One Piece Finally Reveals the Strongest Celestial Dragon Who Could Defeat Imu

One Piece just tossed a grenade into the fandom: Bonney pulled off her own take on Sun God Nika. Yes, after seeing Luffy in his Nika state, she synced up with that now-iconic rhythm and turned herself into a Nika-like form. Cool twist on its own. The deeper lore wrinkle that makes it extra spicy: Bonney is biologically tied to the Celestial Dragons. So the kid who can mimic the symbol of freedom might literally be born from the worst of the oppressors. That is a wild sentence to write.

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What actually happened with Bonney

In the latest Egghead episode, Bonney hears the drums, watches Luffy in Nika mode, and then uses her Devil Fruit to become a kind of future version of herself that looks and fights like Nika. It is not the same as Luffy’s exact power, but it is close enough to spike her stats dramatically and put the World Government on notice.

How her Devil Fruit lets her do this

Bonney’s power is the Toshi Toshi no Mi. She did not choose it; Jaygarcia Saturn experimented with using a Devil Fruit extract on an infant, and she ended up with the ability. The fruit lets her age herself or other people forward in time, exploring possible future versions. That is the key: she can manifest a hypothetical future self. After watching Luffy, she pushed into a version of herself that channels his Nika energy and fighting style.

The bigger, nerdy implication

If Bonney can see the real Sun God’s power in full and understand it, her fruit theoretically lets her project a future version of herself based on that original Nika rather than just Luffy’s take. If that happens, she could tap into an even closer version of the mythic form and level up again. That is speculation, but it is the logical, slightly terrifying extension of what we just saw.

• Bonney’s new form is a future-self projection inspired by Luffy’s Nika, triggered by the drums of liberation.
• The Toshi Toshi no Mi came from Saturn’s test to see if a Devil Fruit extract could be given to a baby.
• Her power aging forward into 'possibilities' opens the door to mimicking the original Sun God Nika if she witnesses it clearly enough.
• She is biologically connected to the Celestial Dragons because Ginny was abducted and forced to marry one; Kuma is the father who raised her.
• All of this makes Bonney a freshly credible threat to the World Government and potentially a nightmare for Imu.

Why Imu should be nervous

If Bonney can get anywhere near a true-Nika projection, she becomes a realistic problem for Imu. The poetic part writes itself: a Noble by blood, wielding the symbol of liberation, helps end the reign of the World Government. That would undercut the entire divine-right vibe Imu represents, using their own system’s offspring to topple it.

The lineage twist, clarified

This is where the story gets messy. Bonney calls Kuma her father, and in every way that matters, he is. But Ginny was kidnapped to be a Celestial Dragon’s wife, which strongly implies Bonney’s biological father is one of them. So when I say she is 'biologically a Celestial Dragon,' that is what I mean. It is a brutal origin, and it makes her rise here feel like a very deliberate bit of narrative payback.

Where this could go

Bonney has gone from interesting to essential in record time. If Oda lets her ride this momentum into the final war, she could be a major player in bringing down the World Government — the only outcome that really gives both her and Kuma any kind of justice for what they went through.

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