Chapter Summaries

Haku stole Indigo’s IQ research and a mother plant before moving against Golden Lion’s allies. As Golden Lion threatened Nami and unleashed beasts on a village, Haku’s lightning struck only the beasts, leaving Shiki stunned.

• Haku reassured Morgans, then left Photo King with the Den Den Mushi and went to Indigo’s laboratory.
• Haku bypassed the guards, took the IQ research materials and one mother plant, then used Observation Haki to check on Luffy and the others.
• Haku saw Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, Zoro, Sanji, and others unconscious, while Nami had been returned to Golden Lion and Robin, Franky, and the others approached.
• Golden Lion showed Nami beasts attacking the village, but Nami warned him that someone had already made a move against him.
• Thunderclouds appeared above the island, and Golden Lion shot two weather experts after they reported the danger.
• Red lightning struck the attacking beasts, disabling or killing them while leaving the civilians unharmed.

Haku rescued Nami from Golden Lion Shiki’s base and reunited her with Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates. He told them to evacuate as he confronted Shiki, then activated Bankai and appeared behind the immobilized pirate.

• Haku knocked Golden Lion away, rescued Nami, and used Conqueror’s Haki to incapacitate the people in the control room.
• Indigo identified Haku as a Marine Admiral, and Shiki set out to intercept him and kill Luffy’s crew.
• Haku used instantaneous movement to bring Nami to Luffy and the others, then warned them to evacuate because the surrounding sea would soon become dangerous.
• Luffy ordered the Straw Hat Pirates to leave and help evacuate the Sky Island villagers while Haku stayed behind to face Shiki.
• Haku activated Bankai, overwhelmed Shiki with spiritual pressure, and appeared behind him as Shiki found himself unable to move.

Haku fought Golden Lion Shiki in an aerial sword battle, using lightning and powerful slashes while Golden Lion countered with his Devil Fruit. As the battle continued, the Straw Hats evacuated the islanders, and Robin revealed Haku’s reputation as a Marine Admiral whose strength Crocodile believed had reached the world’s pinnacle.

• Haku escaped Golden Lion’s attempt to trap him in the ground and blocked the flying slashes Golden Lion sent at him.
• Golden Lion formed blizzard lion heads around Haku, but Haku destroyed them with lightning and struck back with Getsuga Tensho.
• Haku dodged Golden Lion’s water attack, wounded him with a lightning slash, and pressed him with a rapid series of attacks.
• Usopp helped evacuate the crowd while Zoro watched the duel closely and Luffy excitedly admired Haku’s strength until Nami told him to help.
• Robin urged the crew to evacuate so Haku could fight without holding back, then explained that Crocodile had called Haku a Marine Admiral at the pinnacle of the world’s strength and had been arrested by him for plotting to usurp a country.

Haku fought Golden Lion Shiki while buying time for Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates to escape. After Golden Lion gained control of Tensa Zangetsu, Haku let the sword go, leaving the outcome of their clash uncertain.

• Golden Lion attacked Haku with flying slashes aimed toward Luffy and the others, and Haku blocked them while allowing one to warn the crew of the danger.
• Haku stopped Golden Lion from controlling the Thousand Sunny, letting Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates escape with the Wind Dial.
• Once the crew had left, Haku attacked Golden Lion at high speed and struck him hard enough to send him crashing to the ground.
• Golden Lion anticipated Haku's next strike, trapped Tensa Zangetsu between his hands, and used his Float-Float Fruit ability to control it.
• Haku released Tensa Zangetsu, surprising Golden Lion as he prepared to fight without the weapon.

Haku fought Golden Lion in the sky, gradually gaining the upper hand as the older pirate weakened. Haku declared that he would finish the battle with a powerful ultimate move, while Marine Vice Admirals held their position outside the thunder domain.

• Haku blasted Golden Lion with a Cero, then reclaimed Tensa Zangetsu and absorbed Golden Lion’s attacks with a black hole.
• Haku and Golden Lion exchanged close-range blows until Haku struck Golden Lion in the chest and made him spit blood.
• Golden Lion unleashed Lion’s Might: Ground Roll Wave, and Haku countered with Getsuga Tensho, creating a huge explosion.
• Vice Admirals Mole, Fire Mountain, Doberman, and Onigumo discussed the battle and decided to hold their position beyond Haku’s thunder domain.
• Haku noticed Golden Lion’s strength fading, drove him back with a powerful punch, and announced that he would use a big ultimate move to finish the fight.

Haku awakened his Rumble-Rumble Fruit and defeated Golden Lion with his newly empowered lightning. After Golden Lion offered a secret about Pirate King Roger in exchange for his life, Haku decapitated him as the Photo King recorded the scene.

• Haku's Rumble-Rumble Fruit awakened, filling the sky with purple lightning that terrified the Straw Hat Pirates and charred a Sea King.
• Golden Lion sensed that Haku had awakened his Logia Devil Fruit and looked for a way to escape.
• Haku trapped Golden Lion in a cage of purple lightning and overwhelmed him with its power.
• Golden Lion offered to reveal a secret about Pirate King Roger, but Haku refused and decapitated him with Zangetsu.
• The Photo King recorded Golden Lion's execution, and Haku allowed him to film.

After killing Golden Lion, Haku extracted the Float-Float Fruit and reviewed the rewards for completing his mission. He considered testing whether his Six Eyes could remove Devil Fruit side effects, then greeted the Navy vice admirals as their ships arrived.

• Haku extracted a Float-Float Fruit from Golden Lion’s body while Morgans handled the news that could not be reported.
• Haku checked his system rewards and discovered new abilities and items, including Nen Ability, Senbonzakura, Minazuki, a Companion Card, and another Float-Float Fruit.
• Haku tested his Nen Ability by creating a small sun and realized he could use it to supply Divine Axe Rita with energy.
• Haku examined the Companion Card, tested teleporting to Imu, and stopped the card before it activated.
• Haku learned that the system-rewarded Float-Float Fruit had no side effects and would not conflict with his existing abilities, but decided to keep it as a reference for studying Devil Fruits.
• Five Navy vice admirals reached the island, and Vice Admiral Mole greeted Haku.

Haku’s victory over Golden Lion Shiki brought him worldwide attention and alarmed the Five Elders, who were plotting to have Blackbeard target him. Blackbeard tested the dangerous substance they had supplied, but Doc Q could not reproduce it and planned to make a weaker version using materials from Impel Down’s head jailer.

• Haku ordered Vice Admiral Mole and the other vice admirals to arrest the pirates allied with Golden Lion, revealing that he had already killed Shiki.
• The Marines rounded up pirates across nearby islands, and newspapers reported Haku’s victory the following morning.
• Sengoku reconsidered his plans for Haku, while the Five Elders discussed using Blackbeard to eliminate him and Doflamingo to deal with Blackbeard afterward.
• Blackbeard asked Doc Q to reproduce the substance provided by the Five Elders, and Doc Q demonstrated its lethality by killing civilians with it.
• Doc Q said he could not replicate the substance but might create a weaker substitute using materials from Impel Down’s head jailer.

Blackbeard agreed to take the Blackbeard Pirates to Impel Down after Doc Q promised he could handle Magellan’s poison. Haku warned Rayleigh not to interfere with Kuma’s plan for the Straw Hat Pirates, then confronted Sengoku about being excluded from Ace’s execution and warned him that other Emperors might be drawn into the conflict.

• Doc Q assured Blackbeard he could counter Magellan’s poison, and Blackbeard decided to make a trip to Impel Down.
• Haku met Rayleigh at Shakky’s Rip-off Bar and warned him not to interfere if Kuma sent the Straw Hat Pirates away to train.
• Haku told Rayleigh to take Luffy to Amazon Lily after the events at Marineford, then left the bar as the Straw Hat Pirates approached Sabaody.
• Haku entered Sengoku’s office, brewed tea from Sengoku’s hidden supply, and teased him for not getting a cup.
• Haku challenged Sengoku over excluding him from Ace’s execution, and Sengoku argued that Haku could not watch his brother die without reacting.
• Haku reminded Sengoku that the conflict could involve more than the Marines and Whitebeard, then said he had news to share.

Haku convinced Sengoku that Kaido and Charlotte Linlin had secretly allied, forcing the Marines to revise their plans for Ace’s execution. After Sengoku asked Haku to escort Boa Hancock to Marine Headquarters, Haku demanded permission to visit Ace in Impel Down, and Sengoku refused.

• Haku claimed he had confirmed that Kaido and Charlotte Linlin had formed an alliance, and Sengoku agreed to report the threat and revise the execution plans.
• Sengoku learned that the Straw Hat Pirates had attacked a Celestial Dragon and sent Kizaru to reinforce the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Sengoku told Haku that Boa Hancock had demanded he personally escort her to Marine Headquarters.
• Haku asked to visit Ace in Impel Down as his condition, and Sengoku immediately refused.

Haku persuaded Sengoku to let him visit Ace at Impel Down, promising not to interfere with the Marines’ plans. He then used a Companion Card to travel to Sabaody, where he appeared beside Kizaru and left Basil Hawkins facing a predicted survival rate of zero.

• Haku assured Sengoku that he only wanted to speak with Ace and would not disrupt the Marines’ plans; Sengoku agreed after Tsuru urged him to trust Haku.
• Garp privately struggled between hoping Haku would rescue Ace and fearing the consequences for Haku, while Tsuru watched him with concern.
• Haku activated a Companion Card and vanished from Marine Headquarters, startling nearby Marines as he traveled toward Sabaody.
• Haku arrived on Sabaody during the Marines’ attack and appeared beside Kizaru, causing Hawkins’s divination to show a 100% defeat rate and 0% survival rate.
• Kizaru asked Haku to locate Pacifista, and Haku pointed out that Kizaru had another Den Den Mushi in his pocket.

Haku forced Hawkins to divine his recent fortune and learned the cards predicted an unprecedented change and a certain death situation, though Hawkins could not say whether Haku would live or die. Haku spared Hawkins and Scratchman Apoo from arrest in good humor, but when they tried to resist, he struck them with lightning.

• Kizaru left Haku to deal with Hawkins and Scratchman Apoo, and Haku pinned them with his presence.
• Haku pulled Apoo back beside Hawkins and demanded a divination about his recent fortune.
• Hawkins read the cards and predicted a major change in Haku’s fortune, followed by a certain death situation with an unknown outcome.
• Haku calmly accepted the possibility of death and told Hawkins and Apoo that he would not arrest them, but ordered them to stay put.
• Hawkins drew his sword and Apoo tried to use his Devil Fruit ability, so Haku struck them both with a pillar of lightning.

After driving Hawkins and Apu from Sabaody Archipelago, Haku confronted Jewelry Bonney and brought her to the battle near Tree No. 12. There, the Straw Hat Pirates struggled against a Pacifista while Rayleigh occupied Kizaru.

• Hawkins warned his crew to flee Sabaody Archipelago, and Apu’s crew also carried their captain to the port and departed.
• Haku found Jewelry Bonney after she used her Devil Fruit to turn a Marine captain into a child.
• Haku recognized Bonney, told her fishermen to return to the Sorbet Kingdom, and revealed that Kuma was on the island.
• Haku carried Bonney to Tree No. 12, where the Straw Hat Pirates were struggling against a Pacifista version of Bartholomew Kuma.
• Rayleigh continued fighting Kizaru while both Marines and pirates remained aware of Haku’s arrival.

Haku intervened as Bear attacked the Straw Hat Pirates and Bonney confronted her transformed father. He stopped Bonney from pursuing Dr. Vegapunk, then talked Kizaru and Rayleigh out of their fight.

• Kizaru increased his strength against Rayleigh while the two continued their staged-looking clash, and Bonney rushed toward Bear as he attacked the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Bonney accused Haku of causing her father’s transformation and used her Devil Fruit to turn him into a teenager, but Haku pinned her in place when she tried to run to Bear.
• Haku told Bonney that Bear had made his sacrifice for her, and she blamed Dr. Vegapunk before Bear left for his next mission.
• Haku carried the struggling Bonney toward Rayleigh and Kizaru’s battle, where Kizaru proposed capturing Rayleigh as a major achievement.
• Haku pointed out the extra work and lack of overtime pay that capturing Rayleigh would bring, prompting Kizaru to leave and Rayleigh to put away his weapon.

Haku told Bonney the truth about her father, Bartholomew Kuma, and explained how she could awaken the Pacifista that had become him. He planned to send Bonney somewhere safe, but she refused to undo the Toshi Toshi no Mi effect that had made him look younger.

• Rayleigh prepared to leave the Sabaody Archipelago after speaking with Haku, who explained that Bonney had turned him into a teenager.
• Haku got Bonney's attention by promising to tell her how Kuma could be restored, then freed her from his spiritual power binding.
• Haku explained Kuma's sacrifice, the reason he became a Pacifista, and how Bonney could awaken him, warning her that doing so could expose Kuma's plan and endanger him.
• Haku told Bonney he had come to send her somewhere safe because the World Government might target her, but he did not reveal the destination.
• Bonney transformed herself into a child and refused to reverse the effect on Haku, leaving his marine uniform ill-fitting.

Haku brought Bonney to the Kuja Pirates, where the crew reacted with surprise to his suddenly younger appearance and Hancock reassured him that she would stay by his side. After spending time with Hancock, Haku took Bonney to Baltigo and met with Dragon to discuss matters.

• Haku took Bonney to the Sorbet Kingdom fishermen, then used the Companion Card to travel with her to the Perfume Snake.
• Sandersonia recognized the younger-looking Haku, lowered the Kuja Warriors' weapons, and sent Marigold to fetch Hancock.
• Hancock welcomed Haku and comforted him, while Bonney changed to her adult appearance and challenged him before Haku explained she was ten years old.
• Haku left Bonney with the Kuja Warriors, spent several hours with Hancock, and then took Bonney to Baltigo.
• Crow recognized Haku, arranged Bonney's lodging and meals, and escorted Haku to Dragon's office.
• Dragon asked Haku why he had become so young, while Sabo was away near Marineford over Ace's situation.

Haku told Dragon that Luffy would enter Impel Down to help Ace and grow stronger, then revealed that Luffy’s Rubber Fruit was actually the Mythical Zoan Nika Fruit. Dragon agreed to support Haku’s plan as the World Government’s fear of the fruit’s awakening came to light.

• Haku told Dragon that Luffy was headed for Amazon Lily and would later be lured to Impel Down after learning Ace was to be executed.
• Dragon questioned whether Luffy should face the danger, but Haku said Luffy needed the trials to grow, take responsibility, and awaken his Devil Fruit.
• Haku revealed that Luffy had eaten the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nika, not an ordinary Rubber Fruit.
• Haku explained that the World Government had hidden the fruit’s true identity and feared its awakening because Nika was the Warrior of Liberation.
• Dragon accepted that Luffy’s growth was tied to their fight against the World Government and promised to support Haku.

Haku returned to Amazon Lily and told Luffy that Ace had been captured and was facing execution. He convinced Luffy to infiltrate Impel Down and rescue Ace, then warned him about the prison’s dangers.

• Haku left Baltigo after asking Dragon to watch over Bear's daughter, and Dragon sent orders to Impel Down to support Luffy.
• Haku returned to Amazon Lily and went to meet Luffy, who had arrived there looking for his crewmates.
• Haku explained that Ace's Vivre Card was turning to ash because Ace was near death, then told Luffy that the Marines had captured Ace and planned to execute him.
• Luffy asked Haku to free Ace, but Haku said he could not do so as a Marine and urged Luffy to rescue Ace himself.
• Luffy agreed to enter Impel Down, and Haku warned him that Ace was held on the prison's lowest floor and that the rescue would be extremely dangerous.

Haku began training Luffy to awaken his dormant Conqueror's Haki while they traveled to Impel Down aboard the Perfume Snake. He used Minazuki's Bankai to pin Luffy down and repeatedly slash him, leaving Luffy badly injured but determined to continue.

• Haku told Hancock that Luffy had a king's aptitude and that his Conqueror's Haki needed to awaken through inner growth and a breakthrough.
• After reporting to Sengoku that Hancock would join the battle, Haku and the others set off for Impel Down.
• Aboard the Perfume Snake, Haku began Luffy's special training with Minazuki's Bankai, which filled the area with blood and restrained Luffy with a mysterious force.
• Haku slashed Luffy and warned the Kuja Warriors not to interfere when they tried to help him.
• Luffy forced himself to stand, and Minazuki's power healed his wounds before Haku attacked again with greater force.
• Luffy was pinned down and struck by the stronger attack, suffering even more severe injuries.

Haku pushed Luffy through a brutal training session to awaken his Conqueror's Haki. Luffy broke free of Haku's suppression before collapsing, and Haku told Hancock that Luffy had succeeded and would become the Pirate King.

• Haku warned Luffy that he would face repeated near-death trials unless he could break free from the suppression.
• Haku released his Conqueror's Haki and gave Luffy ten seconds to escape its pressure, slashing him when he failed.
• After Haku healed him with Bankai Minazuki, Luffy asked to try again and struggled against Haku's stronger Conqueror's Haki.
• Luffy broke free from the suppression and released his own Conqueror's Haki, then collapsed as Haku told him to remember the power.
• Haku handed Luffy to the Kuja Warriors and told Hancock that Luffy had awakened his Conqueror's Haki and would become the Pirate King.