Chapter 972

Chapter 972 is titled "I am Oden, And I Was Born to Boil".

Cover Page
Color Spread - The Straw Hat Pirates and their counterparts from the "Hungry Days" commercial series.

Chapter Notes

 * Oden revealed that the reason the Kozuki Family isolated Wano Country was to protect it from a great force.
 * Oden explained the meaning of opening Wano Country's border and that is about welcoming a certain individual to Wano Country.
 * Seeing Oden surviving the boiling pot, Orochi changed the sentence and ordered a firing squad.
 * Oden managed to save the Nine Red Scabbards by throwing them away from the execution site, and they ran towards Kuri.
 * Kaido revealed that he killed Kurozumi Higurashi prior to Oden's execution.
 * Kaido executed Oden with a pistol.
 * While in prison, Oden handed his swords to Toki.
 * Toki sending her son and some of his retainers twenty years into the future is revealed to be instructed by Oden.