Chapter Summaries

Scopper Gaban took the Forbidden Medicine and launched a desperate attack on Roy, but Roy's superior Observation Haki and techniques exposed Gaban's lack of control. After Shanks saved Gaban from a near-fatal strike, Roy wounded him and dismissed him as no longer a serious threat.

• Scopper Gaban took the Forbidden Medicine and declared that he would stop Roy, while Roy rejected Gaban's ideals and claimed the era for himself.
• Scopper Gaban used his enhanced speed to attack Roy, but Roy evaded the strike and sent the Seven Star Sword at him.
• Shanks struck the Seven Star Sword away, giving Scopper Gaban time to escape its point.
• Roy hit Scopper Gaban in the abdomen with a Flying Finger Sword and sent him flying hundreds of meters.
• Scopper Gaban recognized that Roy's earlier attacks had been a feint, and Roy explained that Gaban could not control his enhanced power and was now easier to defeat.

Scopper Gaban and Red Hair joined forces against Roy, but Roy's mental attack and the Seven Star Sword overwhelmed them. As Roy impaled Scopper Gaban, the legendary pirate warned Shanks to run, leaving the battlefield stunned by his apparent defeat.

• Red Hair encouraged Scopper Gaban to keep fighting, and the two tried to attack Roy together.
• Roy evaded Red Hair's strike and blasted Scopper Gaban away when their swords clashed.
• Roy's mental shockwave left Scopper Gaban dazed, allowing Roy to approach while Red Hair was knocked aside.
• Red Hair used his Conqueror's Haki to awaken Scopper Gaban, but Roy's Seven Star Sword pierced his chest and began draining his life.
• Scopper Gaban recognized his last chance and shouted for Shanks to run as the battlefield witnessed him impaled in midair.

Scopper Gaban used a suicide attack against Roy after revealing that the One Piece truly existed, but his final warning suggested Roy had anticipated the attack. The explosion engulfed the battlefield, leaving everyone waiting to learn whether Roy had survived and what Red Hair would do.

• Rayleigh tried to reach Scopper Gaban, but Crocodile and Enel trapped and confronted him while Hawkeye withdrew from the battle.
• Roy impaled Scopper Gaban, who claimed that the One Piece existed and then charged into Roy's blade, wrapping himself around him to trigger a suicide attack.
• Red Hair cried out for Scopper Gaban to stop as the fighting across the sea paused and the onlookers watched the two men in the sky.
• Scopper Gaban sensed a familiar aura from Roy and screamed for everyone to run before his body unleashed a devastating explosion.
• The blast sent enormous tsunamis across the sea, and the survivors waited to see whether Roy had survived and how Red Hair would respond.

Red Hair withdrew from the battle after Scopper Gaban sacrificed himself, and Kaido soon ordered the Beasts Pirates to retreat as well. The Marines debated attacking Roy while he was weakened, but Kizaru reported that Roy had already recovered before his surveillance feed went dark.

• Kizaru watched the battle from the clouds while Garp, Sengoku, and Akainu urged him to stay safe and report what he saw.
• Red Hair trusted Scopper Gaban’s warning and ordered the Red Hair Pirates to retreat, leaving his allies stunned.
• Kaido angrily condemned Red Hair, then withdrew with the Beasts Pirates.
• Roy reflected on his imperfect disguise as Scopper Gaban vanished and Roy appeared gravely injured after the explosion.
• At Marine G-1 Branch, Chaton, Onigumo, Mole, and Doberman argued over whether the Marines should attack Roy and whether to cooperate with Kaido and Red Hair.
• Kizaru revealed that Roy had fully recovered and joined the fight, then warned that he had been discovered before his image feed went black.

Marine leaders debated whether to attack Nightmare after his forces defeated two Four Emperors, but feared his strength and suspected he had staged his apparent weakness. Kizaru reported that Nightmare had seriously injured him, and Sengoku decided the Marines should wait for the Pacifista Project while expanding their power in the New World.

• Sengoku failed to reach Kizaru and discussed the risks of attacking Nightmare with the other Marine leaders.
• Chaton urged the Marines to act, but Aokiji, Drake, Yamakaji, and Vice Admiral Tsuru warned that Nightmare might be luring them into a trap.
• Kizaru called the Marines, explained that he had underestimated Nightmare and been seriously injured, and said he had escaped by unleashing his life potential.
• Akainu advised waiting until the Science Unit completed the Pacifista Project before moving against Nightmare.
• Sengoku concluded that the Marines should exploit the weakened Red Hair and Beasts Pirates to establish their power in the New World.

Roy reviewed the devastating losses suffered by the Red Hair and Beasts Pirates and welcomed the chance to face Kaido over Drought Jack. Meanwhile, Whitebeard judged Roy’s ambition a threat but thought the World Government and its allies would stop him, while Shanks warned the rulers of Mariejois that Roy aimed to take the world itself.

• Robin reported that Shanks, Ben Beckman, and Lucky Roux had escaped, while Kaido and Wind Ulysses fled, Drought Jack was captured, and Ice Nicholas’s fate remained unknown.
• Roy ordered Drought Jack brought to his Royal Palace, eager for Kaido to come rescue him.
• Whitebeard dismissed his crew’s panic, saying Roy could become a Four Emperor but would face the Marines, the World Government, and his allies if he pushed further.
• Shanks met with the rulers in the Hall of Authority and warned that Roy’s true goal was the world, not the Pirate King’s title.
• The rulers said Roy would be the next light erased from history, while Shanks cautioned them not to underestimate his rapid growth.

After surviving the Knock-Up Stream, Luffy and his crew reached Sky Island and explored Angel Island, where Conis explained that outsiders who refused to stay faced a horrifying punishment. Luffy rejected the island’s comfortable life without freedom, but immediately choked on his food, leaving his crew unimpressed.

• Nami, Usopp, Vivi, and the others recovered aboard the ship and spotted Heaven’s Gate beneath the clouds.
• Luffy and the crew sailed through the clouds, landed on Sky Island, and marveled at its cloud beach and strange plants.
• Nami noticed music nearby, and the crew met Conis, who played her harp.
• At Conis’s home, Conis explained that outsiders who refused to settle on Sky Island could be sentenced to Drifting Cloud Punishment.
• Luffy denounced the island’s lack of freedom and declared that pirates were the freest people in the world, then began choking on his food.

Conis told Luffy and his crew that the god had ended a centuries-long war and brought peace to Sky Island, explaining why its people revered him. After learning that the god and his guards came from the sea below and had formidable bounties, the crew feared they were facing a powerful New World pirate and considered sneaking away.

• Luffy proposed defeating the god, but Conis warned the crew not to speak against him and explained that he had ended the war between Angel Island and the Shandia People five years earlier.
• Sanji learned that the god had come from the Blue Sea, and Vivi and Nami acknowledged why the Sky Island people respected his rule.
• Luffy gave up on fighting the god but declared that he would return to the sea and become the Pirate King.
• Conis revealed that the members of God's Guard had all held bounties of at least a hundred million Beli when they were pirates.
• Zoro suggested the god might have come from the New World, and Usopp, Nami, and Chopper urged the crew to retreat quietly.

Conis explained how Luffy and his crew could return from Sky Island, warning them that the safest route required joining God's Guard and waiting for its annual rotation. After seeing God's Temple atop the Giant Vine, the crew agreed to stay for the selection and explore Sky Island while they searched for the Golden Land and avoided Nightmare's pursuit.

• Conis warned Luffy and his crew against opposing the gods and described God's Guard and the angels said to protect God's Temple.
• Conis explained that the crew could return to the Blue Sea either by joining God's Guard or by making a dangerous descent from the End of the Clouds using an Octopus Balloon.
• Conis told the crew that Octopus Balloons were controlled by God's Temple and led them outside to see the temple atop the Giant Vine.
• Conis urged the crew to join the next God's Guard selection, which would take place in a little over a month.
• Nami, Usopp, and Vivi persuaded Luffy to wait, avoid Nightmare's forces, and use their time to search for the Golden Land, so Luffy agreed to begin their Sky Island adventure.

Vivi realized that the god of Sky Island was likely Nightmare, captain of the Phantom Sword Pirates, and warned the crew they had entered enemy territory. The crew decided to steal the Octopus Balloon rather than risk meeting Nightmare, but Conis arrived with news that Luffy had been captured by God's Guard.

• Vivi warned the crew that the Phantom Sword Pirates' captain, Nightmare, was likely the god of Sky Island.
• The crew panicked after realizing they had been living in Nightmare's territory and might encounter him when God's Guard rotated.
• Zoro proposed stealing the Octopus Balloon to escape Sky Island, and the crew agreed that facing God's Guard was better than confronting Nightmare.
• Conis arrived and announced that the lords of God's Guard had captured Luffy.

After learning Luffy could be bailed out with a fine, the Straw Hats followed a divine guard to the Sky Island police station. Luffy revealed he owed 100 million Aegus Coins, equal to 100 million Beli, and Nami abandoned the rescue.

• Conis told Zoro and the others that Luffy had been arrested after a fight and could be released by paying a fine.
• Nami persuaded a divine guard to lead the group toward the police station near God's Temple.
• The group found Luffy behind Sea Stone bars, and a guard released the other battered prisoners after someone paid their 100 billion Aegus Coin fine.
• A divine guard told the Straw Hats that Luffy's fine was 100 million Aegus Coins, and Luffy explained that he had caused far more damage than the other prisoners.
• Nami learned that the fine equaled 100 million Beli and declared that the crew had no money before turning to leave.

After learning that newspapers reported Shanks’s defeat and Yasopp’s death in the Red Hair Pirates’ battle against Nightmare, Luffy and Usopp vowed to act. The Straw Hats agreed to steal the Octopus Balloon from God's Temple and return to the sea to help Shanks.

• Luffy explained that he had attacked the pirates because they insulted Shanks, and Vivi brought newspapers reporting the Red Hair Pirates’ defeat by Nightmare.
• Luffy tore up the papers and cried that their reports about Shanks were lies.
• Usopp found Yasopp’s name on the Red Hair Pirates’ casualty list and vowed to become stronger and take revenge on Nightmare.
• Luffy begged the crew to help him return to the sea, and the Straw Hats agreed to steal the Octopus Balloon from God's Temple.
• Usopp told the crew he would no longer hold them back.

The Straw Hats planned to use the God King Festival to draw God's Guard away from God's Temple and break into the sanctuary. As the Dream Prayer began, Usopp detonated the bombs and sent a shockwave through Upper Yard.

• Vivi explained that God's Guard had fifty members and identified Wiper as its powerful captain.
• The crew assigned tasks for their infiltration, planning to use a controlled disturbance during the festival while avoiding harm to ordinary people.
• Two days later, Luffy, Nami, Sanji, Vivi, Chopper, Zoro, and Usopp hid near God's Temple during the God King Festival.
• Sanji explained that interrupting the Dream Prayer would provoke God's Guard into responding to the disturbance.
• As the festival crowd prayed silently, Sanji gave the signal and Usopp detonated the bombs, shaking the land and sending debris into the sky.

Luffy and his friends were discovered while trying to sneak into God's Temple and fought Wyper and the God's Soldiers. The battle left Luffy pinned down by Wyper, while the weakling quartet unexpectedly defeated their pursuer.

• Luffy's crew planned to slip past the God's Soldiers guarding God's Temple, while Wyper and the Shandia Warriors argued over whether to reinforce the temple or secure the God King Festival.
• Wyper detected the crew with Observation Haki and blasted them out of hiding, then accused Conis of betrayal and threatened to execute her.
• Luffy challenged Wyper, but Wyper's powerful attack sent him over the edge of the Cloud Layer before Luffy caught himself and launched a counterattack.
• Zoro and Sanji engaged eight God's Soldiers as the weakling quartet fled from another, and their accidental combination attack eliminated their pursuer.

Nami’s group lured Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji into God's Temple by bombing it while they retreated from Wyper and the God's Guards. Inside, the crew resolved to find the Octopus Balloon and save Conis, but a mysterious voice began speaking to Vivi.

• Usopp and the others celebrated defeating a God's Guard while Zoro and Sanji struggled against the remaining guards.
• Nami led Vivi, Usopp, and Chopper to bomb God's Temple, distracting the God's Guards and helping Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji retreat toward it.
• Wyper provoked Luffy by threatening Conis, but Nami persuaded Luffy to enter God's Temple by reminding him that Shanks needed his help.
• Wyper refused to let the God's Guards enter God's Temple, claiming they had no right to go inside, and ordered them to leave.
• Inside the temple, Vivi urged the group to find the Octopus Balloon and save Conis, but a strange voice whispered to her as the others heard nothing.

The Straw Hats and Vivi wandered through the endless God's Temple labyrinth until Perona appeared and revealed that previous intruders had died after losing hope. Vivi suggested smashing through the Other Dimension Labyrinth, but Perona said her captain had made it inescapable.

• Luffy led the group through the seemingly endless, eerie corridors while Nami, Usopp, Chopper, and Vivi grew increasingly frightened.
• Vivi felt someone bump into her from behind, screamed, and insisted a ghost had touched her, though Nami saw no one there.
• Luffy pointed out Perona floating before them with a wine-red umbrella, startling Nami, Usopp, and Chopper.
• Perona said earlier intruders had died after failing to find the exit and succumbing to despair in the Other Dimension Labyrinth.
• Vivi recalled Nightmare's Other Dimension Labyrinth and suggested breaking through it by force, prompting Nami and the others to agree.
• Perona said her captain had personally created the labyrinth and that even Ace could not escape it.

The Straw Hats failed to break the Other Dimension Labyrinth and could not land a blow on Perona, whose Negative Hollows left them despairing. Usopp resisted the ghosts and frightened Perona into fleeing, leaving his crew to wonder whether his boasts about his strength were true.

• Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Usopp, and Chopper attacked the labyrinth wall, but it remained intact and the recoil sent them crashing into the opposite wall.
• Zoro realized that the labyrinth dispersed attacks throughout its structure, and the crew decided to capture Perona instead.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji tried to attack Perona, but their strikes passed through her ghostly body.
• Perona's Negative Hollows made Luffy, Sanji, Nami, Zoro, and Chopper sink into despair.
• Usopp resisted the Negative Hollows and fired at Perona, who mistook him for a top-tier fighter and fled through a wall.
• Usopp helped the crew recover, and they wondered whether his claims about once commanding 8,000 subordinates were true.

After becoming trapped in the Other Dimension Labyrinth, Vivi decided they should abandon careful navigation and rely on Zoro’s terrible sense of direction. Zoro led the crew to the exit, but they ended the chapter brawling in front of the door.

• The crew spent hours wandering the labyrinth until Vivi admitted her memory of its crossroads had become unreliable.
• Vivi suggested that Luffy’s intuition might help them escape, but his route brought them back to their starting point.
• Vivi proposed that Zoro’s inability to navigate normally could make him immune to the labyrinth’s misleading patterns, and the crew asked him to lead them.
• Zoro led everyone to a shimmering door in five minutes, and the crew celebrated before their teasing provoked him into a brawl.

Luffy and the others reached a star-filled chamber and faced Lucifer, a Fallen Angel guarding God's Temple, whose overwhelming power quickly defeated Sanji and Luffy. Zoro stood against Lucifer's black firestorm to protect the others and collapsed after charging into the flames.

• Luffy and the others entered a domed chamber filled with books and starlight, where Lucifer appeared and identified itself as God's creation and the guardian of God's Temple.
• Lucifer struck Sanji into a bookshelf, and Luffy charged at it in anger but was hurled back onto Sanji, knocking him unconscious.
• Zoro stepped forward to face Lucifer and provoked it by questioning whether its creator was truly a god.
• Lucifer unleashed a hurricane of black flames, and Zoro chose not to dodge so he could protect Sanji, Nami, and the others.
• Zoro charged through the fire with the resolve of the Path of Asura, then collapsed without having retreated.

Luffy unleashed a tremendous burst of power and blasted Lucifer through the wall of God's Temple, but the damage caused the temple to collapse. The Straw Hats fell toward the sea as Zoro and Sanji lay critically injured.

• Chopper found Zoro's heartbeat weak and warned that he would die without treatment, while Luffy charged Lucifer in rage.
• Lucifer struck Luffy, but Sanji kicked him out of the way and was pierced through the chest by Lucifer's greatsword.
• Luffy awakened Conqueror's Haki and punched Lucifer through the wall of God's Temple, sending him flying toward the sea.
• Chopper treated Sanji and reported that Zoro's burns covered more than seventy percent of his body, leaving his recovery uncertain.
• Vivi realized Luffy's blow had compromised the structure of God's Temple, which collapsed and sent the Straw Hats falling toward the sea.