Overview

• Chapters 1154 and 1155 deploy extensive flashbacks to showcase Rocks D. Xebec’s mythic past, including his unprecedented killing of a Navy Admiral.
• Xebec’s single-handed kidnapping of five kings at the Reverie and the destruction of the colossal Gates of Justice demonstrate his power to breach the World Government’s strongest defenses.
• An extraordinary audience with Imu in the Room of Flowers elevates Xebec to a direct challenger of the series’ secretive ruler.
• The confirmation that Xebec is Marshall D. Teach’s father reshapes Blackbeard’s legacy and adds personal stakes to their impending clash.
• One Piece’s shift toward flashback-driven storytelling deepens the saga’s historical context as it builds toward its final conflict.