Chapter Summaries

Teach burst into the Golden City hall and tried to take the Dark-Dark Fruit, while Roy revived Carina and sent her away. As Doflamingo and Gild Tesoro attacked Teach, the crowd turned against him and prepared to seize the fruit.

• Teach shattered the private room’s confinement with his aura and struck at Carina, but Roy restored her and claimed her life was in his hands.
• Roy sent Carina through a spatial vortex as the Golden City began collapsing around them.
• Gild Tesoro and Doflamingo attacked Teach, who defended the Dark-Dark Fruit and was injured by their blows.
• The crowd saw Teach as an easy target, denounced him, and joined forces to take the fruit.
• Teach emerged from the rubble and cried that traitors were always plotting against him.

Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates rushed to rescue Teach as he fought off attackers, while Marco grew suspicious of Teach’s hidden strength and motives. Roy faced Red Hair and Scopper Gaban over the Kozuki Family’s deaths, and the chapter ended as their battle was about to begin.

• Teach angrily accused his attackers of scapegoating him for the stolen Dark-Dark Fruit, and Jozu led Whitebeard Pirates members to his aid.
• Marco joined the rescue after deciding to set aside his suspicions about Teach until the fighting ended, while Teach planned to use the Dark-Dark Fruit to gain power and escape the crew.
• Red Hair confronted Roy and declared that he and Scopper Gaban would avenge the Kozuki Family and Tao Tao.
• Scopper Gaban appeared and discussed Roy with him, then joined Red Hair in preparing to fight.
• Roy emerged from the wreckage and unleashed a storm as the battle began, while someone pleaded to be helped up so they could keep grinding.

Roy fought Red Hair and Scopper Gaban on the Gran Tesoro while Hawkeye watched and assessed the clash. Elsewhere, Enel faced Ben Beckman, Yasopp, and Lucky Roux as they prevented him from interfering in the captains’ battle.

• Roy, Red Hair, and Scopper Gaban clashed with powerful sword strikes that split the Gran Tesoro into three regions.
• Hawkeye said Red Hair and Scopper Gaban had attacked Roy together because they intended to eliminate him, then noticed Roy’s condition seemed wrong.
• Red Hair demanded to know why Roy was not wielding the Seven Star Sword, and Roy claimed he had forgotten to bring it.
• Ben Beckman and Yasopp warned Enel not to interfere with the captains’ battle, and Enel attacked them with his lightning trident.
• Lucky Roux shielded Ben Beckman and Yasopp from Enel’s lightning, and the two sides settled into a stalemate.

Katakuri, the Beasts Pirates, and Marine officers joined the battle around Roy and the Red Hair Pirates, turning the clash into a chaotic confrontation among major powers. As Momousagi and Chaton attacked, Golden Lion arrived and confronted the Marines.

• Smoothie and Flampé urged Katakuri to help Roy, and Katakuri awakened his Devil Fruit and attacked the Red Hair Pirates.
• Ulysses persuaded Jack not to target Red Hair and instead to help eliminate Roy; Jack charged in and intercepted Katakuri’s attack.
• Chaton and Momousagi decided to join the fight against Roy, with Momousagi promising him a swordsman’s death.
• Golden Lion arrived amid the Marines’ attack and mocked Chaton for being only an Admiral Candidate.

Golden Lion fought Momousagi after defeating Chaton, while the onlookers questioned whether CP0 would intervene. Bazel considered attacking Roy but chose to remain with the Celestial Dragons, and the chapter ended with the author’s note about writing more than planned.

• Golden Lion mocked Chaton and blasted him into the ground with a sword slash.
• Momousagi clashed with Golden Lion and questioned whether he had come to help Nightmare, while Golden Lion hinted that he might cooperate with Nightmare in the future.
• Momousagi reflected that the Marines could not afford to push Nightmare fully into opposition and silently hoped Red Hair would succeed.
• Bazel considered Chaton’s proposal to join the fight after seeing Roy struggle, but decided to stay back and protect the Celestial Dragons.

Bartholomew Kuma joined the fighting at the Golden City, striking the Red Hair Pirates and revealing the strength behind his quiet reputation. As the battle remained chaotic, Hawkeye headed toward the Whitebeard Pirates’ battlefield.

• Kuma removed his gloves and fired a paw-shaped air cannon at the Red Hair Pirates, badly injuring Lucky Roux and narrowly missing Yasopp and Ben Beckman.
• Yasopp opened fire at Kuma but nearly exposed himself to Enel, and Ben Beckman warned him and covered him while Lucky Roux struggled to his feet.
• Ben Beckman questioned Kuma’s reasons for joining the fight, and Kuma said he was acting as a Shichibukai.
• Enel renewed his attack on Ben Beckman and insisted that Nightmare’s strength exceeded the Red Hair Pirates’ expectations.
• Hawkeye walked toward the battlefield where the Whitebeard Pirates were fighting.

Hawkeye entered the battle and drew Jozu away, giving the forces coveting the Dark-Dark Fruit a chance to renew their attacks on the Whitebeard Pirates. The fighting shifted again when Red Hair and Scopper Gaban drove their swords through Roy, leaving Teach worried about facing Red Hair while already badly injured.

• Teach refused to let the Whitebeard Pirates hold the treasure chest, and his brothers rallied around him as they fought off the attacking forces.
• Hawkeye struck at Jozu, who blocked the slash with his diamond body and challenged Hawkeye to test his defense.
• The other forces renewed their pursuit of the Dark-Dark Fruit while Jozu was occupied, and Teach threatened them as Doflamingo and Gild Tesoro attacked him.
• Red Hair and Scopper Gaban drove their swords through Roy, and Teach realized he was in a dangerous position against Red Hair.

As Red Hair and Scopper Gaban appeared to defeat Roy, fighters on both sides debated whether Nightmare had truly fallen, while his allies and observers remained wary. Teach decided to ignite his body’s potential and consume the Dark-Dark Fruit before Roy was defeated.

• The battlefield paused as fighters argued over whether Roy could survive his apparent defeat, then resumed fighting.
• Golden Lion dismissed Chaton’s celebration, while Smoothie, Katakuri, Hawkeye, Enel, Beckman, Kuma, and Bazel each reacted to Roy’s apparent fall.
• Teach decided he had to consume the Dark-Dark Fruit before Red Hair defeated Roy.
• Teach ignited his blood and vitality by pushing his three hearts to their limits, alarming Gild Tesoro and Doflamingo.

Teach defeated Gild Tesoro and sent him plunging into the sea, then used the promise of Tesoro’s 500 billion Beli to draw the other forces away from the Whitebeard Pirates. He obtained and ate the Dark-Dark Fruit, but its power did not manifest as he expected.

• Teach used a devastating punch to smash through Gild Tesoro’s golden defenses and the Golden Ship, sending Tesoro into the sea while leaving himself gravely wounded.
• Teach announced that Tesoro’s 500 billion Beli treasury was unguarded, prompting the rival forces to rush toward it and fight among themselves.
• Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates regrouped as Hawkeye continued attacking Jozu and Doflamingo withdrew from the battle.
• Teach recovered enough to take the Dark-Dark Fruit, dismissing his doubts about its strange aura as nerves.
• Teach swallowed the fruit and shouted in horror when he realized that he had not obtained the power he expected.

Teach discovered that the fruit he had eaten was the Disguise-Disguise Fruit rather than the Dark-Dark Fruit, and his attempt to test its power transformed a crewmate into a cross-dresser. He fainted from rage, leaving the battlefield to wonder how the mix-up had happened.

• Teach denied that his new Devil Fruit could be anything other than the Dark-Dark Fruit and used Dark Water on a crewmate who was also a Devil Fruit user.
• Marco transformed into his Phoenix form and tried to stop Teach from attacking his crewmate.
• Teach's power transformed his crewmate into a cross-dresser, while other onlookers reacted with blood loss, weakness, or dazed fascination.
• The transformed crewmate realized Teach had used the Disguise-Disguise Fruit, which had developed beyond requiring materials and could alter appearances directly.
• Teach recognized that he had eaten a worthless fruit instead of the Dark-Dark Fruit, became enraged, and fainted as the others speculated about the apparent mix-up.

Scopper Gaban revealed that he and Red Hair had studied Roy’s resurrection ability and believed they could exploit its limits. Roy then disclosed that the body they were fighting was only a clone, leaving Red Hair, Scopper Gaban, and the onlookers shaken.

• Scopper Gaban explained that footage of Roy’s early battles had exposed a brief stiffness after resurrection, a limited number of resurrections, and a weakening effect.
• Scopper Gaban declared that Roy’s death was inevitable, while Roy argued that he might have overcome those weaknesses since then.
• Roy revealed that his current body was a clone without resurrection ability, and Red Hair and Scopper Gaban struggled to believe him.
• Roy mocked Scopper Gaban’s understanding of his clone’s strength, while Red Hair realized the body’s aura and Roy’s missing weapon supported the claim.
• Marco, Jozu, and the other onlookers wondered how Roy’s clone could possess strength rivaling a Four Emperor.

Nightmare revealed that even one of his clones could match Red Hair, while Tesoro’s traps and explosives devastated the Golden City and killed many pirates and Celestial Dragons. As Roy’s clone prepared to vanish, he chose to make one final contribution, and Red Hair sensed the danger and fled with Scopper Gaban.

• Teach, Bazel, and the others reacted to Nightmare’s strength, while Hawkeye challenged him to prove himself against the world’s strongest swordsman.
• An explosion engulfed the Golden City, killing many Whitebeard and Red Hair Pirates and reducing the protected Celestial Dragon lords to ash.
• Marco learned from surviving faction leaders that Tesoro had planted traps and explosives throughout the ship’s treasury.
• The pirate crews turned on the surviving faction leaders to punish them for triggering the disaster.
• Roy announced that his clone would make one final contribution, and Red Hair urged Scopper Gaban to run.

Algeron struggled to accept life under the Fantasy Kingdom’s rules, but his childhood friend Isaac urged him to join Nightmare after becoming a devoted follower. After Isaac defeated him in the arena, Algeron began to glimpse the dreams and promises that had transformed his friend.

• Newcomers who defied the Fantasy Kingdom’s ban on killing were captured and punished by the Phantom Sword Pirates, forcing other criminals to obey the rules.
• Algeron met his childhood friend Isaac, who urged him to join Nightmare’s ranks and help make him Pirate King.
• Algeron challenged Isaac to a fight in the arena, where Isaac defeated him in a single move.
• Isaac explained that training in dreams had made him stronger and said Nightmare was developing the Dream Net for communication across the continent.
• Isaac promised that helping Nightmare fulfill his dream would end war, famine, pain, and death, leaving Algeron repeating the words “Fantasy Kingdom.”

Roy explained that he was trying to merge Fantasy Kingdom into his dream and needed a stronger body because his soul could not fully use its power in ordinary bodies. Augustine brought him Theodore, whose body Roy intended to occupy, while Theodore mistook the scene for a conspiracy against Roy.

• Roy told Enel that Black Staff Theodore, a 550-million-Beli pirate, had escaped after losing to them, and Augustine had gone to capture him.
• Roy explained that he planned to merge Fantasy Kingdom into his dream, but until he succeeded, he had to remain on the landmass and sleep most of the time.
• Augustine brought Theodore into the underground palace, where Theodore saw Roy's lifeless body and imagined that Augustine had murdered his captain.
• Roy praised Augustine for bringing the new body, and Theodore realized that Roy was speaking despite appearing dead.

Roy took over Theodore’s body and learned how the clash with the Red Hair Pirates had ended. He ordered a forceful counterattack against Red Hair and heard that Teach had killed Thatch to obtain the Dark-Dark Fruit, while Roy still intended to make Whitebeard his prey.

• Roy’s soul power erased Theodore’s soul and took control of his body, which Roy judged could wield about seventy percent of his combat power.
• Enel told Roy that Red Hair escaped after Scopper Gaban was gravely injured, and the other parties soon left as well.
• Roy ordered Augustine to gather the continent’s troops, ally with the Big Mom Pirate Crew, and summon the underworld kings to crush the Red Hair Pirates.
• Enel reported that Teach killed Thatch, stole the Dark-Dark Fruit, and defected from the Whitebeard Pirates after eating a second Devil Fruit.
• Roy dismissed Teach as a threat and resolved to claim Whitebeard’s Tremor-Tremor Fruit as his final step toward the world’s pinnacle.

Whitebeard responded to Teach’s betrayal and ordered Marco, Jozu, and Vista to bring him back before Ace could confront him alone. Near Alabasta, Vivi’s pursuers kept the Going Merry under cannon fire until Ace appeared and offered Luffy help.

• Marco and Jozu blamed themselves for Teach killing Thatch, but Whitebeard said Teach alone was at fault.
• A crewman reported that Ace had left alone to hunt Teach, and Whitebeard sent Marco, Jozu, and Vista after Teach before Ace could reach him.
• Near Alabasta, Vivi concealed the danger from the Straw Hats as dozens of ships pursued the Going Merry and bombarded it from a distance.
• Nami realized the pursuers were using naval firepower to keep the Straw Hats away, so the crew could only flee.
• Ace leaped onto the Going Merry’s railing and offered Luffy help.

Ace reunited with Luffy and the crew, then Vivi revealed that she was Alabasta’s princess and had been hunted for opposing the Phantom Sword Pirates, who controlled her country under Nightmare’s protection. Vivi asked Ace to help her free Alabasta, leaving him stunned.

• Luffy reunited with Ace, who displayed his Logia fire powers and said he would help Whitebeard become Pirate King.
• Ace sailed off alone to confront the ship following the crew, while Luffy and Vivi trusted that he could handle it.
• After Nami and Luffy pressed her to be honest, Vivi admitted she was Alabasta’s princess and explained that her father still ruled the country.
• Vivi revealed that the Phantom Sword Pirates controlled Alabasta and that the Marines and World Government would not oppose them because their captain Nightmare was a Shichibukai.
• Ace returned after confronting the pursuers, and Vivi asked him to help defeat the Phantom Sword Pirates; Ace reacted in surprise.

Ace explained Nightmare’s enormous strength and warned Vivi and the Straw Hats not to seek help challenging him. The crew learned Nightmare had held a 300 million Beli bounty before entering the Grand Line and was considered one of the world’s strongest men, while Vivi was left discouraged.

• Vivi told the Straw Hats that Nightmare had a 300 million Beli bounty and that she had sought powerful pirates to help defeat him.
• Vivi revealed that Ace had a 550 million Beli bounty, but Ace admitted Nightmare had defeated him twice with little effort.
• Ace explained that Shichibukai bounties stopped increasing after their appointment and that Nightmare’s 300 million Beli bounty dated from his rise to power in North Blue.
• Ace said Nightmare was among the world’s top ten strongest people, was called the man closest to becoming Pirate King, and possessed resurrection abilities.
• Ace warned Vivi that no one would risk assassinating Nightmare without absolute confidence, leaving her dazed and despondent.

Ace explained that Alabasta was controlled by Carrion Vulture, a minor Phantom Sword Pirates officer, and the Straw Hat Pirates fought him to free Vivi’s kingdom. After the battle, Carrion Vulture rose from the rubble and threatened them.

• Ace told Vivi he could not help her get revenge on Nightmare but said freeing Alabasta from the Phantom Sword Pirates might be possible.
• Ace explained that Carrion Vulture, a former pirate with a hundred-million-Beli bounty, controlled Alabasta for Nightmare.
• Luffy, Zoro, and the others grew eager to fight Carrion Vulture after learning about his bounty.
• The Straw Hat Pirates’ three main fighters battered Carrion Vulture until he was buried beneath a collapsing wall and rubble.
• Carrion Vulture rose bloodied from the rubble and threatened the Straw Hat Pirates.

After Luffy defeated Vulture, the Nightmare officer used a miraculous drug to recover and summoned Nightmare Roy. Roy’s appearance trapped several Straw Hat allies in illusions, and Ace warned the crew that looking into Roy’s eyes could leave them imprisoned in an eternal dream.

• Luffy struck Vulture down, and Vivi celebrated while Chopper treated Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji.
• Vulture recovered with Nightmare’s S-3 drug, and Ace explained that it could restore anyone who was still alive.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji prepared to fight Vulture again, but he called for Nightmare Roy instead.
• Ace rushed to stop Vulture, but gray mist formed into a human silhouette as Roy’s power emerged.
• Roy’s eyes trapped Nami, Usopp, Vivi, and Chopper in visions until Ace’s Conqueror’s Haki woke them.
• Ace identified Roy as Nightmare and warned the crew not to look into his eyes.