Chapter Summaries

Kuro left Onigashima without revealing Allen’s plans, then relayed a Wano samurai’s offer to submit if the Demon Pirates killed Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi and restored the Kozuki Clan. Allen rejected the offer and decided to tell Kaido about the Kozuki loyalists so they would be wiped out, leaving Wano in despair.

• Kaido and the Beasts Pirates let Kuro depart after failing to learn anything about Allen’s plans.
• A masked Wano samurai asked Kuro to tell Allen that the Kozuki loyalists would submit if he killed Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi and restored the Kozuki Clan.
• Kuro identified the samurai as one of Kozuki Oden’s retainers and sent the offer to Allen in a coded message.
• Allen dismissed Kozuki Oden and his followers, and Hawk Eyes asked what he planned to do.
• Allen decided to pass the information to Kaido and have him eliminate the remaining Kozuki Clan loyalists so Wano would be plunged into despair.

The Whitebeard Pirates assembled their fleet to rescue Ace, while Whitebeard admitted Allen might have surpassed him. At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku prepared for the coming battle and worried whether Garp would follow through with the Navy’s plan.

• Marco told Whitebeard that the Demon Pirates had gone to war with Kaido again, and Whitebeard said Allen could no longer be stopped from getting what he wanted.
• Whitebeard acknowledged that he might no longer be Allen’s match, then learned from Marco that forty-three allied Pirate Crews had assembled and three were still en route.
• Whitebeard’s crew vowed to attack Marineford and rescue Ace as the fleet prepared to sail.
• Sengoku informed the Seven Warlords that Whitebeard’s fleet had assembled and assigned them defensive zones, while treating them as forces meant to exhaust the enemy.
• Sengoku worried that Garp might not be able to watch Ace’s execution, and Tsuru said Garp had visited Ace and then shut himself away in his office.

Allen revealed to Kaido that he planned to destroy Mary Geoise and kill its inhabitants, while forcing the Beasts Pirates to keep up their staged battle. After Drake sent his final intelligence to the Marines, Allen ordered his crew to capture him and coordinate with the Revolutionary Army to create a major diversion.

• Allen and Kaido watched their crews stage a battle while discussing the coming conflict between the Marines and Whitebeard.
• Allen told Kaido that his real target was Mary Geoise and declared that he intended to wipe it out, sparing only slaves seeking freedom.
• Kaido eagerly asked to join Allen's attack, but Allen warned him that he would not protect him and threatened him against betraying their arrangement.
• Kuro reported that Drake had delivered his final intelligence to the Marines, and Allen ordered his capture.
• Allen told Kuro to alert Dragon and the Revolutionary Army to make as much commotion as possible before their assault on the Holy Land.

Kuro exposed Drake as a known Marine spy and began preparing the Demon Pirates for a larger conflict while waiting for the Whitebeard fleet to approach Fish-Man Island. In the meantime, his forces raided Doflamingo’s base and the Marines’ science facility, delivering valuable Devil Fruits, DYNA Rock, and Dr. Vegapunk to Allen.

• Ulti and Drake fought to a standstill until Aokiji intervened and told Ulti to leave Drake to him.
• Moore revealed that the war and all the intelligence Drake had sent to the Marines were carefully staged to mislead them, and that Allen had already defeated Kaido and made the Beasts Pirates his vassals.
• Drake broke down after realizing the consequences of the false intelligence, and Aokiji froze him before asking Kuro whether he was satisfied with Aokiji’s loyalty.
• Kuro told Robin that the Demon Pirates would wait for the Whitebeard fleet to near Fish-Man Island and use the time to seize useful assets without drawing attention.
• With Allen’s approval, Kuro sent elite groups through the Gate-Gate Fruit to destroy Doflamingo’s base and the Marine Science Unit’s facility, bringing Allen the Joke-Joke Fruit, DYNA Rock, research materials, and Dr. Vegapunk.

Allen confronted Vegapunk, demanded the truth about Devil Fruits and Bloodline Factors, and revealed his plan to destroy the World Government and the Celestial Dragons. Vegapunk warned him about the Celestial Dragons’ national treasure, but under pressure handed over his core research, including information about the Life Blueprint.

• Allen greeted Vegapunk and explained that he had survived the DYNA Rock bomb that Vegapunk designed to kill him.
• Allen demanded that Vegapunk explain the relationship between Devil Fruits, Bloodline Factors, and adaptability, and threatened to read his memories if he tried to deceive him.
• After reading recent newspapers, Vegapunk realized Allen was preparing to overthrow the World Government, and Allen confirmed that he intended to destroy the Holy Land and kill the Celestial Dragons.
• Vegapunk warned Allen that the Celestial Dragons possessed a powerful national treasure, but Allen insisted that he would show Vegapunk a weapon capable of overcoming it.
• Under Allen’s pressure, Vegapunk handed over his core research, and Allen learned how species such as Giants, Fish-Men, and the Mink Tribe had come to exist.

Allen learned that the Ancient Weapons and many peoples may have been engineered by an ancient empire, then ordered the Endless Abyss to set sail for Mary Geoise to overthrow the World Government. As the ship departed, Kaido gathered his forces to head for Marine Headquarters and join the coming battle.

• Allen discussed the ancient empire's genetic engineering and rejected the idea of examining Celestial Dragons, while promising Vilnalasath they would feed on Kaido before leaving.
• Robin reported that the Whitebeard Pirates had reached Fish-Man Island, Kaido had killed Kozuki Oden's retainers and Kurozumi Orochi, and King of Calamity King had asked to join Allen.
• Allen told Robin to reject King of Calamity King and ordered Nami to change course for Mary Geoise.
• The Endless Abyss departed as Aokiji anticipated the coming conflict and Trafalgar Law vowed revenge on Doflamingo.
• Kaido watched Allen's ship leave, then ordered his subordinates to gather and sail for Marine Headquarters.

Allen and the Demon Pirates confronted Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates, who tried to stop them from advancing in the name of preventing further chaos. Allen refused to yield, and as both crews prepared to fight, Kaido arrived on the frozen sea.

• Shanks and Benn Beckman discussed whether Allen or Kaido would reach them first, and Beckman warned that the Demon Pirates could overpower their crew.
• The Endless Abyss approached the Red-Haired Pirates, and Aokiji froze the surrounding sea so both crews could meet on the ice.
• Allen challenged Shanks's decision to stop him, but Shanks asked him to turn back and give him some face.
• Allen rejected Shanks's request and demanded that he either fight or move aside.
• Ike, Hawk Eyes, and Lucci challenged the Red-Haired Pirates' fighters as Shanks prepared to respond.
• Kaido crashed through the ice and slowly climbed out of the hole he had made.

Allen revealed that Kaido and the Beasts Pirates served the Demon Pirates, while Dragon’s Revolutionary Army spread revolution with his support. As the Demon Pirates raced toward Mary Geoise, Zephyr committed to reforming the Marines from within, and forces converged near the Red Line for a decisive war.

• Allen told Shanks that Kaido and the Beasts Pirates were his vassals and warned that the Revolutionary Army would establish a new order if the World Government fell.
• Benn Beckman urged Shanks to concede, and Shanks split the frozen sea with his sword before sailing away with the Red-Haired Pirates.
• Allen ordered Golden Lion to lift the Endless Abyss into the air and hurry toward Mary Geoise before the Celestial Dragons could escape.
• Hina met Zephyr, who resolved to reform and purge the Marines from within, then followed his fleet back to Marine Headquarters.
• Forces from across the world gathered near the Red Line as a war over the world’s future approached.

Dragon entered Impel Down with Boa Hancock’s help to search for Emporio Ivankov while Ace was secretly moved to Marineford for execution. Whitebeard arrived with his fleet and began fighting the Marines, leaving Garp to confront him despite his ties to Ace.

• Dragon bypassed Impel Down’s security and searched Level 5 for Emporio Ivankov, while Boa Hancock returned to Marine headquarters.
• Sengoku announced during the live broadcast that Ace was Portgas D. Rouge’s son and Gol D. Roger’s heir.
• Whitebeard arrived at Marineford with his fleet and attacked the Marines with a massive tsunami.
• Akainu countered Whitebeard’s tsunami with his magma powers and clashed with him as the fleet advanced.
• Garp struck Whitebeard and said he had promised Sengoku to fight seriously, prompting Whitebeard to recognize Garp’s anguish over Ace’s execution.

As the Marineford war raged, Blackbeard Teach abandoned his post and broke into Impel Down, triggering a prison riot. Allen then attacked Mary Geoise with two enormous meteors, and one of the Five Elders destroyed the second meteor before it could directly annihilate the Holy Land.

• Blackbeard Teach left his assigned position during the battle and sailed toward Impel Down, planning to recruit the prisoners.
• Teach and his crew breached Impel Down while Warden Magellan was incapacitated, and the released prisoners overwhelmed the guards.
• Allen arrived over Mary Geoise with Vegapunk and the Demon Pirates, then summoned two enormous meteors using Six Paths—Heavenly Obstacle Quaking Star.
• The World Government’s launchers destroyed the first meteor, but its fragments ruined the city gate and the launchers.
• Fleet Admiral Sengoku ordered everyone to attack the second meteor, but their weapons barely damaged it.
• One of the Five Elders stepped forward and shattered the second meteor with several sword slashes.

Allen and the Demon Pirates attacked Mary Geoise, battling the Five Elders and slaughtering the Celestial Dragons while freeing their slaves. The assault continued as Mihawk fought the sword-wielding Five Elder and Dora claimed a vault key and its Devil Fruits.

• Allen praised the sword-wielding Five Elder after he split a meteorite with a slash.
• Mihawk challenged the sword-wielding Five Elder, and the two Master Swordsmen began fighting.
• Allen ordered the Demon Pirates to free the slaves and kill the Celestial Dragons, with the Endless Abyss providing cannon support.
• Ike attacked a Celestial Dragon residence, while the Demon Pirates and their ship devastated the nobles and their servants.
• Dora killed Saint Rosward after he offered treasure to spare his life.
• Dora entered the Rosward family vault, took its Devil Fruits, and left the gold and jewelry for Nami and Perona.

Allen and the Demon Pirates continued their assault on Mary Geoise as Allen confronted Imu, the hidden ruler of the World Government. Imu activated the Celestial Dragons’ National Treasure, but Allen fired an arrow at the weapon in orbit, and the two attacks collided high above the planet.

• The Demon Pirates slaughtered the Celestial Dragons while Allen’s wolf pack overwhelmed the remaining Five Elders.
• Imu spoke to Allen from the palace, revealing himself as the World Government’s true ruler, and Allen rejected any chance of negotiation.
• Imu activated the Celestial Dragons’ National Treasure, sending a golden beam from the Void Throne into space.
• Allen used his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to spot the orbital weapon and fired a powerful arrow at it.
• Allen’s arrow collided with the weapon’s beam high above the planet, creating a blinding flash that injured people who looked up.

Allen destroyed the World Government’s orbital National Treasure and survived its beam, then confronted Im-sama and began beating him. He planned to take Im-sama and the remaining Five Elders to Marine Headquarters for public execution and erase the Holy Land.

• Allen’s arrow warped into orbit and destroyed the National Treasure, though its final beam struck him and melted the Red Line around him.
• Lupos cut one Five Elder’s shadow, killing him, and the Wolf Pack attacked the three remaining elders with Armament Haki.
• Im-sama panicked after losing contact with the National Treasure and failed to help the surrounded Five Elders.
• Allen emerged from the lava largely unharmed, revealed that his arrow had destroyed the weapon, and challenged Im-sama.
• Allen declared he would take Im-sama and the remaining Five Elders to Marine Headquarters for execution and destroy the Holy Land, then battered Im-sama with a storm of punches.

Allen awakened his Divine Heart Core and defeated Imu, ending the Celestial Dragons’ rule in Mary Geoise. With Hawk Eyes also defeating his opponent, the Demon Pirates subdued the entire city.

• Allen withstood Imu’s high-speed attacks and told him that people should fear the wielder of power, not power itself.
• Allen accused Imu of becoming like the enemies he had once fought and activated his Divine Heart Core.
• Allen unleashed a Soul Tsunami that absorbed nearby souls and overwhelmed Imu.
• Imu failed to control Allen and was swallowed by the Soul Tsunami, leaving behind an empty shell.
• Hawk Eyes cut down the Five Elders’ master swordsman, and the Demon Pirates ended all resistance in Mary Geoise.

After looting Mary Geoise, Allen destroyed it with a nuclear warhead and recruited Vegapunk by promising to reveal its secrets. He then headed for Marineford, where Teach and his allies moved against the Whitebeard Pirates amid the escalating battle.

• Allen let his crew and the freed slaves loot Mary Geoise, then took every valuable item himself before the Endless Abyss departed.
• Allen fired a replicated nuclear warhead at Mary Geoise, destroying the city and stunning everyone aboard the ship.
• Vegapunk agreed to work for Allen in exchange for learning about the nuclear weapon, and Allen ordered Nami to steer toward Marineford.
• At Marineford, Teach declared that he would kill Whitebeard and claim his power, reputation, and territory.
• Shiryu attacked Vista, and the two swordsmen exchanged dozens of blows across the battlefield.

Blackbeard Teach entered the battle to seize Whitebeard’s power, while Dragon revealed that Allen had attacked Mary Geoise and warned Akainu he would be purged. Whitebeard wounded Teach despite the Dark-Dark Fruit’s ability to nullify his powers, then raised his naginata as Teach begged for mercy.

• Whitebeard confronted Teach over Satch’s murder, while Teach fought his way toward him with his new crew.
• Akainu tried to ambush Whitebeard, but Dragon kicked him away and criticized his loyalty to the World Government.
• Dragon told the battlefield that Allen had attacked Mary Geoise and that the Five Elders and World Government might already be gone.
• Teach used Dark Water to cancel Whitebeard’s Tremor-Tremor Fruit and slashed Whitebeard’s abdomen.
• Whitebeard exploited the Dark-Dark Fruit’s flaw, cut a deep wound across Teach’s chest, and prepared to kill him as Teach begged for his life.

Teach poisoned Whitebeard during the battle at Marineford, and Akainu worsened his wounds as the fighting neared the execution platform. Allen arrived with Imu and the dying Five Elders, freed Ace, and prepared to execute the World Government’s leaders before the world.

• Teach struck Whitebeard in the chest with a poisoned gauntlet, while Marco fought Catarina Devon to stop the Blackbeard Pirates.
• Whitebeard refused a healing potion and ordered Marco to rescue Ace and leave, then defended himself against Akainu’s lava attack as the poison spread.
• Akainu drove a magma fist into Whitebeard’s abdominal wound, but the Demon Pirates’ flagship, the Endless Abyss, appeared above Marine Headquarters.
• Several figures, including the dying Five Elders, fell from the sky onto the execution platform, shocking Sengoku and exciting Dragon.
• Allen arrived beside the platform, tore apart Ace’s Seastone handcuffs, and arranged Imu and the Five Elders for a public execution.

Allen announced that the World Government and Mary Geoise had been destroyed and publicly executed the Five Elders and Imu. He then sent Law after Doflamingo and killed Akainu, ordering Vilnalasath to devour him and take his Devil Fruit.

• Allen demanded that everyone on the battlefield remain silent, and Georgia Rini killed Baskerville Jott with a single crushing blow.
• Allen announced that Mary Geoise and the World Government were gone, the Celestial Dragons had been exterminated, and he would execute the Five Elders and Imu.
• Allen beheaded the Five Elders and Imu before the live broadcast audience.
• Allen told Doflamingo that the Donquixote Family was finished and sent Law to fight him.
• Allen pierced Akainu's chest, tore out his heart, and ordered Vilnalasath to swallow him and seize his Devil Fruit.

Vilnalasath revealed her true form as a red Great Dragon while Allen offered to cure Whitebeard and resurrect his fallen crew in exchange for the Tremor-Tremor Fruit. After Allen fulfilled the bargain, Whitebeard prepared to confront the traitor Blackbeard Teach, whom Allen forbade him from killing.

• Vilnalasath transformed into a red Great Dragon, overwhelming the battlefield with her presence, and Allen gave her permission to attack Kaido.
• Allen offered Whitebeard a cure and the resurrection of his dead crew in exchange for the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and Whitebeard accepted.
• Allen healed Whitebeard with a Nourishing Potion, restored the fallen pirates' bodies, and used the Soul-Soul Fruit to return their souls.
• Whitebeard's resurrected crew gathered around him, and Ace apologized for what had happened before Whitebeard blamed Teach.
• Whitebeard asked to deal with Teach himself, and Allen agreed on the condition that Whitebeard did not kill him because Teach owed Allen a debt.
• Whitebeard leaped toward Blackbeard Teach and struck at him with a powerful fist.

Whitebeard defeated Blackbeard Teach, and Allen claimed Teach’s Dark-Dark Fruit after settling their debt. Vilnalasath killed Kaido and Teach, leaving the surviving Devil Fruit users afraid of becoming her next target.

• Whitebeard struck Teach through his Dark Hole with an Armament Haki punch, leaving him critically injured.
• Allen reminded Teach of his debt of five Devil Fruits and declared that Teach would repay it with his life.
• Vilnalasath killed Kaido, extracted the Azure Dragon Fruit’s Bloodline Factor, and turned it into a fruit.
• Vilnalasath swallowed Teach and studied his genes before Allen took the Dark-Dark Fruit from her.
• The surviving Devil Fruit users watched Allen claim the fruit and feared they might be next.