The Shocking Truth of the SMILEs Devil Fruits Revealed!

In the last chapter we see Yasu is shot and killed by Orochi and his forces. Upon arriving at the scene, Zoro is baffled to see the residents of Ebisu Town laughing hysterically. Hiyori then reveals to him that they have been stripped of the ability to do anything else thanks to Kaido bringing SMILE to this country. The people of Ebisu Town can only smile because of the SMILE fruits.

So we can assume that you need stolen emotions to create SMILEs. Only happines wasn’t stolen from the people. You can see the affected people only smiling. That would explain the name “smiles”. And it explains now the name of the SAD-tanks in Punk Hazard. What is in the SAD-tanks? We saw Law destroying the tanks and we can clearly see some green liquid, which you need to create smiles. Those liquid could be those stolen negative emotions. That’s why it is called “SAD”.

But why stolen emotions?
In chapter 184 we saw the first time an object with a devil fruit. Usopp stated: “That’s ridiculous. It’s not as if the devil fruit has a will of its own.” There are some theories that say the devil fruits own a soul. I think this could be very true. The devil fruit-object fusion has a strong parallel with Big Mom’s soul ability to create Homies. Giving a dead object a soul and it becomes a living thing.
For SMILEs you need emotions! It’s like a lower version of a soul. But you can’t steal happiness. Maybe that’s the reason why smiles are incomplete and not quite work, like an original devil fruit. Only Vegapunk was able to create one SMILE that was working 100%. It was the SMILE that Momonosuke ate. Now I come to the speculative part, and it’s very very speculative, so don’t be too hard to me.

Momonosuke’s SMILE worked perfectly. So which emotions could be in the artificial fruit? It’s the perfect copy of Kaido’s devil fruit. Could it be that Kaido’s emotions were stolen from Vegapunk? Maybe his happiness was stolen too. I know we saw Kaido with emotional outbursts and we saw him cry. That happens only when he’s drunk. Could be a side-effect. I’m not sure about this, but I think it’s worth to mention. Sidenote: We have two strong connections between Vegapunk, Kaido and Big Mom.

The devil fruit-object transfer is like the ability from Big Mom to create Homies.
Vegapunk invented the first SMILE, which is a copy of Kaido’s devil fruit.
We know that Vegapunk can study devil fruits and can turn it into technology. Like Kizaru’s lasers within the Pacifistas.

What if Vegapunk studied Big Mom’s and Kaido’s devil fruits in the past and that’s the basis for his inventions. He could share a part of his past with Big Mom and Kaido and maybe had a connection with Rocks, where he was able lay his hands an those two. That could be the reason why Orochi wants Vegapunk from CP0 so badly. We also know that Vismoke Judge worked with Vegapunk. He did experiments on his own children to make them more powerful. The Vismoke siblings have now powers like Zoan Users, but they didn’t lose their ability to swim. And they lost their emotions and emphaty, except Sanji. This could be connected with the SMILE-emotion topic.

What do you think guys?

Kozuki Hiyori’s real Identity

Here is how I think it went down! First, it was shown for a fact that excluding oden and toki, there were nine other graves! That simply clearly points towards the fact that the nine people that toki talked about were not the strawhats, and not supernova captains, and not nine samurai who wield swords. But rather toki simply talked about the 9 people she sent into the future that they will bring down orochi!

Okay, first let's discuss the options that toki has done to hiyori! Shall we? There are simply four possibilities that could have happened to hiyori!

1. First option, is that toki let hiyori stay in the same timeline. And I'm sorry, that is just nonsense for three reasons: first, there is no way that she would let her stay in this dangerous place to die while transporting others to future and not include her daughter hahaha. Secondly, because toki was shown alone when she gave the speech about the 9 people who will bring down orochi! Sure it was a silhouette, but still she was shown standing alone in the fire! And third, hiyori is an important member of the 9 who toki hinted at who will take down orochi, so she wouldn't stay in the same timeline to die!

2. The second option, toki sent hiyori into the same future and time as momo's group. Now, that would be impossible, because of one fact, she was not next to them just like that other samurai with the hat (and probably other members at different locations being sent). In any case, momo, kinemon, raizo, kanjuro, and kiku, they all were transported into the same future, and they basically were standing on the same location, which was oden castle when they were being transported, so that's why they were in the same place, and if hiyori was sent into the same future as momo's group, she would have appeared next to them! So, that option is out of the question to me!

3. The third option, toki sent hiyori into the future but a future that is after momo's time. Meaning, she still did not arrive! Cause she will appear in the future still. Now, that is not a convincing logic for toki to do it. Why would she do that? It would not make any sense at all. First, that will make her unlikely to be part of the 9 people she talked about cause she will not take part in the upcoming event, same as the other samurai group who came with her. Secondly, oda will have no reason to invent a character like this who will take no part! Like, it does not add up to me! That's why I do not consider this option to be at any case a good option to pull off, but who knows!

4. Lastly, the 4th option is that toki sent hiyori into the future, but a future that is before momo's group arrival. That simply first would explain why hiyori did not appear next to momo's group, same as that other samurai with the hat who probably appeared next to hiyori at the same spot and time to look after her as well as some other group of samurai retainers (not inuarashi and nekumamushi cause they were not among the ones who were sent into future by toki, so they are not among the people who had graves)! Second thing, it would make sense for toki to send her either with momo's group and wait until they are ready for war, or send her before momo! And I'm talking about this because of hiyori's age, which from how it looks, momo looks like the older brother while hiyori might be even way younger!

And if that's that case, and her age is like 2 years old for example, then she will make a huge burden for momo's group to wage a war, and they will have to look after her cause people at that young age will simply render them! And I'm not talking about momo, cause at least momo can realize what is danger and he can run away, he can hold a stick, he can talk...Etc! Those might be things that hiyori still didn't manage to have where she is at a very early age that people need to carry her, and feed her, and protect her as a child. It's why she was being carried by toki in that panel! So, the best option I think toki would do is to actually make her travel into a future that is before momo's arrival, so that when momo arrives, she actually has grown a bit to where she can not be of a huge burden!

Note: I also think because of o-tama's age when she was sent into the future before momo, she was at very early age, people like heitetsu and the person with that hat and so on, the group that were transported with o-tama, they might have hidden the fact about her being hiyori and they told her she's o-tama cause kids spill the beans very easily. I mean look at doffy for example who spilled the beans about being a cilistial dragon very easily to the citizens which got them into huge trouble! That is why the treatment towards o-tama were different from the treatment with momo who was already aware for what's happening during his age! And o-tama was being taught by heitetsu and other group of samurai who came with her that kozuki clan are good people while orochi is bad, and they are enemy! It's why she has those kinds of value, and it's why despite the public being fooled that the kozuki are dead, she is one of those who believe that kozuki clan will come back and take back their place from orochi, and that simply was being taught to her by heitetsu and the group of people who came into her timeline. Which is why she knows this stuff, but simply she doesn't know the full truth that she traveled in time as well, and that she's from kozuki and she's oden's daughter because she was too small as a child to understand and someone like heitetsu was hiding this info from her cause she was not ready yet!

That's my full belief on the hiyori matter!

The Shogun of Wano Orochi Vs Zoro

In the previous chapter the name of the Shogun of Wano Country is revealed to be Kurozumi Orochi. According to Japanese mythology Yamata no Orochi (“8-branched giant snake”) or Orochi is a legendary 8-headed and 8-tailed Japanese dragon. Susanoo, the Shinto god of the sea and storms, killed the Yamata no Orochi. We know Zoro uses a tornado attack which connects to storm so he will defeat/kill the Shogun.

Furthermore Oda and the author of Naruto are friends and Oda had done shoutouts to Naruto before with Raizo. Zoro will likely defeat the Shogun Orochi with the Asura technique or an upgraded version of the Asura as a result of the training and I felt that Asura technique was a bit of a reference to the Susanoo from Naruto. Also the Shogun Orochi could very well use 8 swords as a reference to how Killer Bee from Naruto used 8 swords plus there is the fact that in the Yamata no Orochi Myth after expulsion from Heaven, Susanoo encounters two “Earthly Deities” near the head of the Hi River, now called the Hii River, in Izumo Province.

They are weeping because they were forced to give the Orochi one of their daughters every year for seven years, and now they must sacrifice their eighth, Kushi-inada-hime so this will be referenced with the Shogun taking the other samurais swords so along with his main sword which will be a reference to The legendary sword Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, which came from the tail of Yamata no Orochi.

The Shogun will have 7 other swords he got from defeating other samurai meaning that he uses a total of 8 swords since the Yamata no Orochi had only gotten 7 of the daughters in the myth so replace the daughters with swords and the 8th daughter Kushi-inada-hime will be represented by Shisui the national treasure of Wano which Orochi would want. So, after defeating him, Zoro could get a new sword in Orochi’s main sword which will reference The Legendary Sword Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, which came from the tail of Yamata no Orochi and how Susanoo had obtained it from the Yamata no Orochi’s body (though Susanoo in the myths had given it to Amaterasu to settle an old grievance) they could change it so Zoro keeps the blade along with Shusui and Sandai Kitetsu breaks or he can give Kusanagi away or he can return Shusui.