Chapter Summaries

Joker forced Ulti to eat an Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit, then led her and Page One through Onigashima to a dungeon where he found Yamato imprisoned. Yamato eagerly agreed to escape, but worried that her powerful father would endanger her rescuers.

• Ulti transformed after eating the Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit, and Joker frightened her by removing her head and tormenting her with the fruit’s taste.
• Joker took Ulti and Page One across Onigashima, killing pirates and a Number who attacked him as the children watched in terror.
• Joker found Yamato asleep in a dungeon, woke her, and offered to help her escape.
• Yamato agreed to leave but hesitated because she feared her father would kill Joker and the others, while Ulti scoffed at the warning.

Joker took Yamato, Ulti, and Page One from the battle and stole the Dyna Stone from Kaido’s armory. He hurled one at Onigashima’s Skull Palace, destroying its upper floors, while Kaido’s Vivre Card began to burn in King’s hand.

• Ulti panicked about angering Kaido, but Joker proposed taking Yamato hostage; Yamato followed him after he called her Oden, and Ulti and Page One hurried after them.
• After nearly three days of battle, King led the Beasts Pirates back to the Skull Palace and went to the armory to retrieve the Dyna Stone.
• Joker opened the stolen chest aboard the Bond Pirates’ ship and threw a Dyna Stone at Onigashima’s Skull Palace.
• The explosion blew away the palace’s upper two floors, and Ulti carefully picked up the Dyna Stone after Yamato dropped it.
• King realized Joker had used the Dyna Stone and feared what Byrnndi World could do with it; then Kaido’s Vivre Card began burning in his pocket.

King abandoned Wano Country to search for Kaido, while Kozuki Hiyori and her allies reclaimed the country with little resistance. Elsewhere, Joker and Byrnndi World tested how their Devil Fruit powers could enlarge Dyna Stone without making it explode, leaving them with a potential weapon against the World Government.

• King saw Kaido’s Vivre Card nearly depleted, decided to search for him in Totto Land, and flew away from Onigashima.
• Denjiro and Kanjuro’s secret efforts to protect Wano’s samurai helped Kozuki Hiyori’s forces clear out the Beasts Pirates and reclaim the country.
• Kyoshiro welcomed Kozuki Hiyori into the Flower Capital, where she took the shogun’s seat as Wano’s sole remaining Kozuki heir.
• Kozuki Hiyori and the Nine Red Scabbards received a report that the Beasts Pirates had suffered devastating losses, with one All-Star captured and King fled.
• Joker explained to Byrnndi World that he could keep split Dyna Stone connected with his Chop-Chop Fruit while World enlarged it with the More-More Fruit, preventing it from detonating.

Joker devised a plan to use Byrnndi World's More-More Fruit to amplify Dyna Stone inside the World Government, while Doflamingo prepared to establish a base in Alabasta. Doflamingo and his companions arrived in Alubarna, where he considered Alabasta's potential and planned to negotiate with Cobra.

• Joker explained that Byrnndi World could enlarge Dyna Stone fragments in sync and then sever their connection to trigger an explosion inside the World Government.
• Joker named Brachiosaurus as the person who would break through the World Government's defenses and carry out the attack.
• Doflamingo dismissed Joker's plan for the moment and reflected on how his battles with Big Mom and Kaido had strengthened his Haki.
• Doflamingo decided to buy a port and land in Alabasta, build a city, and negotiate with Cobra for support and ordinary subordinates.
• Doflamingo, Shinobu, and Tesorro toured Alubarna, and Doflamingo noted Alabasta's potential as a base for recruiting people near the entrance to the Grand Line.

Cobra worried that Doflamingo had come to Alabasta for Pluton, but Doflamingo instead asked to purchase ports and land. He said he planned to become a Shichibukai, leaving Cobra doubtful but unable to dismiss the possibility.

• Cobra learned that Doflamingo had fought Charlotte Linlin and Kaido in Alabasta and feared he might know about Pluton.
• Doflamingo used his Illusion Fruit ability to render Cobra's guards vacant before entering the palace with his group.
• Doflamingo introduced himself to Cobra, dismissed the Celestial Dragons as unworthy, and asked to purchase ports and land in Alabasta.
• Cobra blurted out that Alabasta had no Pluton, then tried to recover when Doflamingo said he had not asked about it.
• Cobra warned Doflamingo that he still had a bounty, and Doflamingo said he expected to become a Shichibukai soon.

Doflamingo negotiated with Cobra to buy rights to desert land in Alabasta, then accepted the World Government’s invitation to become a Shichibukai. Both sides saw the appointment as a temporary arrangement while they waited for a chance to defeat the other.

• Doflamingo and Cobra agreed that Doflamingo would pay for land and build a port and city, while Alabasta retained ownership.
• Tesorro negotiated the price down, and Doflamingo’s group left the palace before dawn after paying several billion Beli.
• The Five Elders discussed Doflamingo’s victory over Kaido and Charlotte Linlin, considered his possible connection to the Donquixote Clan’s past, and decided to offer him the vacant Shichibukai seat.
• Doflamingo learned that Modock had been killed after refusing Akainu’s summons and accepted the World Government’s invitation.
• Doflamingo and the World Government each treated the appointment as a way to buy time while awaiting an opportunity to make their next move.

Joker completed a heavily armed, flying Brachiosaurus cyborg and sent it toward Holy Land Mary Geoise. As it approached, frightened guards mistook it for the dragon from the previous attack and called for help.

• Joker revealed his modified Brachiosaurus, which could fly, dive, and unleash a devastating Dyna Stone blast.
• Joker launched the Brachiosaurus toward Holy Land Mary Geoise and monitored its flight with a Den Den Mushi.
• After nearly a day, the Brachiosaurus reached the Red Line, and Joker switched it into battle mode.
• Guards near the Mary Geoise elevator spotted the approaching cyborg and mistook it for Giant Dragon Sancho.
• The guard captain called his superior to report that an attacker had returned.

Queen the Plague, transformed into a mechanical Brachiosaurus, tore through Mary Geoise while the Five Elders struggled to respond. He crushed a Celestial Dragon beneath his foot, leaving the World Government's guards terrified.

• The Five Elders dismissed the mechanical Brachiosaurus as a minor threat until it destroyed the first line of defense and advanced toward the Holy City.
• The Five Elders requested aid from a Navy Admiral, while Queen the Plague smashed through Mary Geoise's wall and bombarded the city.
• World celebrated as the Brachiosaurus repelled two World Government agents and demolished a villa.
• Queen the Plague exposed a Celestial Dragon hiding in the villa's basement and crushed him beneath his foot.
• The witnesses realized a Celestial Dragon had been killed and panicked over the consequences.

Queen the Plague’s Brachiosaurus was defeated in Mary Geoise, but Joker and World detonated a Dyna Stone hidden inside it. The blast and an immense wave of Armament Haki devastated the Red Line around Mary Geoise, while Doflamingo and the crew on Onigashima reacted to the distant catastrophe.

• Kizaru struck down Queen the Plague’s Brachiosaurus and severed its head with Ama no Murakumo.
• On Onigashima, Joker revealed he had left another surprise, and World enlarged and hurled tiny Dyna Stone fragments toward Mary Geoise.
• The Brachiosaurus’s belly burst open to reveal a Dyna Stone, which exploded as a vast wave of Conqueror’s Haki and Armament Haki surged from Pangea Castle.
• Doflamingo watched the blast through a Soul Fragment in a seagull, which was destroyed as the explosion tore apart the Red Line around Mary Geoise.
• Doflamingo told Shinobu that the distant tremor was a massive earthquake, while World celebrated the attack and Joker remained unimpressed.

Kizaru witnessed Mary Geoise survive a massive explosion under Imu’s Armament Haki, while the receding Haki killed Celestial Dragons and two of the Five Elders. Imu revealed that he had awakened early and devoured human vessels, then demanded an explanation for the attack, leaving the remaining Five Elders afraid to admit the World Government had supplied the Dyna Stone that caused it.

• Kizaru found Mary Geoise preserved beneath powerful Armament Haki, but saw that the blast had sheared away over a thousand meters of the Red Line and left the city floating.
• As Imu’s Haki receded, two adult Celestial Dragons aged into corpses, and Kizaru realized that the Celestial Dragons had been treated as food.
• Inside Pangea Castle, two Five Elders dissolved into liquid as the Haki withdrew, while the other three survived and entered the Flower Chamber.
• Imu scolded the three Five Elders for forcing his early awakening and making him devour thirty percent of the human vessels, then demanded to know who had attacked Mary Geoise.
• The Five Elders knew that Queen’s Dyna Stone explosion had caused the disaster, but they hesitated to explain that the World Government had sold the explosives to the Beasts Pirates.

After Imu reprimanded the Five Elders for the disaster at Mary Geoise, they emerged to find Kong and Borsalino among the few survivors. At Navy Headquarters, Sengoku and Garp speculated about the explosion and its consequences for the Navy, then returned to their usual quarrel.

• Imu blamed the Five Elders for the explosion and ordered them to restore world order, warning that she did not want to be awakened again for more than ten years.
• The Five Elders found Kong injured and Borsalino unharmed, and considered how to keep them from revealing what they had witnessed.
• The explosion’s tsunami nearly destroyed Sabaody Archipelago, swallowed Enies Lobby and Impel Down, and forced Kuzan to protect Navy Headquarters with an ice wall.
• Sengoku wondered whether an Ancient Weapon had caused the blast, while Garp joked that the Celestial Dragons had been punished by divine forces.
• Sengoku admitted that the World Government might be a burden on the Navy, prompting Garp to tease him before Sengoku struck him with Buddha Fist.

Sengoku and Garp discussed the World Government’s imminent collapse and whether Doflamingo should return to the Navy before Borsalino reported what had happened in Mary Geoise. The World Government had survived a devastating Dyna Stone explosion, but a mysterious powerhouse had protected it, leaving Garp frustrated that the Navy still had to obey its orders.

• Sengoku admitted his Haki had stagnated since becoming Fleet Admiral because he had to consider the World Government and the Navy’s interests.
• Garp suggested calling Doflamingo back to the Navy, and Sengoku agreed that an extra powerful fighter could help as the sea descended into chaos.
• Borsalino arrived and said Dyna Stone amplified by the More-More Fruit had attacked Mary Geoise, but at least two-thirds of the Celestial Dragons and three Five Elders had survived.
• Borsalino said a monstrously powerful figure had protected Mary Geoise by covering it in Armament Haki, leaving Garp and Sengoku astonished.
• Garp complained that the Navy still had to follow orders from the World Government.

The World Government struggled to recover from the explosion at Mary Geoise as chaos spread across the New World. Joker returned to Wano Country, while Doflamingo expanded his operations in Alabasta by building a pirate port and starting a gambling city.

• The explosion left the World Government short of leaders, resources, and intelligence, weakening its authority over Member States and pirates.
• Joker talked the World Destroyer into taking credit for bombing Mary Geoise and recruiting pirates on Onigashima before Joker returned to Wano Country with the three little ones.
• Bullet repeatedly lost to Whitebeard, then knocked Sand Crocodile into the sea when he challenged Whitebeard.
• Golden Lion obtained a Poneglyph dictionary and took a coordinate Poneglyph from Totto Land, while Red Count attacked Marine bases across the New World.
• The New World began calling Whitebeard, the World Destroyer, Golden Lion, and Red Count the Four Emperors, while Buggy fainted whenever he heard about explosions or the World Government.
• Doflamingo began building a port in Alabasta, and Tesoro led workers into the desert to start constructing a gambling city.

Doflamingo trained Hancock and the others, then acquired Kirio Hikifune’s Soul Food cooking method from a Skill Pearl. After training in the Illusion Space, he woke beside Shinobu and decided to try his new cooking skills.

• Doflamingo learned from Rosinante’s Soul Fragments that the Navy remained aligned with the World Government and that Rosinante had become a Navy Headquarters Captain.
• Hancock, her sisters, Shinobu, and Sancho continued training, and Doflamingo guided Hancock in developing her Conqueror’s Haki.
• Doflamingo absorbed a batch of Blood-colored Puppets and obtained a Skill Pearl containing Kirio Hikifune’s Soul Food method.
• Doflamingo realized he could use illusions to create temporary souls and make food that could greatly increase a person’s strength.
• After returning from the Illusion Space, Doflamingo found Shinobu beside him and felt eager to use his new cooking skills.

After perfecting Soul Food, Doflamingo served a feast that greatly boosted everyone’s strength. More than two years after the Mary Geoise explosion, Kaido and Charlotte Linlin were training and fighting to grow stronger after their defeat by Doflamingo.

• Doflamingo cooked a glowing Soul Food feast that left him exhausted, and Hancock, her sisters, and Shinobu eagerly joined him at the table.
• The meal restored Doflamingo’s energy and strengthened everyone’s Haki, so he ordered Marigold to train before the food’s effects faded.
• Over two years after the Mary Geoise explosion, the World Government relentlessly pursued World while the Three Admirals held back and Golden Lion helped him evade capture.
• Kaido tried several times to invade a strengthened Wano Country but abandoned the campaign and began competing for power elsewhere.
• Kaido and Charlotte Linlin trained and challenged other Great Pirates in hopes of surpassing themselves after Doflamingo had defeated them both.

Gecko Moria and Sand Crocodile arrived in Dressrosa and discussed the Dragon Hunting Pirates, their leader Doflamingo, and the island’s recovery. After considering the danger of being captured and hypnotized, they decided not to provoke him.

• Moria and Sand Crocodile looked over the Dragon Hunting Pirates’ flag in Dressrosa and traded insults about their defeats by Kaido and Bullet.
• Moria explained that Dressrosa had been rebuilt under King Kyros, whose Stone-Stone Fruit made construction easier.
• Sand Crocodile refused Moria’s suggestion to cause trouble in Dressrosa, citing Doflamingo’s reputation and the danger of attacking a World Government Member State.
• Moria and Sand Crocodile recalled that Doflamingo hypnotized Devil Fruit users he favored and feared becoming his puppets.
• Moria and Sand Crocodile agreed to avoid provoking Doflamingo.

Doflamingo expanded his underground network and explained why he wanted to meet the Tontatta Tribe, whose plant-growing skills could help him pursue artificial Devil Fruit research. The chapter ended when Violet spotted the Clown Pirates approaching Dressrosa, as Hancock and Violet exchanged provocative looks.

• Doflamingo ate with Kyros in Dressrosa and dismissed rumors about his hypnotized subordinates as the cost of expanding quickly while the World Government was in chaos.
• Doflamingo used Capone Bege and the Fortress-Fortress Fruit, along with the Door-Door Fruit, to strengthen his worldwide transport network.
• Doflamingo told Kyros he wanted to speak with the Tontatta Tribe, and Kyros warned him not to exploit them.
• Doflamingo explained that he wanted the Tontatta Tribe's help with artificial Devil Fruits and hoped to experiment with putting souls into them.
• Violet spotted the Clown Pirates nearing Dressrosa and glanced provocatively at Hancock, who sat beside Doflamingo.

Hancock mocked Violet for failing to spot the Clown Pirates sooner, while Doflamingo defended Violet and offered to help her train. Violet then revealed that Gecko Moria and Sand Crocodile had arrived on Dressrosa, and Doflamingo chose not to interfere with them.

• Hancock criticized Violet for spotting the Clown Pirates only when they were close to Dressrosa, and Violet argued that searching through everything she saw took time.
• Hancock explained that Violet could improve her ability by combining Observation Haki with her Glint-Glint Fruit, but Violet had only recently awakened her Haki.
• Doflamingo comforted Violet and promised to help her train, making Hancock jealous when Violet reacted happily to his attention.
• Violet told Doflamingo that Gecko Moria and Sand Crocodile had arrived on the island.
• Doflamingo considered taking Gecko Moria's Shadow-Shadow Fruit but decided not to confront either pirate, wanting to avoid alarming Kyros and the others.

The Clown Pirates arrived in Dressrosa to trade with Doflamingo, bringing Buggy, Shimotsuki Ushimaru, and Yamato. When Doflamingo appeared on the dock, Buggy froze in terror, still haunted by the memory of Joker’s soul being placed inside him.

• Buggy worried that trading with the Dragon Hunting Pirates was too dangerous, so Shimotsuki Ushimaru cut off his head and shoved it into a wine barrel to make him stop fretting.
• Yamato spotted Dressrosa and said she wanted to meet Doflamingo, whom she admired for defeating Kaido.
• Ushimaru explained that the rumor about Doflamingo turning people who spoke his name into puppets was false, and Yamato accused Buggy of tricking her.
• The Clown Pirates reached Dressrosa, where Yamato spotted Doflamingo, Hancock, and Bege on the dock.
• Doflamingo appeared beside Buggy and asked why he feared him, while Buggy froze because of the lingering impression left by Joker’s soul.

Doflamingo met Yamato and praised her exceptional potential, prompting Hancock to challenge her. They agreed to postpone the fight until they reached Dressrosa, where Doflamingo explained that Yamato’s talent came from both her hard work and her inherited physical qualities.

• Yamato laughed when Buggy fainted at the sight of Doflamingo, and Shimotsuki Ushimaru knocked Buggy awake before dragging him into the cabin.
• Doflamingo recognized Yamato as Kaido’s daughter, and Yamato declared that she would defeat Kaido and protect Wano Country.
• Hancock arrived and asked to test Yamato’s strength, and Yamato eagerly accepted the challenge.
• Doflamingo said the ship was unsuitable for a fight and directed them to go to the royal palace in Dressrosa.
• Doflamingo praised Yamato’s Mythical Zoan ability and explained that training talent and physical qualities could be inherited, while Yamato insisted that she worked hard.