One Piece's Final Villains Are Close to Their Grand Arrival
Warning: contains spoilers for Chapter 1047 of One Piece
Blackbeard and his crew will very likely be the final villains in One Piece's epic saga. They have been absent from the scenes for a while, with fans speculating about their next action, but the best-selling manga has teased that the Blackbeard Pirates have finally made their move, which will have enormous consequences for the world of One Piece.
Fans speculated that Marshal D. Teach's next objective would be the Road Poneglyph owned by Big Mom and kept in her base on Whole Cake Island. With the Empress away to fight alongside Kaido on Wano Island with some of her most powerful children, and her kingdom still reeling from the Straw Hat Pirates' recent blitz to save Sanji, this would be thebest time for Blackbeard to invade Whole Cake and steal the Poneglyph. This would put him one step closer to reaching Laugh Tale and becoming the Pirate King. The latest series of One Piece's cover stories (supplemental stories told through the cover pages of select chapters) is set on Whole Cake Island, as it depicts the aftermath of Sanji's escape and the fate of two of his brothers who are being held captive there. The cover story of chapter #1046, «A Pair of Intruders on Pudding's Turf», teased fans in a big way, seemingly proving their theories to be true. It shows the denizens of Chocolat Town, one of the cities in Big Mom's kingdom, running away from two shadowy figures, of whom just the feet are being shown.
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In chapter #1047 fans expected to see the follow-up, but the cover story was replaced by a full-color cover illustration, leading to further speculation that One Piece's creator Eiichiro Oda
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