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· One Piece Episode 1179 begins with Imu declaring their decision to go to Elbaf.
· The Gorosei try to dissuade Imu, but Garling supports Imu's decision, questioning the safety of the Holy Land.
· Garling points out that the supply operation in the lower world is ongoing, emphasizing the leader's role and pressuring York to generate energy.
· The Mercury Star questions why all these events are happening after Nika's appearance, but the Jupiter Star insists Imu shouldn't leave Pangaea Castle and suggests dispatching an Elbaf Marine Admiral.
· Nasjuro states they are too busy with incidents elsewhere, but Imu dismisses this as arrogance, sloth, laziness, and pride, saying all foolishness must be discarded.
· Imu recalls Rocks and says everything was inevitable, mentioning numerous figures like Roger, Shirahoshi, and Shanks.
· Imu expresses a desire to retrieve Vivi and states that everything began a very long time ago, preparing to leave the Holy Land.
· Garling declares no one can stop Imu, and Imu vanishes within the pentagram.

· The scene shifts to Elbaf, where Gerz finds Weevil attaching body parts, and Goldberg discovers Weevil's steel heart.
· Zoro remarks that if the steel heart breaks, it won't regenerate, startling Sommelier.
· At the Walrus School, Loki and Luffy are eating food that had its energy stolen.
· Luffy asks if the person he froze died, and Loki replies they were rapidly cooled and only Ragnar can melt them.
· Black smoke billows near Aurust Castle in Elbaf, a giant pentagram forms, and surrounding objects emit an evil laugh.
· Inside Aurust Castle, immense Conqueror's Haki erupts, astonishing the group.
· Imu descends upon Aurust Castle in Elbaf, but coughs up blood, possibly due to the impact from the Holy Land.
· Something emerges from behind Imu, causing a massive explosion within the castle.
· Something reveals itself from Aurust Castle, and Killingham and Soju exclaim that a great person has arrived.

· Atop Aurust Castle sat NERO N. Imu, the King of the World, creator of the World Government, and one of the original 20, possessing Devil Fruit powers.
· This scene marks the end of One Piece Episode 1179.
· The highlight of this episode is the appearance of NERO N. Imu, the King of the World.

· Imu's appearance in this episode was that of a literal demon, with long white hair, dark tanned skin, massive horns, and a demonic tail.
· The monstrous form Sabo saw in Mary Geoise, Imu's connection to Saturn, and the form that possessed a warship all depict Imu as a being different from humans.
· Imu's true form, appearing after coughing up blood immediately after descending on Elbaf, felt less like a transformation and more like something else within their body pushing its way out.
· Imu's bizarre appearance suggests that Oda has been portraying Imu as a non-human entity from the start.
· Imu's form during the God Valley incident, the appearance from within the warship, and similarities to an unknown creature in the Birka murals on the moon all indicate Imu is no mere human.
· The form in the Birka mural resembles a tentacled creature like an octopus or squid, sharing a similar silhouette and eerie atmosphere with the recurring shadowy figure of Imu.

· The drawings in the Birka mural, along with ancient toilets, seem to depict the Moon Clan migrating to the blue star, symbolically representing a power or being that has existed for a very long time.
· The origin of this symbol likely stems from a yearning for the sea and the blue star. For the Skypieans, the sea was the source of life, and the blue star was an ideal land promising survival and prosperity.
· This yearning, much like the past of Skypie in Sky Island, transformed into a desire to possess land.
· What began as a longing for the sea grew into a desire to possess the entire sea and the blue star. This, combined with humans' desire to expand territory, lust for power, and obsession with immortality, became twisted into a pursuit of ownership and domination.
· The tentacled form in the Birka mural, originally a symbol of yearning, became a form of destruction and fear as desires for possession and conflict were added.
· The Umibozu theory for Imu connects various clues: the similarity in names, references to the sea, Sabo's description of Imu's form, the appearance from the warship, and the tentacled imagery in the Birka mural.
· This suggests that what might have initially been an object of longing became twisted into a desire for ownership and obsession with the land and sea of the blue star, ultimately transforming into a demonic and destructive form.

· Vegapunk's statement, 'Everything is born from desire, and the Devil Fruits are the potential for human evolution that someone desired,' suggests that in the world of One Piece, people's yearnings and desires can manifest as actual powers or fruits.
· Just as oppressed slaves created the symbol of Nika out of a desire for freedom, leading to the Nika Fruit, it's possible that the desires of those who wanted more land, more possessions, eternal life, great power, and absolute rule coalesced into a single will and became a fruit.
· Imu may not have been a fully formed demon from the start, but rather a being connected to a certain power or Devil Fruit formed from accumulated human desires.
· The current Imu seems less like a human using a fruit's power and more like a being gradually consumed by a sentient fruit.
· Similar to how the jailers in Impel Down lost their reason and became more instinctual after awakening, Imu might have lost control to the power they gained.
· The depiction of a demonic form emerging from within their body feels less like a simple transformation and more like something else inside pushing its way out, suggesting the fruit's will or desire, which had been encroaching on Imu, has manifested externally.
· Originally, Imu might have been a human who admired Lily, but that admiration twisted into possessiveness and obsession, leading to a desire for great power and authority. A Devil Fruit with a condensed will of desire could have exploited this opening.
· The fruit may have slowly consumed Imu, but since the fruit and human became one, traces of human emotion might remain.

· Imu's obsession is not merely personal; it connects to a flow of ancient desires.
· The Harlie passage in the Elbaf temple, stating 'In the First World, impurity of the earth arose, and man, succumbing to desire, touched the forbidden sun,' seems to record a power of the same lineage as Imu that has existed for a very long time.
· Indeed, when Imu used Domino Reversi in the Harlie passage, the surrounding pigs were depicted as becoming impure.
· Given these circumstances, it's highly probable that Devil Fruits existed since the First World, and just as the power passed from Nika to Joy Boy to Luffy, Imu's lineage may have carried that power down to the present Imu.
· The 'impurity of the pigs' mentioned in the First World of Harlie might not refer solely to the current Imu but could also be evidence that a similar lineage of desire and power has been corrupting the world for ages.
· Therefore, the current Imu could be the manifestation of that ancient power reaching the present, and Harlie might be a record left behind by a subordinate, marking its origin.

· What we saw in this episode might not just be the appearance of the King of the World, Imu, but the moment when a face, a blend of ancient accumulated desires and the remnants of a human consumed by those desires, was finally revealed.
· There were many lingering mysteries, such as the panel on Weevil's steel heart resembling that of the Birka space pirates, and Imu coughing up blood as a side effect of descending to Harlie. However, covering all of them would make the video too long, so we'll likely cover them next week.
· These points will be discussed in detail in the next video.