Eiichiro Oda’s purpose in showing Toki’s wound

This is more of an analysis than theory really, since there isn’t much to base off of. In the most recent chapter we see that Lady Toki was shot through the leg with an arrow which left a very distinct and notable scar. Now, at first glance it was just a way to get Oden enraged so he would charge to the castle, but I think that would’ve happened regardless of Toki’s scar.



Simply knowing his family was attacked and Toki was hurt in the process would’ve sufficed. I think Oda deliberately left this scar on Toki for the purpose of revealing her later on in the story. The upper thigh is a very convenient way for the women of Wano attire to conceal this scar, unlike Nami who wears shorts all the time. Oda wouldn’t randomly give such a scar to a character who is already dead and about to die in the flashback. After all, scars have their importance and backstory in One Piece because many notable characters have distinct scars. Luffy, Zoro, Kaido, Shanks, Whitebeard etc. People have been speculating that the Hiyori we’ve seen so far is actually Toki who jumped 20 years and the real one is being kept hidden. I’m not really sure about that but the reveal of the scar could lead to that being true. This arrow to the leg mark will surely help identify the true identity of Hiyori.

Lady Toki's Purpose

She came from 800 years ago into the past and traveled in time to a certain island, and right from the start, her main objective was to go to wano. But what is her link to wano? Why wano specifically? Right in her introduction, she wears an outfit that's full of the "Crescent moon" symbols.

Coincidentally, the kozuki clan has also been associated with a similar "Crescent moon" symbol throughout the story, and this might give a subtle hint that she already had a link not just with wano but also the kozuki clan before she even went to wano in the first place possibly 800 years ago as well. And not only is she linked to the void century and wano, but she is also linked to roger, and given that she came with oden to roger's crew later on she's definitely one of the people who knew the true history of the world, like roger, rayleigh and oden.

Perhaps she may have even compared what she had witnessed in the past, to what was also written.

What could lady toki's purpose in the story be, 800 years into the future?
What could be her motive to go to wano 800 years later? Perhaps she was asked to, maybe it was her home? Why 800 years into the future?

Another thing to note is, oden decided to open wano's borders before he returned to wano; he met lady toki before joining roger, and knew the true history during his voyage. Could lady toki somehow have partly influenced oden's decision to open wano's borders?

One Piece Chapter 964 Spoilers Scans & Summaries

One Piece Chapter 964 | Oden’s Adventures
Even though his request of joining Whitebeard was turned down, his stubbornness led to Whitebeard and his crew sneaking away at night to leave.
Oden jumps into the sea, and they captured Oden and Izou, who chased after Oden, with ropes.
Whitebeard decided that Oden will stay this way, and he’ll only take Izou.
He then said to an enraged Izou that if he wants him to give up then he’ll have to persuade Whitebeard himself.

They made a deal that if Oden can endure for 3 days, then he’ll let him on the ship.
Oden was exhausted when he had just a hour left.
On the beach Toki was troubled by bad guys, and that’s when she met a worn out Oden.
The bad guys appeared again after they’ve been chased away.
It’s Whitebeard who came back that helped them.
Oden, Izou, Toki all got on Whitebeard’s ship.
Oden’s happy that he’s traveling from places to places.

Shanks and Buggy read about Whitebeard Pirates’ successes from newspaper.
And Roger who says that he wants to meet (a) samurai.

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