Chapter Summaries

Sengoku ordered Kizaru to intercept the Demon Pirates at Sabaody and assess the Endless Abyss, despite the Five Elders’ orders. As Allen sailed from Water 7, unaware of the Marine fleet closing in, he encountered Hawkeye Mihawk ahead of his ship.

• Sengoku reacted to reports of Allen’s steel warship and ordered Kizaru to investigate its combat strength near Sabaody.
• Tsuru warned Sengoku that the Five Elders had forbidden action against the Demon Pirates, but Sengoku accepted responsibility for defying them.
• Gion asked to join Kizaru’s mission, and he led a powerful Marine fleet out of Marineford toward Sabaody.
• Allen let Marine and pirate ships trail the Endless Abyss, while Robin and Moore agreed they should focus on their own affairs.
• Allen spotted Mihawk waiting on a single-masted sailboat directly ahead.

Dora challenged Dracule Mihawk, who praised her potential after blocking her fastest slash and recognized her as a future rival. Mihawk then challenged Allen to a duel, and the chapter ended with Allen accepting on the condition that Mihawk join the Demon Pirates if he lost.

• Dora unleashed her Haki and attacked Mihawk with a lightning-fast flying slash, but he blocked it with Yoru.
• Mihawk told Dora that greater Observation Haki and experience could let her surpass him, and she accepted his challenge to keep growing.
• Mihawk asked Allen for a one-on-one duel, and Allen proposed that Mihawk join the Demon Pirates if he lost.
• Mihawk agreed to duel using only swordsmanship and Haki, and Allen ordered Nami to change course for the nearest island.

Allen and Hawk Eyes fought on an uninhabited island, testing their swordsmanship without other abilities. After Allen wounded Mihawk with a lightning-fast assassination slash, he prepared to demonstrate a deadly Drawing Slash.

• The Endless Abyss reached an uninhabited island ahead of the pursuing Marines and pirates, and Allen agreed to fight Mihawk using only swordsmanship.
• Allen drew Black Blade Yushushui, and he and Mihawk clashed, impressing Mihawk with his strength and speed.
• Mihawk said Shanks had told him about Allen, then urged Allen to show him everything he could do with a sword.
• Allen used a concealed, supersonic assassination slash to cut Mihawk across the waist before Mihawk could fully react.
• Allen sheathed Yushushui and took a Drawing Slash stance, warning Mihawk that his next attack would unleash the light of death; Mihawk eagerly urged him to strike.

Allen’s bizarre Drawing Slash nearly struck Mihawk, who broke through his limits and continued their fierce duel. As the crew watched, an unidentified armed ship approached, and Lucci went to warn it away.

• Allen used Drawing Slash to disorient Mihawk, who forced his body to move and narrowly countered with a Flying Slash.
• Mihawk acknowledged his breakthrough and vowed to fight Allen with all his strength, and the two resumed their duel.
• The Endless Abyss crew watched Allen suppress Mihawk with his swordsmanship while Kalifa asked Dora about Allen’s abilities.
• Moore spotted an unidentified ship approaching the island, and Robin ordered the crew to try diplomacy before using force.
• Lucci volunteered to warn the ship and used Soru to board it as Jabura explained his ruthless reputation to Georgia Rini.

Lucci confronted X Drake, who claimed he had come to join the Demon Pirates, while Allen defeated Dracule Mihawk and demonstrated his newly mastered Armament Haki. Allen healed Mihawk’s wounds and began to introduce him to the Endless Abyss and the crew’s other capabilities.

• Lucci found X Drake aboard an approaching ship, and Drake claimed he wanted to join the Demon Pirates.
• Lucci ordered Drake’s ship to stop and returned to the Endless Abyss to report the encounter to Robin.
• Allen split the island with a powerful slash, and Mihawk admitted that he had lost their duel.
• Allen explained that he had mastered a higher level of Armament Haki during the fight and said he was not interested in limiting himself to swordsmanship.
• Allen gave Mihawk a healing potion, which quickly healed his wounds, then began telling him about the Endless Abyss.

After Allen defeated Hawk Eyes and returned to the Endless Abyss, he learned that X Drake wanted to join the Demon Pirates and recognized him as a Marine spy. Allen accepted Drake while secretly planning to use him as a double agent, and Drake settled aboard under Nico Robin’s authority.

• Allen and Hawk Eyes returned from their duel after their slashes split the island in two and devastated its ecosystem.
• Robin told Allen that X Drake had approached, and Allen and Lucci identified Drake as a spy sent by the Marines.
• Allen stopped Lucci from killing Drake and decided to accept him as a pawn, while Robin, Kalifa, and Moore offered to monitor him.
• Lucci brought Drake aboard the Endless Abyss, where Drake introduced himself and agreed to follow Allen’s rules against plundering and harming civilians.
• Allen formally named Nico Robin the First Mate, and Drake greeted the crew and chose a cabin while his former crew sailed away under a new captain.

The Demon Pirates confronted an upgraded Buster Call fleet led by Admiral Kizaru near Sabaody Archipelago, and Allen ordered the Endless Abyss to fire its main cannon. Kizaru intercepted the armor-piercing shell but was badly wounded and thrown onto a Marine warship.

• X Drake secretly investigated the Endless Abyss and its unusual cannons while Moore reported his observations to Nico Robin.
• The Endless Abyss reached Sabaody Archipelago and faced a Marine fleet led by Kizaru, bringing back Robin’s memories of Ohara’s destruction.
• Allen ordered Moore to fire Main Cannon Number One at the Marines and warned him not to hit Sabaody Archipelago.
• Moore fired an Armament Haki-coated armor-piercing shell, and Kizaru rushed to intercept it before it reached the fleet.
• The shell’s impact created a massive wave, and Kizaru fell onto a warship with a severe wound and his body drenched in seawater.

Kizaru ordered the Marine fleet to retreat, but the Endless Abyss destroyed islands on Sabaody Archipelago with its main cannon. Allen then ordered the Demon Pirates to attack the Marines and occupy the archipelago, leaving Kizaru and Momousagi struggling to defend themselves.

• Kizaru ordered the Marine fleet to turn back, and Momousagi could not find a way to counter the Endless Abyss's high-speed shells.
• The Endless Abyss fired a high-explosive shell that destroyed Island One of the Sabaody Archipelago, including its slave auction house and other establishments serving the Celestial Dragons.
• Ike urged Moore to destroy Islands One through Twenty-Nine, and Moore fired again after civilians and slaves had evacuated each target.
• Allen told Hawk Eyes that the cannon was his surprise, then ordered the Demon Pirates to attack the Marine fleet and occupy Sabaody Archipelago.
• The Endless Abyss caught up with Kizaru's fleet, and the Demon Pirates attacked; Allen and Hawk Eyes intercepted Kizaru and Momousagi while Marine soldiers fell across the decks.

Allen defeated Kizaru and declared that he would occupy the Sabaody Archipelago to announce his arrival and retaliate against the Marines. The Demon Pirates began their takeover by destroying Marine and World Government installations and raising their own flag.

• Momousagi questioned Hawk Eyes about joining Allen's crew, and he said he was fulfilling a promise and pursuing something he had long sought.
• Allen continued overpowering Kizaru, using the Slow-Slow Fruit and Rumble-Rumble Fruit to stop his movements and strike him.
• Kizaru recognized that Allen did not intend to kill the Marines and asked what he wanted; Allen declared his plan to occupy Sabaody Archipelago.
• Allen drew electricity from the clouds and sent lightning crashing down on Groves Sixty through Sixty-Nine, wrecking the Marine and World Government district.
• Ike tore down the Marine and World Government flags and raised the black flag of the Demon Pirates.

After taking Sabaody Archipelago, Allen waited for the World Government to negotiate rather than setting sail. Doflamingo arrived with the Five Elders’ offer, and Allen revealed that Charlotte Linlin would be his target in the New World.

• Morgans published news that Allen had captured Sabaody Archipelago and that Kizaru and the Buster Call fleet had been wiped out.
• Allen’s crew finished replenishing supplies while the Demon Pirates’ purge brought them more than thirty billion Beli and six Devil Fruits.
• Allen told Robin he expected the World Government to negotiate because it could not afford a full-scale war against the Endless Abyss.
• Doflamingo arrived as the Five Elders’ envoy and offered Devil Fruit users from Impel Down and intelligence on the Four Emperors in exchange for the Marine prisoners’ release and Allen’s departure from Sabaody Archipelago.
• Allen agreed to discuss trade and cooperation, then told Doflamingo that he would target Charlotte Linlin rather than Kaido.

Allen used Doflamingo to keep the World Government complacent while preserving access to Impel Down’s Devil Fruits, then revealed his plan to build a model society called Utopia after conquering Whole Cake Island. He prepared to leave Sabaody for the New World, intending to fly over Mary Geoise rather than pass through Fish-Man Island.

• Allen told Robin he was using Doflamingo to deceive the World Government and ordered the crew to board for an immediate departure to the New World.
• Robin asked Kalifa why Allen kept collecting Devil Fruits, and Kalifa warned her not to pry into the captain’s private affairs.
• Allen inspected the Ten-Tails Divine Tree beneath Sabaody and learned its fruit would mature in one or two months.
• Allen told Vilnalasath he planned to connect Whole Cake Island and its thirty-four surrounding islands with plants to create Utopia, a model for opponents of the Celestial Dragons.
• Vilnalasath stored the Ten-Tails Divine Tree, Allen repaired the weakened island ground with the Yaozaru Red Tree, and he prepared to fly over Mary Geoise.

Allen announced that the Demon Pirates would fly over Mary Geoise rather than take the usual route through Fish-Man Island, and raised the Endless Abyss into the sky with his Rinnegan. The crew celebrated the daring plan as the ship began its journey, while Drake’s secret efforts to help wounded Marines had been noticed by Moore.

• After calling the drunken crew back aboard, Allen told them they were heading for the New World and would fly over Mary Geoise without coating the ship.
• Allen dismissed Lucci’s warning about provoking the World Government and Celestial Dragons, arguing that the crew’s strength made them untouchable.
• Drake reacted nervously to Allen’s defiance; he had secretly arranged medical care for wounded Marines, and Moore had witnessed his actions.
• Ike and Georgia Rini urged Allen to make the voyage a spectacle, and the crew grew excited at the prospect of making history.
• Allen activated his Rinnegan and used anti-gravity to lift the Endless Abyss from the sea, prompting Nami to cheer and the crew to marvel at the flying ship.

The Five Elders rejected Sengoku and the Marine executives’ demand to attack Allen, preferring to preserve their secret supply of Life Potions. Allen then flew the Endless Abyss over Mary Geoise, forcing the World Government to recognize him as a threat and begin planning countermeasures.

• Sengoku, Akainu, and other Marine leaders warned the Five Elders that Allen and the Demon Pirates were growing too powerful, but the Five Elders refused to change their strategy.
• A CP0 agent reported that Allen had brought the Endless Abyss above the Holy Land, and the Five Elders and Marine executives went outside to see the warship overhead.
• Sengoku and Akainu challenged the Five Elders to respond, but Garp pointed out that they could neither attack the ship safely nor catch it once it left.
• The leading Five Elder ordered Vegapunk to design a weapon capable of destroying the Endless Abyss and told intelligence agencies to find the Blueprint of the Ancient Weapon Pluton.
• The Five Elders ordered the Marines to restore order on Sabaody Archipelago and check on the captured Marines, then went to consult the Master of the Void Throne about Allen.

Allen and the Demon Pirates crossed Mary Geoise and the Red Line, leaving the Celestial Dragons behind as they entered the New World. After celebrating their ambitions, they set course for Dressrosa to trade with Donquixote Doflamingo and seek contact with the Revolutionary Army.

• Allen and his crew watched the Celestial Dragons fail to hit the Endless Abyss as it passed over Mary Geoise, and Robin expressed her disappointment in the world nobles.
• Allen discussed how power had corrupted the Celestial Dragons and urged Robin to uncover the truth of history by gathering the Poneglyphs.
• Nami spotted the New World beyond the Red Line, and the crew celebrated their crossing with wine and declarations of their goals.
• Allen led the crew in a toast to reaching the top of the New World and making the Demon Pirates famous.
• The Endless Abyss landed in the sea, and Allen set course for Dressrosa to complete a deal with Donquixote Doflamingo and try to contact the Revolutionary Army.

News of Allen and the Demon Pirates crossing the Red Line spread across the world, prompting Whitebeard and Shanks to consider the consequences of Allen’s arrival in the New World. In Dressrosa, Doflamingo prepared for a transaction with Allen and warned Trebol not to provoke him.

• Whitebeard celebrated Allen’s arrival in the New World and prepared to intercept Kaido, hoping to repay Allen for a favor.
• Shanks’s crew celebrated Allen’s feat, while Benn Beckman warned that Allen could plunge the New World into chaos.
• Doflamingo asked Trebol whether he had prepared everything for a transaction with Allen.
• Trebol suggested using Sugar to trap Allen, and Doflamingo angrily ordered him to abandon the idea and keep Sugar under watch.

Allen arrived in Dressrosa to collect his goods from Doflamingo, but Jack the Drought interrupted and demanded Allen’s Zoan Devil Fruits. Allen sent Ike to fight Jack, and their battle left the dock in ruins.

• Allen and the Demon Pirates anchored the Endless Abyss near Dressrosa and went ashore to meet Doflamingo.
• Doflamingo welcomed Allen and invited him to a banquet, but Allen asked where his goods were.
• Jack the Drought arrived by ship, rammed into the dock, and demanded that Allen hand over his Zoan Devil Fruits.
• Allen ordered Ike to attack Jack, and Ike beat him before Jack recovered and transformed into a giant elephant.
• Ike and Jack fought in their giant ape and elephant forms, destroying the dock with the battle’s aftermath.

Ike and the Demon Pirates overwhelmed Jack the Drought and his Beasts Pirates crew. Ike tore Jack from his mammoth form and left him barely alive, while Doflamingo hesitated over whether to intervene.

• Ike overpowered Jack the Drought, while the Demon Pirates intercepted Jack's subordinates and Nami blasted the Beasts Pirates with her weapons.
• Ginrummy leaped toward Nami, but Moore shot him in the thigh, and Jabura knocked Ginrummy's ally unconscious.
• Robin killed two Beasts Pirates who tried to capture Allen, and Allen praised her fighting skills.
• Doflamingo worried that intervening would anger Allen, while Jack's remaining crew lost the ability to fight.
• Ike tore into Jack with life energy and Armament Haki until Jack reverted to human form and collapsed, barely alive.

Allen’s crew defeated Jack the Drought and slaughtered the Beasts Pirates at the harbor, leaving Jack’s head on their ship’s mast. Allen then dragged Doflamingo toward the palace for a banquet, while Sugar fled with Trebol unaware that someone was watching her.

• Ike defeated Jack the Drought in a brutal fight and handed him over to Allen.
• Allen ordered the Beasts Pirates prisoners killed, extracted Jack’s Devil Fruit, and hung Jack’s head from the ship’s mast.
• Doflamingo confronted Allen about provoking Kaido, but Allen dismissed the danger and insisted on attending the banquet.
• Allen forcibly took Doflamingo toward King’s Highland while the Donquixote Family officers silently endured the Demon Pirates’ show of strength.
• Sugar trembled at the sight of the Pirate Emperor, then left with Trebol as an unseen observer watched her from the darkness.

At a banquet in Dressrosa, Allen demonstrated that he could extract and recreate Devil Fruits without killing their users, then negotiated with Doflamingo over the fruits and prisoners involved in their trade. He used an illusion to uncover a prisoner’s identity before extracting the Devil Fruits from the remaining criminals.

• Allen asked Doflamingo when their trade would begin, and Doflamingo summoned Baby-5 and Mahalbes as test subjects.
• Allen used Vilnalasath’s tentacles to extract the Weapon-Weapon Fruit and Ton-Ton Fruit from Baby-5 and Mahalbes while keeping them alive with life energy.
• Doflamingo took the two recreated fruits and asked for Jack the Drought’s Mammoth-Mammoth Fruit in return, which Allen handed over.
• Doflamingo presented more than forty prisoners as payment for an earlier debt and an exchange for medicine.
• Allen used his Sharingan illusion to identify a prisoner as Inazuma, a subordinate of Emporio Ivankov of the Revolutionary Army.
• Allen extracted the Devil Fruits from the remaining prisoners who had committed crimes.

As the Endless Abyss sailed toward Totto Land, Allen explained how Doflamingo’s desire for the Ope Ope no Mi had led him to hand over two Devil Fruits. With war against the Four Emperor Pirate Crews drawing near, Nami ate the Weapon-Weapon Fruit, and Allen left her only five to seven days to develop its power before the coming battle.

• Hawk Eyes asked Allen what deal he had made with Doflamingo, and Allen explained Doflamingo wanted Trafalgar Law’s Ope Ope no Mi for its Immortality Surgery.
• Allen gave Hawk Eyes a notebook of swordsmanship schools, and Hawk Eyes hurried away to study it.
• Nami asked Allen for the Weapon-Weapon Fruit, and he gave it to her.
• Nami ate the fruit and vomited, while Allen explained that she needed greater combat strength before the war.
• Allen told Dora that Charlotte Linlin did not make him nervous and predicted the crew would become one of the New World’s four Pirate Emperors after the next battle.