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[Spoiler] ONE PIECE Chapter 1049

 

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TITLE: The World We Should Aspire To"

COVER PAGE: Germa 66's Ahh... An Emotionless Excursion Vol. 11: Someone burned Niji and Yonji’s book.

BRIEF SUMMARY:

• Kaido flashback time. We see his childhood in the Vodka Kingdom, where a few years later he met Whitebeard who told him that Rocks wants to meet him.

• In the present, part of Raizo’s water leaves the castle, and flame clouds disappear but Momonosuke makes a new one.

• Luffy says he will create a world where none of his friends would starve, then he hits Kaido and Kaido falls to the ground of the Flower Capital.

• In another flashback, Kaido tells King that Joy Boy will be the man that can defeat him.

NOTE: OP BREAK NEXT WEEK!!

Proof Kaido hasn’t shown his Devil Fruit Awakening yet!

 

First introduced during Impel Down by Crocodile, awakenings were described by Crocodile for having immense physical durability alongside the capability to revive after being defeated.

Further along in the story, following the time-skip; we were introduced to the function of Paramecia awakenings. This was first displayed in Dressrosa by Doflamingo; and later shown with the Commander Katakuri.

Later, we see the conflict between Big Mom and two members of the Worst Generation: Kid and Law. During this interaction we see two more awakenings shown by characters in the series.

Finally, during Kaido’s fight with Luffy; after being knocked out for the third time. Luffy’s devil fruit awakens, however it is not a Paramecia and it is in fact a Zoan. This awakening is confirmed by Kaido himself.

Despite the differences in the fruits and the functions of their awakenings, there is one narrative aspect unifying all of them, being the confirmation by the user or a credible source. The jailers, Kaido, Katakuri, Doflamingo, Law, Kid and Luffy have all had their awakenings confirmed. For some, this is reason enough to believe Kaido has not awakened his devil fruit. Additionally, Kaido has supplied us with more evidence on awakenings; further proving he has not utilized his own yet.

Firstly, Kaido notes that the trademark of Zoan awakenings are a separate body transformation.

This in turn, supports the evidence given by Crocodile regarding the impel down guardians. We have seen the typical Zoan-hybrid transformation, they resemble nothing similar to the Impel down guardians.

Leopard hybrid

Ox hybrid

Comparatively, here are the confirmed Zoan awakening users.

Back on to Kaido, we have a confirmation from Law that he has been using his hybrid-form this entire time. It is also self-evident, as we have not observed a separate form from Kaido aside from his Dragon-form, and his hybrid.

Much of the damage Kaido has received and tanked are a result of his own tankiness and his status as a Yonko. Scaly animals like Dragons and Dinosaurs are also going to be tough, regardless of if they have been awakened or not, and this is also amplified by the users durability.

Latest Chapter suggests why Kaido asked Caesar to create SMILEs!

The confirmation that Zoan devil fruits have a mind of their own is even bigger news than the true nature of Luffy’s devil fruit.

So far the only objects imbedded with devil fruits were Zoan fruits. Never Paramecia or even Logia fruits.

And that makes complete sense now. A person eating a Zoan might be subtly influenced by it, like becoming more aggressive in case of a predator for example but largely remain the same person.

If an object however is infused with a Zoan fruit, there is no personality to hold the fruit’s inhibitions and will in check. That’s why these items seem to have a mind and personality of their own. It’s part of the fruit’s ability.

Maybe this is also the secret to Vegapunk deeming Momonosuke’s dragon fruit a failure. Maybe he was able to replicate the fruit’s abilities, but could not inherit the will of the original into the copy.

So Kaido asked Caesar to create artificial devil fruits just like Vegapunk.
Kaido knew what involves Joy Boy and who he was 900 years ago, so he told Caesar that his devil fruits had to come with a will, with a joy, with an immeasurable smile and laugh.
Caesar added this factor to his fruits, that’s why they are called SMILEs.

When one receives an artificial devil fruit and makes the bond, they get Zoan-like abilities but not the will or joy of Joy Boy/Nika.

SMILEs are called SMILEs not because of their side effect when they don’t work, but by their primary intention which is to have JOY in them.

Maybe Kaido was trying to infuse the “laugh” nature or the personality of the last Joy Boy’s devil fruit with the dragon fruit in order to become the new Joy Boy.