Chapter Summaries

Bullet overwhelmed the Supernovas, but Blackbeard and his crew arrived to seize Laugh Tale’s Eternal Pose and the Supernovas’ Devil Fruits. Blackbeard’s attack failed, and Bullet routed his crew while Lin Qi watched.

• Bullet stood unharmed over the defeated Supernovas and prepared to finish them off.
• Blackbeard and his bloodied crew confronted Bullet, demanding Laugh Tale’s Eternal Pose, while Shiryu began binding the Supernovas.
• Bullet mocked Blackbeard for betraying Whitebeard, and Blackbeard attacked with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
• Bullet endured Blackbeard’s vibrations and punched him hard enough to send him crashing to the ground.
• Shiryu and the other Blackbeard Pirates attacked Bullet together, but Bullet disarmed Shiryu and crushed or badly injured the crew; Van Augur escaped.
• Lin Qi criticized Blackbeard’s recklessness as Bullet continued to dominate the battlefield.

Smoker and Law warned the island’s residents that Festa planned to trigger a Buster Call, while Momonga and Smoker evacuated as many civilians as they could. As the bombardment began, Lin Qi unleashed Ice Age from a tall building.

• Smoker and Law warned the island’s residents to evacuate, and Momonga ordered his Marines to protect them.
• Smoker and Momonga discovered their two ships could carry only five thousand of the island’s thirty thousand civilians and began evacuating whoever they could.
• Kizaru pressed the Golden Den Den Mushi’s switch, ordering ten Warships to begin the Buster Call bombardment.
• Shells devastated the island, killing Pirates as the survivors fled and Smoker rushed more than four thousand civilians onto the ships.
• Lin Qi stood atop a tall building and used Ice Age, coating it in a thick layer of exceptionally hard ice.

Lin Qi froze the islands to shield their inhabitants while Bullet overwhelmed Blackbeard with his Combine-Combine Fruit and destroyed a Marine Warship. Lin Qi, Jerry, and exhausted Tom rescued people from the battle and brought them to a small uninhabited island.

• Lin Qi froze the two islands and the sea between them, giving residents shelter from the bombardment.
• Kizaru ordered the Marines to continue firing on the islands and prepare to engage the survivors.
• Blackbeard used the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and Dark-Dark Fruit to fight Bullet, who revealed the Combine-Combine Fruit and transformed using a submarine.
• Bullet's giant form cleaved an island and destroyed a Warship, while Blackbeard was caught in the flames and darkness of his own attack.
• Lin Qi, Jerry, and Tom carried people away from the battle to a small uninhabited island, where Tom collapsed from exhaustion.

Lin Qi collected the Devil Fruits and unconscious survivors left after Bullet’s battle, then brought Blackbeard to the West Sea to have Irene and the others brainwash him. The group planned to erase Blackbeard’s memories and make him believe Lin Qi was his long-lost older brother.

• Lin Qi tested the Blackbeard Pirates in seawater, discovered Stronger had eaten the Pegasus Fruit, and sorted the captives by their Devil Fruits.
• Lin Qi left Tom and Jerry on the island and dragged the unconscious Blackbeard back to the West Sea.
• Lin Qi summoned Irene, Orochimaru, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Danzou and asked them to brainwash Blackbeard.
• Orochimaru proposed that Irene erase Blackbeard’s memories so they could write new ones, while warning that the plan might fail.
• Lin Qi told the group to kill Blackbeard if he realized he had been brainwashed, then asked them to make him believe they were long-lost biological brothers.

Irene found three separate memory strands in Blackbeard’s mind, leading Lin Qi to suspect that three personalities or souls shared his body. They uncovered a childhood memory in which Blackbeard’s mother sent him and his two sisters fleeing with Dr. Yekov during an attack on their research institute.

• Irene pulled three memory strands from Blackbeard’s head, and Lin Qi noticed that each went dark for eight hours a day.
• Lin Qi connected Blackbeard’s three memory strands to his ability to go without sleep and suspected that his two sisters might be linked to the mystery.
• Irene rewound one memory strand to Blackbeard’s childhood, where armed attackers stormed Dr. Yekov’s research institute and demanded the doctor.
• Blackbeard’s mother shielded him and his sisters while the attackers seized them, then used her strength to throw the children to Yekov.
• Blackbeard’s mother opened a dark tunnel beneath Yekov, sending him and the children away as she stayed behind.

Blackbeard and his sisters escaped the research institute with Dr. Yekov, but their mother was killed and the family was captured. A week later, Yekov tried to comfort his children while Blackbeard blamed him for their mother's death.

• Blackbeard's mother stayed behind to let her family escape, and the pursuers shot her dead.
• Dr. Yekov fled through the secret passage with Blackbeard and his two daughters, but the pursuers caught them.
• After learning that his wife had been killed, Yekov collapsed, and the men subdued the children and decided to keep them for leverage and experiments.
• A week later, Blackbeard vowed to protect Alice and Bolita in the research institute.
• Yekov told his daughters their mother had gone far away and offered to make cherry pie, while Blackbeard avoided him and blamed him for their mother's death.

After researchers repeatedly drew Blackbeard’s blood, Dr. Yekov learned that his son had an unusually powerful natural constitution and began training him to help him and his sisters escape the institute. Blackbeard continued caring for Alice and Bolita while enduring training and further experiments.

• Research institute staff dragged Blackbeard away for another blood draw, and he returned weak and silently ate the cherry pie Dr. Yekov had made.
• Alice offered Blackbeard her pie and asked whether their mother would return, but he pushed it back and went to exercise, determined to avenge his mother and escape with his sisters.
• Dr. Yekov told Blackbeard that his genes naturally gave him the potential to become a supreme ruler of the seas, and he began hoping his son could lead the children out of the institute.
• Dr. Yekov changed his goal and trained Blackbeard whenever he could, while maintaining the family’s routine of laboratory work, cherry pie, and caring for Alice and Bolita.
• Blackbeard continued to be taken for blood draws, which left him weak for several days each time.

After learning that Blackbeard had three hearts, Dr. Yekov feared the institute would use him as a test subject and devoted himself to research to protect his son. He discovered that a split-soul mouse could eat two Devil Fruits, but Gene Editing could not give Blackbeard a second soul, so Dr. Yekov searched for another solution.

• After a year of training, Blackbeard defeated wild animals up to brown bears, and the institute examined him.
• Dr. Yekov learned that Blackbeard had three hearts and feared the scientists would experiment on him to test whether multiple hearts allowed someone to eat multiple Devil Fruits.
• Dr. Yekov told Blackbeard about his three hearts, then handed over his Gene Editing technology and worked to protect him.
• Dr. Yekov tested mice and found that a mouse with three hearts died after eating a second Devil Fruit, while a mouse with two independent consciousnesses and two hearts survived eating two.
• Dr. Yekov realized Gene Editing could not give Blackbeard a second soul, so he searched through records and ancient texts for another way.

After three years of research, Dr. Yekov discovered that Blackbeard could consume multiple Devil Fruits by eating the Dark-Dark Fruit first. An attack on the World Government facility interrupted them, and Blackbeard fought back when CP agents tried to take Dr. Yekov away.

• Dr. Yekov discovered that the Dark-Dark Fruit could shield Blackbeard's brain from the spiritual energy of other Devil Fruits, allowing him to consume multiple fruits safely if he ate it first.
• An explosion shook the research facility, and a CP agent told Dr. Yekov that an intruder had attacked and reinforcements were coming.
• Dr. Yekov rushed to the living quarters and found Blackbeard, Alice, and Bolita hiding beneath a bed.
• Armed CP elites seized Dr. Yekov and refused to take his children with him.
• Blackbeard roared, knocked one CP elite down, and pummeled him until three agents dragged him away.

Dr. Yekov returned to Blackbeard and his sisters after killing their captors, then used a powerful weapon to blast a path out of the research institute. The siblings reached the outside world, but Dr. Yekov collapsed from his injuries after sacrificing himself to free them.

• Chuan Jianguo threatened Blackbeard, but the captain stopped him and took Dr. Yekov away after demanding his cooperation.
• Dr. Yekov told Blackbeard to protect Alice and Bolita and find the Dark-Dark Fruit before he was dragged away.
• Blackbeard hid beneath a bed with his sisters while explosions shook the research institute.
• Dr. Yekov returned covered in blood, said he had killed their captors, and gave the children technological earplugs.
• Dr. Yekov fired a cannon-like weapon through the institute's walls, opening a passage outside, but the recoil injured him severely.
• Dr. Yekov revealed his own penetrating wound and told his children he had freed them because he had little time left to live.

Blackbeard escaped the research institute with Dr. Yekov and his sisters, but a landmine killed them all while he was fleeing from the Roger Pirates. After Blackbeard woke with his sisters’ souls inside his head, he eventually survived alone and met Whitebeard; the people watching his memories reacted to his tragic past and Dr. Yekov’s scientific talent.

• Dr. Yekov urged Blackbeard to flee with his sisters, but Blackbeard carried his wounded father and led them toward the outside world.
• Three years later, Blackbeard saw Roger, Bullet, and Rayleigh fighting researchers, then panicked when Gaban came to protect him and ran away.
• Blackbeard accidentally triggered a landmine, which killed Dr. Yekov and both of his sisters.
• Blackbeard collapsed beside his sisters, and the devices in their ears caused their souls to appear inside his head when he woke.
• Blackbeard and his sisters survived countless near-death experiences before escaping the island, and Blackbeard later met Whitebeard after living alone in a town for half a year.
• Irene mourned Blackbeard’s suffering, while Orochimaru, Danzou, and Lin Qi considered the research and Dr. Yekov’s talents.

Lin Qi discovered that two of the memory reels inside Blackbeard belonged to Alice and Bolita, whose souls were intertwined with his Devil Fruit powers. He persuaded the sisters to become his spies, then returned Blackbeard’s memories and watched him awaken believing Lin Qi was his big brother.

• Irene and the others altered one of Blackbeard’s three memory reels before Alice and Bolita begged them not to tamper with theirs.
• Lin Qi questioned whether Alice and Bolita were real souls or personalities created by Blackbeard’s trauma, and Bolita admitted they did not know.
• Bolita warned that killing them could make the Tremor-Tremor Fruit’s power destroy Blackbeard, while Alice offered to spy for Lin Qi.
• Lin Qi threatened to kill Blackbeard if the sisters revealed the truth and demonstrated Irene’s resurrection ability, persuading them to cooperate.
• Lin Qi had Irene restore Blackbeard’s memory reels, and Blackbeard awoke and embraced Lin Qi, calling him Big Brother.

Lin Qi and Blackbeard pretended to celebrate their reunion as brothers while privately weighing each other’s intentions. Lin Qi rejected Blackbeard’s plan to attack Mary Geoise, promised to make him Pirate King, and prepared to move against Bullet without Blackbeard’s help.

• Lin Qi and Blackbeard acted like affectionate brothers, while Irene slipped away and Danzou, Orochimaru, and the others watched.
• Blackbeard proposed that he and Lin Qi attack Mary Geoise, kill the Celestial Dragons, and divide the world between them.
• Lin Qi warned Blackbeard that the World Government’s hidden weapons and eight centuries of power made them too weak to challenge it yet.
• Lin Qi told Blackbeard to keep building his pirate strength and promised to make him Pirate King.
• Blackbeard asked to help Lin Qi deal with Bullet, but Lin Qi sent him back to recover from his injuries, and Blackbeard agreed.

Lin Qi sent the injured pirates to safety and delayed returning to the Pirate Expo while checking his status and the system’s new rewards. He bought eight Life Fruits and considered saving enough Points to revive Robin's mother or Dr. Yekov.

• Lin Qi reminded Blackbeard to keep their relationship secret, gave him a Youth Preserving Pill, and sent him to rejoin his crew.
• Lin Qi and Blackbeard returned to the island, where Tom and Jerry had kept the survivors alive.
• Lin Qi sent the Blackbeard Pirates home, then healed and teleported the other survivors around the world to avoid arousing suspicion.
• Lin Qi decided to wait before returning to the Pirate Expo and called Smoker while checking his attributes.
• Lin Qi bought eight Life Fruits for eighty thousand Points and passed on the other listed rewards.

Lin Qi bought the Flame-Flame Fruit and asked Smoker to monitor the battle between Bullet and Kizaru. He returned to the island as their fight neared its end, then intervened and confronted Bullet while Kizaru withdrew.

• Lin Qi bought the Flame-Flame Fruit and discarded a thousand bizarre items from the remaining options by feeding them to fish.
• Lin Qi thanked Smoker for monitoring the island and asked him to report when Bullet and Kizaru were close to deciding the victor.
• After two hours, Lin Qi returned to find the Marines clearing the islands and Bullet and Kizaru still fighting after seven hours.
• Lin Qi appeared in the battlefield and blasted half of Bullet's armor apart with a punch.
• Kizaru recognized Lin Qi and retreated, while Bullet challenged Lin Qi and told him to wait until his duel with Kizaru was over.
• Lin Qi ignored Bullet and asked Kizaru whether he planned to stay and watch.

Lin Qi captured Bullet and claimed his reward, which brought him the Devil Fruit-powered dogs Meat Lump and Husky 66. After discovering their abilities and sending 66 off with Tom and Jerry for testing, Lin Qi was left with Meat Lump’s many copies when Hina arrived and asked for a Corgi.

• Lin Qi defeated Bullet, tied him up, took him back to the West Sea, and claimed his mission reward.
• Lin Qi met Meat Lump the Corgi, who had the Splitting-Splitting Fruit, and Husky 66, who had the Advance-Advance Fruit.
• Meat Lump demonstrated that it could split into countless copies, prompting Lin Qi to imagine arming them for battle.
• Husky 66 demonstrated that it could teleport through obstacles, and Lin Qi persuaded it to cooperate with Tom and Jerry by promising it a female Husky.
• Hina entered with Lin Qi’s afternoon tea, saw the Corgis, and asked if she could have one.

Lin Qi freed Bullet from his Seastone restraints and let him eat until his strength recovered, then agreed to fight him again. The two left the prison to find a place for their rematch.

• Lin Qi gave Hina the Meat Lump and fed the Flame-Flame Fruit to the Heart Crossing Demon Blade at a research institute in the West Sea.
• Lin Qi visited Bullet, who was being guarded by Fujitora, and gave him the key to his Seastone shackles.
• Bullet unlocked his restraints, broke out of his cell, and agreed to fight Lin Qi after eating and drinking.
• Bullet devoured a meal meant for two hundred people over three hours, recovering his injuries and stamina.
• Bullet demanded a fight, and Lin Qi led him out of the prison to choose a place.

Lin Qi defeated Bullet in a prolonged battle, but Bullet kept challenging him despite his injuries. Lin Qi’s words reminded Bullet of Roger, and Bullet vowed to defeat Lin Qi one day.

• Lin Qi defeated Bullet head-on, then fought him repeatedly as Bullet kept getting back up and demanding another round.
• After a day and night of fighting, Bullet was too exhausted to move, and Lin Qi sat beside him and asked whether he still wanted to continue.
• Bullet recalled his childhood in the Endless War Nation, where betrayal by his comrades and commander taught him to trust only strength.
• Bullet remembered meeting Roger, joining his crew, and falling into emptiness after Roger’s death before the Marines imprisoned him in Impel Down.
• Lin Qi told Bullet he could challenge him anytime as long as he stayed out of trouble in the West Sea, echoing Roger’s words.
• Bullet laughed and vowed that he would defeat Lin Qi one day and prove he was the strongest man in the world.

After Bullet was taken away, Kizaru spared the island’s civilians and returned to his ship to rest. Meanwhile, Tom, Jerry, and Husky 66 infiltrated Marine Headquarters to practice for a future heist, and Tom came up with an unusual target.

• Kizaru ordered the Marines to dig the civilians out of the ice and release them instead of killing them.
• Kizaru returned to his Warship, leaving his subordinates to rescue the civilians.
• Tom, Jerry, and Husky 66 teleported into Marine Headquarters to train for a future mission at Mary Geoise.
• Tom and his companions searched for something worthwhile to steal, and Tom recalled using panties as a pillow and decided on a target.

Tom, Jerry, and Husky 66 formed the Phantom Thief Squad and raided Marine dormitories to steal underwear. After clearing out a men’s dorm, they targeted the women’s dorm, where Tom recognized the sea-like smell on a pair of panties before the squad escaped.

• Tom and Husky 66 agreed to steal panties, and the Phantom Thief Squad set out at dusk.
• Husky 66 teleported Tom and Jerry through several wrong locations before they found an empty men’s dormitory.
• Tom and Jerry stole the men’s underwear while Husky 66 wrecked the dorm, and Tom spray-painted “Phantom Thief Squad—66” on the wall.
• Six Marines returned, discovered the damage and missing underwear, and reported the strange burglary.
• Tom and Jerry stole underwear from the rest of the men’s dormitory and entered the neighboring women’s dormitory.
• Tom recognized the smell on a pair of panties, then the squad escaped; Ali discovered that her sweat-soaked birthday gift for her boyfriend was missing.