'One Piece' Sees Luffy Make One of His Biggest Promises Yet

One Piece has put Luffy in a more perilous situation than ever as he's now trapped in the Mirro-World with Katakuri and has no clear way of escaping. Naturally the Straw Hats are worried about their captain because of this.

But to put their minds at ease, Luffy made a promise that he has no guarantee he can deliver as he promises to meet them when they get to Cacao Island.

Nami tells Luffy of the plan that they will rendezvous at Cacao Island with Sanji, who's currently helping to bake the replacement wedding cake to satiate Big Mom's raging appetite. But the Straw Hats begin worrying about Luffy after he orders them to break all the mirrors on the Thousand Sunny.

To ease their minds, Luffy says that he'll meet them at the island. But this promise carries a ton of weight because the entire time he's speaking with the Straw Hats, he's being pounded up and down by Katakuri. Katakuri's seemingly stronger than ever now, and Luffy himself isn't even fully confident that he'll win.

The promise is capped off by Luffy hiding his pained face with an eerily goofy one, and the Straw Hats were put at ease for now. But Jinbe is seen reacting sternly, as he probably realizes what Luffy had done in that moment. The promise he made is not one he's sure he can keep just yet, but his Captain role keeps him from worrying his crew.

What makes matters worse is that after this conversation, Katakuri gets serious and the battle with Luffy gets more intense. Luffy can't even land a hit with one of his more powerful techniques, Red Hawk. It's going to get tough before it gets better.

Eiichiro Oda's One Piece first began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997. It has since been collected into over 80 volumes, and has been a critical and commercial success worldwide with many of the volumes breaking printing records in Japan. The manga has even set a Guinness World Record for the most copies published for the same comic book by a single author, and is the best selling manga series worldwide with over 430 million copies sold.

Oda revealed some news about One Piece's future in a recent interview as well. Stating that he was about 80 percent done with the manga at this point with the Wano arc, fans are worried that the series may be coming to an end sooner than they thought. But it wouldn't be wrong to infer that the ending will most likely still be years away given how much of the world there is to explore and just how well it's selling week to week.