
One Piece Chapter 1168, titled Elbaph Snow, confirms the heartbreaking moment everyone feared — Ida has succumbed to the poison and dies. It is easily one of the most emotional scenes in recent memory, and readers should prepare for devastation. Her passing hits several characters hard:
Harald and Hajrudin cry openly over her death
Loki suffers silently in prison while the woman he considered his true mother dies
Loki’s quiet grief becomes the emotional core of the chapter. Across the flashbacks, Oda has shaped Loki into one of the most tragic figures in the story: rejected by his biological mother, nearly killed at birth, and emotionally bonded to Ida — the only person who treated him as family. Losing her while imprisoned turns his pain into something nearly unbearable and many fans are already calling this Oda’s strongest tragedy in years.