Names of the Giant Children
A quick face-to-name reference — like with the Punk Hazard kids (Mocha, Sind, etc.), keeping track makes the story easier to follow as it develops.
Koron — Gaban and Ripley’s child. Already carries the weight of being a Pirate King crewmember’s kid, with the aura of someone who will carry Elbaf’s future. If Ace had survived, Roger’s son and Gaban’s son would have sailed together someday.
Aegir — the boy who nearly got swallowed by Jormungandr, triumphant in Gerz’s arms. Probably a future one of Koron’s two wings.
Iluva — the girl at the front of the line of sleeping-walking children, Yarle’s great-great-granddaughter. Counting Yarle as generation one, Iluva is the fifth. Future Gerz-type protector role?
Mag — second in line, the goggle kid. Cried with Aegir on Luffy’s devil swing, and drew Nika as his “most frightening thing.” Likely the other future wing alongside Aegir.
Ronja — third in line, the gloved boy. Drew “Draugr (fire-dead)” as his greatest fear. Draugr are Norse undead monsters — the same type that knocked down firefighter Sval. A “fire dead” as his phobia, combined with instinctive hostility toward the fire brigade, tracks with the fire-versus-water elemental opposition.
Ryuu-Ryuu no Mi
The ability prediction from last chapter landed correctly — Kiringam does manipulate dreams — but the Devil Fruit name was wrong. It’s the Ryuu-Ryuu no Mi, Mythical Zoan Model: Kirin. The kirin classified as a dragon type is the same logic Monster Hunter uses. Kaido’s Azure Dragon was the Uo-Uo; the kirin gets Ryuu-Ryuu. Devil Fruit naming remains the hardest prediction in One Piece analysis.
The Ryuu-Ryuu no Mi has appeared before as Ancient Zoan variants in Wano: Allosaurus (X. Drake), Spinosaurus (Page One), Pachycephalosaurus (Ulti), Pteranodon (King), Brachiosaurus (Queen), Triceratops (Sasaki). Prediction for when Yamato’s cover story resumes: Page One, Ulti, and Sasaki end up allying.
Loki’s Fruit: The Biri-Biri no Mi?
Loki’s bounty is 2.6 billion. Could “26” be wordplay on “Biri” (ビリ = electric shock)? The numeric read is a stretch — but the real evidence is in this chapter: Hildulk explicitly says “touching him causes electric shock.” That’s not a weapon property. Ragnir projects lightning externally; shock-on-contact is a Devil Fruit ability. The Biri-Biri no Mi is the only clean fit.
There’s also a retroactive visual tell: a past panel showed Hildulk’s skeleton. In manga, visible bones = electric shock. Hildulk’s skeleton has already been shown to the reader, which typically means the artist is setting up who shocks him. The answer is his brother Loki standing right beside him. If 2626 = Biri-Biri, the bounty, the visual, and the dialogue all converge.
Water Seven → Enies Lobby Self-Homage
Somorz turned out to be a thorn/bramble user (Ibara). Ibara → Kalifa (Soap Fruit) from Water Seven / Enies Lobby. Kalifa was the fanservice character of that arc; Somorz is filling the same structural slot. The homage is intentional.
And the parallel runs deeper: in Enies Lobby, the Kalifa fight triggered Chopper’s berserk transformation. With Oda building such a careful Water Seven → Enies Lobby structural homage across Elbaf, Chopper’s awakening may be approaching. Working theory: Mythical Zoan Model: Cernunnos — a forest deity from Norse/Celtic mythology that fits Chopper’s whole identity.
This Week’s Loki = Franky Element
Loki drove his father to death, and for that his step-brother can never forgive him. The emotional beat maps directly onto Franky’s family tragedy — the Franky homage Oda keeps building throughout this arc.