Chapter Summaries

Yota and his allies defeated Mr. 1 and Miss Doublefinger, extracted their Devil Fruits, and learned that a Shichibukai led Baroque Works. Princess Vivi revealed that her guard Karmite had been captured by someone impersonating her father, leaving the group to pursue the conspiracy in Alabasta.

• Yota confronted Mr. 1 and Miss Doublefinger after finding Princess Vivi injured, while Kyros defeated Mr. 1 with a single slash.
• Violet restrained Miss Doublefinger, and Yota extracted the Dice-Dice Fruit and Spike-Spike Fruit from the agents.
• Yota ordered Violet to search the unconscious Mr. 1's memories, and she discovered that a Shichibukai was behind Baroque Works.
• Princess Vivi recognized the mastermind as the supposed hero who had driven pirates from Alabasta, while Violet suspected the Shichibukai of disguising their schemes.
• Princess Vivi told Yota that Karmite had been captured by someone impersonating her father.

Yota split the group, healed Vivi, and flew with her and Karu to Rain Dinners to confront Crocodile. After sensing Yota’s immense Haki, Crocodile realized someone had found him, and Yota appeared before him.

• Yota sent Violet and Kyros to find the controlled King and gave Violet a Flying Thunder God Den Den Mushi, then took the injured Vivi to Crocodile’s base.
• Yota healed Vivi and flew with her and Karu, who was terrified of heights, toward Rain Dinners.
• Yota and Vivi arrived at Rain Dinners, one of the few cities spared by Alabasta’s drought.
• Yota sensed Crocodile with his Haki while Crocodile fed his Banana Gator.
• Crocodile detected Yota’s immense Observation Haki, and Yota appeared before him in a flash of lightning.

Yota swiftly defeated and captured Crocodile, then brought Princess Vivi to reunite with Nefertari Cobra after the Baroque Works plot was foiled. He left Nico Robin with a suggestion to seek out the Revolutionary Army and ended the chapter at a celebratory banquet, having mistakenly called the king Koza.

• Yota disarmed Crocodile and pulled him into Dark Space with the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Yota told Nico Robin that the Revolutionary Army shared her ideals, then left her with a fading Flying Thunder God Mark on her neck.
• Yota told Princess Vivi that Crocodile was defeated and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take her to the others.
• Violet reported that the group had caught the man impersonating the King and several senior Baroque Works agents.
• Vivi reunited with Nefertari Cobra, and Yota mistakenly called him King Koza before Violet corrected him.
• Nefertari Cobra overlooked Yota's mistake and celebrated their victory with a banquet.

After leaving Alabasta, Yota focused on strengthening himself and accelerating artificial Devil Fruit research before his expected conflict with the World Government. At Punk Hazard, he set Caesar and Queen to produce Human-Human Fruits and arranged new Flying Thunder God routes across the Grand Line.

• Yota left Alabasta after making it rain across the country, giving Vivi a fused Spike-Spike and Shove-Shove Fruit and leaving Baroque Works' captured criminals behind.
• Yota planned to infiltrate Impel Down with a fused Clear-Clear and Imitation Fruit to obtain more Devil Fruits, while also advancing the artificial Devil Fruit plan to hasten the Chakra Fruit's maturation.
• Yota used Flying Thunder God to bring Chopper to Punk Hazard and ordered Caesar, Queen, and the other researchers to create artificial Human-Human Fruits.
• Caesar explained that ordinary Human-Human Fruits could enhance the human body and would be safer to produce, and Yota promised to provide a Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit to improve their research.
• Yota gave his subordinates Flying Thunder God Den Den Mushi for Dressrosa, Wano Country, the Whitebeard Pirates, and the Big Mom Pirates, and fused two Snake-Snake Fruits into an Eight-Headed Serpent Fruit.

Yota searched Cocoyasi Village for Nami and found the Arlong Pirates’ fish-men approaching. He took village guard A-Ken into the sky and killed two fish-men, leaving A-Ken shaken.

• Yota searched for Luffy to study the Artificial Nika Fruit, then went to Cocoyasi Village after learning Luffy and Zoro had left the Marine base.
• Yota waited in an orange grove, unable to find Nami, until A-Ken confronted him and warned him to leave Arlong Pirates territory.
• Yota sensed fish-men heading toward the village and carried A-Ken into the sky using the Super Light-Weight Rock Technique.
• Yota used the Reincarnation Rinnegan’s gravity power to accelerate, then dropped wooden spikes that skewered two fish-men approaching Cocoyasi Village.
• A-Ken saw the dead fish-men below and trembled in fear.

Yota and A-Ken flew to Arlong Park, where Yota destroyed the Arlong Pirates and freed Cocoyasi Village from their control. After landing, Yota left the remaining fish-men and sea beasts on the shore for A-Ken and the villagers to handle.

• Yota persuaded A-Ken that Arlong's fish-men had no effective way to attack them in the air, then flew with him to Arlong Park.
• Yota unleashed the Great Dragon Fire Technique, burning the park and killing many fish-men while boiling others in the ponds.
• Yota used gravity to pull surviving fish-men from the ponds, then killed Arlong and the rest with Water Severing Wave.
• A-Ken vomited at the sight of the carnage, and Yota extinguished the flames and removed the smell with cold air.
• Yota sensed fish-men and sea beasts on the shore and left them for A-Ken and the villagers; A-Ken bowed and thanked him for saving Cocoyasi Village.

Nami returned to Cocoyasi Village and discovered that Yota had defeated Arlong and his officers, freeing the villagers. After reuniting with Nojiko and celebrating with the village, she told Yota about Luffy and the others and worried about her former companions.

• Nami returned to Cocoyasi Village and found the villagers holding a banquet beside the heads of Arlong and his officers.
• Nojiko welcomed Nami home, and the villagers told her they had seen her efforts to protect them.
• Nami joined the celebration and learned that the villagers understood why she had joined the Arlong Pirates.
• At the harbor, Nami thanked Yota for saving the village and told him the story of the Going Merry and her companions.
• Nami became tearful as she recalled leaving Luffy and the others, and Yota predicted they would come looking for her.

Yota told Nami about the Straw Hats’ unusual family backgrounds, leaving her worried that they might not come for her. After four days, Luffy and the others reached Cocoyasi Village, welcomed Nami back, and prepared to celebrate her rejoining the crew.

• Yota explained the Straw Hats’ family backgrounds to Nami and reassured her that they would have defeated the Arlong Pirates and come for her.
• Nami spent four anxious days waiting in Cocoyasi Village, fearing the Straw Hats would not return for her.
• Luffy, Usopp, Sanji, and the badly injured Zoro arrived near Orange Island aboard a battered boat and spotted the Going Merry.
• Luffy launched himself onto the Going Merry and told Nami he had come to find her.
• Nami explained that she had planned to buy Cocoyasi Village back from the Arlong Pirates, and Luffy said he believed in her.
• Nami rejoined the crew, offered nearly 100 million Beli for a celebration, and asked what had happened to them while she was away.

Nami learned that the Straw Hat crew had powerful family ties and hidden identities, leaving her wondering if she was the only ordinary member. After Sanji revealed his connection to Germa 66, the crew and Cocoyasi villagers celebrated together with Yota.

• Nami learned that Ryuma had fought Hawkeye at the Sea Restaurant, leaving Zoro badly injured by the battle’s shockwaves.
• Nami discovered that Luffy was Navy Hero Garp’s grandson, and Luffy said he had become a pirate to become Pirate King.
• Nami showed Usopp a wanted poster revealing that his father, Yasopp, was a Red Hair Pirates officer with a 950 million Beli bounty.
• Nami asked Sanji whether he had a special background, and Sanji revealed that he was a member of Germa 66.
• The Straw Hat Pirates held another banquet, inviting Yota and the villagers of Cocoyasi.

Yota brought the Straw Hat Pirates to Punk Hazard, where Queen and Caesar had developed mature Artificial Human-Human Fruits with yellow fur as a side effect. The crew found Chopper in the laboratory, and Nami realized he was the doctor Yota had promised to introduce.

• Luffy asked Yota to join the Straw Hat Pirates, but Yota said he had already joined Ace's crew and told Luffy about Ace and Shanks.
• Yota offered to take the Straw Hat Pirates to meet an interesting doctor and brought them to Punk Hazard with the Flying Thunder God.
• Queen and Caesar showed Yota their Artificial Human-Human Fruit test subjects, whose bodies had grown yellow fur, and Yota suggested shaving it.
• Yota introduced Luffy as a test subject for research on the Nika Fruit and persuaded him with the promise of unlimited meat after blood tests.
• Nami asked about the ship's doctor, and Chopper emerged from beneath a table and explained that he was a reindeer who had eaten the Human-Human Fruit.

Yota infiltrated Impel Down and harvested Devil Fruits from prisoners across its first five levels before entering the Sixth Level, where he killed a slave trader and took his Ancient Zoan Tyrannosaurus Rex Fruit. Meanwhile, Luffy invited Chopper to join the crew, and the group left Punk Hazard for East Blue.

• Luffy invited Chopper to travel with the crew, and Chopper accepted after asking whether the ship had ferocious carnivores.
• After a few days on Punk Hazard, Luffy and the others returned to East Blue by Flying Thunder God teleportation as Yota's Wood Clone ran low on Chakra.
• Yota used his real body and an invisible Imitation Fruit to infiltrate Impel Down and take Devil Fruits from prisoners on the first five levels.
• Yota entered the Sixth Level, where the prisoners were individually confined in Sea Stone cells and their disappearances would be noticed.
• Yota teleported into a slave trader's cell, extracted his Ancient Zoan Tyrannosaurus Rex Fruit, and killed him.

Yota plundered powerful Devil Fruits from prisoners on Impel Down’s Sixth Level while Magellan and the prison staff reacted to his intrusion. After Red Count urged him to free non-Devil Fruit users and kill the rest, Yota refused to release anyone and took Bullet’s Combine-Combine Fruit.

• Sadie told Magellan that Yota had invaded Impel Down, and Shiryu had warned that he could not defeat Yota alone.
• Yota absorbed the frozen World Destroyer and collected several powerful Devil Fruits from Sixth Level prisoners.
• Red Count explained that Impel Down had been built to keep dangerous Devil Fruits from returning to the seas, and he and Bullet realized the World Government might kill prisoners whose fruits had been taken.
• Red Count deduced that Yota was not working for the World Government and urged him to free prisoners without Devil Fruit powers while killing the others.
• Yota refused to release the prisoners and extracted Bullet’s Combine-Combine Fruit, saying he could escape Impel Down alone.

Yota confronted Shiryu of the Rain and Magellan as he tried to leave Impel Down, overpowering Shiryu with a single punch before facing both men. He froze Magellan’s Poison Giant and venom dragons with an extreme cold technique, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Yota encountered Shiryu of the Rain and Magellan, who blocked his path with a line of Impel Down soldiers.
• Shiryu charged Yota with Raiu, but Yota’s punch sent him crashing through a stone wall.
• Magellan ordered the guards to retreat, and Shiryu took a rare antidote before preparing to fight alongside him.
• Magellan unleashed his Poison Giant and venom dragons as Shiryu charged Yota through the poison.
• Yota used Ice Release—Extreme Storm to freeze Magellan’s venom attacks and Shiryu in place.

Yota defeated Shiryu of the Rain, captured Magellan and the Venom-Venom Fruit, then returned to Dressrosa with Violet. After Violet reunited with King Riku, Yota reviewed intelligence about the New World and learned how the major pirate crews had changed.

• Shiryu of the Rain refused to surrender, so Yota killed him with a punch that blasted through his chest.
• Yota absorbed Magellan and the Poison Giant into Dark Space, then removed Magellan and took the Venom-Venom Fruit before leaving Impel Down.
• Violet returned to Dressrosa, where royal guards escorted her to King's Heights while Charlotte Pudding learned that Violet had once been a princess.
• Violet found Doflamingo handling government documents while King Riku served him tea, and King Riku explained that he was learning from Doflamingo.
• Yota ordered Doflamingo to provide New World intelligence and learned that the Beasts Pirates had become subdued, the Whitebeard Pirates were growing stronger, and the Big Mom Pirates had fallen into decline.

Yota planned to have Charlotte Pudding challenge Charlotte Linlin and take command of the Charlotte Family, while preparing her for a battle against an Emperor-level opponent. The chapter ended with Pudding asking whether Yota himself had ever faced a life-or-death battle.

• Yota suspected the Marines were secretly preparing an operation against the Whitebeard Pirates and resolved to respond when it came.
• Yota asked Charlotte Pudding if she could defeat Charlotte Linlin and offered her command of the Charlotte Pirates if she did.
• Charlotte Pudding grew tempted by the idea of returning to the Charlotte Family as its leader, despite her fear of her mother.
• Yota promised to train Pudding through intense real combat before the Charlotte Family gathering, explaining that she needed experience against opponents of her level.
• Pudding asked Yota whether he had ever gone through a life-or-death battle, and Yota recalled that his past fights had not truly been that desperate.

Yota trained Charlotte Pudding until her strength grew enough to challenge Charlotte Linlin and claim leadership of the Charlotte Family. Pudding arrived at Cake Island and declared her challenge, but Katakuri stood in her way.

• Yota forced Pudding into brutal training, healing her with the Munch-Munch Fruit and secretly modifying her body to resemble Charlotte Linlin.
• Yota told Pudding she was strong enough to defeat Linlin, and she asked him to stay hidden while she confronted her family alone.
• Pudding transformed into a vampire and flew to Cake Island beneath strange dark clouds as the Charlotte Family gathered.
• Katakuri recognized Pudding, whose newfound power stunned him and the Sweet Four Generals.
• Pudding attacked several Sweet Four Generals with her three-eyed powers, aged them, and declared that she would become the Charlotte Family's new leader.
• Pudding demanded to face Linlin, but Katakuri challenged her to prove herself first.

Charlotte Pudding defeated Katakuri’s attempt to stop her and challenged Charlotte Linlin for leadership of the Charlotte Pirates. As their battle drained Linlin’s strength and aged her, Pudding summoned a second Susanoo and declared the real fight was beginning.

• Charlotte Pudding wounded Katakuri with her absorption ability, and he stepped aside while warning her to be careful.
• Charlotte Pudding entered Cake Castle and told Charlotte Linlin she intended to replace her as Captain of the Charlotte Pirates.
• Charlotte Linlin attacked Pudding with Napoleon, and they fought in the sky as their battle damaged Cake Island.
• Pudding used the Vampire Fusion Fruit and Mangekyo Sharingan to drain Linlin, leaving her exhausted and with white hair.
• Charlotte Pudding raised a dark Susanoo from the ground and told Linlin that the battle was only truly beginning.

Charlotte Pudding defeated Charlotte Linlin and took command of the Charlotte Pirates, while Yota strengthened himself with the Chakra Fruit and learned upgraded ninjutsu. After returning to the Pirate World, he learned the World Government was preparing to capture Ace and Yamato and concluded that Imu could not leave Mary Geoise because of a powerful, flawed trump card.

• Charlotte Pudding defeated Charlotte Linlin, awakened Conqueror's Haki, and declared herself captain of the Charlotte Pirates.
• Within days, Charlotte Pudding brought the Charlotte Family under her command, while Yota gained control of the forces of three Four Emperors Pirate Crews.
• Yota harvested and ate the Chakra Fruit, doubling his Chakra and expecting it to triple after full digestion.
• Yota learned an upgraded Dead Demon Consuming Seal and trained in the Naruto World before returning to the Pirate World.
• Yota learned from Stussy that the Three Admirals, two admiral candidates, and CP0 agents were preparing to capture Ace and Yamato.
• Violet suggested Imu's trump card could not be moved, and Yota concluded that Imu could not leave Mary Geoise.

Yota realized Imu could not easily leave Mary Geoise, making him more willing to act aggressively. Meanwhile, Aokiji and Vice Admiral Chaton Tokikake moved to capture Ace and Yamato as bait for Yota, and Aokiji froze the sea around them.

• Yota concluded that Imu had not pursued him because Imu could not leave Mary Geoise, and he decided he could act more aggressively.
• Ace and Yamato trained aboard the Whitebeard Pirates’ ship and spotted a Marine fleet approaching.
• Aokiji and Chaton Tokikake revealed that their mission was to capture Ace and Yamato to draw out Yota.
• Aokiji unleashed Ice Age and froze the sea, while Yamato transformed and formed a small island with her own freezing breath.

The Marines captured Ace and Yamato after ambushing them with a powerful force, then tried to transport them through the Calm Belt. Violet discovered the hidden fleet, and Yota intercepted it as a vast storm raced toward the ships.

• Ace and Yamato used Sky Rift to split the Ice Continent, but Akainu, Aokiji, Kizaru, and the Marines overwhelmed and captured them.
• A CP0 agent used the Mirage Fruit to conceal the Marine fleet as it departed with the prisoners.
• Violet spotted the fleet with her combined vision abilities, and Yota flew with her toward the Calm Belt.
• Kizaru noticed unusual wind and the Marines saw dark clouds rushing toward their fleet.
• Akainu launched Volcanic Meteor at the approaching clouds.