Chapter Summaries

Luffy traveled to Izumo aboard a Phoenix Fighter and learned about its unmanned systems, the world’s shape, and the cost of schooling for outsiders. After receiving a temporary ID, he met Chopper, who had been assigned to guide him during his three-day wait before the Devil Fruit auction.

• Luffy explored the Phoenix Fighter and questioned the pilot about the aircraft, Izumo, and the world being round.
• The pilot explained that the fighter could operate unmanned, that its body was remotely controlled, and that Izumo citizens received free schooling while outsiders had to pay.
• The Phoenix Fighter landed in Izumo, and the pilot warned Luffy about surveillance before helping him obtain a temporary ID.
• The pilot told Luffy that the auction was three days away, then left for another assignment.
• Chopper introduced himself as Luffy's receptionist and explained that Kara Link had let him hear about their conversation.

Chopper explained Izumo’s schools and his plan to join the Imperial Fist, then agreed to help Luffy train so he could rescue Ace. After discovering Luffy’s rubber body resisted electricity, Chopper shifted the training toward developing the qi within him.

• Luffy asked Chopper about his school, and Chopper described Izumo’s elementary, middle, and university stages and his ambition to join the Imperial Fist.
• Chopper told Luffy that a Dark Templar had brought him from Drum Kingdom to Sky Island, where The Emperor had saved him.
• Luffy said he needed to rescue Ace from a public execution in three months, and Chopper warned that Luffy was far too weak to do so.
• Luffy pleaded with Chopper to train him, and Chopper agreed while warning that extreme training could kill him.
• Chopper tested his Electroshock Method on Luffy, but Luffy’s rubber body resisted the electricity, so Chopper proposed training his qi instead.

Chopper trained Luffy to use Haki and encouraged him to grow stronger so he could save Ace. In Impel Down, Garp told Ace that Whitebeard would come for him, but refused to help him escape, and Ace revealed that Teach had taken his Devil Fruit.

• Chopper taught Luffy basic Armament Haki, then offered him his own scientific meal and a training plan for the next three months.
• Luffy thanked Chopper and resolved to work hard so he could become stronger and save Ace.
• Garp visited Ace in Impel Down and reflected on how both Luffy and Ace had become pirates instead of Marines.
• Ace told Garp that Whitebeard was his only father and that he rejected Roger's bloodline.
• Garp warned Ace that the Marines would execute him in three months and that Whitebeard would come to rescue him, but refused Ace's unspoken plea for help.
• Ace explained that Teach had taken his Devil Fruit, and Garp judged his Haki too weak before leaving the prison.

The Whitebeard Pirates accepted the Marines’ challenge to rescue Ace, setting the Summit War in motion. As both sides mobilized, Ling Donglai chose not to intervene and learned that the Empress of Amazon Lily had refused the Marines and joined Izumo.

• Ace reflected on Garp’s words about flowing and his dormant Conqueror’s Haki.
• Whitebeard ordered the Whitebeard Pirates to prepare to rescue Ace, while a skeptic worried that the mission would cost them their lives.
• The Whitebeard Pirates publicly accepted the Marines’ challenge, and Marine Headquarters ordered its branches and ranked Marines to mobilize.
• Ling Donglai told Nami he would not interfere in the Summit War and ordered Izumo to sell the Marines slightly inferior equipment.
• Nami worried about Hina’s safety, and Ling Donglai said he could help if her magnetic field mark weakened.
• The Marines summoned the Shichibukai, but the Empress of Amazon Lily refused, tore up her agreement, and joined Izumo.

Ling Donglai and his companions launched the Vimana on a manned space voyage and reached the moon using the Space Pirates’ propulsion system. Nami became the first to step onto the lunar surface, while Reiju and Robin followed in protective armor to begin testing.

• After two months of preparation, Ling Donglai, Nami, Reiju, and Robin boarded the enlarged Vimana as Judge and Caesar Clown watched it launch.
• As the Vimana left the atmosphere, Nami and Robin looked back at their planet while Reiju explained that nearby planets showed no signs of life.
• Reiju used the Space Pirates’ propulsion system to take the Vimana to the moon, surprising Robin with how quickly it arrived.
• Nami stepped onto the lunar surface and excitedly claimed she was the first person to set foot on the moon.
• Reiju warned Robin not to leave the force field unprotected, and both women activated their battle armor before Reiju began scientific tests on the moon.

Ling Donglai explored the moon and gained insight into using Magnetic Field Rotation to create celestial bodies, then experimented with miniature planets that could also serve as weapons. He left the moon wondering whether Pirate Planet might have a spirit and considering experiments that could extend the lives of the people of Izumo.

• Ling Donglai stepped onto the moon, linked his biological magnetic field to it, and realized it served Sea Ball only as a shield rather than controlling its tides.
• Ling Donglai rejected the thought that he was insignificant beside a planet and resolved to become powerful enough to rival the stars.
• Ling Donglai gathered cosmic gas and dust into a spinning miniature planet as an experiment in simulating star creation, while Nami watched through the Kara Link local network.
• Tai'a accused Ling Donglai of secretly making weapons, and he created three more miniature planets that stabilized and orbited behind his head.
• Tai'a demanded that Ling Donglai prevent the miniature planets from developing spirits, then drained much of his energy before disappearing.
• Ling Donglai wondered whether Pirate Planet could possess a world spirit and considered using spectrum energy to extend the lives of the people of Izumo.

Ling Donglai transformed the moon into a habitable city while his crew explored it, though Nami mysteriously disappeared. With only twelve hours left before Ace’s public execution, Blackbeard entered Impel Down to find Ace and learned that he had already been taken away.

• Ling Donglai, Robin, Reiju, and Nami explored the moon, where Robin planted an Izumo flag and Reiju discussed the potential of Devil Fruit powers in space.
• Ling Donglai used Overlord’s Domain to expand Lunar Underground City and shield it from cosmic radiation, while Robin and Reiju noted Izumo’s shortage of settlers.
• The crew grew tired after exploring the moon, and Robin realized Nami was missing.
• Blackbeard arrived at Impel Down with his men and asked a Marine where Ace was being held.
• The Marine told Blackbeard that an admiral’s subordinate had already taken Ace away and said Warden Magellan was likely suffering from diarrhea.

Blackbeard Teach entered Impel Down and attacked Magellan on the sixth level, using the chaos to recruit Shiryu of the Rain. Shiryu considered Teach’s offer to join his crew.

• Blackbeard Teach asked to visit Shiryu, then persuaded Magellan to escort him to the sixth level.
• Teach attacked Magellan when they reached Eternal Hell, but Magellan’s stomach trouble caused the blow to hit his shoulder instead of his heart.
• Teach removed Magellan’s heart and gave a newly transformed Devil Fruit to one of his crewmen.
• Shiryu emerged from the darkness, and Teach invited him to join his crew by appealing to his dreams.

Teach recruited Shiryu and several legendary prisoners in Impel Down, then learned that Magellan had alerted Sengoku. With Marines on the way, Teach prepared to fight his crew out of the prison.

• Teach persuaded Shiryu to join him, and Shiryu accepted after testing Teach with a flying slash.
• Teach offered the sixth-level prisoners freedom and new legends, then freed them by cutting their Seastone handcuffs with black snakes.
• The legendary pirates attacked one another instead of Teach, and Teach recruited Sanjuan Wolf, Catarina Devon, and Avalo Pizarro.
• Magellan sent Sengoku a message reporting Teach's attack, and Teach realized the Marines would soon arrive.
• Teach told the prisoners to stop fighting and prepare to escape, having recruited only four subordinates from the group.

Sengoku learned that Teach had betrayed the Marines and escaped after an incident at Impel Down, but prioritized Ace’s execution as the Whitebeard Pirates approached Marine Headquarters. Whitebeard’s fleet launched a surprise assault from beneath the sea, and he challenged the Marines to survive the coming battle.

• Teach blocked Sengoku’s calls, and Sengoku ordered an investigation of Impel Down while postponing action against the escaped prisoners until after Ace’s execution.
• Robin connected the Marines’ livestream to Vimana, and Ling Donglai learned that Kuma had left Izumo after producing Devil Fruits.
• The Marines bound Ace to the execution platform as their three admirals and Garp took their places, while a marine reported abnormal underwater movement.
• Whitebeard’s coated ships surfaced inside Marine Headquarters’s inner waters, bypassing the outer defenses.
• Aokiji froze the sea, but Whitebeard shattered the ice with a punch and declared that Marine Headquarters would disappear.

Sengoku revealed that Ace was the son of Gol D. Roger and ordered the Marines to attack the Whitebeard Pirates, beginning the battle at Marine Headquarters. Whitebeard and his allies fought back as both sides clashed, and Diamond Jozu blocked Hawkeye’s flying slash.

• Whitebeard attacked Marine Headquarters with shockwaves while Sengoku announced that Ace was Roger’s son and declared the Marines would kill him.
• Whitebeard unleashed another shockwave, which the three Admirals combined their Haki to weaken.
• Sengoku ordered the entire Marine force to attack, and Aokiji charged Whitebeard as the battle began.
• Izumo’s drones, fighter jets, and snipers struck the pirates while the pirates advanced across Aokiji’s frozen sea and fought the Pacifistas.
• Hawkeye attacked Whitebeard with a flying slash, and Diamond Jozu stepped in front of Whitebeard and stopped it.

Marco and the Whitebeard Pirates battled the Marines at Marine Headquarters while Ling Donglai watched from the moon. Shanks warned Ling Donglai that Kaido and Charlotte Linlin planned to exploit the war to attack Whitebeard and destroy the Marines, and Ling Donglai investigated their scheme.

• Marco intercepted Kizaru's attack on Whitebeard and fought the Admiral as Little Oars Jr. hurled a huge block of ice toward Marine Headquarters.
• Akainu vaporized the ice, Whitebeard confronted him, and Kuma's Ursus Shock killed many pirates while Ace questioned whether the rescue was worth their lives.
• A pirate forced Kizaru to stop fighting, and Marco kicked the immobilized Admiral back toward Marine Headquarters.
• Shanks called Ling Donglai and warned him that Kaido and Charlotte Linlin intended to ambush Whitebeard and wipe out Marine Headquarters during the war.
• Ling Donglai located Kaido and Charlotte Linlin's phones and learned that they planned to help Whitebeard in exchange for scientists and scientific materials, while excluding Shanks from their alliance.

Kaido and Charlotte Linlin planned to use Capone Bege’s Castle-Castle Fruit to reach Marine Headquarters, while Shanks asked Ling Donglai to stop them. After Ling Donglai agreed in exchange for Shanks’s territory, Shanks learned that Ling Donglai was calling from the moon.

• Kaido and Charlotte Linlin discussed transporting their forces inside Capone Bege’s castle to bypass the Marine blockade and attack Marine Headquarters.
• A phone accidentally recorded Kaido and Linlin’s plan, and Shanks later asked Ling Donglai to prevent their attack from destroying the Marines.
• Ling Donglai agreed to stop Kaido and Linlin in exchange for Shanks’s territory.
• Shanks asked about the three light spheres behind Ling Donglai’s head, then discovered his call had cost a fortune because Ling Donglai was on the moon.

Ling Donglai tested his new power by traveling from the moon to Sea Ball and trying to connect with the planet’s magnetic field. He was severely injured when Sea Ball expelled him, but he learned that a magnetic-field contract could grant immense power at a serious risk to his soul.

• Ling Donglai left Nami and Robin and flew toward Sea Ball, using its gravity and magnetic field to guide his return.
• He sensed that his magnetic field could mesh with the planet’s and tried to convey his love to Sea Ball.
• Ling Donglai synchronized with Sea Ball’s magnetic field and experienced the planet’s vast history and power, but struggled to maintain his own identity.
• He sent his feelings into the planet, and Sea Ball’s magnetic field violently flung him away, severely injuring his body and soul.
• After healing his external wounds, Ling Donglai concluded that magnetic-field contracts could grant enormous power but risk severe soul damage if broken.

Ling Donglai named his model Apotheosis and considered how the weak could ascend while retaining their independence before flying toward Marine Headquarters to end the battle. At the Summit War, Luffy arrived from the sky to rescue Ace and attacked Sengoku with an unfamiliar, powerful form of energy.

• Ling Donglai called his model Apotheosis and said a creation that preserved the weak's independent consciousness would be called the Investiture List.
• Ling Donglai examined his gaseous Mimic Planets and wondered whether they might evolve into stars.
• Ling Donglai flew toward Marine Headquarters, sending three Mimic Planets blazing through the atmosphere.
• Garp sat beside Ace and said that his family ties mattered despite the pirates deserving death.
• Luffy fell into the battlefield, knocked down everyone nearby, and declared that he had come to save Ace.
• Luffy attacked Sengoku with a Tri-Beam, and Sengoku realized its energy felt like an unfamiliar, exceptionally powerful form of Armament Haki.

Luffy arrived at Marine Headquarters during the Summit War and used his qi to defeat Marines, shocking Ace, Garp, and Sengoku. Watching the live broadcast restored Sabo’s memories of Ace and Luffy, and he set out to save his sworn brothers.

• Three months earlier, Chopper warned Luffy that the Summit War was too dangerous, but Luffy boarded a military Island Cloud Automobile and flew toward Marine Headquarters.
• Chopper urged Luffy to stay hidden, but Luffy leaped from the cloud car and fell into the battlefield, drawing everyone’s attention.
• Luffy struck several Marines with his Ten Thousand Nations Heaven-Shocking Palm, using qi and electricity to overwhelm their Haki defenses.
• Ace, Garp, and Sengoku reacted with shock as Luffy joined the battle to rescue Ace.
• Sabo watched the broadcast, recovered his memories of Ace and Luffy, and rushed out to save his sworn brothers.

Sabo recovered his memories and resolved to help save Ace and Luffy, with Dragon joining him and revealing that Luffy was his son. At Marineford, Buggy was accidentally thrown into the fight and was mistaken for a daring protector of Luffy as Kizaru attacked him.

• Sabo recounted how he became brothers with Ace and Luffy, lost his memories after the Celestial Dragons sank his boat, and remembered his past after seeing them again.
• Sabo vowed to save Ace and Luffy, and Dragon offered to go with him, revealing to the revolutionaries that Luffy was his son.
• Whitebeard questioned Luffy about his straw hat and warned him that he was not yet strong enough, but Luffy declared that he would become Pirate King.
• Sengoku ordered Kizaru to handle Luffy, and Kizaru fired a beam that blasted Buggy out from behind a stone wall.
• The crowd praised Buggy for supposedly protecting Luffy and dodging Kizaru's attacks, while Buggy inwardly feared for his life.

Kizaru's attacks failed to harm Buggy, while the Marines activated the encircling walls and launched a devastating assault on Whitebeard's forces. As Whitebeard prepared to fight, Squard betrayed him and stabbed him through the waist.

• Buggy's Chop-Chop Fruit let him withstand Kizaru's slashes, while his subordinates mistakenly believed he was protecting Luffy.
• Sengoku cut the Marine broadcasts and ordered the encircling walls activated, prompting people worldwide to turn to Izumo phones for the continuing livestream.
• Kizaru kicked Luffy away from Ace, but Jinbe caught him and vowed to protect him.
• Squard told Whitebeard that their forces were trapped and under attack from both sides, then stabbed Whitebeard through the waist with an Armament Haki-infused blade.
• Marine leaders and viewers around the world reacted in shock as Whitebeard's injury became known.

Squard stabbed Whitebeard after Akainu tricked him into believing Whitebeard had betrayed the crew, but Whitebeard forgave him and broke open a path toward the execution platform. As the battle intensified, Gamenio used his Copy-Copy Fruit to copy Sengoku’s Buddha form, creating a second golden Buddha and disrupting the fight around Ace.

• Squard accused Whitebeard of sacrificing the crew to save Ace, but Whitebeard embraced and forgave him after Marco knocked him down.
• Whitebeard shattered the ice and Marine defenses with a shockwave, opening a route toward the execution platform as the Whitebeard Pirates charged forward.
• Akainu attacked the advancing pirates and provoked Whitebeard, who struck him with Murakumogiri and left him badly wounded.
• Squard regretted doubting Whitebeard, while Marco fought Kizaru and Gamenio infiltrated the Marine lines in disguise.
• Gamenio touched Sengoku and copied his Buddha form, producing a second golden Buddha that exchanged blows with Sengoku above the collapsing execution platform.
• Aokiji moved toward Akainu’s fight as Akainu angrily told him to help Sengoku instead.

Aokiji joined Akainu against Whitebeard, while Garp struggled to identify the real Sengoku among two golden Buddhas. Gamenio freed Ace and held off Garp and Sengoku as Ace escaped toward Whitebeard, while Capone Bege arrived at Marine Headquarters with several rookie pirates.

• Aokiji attacked Whitebeard alongside Akainu, but their clashing powers weakened their blows as Whitebeard overwhelmed them both.
• Garp identified the real Sengoku after Sengoku threatened to throw his donuts out the office window, and Garp struck Gamenio out of his golden Buddha form.
• Gamenio revealed that he had freed Ace, transformed again, and held off Garp and Sengoku so Ace could escape.
• Jinbe cleared a path through the ice with a water attack and carried Luffy across the sea toward Ace.
• Capone Bege arrived near Marine Headquarters with Urouge, Killer, Scratchmen Apoo, and Eustass Kid aboard his ship.