Chapter Summaries

The Five Elders ordered Sengoku to prepare a full-scale assault on the Whitebeard Pirates and Ace after learning Ace was Roger’s son. After Sengoku left, the Elders considered whether to eliminate Haku, whose ties to Ace and uncertain strength made him a dangerous risk.

• Nusjuro and the other Elders told Sengoku that Ace and the Whitebeard Pirates had to be destroyed once Ace’s lineage was known.
• Sengoku warned that attacking the Whitebeard Pirates could trigger a major war, but the Elders insisted on swift action using the Shichibukai and elite Marines.
• Sengoku agreed to arrange the operation and acknowledged the need to watch Garp and Haku because of their connections to Ace.
• Sengoku left Holy Land Marijoa, while the Five Elders discussed whether to target Haku.
• Saint Peter cautioned the Elders that Haku’s combat power was unknown and that an escape could damage the Marines because of his standing among them.

Saint Saturn ordered the Knights of God to test Haku’s strength in the Sabaody Archipelago, wary of the trouble a direct attack might cause within the Marines. Haku discovered the twenty pursuers and faced their leader, who revealed they had come specifically for him.

• Saint Peter warned that attacking Haku could cause turmoil among the Marines, so Saint Saturn proposed testing him through other means.
• Saint Saturn sent the Knights of God to Area 13 of the Sabaody Archipelago to probe Haku’s strength.
• Haku sensed twenty hostile pursuers following his ark and slowed down to learn their intentions.
• The Knights of God revealed themselves, and Haku stored his ark and waited for them in midair.
• A female Knight of God transformed with icy wings and froze the ocean as the group surrounded Haku.
• The armored leader called Haku the youngest Marine Admiral in history and said the Knights had come specifically to challenge him; Haku asked who he was and why they had come.

Haku fought the Knights of God with Zangetsu, holding off their group of twenty-two despite their varied Devil Fruit abilities. As they began to gain the advantage, he unleashed his spiritual pressure and transformed his weapon into Tensa Zangetsu, preparing to test it on them before fighting the Golden Lion.

• Haku drew Zangetsu and taunted the Knights of God, who charged him in response.
• Haku blocked an invisible attack with Bakudo #81, Broken Sky, and then fought the Knights of God as a group.
• The Knights of God adapted to Haku’s fighting style and pressed him with their varied abilities, forcing him to use Elementalization to evade some attacks.
• Haku released his spiritual pressure, drove the Knights of God back, and revealed Tensa Zangetsu.
• Haku vanished from his spot, ready to use Tensa Zangetsu against the Knights of God.

Haku used his speed and Getsuga Tensho to overwhelm the Knights of God, injuring their ice-wielding Mythical Zoan member and leaving several others down. Just as he prepared to finish them, a hidden spatial Devil Fruit ability teleported the Knights of God away, and Haku was left furious that his prey had escaped.

• Haku outpaced the Knights of God and cut off the wings of their ice-wielding Mythical Zoan member.
• The Knights of God used Observation Haki to try to track Haku, but he evaded them and attacked from the air with Getsuga Tensho.
• Haku's attack shattered the leader's weapon and knocked several Knights of God down.
• The Knights of God leader ordered his team to use their escape ability, and a spatial power made them and Haku's attack vanish.
• Haku found a huge crater where the Knights of God had stood and realized someone had used a spatial Devil Fruit ability to escape.

After Haku’s targets escaped, he traced their spatial ability to Mary Geoise and vented his anger on pirates as he continued toward Thriller Bark. The escapees’ return brought his slash down on Mary Geoise, awakening Imu, who asked the Five Elders about Haku.

• Haku sensed the Knights of God’s spatial escape residue and identified Mary Geoise as their destination.
• Haku set off again for Thriller Bark and destroyed pirate ships he encountered along the way.
• The Knights of God returned to Mary Geoise with Haku’s Getsuga Tensho, which tore through buildings near Imu’s bedchamber.
• Imu’s bedchamber remained intact, and the Five Elders knelt as Imu emerged and asked what had happened.
• Saint Warcury explained the incident, Saint Nusjuro reported that the Knights of God’s losses were unknown, and Saint Peter described Haku as a powerful Marine Admiral and Garp’s adopted grandson.

Imu ordered the Five Elders to eliminate Haku, and they planned to exploit the Marineford War while secretly meeting with Marshall D. Teach. Haku reached Thriller Bark and met Bartholomew Kuma as the Straw Hat Pirates faced Oars, leaving Kuma poised to attack them.

• Imu learned that Haku's hostility toward the World Government began after his conflict with Charlose and ordered the Five Elders to deal with him.
• The Five Elders chose the upcoming Marineford War as an opportunity to target Haku and secretly summoned Marshall D. Teach.
• Haku sailed to Thriller Bark, found the ship with Observation Haki, and approached Bartholomew Kuma.
• Haku and Kuma watched as Moria used Luffy's shadow to revive Oars, while Sanji, Zoro, and Luffy had lost their shadows.
• Haku said he trusted the Straw Hat Pirates to handle Oars, and Kuma asked whether Haku would object if he attacked them later.

Haku left the Straw Hat Pirates to fight Oars while he pursued Absalom and extracted the Invisibility Fruit ability from him. Bear warned Gecko Moria about the Straw Hats and offered help, but Moria rushed off to confront them himself.

• Haku told Bear to continue notifying Gecko Moria about the Shichibukai matter and vanished while the Straw Hat Pirates battled Oars.
• Bear told Moria that Marshall D. Teach had been confirmed as a new Shichibukai and warned that the World Government feared the Straw Hats might defeat him.
• Moria rejected Bear’s offer to help and charged off to fight the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Haku found Absalom badly injured from Nami’s attacks, then killed him after Absalom tried to attack.
• Haku extracted the Invisibility Fruit ability from Absalom’s body and considered how it could be combined with the Calm-Calm Fruit.

Haku watched the Straw Hat Pirates defeat Gecko Moria, then learned that Saint Saturn had ordered Bear to kill everyone on Thriller Bark to conceal Moria’s defeat. As Bear attacked the islanders and confronted Zoro, Haku suspected Bear was testing the crew, and Franky was swiftly knocked down.

• Haku put away the Invisibility Fruit, then watched Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates defeat Oars and Gecko Moria before dawn.
• Bear reported Moria’s defeat to Saint Saturn, who ordered him to eliminate everyone on Thriller Bark, including the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Haku decided to intervene as Bear began attacking the island and singled out Zoro.
• Zoro told the others to stay out of his fight, but Bear dodged his attacks with the Paw-Paw Fruit.
• Franky underestimated Bear and was quickly defeated.

Bartholomew Kuma overwhelmed the Straw Hat Pirates and offered to spare them if they handed over Luffy, but they refused. After Kuma’s attack left everyone unconscious except Zoro, Sanji, and Haku, Zoro offered to die in Luffy’s place.

• Kuma defeated the Straw Hat Pirates’ attacks and began forming a compressed air bomb, then offered to spare them if they gave him Luffy’s head.
• The Straw Hat Pirates unanimously refused to betray Luffy, and Kuma released the air bomb, knocking out everyone except Zoro and Sanji.
• Haku watched from the air as Kuma approached the unconscious Luffy and prepared to heal him.
• Zoro slashed Kuma’s shoulder, discovered his mechanical body, and asked whether Kuma would take Luffy’s head regardless.
• Zoro offered his own life in exchange for Luffy’s, and Kuma asked whether Zoro’s ambition was worth dying for.

Zoro took Luffy’s accumulated pain and fatigue to protect his captain, while Bear and Haku rescued Moria and discussed Bear’s plan to become a Pacifista. The chapter ended with Bear asking Haku to look after Bonney in exchange for sharing intelligence from the World Government.

• Zoro knocked Sanji unconscious and asked Bear to spare Luffy by letting him take Luffy’s pain and fatigue.
• Bear extracted Luffy’s pain and fatigue and made Zoro endure it, while Haku arrived and used Restoration to stop Zoro’s bleeding.
• Bear and Haku left Zoro and sent the unconscious Moria and Hogback to their ship.
• Haku questioned Bear about wiping his memories and becoming a Pacifista, and Bear said it was his choice and duty.
• Bear offered to share World Government intelligence with Haku if Haku would help look after Bonney.

Haku told Bear that Bonney would be safer away from him because the World Government might target him after the coming war, and Bear asked Haku to watch over her. After discussing how the future could change, Haku read the news of Ace's capture while Marines gathered at Marineford to debate executing him publicly.

• Haku explained to Bear that Bonney staying with him was dangerous because the World Government might come after him, and Bear accepted his concern.
• Haku warned Bear that most of his body had been modified and doubted whether his restorative item could repair him; Bear said his body could still protect those he loved.
• Bear asked Haku about his future, and Haku said the future was not fixed and could be changed by their actions.
• Bear asked Haku to watch over Bonney, then used his Devil Fruit ability to pursue Gecko Moria.
• Haku found a newspaper reporting that Ace had been captured and imprisoned in Impel Down, and anticipated that the Marines would announce his public execution.
• At Marineford, high-ranking Marines debated Ace's fate as radical officers urged a public execution and others worried it could provoke a wider war.

Sengoku secured the Marines’ decision to execute Ace as a declaration of war against the Whitebeard Pirates and the old era, while Garp pleaded for his grandson and questioned the plan to leave Haku in East Blue. Haku learned the high-ranking Marines had decided not to recall him and suspected they wanted him to stay away.

• Sengoku ended the divided meeting by declaring that Ace’s execution would demonstrate the Marines’ resolve against pirates and the old era.
• After the meeting, Garp struggled with his divided loyalties, and Sengoku explained that the World Government had ordered Ace’s execution because of his lineage and ties to Whitebeard.
• Garp asked what would happen to Haku, and Sengoku said Sakazuki, Borsalino, and Kuzan would lead the operation while Haku continued searching for the Golden Lion in East Blue.
• Garp warned that Haku might suppress the Golden Lion or cause trouble, but Sengoku insisted Haku would understand the Marines’ position and would not return soon.
• Haku learned of the Marines’ decision through various channels and suspected they did not want him recalled.

Haku boarded the Straw Hat Pirates’ ship and explained that he was on official business while traveling with them toward Sabaody. He showed them reports of mysterious attacks in the East Blue, and the chapter ended as Sengoku called Haku.

• Haku told Robin that he was traveling on official business and showed her a newspaper report about attacks in the East Blue.
• Robin asked Sanji to wake the Straw Hat Pirates, and Haku reassured them that he was not there to capture them.
• The crew learned that towns in the East Blue had vanished overnight after meteor strikes and attacks by strange creatures.
• Haku revealed that Sanji had come to the East Blue from the North Blue and that the World Government had tampered with his bounty poster.
• Haku’s Den Den Mushi rang, and he identified Sengoku as the caller and told the crew to stay quiet.

Haku told Fleet Admiral Sengoku he would handle Golden Lion’s threat to the East Blue within days and asked Marines to prepare to follow his coordinates. He reassured the Straw Hats, then sensed something approaching the Sunny and prepared for action.

• Luffy failed to recognize Sengoku, and Usopp and Nami covered his mouth as Haku answered the Fleet Admiral’s call.
• Sengoku demanded to know whether Haku had found Golden Lion, and Haku promised to resolve the crisis soon and asked for Vice Admirals and handcuffs to be ready.
• Haku assured Nami that the East Blue would be safe, while Luffy offered to help and Usopp objected to changing their adventure plans.
• Haku said the crew did not need to go to the East Blue, sensed a target behind the Sunny, and put on a Hollow Mask.
• Haku ordered the Straw Hats not to call him by name and punched Luffy with Armament Haki after Luffy ignored the order.

Haku explained Armament Haki to the Straw Hat Pirates and told them about Garp’s role in defeating the Rocks Pirates. When Golden Lion Shiki’s flying island appeared above the Thousand Sunny, Haku revealed to Robin that he planned to take on Shiki and the pirates gathered at his stronghold.

• Haku explained that Armament Haki could bypass Devil Fruit abilities and said the crew could learn it, though Luffy would still be no match for Garp.
• Haku and Robin told the crew about Garp’s defeat of the Rocks Pirates and the crew members who later became Emperors.
• A floating island ship appeared above the Thousand Sunny, and Haku recognized it as Shiki’s stronghold while Luffy tried to warn its occupants about an approaching hurricane.
• Golden Lion Shiki’s subordinates noticed Luffy waving from the ship and sent a Recording Den Den Mushi toward the Straw Hats.
• Robin asked Haku why he had joined the Thousand Sunny, and he admitted that he intended to target Shiki, the Flying Pirate Group, and the pirate crews at the stronghold.

Haku and the Straw Hat Pirates escaped the hurricane, then met Golden Lion Shiki, who invited them to his base. Shiki tried to recruit Nami, but Luffy and Sanji stood protectively in her way.

• Haku shielded the crew from the rain as Nami guided the Thousand Sunny out of the hurricane.
• Golden Lion Shiki landed on the Thousand Sunny, introduced his Float-Float Fruit ability, and invited the Straw Hat Pirates to his base.
• Haku stopped Luffy from revealing his name and accepted Shiki's invitation on the crew's behalf.
• Shiki praised Nami's navigation and asked her to join the Flying Pirate Group.
• Luffy and Sanji objected to Shiki poaching Nami, who valued her companions and would not leave them.

Golden Lion Shiki lured the Straw Hat Pirates to his sky island and kidnapped Nami, while Haku let him go so he could wait for the pirate crews gathering there to help destroy East Blue. Haku stopped the Thousand Sunny from crashing and promised Robin that Nami would be back that night.

• Nami refused Golden Lion Shiki’s offer to join the Flying Pirate Group, but he secretly decided to take her.
• Golden Lion Shiki brought the Straw Hat Pirates to his floating island, where Luffy and Usopp marveled at the sights.
• As Golden Lion Shiki moved to kidnap Nami, Haku used his Spiritual Pressure to stop Robin and Zoro from intervening.
• Golden Lion Shiki trapped Nami and withdrew his power from the Thousand Sunny, sending it plummeting while Haku fell with Robin in his arms.
• Haku told Robin that Nami would return that night, then used the kido spell [Blue] to reach the Thousand Sunny.
• Haku stopped the Thousand Sunny less than half a meter above the ground and explained that he was waiting for the pirate crews gathering on the island.

Haku located Golden Lion’s base and called Sengoku to arrange a Marine force while he prepared to eliminate the mutated animals. Meanwhile, news of Ace’s capture and rumored execution excited Kaido, who began planning an alliance to exploit the coming conflict.

• Haku teleported Robin to Brook and Franky, then left to pursue his own business.
• Haku told Sengoku he had found Golden Lion’s base and asked the Marines to wait for his signal while he cleared the mutated animals.
• Haku explained Golden Lion’s IQ plants and the danger posed by the mutated creatures, and Sengoku placed the arriving Vice Admirals under Haku’s command.
• Haku drove off a charging giant elephant and vanished toward the main island where Golden Lion was located.
• Kaido celebrated the prospect of Whitebeard and the Marines clashing over Ace, then ordered Jack to contact Whole Cake Island and summon her.

Kaido and Big Mom agreed to join forces amid the Marines’ plan to execute Ace, while Shanks learned that the two Emperors might target Whitebeard and Haku. Morgans prepared to cover the coming upheaval and received a call from Photo King.

• Kaido called Big Mom and persuaded her to cooperate, while Big Mom planned to use the coming chaos to eliminate Haku.
• Lucky Roo told Shanks that Ace had been captured and sent to Impel Down, and that the Marines intended to execute him publicly.
• Ben Beckman informed Shanks that Kaido and Charlotte Linlin had been in frequent contact without fighting, suggesting they were plotting together.
• Shanks ordered his crew to monitor Kaido and Charlotte Linlin and prepare for a possible war between pirates and the Marines.
• Morgans worked on his coverage of the Marines’ coming confrontation with Whitebeard and received a call from Photo King.

Morgans learned that Golden Lion Shiki planned to destroy the East Blue, then discovered that Haku was at Shiki’s flying stronghold. Haku traded a promise of news for Morgans’s intelligence on the Four Emperors and asked him to keep monitoring their movements.

• Photo King told Morgans that Golden Lion Shiki was gathering pirates to destroy the East Blue, and said he had infiltrated Shiki’s flying stronghold.
• Photo King suspected he had seen Marine Admiral Haku in the jungle, and Haku confirmed his identity by taking the Den Den Mushi.
• Haku asked Morgans for intelligence on the plans and movements of the Four Emperors in exchange for news from the stronghold.
• Morgans reported that the Whitebeard Pirates were preparing to raid the execution ground, while Kaido and Charlotte Linlin had allied and Shanks was approaching them.
• Haku asked Morgans to keep monitoring the Four Emperors and notify him of any new developments.