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Season's greetings, folks! We have ourselves a little holiday gift in the form of a super early spoiler leak! What awaits us in the last chapter of the year? Let's find out! Credit goes to AP's Redon and pewpiece for the initial info:
-Chapter title is "I'm sorry, dad". Splash is a color page celebrating the new year (which appropriately enough features Momo, since 2024 will be the year of the dragon!).
-Still in the flashback, Bonney apologizes to Vegapunk after having witnessed her father's memories. The scientist then gives her her father's birthday gift that he held onto.... a sun-shaped necklace made of sapphire! We then return to the present, where Bonney is still in Saturn's grasp. She fights back, using her Nika-style Distorted Future technique on him, but it proves ineffective! Saturn theorizes it's because she doesn't know enough about the "true" Nika, so she's only capable of replicating the rubber power....
-Curiously, despite everyone being immobilized by Saturn's power, Luffy was somehow able to get some food! Unfortunately, the old man notices, and orders to have him restrained with sea stone. He then reveals to Bonney....
HE was the reason she obtained her Devil Fruit power! As a scientist, he conducted experiments of his own where he "fed" people the fruits in the form of medicine! He gave this DF medicine to Ginny, but she caught the sapphire scale illness as a side effect. However, unbeknownst to him at the time, Ginny ended up passing down the power (and its illness) to her daughter. Saturn then proceeds to explain how the Toshi Toshi power works: The power can allow the user to transform into any future they can imagine. However, the more knowledge the user gains about the truth behind that future, the more limited their power becomes. What's more, in her despair, Bonney starts to doubt Nika's existence, which causes her power to weaken even further! She then apologizes to her father as Saturn prepares to finish her off.....
-....When suddenly, a huge disturbance is seen in the distance, and quickly makes its way to the battlefield! It's none other than Kuma, who obliterates all marines in his way as he reaches his daughter! And indeed, he arrives just in time to block Saturn's attack! The chapter ends with him aiming a fist filled with his rage at the elder....!!!!!