Chapter Summaries

Roy avoided a fight with Rayleigh and later searched for the Straw Hat Pirates during the chaos on Sabaody, hoping to give Luffy Blackbeard’s contact information. He stopped to watch pirates attack Kizaru, who confronted them after their bullets passed harmlessly through him.

• Roy waved to Rayleigh and left without fighting, and Rayleigh admired his strength before disappearing into an alley.
• As chaos spread across Sabaody, Roy killed several thugs with Reaper's Sound and sought the Straw Hat Pirates after hearing they planned to reach Impel Down.
• Roy rode a bubble bike toward the Straw Hat Pirates and noticed pirates preparing a sneak attack on Kizaru.
• The pirates fired three bullets at Kizaru, but they passed through his body without harming him.
• Kizaru noticed the gunmen and asked whether they had been trying to kill him.

Roy used Kizaru’s attack to light a cigarette, then faced the Marine Admiral on his way through the residential district. After Roy revealed his CP0 passport, Kizaru let him leave.

• Kizaru’s attack missed the fleeing pirates, lit Roy’s cigarette, and split a massive tree, prompting Roy to criticize the damage.
• The winged Monk and his subordinates watched as Kizaru approached Roy and asked whether he had seen Sentomaru.
• Roy denied being a pirate, told Kizaru he was in a hurry, and refused Kizaru’s offer to join the Marines.
• Roy revealed his gold-trimmed CP0 passport, and Kizaru recognized his affiliation and moved aside.
• Roy rode off on his bubble bike while Kizaru called him interesting.

Roy rode across Sabaody Archipelago after meeting Kizaru, drew the attention of Urouge, and passed through a clash between Marines and Jewelry Bonney. He continued toward Luffy and the others after blasting Urouge’s group with a sound attack, while Urouge became more curious about him.

• Roy rode away from Kizaru, and Urouge decided to follow him after wondering who he was.
• Roy noticed Urouge trailing him, but artillery fire erupted at the harbor as Marines reported that their soldiers had turned into old men and children.
• Jewelry Bonney confronted the Marines, and Roy rode between them before telling her that Bartholomew Kuma was in Town 12.
• Bonney ran toward Town 12 after hearing Roy’s news, while Roy continued riding toward Luffy and the others.
• When Urouge’s underling shouted at Roy to stop, Roy struck Urouge and his group with Meteor Noise.
• Urouge staggered back to his feet and concluded that Roy’s power explained how he had left Kizaru unharmed.

Roy encountered Hawkins and his crew on the road to Town No. 12, where Hawkins asked to become his subordinate after divinations predicted the crew had an 85% chance of surviving if they followed Roy. Roy let them follow him for now, and Hawkins then drew a card predicting every crew member would survive.

• Hawkins waited on the road with his crew, believing the next person to pass would determine their fate.
• Roy approached on a bubble bike and tried to ride past Hawkins and his pirates.
• Hawkins and his crew bowed and asked Roy to take them in as subordinates.
• Hawkins showed Roy divination cards predicting the crew had an 85% chance of surviving by pledging themselves to him.
• Roy allowed Hawkins and his crew to follow him for now, and Hawkins drew a card predicting their survival rate was 100%.

Roy led the Hawkins Pirates through Sabaody Archipelago while using his authority to keep the Marines from stopping them. He reached a battle involving the Straw Hat Pirates and a malfunctioning Pacifista, just as Bonney kicked Franky away in anger.

• Roy contacted the Sabaody Marine branch and ordered the Marines to ignore the Hawkins Pirates, easing Hawkins's doubts about joining him.
• Roy and the Hawkins Pirates came upon a Pacifista firing lasers, and Roy explained that it was an uncalibrated experimental robot modeled after Bartholomew Kuma.
• Hawkins grew more curious about Roy's identity after hearing him identify the World Government's secret weapon.
• Sanji kicked the Pacifista away, and Zoro slashed it, causing its circuits to short and its chest to explode.
• Franky moved to inspect the fallen Pacifista, but Bonney kicked him aside and shouted, "What the hell did you bastards do?"

Bonney confronted Sentomaru over the Pacifistas modeled after her father, Kuma, while Roy and Hawkins’s crew raced toward the battle. The Straw Hats fled the attacking Pacifistas and spotted another group approaching them.

• The Straw Hats relaxed when Franky emerged unharmed, but Bonney continued crying as she stared at the damaged Pacifista.
• Sentomaru arrived with another Pacifista and recognized Bonney, while Roy sensed Kuma approaching and pedaled toward the fight with Hawkins and his crew following.
• Bonney used the Toshi Toshi no Mi to turn Sentomaru into an old man and demanded to know what he had done to her father.
• Luffy and the Straw Hats dodged Pacifista attacks as Usopp and Chopper urged them to flee, and Nami spotted a group coming toward them.

Roy gave Luffy a Den Den Mushi and urged him to contact someone if he wanted to save his brother, then intervened when Kizaru’s attack was deflected toward him. Rayleigh confronted Kizaru to protect the Straw Hat Pirates, while Kuma sent Bonney flying.

• Roy used Shave to reach Luffy, gave him a Den Den Mushi, and told him it could help save his brother.
• Luffy crashed into Kizaru, and Zoro shielded him from Kizaru’s beam, injuring his back.
• Rayleigh arrived and kicked Kizaru’s attack off course, sending it toward Roy.
• Roy blocked the deflected beam with a powerful sword slash, and Kizaru recognized him as a Great Swordsman.
• Rayleigh faced Kizaru and asked him not to end the young pirates’ era before it began.
• Sentomaru shouted at Kuma for sending Bonney flying.

Roy left Kuma, Kizaru, and the others after Kuma sent Bonney away, then watched the Straw Hat Pirates get launched into the sky. He called Blackbeard to offer him an ally for an attack on Impel Down, leaving Blackbeard to hear the proposal.

• Kuma sent Bonney flying away, and Roy left the battlefield with Hawkins while Kizaru called after him for help against Rayleigh.
• Roy watched the Straw Hat Pirates fly away and ordered Hawkins to search the battlefield for tissue they had left behind.
• Roy called Blackbeard and asked whether he had settled the matter of Impel Down.
• Roy told Blackbeard that he had found him an ally who would most likely join an attack on Impel Down.

Roy arranged for Blackbeard to meet an unnamed ally who held a grudge against him, while keeping the ally’s identity secret. As the Marines intensified their purge of Sabaody Archipelago, Roy discovered Sakazuki was leading the crackdown, putting the pirates’ chances of escape in doubt.

• Blackbeard asked Roy about the ally interested in Impel Down, and Roy described him as a powerful but dangerous double-edged sword without revealing his identity.
• Roy ended the call with Blackbeard after they discussed the proposed alliance, and both men privately regarded the other as scheming.
• The Marines continued their sweeping crackdown on Sabaody Archipelago, threatening the businesses Roy and Spandam owned there.
• Spandam urged Roy to use his connections to protect their assets, but Roy brushed him off and headed toward the island’s shore.
• Roy saw Sakazuki unleash Great Eruption to destroy fleeing pirate ships and realized why Hawkins had predicted such a low survival rate.

Roy watched Akainu’s attack on the island while relaxing in a café, and reflected on how his alliance with Whitebeard, Kaido, and Blackbeard could change the coming war. Hawkins and his crew narrowly avoided Akainu before reaching Roy with the remains he had ordered them to collect.

• Roy watched Akainu destroy pirate ships and considered the Admirals’ strength and the coming Summit War.
• Roy made coffee and relaxed in an abandoned café while the Navy attacked the island.
• Hawkins and his crew gathered the bodily remains of the Straw Hat Pirates on Roy’s orders.
• Akainu sensed the Hawkins Pirates and prepared to attack, but a Marine rear admiral told him they had submitted to the World Government.
• Hawkins’s crew escaped Akainu’s attention and hurried to Roy, who was relaxing at the café.
• Hawkins told Roy that they had brought what he wanted.

Roy arranged for Hawkins and his crew to leave Sabaody and pursue the Shichibukai seat Blackbeard would vacate after the Summit War. After the Hawkins Pirates departed, Roy contacted Dragon to propose funding revolutions in exchange for specific resources.

• Roy collected bloodied and burned items from Hawkins and ordered him to take his crew away from Sabaody on a World Government-flagged ship.
• Roy urged Hawkins to claim the Shichibukai seat by hunting pirates, and Hawkins accepted the mission, tempted by the chance to rise to prominence.
• Hawkins and his crew saw Kid and Capone Bege being escorted to the port and boarded the ship Roy had arranged.
• Roy used Betty's Den Den Mushi to offer Dragon funds and weapons for revolutions in several countries in exchange for specific resources.

Roy offered the Revolutionary Army intelligence, weapons, ammunition, and money in exchange for cooperation against the World Government, while insisting that Belo Betty would remain with him for ten years. At dawn, Dragon’s side agreed to cooperate if they could verify Roy’s claims.

• Roy told Dragon and the Revolutionary Army that Belo Betty was safe but would work for him for ten years.
• Roy offered intelligence on six World Government member nations, ten thousand muskets, ammunition, and three billion Beli, with the first weapons to be delivered in Dressrosa.
• Roy said his offer was separate from Belo Betty and urged the Revolutionary Army to seize the opportunity created by Whitebeard’s conflict with the Navy.
• Roy ended the call and waited through the night in the Sabaody Archipelago as the Navy swept the island.
• At dawn, Dragon’s side called Roy back and said they would agree to cooperate after verifying his claims.

Roy strengthened his alliance with the Revolutionary Army by supplying weapons while drawing Kaido toward the coming war. After learning that the Flying Pirate Group had armed the Revolutionary Army, Kaido decided to join the fray and ordered King to prepare for a banquet.

• Roy and Dragon finalized their cooperation, and Roy named his forces the Nika Anti-Government Alliance to shock Dragon and establish their shared opposition to the World Government.
• Roy sent ten thousand muskets to the Revolutionary Army through Dressrosa, while Belo Betty contacted Revolutionary Army headquarters and reported that she was safe and held authority in Sky City.
• Roy negotiated with Kaido as the Flying Pirate Group and arranged for weapons to be transported through Dressrosa, tempting Kaido with the prospect of the coming conflict.
• In Wano Country, Kaido was roused by news that Yamato had freed captured samurai again, but Doflamingo's intelligence then informed him that the Flying Pirate Group had supplied the Revolutionary Army.
• Kaido erupted in Conqueror's Haki and laughed at the prospect of the Revolutionary Army joining the war, then told King to prepare Queen for a grand banquet.

As the Marines and World Government prepared for war against Whitebeard, Roy confirmed that Kaido would join the battle and assessed the forces he had assembled against Marineford. He planned to use the conflict to weaken the World Government while guarding against its hidden leaders, but knew his side would have to retreat if the full strength of the Marines and World Government emerged.

• The World Government prepared the Marines, Shichibukai, and elite agencies to face Whitebeard, while Roy was sent to Sabaody to monitor Pluton Rayleigh.
• Roy received Kaido's confirmation that he would join the war and was relieved that his forces would be close to Marineford's strength on paper.
• Roy counted on Whitebeard, Kaido, and the battle-damaged Golden Lion to oppose the three Admirals, with Enel assigned to hold Sengoku and other allies confronting the remaining forces.
• Roy planned to draw in the Blackbeard Pirates and possibly Straw Hat Luffy's group as the battle unfolded.
• Roy had involved the Revolutionary Army to distract and weaken the World Government, and prepared a surprise for Mary Geoise to limit the intervention of its five hidden leaders.
• Roy aimed to damage the World Government rather than destroy the Marines, and accepted that his forces would have to flee if their enemies unleashed their full power.

Roy monitored Rayleigh as the coming war over Ace’s execution shook the world, then learned Caesar Clown had completed Golden Lion’s modifications. He left Sabaody with Golden Lion to meet Kaido in Wano Country and prepare the Beasts Pirates’ troops for a surprise attack on Marineford.

• Roy read that Ace would be publicly executed in three days and reflected on how the coming war would reshape the world.
• Roy watched prices rise and heard that conflicts were breaking out in territories left exposed by the Marines’ redeployment.
• Caesar Clown told Roy that Golden Lion’s modifications were complete, reaching about ninety percent of Bartholomew Kuma’s later level of modification.
• Roy left Sabaody with Golden Lion to travel to Wano Country, where he planned to coordinate with Kaido and use the Beasts Pirates’ five thousand elite troops in a surprise attack on Marineford.
• Roy warned Caesar Clown not to let Golden Lion fail at a critical moment, and Caesar said he had only been testing the results.

Roy and Golden Lion used the threat of Golden Lion’s strength to keep Kaido cooperative, then rallied the Flying Pirate Group and Beasts Pirates to attack Marine Headquarters, Marineford. As their fleet of Floating Islands set course, Whitebeard’s forces gathered elsewhere.

• Kaido tried to recruit Roy, but Roy refused to betray Golden Lion.
• Golden Lion unleashed a powerful aura and revealed his palace and three Floating Islands, convincing Kaido that he remained formidable.
• Golden Lion ordered his forces to prepare for an attack on Marine Headquarters, and Kaido rallied the Beasts Pirates and Fierce Beasts.
• Enel, Queen, and King transformed as Kaido took dragon form, and the four Floating Islands set course for Marineford.
• Roy planned to rendezvous with his modified war sky island, while several dozen pirate ships gathered in Whitebeard’s waters.

Roy prepared a covert attack on Mary Geoise while Kaido and Golden Lion assembled their forces for the coming war. He planned to launch powerful explosives at the World Government during the Summit War, leaving the assault ready to be carried out.

• Kaido saw the nearly ten thousand soldiers and hundreds of giant beasts gathered on Golden Lion's War Island Cloud.
• Golden Lion's forces joined Kaido and passed over the Red Line under thick clouds, with eighteen hours remaining until Ace's execution.
• Roy waited on the Sabaody Archipelago and received word that his preparations for Mary Geoise were complete.
• Roy met Torres at a deserted island and confirmed that slaves and powerful explosives had been sent to Mary Geoise a week earlier.
• Roy used clouds to carry eight enormous explosives into the sky with Torres and Scarlet, a modified pink gorilla who had eaten the Target-Target Fruit.

Marine Headquarters prepared for the coming war as Sengoku discussed the suspicious movements of Kaido and Red-Hair and asked Tsuru to seek support from the World Government. At Sabaody Archipelago, Roy detected a disturbance beneath the sea and realized Whitebeard had arrived.

• Aokiji reported that Marine surveillance of Kaido and Red-Hair had gone silent and that Wano Country was under lockdown.
• Sengoku told Tsuru to ask the World Government to send the Knights of God if necessary, then planned for possible contingencies in the war.
• The Marines gathered in force and raised their morale, while Aokiji watched and worried about how many would survive.
• Roy sent Torres and Scarlet into the sky, then used the Echo Map from Sabaody Archipelago to search beneath the sea.
• Roy sensed a disturbance in the ocean currents and recognized Whitebeard's arrival.

Roy monitored Whitebeard’s approach and prepared his forces for the coming Summit War, while also using the conflict as cover to expand his influence in Paradise. As Whitebeard settled into position for the planned attack, Roy’s allies continued seizing shipping routes and Blackbeard captured a World Government vessel.

• Roy watched Whitebeard’s fleet cross the Red Line and flew to the Floating Island to coordinate with Kaido and Belo Betty.
• Roy confirmed that Whitebeard would be in position before dawn and ordered his forces to rest until three o’clock, when they would begin preparing for war.
• Roy reviewed his forces from the command hall and planned to exploit the Summit War to take control of commercial routes and underground markets in Paradise.
• Bon Clay and Kuzan defeated the remaining resistance along a merchant route near Alabasta and seized the convoy.
• Blackbeard overpowered the last Marine aboard a warship and captured a World Government vessel.

Blackbeard set out with Luffy to attack Impel Down and rescue Ace, while Roy received a plea from Buggy’s crew and expected Buggy to escape amid the prison’s coming chaos. Before dawn, Roy, Kaido, and Golden Lion prepared their forces on Cloud Island for a slaughter.

• Blackbeard’s crew prepared to sail with Luffy toward Impel Down, where Luffy hoped to rescue Ace before the execution.
• Roy answered a call from Buggy’s crew, reassured them that Buggy would be fine, and hung up.
• Roy expected Buggy to escape during Blackbeard’s attack on Impel Down, relying on Buggy’s extraordinary luck.
• Roy and Kaido armed themselves on Cloud Island as Golden Lion put on armor developed by Caesar Clown.
• Golden Lion declared that the world would witness the terror of pirates again, and the assembled forces roared their support for him and Kaido.