Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu waited near Impel Down for Blackbeard to create chaos, while Ace was transferred to Marine Headquarters. Blackbeard entered the prison to recruit prisoners, and Luffy arrived alone, believing Ace was still inside.

• Hina told Lin Yu that the Marine fleet transporting Ace had arrived at Impel Down, and Lin Yu ordered her to wait for Blackbeard.
• Ace boarded the warship for Marine Headquarters, while Magellan left Hannibal in charge and rushed to the restroom.
• Domino warned Hannibal that Magellan had poisoned the warden's chair, and Hannibal called for an antidote.
• Blackbeard entered Impel Down using his Shichibukai status, then ordered Lafitte to hypnotize guards and release prisoners to cause chaos.
• Blackbeard and his crew headed for the Sixth Level, but Magellan emerged from the restroom and blocked them on the Fourth Level.
• Luffy arrived at Impel Down on Giant Birds and charged through the open gates, believing Ace was being held there.

Luffy and his allies fought through Impel Down while Lin Yu sailed there after learning Blackbeard and Luffy had entered the prison. Lin Yu’s group reached the prison and saw released pirates torturing guards, then learned Luffy had freed them.

• Luffy recruited Mr. 3 and Bon Clay, freed Hawkins, and fought through the prison toward the Sixth Level.
• Ivankov helped Luffy reach the Sixth Level, where he met Jinbe and learned Ace had been taken to Marineford; Luffy then freed Crocodile and Jinbe while fleeing Magellan.
• Hina told Lin Yu that Blackbeard and Luffy were inside Impel Down, and Lin Yu decided to keep Luffy’s presence secret from Nami and the others.
• Lin Yu piloted the God Slave to Impel Down and entered with his companions while Snamon followed through the Door-Door Fruit’s Other Dimension Space.
• Nami and the others saw released prisoners torturing a jailer, and Lin Yu told them that Luffy had freed the prisoners.

Lin Yu blamed Luffy for the prisoners’ actions, sent Hina and her allies to help suppress the riot, and headed deeper into Impel Down to claim powerful pirates and Devil Fruits. On the third level, he reached the overwhelmed Domino, who agreed to follow him in exchange for his help.

• Lin Yu told Nami and the others that Luffy had caused the disasters, then sent Makino, Kaya, and Vivi into the Other Dimension Space for safety.
• Lin Yu sent Snamon, Mikita, Sarah, and Afelandra with Hina to fight the escaping prisoners, and Hina’s favorability reached 100.
• Lin Yu and his group reached the third level, where Hannibal, Domino, and the guards were being overwhelmed by pirates and monsters turned against them by Lafitte’s hypnosis.
• Lin Yu broke through the attackers and appeared beside Domino, who recognized him and agreed to follow him.

Lin Yu rescued Domino and sent his allies to slaughter the escaped prisoners while he collected kill notifications. After letting Ulti join the fight, he asked Domino what had happened in Impel Down so he could help suppress the prisoners.

• Domino agreed to Lin Yu's request, and he took her into the Other Dimension Space for Kaya to treat her wounds.
• Lin Yu ordered Reiju, Nami, Robin, Smoothie, and Nojiko to kill the escaped prisoners, while Nami and Nojiko protected the guards and jailers.
• Nami worried about Luffy's role in the escape, and Nojiko promised to support whatever decision she made.
• Lin Yu let Ulti out to fight after making her promise to obey his arrangements, and she charged into the prisoners with her spiked club.
• Lin Yu asked Domino to explain what had happened in Impel Down so he could help suppress the prisoners, surprising her with his willingness to assist.

Lin Yu agreed to help Domino suppress the prisoners at Impel Down and brought her into his group, while hiding the Blackbeard Pirates’ role in the prison break. As Domino led Lin Yu and his companions deeper into the prison, they found Little Sadie badly wounded, and she revealed that Magellan had pursued the Straw Hat Crew to Level Six while Blackbeard’s group took the antidote.

• Lin Yu agreed to help Domino and ordered her to keep the Blackbeard Pirates’ role in releasing the prisoners secret.
• Domino told Lin Yu that Luffy had reached Levels Five and Six, and Lin Yu gained several Devil Fruits after Reiju, Smoothie, and the others defeated nearby prisoners.
• Lin Yu promised Domino a powerful Devil Fruit, kissed her, and brought her into the real world.
• Lin Yu gave the guards medicine and bandages for the unconscious Hannibal, and Domino sent the remaining guards and jailers to shelter.
• Domino led Lin Yu and the others through the poison-filled Fourth Level, where they found Little Sadie gravely wounded among the Jailer Beasts.
• Little Sadie told Domino that Magellan had gone to Level Six after the Straw Hat Crew and that Blackbeard’s group had obtained the antidote.

Lin Yu used the Revive-Revive Fruit to kill and revive the mortally wounded Little Sadie, recruiting her and gaining Domino’s loyalty. As Straw Hat Luffy and a large group of pirates approached, Lin Yu hid everyone except Smoothie and Ulti and prepared for a confrontation.

• Kaya examined Little Sadie and told Lin Yu she could not be saved by ordinary treatment, while Domino begged him to help.
• Lin Yu asked Little Sadie to join his crew, and she agreed; he then forced her to eat the Revive-Revive Fruit, killing her so its power could revive her.
• Lin Yu told Domino to carry Little Sadie’s body, and Robin explained that the fruit could bring its eater back from death once.
• Smoothie sensed a powerful group approaching Impel Down’s Fifth Level, and Lin Yu sent everyone except Smoothie and Ulti into the Different Dimension.
• Luffy led a large group of pirates out of the Fifth Level entrance as Lin Yu and his remaining allies waited.

Lin Yu confronted Luffy and the escapees from Impel Down, while Nami, Vivi, and Makino saw Crocodile among Luffy’s companions and lost faith in him. With Magellan closing in and Ace still needing rescue, Luffy hesitated between pursuing Lin Yu and escaping toward Marineford.

• Luffy spotted Lin Yu and angrily demanded that he return Nami, Vivi, Robin, and the others.
• Crocodile, Jinbe, and Ivankov recognized Lin Yu, Smoothie, and Ulti as dangerous opponents blocking the escapees’ path.
• Nami, Vivi, and Makino watched Luffy with Crocodile and the released prisoners, and Reiju reminded them of the danger those pirates posed.
• Hawkins warned Luffy that staying would jeopardize his chance to reach Ace, while Jinbe and Ivankov urged him to escape with them.
• Luffy struggled to choose between going after Lin Yu to reclaim his friends and continuing to rescue Ace.

Lin Yu hunted Devil Fruit users in Impel Down's Fifth Level while Straw Hat Luffy drew Magellan away, and Blackbeard forced Sixth Level prisoners to fight for a place in his crew. The chapter left Blackbeard facing the problem of how to deal with Magellan after his supply of antidote ran out.

• Lin Yu let Straw Hat Luffy and his allies leave to draw Magellan away, then took his companions toward the Fifth Level through an Air Door.
• Lin Yu asked Domino to identify the prisoners with rare Devil Fruit abilities, and she agreed to guide him if he spared her colleagues.
• Domino mapped the prisoners' locations, and Reiju, Ulti, and Smoothie set out to hunt the targets.
• Blackbeard ordered the Sixth Level prisoners to kill one another, declaring that only survivors could join him.
• Lafitte warned Blackbeard that the antidote he had obtained from the guards had run out and asked what they would do about Magellan.

Blackbeard Teach recruited Shiryu and several notorious prisoners from Impel Down’s Sixth Level, then encountered Lin Yu on the Fifth Level. Lin Yu lured Catarina Devon away from the group and dragged her into the Different Dimension, leaving Blackbeard and the others searching in the snow.

• Shiryu offered to join Blackbeard Teach, and Teach accepted him as his new crew member.
• Catarina Devon, Evil King, Big Barrel, and Sanjuan Wolf joined Teach as he led them toward another battlefield.
• Lin Yu blocked Blackbeard’s group, and Teach invited him to join; Lin Yu demanded that Teach kill Catarina first, making the new crew members wary.
• Teach tried to pull Lin Yu in with the Dark-Dark Fruit, but Lin Yu escaped and provoked Catarina into chasing him away from the group.
• Lin Yu waited behind a snowdrift, blocked Catarina’s attack with Armament Haki, and pulled both of them through an Air Door into the Different Dimension.
• Blackbeard and the others reached the snowdrift after the Air Door vanished, finding only footprints.

Lin Yu trapped Blackbeard’s crewmate Catarina Devon inside the Door-Door Fruit’s Other Dimension, where Reiju, Smoothie, Ulti, Nami, Robin, and Nojiko overwhelmed her. As the women continued their assault, Catarina transformed and emerged from the smoke as a second Ulti.

• Catarina Devon entered the Other Dimension, transformed into her Nine-Tailed Fox Form, and found the Air Door had vanished.
• Lin Yu explained Catarina’s Mythical Zoan powers, then left to find another of Blackbeard’s men while Ulti, Reiju, and the others attacked.
• Catarina used her charm ability to make Ulti see her as Little Page, but Lin Yu’s Lightning Arrow broke the effect.
• The six women battered Catarina, while Smoothie cut off two of her tails and Robin repeatedly restrained her with extra arms.
• Catarina transformed and charged Ulti, and both disappeared into smoke before two Ultis emerged.

Lin Yu fought Blackbeard’s crew, used the opportunity to obtain Catarina Devon’s Mythical Zoan Nine-Tailed Fox Fruit, and hid in another dimension to wait for them. As Blackbeard and the others pursued him, Sanjuan Wolf was pulled through a hidden Air Door.

• Katarina disguised herself as Ulti, but Reiju kicked her, and the women beat Katarina until she escaped back to the real world.
• Lin Yu attacked Blackbeard’s crew with lightning, and Blackbeard absorbed the attack with Dark Water while the crew pursued Lin Yu toward the Fourth Level.
• Lin Yu reached the passage, claimed Catarina Devon’s Nine-Tailed Fox Fruit through a prompt, and stored it before entering the Other Dimension Space.
• Blackbeard and the others hurried into the passage after Lin Yu, while Sanjuan Wolf fell behind after shrinking to fit.
• An Air Door opened behind Sanjuan Wolf, and giant hands dragged him inside.

Lin Yu and his allies killed Sanjuan Wolf in the Door-Door Fruit’s Other Dimension and claimed his Expand-Expand Fruit. As they continued hunting Blackbeard’s crew, Domino warned that Douglas Barrett had emerged, and Lin Yu spotted another legendary pirate approaching: The Lonely Red.

• Sanjuan Wolf expanded to enormous size, but Reiju and the others sheltered in the indestructible passage while Lin Yu and Nami pierced him with a combined lightning attack.
• Nojiko, Reiju, Smoothie, Ulti, Robin, and the others attacked the fallen Sanjuan Wolf until Lin Yu killed him and chose his Expand-Expand Fruit over his treasure and bounty.
• Lin Yu declared that he would keep hunting Blackbeard’s crew, but Domino warned him not to leave because Douglas Barrett had emerged from the Sixth Level.
• Barrett sensed the group watching him from the Different Dimension and entered the passage, prompting Reiju to wonder what they should do.
• Domino warned that someone else was behind Barrett, and Lin Yu saw The Lonely Red approaching in the distance.

Blackbeard's group fled Impel Down after losing Sanjuan Wolf, while Lin Yu's group encountered the formidable Red Earl and prepared to leave before the Summit War. Domino then asked Lin Yu to stop the prisoners escaping from the Sixth Level, and he offered a possible plan that required her help.

• Lafitte questioned Blackbeard about Sanjuan Wolf's disappearance, and Blackbeard dismissed the missing recruits as weak before leading his group away.
• Red Earl greeted Lin Yu's hidden group across the Different Dimension, then entered the passage to the Fourth Level; Lin Yu warned the others that Red Earl was beyond their strength.
• Lin Yu told Reiju to gather Hina and the others in the Different Dimension, report on the situation above, and bring Makino, Kaya, and the others to meet him.
• Domino told Lin Yu that prisoners were escaping from the Sixth Level, and Lin Yu offered to help trap them if she assisted him.

Lin Yu trapped the Sixth Level prisoners by setting an Air Door in the Different Dimension, then left Impel Down with his companions for the Summit War. After reviving Little Sadie and obtaining her Revive ability, he began claiming the repayment she had promised.

• Robin guessed that Lin Yu planned to imprison the Sixth Level prisoners inside the Different Dimension, and he explained how he would lure them through an Air Door and trap them there.
• Domino agreed to notify the guards to stay away from the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Levels while Reiju reported that Hina and the others had entered the Different Dimension and that Blackbeard was fighting Magellan.
• Smoothie carried the group through the Different Dimension toward the main gate while Lin Yu disguised an Air Door between the Fifth and Fourth Levels; on the way, he saw an injured Magellan and Blackbeard talking with Bullet.
• Lin Yu met the others at the entrance, brought them back into the real world, and used the Ark Maxim to set course for Marineford.
• Lin Yu revived Little Sadie, who admitted she had been pretending to sleep, and she agreed to repay him for saving her.
• Little Sadie pushed Lin Yu down and insisted on being on top, and Lin Yu obtained her Revive ability.

At Marineford, Sengoku revealed that Ace was the son of Gol D. Roger as the Whitebeard Pirates arrived to rescue him. Whitebeard unleashed two enormous tsunamis, beginning the Summit War, while Lin Yu urged Smoothie and Ulti to strive to surpass the Emperors of the Sea.

• Sengoku announced that Ace was Gol D. Roger's son, and Garp reacted with pain as the revelation spread around the world.
• Sengoku learned that the Gates of Justice had opened and warned Marineford that the Whitebeard Pirates had arrived.
• Whitebeard entered Crescent Bay aboard the Moby Dick, greeted Ace, and promised to take his son home.
• Whitebeard struck the air with both fists, creating two colossal tsunamis that marked the start of the Summit War.
• Lin Yu watched from the Ark Maxim and told Smoothie and Ulti to dream of surpassing the Emperors of the Sea, and they vowed to become the strongest.

The Marines and Whitebeard's forces clashed at Marineford as Admirals and commanders unleashed powerful attacks. In the Different Dimension, Lin Yu assigned his allies their roles for the Summit War while Jewelry Bonney reunited with Tyrant Kuma.

• Aokiji froze Whitebeard's tsunamis and the bay, giving the pirates an icy path to attack the Marines.
• Hawkeye Mihawk slashed at Whitebeard, but Diamond Jozu intercepted the attack; Kizaru then fired light at Whitebeard, and Phoenix Marco blocked it.
• Jozu hurled a giant block of ice toward the Execution Platform, but Akainu destroyed it and struck the pirates with magma, prompting Whitebeard and Akainu to trade taunts.
• In the Different Dimension, Smoothie vowed to surpass Hawkeye Mihawk, and Lin Yu approved of her and Ulti's resolve to become stronger.
• Jewelry Bonney ran to Tyrant Kuma and called him Father as she cried.
• Lin Yu assigned tasks to Reiju, Nami, Nojiko, Robin, Snamon, and the others, keeping the remaining allies aboard the hovering Ark Maxim.

Whitebeard’s forces advanced at Marineford as the Shichibukai took down Little Oars, while Lin Yu prepared Afelandra to gain power from the Expand-Expand Fruit. Straw Hat Luffy arrived with escaped prisoners and joined the battle to rescue Ace, ending by asking Ivankov for another round of hormones.

• Little Oars broke through the Marines’ defenses, but Kuma, Doflamingo, and Boa Hancock attacked him and brought him down.
• Lin Yu gave Afelandra the Expand-Expand Fruit and urged her to improve her Armament Haki.
• The Ice Witch led Whitebeard’s remaining subordinate pirates into Crescent Bay as Luffy and other escapees flew toward Marineford on Giant Birds.
• Marco blocked Kizaru’s attack, but Marine cannon fire brought down the Giant Birds, leaving Luffy and the others on the ice.
• Crocodile charged at Whitebeard, but Luffy intercepted him before Whitebeard and his commanders engaged Crocodile.
• Whitebeard spoke with Luffy about his straw hat and rescuing Ace, and Luffy then asked Ivankov for another round of hormones.

Straw Hat Luffy joined the battle at Marineford as Lin Yu’s allies prepared to infiltrate the execution platform and protect Ace’s execution. After Squard stabbed Whitebeard, Whitebeard forgave him and launched a devastating attack that shook Marineford, prompting Koby to flee.

• Ivankov followed Straw Hat Luffy into battle with Whitebeard’s division commanders guarding him, while Sengoku revealed that Luffy was Dragon’s son before Sentomaru and the Pacifistas attacked.
• Hina led Mikita, Sarah, Marianne, Afelandra, and Alvida in disguise toward the execution platform, while Lin Yu’s capture team prepared to seize targets and Lin Yu waited for Whitebeard to be injured.
• Squard stabbed Whitebeard after believing Akainu’s lie that Whitebeard planned to sacrifice the pirates for Ace, but Whitebeard forgave him and called him his son.
• Whitebeard pulled the sword from his body, shattered the frozen tidal waves, and attacked Marineford with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, causing widespread destruction.
• Koby panicked at the destruction and ran toward the town, and Helmeppo chased after him.

Akainu executed a Navy deserter, while Hina and Afelandra killed Koby and Helmeppo for fleeing the battle. At Marineford, Whitebeard’s crew broke through the Navy’s defenses with a hidden ship and a recovered Giant Bird, giving Whitebeard a way to take to the sky as he led the charge to rescue Ace.

• Akainu refused to let a Navy soldier desert and melted him, declaring that he would remember him as having died in battle.
• Hina caught Koby and Helmeppo trying to flee, and Marianne controlled them before Hina and Afelandra killed them.
• Lin Yu received notifications of Koby and Helmeppo’s deaths as Whitebeard shattered the air and the Navy blocked his shockwave from reaching Ace’s execution platform.
• Sengoku activated the Enclosure Wall, and Akainu’s Meteor Volcano rained magma fists across Crescent Bay, melting the ice and scattering Whitebeard’s pirates.
• Jinbe launched Luffy over the wall, where Marco stopped Aokiji from killing him, while Whitebeard’s hidden auxiliary ship surfaced and carried the recovered Giant Bird into the plaza.
• Whitebeard climbed onto the Giant Bird and rallied his men to rescue Ace, while Sengoku and Lin Yu recognized the danger of Whitebeard taking to the sky.

Whitebeard used Ivankov’s hormones to restore his strength and charged the Execution Platform to save Ace, while Lin Yu shifted his plans toward capturing other targets. Whitebeard and Sengoku’s battle began as the platform collapsed, with Sengoku moving to execute Ace and Whitebeard swinging his naginata to stop him.

• Whitebeard flew toward the Execution Platform as Marco, Jozu, and Vista held off the Admirals, then injected Ivankov’s hormones to regain his peak strength for about an hour.
• Hawkins stopped Luffy from charging into the clash and advised him to leave the battlefield, warning that his actions would otherwise reduce Ace’s chances of being rescued.
• In the Door-Door Fruit’s Different Dimension, Reiju and the others captured the Ice Witch while Lin Yu decided to ambush Marco and called Mikita to warn her and Sarah to hide.
• Whitebeard reached the Execution Platform and used the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to shake Marineford, causing the platform to collapse.
• Sengoku moved to strike Ace as the platform fell, and Whitebeard swung his naginata with Whale Tail.