Quick answer: what are the creatures, and how are they stopped?

Chapter 1193 confirms the monsters attacking Elbaf are not animals. They are somebody's imagined creatures, produced by a Devil Fruit, and attacking them directly does not kill them. The giants defending the island state the condition plainly: the creatures disappear if the user behind them is struck.

That makes them a delivery mechanism rather than an enemy with its own health. The chapter does not identify which character is producing them, and it does not name the fruit. What it establishes is the shape of the problem — the fight is with a person, not with the things attacking.

PRIMARY — MANGA VERIFIED. Read directly from the official Japanese release: chapter 1193「練習中」in Weekly Shonen Jump 2026 issue 42/43, published September 14 on Shonen Jump+. Spoilers below. English wording here is our paraphrase of the Japanese, not a quotation from the official English translation.

What chapter 1193 confirms about the creatures

The scene is captioned as Elbaf's sunlit realm, the west village, and it opens on a village already taking damage — flood water and an earthquake, not a clean battlefield.

Three things are established about the attackers:

  • They are the same kind seen before. The giants recognise them rather than meeting them for the first time. This is a continuation of an attack already under way, not a new threat introduced here.
  • They are imagined creatures. The giants describe them as somebody's creations rather than living animals, which is why ordinary force does not settle anything.
  • They cannot be killed directly, but they can be dispelled. Strike the Devil Fruit user responsible and the creatures vanish.

That third point is the actionable one, and it is the reason this scene matters beyond the visual of a village being wrecked. It converts an unwinnable defensive fight into a target-priority problem.

What the chapter does not do is name the user. No character is shown or identified as the source in these pages. Treat any specific name attached to this as reader inference until a chapter puts it on the page.

Why this matters for the Elbaf fight

Analysis — separate from the confirmed events: Elbaf's defenders have been spending effort on the wrong layer.

A creature that regenerates or simply cannot be killed absorbs unlimited attention from whoever is in front of it. Every giant holding a line against the constructs is a giant not reaching the person generating them. Once the condition is stated out loud, the defence has a reason to stop trading blows with the symptoms.

It also rhymes with the other half of this chapter. Elsewhere in 1193, Zoro is working on the specific condition required to finish Sommers — a steel heart that must be pierced by a blade carrying Conqueror's Haki, because ordinary damage does not resolve it. Two separate fronts on the same island, and both turn on the same idea: the opponent has a condition, and force applied without it is wasted.

That is a useful lens for the arc, but it is a reading of a pattern, not a stated rule. The chapter does not connect the creatures to the God's Knights' immortality, and we are not going to connect them for it — what actually breaks that immortality is a separate, better-evidenced question.

The west village: the argument over Harald reopens

The same scene puts the giants back on a question the arc has not settled.

They argue over the late king. The case made against Harald is that he bowed to the World Government, that he stopped teaching the children to fight, and that the country was weakened as a result. Then the harder version of it: was living hated by the world as "savages" the correct answer after all?

Two things are worth separating here.

What is confirmed: that these views are held and voiced by giants in the west village, while their homes are being destroyed. That is a real datapoint about how Elbaf's own population reads its recent history.

What is not confirmed: that the narrative endorses them. Characters arguing under attack are not the story returning a verdict. Harald's policy is being judged here by people currently losing a village — which is exactly the moment such a judgement is least reliable and most human.

For where Harald sits on raw ability rather than politics, our Elbaf character ranking covers the one feat that still defines him: Loki ending him with a Conqueror-infused strike while he carried a Depths Covenant, still the only time an outside party has fully overridden that immortality.

Princess Shuri

Shuri appears in this chapter masked and coughing, and is described as being at death's door.

That is the whole of it. The chapter does not explain the illness, does not name a cure, and does not resolve her condition either way. She is present and she is gravely ill.

It is worth stating the limits plainly, because a character introduced in this state invites prediction. Chapter 1193 supports "Shuri is critically ill." It does not support "Shuri is dying in this arc," and it does not support any particular cause.

One more thread: Killingham

A smaller note from the same chapter: Killingham is referred to as taking too long on what is described as a simple mission to fetch a child.

The line tells us the mission exists and that it is running behind. It does not tell us which child, or what happens when it concludes. We are flagging it because it is the kind of detail that gets inflated into a confirmed plot point within a day of a chapter dropping — see the God's Knights ranked for what is actually established about the order.

What is still not confirmed

  • The identity of the Devil Fruit user producing the creatures. Not shown, not named.
  • The fruit itself — no name, no type, no stated mechanics beyond "imagined creatures that vanish when the user is struck."
  • Shuri's fate or the nature of her illness.
  • Whether the giants' criticism of Harald reflects the story's position rather than their own.
  • Any relationship between the creatures and covenant immortality. Separate mechanics until a chapter links them.
  • What Killingham's mission is for.

FAQ

Can the monsters on Elbaf be killed? Not directly, according to chapter 1193. The giants state that the creatures are dispelled by striking the Devil Fruit user behind them, rather than by destroying the creatures themselves.

Who is creating the monsters? Chapter 1193 does not say. The creatures are attributed to an unnamed Devil Fruit user. Any specific name currently circulating is inference, not a chapter fact.

Is Harald confirmed to have been wrong? No. Chapter 1193 shows giants in the west village arguing that his policy weakened Elbaf. That is their position, voiced during an attack on their own village. The chapter does not present it as a settled judgement.

Does Princess Shuri die in chapter 1193? No. She appears masked, coughing, and is described as being close to death. The chapter does not resolve her condition.

Is this connected to the God's Knights' immortality? Nothing in chapter 1193 connects them. Both are conditions that make direct force ineffective, which is a thematic echo — not evidence of a shared mechanic. For the immortality condition specifically, see our report on Zoro and Sommers' steel heart, and for the state Luffy is left in by the end of the chapter, what 1193 actually shows about Gear 5's ceiling. The chapter's one unexplained thread is elsewhere again: the hidden room behind the Owl's Library, which has no stated condition attached to it at all.