If you just came from reading the latest One Piece manga chapter, this must be the question on your mind – is Eustass Kid dead? Did Shanks actually kill the captain of the Kid Pirates?
Before chapter 1079 was released, there was a huge debate among One Piece fans on how the battle between Red Hair Pirates and Kid Pirates will play out. Many people believed that Kid wouldn’t go down as easily against Shanks as he did before, considering he had just come out of a battle with Big Mom herself.
However, the chapter completely obliterated everyone’s expectations like Shanks obliterated Kid and his crew. It took only one attack from Shanks to knock out not only Eustass Kid but also Killer, and his ship and crew were destroyed in an instant.
Shanks was considered one of the weakest of the Four Emperors by many because he didn’t have many feats of strength, except what he did at Marineford. And then, too, we have never seen Shanks fight like we did the other Emperors. But this chapter cemented Shanks’ position as one of the strongest of the Emperors because he showed Eustass Kid the massive gap in power between them.
We know that Shanks has destroyed Kid and his pirate crew, but the question is whether Eustass Kid is really dead. That’s what we are going to talk about in this article!
Is Eustass Kid Dead in One Piece?
Eustass Kid went over to where Shanks was to get revenge because he’d already fought him once before, where he didn’t just lose the fight, but he also lost his arm.
So, after his time on Wano and his battle against Big Mom and Kaido, with help from multiple people, Kid was of the opinion that he’s gotten more powerful and is strong enough to take on Shanks. But he ended up underestimating him too much, and Shanks didn’t underestimate Kid one bit.
The chapter shows Shanks and his crew making a pitstop at an island and meeting with all his subordinates, but Kid ends up arriving at the location.
All the different pirates who are Shanks’ subordinates wanted to fight for him and take care of Kid, but Shanks stopped them. Even the crew members of Red Hair Pirates, especially Lucky Roux, said they’d handle him. However, Shanks refused, saying not to underestimate Kid. After all, he’s a pirate with a 3 billion bounty!
While Shanks is chatting with his crew members about Kid’s past, Kid is getting ready to blow all the ships on Shanks’s side to oblivion.
But before Kid can ready and use his ultimate attack, “Damned Punk,” Shanks uses his advanced observation haki to foresee the future where he sees Kid’s attack decimating multiple ships and killing a huge number of people aboard them.
And so, without wasting any moment, he immediately takes action and jumps from his ship over to Kid’s ship. He unleashes his conqueror’s haki, knocking out most of the crew aboard Kid’s ship. Before Kid himself can react, Shanks coats his sword in conqueror’s haki and unleashes his strongest attack, the “Divine Departure,” the same attack Roger used on Oden, and knocks out not only Kid but also Killer in the process.
Seeing this unexpected turn of events, the pirates, still conscious aboard Kid’s ship, run to save their captain and beg Shanks to spare him. They even hand over Kid’s Road Poneglyphs to Shanks. However, that wasn’t the end.
The giant duo, Dorry and Broggy, are ready to unleash their own attack. Shanks leaves the ship, and the Giants fire off their attack, the “Hakoku Sovereignty,” and destroy Kid’s pirate ship.
By the end of the chapter, we see that every member of Kid’s pirate crew was out of commission and in the water as their ship was destroyed. Even the narrator mentioned that on that day, on Elbaf, Eustass Kid and his pirate crew were destroyed.
So, does that mean Eustass Kid is dead in One Piece?
It’s not yet confirmed that Kid is dead. Eiichiro Oda hasn’t explicitly stated that Kid died after that attack; the chapter only mentioned that Kid and his pirate crew were destroyed. We’ll have to wait for a confirmation that Kid is actually dead before making a solid statement.
It’s possible that Kid might still survive, even after being submerged in the ocean, as some of his crew members might pull him and Killer out of the sea and take them safely to land.
But knowing Oda, I am sure it will be a lot of chapters before we even know what happened at Elbaf following this unexpected battle. So, the fate of Eustass Kid and his crew is still in the air, and anything anyone says will be pure conjecture.
Did Shanks Kill Eustass Kid?
As I said, we don’t know if Kid is dead yet, so saying Shanks killed him would be wrong. And when we do get a confirmation of Kid’s fate, and it’s confirmed that he’s dead, we can still take Shanks’s side because he did what he had to do to save many of his subordinates.
Kid was about to fire his “Damned Punk,” which would have obliterated most of Shanks’ subordinates’ ships, which were nine in total, and killed a lot of people.
So whatever Shanks did was to save his followers, and the best and fastest way to do that was to prevent Kid from firing his attack by taking him out with just a single strike. Hence, Shanks went off with his strongest attack!
Conclusion
That brings us to the end of the article, and I hope you now have more details about Kid’s fate following his battle against Shanks.
While there’s no confirmation that Eustass Kid died after taking on Shanks’ attack, it’s safe to say that this is the end of his pirate crew as not only was his ship destroyed, but most of his crew members were rendered unconscious by Shanks’ haki burst before they were thrown into the sea.
So, to answer your question, is Eustass Kid dead in One Piece? We’ll have to wait and see when Oda finally decides to tell us of his fate!
