Chapter Summaries

As the World Government’s inspections terrorized Baterilla Island, Rouge decided to delay giving birth until the agents left, despite carrying the twins for an unusually long time. Luo Han watched from concealment and realized that one child’s life was weakening, but chose to wait and see whether the story’s course could be changed.

• For two months, the World Government intensified its inspections, taking away pregnant women and arresting anyone who appealed.
• Elles joined Luo Han above Baterilla Island, where they resumed their relationship while he continued watching the island and training.
• Three months later, Rouge worried that the World Government would discover her newborn twins and decided to wait until its agents withdrew before giving birth.
• After Rouge’s pregnancy reached twelve months, Luo Han sensed that one twin’s life was weakening and feared the child would die before birth.
• Luo Han vowed not to let the other twin die but remained concealed, waiting to see how events unfolded.

Luo Han used Elles’s life force to stabilize Rouge’s weakened child while Rouge endured the World Government’s eighteen-month search. Ten days after the search ended, Rouge began a dangerous delivery of the two oversized children, and Luo Han sustained her with more life force as labor continued.

• Elles confronted Luo Han about Rouge’s weakening child, and he promised to keep it alive.
• Luo Han infused the child with life force gathered by Elles, and Rouge felt both children recover as her pain eased.
• Rouge continued eating to nourish the children while the World Government searched for eighteen months before withdrawing on the Gorosei’s order.
• Ten days after the withdrawal, Rouge began labor, but the midwives warned that the oversized children could not come out easily.
• Luo Han infused Rouge with life force to sustain her through labor, and Rouge thanked him before continuing to push.

After Rouge gave birth to Gol D. Ann and Gol D. Ace, she entrusted them to Garp to protect them from the World Government. Elles objected and urged Rouge to bring the children to Eternal City, while realizing Rouge did not intend to live on.

• Rouge endured hours of labor and gave birth to twins as Garp arrived on the island.
• Elles visited Rouge and met the newborn girl whose life she had sustained, while Rouge learned Luo Han had been protecting her.
• Garp entered and Rouge named the children Gol D. Ann and Gol D. Ace before asking him to take them.
• Rouge explained that she wanted the children hidden from the World Government and trusted Garp to protect them.
• Elles urged Rouge to take the children to Eternal City, where Luo Han could protect them.

Elles asked Rouge to let her raise Ann, and Garp persuaded Rouge that Elles could keep the child safer. After Rouge entrusted Ann to Elles, she died peacefully, and Luo Han teleported Elles and Ann away while deciding that another person would raise Roger’s child.

• Elles urged Rouge to let her raise Ann, but Rouge initially chose to trust Roger’s plan and hand the child to Garp.
• Garp suggested that Ann go with Elles, arguing that Luo Han could conceal her from anyone who might expose her.
• Rouge agreed and gave Ann to Elles, while Garp took Ace and left.
• After her children’s futures were settled, Rouge’s exhausted spirit gave out and she died peacefully.
• Elles asked Luo Han to take them home, and he teleported her and Ann away after deciding that someone else would raise the child.

The Gorosei ordered the destruction of Ohara, while Luo Han watched Chiyue, Aixi, Elles, and Sola play with Ann on Ark Island. The women continued passing the newborn around despite Luo Han's objections.

• The Gorosei concluded that suspicion was enough to condemn Ohara and ordered the CP0 Chief to wipe it out within half a year.
• On Ark Island, Ann crawled toward Elles, who proudly lifted her up and showed her to Chiyue, Aixi, and Sola.
• Aixi and the others pinched and rubbed Ann, and the baby stayed quiet until Aixi tried to take her from Elles.
• Ann cried without tears when Aixi picked her up, then stopped and allowed Aixi to hold her.
• Luo Han objected to the women treating the two-day-old baby like a toy, but they ignored him and looked to Elles.

Luo Han left for the Calm Belt after merging his evolved bodily talent into newborn Ann, while Elles and the other women plotted her future training and adoption. They decided to announce Ann as Luo Han’s daughter and seek a world-class swordsman to train her, without Luo Han’s knowledge.

• Elles told Chiyue and the others that Luo Han had infused Ann with his bodily talent, making the baby sturdy enough to withstand their poking.
• Luo Han teleported to the Calm Belt to control the Sea Kings and use the accumulated Amaterasu power in the Mind World.
• After confirming Luo Han had left, Elles assigned Chiyue to teach Ann Fish-Man Karate and Sola to teach her the Six Powers, and they chose Mysterious Gun Mistergong as a potential marksmanship instructor.
• The four women agreed to wait until Ann was two years old before beginning her training.
• Elles told Sola to arrange a world-edition headline identifying Ann as Luo Han’s daughter and declaring that the world’s greatest swordsman could become her instructor, so the women could secure control of Ann’s adoption.

Luo Han returned from controlling Sea Kings and discovered that Elles and the other women had announced little Ann as his heir without consulting him. After a month away with the women, he found that Cole had taken Ann in and was feeding the one-month-old baby enormous pieces of meat.

• Luo Han returned to Ark Island and learned that Elles, Chiyue, Aixi, Sola, and Stussy had publicly presented little Ann as his child and Eternal City's heir.
• Elles admitted the scheme and promised the five women would spend a month with Luo Han, and they kept him occupied for the entire month.
• News of Ann's birth spread worldwide, prompting the World Government's Gorosei to assign CP0 to gather information on her.
• Luo Han returned with the women and discovered that Cole had taken Ann from Olvia's home to Gourmet City.
• Luo Han found Ann crawling around Cole's cafeteria while chewing meat larger than herself, and Cole complained that Luo Han had not told him about his child.

Luo Han explained that Ann was Roger's child, then learned that the World Government had launched a Buster Call on Ohara. He refused to save the island but rescued Olvia's daughter, Robin, leaving Olvia to mourn Ohara's destruction while reunited with her child.

• Luo Han told Cole that Ann was Roger's child, and the women gathered around Ann as she eagerly ate meat.
• Stussy and Olvia reported that the World Government had ordered a Buster Call on Ohara, and Olvia begged Luo Han to save the island and her daughter.
• Luo Han told Olvia that he could not save Ohara without starting a war, but promised to rescue her daughter because she belonged to Eternal City.
• Luo Han arrived at burning Ohara and found Nico Robin unconscious beneath the Tree Library, protected by the bodies of professors.
• Luo Han rescued Nico Robin and returned her to Olvia, explaining that the professors had died protecting her.

Fish-Man Island severed its ties with Eternal City, prompting Chiyue to ask Luo Han to restore Neptune’s mind. After he determined that Neptune could not be changed, Chiyue withdrew her people, and Eternal City closed its passage to the island, leaving Fish-Man Island vulnerable to pirates and traffickers.

• Neptune publicly announced that Fish-Man Island no longer recognized Eternal City’s Fish-Men as its citizens and stripped Princess Akatsuki of her royal status.
• Chiyue asked Luo Han to help restore Neptune, but he found that Neptune’s will had fused with an unknown force and could not be altered without killing him.
• Chiyue gave up on Fish-Man Island and ordered its Fish-Men in Eternal City to return to Dream Island and report within three days.
• Eternal City withdrew its personnel from Fish-Man Island and made the Space Gate connecting them vanish.
• Human traffickers began anticipating the chance to hunt mermaids now that Fish-Man Island had lost Eternal City’s protection.

Chiyue forced the fish-men on Dream Island to choose between returning to Fish-Man Island or joining the New Fish-Man Race, then executed those who stayed without registering. The split became public, signaling that Eternal City and the World Government were independent of each other.

• Chiyue announced that fish-men who stayed on Dream Island would form the New Fish-Man Race, separate from Fish-Man Island, and ordered everyone to choose whether to stay or leave.
• Chiyue threatened to execute any fish-men still on Dream Island who had not registered by the next day, sparking an argument between her supporters and those loyal to Fish-Man Island.
• Fish-men signed the New Fish-Man Race registry or left Eternal City, while several dozen fence-sitters remained behind.
• Newspaper reporters connected the impending split to suspicions that Eternal City and the World Government had secretly cooperated.
• The next day, Chiyue used lightning to carbonize the unregistered fish-men who had remained, and news of the executions spread around the world.

After Golden Lion escaped from Impel Down, Elles, Cole, and Sola set out to find him, believing he would visit Whitebeard first. Cole carried them through the sky in his enormous Kun form, with Ann riding along.

• Luo Han concluded that Neptune had cut ties with Eternal City to preserve the hatred that would let Luffy become Fish-Man Island's savior and fulfill his promise.
• Golden Lion escaped from Impel Down a month after the Fish-Man Race split, becoming the first prisoner to escape the prison.
• Elles wanted to capture Golden Lion and make him teach Ann swordsmanship, while Sola offered to have the intelligence department track him.
• Cole guessed Golden Lion would visit Whitebeard and volunteered to bring him back, eager for a fight.
• Elles, Cole, and Sola left Eternal City with Ann and flew toward Whitebeard, riding on Cole after he transformed into a fifteen-thousand-meter Kun.

Cole headed toward Whitebeard’s territory, drawing the attention of the New World’s powers and prompting Kaido to fly out for a fight. Golden Lion met Whitebeard there, dismissed Luo Han as a coward, then reconsidered the Ancient Weapons after learning Olvia was in the Eternal City, and left to plan his next move.

• The New World’s powers learned Cole was flying toward Whitebeard, and Kaido set out to challenge him.
• Whitebeard reassured his frightened crew that Cole was likely coming to fight, not start a war.
• Golden Lion landed among Whitebeard’s ships, and Whitebeard stopped his crew from attacking him before sharing wine.
• Golden Lion called Luo Han a coward for compromising with the World Government, but Whitebeard challenged his belief that the Ancient Weapons could secure world rule.
• Whitebeard told Golden Lion that Olvia was in the Eternal City with Luo Han, and Golden Lion decided to lie low before showing the world what a true pirate was.

Cole arrived with Elles, Ann, and Sola and challenged Golden Lion, but turned to Whitebeard when he saw Golden Lion’s crippled condition. After Golden Lion attacked him, Cole fought him in the sky, where Golden Lion’s strength began to falter.

• Cole descended onto Whitebeard’s ship with Elles, Ann, and Sola, and Elles dismissed Golden Lion as unfit to teach Ann swordsmanship.
• Cole prepared to fight Whitebeard, but Golden Lion roared at him for showing contempt and attacked him with a sword-foot.
• Cole and Golden Lion clashed with advanced Flowing Cherry Haki until Whitebeard intervened and directed them to take the fight into the sky.
• Cole and Golden Lion fought above the sea, while Whitebeard and his crew blocked the Slash Waves threatening the ship.
• After half an hour, Cole noticed that Golden Lion’s attacks were weakening and saw blood seeping from his legs.

Cole defeated Golden Lion with a devastating shockwave punch after a prolonged battle that shook the sea. Golden Lion remained barely alive as Whitebeard ordered his crew to bring him aboard for burial at the next island.

• Cole stopped his first exchange with Golden Lion and transformed into his Beast form, prompting Whitebeard to warn Marco that both fighters had changed since the past.
• Cole and Golden Lion fought at extreme speed for an hour, their clashes driving the sea into enormous waves that Whitebeard split with Air Quake punches.
• Cole gathered the shockwaves he had absorbed and struck Golden Lion with Extreme Path, sending a massive pillar of light through him.
• Golden Lion survived the blow with only a faint, rapidly fading heartbeat, and Whitebeard ordered his crew to bring him aboard and bury him at the next island.

Cole took the nearly defeated Golden Lion to Luo Han at Eternal City, while Kaido arrived too late to stop them and chose not to enter the lingering Space Gate. Luo Han controlled Golden Lion with Amaterasu and had Elles stabilize his injuries, leaving Golden Lion in Eternal City's custody.

• Luo Han ordered Cole to bring Golden Lion back, and Cole carried him through a Space Gate to Eternal City.
• Kaido arrived after Cole left but refused to enter the open Space Gate; when it vanished, he turned away from fighting Whitebeard and flew back to Wano Country.
• News of Golden Lion's defeat spread around the world, prompting powerful factions to praise Eternal City's strength.
• At the mountaintop villa, Luo Han used Amaterasu to control Golden Lion while reflecting on how Cole and the others treated him despite his ability to control people's hearts.
• Elles used a Life Force Orb to stabilize Golden Lion's injuries, though he did not immediately recover.

After restoring Golden Lion and assigning him to protect Ann, Luo Han watched a new era of pirate conflict unfold as rising figures challenged the old guard. Fish-Man Island became Whitebeard’s territory, but Eternal City’s silence left it vulnerable to continued human raids.

• Luo Han regrew Golden Lion’s legs and sent him to protect Ann, planning for him to teach her swordsmanship later.
• Luo Han reflected that his Amaterasu reconstruction left Golden Lion with his combat skills but no emotions or Conqueror’s Haki.
• Gecko Moria challenged Kaido, lost his crew, and escaped, drawing attention from a World Government plan.
• Whitebeard released Crocodile after the boy repeatedly tried to kill him, while Hawk began challenging swordsmen across the New World.
• A red-haired young man wearing a straw hat began his pirate journey as Whitebeard declared Fish-Man Island his territory.
• Eternal City did not respond to Whitebeard’s declaration, and human invaders continued targeting Fish-Man Island.

Five years later, Luo Han worked to condense a Mind Clone at the Eternal City branch while Vegapunk reported discoveries linking Seastone’s force field to Armament Haki. After learning the World Government had assigned Vegapunk to develop Calm Belt ship technology, Luo Han planned to free him by transferring his consciousness into a human body.

• At the Eternal City branch in East Blue, Luo Han continued condensing a Mind Clone to absorb the Mind Power of projected people.
• Vegapunk told Luo Han that Seastone emitted a force field through seawater and that Armament Haki’s force field partly overlapped with it, potentially suppressing Devil Fruit abilities.
• Vegapunk said that combining Seastone’s force field with the force fields of living organisms might let researchers give every creature controlled-strength Armament Haki, but developing a prototype would take one or two years.
• Vegapunk explained that the World Government had tasked him with developing ships that could cross the Calm Belt by spreading Seastone’s aura over an entire vessel.
• Luo Han decided to copy Vegapunk’s Mind Clone and transfer his consciousness into a human body so he could escape the World Government’s restrictions and work in Eternal City.

Luo Han successfully condensed Mind Clones and confirmed that they could stay connected to him and absorb Mind Power from distant Mind Worlds. He traveled to the West Blue to find a body for Vegapunk and arrived amid a pirate attack on a nation.

• Luo Han condensed his first Mind Clone after a month and noticed that absorbing Mind Power made it slightly stronger and livelier.
• Luo Han teleported to the North Blue and confirmed that his East Blue Mind Clone remained connected and could continue absorbing Mind Power from afar.
• Luo Han condensed a second Mind Clone in the North Blue, then sensed that Judge had gone to the West Blue and teleported there.
• In a West Blue island nation, Commander Jason and the surviving guards retreated to the palace gates as pirates attacked and Germa 66 failed to arrive.
• Jason offered to help the pirates find the king’s treasure in exchange for joining them, but the one-eyed pirate captain ordered the guards shot, and Jason joined in killing his former comrades.

Vinsmoke Judge and Germa 66 defeated pirates attacking a royal palace, then Judge met Luo Han in his clone-production hall and submitted to his control. Luo Han asked Judge to grow a Clone Body for Vegapunk’s consciousness, but paused to find out whether Elles’s life-force energy could help.

• Vinsmoke Judge led Germa 66 in killing the pirates who had attacked the palace and accepted an enlarged payment from the king.
• Judge showed Reiju and his other children the clone-production hall and resolved to strengthen his clone soldiers.
• Luo Han appeared in the hall, used a command to activate Amaterasu’s control over Judge, and stopped Reiju after she fired at him.
• Luo Han asked Judge for a Clone Body without consciousness, and Judge explained that growing one to adulthood took about a month with sufficient nutrients.
• Luo Han asked whether pure life-force energy could nourish the Clone Body, then contacted Elles and told her to come with Bond.

Luo Han tested Elles’s life force energy by having Judge use it to grow a clone, and the experiment produced a fully formed adult body in hours. Judge kept the stored energy for research, while Luo Han left the clone in Judge’s care.

• Elles arrived through a Space Gate and condensed a Life Force Orb at Luo Han’s request.
• Judge said Elles’s life force energy far surpassed his nutrient solution, and Luo Han ordered him to begin cultivating a clone.
• Elles merged life force into a cultivation chamber, and Luo Han infused the developing infant with Charlotte Linlin’s Innate Aura Flame.
• The clone grew to a fourteen-year-old in ten hours, and Judge asked Elles for more life force to study.
• Elles filled the facility’s storage container with concentrated life force, causing connected embryos to grow rapidly, and Judge shut off their nutrient pipelines.
• Luo Han stopped the clone’s growth at about twenty-five, left its body with Judge, and teleported back to Eternal City with Elles.