Chapter Summaries

Kuzan led the World Alliance Army’s assault on G-8 Fortress, freezing the sea and overwhelming its defenders. The fortress fell, and the World Government discovered Kizaru had been diverted to renovate the ruler’s Flower Room.

• World Alliance Army propagandists urged G-8 Fortress soldiers to defect, but Doberman shot a wavering Marine and threatened the rest into holding the line.
• Kuzan arrived and used Ice Age to freeze the sea around G-8 Fortress, disabling its underwater heating systems.
• The World Alliance Army charged across the ice, and Marines deserted as Kuzan’s power overwhelmed the fortress’s defenders.
• Kuzan froze Doberman and the World Alliance Army captured G-8 Fortress.
• The World Government investigated Kizaru’s absence and learned Mary Geoise had sent him to the New World to obtain materials for renovating the ruler’s Flower Room.

Spandam was forced aboard a ship to Shadow Island to recruit Gecko Moria and the Dark King Alliance, then learned Roy had appointed him Grand Line Chief Diplomat and promised him the Grand Line’s rule as a reward. Roy’s real aim was for Spandam to work with his father, Spandine, to bring the underground Dark King Alliance under Roy’s control.

• Dark Rose guards dragged Spandam aboard a ship bound for Shadow Island despite his protests that Roy would never send him on such a dangerous mission.
• Spandam feared Roy was pushing him away and preferred to remain in Roy’s service rather than return to the underground Dark King Alliance.
• The guards gave Spandam Roy’s letter appointing him Grand Line Chief Diplomat and told him he could become Ruler of the Grand Line if he persuaded Gecko Moria and the Dark King Alliance to join the East Blue Fate Community Alliance.
• Spandam became eager to prove himself after learning of Roy’s promise.
• Roy planned to use Spandam’s ties to Spandine to infiltrate the Dark King Alliance and bring its power and industries under his control.

Roy met Sengoku and Tsuru at a café on Sabaody Archipelago, where the World Government’s declining authority and the island’s worsening fortunes framed their tense encounter. Sengoku demanded to know why Garp had arranged the meeting with Roy, the King of East Blue, while Garp kept eating.

• The World Government struggled with defections, dwindling funds, and widespread resistance as the world learned of the coming catastrophe.
• Sabaody Archipelago declined as Celestial Dragon spending, supply traffic, and tourism dried up.
• Roy met Sengoku and Tsuru at a café on Grove 7 while Garp ate at their table.
• Sengoku seized Garp’s senbei and demanded to know why he had called them together with Roy.

Garp and Roy invited Sengoku and Tsuru to join the East Blue Fate Community Alliance and help oppose the World Government before a world-ending flood arrived. Sengoku and Tsuru were left weighing the proposal and its consequences for the people connected to them.

• Garp told Sengoku and Tsuru that the World Government no longer deserved their loyalty and urged them to help establish a new order with Roy.
• Sengoku and Tsuru silently acknowledged the gap between the Marines' ideals of justice and their actions under the World Government.
• Roy invited Sengoku and Tsuru to join the East Blue Fate Community Alliance, which aimed to save people from the approaching flood.
• Garp and Roy left the café and said they would remain on Sabaody Archipelago for the next few days while Sengoku and Tsuru considered the offer.
• After Roy and Garp departed, Sengoku and Tsuru considered the risks of leaving the World Government, including the consequences for their families and friends.

A devastating beam shattered Wano Country’s surrounding waterfall and sent shockwaves across the New World, while surviving researchers spotted a giant ship emerging from the wreckage. Ace stopped a fleeing researcher to keep Pluton’s secret, and the explosion’s distant tremors alarmed the world’s major powers.

• A destructive beam blasted through the sea and collapsed half of the waterfall surrounding Wano Country, destroying most of the research ships nearby.
• After the explosion’s aftermath cleared, surviving researchers saw a huge ship emerge from the dust and mist, while their Den Den Mushi calls failed.
• A Swallow-Swallow Fruit user tried to flee, but Ace struck him down with Fire Fist and told the survivors they could not leave because Pluton was still a secret.
• Blackbeard and Big Mom reacted to the tremors, and powerful figures across Elbaf, Shanks’s ship, Sabaody, Marine Headquarters, and Mary Geoise felt the aftershock.

Kaido fought alongside Loki on Elbaf as Pluton emerged from Wano Country, while Roy revealed the weapon’s existence to pressure Sengoku and Tsuru into joining his World Alliance Army. Sengoku ordered an investigation of Wano and warned that this was their last chance to choose.

• Kaido defeated the Terror Bird Beast leader on Elbaf, and Loki followed him after agreeing to their deal.
• Kuzan and Cobra signed an offensive and defensive alliance treaty between the World Alliance Army and Alabasta.
• Roy admitted to Garp that Pluton had emerged from Wano Country and that he had deliberately let Sengoku and Tsuru hear about it.
• Sengoku ordered people to gather news from Wano Country and told Tsuru that Roy and Garp had given them their last chance to choose.

As the World Government fortified Sabaody and gathered forces for a decisive war, Roy and his allies reviewed a plan to use Pluton to destroy the Red Line and unite the world’s oceans. The chapter revealed that Roy also possessed Poseidon, while the Navy’s dissenting officers met in secret amid rising tensions.

• The World Government imposed martial law on Sabaody, seized resources, conscripted civilians, and built up its defenses with Pacifistas, pirates, and allied forces.
• Rear Admirals Yukimura and Akhend argued over the Navy’s treatment of civilians and its cooperation with pirates until Koby tried to intervene.
• Sengoku, Tsuru, Momonga, Gion, and other Navy figures held a tense secret meeting as both sides prepared for the coming war.
• Roy, Garp, and their allies listened as Vegapunk and Caesar Clown explained their plan to use Pluton to blast apart the Red Line and bombard Mary Geoise.
• Roy revealed that his wider plan would connect the oceans, transform the Calm Belt, and use island-cloud bridges and Tom’s Sea Train to unite the world.
• Garp and the others learned that Roy possessed Poseidon as well as Pluton.

Roy kept Wano Country hidden while preparing a wider campaign, confident in the military power he had gained from Pluton and Poseidon. He set plans in motion to develop the Red Line and speculated that the rising seas and the legendary great treasure were tied to the Ancient Kingdom’s lost technology.

• Roy and Vegapunk blocked Den Den Mushi signals around Wano Country, while Shirahoshi’s subdued Sea Kings guarded its waters and kept investigators from learning its secrets.
• Roy welcomed Shirahoshi and prepared to begin work with children from the East Blue and the Calm Belt.
• Roy ordered Sea Kings, fish-man warriors, and Sky City’s Floating Aircraft Carriers to mobilize and mark the Red Line’s rock walls for future development.
• Roy prepared for a decisive battle that he expected to draw Elbaf into the conflict through Loki and the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Roy theorized that the rising sea level came from a damaged underground cavity and that the great treasure might be an Ancient Kingdom device capable of lowering the seas.
• Roy reasoned that Imu and the kings had formed the World Government after the Void Century war to control the remaining land and conceal the past, while Roy’s technology and Shirahoshi could make underwater exploration possible.

At Research Base 001, scientists and workers neared completion of Black Sun, a colossal weapon designed to surpass the Ancient Weapons. After its power engines were calibrated and Float-Float Fruit Green Blood was installed, Caesar Clown urged everyone to finish the core power furnaces.

• Scientists at Research Base 001 worked around the clock on Black Sun’s final calculations and pre-installation tests, supported by medical care, food, and stimulants.
• Caesar Clown returned from seeing Pluton, determined to build a weapon that surpassed it and establish himself as history’s greatest scientist.
• An assistant reported that Black Sun’s power engines were calibrated and that the Central Research Institute had produced Float-Float Fruit Green Blood.
• Caesar learned that the Green Blood supply was limited but sufficient to help activate Black Sun, and the base celebrated the progress.
• Caesar urged the workers to finish calibrating the core power furnaces so Black Sun could be completed and take to the sky.

Roy imposed military rule across the East Blue and organized its people and resources to prepare for the coming apocalypse. The chapter left the East Blue transformed into a militarized society loyal to Roy and readying for war.

• Roy sealed the East Blue off from outside news while showing its people the devastation elsewhere, strengthening their belief that he would protect them.
• Roy divided the East Blue into ten military districts, each responsible for training soldiers and developing production suited to its region.
• The East Blue began training citizens of all ages and issuing weapons, including newly produced firearms, as officials reported that ten million troops could be mobilized.
• Roy ordered sea farms and Super Chlorella factories replicated across the East Blue to supply food for military training and future hardship.
• The military districts began their final, harsh training as the East Blue prepared to conquer the world for Roy.

As the World Alliance Army and the World Government prepared for a decisive battle, the war’s devastation and the threat of rising seas pushed both sides to seek a swift end. The World Government’s revealed Ancient Weapon and hidden strength made its destruction the World Alliance Army’s most urgent goal.

• Aokiji, Fujitora, Zephyr, Dragon, and Sabo led the World Alliance Army toward Mary Geoise while Akainu, Ryokugyu, Chaton, the Five Elders, and the Seraphim built defenses to stop them.
• Fighting between the two camps devastated islands and seas, killing ordinary people and driving races toward extinction as the world called for peace.
• Leaders on both sides assembled their forces and reserves for a final war, hoping to end the conflict and prepare for the rising-sea disaster.
• Enormous Sea Kings gathered in the Calm Belts, while the Big Mom Pirates, Blackbeard Pirates, and other pirate forces moved to support the World Alliance Army.
• Roy and the others revealed that the World Government seemingly possessed an Ancient Weapon, and the World Alliance Army resolved to destroy it after seeing the Government’s formidable weapons and powerful fighters.

The Right Minister led a secret team transporting a giant robot toward the Sabaody Archipelago for Roy, navigating surveillance and danger. Meanwhile, after Elbaf’s Heavenly Realm was devastated, Kaido defended his decision to spend a precious promise elevating Luffy to fuel the final battle.

• The Right Minister led Fish-Man elites and Sea Kings carrying a battered giant robot from the New World toward Fish-Man Island.
• The transport team entered a secret route along the Red Line and carefully ascended toward Sabaody, avoiding surveillance Den Den Mushi and Marine forces.
• The Right Minister resolved to protect Roy’s plans, believing Roy was the true king chosen by Heaven.
• A calamity reduced Elbaf’s Heavenly Realm to ruins, leaving Luffy surrounded by giants as Kaido and another figure watched from the sea of clouds.
• Kaido said elevating Luffy was worth the price because the final battle needed more heat and the strongest kingdom could not remain confined to one corner.

After the Straw Hat Pirates defeated Loki’s assault on Elbaf, the giants celebrated the return of Sun God Nika and welcomed the crew as heroes. Loki escaped under the watch of Kaido, Whitebeard, and Enel, while Whitebeard sent the Straw Hats an invitation from the World Alliance Army and Enel called them toward a new era.

• The giants celebrated their victory and raised the Straw Hat Pirates above the crowd as they cheered for Sun God Nika and Lord Luffy.
• Loki watched the celebration from a distance, resentful that he had been forced to abandon his plan and feign defeat to keep his promise.
• Kaido, Whitebeard, and Enel kept Loki under their control, while Loki recognized that he could not resist their overwhelming strength.
• Whitebeard praised Luffy’s inherited Devil Fruit power, and Kaido remarked on the irony of the Marines’ hero’s grandson inheriting Joy Boy’s power.
• Whitebeard released a pigeon carrying the World Alliance Army’s invitation to the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Enel said Elbaf’s matter was settled and urged Whitebeard and Kaido to welcome the arrival of the true new era.

Roy met with Sengoku in his palace and shared classified plans targeting the World Government and the World Alliance Army. Sengoku was stunned to find a verified report on using Pluton to destroy the Red Line beneath Mary Geoise.

• Roy asked Sengoku whether his visit risked drawing Akainu and the Five Elders’ attention, and Sengoku said he had arranged things to avoid notice.
• Violet brought Roy the documents detailing his plans against the World Government, the World Alliance Army, and Mary Geoise.
• Roy handed the classified documents to Sengoku as a gesture of trust and reassurance.
• Sengoku opened the documents and froze when he read a feasibility report on using Pluton to blast apart the Red Line.

Sengoku read Roy’s plans to use the Sabaody Archipelago as the final battlefield and Pluton to destroy Mary Geoise, then accepted that the scheme would cause catastrophic casualties. He agreed to follow Roy’s orders and revealed that he had already arranged everything on Sabaody.

• Sengoku read secret documents outlining Roy’s plans for the final war and the use of Pluton against Mary Geoise.
• Sengoku realized Roy’s preparations were already underway and feared the destruction and deaths the plan could bring.
• Roy argued that eliminating the World Government and the World Alliance Army’s warlords was necessary to unite the world against the coming flood.
• Sengoku accepted Roy’s reasoning, pledged to follow his orders, and said he had already arranged everything on the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Roy welcomed Sengoku’s resolve and said they would strive together for world peace.

Jack brought Roy to Elbaf through a violent storm so Roy could retrieve the final Poneglyph. After reaching the island, Roy warned Jack that the World Tree was alive and held secrets, then flew toward its cloud-covered heights.

• Jack steered the ship through the storm and reached Elbaf, where the crew saw the enormous World Tree.
• Roy came out of his cabin and told Jack to retrieve the final Poneglyph using coordinates Kaido had provided.
• Roy warned Jack that the World Tree had its own consciousness and that the World Government still had operations there.
• Roy flew toward the World Tree’s clouds and rainbows.
• In the first half of the Grand Line, the giants’ arrival struck the World Government a heavy blow as the Straw Hat Pirates and Elbaf’s giants clashed with it.
• The Horn of Counterattack, echoing across eight hundred years, sounded beneath the Five Elders’ assault.

After learning that Elbaf and the Straw Hat Pirates had engaged the World Government, Buggy rallied his forces and launched a major offensive from the Grand Line. As his fleet sailed toward the Shadow Triangle Sea Area, an experiment in East Blue succeeded.

• The World Alliance Army took advantage of Elbaf's entry into the war and ordered a full-scale assault on the World Government.
• Buggy received news of the conflict and excitedly announced it to his executives, including Hawk Eyes, Galdino, and Alvida.
• Buggy revealed himself to the soldiers at the base and rallied them with a speech promising to lead their fight against the World Government.
• Buggy's forces prepared supplies, then sent a hundred ships and tens of thousands of troops toward the Shadow Triangle Sea Area.
• In an East Blue laboratory, someone raised a test tube and announced that an experiment had finally succeeded.

Vinsmoke Judge and the scientists at Sky City successfully developed a technology that allowed Devil Fruit users to eat a second Devil Fruit. Caesar Clown rushed in and seized the test tube, astonished that Judge had beaten him to the breakthrough.

• Vinsmoke Judge raised a golden test tube as the scientists celebrated the successful development of the multiple-Devil-Fruit technology.
• The scientists recognized that their discovery could combine with Devil Fruit cloning technology and transform the world's power structure.
• Vinsmoke Judge declared that he would surpass Caesar Clown and Vegapunk as the world's First Scientist.
• Caesar Clown burst into the laboratory, snatched the test tube from Vinsmoke Judge, and demanded to know how he had succeeded first.

Roy examined the ancient cloud bridges at the Top of the Western Sky and concluded they had been built by Joy Boy to connect sky islands around the world. He began repairing the route to prepare for Pluton to attack Mary Geoise from the sky.

• Roy used his Cloud-Cloud Fruit to inspect the damaged bridges and the cloud shellfish living inside them.
• Roy theorized that Joy Boy had built the Top of the Western Sky as part of a plan to connect the world and save people from a great flood.
• Roy recalled the World Government’s attacks on the Sky Kingdoms, including its assault on Ruins Baron Terminal.
• Roy decided to use the cloud bridges to create a route toward Mary Geoise and send the modified Pluton through the sky.
• Roy activated his Cloud-Cloud Fruit and began repairing and expanding the bridge between Jaya Island and Angel Island.

Roy controlled the clouds above Elbaf and ignored Adam Wood, which he intended to preserve as a future resource. As the World Government and World Alliance Army fought a devastating war across the first half of the Grand Line, Roy expanded the East Blue’s contribution to the conflict, believing the deaths would make his future rule easier.

• Roy controlled the white sea of clouds above Elbaf and sensed Adam Wood’s faint will, but decided the giant tree posed no threat and would be valuable to his plans.
• The World Government and World Alliance Army escalated their war across the first half of the Grand Line, bringing widespread destruction and heavy civilian and military casualties.
• Roy ordered the East Blue to increase its war effort, sending Clone soldiers, rebels, supplies, and powerful fighters to the front lines.
• Roy and the East Blue’s leaders accepted the cost of the war in exchange for greater influence and the chance to pull their own forces back during the final battle.
• Roy viewed the mounting deaths as a way to reduce resistance when he ruled the world in the future.