Chapter Summaries

Sky City launched a devastating assault on the Flower Capital while King and Kaido tried to save Onigashima from a tsunami. Roy seized the opening and struck Kaido with a powerful sword attack, leaving his condition unclear.

• Sky City bombarded the Flower Capital and deployed its troops, quickly overwhelming the defenders and destroying much of the city.
• Albert, Torres, and Bruno pursued a swift conquest of Wano Country, with the Flower Capital as their first target.
• King returned to Onigashima, held Whitebeard back, and warned Kaido that a tsunami was about to engulf the island.
• Kaido used Flame Clouds to lift Onigashima away from the sea.
• Roy attacked Kaido with a barrage of sonic techniques and a sword slash, drawing blood as King shouted a warning.

Roy and Whitebeard fought Kaido and King as Onigashima fell into ruin, while Kaido focused on capturing Roy and saving the core of his crew. As Kaido charged Roy with a powerful attack, Roy called out Enel, and a massive lightning pillar struck down to block Kaido.

• Roy attacked Kaido with successive sword strikes while Whitebeard kept King from helping him.
• Kaido defended against Roy's hidden slash, and their clash tore through the storm clouds and further damaged Onigashima.
• Whitebeard sent King flying as the tsunami crashed down around the island.
• Kaido decided to capture Roy and preserve the core of his forces, regarding Wano and his other allies as expendable.
• Kaido charged Roy with Rising Dragon Bagua, and Roy called for Enel to stop watching from the clouds.
• A gigantic pillar of lightning descended and blocked Kaido's path.

Kaido attacked Roy with a blazing dragon, but Enel intercepted the blow while Whitebeard struck down King. Roy, Whitebeard, and Enel surrounded Kaido and demanded his surrender after his stronghold had fallen.

• Kaido charged through Enel's lightning and unleashed a blazing dragon attack at Roy.
• Enel transformed into lightning and blocked Kaido's attack before it could reach Roy.
• Kaido discovered through Observation Haki that Queen and the Six Flying Brothers were unconscious and blackened.
• Whitebeard ambushed Kaido's forces and slashed King, whose movements had been slowed by Caesar's neurotoxin.
• Roy, Whitebeard, and Enel surrounded Kaido with their powers and demanded that he surrender.

Roy, Whitebeard, and Enel combined their strongest attacks against Kaido, who fought back with a final fiery assault before being knocked unconscious. Baccarat placed Seastone handcuffs on Kaido, leaving the three allies battered but victorious.

• Roy unleashed a barrage of sound-based attacks and sword slashes against Kaido.
• Enel struck Kaido with lightning, paralyzing him as Whitebeard attacked with a powerful shockwave slash.
• Roy summoned Seastone-infused iron cloud swords while Enel turned the lightning around Kaido into a sea of thunder.
• Kaido transformed into a fire dragon and used his remaining strength to launch one final attack, colliding with the trio's assaults.
• Baccarat handcuffed the unconscious Kaido with Seastone cuffs as Roy, Whitebeard, and Enel watched.

After Kaido’s defeat, Roy’s forces secured Onigashima and took control of Wano Country, capturing the surviving Beasts Pirates and treating their leaders. Bruno reported that Wano’s main forces had fallen and the country was now largely under Roy’s control.

• Roy, Whitebeard, and Enel returned the grounded Onigashima to its original location as the surviving Beasts Pirates surrendered.
• Roy’s satellite city sent supplies, soldiers, and doctors to Onigashima, where the prisoners were disarmed and Devil Fruit users were restrained with Seastone nails.
• Whitebeard guarded the prisoners while Roy ordered doctors led by Trafalgar Law to save Kaido and the other captured high-ranking Beasts Pirates.
• Roy and Enel watched Trafalgar Law and Caesar Clown operate on Kaido in the satellite city’s laboratory.
• Bruno reported to Roy that Wano Country’s main forces had been defeated and the country was largely under Roy’s control.

After conquering Wano Country, Roy crushed a rebellion, imposed Sky City’s rule, and began turning the country into a weapons-production base while preserving its isolation. He captured Crocodile and then entered a vast underground space through a passage in the daimyo’s secret chamber.

• Roy’s forces suppressed Wano Country’s rebellion in a single morning, killing the insurgents and ending the old class divisions.
• Sky City supplied Wano Country with clean water, food, and medical equipment, earning the commoners’ cooperation and gratitude.
• Roy ordered fish-men to take over the Beasts Pirates’ outposts and Sea Fire forces to attack ships, while keeping Wano Country closed to the outside world.
• Roy planned to restart Wano Country’s weapons factories and Seastone mines and secretly drain the inland sea to uncover the ancient country and its resources.
• Roy, Enel, and Whitebeard captured Crocodile, who was restrained with high-grade Seastone handcuffs and had a piece of his heart removed by Trafalgar Law.
• Roy entered a vast underground space beneath Wano Country through a passage in the daimyo’s secret chamber.

Roy led Caesar Clown, Enel, and Trafalgar Law into the ancient underground ruins of Wano Country and explained how the Void Century war and its aftermath shaped the country and the rising sea levels. He uncovered a hidden stone door and sensed Pluton beyond it, then ordered Enel to blast the door open.

• Roy and his companions entered a vast, glowing cavern built from stone bricks mixed with Seastone.
• Caesar Clown wondered whether Wano Country’s isolation was connected to the Void Century, and Roy explained that ancient Wano had fought against the World Government during a devastating war.
• Roy said the war’s aftermath was still causing the sea level to rise and that the World Government concealed the history because of what lay beneath the ruins.
• Roy used sonic energy to uncover a huge door covered in murals and unusual writing.
• Roy sensed a dry harbor and Pluton behind the door with his Echo Map, then told Enel to blast it open.

Roy and his companions discovered Pluton in an ancient underground harbor and began inspecting the warship, while its Ship Spirit watched them and vanished. In Water Seven, Bon Clay delivered Iceburg a document from the Black Emperor, saying it recorded everything.

• Enel blasted through the ancient stone gate with his lightning, and Roy led the group into the ruins.
• Roy and his companions reached a vast underground harbor and found Pluton, an enormous warship built from Adam Wood.
• Roy detected Pluton's hooded Ship Spirit with the Echo Map, and it vanished into the ship after Caesar Clown ran aboard.
• Bon Clay met Iceburg in Water Seven and handed him a document from the Black Emperor, saying it recorded everything.

Edwards prepared to seize Doflamingo’s underground network while Trafalgar Law and the Beasts Pirates pursued Doflamingo’s fleeing family. Enel abducted Brulee from Chocolate Island, leaving the Big Mom Pirates enraged and launching a massive search.

• Trebol fled with the unconscious Doflamingo as Pike and three companions turned back to face Jack and protect the family’s escape.
• Edwards learned that seventy percent of Dressrosa’s underground businesses had been identified and prepared to take them over while limiting casualties.
• Trafalgar Law led Jack, Queen, and Page One in pursuit of Doflamingo as Roy’s forces moved to claim the broker’s network.
• Enel struck Brulee’s villa with lightning and abducted Brulee from Chocolate Island.
• Katakuri and the Big Mom Pirates launched a widespread search for Brulee and posted enormous bounties across the underground world.

After Aokiji defected from the Marines and allied with Zephyr, the World Government issued him an unprecedented bounty and began mobilizing against them. Seeing the chaos as an opening for his North Blue operation, Roy decided to seize Tesoro’s wealth and ordered Enel to find Golden Lion and bring back Tesoro and the Gran Tesoro.

• Aokiji left the Marines with many officers after losing to Akainu and quickly allied with Zephyr.
• The World Government and Marines issued Aokiji a record bounty of 3.565 billion Beli and mobilized to hunt him and Zephyr.
• The Five Elders, Knights of God, and Celestial Dragons’ reserve forces began preparing to act as revolution spread across the seas.
• Roy saw the turmoil as an opportunity to begin his North Blue operation but worried about the enormous cost of expanding his forces.
• Roy ordered Enel to go to the East Blue, find Golden Lion, and join forces to bring Tesoro and the Gran Tesoro back to him.

Roy prepared an elaborate trap to catch the Giant Lanternfish and obtain Pure Gold, using thousands of slaves’ extracted luck to power an enormous underwater lightbulb lure. The light illuminated the seabed as the fleet waited for the creature to take the bait.

• Albert ordered the guards to keep the captured pirates, criminals, and former Beasts Pirates and Doflamingo Family members alive until they served as bait.
• Caesar Clown confirmed that the slaves, compressed Dyna Stone, and lure were ready, while Baccarat extracted their luck and Kuzan’s Sea Fire forces took their underwater positions.
• Roy told Caesar Clown and Kuzan that obtaining Pure Gold was essential to their future, then led them down toward the sea.
• Baccarat extracted the final slave’s luck, and the teams reported that their preparations were complete.
• Roy identified the Giant Lanternfish’s feeding grounds and ordered the enormous lightbulb and fishhook lowered to the seabed, where the light brightly illuminated the water.

Roy and his allies used Baccarat’s Luck-Luck Fruit and a massive underwater fishing operation to lure the Giant Lanternfish toward the surface. As the huge creature charged in, they launched a coordinated attack and ordered Kuzan to fire the Dyna Stone.

• Roy activated the Echo Map while over a thousand Fish-Man Unit members waited underwater around the baited fishing grounds.
• Baccarat used Ferocious Drug ES to intensify her Luck-Luck Fruit power, while Roy and Caesar Clown pressured her into fishing for Pure Gold.
• Roy detected unusual bubbles, and a fish-man reported that the deep sea had suddenly lit up as the Giant Lanternfish approached the fishing area.
• Caesar Clown used Excitement Gas to spur Baccarat on, and her activated luck caused chained slaves aboard distant ships to die in accidents.
• Roy warned that the Giant Lanternfish was coming as it rushed toward the surface, and the group unleashed their attacks before Roy ordered Kuzan to fire the Dyna Stone.

Roy and his allies killed the Giant Lanternfish by detonating a concentrated Dyna Stone bomb inside it. After the explosion subsided, Roy used his Echo Map to locate the remains and called Kuzan’s forces to collect the pure gold.

• Roy and Caesar Clown wounded the Giant Lanternfish as it leaped from the sea, and the impact of Roy’s slash sheared off part of the pure gold above its head.
• Kuzan fired a Concentrated Explosive Rock bomb into the Lanternfish, and Roy carried Caesar Clown, Baccarat, and Kuzan into the sky to escape.
• The bomb detonated inside the Lanternfish, destroying it and unleashing a vast explosion and tsunami.
• Roy and Caesar Clown descended toward the sea as their allies and the slave ship fleet escaped the blast zone.
• Roy used his Echo Map to find the Lanternfish’s remains and called Kuzan to bring his people because the harvest had arrived.

Roy recovered a vast supply of pure gold from the destroyed Lanternfish, giving him confidence to challenge the World Government. He ordered Caesar Clown to begin altering Kaido and Whitebeard's memories as conflict spread across the seas.

• Roy's Fish-Man Unit and submarine force collected pure gold fragments from the Lanternfish's remains.
• Roy and Caesar Clown celebrated the pure gold's ability to slow aging and discussed its value in their struggle against the World Government.
• Caesar Clown proposed using science and a Memory-Memory Fruit user to turn Kaido into their weapon and asked when they would alter Whitebeard's memories.
• Roy said his agreement with Whitebeard was nearly due and ordered Caesar Clown to put the memory-alteration plan into motion.
• Roy anticipated that the World Government's decisive battle with the Revolutionary Army and Zephyr would be followed by his own war.

Roy supported Zephyr and the Revolutionary Army with weapons and supplies as the World Government focused on crushing them, exposing Roy’s organization in the process. He then sent them a document revealing secrets about the world’s destruction, the World Government’s rise, and Joy Boy, leaving Aokiji, Zephyr, Dragon, Ivankov, and Sabo shaken by its contents.

• Roy used pure gold as bait in a remote sea, hoping to lure more giant Lanternfish from the deep.
• Weapons from Wano Country and Roy’s territories flooded the sea, while the World Government concentrated on Zephyr, Aokiji, and Dragon.
• Roy secretly supplied Zephyr and the Revolutionary Army through the Fish-Man Unit, with Enel escorting shipments and Trafalgar Law rigging transporters with explosives.
• The World Government discovered Roy’s enormous organization as battles against its forces caused many deaths.
• Roy wrote a document about the world’s destruction eight hundred years earlier, the World Government’s stolen victory, Gol D. Roger’s real name, and Joy Boy, then sent it to Zephyr, Aokiji, and the others.
• Aokiji, Zephyr, Dragon, Ivankov, and Sabo read the document and struggled to believe its revelations.

Whitebeard revealed that he had recognized Roy as the mastermind behind Shiki’s organization because Roy’s forces treated their cities and subordinates far better than Shiki would. Roy and his allies defeated and captured Whitebeard, and Caesar Clown prepared to alter his memories and make him loyal to Roy.

• Whitebeard explained that Roy’s humane rule had exposed his disguise, and said he had waited to see whether Roy could usher in a new era.
• Roy ordered Caesar Clown, Enel, and Trafalgar Law to attack as Whitebeard unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki.
• Roy, Enel, and Trafalgar Law subdued Whitebeard and bound him in Seastone chains after Whitebeard held back at the final moment.
• Roy told Whitebeard he would alter his memories to make him loyal but would leave his memories of his sons untouched.
• Caesar Clown anesthetized Whitebeard and had Sky City men carry him to the advanced laboratory, while Brulee received a new mission.

Roy moved his plan against the World Government forward by ordering Lucci to accelerate Spandine’s attack on Impel Down, then prepared to use Artificial Devil Fruits in a deal with Buggy. He sent a hundred fruits to the harbor for Buggy to receive, hoping the trade would throw South Blue into chaos.

• Roy ordered Lucci to push Spandine into attacking Impel Down, with Owl and other allies assisting and Golden Lion and King joining the assault.
• Roy traveled to Sky City’s heavily guarded factory and inspected a batch of one hundred Artificial Devil Fruits.
• Roy instructed Director Bird to send all one hundred fruits to the harbor and continue expanding production.
• Roy reviewed his agreement with Buggy and called him about the fruits.
• Buggy answered Roy with a fawning offer to carry out whatever he wanted.

As Zephyr, Aokiji, and Dragon prepared to reveal the truth of the world in a livestream, the World Government decided to confront them with overwhelming force. Roy suspected the Five Elders were mobilizing and sent Kaku, Bruno, and Enel to Egghead Island to retrieve the Mother Flame.

• Zephyr, Aokiji, and Dragon announced that they would livestream the truth of the world the following Monday.
• The Five Elders agreed to act together against Zephyr and the others, considering the Mother Flame and their other resources.
• Roy received intelligence that CP0 had returned to Mary Geoise and departed again, and suspected it was escorting an important figure.
• Roy ordered Kaku to get a map of Egghead Island from Caesar Clown and retrieve the Mother Flame from Vegapunk's research base, with Bruno and Enel assisting covertly.

Roy sent Buggy a hundred Artificial Devil Fruits in exchange for Buggy Express deploying to the South Blue, while the Freedom Revolutionary Alliance’s expansion made the North Blue the center of a looming war. As Bullet prepared to join the conflict, Crocodile finally met Roy in Sky City’s central laboratory.

• Roy told Buggy that the hundred Artificial Devil Fruits were ready, and Buggy agreed to lead his forces to the South Blue as planned.
• Buggy led Buggy Express’s elite troops toward the South Blue while the World Government, distracted by other crises, could not stop him.
• The Freedom Revolutionary Alliance expanded across half the North Blue, prompting the World Government to send its top combat forces and Marine Headquarters elites to suppress it.
• Bullet welcomed the growing turmoil and prepared to join the coming war in the North Blue.
• Crocodile, bound in Seastone chains in Sky City’s central laboratory, finally met Roy.

Roy confirmed to Crocodile that Golden Lion had become his weapon and planned to control Crocodile through memory and body modifications. With Kaido and Whitebeard already modified, Roy prepared to seize the East Blue and expand his war against the World Government.

• Roy told Crocodile that Golden Lion was under his control and asked him to join, while Crocodile recognized Roy had already decided his fate.
• Roy left Crocodile in the laboratory as Crocodile demanded to know what would happen to him; Roy intended to implant loyalty through Brulee's ability and Trafalgar Law's surgery.
• Roy visited Kaido, who lay unconscious in a nutrient tank while recovering after undergoing memory modifications.
• Roy judged that his forces, including two Yonko, Golden Lion, and Enel, could challenge the World Government and planned to occupy the East Blue before attacking the other seas.