Chapter Summaries

As the Summit War approached Totto Land, Whitebeard intercepted Kaido to repay Allen for a favor. Whitebeard gained the upper hand, and their battle threatened to end in a stalemate while keeping Kaido away from Allen and Charlotte Linlin.

• Marine Headquarters sent two Admirals and Garp toward the conflict, while Kaido, Whitebeard, and Shanks also moved their forces toward Totto Land.
• Teach envied Allen’s influence as he read about the war, then joined the Whitebeard Pirates on deck when Satch called the crew to assemble.
• Ace asked to test Kaido, but Whitebeard and Marco warned him that Kaido was too dangerous.
• Kaido challenged Whitebeard, who said he owed Allen a favor, and the two Emperors began fighting.
• Whitebeard struck Kaido hard enough to send him flying, then countered Kaido’s Heat Breath and tornadoes with powerful tsunamis.
• Whitebeard maintained the advantage as Kaido relied on ranged attacks, and their exhausting fight appeared likely to end without a decisive victor.

Allen began the Demon Pirates’ assault on Whole Cake Island after Whitebeard engaged Kaido, leaving the Marines and Red-Haired Pirates watching as the Endless Abyss destroyed Big Mom’s fleet. The Demon Pirates reached the island with its defenses and Queen Mama Chanter wrecked, and a brutal battle on land remained ahead.

• Robin told Allen that the Whitebeard Pirates had gone to war with the Beasts Pirates, with Whitebeard holding Kaido off.
• Allen ordered the Endless Abyss to bombard every Big Mom Pirates ship before the crew landed.
• Moore fired the Electromagnetic Cannon, and the Endless Abyss sank the scouting ships and the fleets sent to defend Whole Cake Island.
• The bombardment destroyed Queen Mama Chanter and left no ships afloat near the island.
• Kizaru, Akainu, and Garp observed the attack as the Marines followed the Red-Haired Pirates, while Beckman and Shanks recognized the Endless Abyss’s power.
• The Demon Pirates prepared to land and face the Big Mom Pirates in close combat.

Allen and the Demon Pirates began their landing on Whole Cake Island after Katakuri ordered the defenders to abandon the dock under the Endless Abyss’s bombardment. The invasion met little resistance at first, but Zeus and the Big Mom Pirates’ main forces soon ambushed the crew, leaving Rob Lucci fighting Cracker.

• Katakuri ordered the Homies soldiers and Smoothie to retreat from the dock, and promised to deal with Big Mom’s reaction himself.
• Allen ordered Moore to guard the Endless Abyss, then created an ice path to Whole Cake Island and led his crew ashore.
• Zeus attacked Allen with lightning, but Allen was immune and knocked the thundercloud out of the sky.
• Brulee used her Mirror-Mirror Fruit to bring Katakuri and the Big Mom Pirates’ main forces behind the invaders.
• Cracker charged the Demon Pirates, but Rob Lucci shattered his biscuit armor with a Six King Gun and injured him.

Lucci fought Cracker while the Demon Pirates battled the Charlotte Family, and Allen learned that Zeus was a Chimera made from Soul Fragments. Charlotte Linlin arrived to attack Allen, and their sword strikes collided as the battlefield cleared around them.

• Lucci shattered Cracker’s Biscuit Soldiers while Katakuri fought Ike and Hawk Eyes crossed swords with Smoothie.
• Robin used her Flower-Flower Fruit to take down many Charlotte Family fighters, including Galette, as the Demon Pirates pushed the enemy back.
• Allen picked up Zeus, and Vilnalasath explained that it was a Chimera formed from Soul Fragments and an energy body that depended on its creator.
• Allen spotted Charlotte Linlin charging toward him and said their prey had delivered itself.
• Charlotte Linlin swung Bicorne Napoleon and unleashed Ikoku, and Allen countered with a Flying Slash from the Ragnaros Sword, clearing space across the battlefield.

Allen confronted Charlotte Linlin and overwhelmed her attacks with the Ragnaros Sword and his Rumble-Rumble Fruit Ability. The clash escalated when Big Mom unleashed her soul-targeting power, and Allen prepared to answer with the complete Drawing Slash.

• Allen greeted Charlotte Linlin and judged her immense vitality as she charged at him with Napoleon and Prometheus.
• Allen blocked Big Mom’s Emperor Sword: Breaking Blade, chipping Napoleon while the Ragnaros Sword remained unharmed.
• Smoothie and the Big Mom Pirates grew wary of Allen’s sword, and Hawk Eyes explained the danger and power of Ragnaros.
• Big Mom attacked Allen with Prometheus and Zeus, but he teleported above her and drove her into the pit with a stomp.
• Allen sent Big Mom flying and taunted her, prompting her to unleash Conqueror’s Haki and the Soul-Soul Fruit’s soul-targeting power.
• Allen poured magic into the Ragnaros Sword and prepared to unleash the complete Drawing Slash.

Allen grievously wounded Big Mom with a lightning-fast sword strike as the battle against the Big Mom Pirates intensified. Ike and Katakuri continued their brutal clash, while Mihawk prepared a decisive attack against Smoothie.

• Big Mom charged Allen with her body, homies, and sword empowered, but Allen used his abilities and Ragnaros Sword to slash her chest open.
• Streusen and Katakuri reacted in disbelief as Big Mom collapsed, bleeding heavily from Allen’s strike.
• Ike transformed into an awakened giant ape and resumed fighting Katakuri, who awakened his Mochi-Mochi Fruit.
• Mihawk challenged Smoothie to settle their fight with one move, and Smoothie enlarged herself by absorbing moisture.
• Mihawk denied being the World’s Greatest Swordsman and lunged at Smoothie with Yoru held in a reverse grip.

Allen defeated Big Mom with an enhanced Raijin attack that destroyed her and left him holding a Devil Fruit. The Big Mom Pirates fled the island as the battle ended, while Hawk Eyes had already defeated Smoothie.

• Smoothie attacked Mihawk with her Water Splitting Sword, but he struck her down with Yoru and left her unconscious.
• Mihawk watched Allen battle a berserk Big Mom, whose wound was rapidly healing, as Vilnalasath suggested her behavior came from a defect.
• Allen concluded Big Mom had misused her Soul-Soul Fruit powers, then spread an electric field across Whole Cake Island and used Zeus to summon rain clouds.
• Allen transformed into lightning and entered the clouds, while Katakuri tried to reach Big Mom and Ike intercepted him; Lucci had already defeated Cracker.
• Allen formed a black sphere of lightning and unleashed it on Big Mom, prompting the Big Mom Pirates and the Demon Pirates to flee.
• The Raijin blast engulfed Big Mom and left a massive crater; she disappeared, and Allen stood at its center holding a Devil Fruit.

After defeating the Big Mom Pirates, Allen ate the Soul-Soul Fruit and absorbed Charlotte Linlin’s Soul Fragments and life force. He subdued her Homies and planned to enhance Zeus and Prometheus as he continued improving his body and pursuing another Divine Artifact.

• Allen told Vilnalasath that the Soul-Soul Fruit was best suited to him, and she warned him not to let its power resonate with the Fel Energy in his body.
• Allen ate the Soul-Soul Fruit despite everyone’s belief that a third Devil Fruit would kill him, then Vilnalasath transferred Charlotte Linlin’s Soul Fragments and life force to him.
• Allen’s strengthened soul forced Charlotte Linlin’s Homies to submit, and the remaining Big Mom Pirates realized their queen was dead and their side had lost.
• Allen stripped the Soul Fragments from the Homies, leaving only Zeus and Prometheus intact, and told them he would enhance and modify them.
• Allen placed Zeus and Prometheus into containers made from Soul Fragments, intending to fuse Prometheus into the Ragnaros Sword and use Zeus to make Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker.
• Allen’s body underwent further adjustment and optimization with the Red Dragon’s help, building on the strength he had gained from Charlotte Linlin’s body.

After defeating Big Mom, Allen judged the surrendered Charlotte Family, executed most of them, and transformed Whole Cake Island into a vast connected land. News spread that he had become the new Pirate Emperor and renamed the territory Utopia.

• With Big Mom dead and the Big Mom Pirates’ ships sunk, most of the crew surrendered to Allen.
• Allen ordered trials for the prisoners, declaring that those who had harmed civilians would be executed while others could live if they surrendered their Devil Fruits.
• Katakuri offered to serve Allen in exchange for his siblings’ lives, but Allen rejected his plea and killed him, taking the Mochi-Mochi Fruit.
• Allen’s trials ended with more than eighty percent of the Big Mom Pirates executed and fewer than twenty people pardoned.
• Allen planted the Ten-Tails Divine Tree on Whole Cake Island, whose roots and vines connected nearby islands and raised the sea into new land.
• News spread that Allen had replaced Charlotte Linlin as Pirate Emperor and renamed the transformed territory Utopia.

Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates toured the transformed Whole Cake Island, where Allen had built a flourishing landmass called Utopia. Allen met them at a restaurant and asked Shanks why he had come, leaving his purpose unanswered.

• Benn Beckman was astonished by Utopia's forests, expanded land, and thriving harbor, while Shanks praised Allen's transformation.
• The Red-Haired Pirates docked, explored the port, and ate at a restaurant where a waitress explained Allen's free access to local fruit and spices and the end of Big Mom's protection fees.
• Benn Beckman and Shanks discussed Allen's apparent plan to build a powerful nation and the threat that posed to the World Government and Marines.
• Allen and Robin entered the restaurant, and Allen thanked Shanks for driving off the Marines before asking why he had come to Utopia.

Allen and Robin discussed Utopia’s next steps, focusing on building its institutions and attracting enough residents to sustain them. Allen ordered ships sent to war-torn Alabasta to bring refugees to Utopia, while its growing shipyards and industries prepared to support expansion.

• Shanks claimed he had only come to visit and catch up with Hawk Eyes, then stayed in Utopia.
• Allen and Robin questioned whether Shanks was secretly working with the World Government, but Allen said Utopia’s secure location made that concern unimportant.
• Allen told Robin to establish the framework for Utopia’s government and army gradually, while making immigration their immediate priority.
• Allen ordered Robin to send ships to Alabasta to rescue refugees despite Crocodile’s grudge against them.
• Robin noted that Utopia’s shipyards and factories were producing ships, weapons, and equipment with improved methods and precision tools.

Allen worked to build Utopia into a modern state while allowing foreign spies to operate under his surveillance. When Monkey D. Dragon arrived to seek cooperation, Allen sent Kalifa to receive him and show him Utopia’s industries.

• Allen spent two or three months selecting talent and establishing a new management system for Utopia.
• Belo Betty questioned whether contacting Allen was wise, and Inazuma recalled the horrors he had witnessed in Dressrosa.
• Monkey D. Dragon decided to risk visiting Utopia to explore cooperation with Allen.
• Stussy recognized Dragon and his Revolutionary Army companions at the harbor but avoided approaching them.
• Allen watched the arrivals through the Ten-Tails Divine Tree and told Kalifa to give Dragon’s group a tour of the shipyard and Metal Smelting Workshop.

Allen watched Blackbeard kill Satch and take the Dark-Dark Fruit, choosing not to interfere so Teach could fulfill his role in history. Meanwhile, Kalifa showed Dragon and the Revolutionary Army the scale of Utopia’s weapons industry and its X1 combat puppets, leaving them with a potential arms supplier and more to see.

• Allen and Vilnalasath secretly watched Blackbeard kill Satch and eat the Dark-Dark Fruit, but Allen decided to let Teach escape and face the Whitebeard Pirates’ pursuit.
• Kalifa led Dragon, Betty, and the Revolutionary Army executives through Utopia’s metalworks and described its growing capacity to produce weapons and ammunition.
• Dragon asked whether the Revolutionary Army could buy weapons, and Kalifa confirmed they could and hinted that they could discuss Allen’s support with him directly.
• Kalifa brought the executives to an assembly workshop and introduced the mass-producible X1 combat puppet after one blasted a target with its shoulder cannon.

Allen met with Monkey D. Dragon and the Revolutionary Army’s executives, offering his support in exchange for their Devil Fruits after the World Government fell and revealing his hatred for the Celestial Dragons. He presented a plan to start a revolution in Alabasta, then challenged Betty’s objections by defining revolution as a violent reckoning with the ruling class.

• Dragon and the Revolutionary Army’s executives discussed whether Allen intended to help overthrow the World Government after seeing his mass-produced combat puppets.
• Allen welcomed Dragon and said he wanted the Revolutionary Army to give him every Devil Fruit in its possession after the World Government was overthrown.
• Dragon recognized that Allen’s demand was not his only motive, and Allen revealed his desire to send the Celestial Dragons to hell.
• Allen gave Dragon an action plan proposing that the Revolutionary Army exploit Alabasta’s crisis under Crocodile and overthrow its royal family.
• Betty objected that Cobra was a benevolent king, and Allen rebuked her by describing revolution as a violent overthrow and redistribution of power and wealth.

Allen explained revolutionary strategy to Dragon and the Revolutionary Army, then agreed to cooperate without joining them. After their alliance was established, Allen checked on Utopia’s refugee resettlement and elite army.

• Allen told Dragon that the Revolutionary Army needed to choose which class it would represent and explained the tradeoffs between allying with merchants and commoners.
• Dragon invited Allen to lead the Revolutionary Army, but Allen refused and said he only wanted to collect Devil Fruits and eliminate the Celestial Dragons.
• Dragon and Allen agreed to cooperate on weapons, ships, and strongholds, and the Revolutionary Army planned to contact Alabasta’s Resistance Army while keeping the Nefertari Family under house arrest as nominal rulers.
• After the Revolutionary Army departed with weapons, Kalifa reported that Utopia had resettled nearly sixteen thousand people from Alabasta and trained its craftspeople.
• Kalifa described Utopia’s nearly two-thousand-member elite army, which Nico Robin had helped recruit and which had been trained in life energy, the Six Powers, and Haki.

After months of quietly building Utopia, Allen sailed to East Blue with Dora, Nami, Perona, and Hawk Eyes to meet Luffy and pursue Devil Fruits. Their voyage brought them face-to-face with Blackbeard Teach and his crew, who were stranded at sea and had just recognized Allen.

• Allen secretly left the New World aboard a small sailing ship with Dora, Nami, Perona, and Hawk Eyes.
• Allen told Hawk Eyes that he intended to meet Monkey D. Luffy, and Hawk Eyes became curious about the young pirate.
• Dora spotted a raft, and its occupant used a powerful attraction to pull Allen's ship toward it.
• Marshall D. Teach and his crew boarded the ship after being stranded at sea.
• Allen greeted Teach and asked about his killing Satch and being hunted by the Whitebeard Pirates, while Lafitte and the others prepared to fight.

Allen let Teach escape after securing a promise of five Devil Fruits, intending to wait until Teach became more powerful and caused greater upheaval. He revealed his plan to exploit the coming conflict between the Whitebeard Pirates and the Marines to bring down the Celestial Dragons, despite Hawk Eyes warning him about the World Government’s hidden strength.

• Allen questioned Teach about killing Satch for the Dark-Dark Fruit and concluded Teach would have murdered him regardless of whether he would have given it up.
• Teach offered Allen five Devil Fruits in exchange for being allowed to leave, and Allen accepted the deal and let him escape.
• Dora asked why Allen had not captured Teach, and Allen said he would wait until Teach caused trouble before pursuing him.
• Allen explained the Dark-Dark Fruit’s abilities to Hawk Eyes and predicted that Teach might capture Ace and trigger a war between the Whitebeard Pirates and the Marines.
• Allen declared that he planned to use the coming war to end the Celestial Dragons’ rule, while Hawk Eyes warned him not to underestimate the World Government.

Allen arrived in Loguetown with Hawk Eyes, Nami, Dora, and Perona, then went looking for news about the East Blue and Straw Hat Luffy. He confronted mafia boss Bartholomew at a tavern and demanded information, leaving Bartholomew frightened and under threat.

• Allen and his companions reached Loguetown, where a Marine sergeant mistook the crew for tourists.
• Allen sent the others to explore while Nami and Perona went shopping, Hawk Eyes visited Roger's execution platform, and Dora stayed aboard the ship to train.
• Allen entered a tavern in a dark alley and recognized its green-haired boss, Bartholomew, as a Barrier-Barrier Fruit user.
• When a thug tried to interrupt Allen, Allen struck him with lightning and left him twitching on the floor.
• Allen threatened Bartholomew and demanded news about recent events in the East Blue and the last known location of Straw Hat Luffy.

Allen defeated Bartholomew and his gang in Loguetown, took the Barrier-Barrier Fruit, and then faced Smoker. He asked the Marine where Straw Hat Luffy was, saying he wanted to see the man who claimed he would become the Pirate King.

• Bartholomew attacked Allen with his barrier, but the barrier passed through Allen’s elementalized body.
• Bartholomew fired a pistol at Allen, and Allen killed him and his men with lightning, then took the Barrier-Barrier Fruit and their souls.
• Smoker arrived and attacked Allen, but his smoke fist passed through Allen without harming him.
• Allen dismissed Smoker’s anger, said he had no special purpose in the East Blue, and asked where Straw Hat Luffy was.
• Allen said he wanted to see the man who claimed he would become the Pirate King, leaving Smoker stunned.

Allen revealed Straw Hat Luffy’s powerful family connections to Smoker, then persuaded him to travel together to meet Luffy. At the docks, Tashigi joined Allen’s crew so she could learn swordsmanship from Dora, leaving Smoker furious as they prepared to depart.

• Allen told Smoker that Luffy was Dragon’s son, Garp’s grandson, Ace and Sabo’s sworn brother, and the recipient of Shanks’s hat.
• Smoker reeled at the revelations, then agreed to sail with Allen on his own rather than alert the Marines in Loguetown.
• At the ship, Allen caught Tashigi when she tripped, and Dora fired a signal flare to gather the crew.
• Smoker told Tashigi to keep Loguetown secure while he was away, but she asked to join the voyage and train with Dora.
• Allen welcomed Tashigi aboard and boarded the ship to prepare for departure, while Smoker angrily challenged his decision.