One Piece 1165: Did Garp and Roger's Defeat of Rocks D. Xebec Rattle Imu?

Spoiler warning: If you are not caught up on the One Piece manga and want to go in fresh, bail now. Chapter 1165 leaks are out there, and they are loud.

Alright, here’s the headline version: the latest early Japanese scans say Imu might have actually felt fear during the God Valley incident. Yes, the big shadow ruler of the world... spooked. The reason? Garp and Roger allegedly teamed up and flattened Rocks D. Xebec in a single, absurdly risky move. Wild if true, and it reframes a lot of what we thought we knew about that day.

What the leaks say went down at God Valley

• Roger pitches a crazy plan: he and Garp dump all their Supreme King Haki (aka Conqueror's Haki) into one massive, combined strike to punch through Rocks’ defenses.
• The catch: doing that leaves them totally exposed if it fails. Do-or-die territory. Garp is all in anyway.
• On the big double-page moment, they unleash the combo attack and actually take down Rocks D. Xebec.
• Imu witnesses all this, gets out of there by ship, and orders God Valley erased from existence. As in, wiped clean like it never happened.

"Roger and Garp combine their Supreme King Haki for a single, all-or-nothing strike on Rocks; Imu bails and orders God Valley wiped."

So... did Imu really get scared?

That’s the hot read from a lot of fans: seeing two peak-era monsters team up and nuke Rocks was enough to make even Imu feel something like fear. If that’s accurate, it adds a fascinating wrinkle to a character we usually think of as untouchable and unbothered.

Not everyone is buying it

Plenty of readers are calling foul on the whole "Imu felt fear" angle. The counterarguments floating around:

First, the image problem: if Imu is the hidden ruler of the world, the idea that they’d be rattled by anything feels off to some fans. A more dismissive read is that Imu wasn’t scared so much as bored by the Haki flexing and decided to leave the island the normal way: on a boat.

There’s also the power-scaling crowd saying nothing can really touch Imu. Even if you stacked a half-dozen legends, the belief is that Imu would still handle it. Under that logic, Roger and Garp being a threat is a nonstarter.

And then there are the jokey takes: people expected Roger to do some Joy Boy-tier nonsense and launch Imu back to the Holy Land with pure Haki willpower. Instead, the leaks have Imu just... hopping on a ship and peacing out. Which, honestly, is kind of funny in its own way.

A couple quick clarifications

These are early leaks from Japanese scans, not the official English release. Details can shift once the chapter drops. Also, when I say "Supreme King Haki," that’s Conqueror’s Haki by another name. And yes, Imu’s gender hasn’t been confirmed in the manga, so I’m using they/them here on purpose.

If you want the official stuff, all previously released One Piece chapters are available to read on Viz Media.