Chapter Summaries

Vice Admiral Jando learned that pirates had attacked the Dongdong Island base and sent Rear Admiral X. Drake racing to reinforce it. Roy’s crew landed on the island, and Roy fought Rear Admiral Weite, who tried to stall until help arrived.

• Rear Admiral Weite told Vice Admiral Jando that intruders had destroyed the base’s self-destruct mechanism, stolen the chip, and begun attacking the base.
• Vice Admiral Jando ordered Rear Admiral X. Drake to rush to Dongdong Island with the fleet’s strongest fighters, even at the cost of his ship.
• Roy formed the chip with Dream Manifestation and told his crew to handle the four colonels while he faced Rear Admiral Weite.
• Roy’s crew landed on Dongdong Island, where Weite recognized Roy and attacked him with a sword slash.
• Roy and Weite exchanged rapid sword strikes and techniques, and Weite resolved to risk his life while hoping Rear Admiral Drake arrived soon.

Roy fought Rear Admiral Weite, who revealed his Armament and Observation Haki and used medicine to heal his wounds. Roy's crew had already won their battles, and Roy admitted he had been holding back just as reinforcements arrived.

• King watched the battlefield after killing a Headquarters Colonel with a sniper shot.
• Roy overwhelmed Weite, prompting the Rear Admiral to awaken his battle spirit and coat his sword with Armament Haki.
• Weite's Haki-enhanced attack clashed with Roy's sword, but Roy wounded him and recognized that he had also awakened Observation Haki.
• Weite swallowed a capsule that rapidly healed his chest wound, then fought defensively as Roy continued pressing him.
• Roy remarked that Weite's reinforcements had arrived and revealed he had been holding back, while King and Patch confirmed Roy's crew had already finished their battles.

Roy faced Rear Admiral Weite and waited for him to recover, then prepared to fight him and Rear Admiral Drake together. Drake transformed into a dinosaur and joined Weite’s attack, sending Roy flying as he called for the battle to become even more intense.

• Roy explained that he had chosen dangerous battles to force himself to grow stronger, and Weite resolved to kill him before he became a greater threat.
• Drake arrived with Marines and found the island strewn with dead Marines and Weite badly wounded.
• Patch challenged the Marines to fight elsewhere so they would not interfere with Roy and Weite’s battle.
• Weite warned Drake that Roy was fast and skilled in swordsmanship and Observation Haki, and Drake understood that Roy had spared Weite until he could recover.
• After Weite healed, he and Drake attacked Roy together, with Drake transforming into a dinosaur and striking Roy with his tail.
• Roy recovered from the blow and urged his opponents to make the battle even more intense.

Roy fought Witt and Drake under life-or-death pressure, seeking to break through to the Sword Master realm. After realizing that swordsmanship depended on forging Sword Intent from his will and spirit, Roy emerged from the dust as a Sword Master and unleashed Starfall.

• Witt and Drake exploited their simultaneous attacks to force Roy into a brutal battle, leaving his left arm useless while he wounded them in return.
• Xia and Xun prepared to rescue Roy, but King and Kayou held them back and explained that Roy had sealed his memories of resurrection as a safeguard for his breakthrough attempt.
• As Witt and Drake moved in to finish him, Roy realized that Sword Mastery came from pouring his will, spirit, and bearing into his swordsmanship to forge Sword Intent.
• Roy emerged from the dust as a Sword Master, dismissed Witt's doubts, and attacked the two Marines with his Starfall technique.

After defeating and recruiting Drake, Roy sent him back to the Marines as an informant and began organizing his understanding of the Pirate World's power hierarchy. The chapter left Roy with a four-stage, twenty-level scale for judging the strength of allies and enemies.

• Roy confirmed that Drake had been ordered to arrest him, and Drake accepted Roy's control and allegiance.
• Roy told Drake to return to the Marines, report Roy's abilities, and accept a staged injury so his survival would draw less suspicion.
• Roy reflected on whether Drake might act as a double agent but trusted the control of the dream to keep him in line.
• After learning from Weite and Drake's memories, Roy assessed physique, Body Technique, the three types of Haki, and Devil Fruits as measures of strength.
• Roy established four strength stages, from lv1-lv5 through lv16-lv20, and placed major figures and ranks within the scale.

Roy reflected on his new strength and began considering how to put his plans into action. Meanwhile, Captain Tim reached Dongdong Island and found the Navy force annihilated, with Rear Admiral Drake barely alive; Tim withdrew to get Drake urgent treatment.

• Roy reviewed his abilities, steadied his confidence, and decided to make plans before stirring things up.
• Captain Tim learned that the Navy officers had been taken away by Rear Admiral Drake and hurried toward Dongdong Island.
• Tim arrived to find shipwrecks, bloodied seas, and bodies covering the shoreline, then ordered his crew to search for survivors.
• Tim found Rear Admiral Drake gravely wounded but breathing and recognized that a lingering Sword Qi had aggravated Drake's injury.
• Vice Admiral Jando ordered Tim to keep Drake alive and send him for treatment, and Tim withdrew from the island without burying the dead.

After Dongdong Island Base was breached, Vice Admiral Jando urged Sengoku to investigate the North Blue and keep Rear Admiral Drake under watch, while Sengoku ordered martial law to prevent the Revolutionary Army from obtaining the base's information. Across the North Blue, pirates hid from the Marines and speculated that Roy and the Phantom Sword Pirates had caused the crackdown, leaving Roy's fate uncertain.

• Vice Admiral Jando reported that Dongdong Island Base had been breached and proposed investigating the North Blue while monitoring Drake for possible betrayal.
• Sengoku approved Jando's plan, and Garp condemned them for suspecting their own Marines before leaving the office.
• Sengoku ordered martial law throughout the North Blue to keep the base's information from the Revolutionary Army.
• Pirates fled the Marines and sheltered together in a basement as the crackdown spread across the North Blue.
• A pirate with an 8 million Beli bounty claimed the Phantom Sword Pirates and Roy had likely dealt the Marines another major loss, prompting the martial law.

Roy and the Phantom Sword Pirates were surrounded by a thousand ships from an alliance of pirate factions led by the Vinsmoke Family. As Vinsmoke Judge ordered ten thousand cannons to fire on Roy’s ship, Roy activated his Dream Domain: Pseudo-Conqueror’s Haki.

• King sensed hostile intent in the waters, while Roy revealed that his Devil Fruit and Observation Haki had already let him discern the ambush.
• Roy ordered the sails lowered, prompting Vinsmoke Judge to signal the other factions and bring their fleets out of hiding.
• The alliance surrounded Roy’s ship, and King shot dead a pirate captain who mocked Roy.
• Roy dismissed the alliance as trash, and Judge threatened to destroy the ship with ten thousand cannonballs.
• Judge ordered the cannons to fire, but Roy activated Dream Domain: Pseudo-Conqueror’s Haki.

Roy incapacitated most of the enemy fleet with a Devil Fruit ability, then offered the remaining captains a chance to fight his officers and earn their freedom. Yonji volunteered to face the Vinsmoke Family, while Roy considered recruiting Judge for his scientific expertise.

• Roy’s ability knocked nearly one hundred thousand people unconscious, leaving only about thirty powerful pirates and officers standing.
• Judge mistook Roy’s attack for Conqueror’s Haki, but Roy refused to explain his power to an enemy.
• Roy rejected a pirate captain’s plea to join his fleet and told the remaining pirates they could earn their freedom by defeating his officers.
• Patch eagerly welcomed the prospect of more fighting, while Yonji volunteered to take on the Vinsmoke Family.
• Roy questioned whether Yonji could defeat his family and considered Judge’s scientific talents valuable enough to recruit.

Roy’s officers fought the North Blue pirate captains, with Patch overpowering William and Kenkon breaking through Andrew’s vine prison. Andrew was left desperately defending himself as Kenkon pressed his attack, while Roy turned his attention to the other battles.

• Patch chose William as his opponent and blocked the Slaughterer’s battle-axe with his iron fist.
• Patch revealed that Roy had not needed to kill Wild Bull, shaking William’s confidence as Patch drove him back.
• Kenkon challenged Andrew, who used the Plant Fruit to trap him inside a prison of steel-hard vines.
• Kenkon shattered Andrew’s vine prison with Dragon Soaring Flash and launched a relentless sword assault.
• Roy praised the Flying Heaven Sword Style as Andrew struggled to defend himself, then looked toward the other fights.

Xia defeated five pirate captains after transforming into a gigantic flying Zoan, and Roy turned the remaining pirates’ escape into a deadly race hunted by King. Meanwhile, Yonji urged Judge and the other Vinsmokes to submit to Roy, while Ichiji and Niji prepared to confront him.

• Xia ignored the Ogre Captain’s threat, transformed into a gigantic flying Zoan, and cut him in half with her wings.
• Roy offered the remaining pirates a chance to flee by ship, warning that King would shoot anyone who fell behind.
• King killed a pirate captain who tried to negotiate, and the remaining pirates hurried to raise their sails.
• Yonji told Judge and the Vinsmokes to submit to Roy, while Judge condemned Yonji for turning against the family.
• Yonji mocked the Vinsmokes’ claim to divine blood and demanded they submit, as Ichiji and Niji prepared to make him suffer.

Yonji overwhelmed Ichiji, Niji, Judge, and Reiju, revealing the power he gained from Roy and exposing Judge’s fear and desperation. After Roy’s forces defeated the other Germa opponents and surrounded the family, Yonji mocked Judge as his own sons showed no fear of their deaths.

• Yonji crushed Ichiji and Niji’s joint attack and taunted them to keep surviving in misery.
• Reiju searched for an escape while Yonji fought all four Vinsmokes and declared that Roy had given them perfect souls.
• Yonji provoked Judge into attacking, then broke his spear and slammed him into the deck.
• Reiju and the others saw Roy’s fleet surrounding them after the pirate captains and fleeing ships had been defeated.
• Judge broke down over Germa’s defeat, while Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji mocked him for removing their emotions.

Roy persuaded the Vinsmoke Family to join the Phantom Sword Pirates, explaining how he restored Yonji’s emotions and offering the others a path to greater strength in exchange for loyalty. The family accepted, while Xia grew jealous of Reiju.

• Yonji revealed that he had held back against his siblings because he could no longer bring himself to hurt his family, and Reiju realized he had regained his emotions.
• Roy told Judge he would not kill the family, and Judge agreed to serve him for the sake of his scientific research.
• Ichiji and Niji agreed to submit to Roy after he promised he could help them become stronger, and Reiju accepted the arrangement.
• Roy incorporated the Vinsmoke Family into the Phantom Sword Pirates and welcomed them as new companions.
• Xun teased Xia about Reiju, prompting Xia to blush and insist she would not lose to her.

Fleet Admiral Sengoku and the Marines learned that Phantom Sword Roy had defeated Rear Admiral Drake and was a Master Swordsman. As the Phantom Sword Pirates prepared to enter the Grand Line, a CP0 agent offered to handle the threat.

• Sengoku went to the hospital after hearing that Drake had regained consciousness and found Marine vice admirals and a CP0 agent waiting there.
• Drake identified Phantom Sword Roy as the attacker who had defeated him and Rear Admiral Weite at Dongdong Island.
• The vice admirals were shocked to learn Roy was a Master Swordsman, and Jando said the Marines needed to reassess his strength.
• Sengoku revealed that the Phantom Sword Pirates had defeated a pirate coalition, taken over Germa Kingdom's military forces, and were likely to enter the Grand Line soon.
• Sengoku ordered the Marines to raise the pirates' bounties and plan a pursuit for after they entered the Grand Line.
• The CP0 agent offered to handle the incident while the Marines could not pursue the pirates.

The World Government arranged for Donquixote Doflamingo to attack Roy’s Phantom Sword Pirates, and Doflamingo accepted out of interest in Roy. In West Wind Town, Roy’s growing fame drew aspiring crew members and rival fan clubs into a brawl, leaving a young man unable to reveal his intelligence.

• A World Government agent persuaded Sengoku to summon Doflamingo to strike the Phantom Sword Pirates, and Sengoku agreed that the crew had to be dealt with quickly.
• Doflamingo accepted the summons and said he was interested in meeting the rookie pirate Roy.
• Pirates in a West Wind Town bar celebrated Roy and argued over the Lord Roy Fan Club and the Roy Simps.
• Augustine and Solomon’s groups started a fight, and a wooden fragment struck the young man who had been trying to share intelligence about Roy.

A young man warned Augustine and the Phantom Sword Pirates that a vast alliance was attacking Roy, but the pirates dismissed him as a deluded enemy. News soon revealed Roy’s victory and his unprecedented 300 million Beli bounty, leaving the young man convinced he was trapped in a dream as he stabbed himself.

• The young man insulted Roy and the Phantom Sword Pirates, but Augustine and Solomon interpreted his words as praise for Roy.
• The young man revealed that the North Blue’s major pirate crews, the Germa Kingdom, and other forces had united to attack Roy, but the pirates insisted Roy would win.
• A newspaper reported that Roy defeated 100,000 enemies with 5,000 fighters, the Vinsmoke Family joined the Phantom Sword Grand Fleet, and the Germa Kingdom lost its World Government membership.
• The pirates celebrated Roy’s new 300 million Beli bounty while the young man refused to believe the news and decided he was dreaming.
• The young man stabbed himself in an attempt to wake up, baffling the cheering pirates.

News of Roy, the King of the North Blue, receiving a 300 million Beli bounty before entering the Grand Line drew the attention of pirates and powerful figures. As Night Demon Victor headed to challenge him, Crocodile and Dragon also considered what Roy’s bounty meant, leaving his reputation spreading before his arrival.

• Night Demon Victor learned that a newcomer had received a 300 million Beli bounty, killed the messenger who brought the news, and ordered his crew to wait at the entrance to the Grand Line so he could take Roy’s bounty.
• Crocodile complained that inexperienced pirates kept mistaking him for an easy target, and Robin told him about Roy, the King of the North Blue, and his enormous bounty.
• Crocodile became interested in meeting Roy, reasoning that the World Government must have a serious reason to place such a high bounty on him.
• Dragon watched the blond youth train and wondered whether to contact Roy, but suspected the World Government might act before he could.

Roy demonstrated his swordsmanship and discussed with Judge how Pyrobloin from Sea Stone could be used to make medicines that traded life force for strength. Xun showed that she could extract life force from living creatures, giving Judge a promising ingredient to study, though her life-force orbs could not yet exist without her ability.

• Roy used a powerful slash to cut through the landscape, impressing Judge, Reiju, and Kenkon, then praised Black Hand Qi for making a sheath suited to his swordsmanship.
• Roy asked Judge about the research chip, and Judge explained that Pyrobloin could trigger gigantification and violent behavior and might be refined into a short-term strength-enhancing medicine at the cost of lifespan.
• Roy suggested that replenishing life force could reduce the medicine's cost, then summoned a sea fish and handed it to Xun.
• Xun extracted a glowing orb of life force from the fish, leaving only its bones, and Judge recognized it as a possible raw material for several kinds of medicine.
• Judge asked to take the orb for research, but Xun explained it would soon dissipate without her ability, so Roy told Judge to continue studying Lineage Factor and Sea Stone while Xun trained to make the orbs independent.

Roy arrived in West Wind Town, where his presence silenced the crowd, and met Hawkins, who predicted Roy would die that day. Roy rejected fate as something people could control, but Doflamingo appeared and suggested Roy’s growth could change the seas.

• Roy and the Phantom Sword Pirates docked at West Wind Town, and the crowd fell silent as they entered town.
• Roy discussed his lack of Conqueror's Haki with Reiju and noticed Hawkins sitting beneath the town fountain.
• Roy asked Hawkins to divine his fate, and Hawkins predicted that Roy would die that day.
• Roy's Senior Executives threatened Hawkins, but Roy stopped them and declared that strong people could seize control of their fate.
• Doflamingo appeared, praised Roy, and warned that Roy's growth could change the structure of the seas.

Donquixote Doflamingo arrived in West Wind Town with Bellamy and offered Roy a place in the Donquixote Family. Roy refused and prepared to face Doflamingo alone, leaving his crew to watch as the two old and new North Blue powers stood against each other.

• Doflamingo arrived with his officers and attendants, holding the battered Bellamy, while Roy recognized him as the Shichibukai he expected to face.
• Roy's subordinates formed around Doflamingo as some pirates fled West Wind Town and others stayed to witness the confrontation.
• Doflamingo revealed that the World Government had ordered Roy's death and offered to make him a Senior Executive in the Donquixote Family.
• Roy refused to join Doflamingo and declared that he would not kneel, prompting Doflamingo to threaten him.
• Roy ordered his subordinates to retreat and face Doflamingo alone, while Augustine and Solomon praised his apparent devotion to his crew.