Chapter 990: “Isolated force”

In the cover, Lola and Chiffon remember how Big Mom used to tell them that their father always came crawling back no matter how many time she kicked him out. So Lola and Chiffon belive Pound and throw him ropes.

Sasaki is now free thanks to Big Mom's attack, that destroyed the tree where he was tied up.

The Minks are crushing Kaido’s forces and attacking Jack, that is covered in wounds. But Jack still manages to fight and strikes down many Minks. Kinemon sees injured Minks and steps forward to face Jack, but Inuarashi and Nekomamushi stop him. Both of them transform into huge Sulongs but we only see their silhouettes. Jack seems quite intimidated by Inuarashi and Nekomamushi.

In the stage floor King calls the Tobiroppo. He orders them to stop search Yamato and summoning them to help to stop anyone who are trying to go up to fight Kaido. King adds that, due to changes in the situation, the previous challenge between Tobiroppo and the Calamities is cancelled.

We see an injured hawkins sitting in the same room as Drake. Drake tells him that he knows Hawkins was forced to join this group and if he would like to betray them, now would be a good time to do it. Hawkins is looking at his card, he says the chance of “one man’s survival” until tomorrow is 1%.

Ulti is reunited with Page One. The other Tobiroppo get King's message and seems to be follwing the order.

Who's Who appears at Drake's room. He asks Drake to come and help him since "it would be difficult to handle this by himself”. Drake asks what he means.

Who's Who: “This is a good chance. I'm going to kill the guy that I want to kill. Let's go to see Queen”.

Drake asks why does he hate Queen so much that he would like to cause infighting at time like this, but still follows Who's Who.

Back to the main stage, the samurai are crushing Kaido's subordinates. The Oniwabanshu come out to fight the samurai but Fukurokuju turns his back to the battle and walks somewhere else. Hotei notices it and seems confused.

Samurai tries to attack Numbers' feet to clear the way for the Straw Hat Crew, saying they should save their strength for Kaido’s battle. 2 Numbers swing their maces down at the samurai, but Zoro cut one mace in half and Jinbe stops the other with one hand.

Luffy: “Oars-sized enemies? Back then we need an entire crew to take one of these down, but we are different now.”

Luffy transforms into Gear 4. Hyogoro thinks how Luffy appearance reminds him of Myo-o.

Cut again to Drake that is being beaten with blood on his face in front of Queen and surrounded by Who's Who and Hawkins. It’s revealed that the one they all want to kill is Drake all along. Queen was informed by someone that they saw Drake freeing Law from prison. Hawkins also says he suspected Drake is the only one who can do it.

They ask Drake who he works for and what is his goal. Drake thinks that there's no getting out of it now. He can't run anywhere and he also cannot go back to the Marines. But then he remembers what Coby told him about Luffy and thinks there's still hope.

Drake jumps down from the stage and cuts down one of the Numbers with "X Caliber" attack. At the same time, Luffy attacks another Number with the “Gomu Gomu no Kong Gun”. Both attacks take down Numbers.

Then Drake announces to Luffy that he's separated from Kaido’s crew. He’s an isolated force now.

Drake: “Please let him join the fight!”

Luffy: “Ehh!?”

Break next week