Chapter Summaries

Hancock confirmed that Arthur possessed the Rumble-Rumble Fruit power and asked him to marry her. Arthur rejected her, believing her sudden feelings were adoration rather than love, and noted that he already had two women.

• Hancock attacked Arthur aboard the Kuja Pirates' ship, and their Conqueror's Haki clashed as they began fighting.
• Arthur evaded Hancock's kicks and learned she had come to test a black-market report that he possessed the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Arthur realized the Blackbeard Pirates may have survived and revealed his electrical power while countering Hancock's Slave Arrow.
• Hancock confirmed Arthur was the Rumble-Rumble Fruit user and asked him to marry her.
• Arthur refused Hancock, reasoning that her feelings came from adoration and that he was already involved with two women.

Arthur rejected Hancock’s proposal but helped her reveal her past as a Celestial Dragon slave, and she joined his ship after asking to stay. Nami and Robin teased Arthur about Hancock, while he reminded her not to use her powers on them.

• Arthur rejected Hancock’s proposal and guessed that her feelings for him were tied to her hatred of the Celestial Dragons.
• Hancock showed Arthur the slave brand on her back and told him how she and her sisters had been enslaved and later rescued.
• Arthur reassured Hancock, introduced himself, and rejected her proposal again, suggesting they could be friends and confidants.
• Hancock left the Kuja ship and asked to stay aboard Arthur’s ship, where Nami and Robin teased Arthur about her joining them.
• Hancock tried to win Nami and Robin over with her powers, but Arthur reminded her that she had promised not to use them on his companions.

The Five Elders discussed the rumor that the King of Knights wielded the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and decided to investigate him discreetly. A month later, Hancock had settled aboard the Don Stallion, where she and Nami continued to compete for Arthur’s attention while Robin watched and occasionally flirted with him.

• The Five Elders considered whether the King of Knights had eaten the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and whether he was connected to the Celestial Dragon’s murder.
• The Five Elders concluded that the rumor was likely meant to make the King of Knights a target and agreed to send CP0 agents to test his strength without provoking him.
• Hancock and Nami competed to feed Arthur fruit while arguing over Hancock’s place aboard the Don Stallion.
• More than a month passed as the Don Stallion resupplied on an island and sailed without being attacked, apparently deterred by the rumor about Arthur.
• Hancock gradually settled in and continued feuding with Nami, while Robin watched them and sometimes chatted and flirted with Arthur.

Arthur dismissed the sudden challenge from the bounty hunter called Speed Maniac as a likely World Government plot to test him. After the Don Stallion reached an uninhabited island, Arthur went into the forest to confront someone waiting there and dodged a series of exceptionally fast sniper shots.

• Robin read a newspaper report about Speed Maniac defeating a 456-million-Beli pirate and challenging the King of Knights.
• Arthur and Robin suspected the World Government had invented or promoted Speed Maniac to provoke Arthur and test rumors about his power and the Celestial Dragons’ deaths.
• Arthur decided to wait for the challenger to approach him, while Robin said the Don Stallion was nearing Shanks’ waters.
• More than ten days later, Arthur landed with Nami, Robin, and Hancock on an uninhabited island and asked Hancock to protect the others while he visited their waiting host.
• Arthur used his Observation Haki to detect a hidden attacker, then dodged a rapid succession of sniper bullets and raced toward the shooter.

Arthur fought Kage'er Bojie, a speed-powered attacker he suspected was a World Government agent, and revealed his lightning ability before striking him with Excalibur. The Five Elders discussed the failed probe and turned their attention to the Navy, while Arthur received confirmation that he had won the battle.

• Kage'er Bojie attacked Arthur with rapid gunfire and sword strikes, while Arthur blocked and dodged using Future Sight.
• Kage'er Bojie revealed that he had eaten the Speed Fruit and taunted Arthur about his supposed Rumble-Rumble Fruit and golden-light attack.
• Arthur suspected Kage'er Bojie was a CP0 agent using a Den Den Mushi to report on him, then stopped pretending to struggle.
• Arthur transformed into lightning and unleashed Excalibur, engulfing Kage'er Bojie and cutting a thousand-meter path through the forest.
• The Five Elders discussed Kage'er Bojie's failure, decided not to investigate Arthur further for now, and confirmed the Akainu-Aokiji contest would take place on Punk Hazard in half a month.
• Arthur received the system notification that he had won the battle, bringing his accumulated count to 73.

Arthur and his companions encountered the Red Hair Pirates’ flagship at Kisu Island, where Shanks’s crew was gathered. Despite Nami and Robin’s concerns, Arthur went ashore alone, and the chapter ended with Shanks drinking alongside Mihawk in a village tavern.

• Arthur reassured Robin that he would protect her and the others, even if their identities were eventually exposed.
• The Don Stallion approached Kisu Island and Nami recognized the Red Hair Pirates’ flagship, the Red Force.
• Nami, Robin, and Hancock urged Arthur to avoid the crew, but Arthur asked them to enter the alternate space and went ashore alone.
• A Red Hair Pirates lookout recognized Arthur and sent a companion to warn the crew, but Arthur vanished from sight.
• Inside the village tavern, Shanks invited Mihawk to drink and asked why he had not visited in so long.

Arthur arrived to challenge Hawkeye, but Shanks tested him first with Conqueror’s Haki, which Arthur endured despite being badly outmatched. Shanks’s crew then took them to an uninhabited island, where Arthur and Hawkeye prepared to duel.

• Shanks recognized Arthur as the King of Knights and unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, knocking out weaker onlookers while Arthur countered with his own.
• Shanks stopped the clash and joked with his crew, while Arthur doubted that Shanks had used his full strength.
• Benn Beckman warned Shanks that rumors about Arthur concealing the Rumble-Rumble Fruit might be true, and Arthur overheard him.
• Arthur rode Dong Stallion while Hawkeye boarded his coffin-shaped boat, and Shanks’s crew sailed the Red Force toward an island for the duel.
• The Red Force and Hawkeye’s boat approached an uninhabited island about five hundred nautical miles from Kisu Island.

Arthur fought Mihawk in a fierce sword duel, but Mihawk revealed that Arthur had neglected the fundamentals needed to reach a Great Swordsman’s level. Mihawk then asked Arthur to show him Excalibur despite Arthur warning that its power could kill him, leaving the duel poised to continue.

• Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates went ashore to watch Arthur and Mihawk duel on an uninhabited island.
• Arthur and Mihawk exchanged sword strikes, matching each other with Armament Haki as their sword auras split the clouds above them.
• Mihawk praised Arthur’s growth, then demonstrated a powerful slash that split a distant mountain and explained the importance of swordsmanship fundamentals.
• Arthur realized he had focused too heavily on powerful slashes and thanked Mihawk for the lesson.
• Mihawk asked Arthur to show him Excalibur, and Arthur warned that its power could kill him.
• Mihawk said he had accepted death when he chose the path of a swordsman.

Arthur defeated Mihawk in a sword duel after their attacks clashed, but Shanks intercepted Arthur’s Golden Torrent to prevent Mihawk from dying. Arthur left Mihawk with a chest wound, claimed the victory, and gained strength that brought his attributes closer to a breakthrough.

• Arthur released Excalibur’s full power, and Mihawk’s strongest slash shattered against the Golden Torrent.
• As the weakened Golden Torrent continued toward Mihawk, Shanks struck it with red lightning and destroyed it.
• Mihawk challenged Arthur to finish the duel, and Arthur cut a deep wound across Mihawk’s chest.
• Shanks hurried his crew to carry Mihawk to the Red Force, while Arthur said he wanted a more honorable victory next time.
• Arthur received his seventy-fourth accumulated victory and felt his attributes improve, with his normal strength rising to rank A.

Morgans publicized Arthur’s defeat of Mihawk and his claim to the title of World’s Greatest Swordsman, stirring the seas. The Whitebeard Pirates learned of a possible cure for Whitebeard, while Rayleigh’s news pushed Zoro to make Arthur his new goal; the story then shifted toward Dressrosa.

• Morgans prepared a headline announcing that Arthur had defeated Mihawk in front of the Red Hair Pirates.
• Whitebeard repelled challengers, while Marco and Ace worried about his worsening illness and discussed a mysterious offer to restore his health and Ace’s arm.
• Ace told Marco that the caller had directed them to meet him in Dressrosa.
• Rayleigh showed Luffy and Zoro the news of Mihawk’s defeat, and Zoro made Arthur his new swordsmanship goal.
• Zoro and Luffy asked Rayleigh to begin their training, and a silver-white sailing ship traveled across the sea toward Dressrosa.

Arthur arrived in Dressrosa to search for Zou and sensed a grim atmosphere in the royal palace. Doflamingo, already in a foul mood, challenged him, and their clash began with Conqueror’s Haki before Doflamingo attacked.

• Arthur sensed an oppressive mood in Dressrosa and rode to the royal palace while Nami and the others stayed behind.
• Dressrosa’s people recognized Arthur as the King of Knights and the World’s Greatest Swordsman as he approached the King’s Plateau.
• Doflamingo’s officers spotted Arthur, and Doflamingo warned him that he had no time to entertain a visitor and would fight if challenged.
• Arthur accepted Doflamingo’s challenge, suspecting that something had changed from the expected course of events.
• Arthur and Doflamingo clashed with Conqueror’s Haki until Doflamingo lost patience and thrust a Bullet String at Arthur.

Arthur pursued Doflamingo and deduced that Ace or Marco had taken the Tontatta, possibly to use Mansherry’s Heal-Heal Fruit to cure Whitebeard. After Doflamingo questioned Arthur about his strength and identity, the chapter ended with him probing whether Arthur was the rumored Rumble-Rumble Fruit user.

• Arthur followed Doflamingo from the royal palace and searched Dressrosa with Observation Haki, finding battle damage and discovering that the Tontatta had vanished.
• Arthur connected the Tontatta’s disappearance to Mansherry’s Heal-Heal Fruit and reasoned that Ace or Marco had taken them to restore Whitebeard’s health.
• Arthur met Doflamingo in a coastal wasteland, where the two exchanged attacks with threads and Excalibur’s golden sword slashes.
• Doflamingo speculated that Arthur had the initial D and might have killed the Celestial Dragons, but Arthur denied having D in his name.
• Doflamingo then asked whether Arthur had been hiding his strength and whether he was the rumored Rumble-Rumble Fruit user.

Arthur challenged Doflamingo to test his suspicions, then used his swordsmanship to overpower Doflamingo’s awakened threads. When Doflamingo trapped Arthur with a Haki-coated thread attack, Arthur revealed his lightning power and struck back, leaving Doflamingo horrified and fleeing into the sky.

• Arthur invited Doflamingo to test whether he wielded the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and Doflamingo awakened his Devil Fruit to attack.
• Arthur’s colossal sword slash cut through Doflamingo’s Ever White and Shield White Lines, carving a deep trench into Dressrosa.
• Doflamingo launched thousands of Haki-coated threads at Arthur and sent more toward King’s Horse to block his escape.
• Arthur dismissed Excalibur, revealed blue-white lightning, and used Electric Light: 120 Million Volts: Discharge to deflect the threads.
• Arthur fired Divine Judgment at Doflamingo, who used Sky Walk to escape into the sky.

Arthur defeated Doflamingo with his Rumble-Rumble Fruit powers, but spared him after the battle. Doflamingo woke injured and asked Arthur why he had not killed him.

• Doflamingo tried to persuade Arthur to form an alliance, citing his ties to Kaido of the Beasts, but Arthur refused.
• Arthur revealed that Kaido had been searching for him and struck Doflamingo with Divine Judgment.
• Arthur paralyzed Doflamingo with lightning and kicked him into the sea, winning his seventy-fifth battle.
• Doflamingo later regained consciousness, found Arthur watching over him, and asked why Arthur had spared him.

Arthur forced Doflamingo to use his Underworld network to find Zou, then agreed to help him against Kaido in exchange for Doflamingo’s resources and intelligence. Over the next three months, Arthur won ten more battles, bringing his victory total to 85.

• Arthur demanded that Doflamingo search the Underworld’s network for Zou and gave him a Den Den Mushi contact number.
• Doflamingo revealed his dealings with Kaido over Artificial Zoan Devil Fruits and explained that the missing Tontatta had left him unable to fulfill his bargain.
• Doflamingo offered Arthur his resources and promised to act as a mole in the World Government, asking him to protect Dressrosa from Kaido’s crew.
• Arthur agreed to help Doflamingo deal with Kaido or his All-Stars.
• Three months later, Arthur’s victories had raised his total from 75 to 85 and improved his Conqueror’s Haki to A.

Arthur used Doflamingo’s intelligence to intercept Drought Jack before a transaction and struck him and his crew with a long-range lightning attack that leveled a mountain. Jack survived in mammoth form, but Arthur’s lightning attacks barely harmed him, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Doflamingo told Arthur that Drought Jack was coming to complete a transaction, and Arthur set out to kill him before he arrived.
• Jack and his subordinates waited at Rosasayara, then spotted Arthur approaching on the King's Horse and recognized him as the King of Knights.
• Arthur hurled his 200 Million Volt Thunder Lance from over ten nautical miles away, destroying the mountaintop and killing or incapacitating everyone nearby except Jack.
• Jack transformed into a giant mammoth and attacked Arthur with his trunk, but Arthur dodged by turning into lightning.
• Arthur struck Jack with 100 Million Volt Divine Judgment, but the attack left only a charred mark, revealing the mammoth's exceptional defense.

Arthur killed Jack with a 200 Million Volt Thunder Lance, and Doflamingo redirected Kaido’s anger toward Whitebeard by claiming the Whitebeard Pirates had caused the loss of the Artificial Zoan Devil Fruits. Kaido prepared to go to war with Whitebeard, while Doflamingo stayed in Dressrosa and worried about Viola and Arthur’s power.

• Arthur killed Jack with a 200 Million Volt Thunder Lance, and his victory count rose to 86.
• Arthur told Doflamingo that Jack was dead, and Doflamingo began his plan.
• Kaido learned of Jack’s death, then Doflamingo blamed the Whitebeard Pirates and claimed Whitebeard had regained his peak strength.
• Kaido declared war on Whitebeard and ordered Doflamingo to provide his remaining Artificial Zoan Devil Fruits.
• Doflamingo told Diamante to treat Arthur’s companions well and admitted he feared Arthur’s strength and suspected Viola had prepared evidence against him.
• The chapter ended with war looming between the Beasts Pirates and the Whitebeard Pirates.

The Whitebeard Pirates and the Beasts Pirates prepared for war after Kaido declared war over Jack the Drought’s death, while the World Government’s Military Draft drew attention across the seas. The chapter ended as the Emperors’ War began at Gos Heights, a Whitebeard Pirates territory.

• Kaido gathered the Beasts Pirates and declared war on Whitebeard to avenge Jack the Drought, and Whitebeard accepted.
• Red-Hair Shanks tried to stop the war, but the Whitebeard Pirates rejected his efforts and held Whitebeard back from fighting him.
• Sakazuki became Fleet Admiral after defeating Aokiji in a ten-day duel on Punk Hazard, and Aokiji left Marine Headquarters.
• The World Government announced a Military Draft for strong recruits, and Big News Morgans publicized potential candidates as the seas discussed who might become an Admiral.
• After two months of preparations, the Emperors’ War erupted at Gos Heights, where the Whitebeard Pirates faced the Beasts Pirates.

Arthur revealed to Doflamingo that he planned to create the greatest war in the world and enlisted his help, while the world shifted around a still-dominant Whitebeard. Six months later, Arthur demonstrated a devastating sea-splitting slash as he continued preparing for his plan.

• Arthur tore apart a newspaper bearing Whitebeard’s image and told Doflamingo he would create the greatest war in the world.
• Arthur asked Doflamingo for help with his plan, leaving him stunned by the risks involved.
• Over the next six months, Whitebeard remained the strongest, while the world’s balance changed and his affiliated crews frequently roamed near Dressrosa.
• Arthur cleaved the sea and destroyed a fleet with a slash, shocking Nami, Robin, and Hancock.
• Arthur reflected that he had spent a year consolidating his strength and stabilized his swordsmanship at A++(EX).

Arthur planned to secure the world’s belief that he was unbeatable and awaken Avalon, but Golden Lion Shiki’s arrival gave him an immediate opportunity to pursue that goal. As Nami prepared to record the coming battle, Arthur identified Shiki as a legendary opponent from the previous era.

• Arthur completed six months of sword training and reached Swordsmanship A++ (EX), then relaxed aboard the Don Stallion with Nami, Robin, and Hancock.
• Arthur continued refining his plan to fulfill the Ever Victorious achievement quest by making the world believe he was unbeatable.
• Enormous floating islands appeared above the Don Stallion, and Arthur recognized them as Golden Lion Shiki’s arrival.
• Arthur asked Nami to fetch the Image Bird so she could record his battle, as Robin and Hancock helped him prepare.
• Nami readied the Image Bird and encouraged Arthur to show Shiki what he could do.