Chapter Summaries

Haku told Dragon that the Marines would soon fight one of the Four Emperors because the World Government planned to target Ace, making him the fuse of the war. Dragon agreed to monitor Sabo and urged him to hold back until Ace needed help, though whether Sabo would follow that plan remained uncertain.

• Haku explained that the World Government would target Ace, bringing the Marines into war with Whitebeard and making Sabo likely to intervene for his brother.
• Haku told Dragon that the war would break the old power structure, weaken the World Government, and create new opportunities for the Revolutionary Army.
• Dragon recognized that Sabo would not abandon Ace and worried that Sabo's intervention could pull the Revolutionary Army into the conflict.
• Haku suggested that Dragon let Sabo provide backup only when Ace and the others needed to retreat, rather than joining the battle from the start.
• Dragon agreed to talk with Sabo and try to keep him from being drawn into the war too early.

Haku arrived at Water 7 after Luffy and his crew had already made their way through the events surrounding the Going Merry and Robin’s capture. As the Straw Hats fought CP9 at Enies Lobby, Haku watched from above and focused on Bruno’s Door-Door Fruit.

• Luffy, Nami, and Usopp exchanged the gold from Sky Island for 300 million Berries, while Usopp went alone to Franky House to protect the ship-repair money.
• After Galley-La diagnosed the Going Merry as unable to reach another island, Luffy decided the crew would have to say goodbye to it; Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Chopper then defeated the Franky Family.
• Robin disappeared in Water 7, and CP9 took her and Franky to Enies Lobby; Spandam announced he would send the Straw Hats to Impel Down despite his earlier promise.
• Luffy and his crew invaded Enies Lobby, and the giant warriors Cassie and Oimo switched sides after Usopp revealed that the World Government had deceived them.
• After Luffy defeated Bruno with Second Gear, Spandam ordered CP9 to launch the Complete Annihilation Order against the Straw Hats.
• Haku watched from above Enies Lobby and became interested in acquiring Bruno’s Door-Door Fruit.

Haku realized the Door-Door Fruit could give him powers similar to Kamui, while a Buster Call was triggered against Enies Lobby. As Robin feared the Straw Hats would abandon her, Spandam mocked her and boasted of the World Government’s power.

• Haku decided he wanted to keep the Door-Door Fruit after recognizing its potential for travel and evasion through an alternate space.
• A Golden Den Den Mushi rang in Haku’s cabin, reminding him that his rank as a Marine Admiral gave him the right to call a Buster Call.
• Haku realized Spandam had triggered a Buster Call against Enies Lobby and secretly activated a broadcasting Den Den Mushi he had obtained from Dragon.
• Robin warned that the Buster Call would destroy everyone at Enies Lobby and explained that the attack had taken everything from her twenty years earlier.
• Robin told the Straw Hat Pirates she feared her enemies would make them see her as a burden and that she would rather die than endanger them.
• Spandam mocked Robin’s fears and pointed to the World Government flag as proof of the immense power arrayed against the Straw Hat Pirates.

Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates declared war on the World Government by shooting its flag, and Robin finally asked them to take her out to sea. While they charged into battle, Haku stole Bruno's Door-Door Fruit power and then met Aokiji, who turned back after learning Enies Lobby's situation.

• Luffy ordered Usopp to shoot through the World Government's flag, and Usopp fired a Firebird Star at it.
• Sabo celebrated Luffy's declaration of war with Haku, and Dragon asked Haku to keep an eye on Luffy.
• Luffy demanded that Robin say she wanted to live, and Robin asked the Straw Hat Pirates to take her out to sea.
• Haku used the Chain of Plunder on unconscious Bruno, extracted the Door-Door Fruit power, and stored the recreated fruit in his system space.
• Haku told Aokiji that it was too late to intervene at Enies Lobby, and Aokiji turned back, saying he was going to sleep.

Haku secretly watched the Straw Hat Pirates struggle against CP9 at Enies Lobby and refused to intervene directly. When Nami fled into his room, he gave her Zeus and a way to escape Jabura while warning her to keep his presence secret.

• Haku entered Enies Lobby and observed the Straw Hat Pirates fighting CP9 for the key to Robin’s handcuffs.
• Haku noticed the crew was struggling, especially Nami, who was being hunted by Jabura after Kalifa’s absence changed the matchup.
• Nami fled into Haku’s room and was startled to find him there.
• Haku refused to fight Jabura because he needed to keep his presence hidden from CP9, the Marines, and Enies Lobby’s residents.
• Haku brought out Zeus, explained that the Homie came from BIG MOM’s soul, and offered him to Nami as a way to deal with Jabura.

Haku gave Zeus to Nami and left her with a mysterious glowing sphere before Jabura attacked. Zeus defeated Jabura and helped Nami obtain the number one key, while the fight between Luffy and Lucci continued amid an early Buster Call.

• Haku introduced Nami to Zeus, which accepted her as its new master and meal ticket.
• Haku handed Nami a dangerous glowing sphere for Usopp, then teleported away as Jabura arrived.
• Haku charged Zeus with lightning, and Zeus struck down Jabura to protect Nami.
• Nami praised Zeus and searched Jabura, finding the number one key.
• Luffy continued fighting Lucci in Gear Second as Spandam's early Buster Call changed the course of events at Enies Lobby.

As the Buster Call warships attacked Enies Lobby, Robin learned that Spandam’s father had ordered Ohara’s destruction and found herself trapped at the Gate of Justice. Usopp’s shot knocked Spandam down, and Haku helped Robin reach a key, leaving her free of her handcuffs amid the bombardment.

• Spandam brought Robin to the Bridge of Hesitation and taunted her as the Buster Call fleet approached Enies Lobby.
• Robin learned that Spandine had initiated the Buster Call against Ohara and remembered the scholars’ deaths.
• A landmine blasted Franky away, leaving Robin unable to reach the Seastone keys herself.
• Usopp shot Spandam with three keys, knocking him down and giving Robin a chance to escape.
• Haku used spiritual power to blow the number-five key toward Robin, and she unlocked her handcuffs as the warships resumed shelling Enies Lobby.

Franky rescued Nico Robin, who defeated Spandam, while Luffy defeated Rob Lucci and the Straw Hat Pirates escaped Enies Lobby aboard the Going Merry. On their return voyage, the damaged ship’s keel snapped, and the crew gathered to say goodbye as the Going Merry thanked them for treasuring her.

• Franky caught Spandam’s elephant sword before it could strike Nico Robin and helped her up.
• Nico Robin used Six Petal Flower: Palm Strike and Thirty Petal Flower: Claw to defeat Spandam.
• Luffy defeated Rob Lucci with Jet Stamp after their battle reached the first pillar.
• Usopp reminded the Straw Hat Pirates that they still had another crewmate, and the Going Merry arrived to carry them away from Enies Lobby.
• Haku teleported back to his ark, while Iceburg joined the Straw Hat Pirates on their return voyage and told them the Going Merry had surpassed its limits.
• The Going Merry’s keel snapped, and the crew apologized to and thanked the ship as she said she had been happy with them.

Haku arrived aboard the ship, recovered the sealed sandstorm orb from Usopp, and gave Zeus a thunder orb. Seeing the Going Merry’s fading ship spirit, he told the Straw Hats he could not repair the ship but had another way to deal with its problem.

• Franky and the Franky Family aimed their weapons at Haku, who knocked them unconscious with Conqueror’s Haki and told Franky they only needed to sleep.
• Haku asked Usopp for the glowing orb Nami had given him, and Usopp returned the compressed sandstorm Haku had left as protection against a possible World Government attack.
• Zeus flew to Haku, who gave it a thunder orb, while Nami watched it happily eat the treat.
• Haku sensed the Going Merry’s weakening ship spirit and confirmed to Usopp that it had not completely disappeared.
• Luffy and the others pleaded with Haku to save the Going Merry, and Haku said repairing it was impossible but he had another way to address the problem.

Haku extracted the Going Merry’s Ship Spirit and kept it from collapsing, while Iceburg and Franky promised to build it a new hull in five days. He then used his Fullbring, the Hogyoku, and the Six Eyes to shrink the damaged ship into a toy-sized model, leaving Luffy and the others stunned.

• Haku lifted the sinking Going Merry and extracted its Ship Spirit, warning that it could collapse without a new hull soon.
• Franky offered to build a replacement ship, and Iceburg joined him in mobilizing Water 7’s resources to finish it in five days.
• Haku stayed near the Straw Hat Pirates while waiting for the Golden Lion to appear.
• Haku combined his Fullbring (Modified), the Hogyoku, and the Six Eyes to shrink the Going Merry into a toy-sized model.
• Luffy started to question Haku, then fell silent when he saw blood covering Haku’s eyes.

Haku joined the Straw Hats on their return to Water 7, where he supported Iceburg’s plan to turn an island into a ship. He arranged for Iceburg to test the design at his G5 Base, leaving them poised to begin experiments and develop the technology for a future transformation of Water 7.

• Luffy panicked over Haku’s bloodshot eyes, but Chopper checked them and found they were already recovering quickly.
• Robin confirmed she had met Haku in the past, then teased the crew with a story about him offering to share his warm bed.
• Haku boarded the Straw Hats’ ship and traveled with them back to Water 7.
• Iceburg showed Haku his design for making an island float and sail like a ship.
• Haku offered to host preliminary experiments at his G5 Base and said Kyros’s Djima Djima Fruit could help repair setbacks.
• Haku and Iceburg agreed to cooperate, giving Iceburg support to refine the design and Haku access to a potential strategic resource.

Haku imagined turning G5 Base into an airborne aircraft carrier but remained wary of the World Government’s hidden power. Garp arrived in Water 7, reunited with Luffy and Haku, and scolded Luffy about his pirate ambitions and Shanks, leaving Luffy to learn that Shanks was one of the Four Emperors.

• Haku imagined using the Float-Float Fruit to transform G5 Base into an airborne aircraft carrier, while deciding not to challenge the World Government without knowing its secrets.
• Garp arrived in Water 7 and punched Haku into a wall before finding Luffy asleep and striking him awake.
• Garp explained that he had trained Luffy to become a Marine, while Luffy insisted that he wanted to be a pirate like Shanks.
• Nami asked Haku to help Luffy, but Haku said Garp would not beat his own grandson to death.
• Garp told Luffy that Shanks was one of the Four Emperors, whose power could be contested by Marine Headquarters and the Shichibukai.

Garp visited Luffy and Haku in Water 7, where the family discussed Luffy’s growth and the World Government’s plans. After Luffy and Zoro subdued Koby and Helmeppo, Garp ordered everyone to help repair the wall he had broken.

• Zoro returned to the residence and began fighting the marines who had arrived with Garp.
• Luffy ran outside, and Koby and Helmeppo tried to stop him but were quickly defeated by Luffy and Zoro.
• Haku and Garp discussed the Shichibukai, the World Government, and Luffy’s potential and need for further training.
• Garp ordered the marines to repair the wall he had broken, and Haku insisted that he help too.
• Garp agreed to help repair the wall, then told Haku she had to help as well.

While Garp and Haku repaired a wall, Garp revealed that Luffy’s father was Monkey D. Dragon, leader of the Revolutionary Army. Haku explained Dragon’s role and warned the gathered Marines and Straw Hat Pirates to keep what they had learned to themselves.

• Luffy asked why Haku had been at Enies Lobby, and Haku said he had been there on a mission to track down the Golden Lion.
• Garp told Luffy that the man who had helped him in Loguetown was his father, and Haku added that Dragon had tried to recruit him into the Revolutionary Army.
• Garp revealed Dragon’s name and identity, shocking Luffy, the Straw Hat Pirates, and the Marines present.
• Haku explained that the Revolutionary Army sought to overthrow the World Government and that Dragon was its leader.
• Haku briefly intimidated everyone with his Haki and Spiritual Pressure, warning them not to spread what they had learned.

After Garp leaves Water Seven, Luffy and Koby talk about meeting again in the New World, while Aokiji gives Nico Robin a final chance to affirm that she has found a place among the Straw Hat Pirates. Haku then discusses Ohara with Aokiji, who admits that the tragedy still leaves him with guilt and regret.

• Garp said he would delay the Marines from arresting Luffy and left after scolding Luffy for being too casual about their reunion.
• Luffy and Koby reminisced, discussed Vegapunk, and promised to reunite in the New World after growing stronger.
• At the Straw Hat Pirates' banquet, Haku joined Aokiji as he asked Robin why she had chosen to stay with the crew instead of escaping CP9.
• Robin said she could not let her companions die, and Aokiji revealed that he had watched over her because of his friend Jaguar D. Saul and the destruction of Ohara.
• Aokiji told Robin to live well and said Ohara had not perished, then admitted to Haku that the incident remained an eternal source of guilt and regret for him.

Haku spoke with Aokiji about the complexity of right and wrong, then welcomed him to work at G5 Base if he ever needed a place to go. After the Enies Lobby news raised the Straw Hat Pirates’ bounties, their friends and family reacted around the world, while Blackbeard set his plan in motion and Ace confronted him on Banaaro Island.

• Aokiji discussed the Ohara incident with Haku, who urged him to hold to his beliefs and invited him to work at G5 Base someday.
• The Straw Hat Pirates’ Enies Lobby exploits made the news, and Luffy’s bounty rose to three hundred million Berries; Haku joked with Luffy about the amount.
• Smoker resolved to defeat the Straw Hat Pirates in the New World after requesting a transfer to G5 Base, while Vivi, Zeff, and others reacted to the new bounties.
• Sabo celebrated the crew’s total bounty of six hundred and sixty-seven million and fifty Berries with Dragon, who privately expressed hope that he would meet Luffy again.
• Blackbeard set out to capture Luffy and claim the vacant Shichibukai position, but Ace caught up with him on Banaaro Island.
• Blackbeard invited Ace to join him in creating a new era, and Ace angrily condemned him for betraying Whitebeard and their crew.

Ace fought Teach on Banaaro Island while Teach planned to capture Luffy for a position as Shichibukai. In Water 7, Franky joined the Straw Hat Pirates and Haku warned the crew that Garp was coming as they prepared to depart.

• Teach offered Ace a place at his side and revealed his plan to capture Luffy, but Ace refused and charged at him to avenge Whitebeard and protect his brother.
• Ace and Teach battled fiercely above Banaaro Island as Luffy and the others remained unaware of the danger.
• Franky's underlings brought him to Luffy by taking his swim trunks, and Iceburg urged Franky to forgive himself and pursue his dream.
• Franky joined the Straw Hat Pirates as their seventh crewmate, and the crew celebrated their new ship while planning their next adventure.
• Haku integrated the Ship Spirit into the Thousand Sunny and warned Luffy that Garp was coming, then took Iceburg aboard his Ark as Robin and Sanji recognized clues linking Haku to Sky Island.

Haku returned to G5 Base with Iceburg after securing their cooperation, while the Straw Hat Pirates sailed toward their next destination. At G5, Kalifa reported that Ace had been captured by Blackbeard and handed over to the World Government, though the news had not yet spread.

• Haku carried Iceburg onto the ark and flew away as Garp fired cannonballs at the Thousand Sunny, which escaped with Usopp aboard.
• Haku explained how the ark flew, and Iceburg studied its design while they traveled toward G5 Base.
• The ark crossed the Red Line and reached G5 Base, where Haku inspected the new metal-plated walls made with the Munch-Munch Fruit.
• Kalifa gave Haku a report stating that Blackbeard had defeated Ace on Banaro Island and turned him over to the World Government in exchange for the Shichibukai position.
• Haku asked whether the news had spread, and Kalifa said it was still being kept under wraps.

Haku went to Sabaody Archipelago to meet Rayleigh and warn him that Blackbeard had captured Ace and might have revealed his ancestry to the World Government. Rayleigh agreed to help secure an escape route for Ace, while Haku said he would handle the rescue himself.

• Haku ordered Kalifa to arrange Iceburg's quarters and have Kyros work with him on new G5 Base modifications.
• Haku flew the Ark to Sabaody Archipelago and docked at Shakky's Rip-off Bar, causing pirates in the area to flee.
• Haku paid Shakky with a gold nugget and met Rayleigh at the bar.
• Haku told Rayleigh that Blackbeard had captured Ace and might have exposed Ace's ancestry to the World Government.
• Haku warned that the World Government might use Ace's ancestry to make a move against Whitebeard.
• Rayleigh agreed to help secure a safe escape route, and Haku said he would handle Ace's rescue despite his Marine Admiral position.

Haku persuaded Rayleigh to train Luffy after the Ace affair, then left Sabaody for Thriller Bark as news broke that Blackbeard had become a Shichibukai. At Holy Land Marijoa, Sengoku learned of the appointment and was given a CP0 report revealing the truth about Ace’s lineage.

• Haku showed Rayleigh Luffy’s bounty poster and convinced him to train Luffy after Ace’s situation was resolved.
• Haku left Sabaody Archipelago for Thriller Bark as news spread that Marshall D. Teach had become a new Shichibukai.
• The Five Elders summoned Fleet Admiral Sengoku and asked about Blackbeard’s appointment, which Sengoku agreed to monitor.
• Nusjuro gave Sengoku a CP0 report about Ace’s lineage, and Sengoku read it with growing alarm.