# WebtoonLib — One Piece #1117

## Series
- title: One Piece
- slug: one-piece-46bb51

## Chapter
- number: 1117
- release_date: 2025-05-29

### Summary
As Dr. Vegapunk's posthumous message continues to broadcast the world's impending doom, a flashback reveals that Gol D. Roger and his crew, including Rayleigh and Crocus, discovered this same catastrophic truth decades ago. Rather than intervening, the Pirate King and his companions chose to laugh, entrusting the fate of the world and the thrill of discovery to the next generation. This revelation reframes the current crisis as a long-inherited challenge, one that the old guard knowingly passed down, leaving the world to grapple with a truth they deemed less important than the freedom of a grand adventure.
- summary_source: graph_aggregator
- summary_verification: unverified

### Characters involved
- Crocus — Supporting
- Vegapunk — Supporting

## Spoiler
- level: auto

### Safe teaser
Vegapunk's posthumous message continues to broadcast the world's impending doom, a flashback reveals that Gol D.

### Spoiler summary
As Dr. Vegapunk's posthumous message continues to broadcast the world's impending doom, a flashback reveals that Gol D. Roger and his crew, including Rayleigh and Crocus, discovered this same catastrophic truth decades ago. Rather than intervening, the Pirate King and his companions chose to laugh, entrusting the fate of the world and the thrill of discovery to the next generation. This revelation reframes the current crisis as a long-inherited challenge, one that the old guard knowingly passed down, leaving the world to grapple with a truth they deemed less important than the freedom of a grand adventure.

## Status
- data_status: partial
- summary_status: generated
- transcript: Hardsub chapter — image-only

## See also
- [WebtoonLib — One Piece #1117](/series/one-piece-46bb51/chapter-1117)
- for_series_detail: /llms-series/one-piece-46bb51

## Usage
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