Karasu’s Bounty at 400 million Berries

Karasu does not turn into birds. The Susu Susu no Mi is a soot Logia: he creates soot, commands it, and becomes it, and the murder of crows is simply the shape he gives that material — his own body included, whenever he decides to come apart. The half plague-doctor mask across his face is a loudspeaker, because he mumbles inaudibly otherwise. At Lulusia, Peachbeard asked him what on earth he was saying, and the commander stalked off furious having realized he had forgotten to switch the thing on.

The flock is a network before it is a weapon. Each crow can carry a grown man on its back, relay his voice, or deliver the newspaper, and that is how readers first saw him years before anyone knew his name: a black bird bringing the press to scattered revolutionaries. It also strips a whole crew of its swords in mid-air without a single conventional blow being landed, which is what the Peachbeard Pirates got.

What 400,000,000 buys shows best on the fourth day of the Levely. The four commanders had just destroyed the Celestial Dragons' crest and entered Mary Geoise; Karasu held Admiral Fujitora to a draw on ground that favored him, and pulled a slave out from under the noble about to kill him. It was one of his crows, too, that carried Morley the keys to the exploding collars Sabo had found inside Pangaea Castle. Kuma left the Holy Land because a bird crossed the city at the right moment.

The work never dates the figure, nor says whether that day moved it. The bounty stands, on a man nothing obliges to remain in one piece.