It was late on Monday, November 7 when the first spoilers for One Piece Chapter 1066 appeared online, suggesting one of the most startling storyline twists in recent memory. A character named Jaguar D. Saul is said to make an appearance in a flashback that focuses on Ohara in the future chapter of One Piece, according to early teasers. In the flashback, fans will recognise Jaguar D. Saul as Robin’s saviour and the one who encouraged her to set sail and make genuine friends. Fans want to know how Saul was able to survive the meeting with Admiral Aokiji in the flashback, but it doesn’t make any sense because it happens after Saul has been frozen. Chapter 1066 of One Piece is back, and it’s a total surprise—which means it’s also overshadowing the debut of the actual Vegapunk.
The secret of Saul’s survival revealed
It is revealed in the One Piece spoilers for Chapter 1066 that after the Buster Call attack, both Monkey D. Dragon and Vegapunk made their way to Ohara. Spoilers suggest that they both knew Clover, the guy who begins educating Robin about the Poneglyphs and the Void Century in her flashback right before the Buster Call is made. According to the spoilers, following the assault on Ohara, Dragon made the decision to organise the Revolutionary Army. The duplicity and lack of care for human life that Buster Call symbolised, as well as his connection with Clover, probably both had a role in this.
According to these spoilers, Ohara’s books were transported to Elbaf by a bandaged Giant. Finally, teasers for later in the issue suggest that Luffy will meet the genuine Vegapunk. According to urban legend, the genuine Vegapunk recognises Luffy as Dragon’s kid and says he was expecting him. Etenboby, a trusted source for One Piece leaks, revealed that the bandaged guy is really Jaguar D. Saul after the original leak of spoilers for Chapter 1066. The announcement caused a frenzy among readers, who were overjoyed by the reappearance of their favourite character and the pivotal part he seems to play in the events of this issue.
Fans are happy to see Saul back, but they seem confused as to how he could have survived being frozen by Aokiji in One Piece Chapter 1066 and then returned in the past. For those who don’t remember, there was that time when Aokiji froze Nico Robin solid, and the Admiral had to check that she was still alive. After a while, the Straw Hats were able to rescue her by slowly melting the ice with hot water, being careful not to break off any of her frozen limbs. Since Robin was successfully thawed and is now in good condition again, there is no reason to doubt that the same cannot be done for Saul. In Robin’s memory, Aokiji uses a technique named “Ice Time Capsule” on Saul, suggesting that it keeps whatever it freezes for a long time. Given this, it’s quite likely that Aokiji and the series’ author/illustrator Eiichiro Oda always planned for Saul to weather the arctic blast.
Some readers have seen a pattern in One Piece’s hints, and they believe that this is further evidence that the resurrection of Saul from the dead in Chapter 1066 is grounded in reality. During the storyline of Impel Down, numerous prisoners suffer from hypothermia in one of the prison’s underwater levels. A still-living inmate muses on how his cellmate is done when another prisoner asks whether the cellmate in issue is dead or “kept for the future.” A number of inmates at the time regarded this assertion as completely absurd. In light of the fact that Saul made it and Aokiji used Ice Time Capsule, this seems more like a suggestion from Oda than anything else.
After all, we only have the barest of One Piece Chapter 1066 spoilers at this moment, so everything below is just speculation. Fans won’t know for sure unless and until comprehensive spoilers become public, which will likely reveal the identities of all the people involved in thawing Saul.