Luffy’s New ARM BALLOON ANNIHILATES LOKI! One Piece Chapter 1143 Full Spoilers!!

In the previous One Piece chapter, Loki threatens to destroy Elbaph if he is not released and the God’s Knights have kidnapped the Giant children.

One Piece Chapter 1143 is titled, “The God’s Knights”.

This chapter has 19 pages, including the color spread.

The color spread is from a special reader request to Oda titled, “Straw Hat Pirates Car Chase”.

Here, Luffy and the crew are riding on flying fishes in a circuit-pool.

Everyone except Jinbe that is as he is swimming in the water.

The Straw Hats are participating in a race and all of them wear leather suits like riders. We can read the sentence “Speed is the weapon” in a rubber ring.

We still await the conclusion of the Yamato cover story.

The Gods of Thorns and Dreams

The chapter begins at the Walrus School, where Saul is trying to stop sleeping kids that are following Gunko’s arrow. 

Saul tries to grab one of the children but invisible thorns wrap around the girl, causing Saul immense pain.

The giants in the Western Village sent for the fire fighter squad to put out the fire but their Sval was destroyed in the forest by the giant undead from one of the children’s imagination.

The Nightmare World is in effect and the monstrous versions of Loki, Nika, someone’s mother, etc. will be doing even more damage than the massive lightning bolt Loki sent with Ragnir.

Jarul, Dorry, Kashii, and the Giants in the village are in shock seeing the skeleton monsters while we see Nami, Usopp, and Jinbe reacting to the news about the school children’s kidnapping and the nearby fire. 

We return to the forest, where the God’s Knights have a nice meal on a luxurious table while observing the chaos below at “Walrus School”.

Sommers delights in the shock expressed by Saul and says that “every loved one has thorns”.

Sommers and Gaban have a lot in common as in Chapter 1140, Gaban keeps preaching about love being equal and free.

Meanwhile, Sommers views love as painful and since he delights in the lesson, either he was rejected or was an abusive lover and sees that as the only way he can express love.

This would be an elevation from Sanji’s usual opponents, where they are neglectful or apathetic to the concept of hurting women or lovers.

And it is a clear irony as Celestial Dragons usually lack empathy yet Sommers might actually have some capacity or awareness of this.

This could mean that Sommers might be Jewelry Bonney’s father.

Although Bonney barely has a part to play in the current arc, we might see a possible reunion, direct or indirect, that would add more to her story and possibly how Kuma’s love is the truest version that One Piece intends to depict.

Instead of a classic battle shonen exposition, we get it weaved into Sommers’ personality as he explains to his fellow Knights that love is “passion” and the passion, the heat and drive, that makes one embrace a person will make them feel the thorns as they become more visible.

Parents will embrace their kids and the kids, who were under Killingham’s spell, would see their true nightmare become reality, a fear so overwhelming they do not think about it at all: to see up close their parents dying as they let out their own screams in front of their children.

The connection between passion and thorns reminds me of the name of Jonathan Joestar’s Stand, at least the name given by fans, “The Passion”, but it is actually a different, non-canon stand from the non-canon material, JORGE JOESTAR, with similar abilities to the thorny Hermit Purple, the canon Stand of Jonathan’s grandson, Joseph Joestar.

The Passion is taken from the “Passion of Christ”, both the movie and the event in Christianity where Jesus would be crucified and he wore a crown of thorns.

We see vines with thorns form on Sommers’ right arm and we learn that Shepherd Sommers ate the Iba Iba no Mi (Thorn-Thorn Fruit, from the word “ibara” or thorny flower), which allows Sommers to produce invisible thorns to wrap around his targets, making him a Thorn Human.

Gunko created the arrow with her Aro Aro no Mi that would make the kids walk to her desired direction regardless of their state or will, such that it even affected Gunko herself when she tortured Loki in Chapter 1137.

Killingham sees that they do not have enough salt, so he brings it up to Sommers, whose imagined salt on his head appears like a thought cloud you would get in manga/comics and anime/cartoons.

Killingham uses his powers to put Sommers to sleep and he pulls the salt from the dream cloud to make it real, revealing himself as the user of the Ryu Ryu no Mi, Mythical Type, Model: Kirin (Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Mythical Type Zoan, Model: Qilin) and that he is a “dream manifesting human”.

Identifying the salt as aspatch rock salt, Killingham praises Sommers’ taste as a gourmet connoisseur and has Sommers wake up.

Sommers asks about the MMA or “muuma” in Japanese that Killingham manifested from the Giant kids earlier.

This is in reference to the Nightmares or monsters from the kids’ imaginations.

Gunko also asks for the salt and she acts like a kid when she tastes Killingham’s food, remarking on how good it tastes but Killingham says that although his food tastes good, they do not provide energy or sustenance since they come from dreams.

This almost feels like a reflection of his half-asleep state.

Killingham might not even be sure if he is quite awake or quite asleep and perhaps that bodily and mental conflict has a toll on his psyche that would make him quite an interesting counterpart to Luffy, who is basically living out his dream every day, both in the adventure as a pirate and as Sun God Nika himself via Gear 5.

Sommers complains that this game will be too easy to clear and end since they can easily transport the Giant kids to their ship at this rate.

However, Gunko warns that something unexpected will happen since the Emperor Straw Hat Luffy is also on Elbaph. 

God’s Knights see the kids are on “Branch Number 8”, which was the one that Loki struck down with the lightning bolt in the last chapter.

Was Loki aware of what was going on? He does have Observation Haki, given his bandages obscuring his vision, 

Sommers does not seem to care what will happen to this group as they can easily abduct another set of kids anyway.

These are such poetic powers for the Elbaph arc.

Gunko, a woman who surrendered to destiny and feared the liberation of Nika that would invalidate her “home” in the Celestial Dragons’ fold.

As a woman who leads children to their death, Gunko would be an opponent Nami must defeat as Nami cares about children and knows what losing a family feels like.

Sommers, a man moved by love like Sanji and Scopper Gaban, who uses love as a weapon to destroy families and engage in “enjoyable” genocide.

Perhaps through Sanji we get to explore a nuanced but accountable account of the Celestial Dragon Knight of Love.

Killingham, a half-asleep dragon man, who has the power to realize dreams, should face Luffy, whose Gear 5 manifests dreams.

That would be…a dream match and that could even make them kindred spirits, who knows.

Or perhaps Killingham will be a dark “protector of peace” as intended for a God’s Knight.

Loki’s EASY Defeat

We return to the Underworld, where Loki threatens to kill everyone present and in an incredible double page spread, Luffy unleashes a new technique called “Arm Balloon” that is similar to “Bone Balloon” but Luffy only inflates his right arm and Luffy hits Loki with a very light punch, causing Loki to fall unconscious.

This seems to be the basic Fusen instead of Gear 3, which makes his bones inflated to carry air that would make a part of his body stronger and tougher.

Zoro notices that Loki is on the verge of death but he thinks this is a trick, a bluff to get out of his Seastone Prism cuff and that he planned to run somewhere and falls down there instead. 

If this is the case, then Loki let Luffy win, which would make sense as the bluff to destroy Elbaph was a desperate cry to be freed and in his weakened state, he would not want to go all out and die like that.

Luffy begs the other Giants to help Loki, saying that he does not want to watch and let someone die, no matter who that person is.

This does track as Luffy does not like killing anyone so that they can live out their dreams and breaking their dreams by stopping their evil schemes is much worse than death.

Gerd agrees to treat Loki’s wounds and we cut to a flashback of Hajrudin and Loki’s past.

First, we see King Harald talking to kid Loki and Hajrudin.

Although we have seen Harald’s face in Chapter 1136, this is still silhouetted and he still has his two horns.

Hajrudin looks similar to when we saw him during Big Mom’s flashback, which was when he was 18 (or 9 years old in human years).

Loki was already taller than his older brother and his eyes were covered with bandages, which might mean that he always had his eyes obscured for much of his life (or to hide his true appearance for a later, grander reveal).

Here in this flashback, Harald says that his two sons are precious, so he asks them to support Elbaph together.

Then we see Loki was able to defeat Hajrudin easily even when they were children. Loki used a spike kanabo as a weapon that resembles Kaido’s kanabo.

Here, he bullies his older brother, saying he is a short weakling and a bastard, not a “real son” due to his mother coming from a “tainted line”.

In the last page, we see Hajrudin become furious and he picks up an axe to kill Loki.

It seems this flashback is from Hajrudin’s perspective and the years of torment under Loki have boiled to this point.

Road and Stansen try to stop him, with Hajrudin angrily saying that he has never once forgiven Loki for speaking ill of his mother and killing his father.

Loki speaks up, tempting him to finish him off.

Hajrudin is shocked to hear Loki speak calmly, with him saying that if Hajrudin has time for personal drama, he should look at the “whole forest” and wonders if Hajrudin really thought that Loki wanted to kill their father.

This might set up a Loki flashback in the next chapter, showing exactly the circumstances behind Hajrudin’s death.

Alternatively, this could lead to Loki informing the group about God’s Knights and their plans to kidnap Elbaph’s children.

It seems that Elbaph’s ticking time bomb was not Loki’s fire but rather the Nightmare World.

Considering the numbering of these chapters, it is possible that next chapter will be massive.

There will be NO BREAK next week.

One Piece Chapter 1144 will be released on March 31, 2025.

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