Chapter Summaries

Sengoku and Vice Admiral Tsuru discovered the Golden Underground Palace’s history and realized the World Government might sacrifice ordinary people to preserve the Celestial Dragons during a coming world-ending disaster. As Sasori of the Red Sands negotiated with Sengoku, he accepted two of the Fleet Admiral’s conditions and agreed to provide information about the Rabbit Goddess, though he asked whether Sengoku wanted the truth or a lie.

• Sengoku and Vice Admiral Tsuru read the inscriptions describing the Rabbit Goddess, Im, and the betrayal that led to the Celestial Dragons’ rule.
• Sengoku connected the World Government’s preparations, including the Tequila Wolf Bridge, to a plan for the Celestial Dragons to survive a world-ending disaster while most people perished.
• Sasori of the Red Sands warned Sengoku that the Five Elders would eliminate anyone who threatened their rule, and Sengoku agreed to cooperate with the Konoha Pirates under three conditions.
• Sasori accepted Sengoku’s demands to resolve the coming crisis and help the Marines maintain order, proposing that a future Pirate King could give the people hope by reaching Raftel.
• Sengoku asked for information about the Rabbit Goddess, and Sasori agreed before asking whether he wanted real information or false information.

Sasori revealed that Hashirama was descended from the Rabbit Goddess, then secured Marine cooperation while the Konoha Pirates left Alabasta. Sengoku reunited with the wounded Garp and learned Akihara Kagura had engineered the events; Kagura then proposed how to manage the Five Elders and blame Crocodile for the Golden Underground Palace.

• Sasori told Sengoku that Hashirama was a descendant of the Rabbit Goddess and urged him to report the names Im and Lily to the Five Elders.
• Sengoku gave Sasori a secure Den Den Mushi, but Sasori also gave communication rings to Kizaru and Kuzan.
• Madara returned from fighting Garp, and the Konoha Pirates departed after telling Sengoku that an unnamed strategist had planned the Alabasta operation.
• Sengoku and his subordinates found the heavily wounded Garp, and Kuzan and Kizaru identified Akihara Kagura and Karin as Konoha Pirates spies in the Marines.
• Akihara Kagura urged Sengoku to summon the Five Elders while visibly injured and suggested blaming Crocodile for the Golden Underground Palace and its historical secrets.

Akihara Kagura told Sengoku about his deal with the Konoha Pirates to obtain the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and Sengoku accepted the plan while deciding that Kagura needed to learn harsher methods. When Sengoku reported Alabasta’s secrets to the Five Elders, he revealed that the Golden Underground Palace mentioned Imu, leaving the Elders frightened and unsure whether to ask Imu about it.

• Akihara Kagura told Sengoku that the Konoha Pirates had promised him the Rumble-Rumble Fruit in exchange for serving as a Marine spy, and Sengoku approved the arrangement.
• Sengoku and Vice Admiral Tsuru praised Kagura’s planning but discussed his reluctance to sacrifice Marines, and Sengoku considered sending him to train under Sakazuki.
• Sengoku called the Five Elders and summarized the Alabasta incident, including the Golden Underground Palace and its mention of Pluton.
• Sengoku revealed that the Golden Underground Palace also mentioned Imu, shocking the Five Elders.
• The Five Elders ordered that the palace’s secrets be kept from others and that the pirates who knew them be eliminated, then ended the call to discuss whether to ask Imu about the secrets.

Imu ordered the Five Elders to contain the Alabasta revelations and eliminate everyone who learned them, while Morgans chose to publish the secrets of the Golden Underground Palace. As the World Economic News Agency’s newspapers spread across the seas, Mihawk read the headline and realized he should have gone to Alabasta.

• Imu learned that others might know of its existence and ordered the Five Elders to uncover Lily’s words and eliminate everyone else who knew the secret.
• Crocodile sent the Alabasta secrets to the World Economic News Agency, and Morgans ordered his staff to publish them immediately.
• A World Government agent inside the news agency tried to stop publication, but Morgans knocked him down and insisted the newspaper was their best chance to survive.
• Morgans sent flocks of sales seagulls out with the newspapers, spreading the Alabasta revelations across the world.
• Mihawk read the newspaper headline about the truth of Raftel and Nefertari D. Lily’s final words, then regretted not going to Alabasta.

The World Newspaper’s claims about the Rabbit Goddess and the Void Century stirred pirates across the seas, while Shanks and Benn Beckman recognized that the report could reshape the world even if it was false. Shanks resolved to meet the Konoha Pirates, but Mihawk arrived at Shanks’s island by walking across the sea.

• Whitebeard and his crew read the report, worried about Ace and impressed that the Konoha Pirates had escaped Sengoku, Garp, Kizaru, and Aokiji.
• Big Mom ordered Katakuri to send Kaido a letter asking him to capture the Konoha Pirates and extract their secrets.
• Kaido and the Beasts Pirates reacted to the report, and rumors that the Rabbit Goddess could grant wishes renewed pirates’ interest in reaching Raftel.
• Shanks and Benn Beckman discussed how the report could replace the truth, and Shanks decided to go to Paradise to learn the Konoha Pirates’ intentions and prevent war.
• Shanks considered publicly denying Buggy’s claim, but Benn Beckman warned that without finding the real history, they could not prove the report false.
• A lookout told Shanks that Mihawk had arrived by walking across the sea.

Mihawk warned Shanks that the Konoha Pirates were far beyond his crew, while the Five Elders scrambled to contain the scandal over Alabasta’s revelations. Their plans collapsed when they learned the Konoha Pirates had breached Mary Geoise and were capturing World Nobles.

• Mihawk told Shanks that he and the Red Hair Pirates could not defeat the Konoha Pirates, but Shanks said he only wanted to investigate them and discourage them from causing chaos.
• The Five Elders read the Alabasta revelations and feared the exposure of Imu-sama, the Celestial Dragons, and the World Government’s history would destabilize the world.
• Sengoku reported that the Golden Underground Palace appeared to be sand covered in gold, and the Five Elders decided to blame Crocodile and the Konoha Pirates for fabricating history.
• A World Government official told the Five Elders that the Konoha Pirates had attacked Mary Geoise, defeated Kong and Figarland Garling, and begun capturing World Nobles.
• A strange mechanical voice addressed the Five Elders and said their trip to Alabasta showed that the plan to lure them away from Mary Geoise had worked.

The Konoha Pirates conquered Mary Geoise, captured more than a thousand Celestial Dragons, and announced plans to hunt them as prey. Imu remained hidden, and after the pirates left, a shadowy creature emerged and killed World Government officials.

• Madara Uchiha defeated Mary Geoise’s defenders, while Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru organized Celestial Dragon slaves to capture Celestial Dragons.
• Sasori of the Red Sands told the Five Elders that the Konoha Pirates intended to auction some Celestial Dragons and hold a Hunting Game modeled on God Valley.
• The Five Elders ordered the Marines to reinforce Mary Geoise, but after reaching Alabasta, they turned their warship around and informed Sengoku that the Holy Land had fallen.
• Sasori of the Red Sands told Sengoku that the Konoha Pirates had captured Mary Geoise partly because Sengoku had lured the Five Elders away, then departed with more than a thousand Celestial Dragons.
• After the Konoha Pirates left, a pitch-black creature emerged in the Room of Flowers, killed the remaining conscious World Government officials, and withdrew while Celestial Dragons mourned among the ruins.

After the Konoha Pirates captured Mary Geoise, the World Government struggled to restore its authority while the Revolutionary Army and sea emperors reacted to the news. The Five Elders made Crocodile their scapegoat, and he realized Marines had come to arrest him as an example.

• Akainu and Kizaru surveyed the destruction at Mary Geoise and identified the Konoha Pirates as the attackers who had killed and captured Celestial Dragons.
• The Five Elders ordered a worldwide military draft and decided to strip Crocodile of his Shichibukai title, raise his bounty, and execute him publicly to reassert the World Government's authority.
• Dragon, Sabo, and the Revolutionary Army learned that Mary Geoise had fallen, and Dragon ordered them to meet the Konoha Pirates.
• Shanks, Whitebeard, Big Mom, and their crews reacted with shock to the news and the Konoha Pirates' enormous bounties, while Kaido set out to find them.
• Hancock decided to abdicate and join the Konoha Pirates, then kicked the old woman who tried to dissuade her.
• Crocodile recognized that the Five Elders had blamed him for the Golden Underground Palace incident to make an example of him, just as five Marine warships arrived, including an Admiral's flagship.

The Marines captured Crocodile while Doflamingo negotiated with Sengoku to regain his Celestial Dragon privileges. When the Konoha Pirates arrived at his Sabaody slave auction house with Celestial Dragons to sell, Doflamingo disowned the business, only to receive a call from Asura Path Scorpion.

• Akainu led the Marines in sinking Crocodile’s boat and capturing Crocodile and Daz Bones for transport to Impel Down.
• Sengoku invited Doflamingo to Marineford to discuss filling the vacant Shichibukai position, and Doflamingo demanded the return of his Celestial Dragon identity chip and its protection privileges.
• Doflamingo learned that Bellamy had been defeated by Straw Hat Luffy and decided to deal with the newcomer.
• Disco told Doflamingo that the Konoha Pirates had arrived at the Sabaody Slave Auction House and planned to auction Celestial Dragons, while the guards had been killed.
• Doflamingo disavowed the Slave Auction House, then heard Asura Path Scorpion introduce himself over the Den Den Mushi.

The Konoha Pirates prepared a Celestial Dragon slave auction on Sabaody as bait while revealing plans for a Hunting Game on a sky island above Jaya Island. As resistance to the World Government spread, Doflamingo tried to profit from both sides, but Sengoku warned Sasori about his betrayal, and Sasori arranged for the Five Elders to hear that Doflamingo was heading to the Hunting Game.

• Doflamingo agreed to promote the Celestial Dragon auction, then secretly told Sengoku about the Konoha Pirates' plans.
• The Konoha Pirates displayed chained Celestial Dragons on Sabaody, killed one who threatened the crowd, and freed the auction house's other slaves after Sasori killed its manager.
• Sasori recruited Pluton Rayleigh to host the auction and invited him to the Hunting Game, where Celestial Dragons would be prey.
• More than a dozen kingdoms declared they would stop paying Celestial Gold tribute after Mary Geoise was breached and the world's true history came to light.
• Sengoku warned Sasori that Doflamingo had informed the Five Elders about the auction, so Sasori told Sengoku to report that Doflamingo was going to Mock Town to join the Hunting Game.
• Doflamingo prepared to visit Mock Town and Sabaody, hoping to buy his former relatives at auction and later trade them to the World Government for benefits.

The Five Elders responded to the Konoha Pirates’ threats by planning to capture Nico Robin, rescue the Celestial Dragons being auctioned, and stop a Hunting Game on Sky Island. Sengoku and the Five Elders suspected Doflamingo was involved, but Doflamingo denied knowing anything about the event when they called him.

• The Five Elders agreed to send CP9 after Nico Robin so she could publicly discredit Alabasta’s history and potentially reveal Pluto’s location.
• The Five Elders agreed to grant Doflamingo Celestial Dragon privileges without restoring his identity chip, then learned the Konoha Pirates were auctioning captured World Nobles on Sabaody.
• Sengoku reported that the Konoha Pirates planned a Celestial Dragon Hunting Game on Sky Island, and the Five Elders ordered the Navy to stop it and rescue the captives.
• Sengoku said Doflamingo was traveling to Jaya Island and might join the Hunting Game, so the Five Elders called him to demand information and cooperation.
• Doflamingo denied knowing about the Hunting Game and compared the rumor to the God Valley event.

Doflamingo tried to convince the Five Elders that his trip to Jaya Island had nothing to do with the Konoha Pirates’ Hunting Game, but they remained suspicious. In Mock Town, he encountered Marshall D. Teach, while Akihara Kagura secretly chose both men as the Hunting Game’s first players and planned a global broadcast from Skypiea.

• The Five Elders accused Doflamingo of knowing about the Hunting Game, threatened Dressrosa, and agreed to wait while he investigated, though they privately decided to eliminate him afterward.
• The Straw Hat Pirates sought a route to the sky island with Mont Blanc Cricket, while Doflamingo found that Bellamy knew nothing about reaching it and ordered him to help investigate.
• Bellamy told Doflamingo that the Straw Hat Pirates were seeking a way to the sky island, and Doflamingo prepared to confront Straw Hat Luffy.
• Marshall D. Teach entered the bar, offered to help Doflamingo, and revealed his interest in the Konoha Pirates as a possible path toward becoming a Shichibukai.
• Akihara Kagura and Karin eavesdropped from above, and Akihara ordered the Konoha Pirates to clear Skypiea, release Celestial Dragons as prey, and make Doflamingo and Marshall D. Teach the first players in a globally broadcast Hunting Game.

Akihara Kagura and Karin joined the Straw Hat Pirates aboard the Going Merry to travel to Sky Island, while Doflamingo and Teach followed with their crews. Kagura promised Nami two hundred million Beli in gold after their journey and began considering the Going Merry as a future warship.

• Doflamingo and Marshall D. Teach allied in Mock Town, then pursued the Straw Hat Pirates to learn how to reach Sky Island.
• Luffy told Teach to follow them to the Knock Up Stream, despite Nami objecting to sharing their route.
• Kagura and Karin appeared aboard the Going Merry, and Kagura said he wanted to ride with them rather than arrest them.
• Nico Robin used her Flower-Flower Fruit to seize Kagura, but he remained calm and stopped Karin from attacking Nami.
• Kagura offered Nami a new ship or gold worth two hundred million Beli, and Nami chose the gold.
• As the Going Merry approached the Knock Up Stream, Kagura privately invited the ship to come with him when its bond with the Straw Hats ended.

The Going Merry rode the Knock Up Stream toward the sky island while the Konoha Pirates prepared Upper Yard for a hunting game featuring captured Celestial Dragons. The chapter ended with the game’s rules and prize decided, while Akihara Kagura’s plan to impersonate a Marine with Enel’s Rumble-Rumble Fruit remained secret.

• Nami guided the Going Merry up the Knock Up Stream, while Doflamingo attached the Blackbeard Pirates’ raft to its mast to keep it from falling.
• Orochimaru and Tobirama Senju failed to fuse Devil Fruit abilities with Hashirama Cells, and Asura Path Sasori suggested testing the genes of someone who possessed two abilities.
• Hashirama Senju begged the Skypieans and land dwellers to leave Upper Yard before the hunting game, and Madara Uchiha threatened them until they relocated on the Lord of the Skies.
• The Konoha Pirates set up Video Den Den Mushi, released the remaining Celestial Dragons into Upper Yard, and chose the Poneglyph, Golden Bell, and gold as prizes, with information about Poseidon as the top reward.
• Asura Path Sasori planned to keep Enel alive and hidden so he could use the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s power while posing as a Marine.

The Straw Hat Pirates, Doflamingo, and the Blackbeard Pirates reached Skypiea, where they discovered the Golden City and encountered the Konoha Pirates. Sasori announced a worldwide Hunting Game with the whereabouts of the Ancient Weapon Poseidon as its prize.

• The Straw Hat Pirates and the Blackbeard Pirates arrived at an empty Angel Island, and Doflamingo suspected the Konoha Pirates had turned its residents into prey for a Hunting Game.
• The Straw Hat Pirates recognized the Golden Bell as the Golden City of Shandia and realized Mont Blanc Noland had told the truth about finding it four hundred years earlier.
• Luffy struck the Golden Bell, bringing a Golden Ark into view, and Teach claimed the ship before Sasori appeared and announced that they had entered the Konoha Pirates' Hunting Ground.
• Sasori activated Video Den Den Mushi and broadcast the scene around the world, drawing attention from Shanks, the Five Elders, the Marines, and powerful pirate crews.
• Sasori invited powerful people worldwide to join the Hunting Game and offered the whereabouts of Sea King Poseidon as the prize.

After the Konoha Pirates announced that the Hunting Game’s prizes included the whereabouts of Poseidon and Pluton, powerful figures and factions across the world began heading for Skypiea. Sasori revealed that the prey would be a thousand Celestial Dragons and laid out the game’s rewards, leaving the world poised for a massive convergence on the island.

• Blackbeard Teach, Doflamingo, the Marines, Shanks, the other Emperors, the Shichibukai, and the Revolutionary Army reacted to the Ancient Weapon prize and set out for Skypiea.
• Whitebeard sent Marco ahead to find Ace and bring him back safely, while the other Whitebeard captains stayed aboard the Moby Dick.
• Boa Hancock heard that Celestial Dragons would be hunted and felt her childhood nightmare begin to fade; Ace persuaded Buggy to travel with him to Skypiea.
• Sasori announced that the Hunting Game’s prey were a thousand Celestial Dragons, and that participants could kill prey or one another until all the Celestial Dragons were dead.
• Sasori said the victor would receive Poseidon’s whereabouts, anyone who earned a Celestial Dragon chip could attend the slave auction, and defeating Madara Uchiha would earn Pluton’s whereabouts.

Doflamingo and Blackbeard Teach agreed to enter the Konoha Pirates’ Hunting Game while secretly waiting to see which side would prevail. As the game began, a Celestial Dragon was killed by a thread in front of a worldwide broadcast, leaving Doflamingo appearing responsible.

• Blackbeard Teach declined to act first, but Doflamingo accepted the Five Elders’ order to join the game, and Teach secured their approval to become a Shichibukai.
• Doflamingo and Teach privately resolved to support whichever side won, while the Straw Hat Pirates set out to explore Upper Yard and search for gold.
• Sasori of the Red Sands warned that the Marines could participate but that the Konoha Pirates’ vice-captain would hunt them; Akihara Kagura revealed his Rumble-Rumble Fruit power before retreating into the jungle with Karin.
• Doflamingo and the Blackbeard Pirates entered the forest as the Hunting Game began, while the Straw Hat Pirates searched for gold.
• A Celestial Dragon mistook Doflamingo for a fellow Celestial Dragon and demanded his help; a mysterious thread then cut the Celestial Dragon in two as the broadcast captured Doflamingo’s threads and furious expression.

Akihara Kagura and the Konoha Pirates framed Doflamingo and the Blackbeard Pirates for killing Celestial Dragons during the Hunting Game, turning the broadcast against them. Blackbeard Teach chose to fight Kagura for his Rumble-Rumble Fruit, while the Straw Hat Pirates continued searching for gold after Zoro killed a Celestial Dragon.

• Doflamingo realized someone had used thread powers to make it appear he killed Chadoruma Saint, and suspected the Konoha Pirates were forcing him to choose sides.
• Threads controlled members of the Blackbeard Pirates and made them kill Celestial Dragons, so Teach blamed Doflamingo and faced Akihara Kagura as a Marine attack began.
• Teach decided to seize Kagura’s Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and Kagura struck Van Augur with Chidori Spear before Teach attacked him with Dark Water.
• Kagura created a thundercloud and forced Teach to absorb its lightning, but Teach then rushed in and touched Kagura to suppress his Devil Fruit power.
• Zoro killed a Celestial Dragon who had tried to capture Nami as a slave, while Luffy chose to keep searching for gold instead of approaching the fighting.

Akihara Kagura defeated Blackbeard Teach, but the Konoha Pirates rescued Teach and began experimenting with his genes. As Kaido and Charlotte Linlin arrived to join the Hunting Game, Red-haired Shanks came to the Sky Island and asked Hashirama Senju to end the game by handing over the surviving Celestial Dragons.

• Akihara Kagura overpowered Teach and his crew, then prepared to crush them with his Thunder God form, but an unknown rescuer whisked the Blackbeard Pirates away.
• Sasori of the Red Sands, Tobirama Senju, and Orochimaru collected Teach's genes and began experimenting with them aboard the Golden Ark.
• The Straw Hat Pirates found gold and a Poneglyph on the Sky Island and left, while Teach rejoined the Hunting Game and secretly hunted Celestial Dragons to get revenge on Doflamingo.
• Kaido and Charlotte Linlin allied and headed for the Sky Island, planning to join the game and attend the auction of Fergarland Garling.
• Red-haired Shanks arrived aboard the Red Force and asked Hashirama Senju to hand over the surviving Celestial Dragons and end the Hunting Game.

Shanks tried to stop the Konoha Pirates’ Celestial Dragon Hunting Game to prevent the seas from descending into war, but Madara Uchiha rejected his demand. The two clashed with Conqueror’s Haki and charged into battle, leaving the fight about to begin.

• Shanks arrived at the sky island hoping to persuade the Konoha Pirates to end the Hunting Game before the World Government and Marines arrived.
• Benn Beckman warned Shanks that reasoning would not change the Konoha Pirates’ decision and that the world’s oppressed would support them.
• Shanks asked Hashirama Senju to end the Hunting Game, but Madara Uchiha confronted him and unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki.
• Shanks and Madara’s Haki collided, overwhelming the Celestial Dragon prey and alarming Blackbeard Teach, Doflamingo, Charlotte Linlin, Kaido, and the pirate crews watching.
• Madara ordered Shanks to accept Konoha’s arrangements, but Shanks refused to surrender his freedom and raised Gryphon.
• Madara charged toward the Red Force, and Shanks launched himself at Madara with a Conqueror’s Haki-infused slash.