Chapter Summaries

At Sabaody, Cifer transformed into his Black Winged Great Demon form and overwhelmed Kizaru, Aokiji, Gion, and Weevil. He left the three Marines alive with a wager to consider joining him, then destroyed nearly half the archipelago with a Lightning Spear.

• At Marineford, Sengoku learned that the Marines sent to Sabaody had lost contact, and an officer reported that Garp had mobilized.
• Cifer unleashed his final form, the Black Winged Great Demon, after Aokiji froze the battlefield and Kizaru and the others continued their attack.
• Cifer defeated Weevil and badly wounded Kizaru, Aokiji, and Gion, then asked the three Marines to join his ranks.
• Cifer evacuated his crew to their ship and fired a Lightning Spear at Sabaody before disappearing.
• The explosion destroyed nearly half of the Sabaody Archipelago.

Cifer returned to the Little Ul after devastating Sabaody, then recruited Urouge and Drake while dealing with the remaining Supernovas. He left Bater in charge of developing his underground forces and the chapter ended with Garp tending to the battered Marines aboard his warship.

• Cifer returned to the Little Ul, where Shakky, Rayleigh, and the former CP9 members had taken shelter, and he explained that he had needed to warn the World Government.
• Cifer offered Urouge and Drake positions as subordinates, and both accepted before leaving the ship.
• Rayleigh received fifty million Belly to reopen his bar and train the former CP9 members, who departed with him.
• Cifer had four Supernovas killed, created Devil Fruits from their bodies, and gave the Scarecrow Fruit to Bater, who swore lifelong loyalty to Cifer.
• Cifer gave Bater the Supernovas’ Bounties to fund the growth of his underground forces, then Garp watched over the unconscious, bandaged Marines aboard his warship.

The Black Wing Pirates sailed toward Nolan’s hometown before entering the New World, while the crew anticipated their upcoming wanted posters. In a Marineford meeting, Brannew revealed the crew’s bounties and portrayed Cifer as the culprit behind the Sabaody Archipelago disaster.

• Nolan, Robin, Bonney, and Kuma discussed visiting Nolan’s hometown as the Little Ul sailed there under Cifer’s guidance.
• Enel and Lucci finished another training fight, and Chopper treated Lucci while imagining his own future bounty.
• Nolan received a newspaper from a News Coo and excitedly leapt onto Cifer after spotting his name.
• Brannew told Marine officers that the World Government had finalized bounties for every member of the Black Wing Pirates.
• Brannew revealed bounties for Chopper, Bonney, Robin, Nolan, Lucci, Kuma, and Enel, then announced Cifer’s bounty of 5.269 billion Belly and the crew’s total bounty of over ten billion.

News of Cifer’s crew striking Celestial Dragons and escaping the Marines spread across the world, prompting reactions from allies and acquaintances. The chapter ended with Vegapunk learning that Kuma had gained his freedom.

• Aboard a Marine warship, Sakazuki told Joni to uphold her justice while she studied Cifer’s Wanted Poster.
• On Amazon Lily, Luffy confronted Boa Hancock after she turned his rescuers to stone, but Elder Nyon showed Hancock the news that Luffy had struck a Celestial Dragon.
• Hancock ignored Elder Nyon’s warning and focused on Cifer’s Wanted Posters, while Luffy asked whether she knew Cifer.
• At Ryugu Palace, Jinbe and Neptune discussed Cifer’s crimes and worried about Shirahoshi’s plan to sail with him.
• In South Blue, a restaurant owner wept upon seeing Kuma and Bonney in the newspaper, while in East Blue, Norn smiled at news about Nolan.
• Vegapunk smiled as Saint Saturn spoke to him over a Den Den Mushi, realizing that Kuma was free.

Enel celebrated his enormous bounty while Nolan and Bonney explained their plans to overthrow Qing Kingdom’s king and reclaim Bonney’s hometown from Basena. After the crew landed in Qing Kingdom, they learned from a corrupt officer that the kingdom had already been destroyed and the territory now belonged to Basena.

• Enel celebrated his 3.2-billion bounty, while Chopper complained that his bounty was only 100 Belly and Robin cheered him up with a marshmallow.
• Nolan said she intended to remove Qing Kingdom’s king, and Bonney vowed to make Basena return her hometown.
• The crew docked in Qing Kingdom, where Cifer’s presence frightened the townspeople into closing their shops.
• Tyrant stopped a police officer from beating a father and daughter, and the officer returned the money he had taken from them.
• Robin gave the girl a marshmallow, and Nolan questioned the officer about his unfamiliar uniform.
• The officer revealed that Qing Kingdom had been destroyed six months earlier and that Basena now controlled the territory.

Nolan and her companions learned how Basena conquered Qing Kingdom and traveled to her hometown, Rona Town. There, an old woman gave Nolan a small box that moved her to tears.

• Nolan questioned a policeman and learned from a shop owner that Basena had taken over Qing Kingdom after its king summoned the kingdom’s powerful Security Officer away during a truce.
• Nolan decided to return to Rona Town, the land Qing Kingdom had ceded to Basena, and Cifer’s group set out with her.
• At Rona Town, Basena policemen tried to bar the group and threaten the women, so Enel killed the squad with lightning; Cifer stopped him from attacking the fleeing civilians.
• Nolan followed her memories to her old home, where an old woman from Basena welcomed her and handed her a small box.
• Nolan opened the box and burst into tears.

Nolan and Cifer returned an elderly woman to Basena’s capital after learning how she had been forced to live in Rona Town, and she pleaded with them to save the Qing Kingdom and Basena. As the group entered the capital, Enel incapacitated the soldiers sent to expel them, and Cifer led them toward the palace.

• Nolan recovered a photograph of herself and her parents from an old woman living in her former home in Rona Town.
• The old woman explained that Basena had forced her to move to Rona Town in place of her grandson and would not let Qing Kingdom citizens return while any remained alive.
• Cifer transported the old woman to Alba, where she thanked Nolan and pleaded with the group to save Basena and the Qing Kingdom.
• Nolan and the others entered Alba and observed that its exhausted residents seemed to have little hope.
• Euin, Basena’s Security Officer, confronted the group and threatened to expel them, but Enel used electricity and magnetism to control him and his soldiers.
• Cifer ordered Enel to stop playing with the soldiers and announced that they would go to the palace.

After Cifer's group confronted Euin, the people of the Qing Kingdom rose up against the king's tyranny, with Euin leading them toward the palace. Cifer's group appeared before the king, and Nolan caught his bullet as she faced him.

• Euin defended his love for the Qing Kingdom, and Cifer's group vanished after urging him to witness the country's future.
• Inspired to resist, Euin shot a corrupt official and called on the people to fight for their country and march on the palace.
• The king learned that Ulquiorra's group had entered the capital and angrily blamed Euin for failing to stop them.
• The king fired at a frightened beauty, but Nolan caught the bullet as Cifer's group emerged from the void.

Nolan questioned Basena’s king about the Qing Kingdom’s destruction and learned that the Security Officer and royal family had not been killed by the king’s supposed champion. The group discovered that the Security Officer may have survived and received a lead pointing to Twin Snake Island.

• Nolan demanded to know how Basena had destroyed the Qing Kingdom and what had happened to its Security Officer and royal family.
• Basena’s king presented a tall assassin as the man who had killed the Qing Kingdom’s Security Officer, but Nolan used her power to trap him and his men in earth and stone.
• The assassin confessed that he had never fought the Security Officer, who vanished after the royal family’s surrender; the assassin had burned the palace and falsely claimed credit for the killings.
• Lucci pressed the assassin for information, and he said the Security Officer had reportedly gone to Twin Snake Island in the West Blue to work as a casino bodyguard.

Cifer and his crew defeated the Qing Kingdom’s rulers, and Nolan demanded that Euin return occupied territory and help rebuild Rona Town. After Euin accepted, the crew returned to Rona Town, where Nolan visited her parents’ graves before leaving with Cifer, who promised to bring her uncle and the others from the East Blue.

• Nolan chose to visit Twin Snake Island to learn why the Security Officer had abandoned the Qing Kingdom, and Cifer’s group buried the king and his associates beneath the palace ruins.
• Euin arrived with wounded soldiers and civilians, learned that the king had been dealt with, and celebrated the Qing Kingdom’s liberation.
• Nolan demanded that Basena withdraw from the Qing Kingdom, help rebuild Rona Town, and answer for any future war; after Lucci attacked a protesting soldier, Euin accepted.
• Cifer warned Euin to protect his country, then left with his crew as Euin explained to his subordinates why fighting them would be reckless.
• Nolan visited her parents’ graves in Rona Town and told them about her life and plans to follow Cifer and help create a New World.
• Cifer promised to send Bater to bring Nolan’s uncle and the others back from the East Blue, and Nolan joyfully linked her arm through his.

Cifer and his companions reached Amazon Lily, where they reunited with Lucci’s former colleagues and learned that Luffy had not appeared there. Boa Hancock arrived as they wondered about Luffy’s whereabouts and the newcomers.

• Cifer invited Smoker to join him, but Smoker rejected the idea and sailed away with Tashigi.
• Nolan lifted the Little Ul above the Calm Belt, and the crew decided to visit Amazon Lily after spotting the island.
• The Little Ul landed at Amazon Lily, where Lucci reunited with Kaku, Kalifa, Chopper, and their other companions.
• Kuma asked Rayleigh whether he had seen Luffy, but Rayleigh said he had not.
• Hancock arrived after a kitten was kicked toward Nolan, and she said she had sensed Cifer’s presence.

Cifer and his companions accepted Hancock’s invitation to a banquet in Amazon Lily, and Hancock arranged for Luffy to be released at Cifer’s request. She then invited Cifer to Kuja Palace for a private chat.

• Hancock welcomed Cifer and his companions to a banquet, while Elder Nyon agreed to let them enter the royal capital.
• Cifer’s group entered the city and saw the citizens’ devotion to Hancock as Shakky and Rayleigh stayed behind.
• Cifer asked about Luffy, and Sandersonia and Marigold explained that he had been imprisoned after trespassing on the island.
• Hancock agreed to have Luffy released and ordered her sisters to arrange a nationwide banquet.
• Hancock invited Cifer to Kuja Palace to talk.

Cifer joined Hancock in her bedroom, where she revealed her past as a slave of the Celestial Dragons and asked if he would look down on her. He reassured her and promised to help create a world without slavery, leaving Hancock realizing she might like him.

• Cifer followed Hancock to the palace while his companions went with her sisters to prepare for the feast.
• Hancock told Cifer that he inspired her because he had stood against the Celestial Dragons, then revealed the slave brand on her back.
• Hancock asked whether Cifer would look down on her for having been a slave, and he said no and promised to help make a world without slaves.
• Marigold and Sandersonia cried as Hancock found comfort in Cifer's answer, while Elder Nyon listened from outside the room.
• Cifer offered to find a way to remove the brands, covered Hancock with his coat, and left to rejoin the others.
• Hancock held Cifer's coat and admitted to herself that she might like him.

Luffy reunited with Cifer on Amazon Lily and asked him to take him to the Sabaody Archipelago, but Kuma warned that the New World was too dangerous for him. Lucci fought Luffy in the forest and defeated him, after which Luffy again asked Cifer to take him to his companions.

• Luffy ate with Cifer, Enel, the former CP9 members, and the people of Amazon Lily, then asked Cifer to take him to Sabaody.
• Kuma told Luffy that his current strength was not enough for the New World, and Luffy recognized him as the man who had sent his companions flying.
• Lucci challenged Luffy to a fight in the forest, and Luffy attacked him with Second Gear.
• Lucci endured Luffy's attacks with his Steel Skin and defeated him with Rokuogan.
• Luffy recovered enough to ask Cifer once more to take him to the Sabaody Archipelago.

Kuma told Luffy that he was Dragon’s son and explained why he had separated the Straw Hats, while Rayleigh and Cifer urged Luffy to grow stronger before entering the New World. Luffy agreed to train for two years, and as Cifer prepared to leave Amazon Lily, he invited Hancock to join him with the Kuja tribe, which she mistook for a proposal.

• Kuma revealed that Luffy’s father was Dragon and explained that he had separated the group at Sabaody to help them escape.
• Rayleigh warned Luffy about the strength of their enemies, and Cifer said Luffy would not always be so lucky if he entered the New World now.
• Luffy chose to train before entering the New World, and Rayleigh and Cifer agreed to a two-year training period.
• Cifer agreed to stay on Amazon Lily for a few more days, but Elder Nyon then told him that Hancock had fallen ill because she had fallen in love with him.
• Cifer visited Hancock and asked her to join him with the Kuja tribe and Amazon Lily, and Hancock mistook the invitation for a marriage proposal.

Cifer and his crew left Amazon Lily and reached Twin Snake Island, where they entered a casino after Nolan sensed a powerful presence. After Cifer and Nolan won several bets by predicting the dice, the dealer secretly rigged the next roll against them.

• Cifer said goodbye to the Empress, and Little Ul sailed away from Amazon Lily.
• Rayleigh watched the ship depart and went with Elder Nyon to the training grounds.
• After nearly a week at sea, Cifer and his crew arrived at Twin Snake Island in the West Blue.
• Cifer and Nolan entered the island's largest casino while the rest of the group explored or bought food.
• Cifer and Nolan predicted the first two dice rolls correctly, winning millions of Belly and attracting the gamblers' attention.
• The dealer secretly altered the dice for the next round, then announced that the result was big.

Cifer and Nolan exposed a casino dealer’s cheating, and the manager compensated the gamblers to settle the dispute. Cifer then revealed that he had come looking for someone, and his slash stopped before Issho.

• Nolan lifted the table to expose the dealer’s cheating, turning the gamblers against the casino staff.
• The manager arrived, silenced the dealer, and offered Cifer his winnings plus one hundred million Belly.
• The manager refunded the gamblers and cleared the casino, while Cifer accepted his apology and left the dealer in his hands.
• Cifer drew Savage Dragon and slashed through half the casino, stopping his attack just before a purple-clad man with crossed scars over his eyes.
• The casino patrons recognized the man as Issho.

Cifer confronted Issho, a former Qing Kingdom Security Officer now working as a casino bodyguard, and challenged him over his role in the kingdom's destruction. After learning the casino had cheated Issho and saddled him with debt, Cifer offered to gamble until the accounts were settled, leaving Issho wary of owing him a favor.

• Issho confronted Cifer at the casino, and Cifer revealed that he had come to kill Issho on behalf of the Qing Kingdom's citizens.
• Cifer and Issho clashed with their Supreme Grade Swords, and Cifer pushed Issho back before ending the fight.
• Cifer questioned the casino manager and learned that Issho had become a bodyguard after losing at the casino and accumulating debt.
• Cifer suggested the casino had rigged its games against Issho, and Issho admitted he had known but accepted the results without proof.
• Cifer asked how much Issho owed and proposed gambling until the casino calculated the debt clearly, while Issho questioned why Cifer would help him.

Cifer’s confrontation with Issho at the casino led Nolan to challenge the former Qing Kingdom Security Officer over his country’s fall. Issho explained how the kingdom surrendered to Basena and why he left, then revealed that he had blinded himself because he could no longer bear to see the world’s cruelty.

• The casino manager calculated that Issho owed 138.6 million Belly as Cifer’s winnings approached 700 million Belly.
• Cifer tossed Issho a die and asked whether he planned to work off his debt, but Issho rejected his offer and said his life had nothing to do with pirates.
• Nolan revealed that she came from Rona Town in the Qing Kingdom and confronted Issho for abandoning its people.
• Issho explained that the Qing Kingdom’s king surrendered to Basena after the royal family displaced Rona Town’s residents and years of war exhausted the country.
• Issho said he killed the royal family in anger, then left to prevent further suffering, and revealed that he had blinded himself because he could not bear to see the world’s cruelty.

Cifer recruited Issho after explaining his goal of overthrowing the World Government and changing the world. Issho joined the crew and met the others aboard the Little Ul.

• Issho apologized to Nolan for the Qing Kingdom incident, and she told him that Cifer had rescued Rona Town's residents.
• Cifer invited Issho to join him, and Issho accepted after hearing his plan to overthrow the World Government and end the Great Pirate Era.
• Cifer had the casino deduct Issho's debt from the money it owed him, then left with Nolan and Issho.
• Robin and the others waited aboard the Little Ul, where Chopper declared that the newcomer would serve under him as General.
• Issho introduced himself to Chopper, who politely greeted him and forgot his earlier boast.