Chapter Summaries

Alonso used his aerial web and poison to trap and weaken Whitebeard Jr., reflecting on how his Devil Fruits suited ambush and control more than direct combat. He finished by piercing Whitebeard Jr.'s eye with a Haki-hardened thread.

• Alonso hauled Whitebeard Jr. through his aerial web, whose threads trapped and poisoned him.
• After more than two hours, Whitebeard Jr.'s Haki and stamina had eroded until he could barely resist.
• Alonso concluded that the String-String and Tsuchigumo fruits were best suited to traps, ambushes, and control.
• Alonso apologized for not giving Whitebeard Jr. a fair fight and drove a Haki-hardened thread into his eye.

Alonso killed Whitebeard Jr. and Bakin, then left the island with their heads. The Five Elders learned of Whitebeard Jr.’s death but, after confirming the Navy was not responsible, chose not to pursue the killer.

• Alonso killed Whitebeard Jr. by piercing his eye with a thread, and his body crashed down near Bakin and the residents.
• Bakin fled when she saw her son’s corpse, but Alonso caught her and killed her.
• Alonso took both heads and left the island without speaking to the residents.
• A CP0 Special Agent told the Five Elders that Whitebeard Jr. had been killed by an unidentified attacker using threads and poison.
• The Five Elders ruled out the Navy and dismissed the danger, though they acknowledged the killer was powerful.

Zephyr learned that Whitebeard Jr. had been killed and heard Kuzan’s case against the World Government. Kuzan revealed that he had joined an alliance opposing it, and warned Zephyr that the alliance had uncovered an ancient secret and that the World Government planned to repeat its actions from eight hundred years ago.

• Zephyr emerged from the hospital furious that the World Government intended to make Whitebeard Jr. a Shichibukai.
• Kuzan led Zephyr to the Training Grounds and told him that Whitebeard Jr. was dead.
• Zephyr realized the Navy had not killed Whitebeard Jr. and suspected Kuzan knew more than he could reveal.
• Kuzan argued that the World Government had failed to bring lasting change and that he had acted for justice.
• Kuzan told Zephyr he had joined an alliance opposed to the World Government and that it had learned an eight-hundred-year-old secret.
• Kuzan warned Zephyr that the World Government intended to repeat what it had done eight hundred years ago.

Kuzan explained to Zephyr that the World Government planned to destroy the world, and Zephyr demanded more evidence before deciding whether to join the Alliance. Inside New Impel Down, Joker revealed himself to Shiryu and prepared to begin the prison’s final takeover.

• Kuzan told Zephyr that the Poneglyphs and prophecies pointed to a coming catastrophe and the World Government’s plan to destroy the world.
• Zephyr acknowledged the World Government’s reckless behavior but asked to speak with the other members of the Alliance before believing Kuzan.
• Kuzan agreed to arrange a meeting and trusted that Doflamingo, Dragon, and the others could persuade Zephyr.
• Joker, disguised as a prison guard, killed a prisoner while Shiryu of the Rain addressed him as Captain.
• Joker revealed his true face and said he was ready to find it and rename Impel Down Arkham.

Joker had secretly escaped his Sea Stone restraints and spent years turning much of Impel Down into his base with his Joker Poison. He finally set his plan in motion by trapping Warden Magellan on a Sea Stone toilet seat.

• Joker escaped his cell by using his Chop-Chop Fruit powers, impersonated a guard, and stayed in Impel Down to recruit guards and prisoners.
• Joker developed his poison into a contagious gas and infected most of the prison, including Domino and, to a limited extent, Shiryu of the Rain.
• Joker dismissed Shiryu’s response to his proposal to rename Impel Down Arkham and announced the start of his final performance.
• Magellan rushed to confront Shiryu but stopped to use the restroom, while Domino watched with a crazed smile.
• Magellan sat on a Sea Stone toilet seat that Joker had planted, leaving the Warden trapped.

Joker defeated and captured Magellan, revealed that Hannibal had killed himself rather than join the Joker Party, and began preparing Magellan for conversion. Little Sadie told Magellan that nearly everyone in Impel Down had joined Joker, leaving the prison effectively lost.

• Magellan woke shackled in Sea Stone and learned that the apparent Hannibal was actually Joker.
• Joker revealed Hannibal had resisted the Joker Virus and killed himself rather than become part of the Joker Party.
• Joker said he planned to rename Impel Down Arkham Asylum and began a procedure to convert Magellan.
• Little Sadie appeared as a member of the Joker Party and told Magellan that nearly everyone in Impel Down had joined them.

The Joker celebrated taking over Impel Down and brought Magellan’s severed head to the prison hospital, where his fifth-generation Joker Virus infected it. Magellan awakened with a sinister smile, leaving his fate uncertain.

• The Joker left with Magellan’s head as the guards and prisoners celebrated the takeover of Impel Down.
• The Joker announced plans to rename the prison Arkham Asylum and create secret bases on its half-levels.
• At the hospital, the Joker revealed tanks of fourth-generation Joker Poison and met with the zombie-like doctor in charge.
• The doctor dropped Magellan’s head into a tank containing the untested fifth-generation Joker Virus.
• The virus overwhelmed Magellan, and he began struggling before a sinister smile appeared on his face.

Doflamingo visited Wano Country with Yamato and Shinobu, where Shanks, Kozuki Hiyori, and Shimotsuki Ushimaru welcomed them on Onigashima. Yamato reunited with her friends, while Doflamingo assessed Hiyori’s swordsmanship and wondered about Shanks’s lost arm.

• Doflamingo arrived in Wano Country with Yamato and Shinobu after informing Kozuki Hiyori of the visit.
• Shanks, Kozuki Hiyori, and Shimotsuki Ushimaru greeted them on the prosperous Onigashima.
• Yamato excitedly reunited with the three leaders and told them she had seen someone in East Blue who resembled Shimotsuki Ushimaru.
• Doflamingo observed Kozuki Hiyori’s swords, sensed that she had not mastered Enma, and judged that she lacked battle experience.
• Doflamingo studied Shanks’s right arm and wondered whether he would still have lost it if Doflamingo had not given the Gum-Gum Fruit to Luffy.

Kozuki Hiyori thanked Doflamingo and Shinobu before Red Hair Shanks challenged Doflamingo to a swordsmanship match. Doflamingo agreed, but warned that their fight could destroy Onigashima, then began creating a storm of ice to prepare a suitable location.

• Kozuki Hiyori welcomed Doflamingo and thanked him for helping Wano Country and Yamato.
• Kozuki Hiyori thanked Shinobu on behalf of Kozuki Oden, easing Shinobu’s lingering regret.
• Red Hair Shanks challenged Doflamingo to a swordsmanship match, and Doflamingo accepted.
• Kozuki Hiyori and Shinobu moved Yamato and Shimotsuki Ushimaru aside so they could watch the duel.
• Doflamingo suggested they find another place to fight, then exhaled a towering storm of ice toward the distant sea.

Doflamingo used Ideation Materialization to freeze the sea and prepare an arena for his swordsmanship match with Shanks. Their battle began with a powerful clash, and Doflamingo assessed Shanks’s fighting style and his own strength.

• Doflamingo explained that he had temporarily materialized cold to freeze the sea, then named the technique Ideation Materialization.
• Shanks reluctantly agreed to fight Doflamingo in swordsmanship on the ice, while spectators including Kozuki Hiyori, Shimotsuki Ushimaru, Yamato, and Shinobu gathered to watch.
• Shanks and Doflamingo clashed Narikitsune and Griffin, unleashing Conqueror’s Haki and black lightning in a battle that reached its climax immediately.
• Doflamingo recognized that Shanks relied on Conqueror’s Haki Infusion to compensate for being less specialized in swordsmanship than Hawkeye Mihawk.
• Doflamingo reflected that his physique, Haki, and swordsmanship made him stronger than anyone on the seas except Imu, even without his Devil Fruit ability.

Doflamingo overwhelmed Shanks in a sword fight, and Shanks surrendered once he realized he could not win. With Shimotsuki Ushimaru also avoiding a challenge, the fighting ended, and Shanks proposed a feast to celebrate their cooperation.

• Doflamingo gained the upper hand against Shanks by switching from his sword to a Conqueror's Haki-coated punch, then attacked with a storm of Flying Slashes.
• Shanks recovered and blocked most of Doflamingo's attacks, but his clothes were torn and the surrounding ice was carved away.
• Shanks surrendered, and Doflamingo lowered Narikitsune, dissatisfied that their fight had ended so quickly.
• Shimotsuki Ushimaru avoided Doflamingo's gaze and showed no interest in fighting him.
• Shanks proposed a feast to celebrate the cooperation.

Doflamingo attended a banquet in Wano Country and revealed that he had come to buy Shimotsuki Ushimaru’s Human-Human Fruit - Dai Nyudo Form. He secretly planned to use the visit to lure Blackbeard Teach away from the Whitebeard Pirates so he could plant psychological suggestions in him.

• Shanks begged Doflamingo to take him on as a subordinate Pirate Crew captain so he could get free meals, but Doflamingo refused.
• Kozuki Hiyori asked why Doflamingo had come to Wano Country, and he said he wanted to purchase a Devil Fruit.
• Doflamingo asked Shimotsuki Ushimaru about the Human-Human Fruit - Dai Nyudo Form, and Ushimaru confirmed that he possessed it.
• Doflamingo considered the fruit valuable but had also come to Wano Country to arrange a discreet trap for Blackbeard Teach.
• Doflamingo planned to lure Teach away from the Whitebeard Pirates and use psychological suggestions on him without leaving a trace.

Doflamingo traded the Dai Nyudo Fruit for a Ripe-Ripe Fruit and planned to use it to create an army of animals with artificial Devil Fruit powers. In Sabaody, he watched the rumors spread about a Dark-Dark Fruit auction, which he had secretly arranged using an illusion-disguised artificial Crow Fruit.

• Shimotsuki Ushimaru gave Doflamingo the Human-Human Fruit - Onyudo Form Fruit, and Doflamingo gave him a Ripe-Ripe Fruit in return.
• Doflamingo planned to make artificial Human-Human Fruits for animals, hoping to build a powerful and loyal army.
• Doflamingo considered feeding artificial Human-Human Fruits to Sea Kings but decided to avoid it unless necessary.
• Doflamingo walked through Sabaody in disguise and listened as pirates discussed an upcoming auction for the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Doflamingo revealed that the supposed Dark-Dark Fruit was an artificial Crow Fruit disguised by his illusion, with a strange bird's soul inside it.

Doflamingo visited Monet and Sugar on Sabaody and learned that Blackbeard Teach was heading to an auction where the Dark-Dark Fruit would appear. Aboard the Whitebeard Pirates’ ship, Marco questioned Teach about his interest as they approached the archipelago.

• Doflamingo met with Monet and Sugar at the Golden City branch on Sabaody, where Sugar’s toys handled the paperwork.
• Doflamingo received intelligence that Blackbeard Teach would attend the auction on behalf of the Whitebeard Pirates and concluded Teach was seeking the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates discussed their arrival at Sabaody and the risks of encountering the Navy or Celestial Dragons.
• Marco asked Teach why he was interested in the auction and whether the Dark-Dark Fruit was so famous.

Teach kept his interest in the Dark-Dark Fruit hidden as the Whitebeard Pirates arrived at Sabaody, while Doflamingo intercepted them and trapped the crew in his Illusion Space. The crew realized Teach was missing and feared he had been separated from them.

• Teach concealed his eagerness for the Dark-Dark Fruit from Marco and privately saw it as the key to fulfilling his ambition.
• Doflamingo left Monet asleep and traveled to the docks through people’s dreams.
• Doflamingo used Innate Barrier—World Projection to trap the Whitebeard Pirates in his Illusion Space as they reached the docks.
• Marco and Thatch debated where they had been taken, believing they had been teleported to another place.
• The Whitebeard Pirates discovered Teach was missing, and Marco feared he was in danger.

Doflamingo isolated Teach in an illusion and revealed that he knew Teach’s ambition to become the Pirate King and his plans for the Dark-Dark Fruit. After Teach’s hope seemed crushed, Doflamingo watched his resolve return and pressed a strange orb of light to his head.

• Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates found themselves back on the dock, with Teach and their attacker gone.
• Doflamingo revealed that he knew Teach’s identity, ambition, and interest in the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Teach despaired at the thought that Doflamingo would take the fruit and destroy his dream.
• Doflamingo reflected on how Teach had sacrificed other paths to greatness while waiting for a chance to obtain the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Doflamingo sensed Teach’s resolve returning and pressed an orb of light against his head.

Teach awakened with greatly enhanced strength from Doflamingo’s Demon Seed, while Doflamingo planned to give Thatch Vegapunk’s discarded Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit and sell his fake Dark-Dark Fruit to the Beasts Pirates. Doflamingo left the outcome of the planned fruit swap—and Momonosuke’s fate—unresolved.

• Teach woke beside Marco and accidentally broke the bedframe when he tested his newly strengthened body.
• Teach resolved to become Pirate King through training, unaware that the Demon Seed had subtly reduced his desire to eat another Devil Fruit.
• Doflamingo bought back the fake Dark-Dark Fruit and considered how Thatch might acquire the real Dark-Dark Fruit if he encountered it again.
• Doflamingo remembered that he had obtained Vegapunk’s discarded Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit and had given it to Judge to study.
• Doflamingo decided to give the Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit to Thatch and sell the fake Dark-Dark Fruit to the Beasts Pirates, wondering whether Momonosuke would eat it.

Doflamingo secretly gave Thatch a powerful artificial Azure Dragon Fruit, then heard Nami’s plea for help in the Illusion Space. The chapter revealed that Hody Jones’s fish-men had attacked Orange Village, leaving Nami injured and grieving as the story ended with her facing their brutality.

• Doflamingo hypnotized Thatch with Dream Traverse, altered his memories, and ensured he ate the artificial Azure Dragon Fruit.
• Doflamingo heard an unknown person in the Illusion Space beg for the power to take revenge.
• Nami awoke injured on Orange Island and mourned Bell-mère and the others after the fish-men attacked.
• The chapter explained that Nami had gained navigational knowledge from Doflamingo in her dreams and had hoped to join the Marines.
• Hody Jones and his New Fish-Man Pirates reached East Blue and attacked Cocoyasi Village, where fifteen-year-old Nami was stronger than her original-story counterpart but faced Hody’s ruthless crew.

Nami recalled fighting Hody Jones during the New Fish-Man Pirates’ attack on Cocoyasi Village and escaping with Kinoko after Bell-mère intervened. She and Kinoko later sought help from the Navy 16th Branch, but Captain Nezumi tried to seize their shells, leaving Kinoko captured and Nami with a bounty.

• Nami fought off fish-men but was overwhelmed by Hody Jones, who attacked her and the fleeing villagers.
• Kinoko carried the injured Nami away while the villagers stayed behind to cover their escape.
• Hody Jones blocked their path, but Bell-mère shot out one of his eyes and urged Kinoko to keep running.
• Nami and Kinoko escaped by boat using her navigation skills and a Jet Wind Shell, while the fate of Bell-mère and the villagers remained unknown.
• Nami and Kinoko sought help from the Navy 16th Branch, but Captain Nezumi tried to take their shells; Nami escaped, Kinoko was captured, and Nami received a bounty.

Nami returned to Cocoyasi Village and found it burned down, with the villagers—including Bell-mère—hanged and dead. Desperate to save Kinoko and take revenge on the Fish-Man Pirates and the Navy 16th Branch, she called out to the owner of the Dreamscape for help, and Doflamingo's Consciousness Clone heard her plea.

• Nami woke from her exhausted sleep and went to Cocoyasi Village, where she found the village destroyed and its villagers hanging from crosses.
• Nami found Bell-mère's tortured corpse, embraced her, and passed out.
• In the Dreamscape, Nami mourned the villagers and vowed to rescue Kinoko and avenge Cocoyasi Village, but realized she lacked the strength to do so.
• Nami suspected that a Devil Fruit ability had created the Dreamscape and begged its owner to give her power, regardless of the cost.
• Doflamingo's Consciousness Clone sensed Nami's plea and saw what had happened to her.