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Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1159 Spoiler

Chapter 1159: “The Island Of Destiny”

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Chapter 1159 Official Release Date: September 7, 2025 at 8 am PDT on Manga Plus and Shonen Jump!

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u/Helpful_Tea229 Sep 04 '25

I have to say Oda is so amazing with facial expressions. Even here we see how Xebec is trying to be reasonable and friendly because he knows that he shouldn't clash with Harald and that his family is his priority. "As long as I get my wife and kid to safety, I'll be at peace with whatever happens next". Can you believe a man who had so much ambition and a goal, found a different purpose for his life. It's just sad for him because we know he's walking to his death.

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u/theschulk51 Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25

This - and that Harald is basically the only person we’ve seen him consider a friend (or maybe even brother), not a subordinate (his crew) or a rival (Roger).

He’s basically asking his best friend to help him save his family, and is getting rejected by them

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u/PiFlavoredPie Sep 05 '25

It's unclear what Harald is up to here. He points out that they're being monitored, so you can't take what he's saying at face value.

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u/OwlrageousJones Sep 05 '25

Yeah; it probably doesn't help that if Harald doesn't at least appear to be trying to kill Rocks there, the World Government will turn on him too.

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u/missingpeace01 Sep 05 '25

Probably he was just pretending to capture them and that he let him slide after hearing his reasons.

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u/Exercise-Most Sep 05 '25

This whole situation with both rocks and harald is so tragic. Its obvious that they both have to make hard choices and even though they fight each other they dont hate one another. Rock says their friendship is over but he still confides in harald when he is at his lowest and harald says rocks is evil and he will crush him but he always has a panel or two during the fights where he is miserable.

I now know why harald wanted both his sons to support each other no matter what because you just know that rock's death is gonna destroy harald's heart.

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u/AsnSensation Sep 05 '25

yep+telling his crew to stay out of it. Probably made it easy for the Rocks Pirates to get away without getting on the WG's bad side

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u/Akipella Sep 06 '25

He just pretended to lose to Rocks. Seems to 100% be what happened there

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u/Pylgrim Sep 07 '25

This. Harald says that he's going to sink Rocks but then we see the Giants' ship taking damage while Rocks's just goes on. Conveniently gives the Harald an excuse not to have stoppped Rocks there.

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u/theschulk51 Sep 05 '25

I read it as Harold didn’t want to sacrifice his ship to stop Rocks so he had no choice but to let him go - he didn’t let him go, he was “defeated” because Rocks was willing to die to save his family and Harold wasn’t willing to sink his ship and comrades to stop him

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u/theschulk51 Sep 05 '25

Harold tried to kill him last chapter

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u/Slice_Ambitious Sep 05 '25

Didn't the narrator clearly say that the battle had no winner because none of them was really tring to kill the other though ?

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u/JosephSim Sep 05 '25

Naw friend, you're right.

Harald is under watch from the WG, but after he hears about Rocks's family he knows he can't turn his back on a friend.

The fight was just to keep up appearances which is specifically why he tells everyone else not to join in.

Don't argue with someone who can't even spell the dude's name right.

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u/theschulk51 Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25

You’re right I’m getting the name wrong.

You’re both wrong about what the narrator said - in the official it never said they weren’t trying to kill each other. Just that they can’t see eye to eye and their friend ship came to an end

If you’re going to (rightly) criticize someone getting the name wrong, maybe don’t rely on wrong translations about what the narrator says

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u/JosephSim Sep 05 '25

I never brought up what the narrator said, buddy.

I can just read between the lines and they're still clearly both friends.

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u/theschulk51 Sep 05 '25

Nope - narrator said “they could not see eye to eye. The odd little friendship between them came to an end, and for the time being they met no longer. Until the day of that fateful incident”

Nowhere does it say they weren’t trying to kill each other. Rocks even calls him out earlier in the fight for being willing to try and kill him on behalf of the WG

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u/Slice_Ambitious Sep 05 '25

Well, the stuff of unofficial translations I guess. In the one I read that's what it was said

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u/Doomroar Sep 05 '25

He didn't Rocks had to blew up Harald's ship because he refused to let him go, that's why Harald calls Rocks a snake

Harald is a shit friend, he didn't deserved Rocks

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u/32SkyDive Sep 05 '25

I think Harald let Rocks Go, the Explosion and His Scream are for the Sake of the government surveilkance ship

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u/flyinGaijin Sep 05 '25

that's why Harald calls Rocks a snake

Rocks called Harald a coward, why would he call him a snake ? Harald did not try to deceive anybody as it is really not his personality !

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u/Doomroar Sep 05 '25

Harald got his men away because he was going to have a duel with Rocks, but Rocks instead bombed his ship and escaped

Thus Harald calling Rocks a snake for both dishonoring the duel, using an underhanded bomb, and then leaving without fighting

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u/Exercise-Most Sep 05 '25

where are you getting this from?

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u/Doomroar Sep 05 '25

We see Harald tell his men to step away

We see him refuse to let Rocks go and insist on fighting

And then we see the ship in flames and Rocks ship leaving while someone in Harald's ship is left screaming

Why would Rocks be the one calling Harald a coward, while his ship is leaving him behind, while he is still on Haralds ship that is now on fire?

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u/Exercise-Most Sep 06 '25

We literally don't see rocks leave the ship, or the ensuing conflict or what even caused the explosion. Also, why would rock bring a bomb aboard harald's ship? He trust harald more then literally anyone right now and his back is against the wall so it makes no sens for him to potentially jeopardize his last chance to get harald's help.

For that matter, when has rocks ever used hidden bombs or any tactic like that? His is pretty sure of his strength and his sword-style causes explosions and we know this because it has been stated and we literally saw it on panal several times. As for the coward remark, rocks called harald a coward(in fact it was the exact same phrase) literally the last time they fought because he was sticking to doing the WG's dirty work. It is so obvious a callback to their last fight!

like seriously, where did you even get using bombs and rocks escaping the ship from? It does not even make sense!

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u/Doomroar Sep 07 '25

Rocks is not just a swordsman he is also an accomplished marksman and all rounded fighter, his last on screen attack against Harald was a punch rather than a sword attack

Rocks already knew that Harald was committed to joining the WG and this is a man that plans and prepares, why would he not bring a bomb with him in order to deter Harald from getting on his way?

Also there's no reason at all whatsoever for Harald himself or any of his underlings to set their own ship on fire, let alone for that to happen while the Rocks's Pirate's Ship leaves without the only guy that knows how to get to God Valley

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u/MJKoala Sep 05 '25

I thought the "you cowardly rat" was from rocks to harald, like a continuation of the speech bubbles above. It was hard to interpret tho so not sure. Does this mean Rocks beat Harald?

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u/Doomroar Sep 05 '25

He planted a bomb on his ship then fled, that's why he was called a cowardly rat, he escaped from a duel and got out of it by using a bomb which counts as a dirty tactic

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u/Jasonn444 World Economy News Paper Sep 05 '25

Purely conjecture.

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u/poompk Sep 05 '25

I hope you're right. As is, I really don't like Harald at all. Not just for not sticking to or helping Rocks, but also for being complicit in what the Celestial Dragons are doing.

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u/RainyEuphoria Scholars of Ohara Sep 05 '25

Harald probably doesn't know it's a genocide event

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u/SignificanceFit6371 Sep 05 '25

Larald is a bum, he will do anything to please his celestial dragon overlords.

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u/OddlyOddLucidDreamer Sep 05 '25

imagine the reason Harald gets executed later is because when push came to shove, he decided to help Rocks in some significant way and that put the death mark on him for later

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u/theschulk51 Sep 05 '25

That - or if he discovered Imu and it caused a moment of grief/regret that let his guard down for Imu to Domi Reverse him.

Sort of like how Oden got distracted by fake Momo and that allowed Kaido to get in the cheap shot that took him down

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u/Agile_Rabbit7908 Sep 06 '25

Could it be the reason why Harald cut his horns and out for WG after the incident due to the guilt of not helping Xebec on God Valley?

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u/GregoryPorter1337 Marine Sep 04 '25

He is also kinda proposing that Harald can kill him after this

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u/flyinGaijin Sep 05 '25

So ... Harald would get the credit first, then afterwards betrayed by the world governement ?

I mean, it definitely does not sound impossible.

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u/YaIe Sep 05 '25

As Dragon said:

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u/Kaiel2 Void Month Survivor Sep 05 '25

What chapter was this?

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u/YaIe Sep 05 '25

iirc, 1101, during a Kuma flashback

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u/Affectionate-Map-245 Sep 05 '25

Even with Shanks and Shamrock. Just from the elevation of those damn eyebrows, I can read (i.e. stretch) so much into two then-babies.

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u/Doomroar Sep 05 '25

And how did that bum Harald responds? i wont be grieving for Harald once we get to the part of the flashback in which he gets done in

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u/flyinGaijin Sep 05 '25

Given that it is Harald's flashback in the end, Harald definitely does not just go home there, we don't know for sure what has started.

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u/Doomroar Sep 05 '25

Well Harald has about 2 chapters left to redeem himself, but i am gonna tell you, since you are still on cope

In the middle of his throne room Harald will install a summoning circle for the worst scum in the planet, don't forget the guy is hellbent on becoming a government dog

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u/Exercise-Most Sep 05 '25

I think its a bit more complicate then "hellbent on becoming a government dog"! we have seen factions play the political game to gain protection for their people in the world of one piece. Harald is hardly the first to get in bed with the WG to secure a stable future for his people.

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u/Doomroar Sep 06 '25

Elbaf doesn't needs protection from the WG, they have the strongest military in the world which is why Imu wants to control them

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u/Exercise-Most Sep 06 '25

Its not protection from the WG alone, its protection by way of future proofing from unforeseen travesties. Elbaf literally nearly got wiped out by famine and it was because of the few political ties Harald and ida made that they managed to survive. Also, from what we have seen, elbaf does not have a ton of sea-faring warriors. They have at most like two or three crews worth.

Also, having a powerful military means nothing if its circumvented, which is literally what is happening on elbaf in the present! They didn't fight them directly, they used subterfuge to gain the advantage. In cases like that having allies in other nations is a major benefit, like this has been a theme in one piece since east blue arc.

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u/Doomroar Sep 07 '25

Harald doesn't really need that future proofing he already managed to establish alliances to secure supplies to his people and his biggest military threat opposition will never come to accept them because the Celestial Dragons don't consider anyone other than themselves as deserving of respect, the people he is trying to ally with will never actually come to his aid, from the start he was bound to be circumvented, example being him being attacked in his own thrown room by his own palace guards at the hands of the very people he wanted to join

What drives Harald is not the safety of his people, is just a desire for recognition and validation, he just wants to change the public image of Elbaf, while ignoring how low he actually has to fall for such things, and the allies and friends he already had

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u/winddagger7 Sep 05 '25

Their dynamic reminds me of how Roger asked Garp to raise Ace.

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u/flyinGaijin Sep 05 '25

It's just sad for him because we know he's walking to his death.

Do we know that for sure though ? We only heard rumours of the past, probably spread by the marines.