think you got the wrong person there, I never even met that fella...
However... a “PROMISE” ought to be kept won't ya agree..."

Imu: "...!! AND THAT'S WHY you all need to be erased!! Completely eradicated from history!!!
Mu's world is not yet completed...!!!"

Rocks: "This world IS NOT YOURS!!!”

• Rocks and Imu began to fight. At the same time Garp arrived at the scene with some Marines and walked toward the fight. He saw how Imu attacked pirates and Marines.

Marines: "Garp-san, should we provide backup?"

Garp: "Of course we should!!"

Marines: "But... to whom!?"

• Cut to Roger Pirates Vs. Rocks Pirates. In a GREAT double page, Captain John used “Jiki Jiki no Mi” fruit power (the same fruit Kid has in the present) to collect all treasures for himself with magnetic power.

Captain John: "Come to me, treasures~~~~!!!
“Big Eater” (kanjis mean “Big Magnetic Grasp”)!!!"

Gaban: "All metals are reacting to it!! Don't let your weapons be taken!!!"

Roger Pirates: "Strong magnetic force detected from the entrance of the valley to the southeastern region of the island!!"

Roger: "Out of my way!! I don't give a damn!!"

• Despite the strength of the magnetic power, Roger continued running towards the place where Imu and Rocks were fighting.

• Ganzui saw what Captain John was doing, so he attacked him with “Bomu Bomu no Mi” fruit power (the same fruit Mr. 5 has in the present). Ganzui shot a dried mucus to Captain John using an attack called “Sky Snake Red Cannon” and defeated him.

• Dragon's gun was also pulled by Captain John magnetic power, so Dragon fell on the ground when Captain John was attacked and passed out. Dragon and Shanks got separated and then we can see that Shanks climbed into one of the treasure chests.

• Cut again to the place where Imu and Rocks were fighting. Garp arrived but a group of Marines were grabbing him to try to stop Garp.

Marines: "No, you can't do it Vice Admiral Garp!!
That's the “highest authority of the World Government”..."

Garp: "You mean that vermin!?"

• Kaidou asked Rocks to let him have a go too, but suddenly Linlin arrived flying on Zeus and attacked Kaidou. Roger finally arrived too and prepared to attack Imu.

Linlin (angry): "Hold on a second now, Kaidou~~~!!! I'm going to kill you!!"

Kaidou: "You are jealous, right!? Watch this!!"

Roger: "Garp, that's my target!!"

• Then, in ONE OF THE MOST EPIC double pages in all “One Piece”, Garp, Roger, Rocks, Newgate, Kaidou, and Linlin attacked Imu together!!!

Garp: "“Galaxy Impact”!!!"

Roger: "“Kamusari” (Divine Departure)!!!"

Rocks: "“Pandæmonium” (kanjis mean “Cursed Abyss”)!!!"

Newgate: "“Hakua” (kanjis mean “Space Breaker”)!!!"

Linlin: "“Ikoku” (Ikoku Sovereignty)!!!

Kaidou: "“Dragon”~~~~!!!"

• All those massive attacks destroyed Imu's body.

• Linlin was trying to attack Kaidou, but Kaidou dodged the attack and it hit on Imu's body instead. Kaidou attack was a “Bolo Breath” but since it was the first time Kaidou used it, he hadn't yet decided what name to give it looool

• Lamentably, Imu recovered from the attacks immediately. And then, Imu unleashed a super massive wave of Supreme King Haki that made a lot of people in God Valley lose consciousness.

• Despite everything, Rocks continued attacking Imu and he even managed to cut Imu's body into pieces with his sword. But it was useless against Imu.

Imu: "Mu can see your wife and son running through the forest..."

Rocks: "Don't you dare even touch them!!!"

• Imu (still cut into pieces) stabbed Rocks body with two black tentacles.

Imu: "Rest assured Mu won't be doing anything..."

Rocks: "Argh!! A mosquito bite is more..."

Imu: "You will be the one who wipes out your entire clan...!! Annihilate your wife and son..."

Rocks: "What!? As if something that absurd...!!"

Imu: "“Domi Reversi” (Black Conversion Control)"

Rocks: "A... Argh...!!"

• In the AMAZING last page of the chapter, Imu used “Domi Reversi” on Rocks while Garp, Roger, Newgate, and Linlin observed in shock what was happening.

• Chapter ends with Rocks starting to transform into a demon, we can see how his fangs began to grow. And in the last panel, we see Eris and Teach running through the forest...

• End of chapter. NO break next week.

It revolves around domi reversi, only proper named move we know of from Imu.

there are 2 parts. one, it requires hurting the foe (in this case, rocks)(earlier one of the main giants). Earlier we (as community) assumed that it has something to do with breaking opponent's haki (will), and it may still be true (rocks was a bit emotional at the time, worried about family), but now there is an even more important point. the latin (if i am not wrong) origins of the word would translate more literally to 'domicile (as in place to stay at or home) return (or coming back, as in reversing)' or simply - home coming. somehow, it only works, when foe is in their homeland (only instances we currently know of are elbaf giants, and now rocks in god valley). there is one more detail - we have fairly good idea that roger was from loguetown, the town where he was executed (there is a line on beggining and end island or something. now beggining may as well mean something like beggining of pirating journey, but hometown fits as well). maybe loguetown was decided as the place for execution, because imu wanted extra insurance that in case something goes wrong, they may reverse roger.

there is another theory related to domi reversi - whole one piece world is efectively a reversi game - there are some symbolisms, like shanks and shamrok (light and dark), there is imu (all black) and luffy (or nika - all white). freedom vs slavery. there is also a game of reversi played by CP0 members in Onigashima (kaido island) where the pieces represented the number of samurais/warriors in each side. there is also a possible idea that one piece - is literally 'one reversi piece'.

And reason for roger's laughter is simulataneously both - how all of world is just a game in god's dominion and how the greatest treasure of world, is just a gameset piece. It is also the kind of funny shit Oda can pull off. think how the dorry and broggy 100 year fight started from just a small hunting game, and deciding whose hunt was bigger. maybe fight between joyboy (and/or davy jones) and imu may have just started from 'one piece'. It also fits with the fact that oda has said one piece is something physical, where all the story points to it being something narrative wise metaphysical thing (think the real treasure is the friends we made along the way).

there is another symbolism for fitting the game - the way luffy is. if you see, the way the story is set up, and how rarely do people die, or how many people "flip" sides. Think crocodile started as a villain, became a ally in marineford, ad now is again a villain (at least in a opposing faction), think nico, think mr2 bonclay, or think kanjuro flipping from our side to opponent, think the literal example from manga - in onigashima, warriors flipped and changed allegiances, etc.

Luffy kinda tries to win all reversi mathches - he tries to flip everyone to his side. this is indeed getting a bit weak as argument, as most games have opposing factions, so do most stories, but how often is it where in games, pieces(people) flip sides - in chess, you can promote a piece (pawn to queen - something like buggy the clown - a middling pirate become a younko), but in chess - pieces die (a lot) - something which OP is infamous at not doing.

The Reversi theory works at so many levels, that it has now become my favorite OP theory.