r/OnePiece • u/semizero • May 23 '24

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1115 Spoiler

Chapter 1115: "Continental Fragments"

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Ch. 1115 Official Release (Mangaplus): 05/27/2024

Ch. 1116 Scan Release: ~05/31/2024 - No break!

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u/GeneralUnlikely266 May 23 '24

The chapter opened my eyes about something. Isn't it strange that there are even pirates in the world of one piece? Or that the 7 warlords are needed? Its because pirates on the sea are perfect for the world goverment. The WG could easily station a admiral or even a elder at the entrance to the grandline to capture/kill them all. But the world goverment needs this pirates. No civilian can ever explore the seas without a huge risk to be murdered by pirates. And the pirates mostly care for loot and treasure, not the exploration of the sea. The pirates are a deterrence to hinder sea exploration.

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u/commander_lux May 23 '24

They also need a reason for having such a huge military force. By keeping pirates around, you justify the heavenly tribute, can wipe out countries and blame pirates, and perpetuate a war that prevents the development of more technology

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u/ammarbadhrul May 24 '24

Sounds eerily similar to real life

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u/Daeavorn May 24 '24

MGS 2 was right all along...

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u/tokyogodfather2 May 26 '24

One of the brilliant things about OP is that so much of it is based on our own world. We all realize our own world is sinking too right??

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u/zezq May 24 '24

they dont pay money to world government because they are scared of pirates but because they are scared of world government.

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u/gomu-gomu-no-ree Pirate May 23 '24

Yup, both useful and something that will inevitably cause their downfall. The flooding of the world allowed them to divide and isolate the world population to a great extent, enabling their control; but it also created the even greater urge to cross those seas, to create an adventure out of exploration, and to reconnect with ancient neighbors.

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u/LotusEaterEvans Pirate May 23 '24

Holy shit. You just cooked so hard. The WG needs criminals.

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u/GeneralUnlikely266 May 23 '24

Yeah. Impel Down was always so weird to me too. We know the wg, executing everthing left and right and suddenly they have this huge prison for pirates? Why not just kill them. Now we could maybe now why

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u/Unique-Chef3909 May 23 '24

For the good marines. Most marines arent evil, they are something between brainwashed and propagandized. For their sake (and to save face), you need a showpiece of sorts. If you just go overt dictator mode you will just be identified as a dictator.

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u/EscapeAny2828 May 23 '24

Well killing or not killing never made a difference If no one escaped

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u/Rankine May 24 '24

Taking prisoners doesn’t surprise me since we know the WG uses slave labor.

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u/zezq May 24 '24

to make a lesson out of them? impel down is far worse than death for pirates, so world government build it only to torture the hell out of people that fight agaisnt them including pirates.

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u/ruffykunn Lurker May 26 '24

Every authoritarian regime does.

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u/BGMFINIX May 23 '24

You cooked with this one. Hence the whole all pirates are evil propaganda.

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u/Domosenpai64 May 23 '24

I think you're right, but also there is a deeper layer as well. With piracy being so prevalent, you can more easily declare just about anyone venturing out to sea who isn't on Government payroll as a pirate. So explorers, scientists, scholars, all painted with the same brush as pirates. That means the world Government can discredit and hunt you, and the masses will cheer.

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u/sack_of_potahtoes The Revolutionary Army May 23 '24

That does make sense quite a bit. They also probably engineered devil fruits to make sure they arent allowed to swim. So if there was a devil fruit that allows someone to swim deep oceans they could end up seeing sunken continents. You can uncover a lot of their history and technology from remnants of the past.

Maybe WG needed pirates with power to counter those who have strong haki. So the ones with haki cannot beat pirates without one

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u/zezq May 24 '24

or devil fruit always has that bad side effect because it is not yet a finish product. joy boy and his ally probably full of people using it and imu find it easier to just sink everything rather than fight head on with joyboy.

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u/ruffykunn Lurker May 26 '24

Holy shit that's genius.

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u/AwkwardPopcorn1 May 23 '24

yeah , this makes sense . The pirates give them a reason to have this world government and have countries cooperate with you. And most of all , the strongest people have devil fruit so they can't fully explore the sea and a dim bum wanted to go out to the sea , he would be too scared . Effectively , there was no lope hole in their system but vegapunk , the mad genius , got that dawg in him .Even in death , he fked them up

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u/Honest_Tea_7845 May 26 '24

Ahem shanks, ahem roger, ahem mihawk, but yeah mihawk is a neutral character so it doesn’t count

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u/Sername6996 May 24 '24

That's the "balance" they're talking about hence not actively taking down a Yonko when they could, but Luffy is way too stubborn for the WG they decided to show up themselves along with VP's curiosity.

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u/Ziiyi May 28 '24

Ro never stop cooking, this is lit

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u/zezq May 24 '24

dont think so, 7 warlord thing is just a good way for world government to have less powerful pirate to deal with and having them on their side. admiral main job isnt busting some small pirate ass, you can leave those job to lower rank. civilian dont explore the sea because the sea itself is full of danger not because of pirate. pirate is probably the least of their worries when there are sea monster and extreme phenomena happening at the sea that most likely to kill them.

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u/Buscemi_D_Sanji May 23 '24

Ehhhh... By letting pirates fight, eat devil fruits, and train haki, they're making things so much harder for themselves. If they just put kizaru on top of reverse mountain to kill everyone coming in, and telling akainu to go kill everyone else setting out to sea in the grand line, they could still tell everyone they were in danger without ever having to deal with the pirates who get dangerously strong.

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u/Nickv02 May 24 '24

That sort of tyranny wouldn't be accepted by anyone. In fact it would make WG got betrayed by their own men

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u/Buscemi_D_Sanji May 24 '24

The WG was fine with killing the civilians of ohara and every celestial dragon raping every woman they wanted. I don't think "killing pirates" would change anyone's minds.

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u/Nickv02 May 24 '24

Even for ohara they need to make sure they have poneglyph first, in order to truly label them "heretics among heretics", before they launch buster call. And it was sakazuki's idea to shot the refugee ship, not from order of his superior, so it's not like WG was that merciless(at least in ohara case)

And we can see some of people from goa kingdom still hold respect for celestial dragon, so in a way WG still have some good name to be kept

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u/anddna42 May 24 '24

That their decisions became too powerful means that they might even preferred this risk (Joyboy fruit aside) than revealing whatever the void century and ancient kingdoms technology was/knew.

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u/zezq May 24 '24

they dont need top tier fighter to deal with small fry. anyway most pirates are never a problem for WG to deal with. only few are the real deal.