Chapter Summaries

Ling Donglai killed Vander Decken IX and extracted the Mato Mato no Mi, but a furious Wadatsumi then dragged the ancient ship Noah toward Fish-Man Island. Shirahoshi rushed to stop the ship as Neptune and the island's defenders confronted the threat.

• Ling Donglai used his magnetic field to kill Vander Decken IX and extract the Mato Mato no Mi, freeing Shirahoshi from his pursuit.
• A piercing alarm sounded after Ling Donglai sensed a mutated fish-man dragging a huge sunken ship toward Fish-Man Island.
• Wadatsumi blamed Ryugu Palace for Vander Decken IX's death and dragged Noah toward the island to avenge him.
• Shirahoshi recognized Noah and rushed out of the Hard-Shell Tower, while Ling Donglai and Nami set off to investigate.
• Neptune arrived at the border monitoring room with Jinbe and watched Wadatsumi and Noah on the monitor.

Jinbe fought Wadatsumi as Noah hurtled toward Fish-Man Island, but he could not stop the ark without risking its destruction. Neptune prepared to join the battle, while Shirahoshi offered to help and he decided against using her Poseidon power.

• Jinbe warned Neptune that he was not confident he could save Fish-Man Island without destroying Noah, then went to confront Wadatsumi.
• Wadatsumi hurled Noah at Jinbe and attacked him, claiming Vander Decken IX had died; Jinbe wounded Wadatsumi but could not stop the ark.
• Jinbe drove Wadatsumi back and tried to alter Noah’s course with the currents as the ark continued toward Fish-Man Island.
• Neptune decided to enter the fight, insisting his kingship was pointless if Fish-Man Island sank.
• Shirahoshi told Neptune that her allies had defeated Vander Decken IX and offered to help, but Neptune chose not to unleash her Poseidon power.

Nami slowed Noah with her magnetic powers, allowing Jinbe to redirect the ark into the Sea Forest and save Fish-Man Island. After Neptune and Jinbe defeated Wadatsumi, Vimana surfaced in the New World, while Shirahoshi sensed Nami’s help.

• Neptune attacked Wadatsumi to help Jinbe, but Wadatsumi trapped him in currents and repeatedly struck him with Fish-Man Karate.
• Nami used Magnetic Pole Reversal to slow Noah, and Jinbe redirected it so it landed in the Sea Forest.
• Jinbe joined Neptune in fighting Wadatsumi, and they defeated him and left him severely wounded.
• Vimana rode the currents through the surface, reaching the New World.
• Shirahoshi sensed Vimana’s departure and thanked Nami, while Fish-Man soldiers shackled Wadatsumi and prepared to take him to the prison tower.

After Neptune learned that Izumo had secretly helped Jinbe save Shirahoshi, he weighed the political risks of building ties with the sky-based nation. Aboard Vimana, Ling Donglai ordered Izumo to declare war on Dressrosa, and the long-anticipated conflict was openly announced.

• Neptune and Jinbe learned from Shirahoshi that Lady Nami and Izumo's captain had helped defeat Vander using an enormous invisible ship.
• Neptune considered thanking Izumo and establishing relations while remaining wary of how the World Government and Celestial Dragons would react.
• Jinbe told Neptune that Doflamingo's awakened Devil Fruit and powerful allies made the coming battle uncertain, though Izumo held the advantage.
• Nami, Miss Goldenweek, and Robin traveled aboard Vimana toward Dressrosa and confirmed that Izumo's army was waiting in the skies above it.
• Ling Donglai chose Doflamingo's alleged theft of an Izumo treasure as a pretext for war, and Nami transmitted Izumo's declaration.

Ling Donglai assessed the Beasts Pirates’ Calamities and ordered Izumo to attack Dressrosa’s royal palace after giving it five hours to prepare. The first bombardment began, but Doflamingo’s forces intercepted it, and Nami realized the civilians near the palace had not been evacuated.

• Ling Donglai reviewed the abilities of King, Queen, and Jack, judging King the most likely to reach high altitude and recognizing the enemy’s aerial threat.
• Ling Donglai gave Dressrosa five hours to prepare and ordered Izumo to deploy air defenses before freely bombarding the royal palace.
• Doflamingo, the three Calamities, and the Doflamingo Family discussed the coming battle, with King eager to attack and Queen warning him to conserve his strength.
• After five hours, Izumo launched a massive barrage, but invisible threads sliced apart the missiles and projectiles.
• Nami saw that civilians near the royal palace had received no evacuation warning and angrily questioned whether Doflamingo cared if they lived or died.

Izumo’s Super Lightning trapped Dressrosa’s royal palace in a storm whose Seastone-laced fog began sealing Devil Fruit abilities. Doflamingo and the Beasts Pirates realized they were weakened and retreated through a passage in the mountain, while King flew into the storm to fight.

• Izumo unleashed Super Lightning over the royal palace, destroying a hall and striking several of Doflamingo’s officers.
• Baby-5 lost her ability and found that Den Den Mushi signals were cut off; she ran into the rain and was hit by lightning.
• Doflamingo entered the All-Stars’ room and demonstrated that his threads no longer worked in the fog.
• Queen recognized the fog as the effect of a Devil Fruit Sealing Island climate and warned Jack that they were weakened.
• King transformed and flew into the storm, while Queen and Jack planned to escape through a passage made by the Stone-Stone Fruit user.

Doflamingo, Queen, and Jack emerged from the mountain into a lull in the storm, but invisible assassins attacked them and left Doflamingo gravely wounded. They took shelter in a stone house while Pica reported that Baby-5 had disappeared after being struck by lightning.

• Queen blamed the enemy's softheartedness for the pause in the storm, while Jack urged everyone to recover and help King.
• An invisible assassin stabbed Doflamingo with a Curved-Light Blade, and Pica revealed himself from the mountain as Queen and Jack fought off the attackers.
• Doflamingo stitched his damaged heart with threads, and Jack blasted the attacker behind him with a punch.
• Queen examined the assassins' high-tech equipment as its light blade ran out of power, and Doflamingo ordered Pica to build shelter and warn the others inside the mountain.
• Pica reported that Baby-5 had gone into the storm to warn Doflamingo, was struck by lightning, and then disappeared.

Doflamingo learned that Mansherry and Violet had been taken and the SMILE Factory destroyed, while King fought Izumo Kingdom’s attackers in the storm. King killed four Dark Templars but was stabbed through the heart by a fifth, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Pica reported that the SMILE Factory had been burned, its research data lost, and Mansherry and Violet taken by unknown assailants.
• Doflamingo told Pica to protect the family’s remaining subordinates and search carefully for the invisible intruders.
• King struggled through the Seastone-laced storm and was struck by a railgun, bombardments, lightning, a blade, and lasers.
• Four Dark Templars attacked King, who killed them with a secret one-sword technique.
• A fifth Dark Templar pierced King’s heart, and his longsword fell to the ground.

After Izumo’s technology defeated King, Nami discovered that children were being used in experiments on Punk Hazard and asked to rescue them. Ling Donglai let her go alone as Vimana continued toward Dressrosa.

• Queen reflected on how Izumo’s super lightning and Seastone particles had overwhelmed the enemy, while Jack wondered why King had not returned.
• Nami reviewed the battle’s results and found that Izumo had captured one of the Three Calamities and obtained information about Punk Hazard.
• Nami learned that Caesar Clown was using kidnapped children in gigantification experiments and that nearby Marines had ignored their families’ reports.
• Nami asked to go to Punk Hazard to save the children, and Ling Donglai approved her going alone.
• Robin offered to accompany Nami, but Ling Donglai told her to stay and record his exploits.

Vimana arrived at Punk Hazard, where Sea Tiger overwhelmed Doflamingo in a clash of Conqueror’s Haki and declared he would take everything Doflamingo had. Doflamingo awakened his Devil Fruit and attacked with Queen, Jack, Pica, and Trebol, but Sea Tiger and Vimana struck back; Queen’s Brachiosaurus Bomb was still rushing toward Sea Tiger when the chapter ended.

• Vimana emerged from stealth and descended over Punk Hazard as Doflamingo, Queen, and the Donquixote family forces watched.
• Sea Tiger’s Conqueror’s Haki incapacitated Trebol and forced Doflamingo to withdraw from their clash of wills.
• Doflamingo asked for terms, but Sea Tiger called him a loser and declared that he was taking everything Doflamingo had.
• Doflamingo awakened his Devil Fruit and transformed the surroundings into threads, while Queen and Jack transformed to join the attack.
• Vimana’s plasma cannon vaporized much of Pica’s stone giant, and its lasers destroyed Trebol’s lower body; Sea Tiger burned away Doflamingo’s Haki-coated threads.
• Queen launched his Brachiosaurus Bomb at Sea Tiger.

Sea Tiger defeated Queen with his Explosive Fist, then confronted Doflamingo and began taking Devil Fruits from the Donquixote Family officers. He pulled the hidden officers from the mountain and discovered that the crowned little girl planned to trick him with her Devil Fruit.

• Sea Tiger struck the Brachiosaurus with a 200,000-horsepower punch, and Queen recognized that Sea Tiger was on a Four Emperor's level.
• Sea Tiger used his Explosive Fist to make Queen's body swell and explode, then silenced Jack with a glance.
• Sea Tiger asked Doflamingo about the Celestial Dragons' secrets, but rejected Doflamingo's offer to cooperate.
• Sea Tiger extracted Trebol's Devil Fruit and took the Stone-Stone Fruit from Pica, prompting Doflamingo to attack him with strings that his Magnetic Field Barrier repelled.
• Sea Tiger located the Donquixote Family officers hiding in the mountain and pulled them out before him.
• The crowned little girl feared Sea Tiger but secretly planned to act pitiful, approach him, and turn him into her strongest toy.

Ling Donglai took the Devil Fruits he wanted while Doflamingo tried to protect Sugar, then escaped as Vergo arrested Doflamingo. With Sugar's power gone, Dressrosa's transformed residents returned to normal, and Ling Donglai planned to use the Hobby-Hobby Fruit to pursue Vegapunk's technology.

• Doflamingo used Sugar and the Great Wave White Line to make a final attack on Ling Donglai, hoping Sugar could turn him into a toy.
• Ling Donglai extracted the Devil Fruits from the scattered ability users, leaving Doflamingo and Jack untouched, and told Doflamingo to keep holding Sugar.
• Vergo arrived with Marines and presented evidence of Doflamingo's crimes, following Doflamingo's plan to secure his arrest.
• Ling Donglai departed aboard Vimana with the Devil Fruits as Sugar's lost power restored the people and pirates who had been turned into toys.
• Vergo handcuffed Doflamingo while the people of Dressrosa attacked him, and Ling Donglai planned to obtain Vegapunk's blueprints from an abandoned laboratory.

Nami reached Punk Hazard and battled her way toward Vegapunk’s abandoned research base, discovering an artificially created dragon and a group of pirates guarding Caesar Clown. She disabled the base’s communications and power, then prepared to face the defenders blocking her path.

• Nami found Punk Hazard by detecting an unusual magnetic fluctuation and subdued an artificial fire-breathing dragon, deciding it might be useful for Reiju’s research.
• Nami reached a military base, disrupted its communications and electrical systems with Overlord’s Domain, and blasted open its metal gate with her magnetic staff.
• Caesar Clown sent Monet to investigate the disturbance while he stayed inside the base.
• Nami encountered Monet and a group of centaurs, who claimed Caesar was helping them and identified their leader as the former pirate Brownbeard.
• The centaurs refused to let Nami pass, and she struck at them with a dazzling red rod-shaped weapon.

Nami defeated Monet and captured Caesar Clown at Punk Hazard, then ordered the rescued children taken to Izumo for treatment and the base emptied. She learned that Dressrosa had also been resolved, with Doflamingo captured and the toy victims restored.

• Nami used heat to counter Monet’s snow powers, then sealed Monet inside a magnetic iron sphere.
• Nami confronted Caesar Clown, resisted his attempt to remove the oxygen around her, and made him put on Seastone handcuffs.
• Nami’s Dark Templars identified themselves as Germa technology, and she ordered Caesar sent to Sun Prison for Devil Fruit extraction and labor reform.
• Nami found evidence that Caesar had drugged the children and ordered them taken to Izumo for treatment before the base was cleared.
• Nami received word from Vimana that Doflamingo had been captured by the Marines and that the people turned into toys had returned to normal and revealed their suffering.

Ling Donglai took advantage of Izumo’s technological edge to copy research data from Future Kingdom and prepare for cooperation with the Revolutionary Army. Dragon arrived in Izumo to meet the White King, hoping to secure weapons and supplies for the fight against the Celestial Dragons.

• Nami returned to the Vimana and learned that Ling Donglai’s side had defeated Doflamingo’s forces even faster than expected.
• Ling Donglai led the group to Future Kingdom, where they copied two research bases’ blueprints without stealing the originals.
• Ling Donglai planned to recruit scientists and assigned Nami to oversee the rebuilding and management of Jaya Island as a trading hub.
• Robin told Ling Donglai that Dragon had arrived in Izumo, and Ling Donglai agreed to meet him as part of the arrangement with Kuma.
• Dragon observed Izumo’s tightly connected society and saw Ling Donglai return aboard a futuristic aircraft, then considered how Izumo’s technology could help the Revolutionary Army.

Ling Donglai and Dragon negotiated cooperation against the Celestial Dragons, exchanging access to supplies and intelligence for the Revolutionary Army’s sea charts. Dragon warned that the World Government was preparing to target Izumo, while Ling Donglai confirmed Nico Robin was safe in his care.

• Dragon met Ling Donglai and described the Celestial Dragons as a ruling group divided between elites and complacent “pigs.”
• Ling Donglai offered the Revolutionary Army weapons, food, and shared intelligence in exchange for its sea charts, and he and Dragon agreed to cooperate.
• Ling Donglai reasoned that challenging the Celestial Dragons would require power beyond the Three Admirals and Four Emperors or a threat that forced the World Government to act.
• Dragon warned Ling Donglai that the World Government was researching ways to reach the sky, collecting Devil Fruits, and enslaving nations that refused to join it.
• Dragon explained that the Revolutionary Army sought Nico Robin for her ability to read Poneglyphs, and Ling Donglai confirmed she was safe in Izumo and could translate any Poneglyphs they brought.
• Dragon said the Revolutionary Army planned to liberate Bridge Country, and he believed Ling Donglai’s support could help the operation begin sooner.

Nami and Vivi negotiated an unwritten alliance with the Revolutionary Army, while Ling Donglai and Robin discussed Dressrosa, captured princesses, and reports that Devil Fruit users were being hunted. The chapter ended with Ling Donglai teasing Robin before the author paused the story.

• Nami and Vivi jointly negotiated an unwritten alliance with the Revolutionary Army, whose members could deny it at any time.
• Robin told Ling Donglai that Doflamingo had been imprisoned and that Dressrosa's people had exposed his crimes, allowing King Riku to be recommended as king again.
• Robin asked Ling Donglai what to do with the captured princess of the little people's kingdom and Violet, and Ling Donglai decided to send them back to gain their friendship.
• Robin reported that an unknown force was killing Devil Fruit users and that the World Economy News Paper was portraying Ling Donglai as a tyrant.
• Ling Donglai teased Robin, who told him they could not do that there, before the author paused the story.

Kizaru arrived on Dressrosa to take Doflamingo into custody, but Jack escaped by diving into the sea. Watching Kizaru’s slow attack, Vergo began doubting the admirals’ strength and decided to free Doflamingo and kill Kizaru.

• Kizaru arrived on Dressrosa and spoke with Vergo, who confirmed that he had reported Doflamingo.
• Jack the Drought jumped into the sea, and Kizaru fired a delayed laser after him but could not confirm a hit.
• Kizaru ordered Vergo to take Doflamingo away and ensure nothing happened to him.
• Vergo reflected on Kizaru’s attack and on the reputations of Marine admirals, deciding they might be weaker than the Four Emperors.
• Vergo resolved to remove Doflamingo’s Seastone handcuffs, join forces with him, and kill Kizaru.

Aboard the warship carrying Doflamingo, Vergo freed him and tried to escape by attacking Kizaru. Kizaru defeated Vergo with a light-speed kick and prepared to deliver both men to Sengoku.

• Doflamingo told Kizaru that Sea Tiger’s Magnet-Magnet Fruit mastery and strength had overwhelmed him, and lamented that he had never obtained the Op-Op Fruit.
• Vergo unlocked Doflamingo’s Seastone handcuffs and urged him to escape, believing they had a chance against Kizaru at sea.
• Doflamingo rebuked Vergo for ruining his plan, while Kizaru confronted Vergo and recognized him as a Marine spy.
• Vergo coated himself in Armament Haki and attacked Kizaru with a barrage of close-range punches, but every strike missed.
• Kizaru kicked Vergo at the speed of light, sending him into the ship’s railing and leaving him unable to fight.

Jack returned to Onigashima and told Kaido that Sea Tiger could steal Devil Fruit powers, while news of Sea Tiger and Izumo reshaped the balance of power. The chapter ended with Big Mom deciding to seek a marriage alliance with Sea Tiger by sending him pictures of her daughters.

• Doflamingo was left in Kizaru’s custody after Vergo passed out, and Kizaru remarked that Vergo had grown reckless.
• Jack returned to Onigashima, reported Doflamingo’s arrest and Queen’s defeat, and warned Kaido that Sea Tiger could take Devil Fruit powers from others.
• Kaido dismissed the threat and rebuked a subordinate who cautioned him about Sea Tiger.
• Newspaper reports announced the killings and disappearances of Devil Fruit users, Buggy’s appointment as a Shichibukai, and Izumo’s recruitment of scientists; Izumo was recognized as a Heavenly Realm ruling the skies.
• Big Mom admired Sea Tiger in the newspaper and ordered her children to send him pictures of her daughters to propose a marriage alliance.