Chapter Summaries

Lu Li explained to the Beasts Pirates officers how regulated food prices and incentive-based wages made free factory workers more productive and less costly than enslaved workers. He began examining what the factories’ wages actually cost as the officers reconsidered their assumptions.

• Lu Li explained that regulating food prices had increased the workers’ real purchasing power, even though the new factories’ average wages were only slightly higher.
• King realized that Wano Country’s currency had effectively appreciated, and Kaido worried that he had lost money by raising wages.
• Lu Li showed that training workers, paying them during training, idle equipment, and employing overseers added substantial costs to the old factories.
• Lu Li explained that performance-based pay, dismissal for consistently poor results, and promotion for sustained strong results motivated craftsmen to work and improve.
• Lu Li drew a factory career structure on the blackboard, then began explaining what the wages paid to Wano Country’s craftsmen actually cost the factories.

Lu Li explained how Wano Country’s factories could earn greater profits by paying workers in food, improving their conditions, and charging for technical training, and Kaido approved his plan for reforming the old factories. Lu Li then raised his main proposal: reducing or shutting down Artificial Devil Fruit production because its profits were low.

• Lu Li explained to Kaido and the Beasts Pirates officers how food wages, overseas trade, and factory profits supported Wano Country’s industrial chain.
• Lu Li proposed that workers pay to train at technical academies, and he argued that better treatment could still bring the pirates substantial profits.
• Kaido ordered the old factories changed to Lu Li’s model, then let Lu Li handle the transition to avoid unrest and disrupted production.
• Lu Li revealed that he wanted to discuss the Artificial Devil Fruit factory because his research showed its profits were low.

Lu Li showed Kaido that Artificial Devil Fruits were costly and produced an ineffective Gifter army, prompting Kaido to shut down their factories. When Kaido asked how to strengthen the Beasts Pirates, Lu Li asked about his dream, and Kaido revealed he wanted to overthrow the Celestial Dragons and become the One Piece, not rule the world.

• Lu Li compared factory profit ratios and explained that Artificial Devil Fruits had low returns because their raw materials, equipment, and technology were controlled by Doflamingo and Caesar.
• Lu Li argued that the Gifter army was weak, vulnerable to Conqueror's Haki, and burdened by Artificial Devil Fruits' side effects, while King and Kaido reconsidered its military value.
• Kaido blamed Doflamingo for deceiving him and ordered every Artificial Devil Fruit factory shut down.
• King asked what the Beasts Pirates should do instead, and Kaido asked Lu Li how to make the crew stronger.
• Lu Li asked Kaido about his dream, and Kaido said he wanted to overthrow the Celestial Dragons, create a fairer world, and become the One Piece rather than rule the world.

Lu Li urged Kaido to govern Wano Country fairly and build support among its people before challenging the Celestial Dragons. He laid out how benevolent policies, economic growth, and education could turn Wano’s people and samurai into a loyal, capable force, then began explaining why both ordinary troops and elite fighters would be needed.

• Lu Li challenged Kaido to explain how he could make the world fair when Wano Country remained unjust, and Kaido admitted he had treated the country as a base for his ambitions.
• Kaido asked Lu Li how to overthrow the Celestial Dragons, and Lu Li proposed that Kaido first become Wano Country’s trusted protector and govern it well.
• Lu Li argued that Wano’s people, industrial base, and samurai could provide the economic and military strength needed to resist the World Government.
• Lu Li explained that benevolent policies under Yamato could win over younger generations who were growing detached from the Kozuki Family, while prosperity and education could cultivate skilled workers and loyal fighters.
• King questioned whether a samurai army would help against the Celestial Dragons, and Lu Li replied that the Gifters and samurai each had roles, including handling tasks beyond the main battlefield.

Lu Li proposed ways for Kaido to strengthen the Beasts Pirates and attract powerful recruits by using wealth, fame, and shared ideals. Kaido appointed Lu Li the Fourth Calamity and gave him broad authority over Wano Country, leaving him responsible for carrying out the plans.

• Lu Li explained that ordinary soldiers would support the army while elite fighters would decide major battles, and proposed recruiting talent with money, fame, and shared ideals.
• Kaido considered how making Wano Country prosperous and powerful could reveal his plans to fight the World Government and attract people who shared his ambitions.
• King and Black Maria questioned how outsiders could trust Kaido’s ideals, so Lu Li suggested opening Wano Country to short-term visitors and developing tourism.
• Kaido named Lu Li a new All-Star and military strategist, granted him the highest administrative authority in Wano Country, and assigned him the meeting’s plans.

After becoming the Beasts Pirates’ Fourth Calamity, Lu Li helped plan Wano Country’s infrastructure reforms while the World Government monitored Kaido’s growing power. The chapter ended with three Explorers discovering Lu Li’s new wanted poster, which named him a Beasts Pirates All-Star with a 790-million-Beli bounty.

• Lu Li discussed Wano Country’s infrastructure with Yamato and then worked with Kanjia to draft a preliminary construction plan.
• Lu Li prepared to have the Numbers and unemployed drifters carry out the plan as Wano Country underwent reforms.
• The World Government recognized that Kaido’s improved rule was strengthening the Beasts Pirates, but its factions failed to agree on a response and chose to keep monitoring him.
• Marine Headquarters finalized new Beasts Pirates wanted posters and sent them around the world.
• Three Second-Tier Explorers entering the Grand Line examined the posters and found Lu Li listed as a new All-Star, Calamity, with a bounty of 790 million Beli.

Lu Li received his first bounty as the Beasts Pirates’ fourth All-Star and unlocked a quest to raise his fame, while Black Lily escaped an encounter with the powerful God Realm Explorer Shin Izumi. Lu Li remained in Wano, where his training and authority had grown, and the chapter ended with him considering his new bounty and its potential rewards.

• Explorers across the world reacted with alarm to Lu Li’s 780-million-Beli bounty and his position as the Beasts Pirates’ fourth Calamity.
• Black Lily killed a God Realm Explorer, then escaped Shin Izumi’s attack and recognized him as an exceptionally powerful opponent.
• Black Lily saw a wanted poster for Prison Demon and wondered about the name.
• Lu Li continued training with Yamato and Kaido, improving his attributes and Haki while helping develop Wano.
• Fukurokuju brought Lu Li his first wanted poster, and Lu Li received the Fame at Sea quest to increase his bounty for staged rewards.

Lu Li collected the rewards for his rising bounty, then continued reorganizing Wano Country through infrastructure projects, factory jobs, technical education, and free worker housing. With the reservoir complete and the first homes ready for assignment, he prepared to make Kaido a new proposal.

• Lu Li claimed the staged Fame at Sea rewards and received a Paramecia Dark-Shadow Fruit instead of the Mythical Zoan he had hoped for.
• Lu Li reviewed Wano Country’s progress as factories opened, workers found jobs, and the Numbers rapidly built the central reservoir.
• Lu Li kept Pica working on a new commercial city and homes, while Kaido accepted Lu Li’s advice to keep Doflamingo alive and use his distribution connections.
• Lu Li announced that factory workers could receive homes and opened a technical college to train people for weapons manufacturing and Sea Stone processing.
• Lu Li completed the reservoir ribbon-cutting, and the first batch of worker housing was ready for assignment.
• With his influence at its peak, Lu Li decided to present Kaido with a new proposal.

Lu Li persuaded Kaido to fund wastewater treatment and present himself as Wano Country’s protector while distributing homes to workers. Kaido delivered Lu Li’s prepared speech to the gathered citizens, beginning to reshape their view of him.

• Lu Li convinced Kaido that cheap labor and extorting Doflamingo for equipment would make wastewater treatment affordable and help Wano Country’s reputation.
• Lu Li persuaded Kaido to personally distribute property deeds so citizens would see him as their protector.
• At the new district, Kaido appeared before the crowd in a Wano Country haori as workers gathered to receive their homes.
• Kaido gave Lu Li’s prepared speech, blaming Kurozumi Orochi’s rule for Wano Country’s suffering and claiming he had overthrown Orochi to liberate the people.
• The crowd began raising their heads and seeing Kaido as more decent than his fearsome reputation suggested.

Kaido delivered Lu Li’s prepared speech, announced Wano Country’s opening, and presented himself as its protector while residents received homes. After the ceremony, Lu Li explained that Wano’s expanding industry could greatly increase Kaido’s income, and Kaido was surprised by the forecast.

• Kaido praised Yamato’s rule, admitted that his factories had harmed Wano, and promised reforms, prosperity, and protection from foreign enemies.
• Lu Li’s plants led the crowd in chanting “Guardian God, Myōō Kaido,” and the celebration spread among the people.
• Kaido handed out property deeds to workers, including one worker who tearfully thanked him for his new home and his factory job.
• Lu Li ended Kaido’s public appearance after noon, and Kaido complained about the formal clothes and ceremony despite having enjoyed the workers’ gratitude.
• Lu Li told Kaido that Wano’s monthly income could rise tenfold by year’s end and twentyfold by the following year as factories and infrastructure expanded.

King returned to Onigashima injured after clashing with the blind swordsman Issho while pursuing a Poneglyph on a Sky Island. After learning that another Lunarian might be there, Kaido decided to go himself, and Lu Li asked to accompany him.

• Speed summoned Kaido and Lu Li to Onigashima with news of a Poneglyph and King's agitation.
• Kaido found King injured, and King said a powerful blind swordsman had forced him to retreat.
• Lu Li recognized the swordsman as Issho, a great swordsman who wielded the Gravity-Gravity Fruit.
• King explained that pirates were converging on a Sky Island Poneglyph, and that he had fought Issho while trying to reach it.
• King revealed that he had also heard a Lunarian might be living on a Sky Island, prompting Kaido to prepare to go there.
• Lu Li asked Kaido to take him along.

Lu Li persuaded Kaido to take him on the expedition to Sky Island, where he planned to recruit Issho and find a chance to disappear from Wano Country. Before leaving, he entrusted Wano Country’s plans to Yamato and Kanjia, leaving Yamato to govern while he sailed with Kaido.

• Lu Li assured Kaido that Wano Country’s projects could continue under Yamato and Kanjia while he was away.
• Lu Li persuaded Kaido to bring him on the expedition by proposing that they recruit Issho, and Kaido agreed.
• Yamato protested that Lu Li was breaking their promise to sail together, but accepted his promise to take her on a future voyage.
• Lu Li handed his plans to Yamato and explained them with Kanjia so they could manage Wano Country in his absence.
• After working through the night, Lu Li entrusted Wano Country to Yamato and Kanjia, and Yamato promised to look after it.

The Beasts Pirates set sail from Wano Country aboard their warship, bringing Ulti and Page One along as Kaido’s newly adopted children. Once aboard, Lu Li reassured the siblings about their Devil Fruits, then heard Who's Who’s suspicion that CP agents had infiltrated the crew.

• King explained that the Beasts Pirates needed a ship for the long journey to Zenith of the West, and Kaido prepared to sail with a large force.
• Lu Li met Ulti and Page One, who feared Kaido would punish them for eating the Ancient Zoan Devil Fruits they had stolen.
• Ulti took responsibility for the theft and defended Page One, so Lu Li comforted them and urged them to grow stronger.
• Kaido revealed that he had planted the Fruits for the siblings and brought them along to gain battlefield experience.
• Who's Who told Lu Li that he suspected CP intelligence agents were inside the Beasts Pirates, and Lu Li said their presence was obvious.

Lu Li explained why he was not worried about spies in the Beasts Pirates and asked Kaido to train him in Conqueror’s Haki coating, but Kaido knocked him unconscious during a test. In Dressrosa, Doflamingo hired Black Lily to kill Lu Li, unaware that she planned to use the assignment to find and join him.

• Lu Li told Foz that spies could not threaten the Beasts Pirates and revealed his thoughts about the Nika Fruit and Foz’s encounter with Shanks.
• Lu Li asked Kaido to teach him Conqueror’s Haki coating, and Kaido struck him unconscious while testing his potential.
• Doflamingo blamed Lu Li for disrupting his artificial Devil Fruit business with Kaido and resolved to take revenge.
• Black Lily accepted Doflamingo’s assignment to kill Lu Li, but planned to find him and join him against Shin Izumi instead.

Lu Li recovered aboard Kaido’s ship and suspected that an Explorer was targeting his Origin Seed. When he and King confronted a small boat carrying three Explorers, one surrendered and offered Devil Fruits to the Beasts Pirates.

• Black Lily left Doflamingo’s castle intending to seek Lu Li as a potential ally against Shin Izumi, not to assassinate him.
• Lu Li woke from Kaido’s blow, recovered with Healing Kidō, and joined the Beasts Pirates’ feast, where he discussed training his Conqueror’s Haki with Kaido.
• Lu Li concluded that an unknown Explorer might be targeting him for his Origin Seed, while King remained troubled by the rumors about Lunarians on Sky Island.
• Lu Li spotted a small ship carrying Explorers, and Kaido ordered it sunk after the crew recognized him and Lu Li.
• King flew Lu Li to the ship, where Lu Li prepared to test a new move, but one Explorer knelt and offered two Devil Fruits in exchange for mercy.

Lu Li and the Beasts Pirates robbed ships sailing through the New World, then forced Xue Feng's Adventure Group to surrender four Devil Fruits before accepting them into the crew. As the fleet continued toward Sky Island, Lu Li warned Xue Feng about the New World's dangers and offered to take her group to Kaido's Haki lessons.

• Lu Li ordered the Explorers aboard a ship to surrender their treasure and two Devil Fruits, then let them leave with supplies.
• Kaido gave Lu Li the Gum-Gum Fruit and Chill-Chill Fruit, and Lu Li spent the next two weeks plundering ships with the Beasts Pirates.
• Lu Li encountered Xue Feng's group and demanded two Devil Fruits in exchange for sparing them.
• Xue Feng asked to join the Beasts Pirates, and Lu Li secured two additional Devil Fruits before accepting her group.
• Lu Li gave Kaido the three Zoan Fruits, kept the remaining Paramecia, and warned Xue Feng that the New World was too dangerous for her group.
• Lu Li invited Xue Feng and her companions to attend Kaido's Haki lessons.

Lu Li awakened Conqueror's Haki through sparring with Kaido, then trained with Xue Feng and demonstrated how far his Haki and combat abilities had advanced. The Beasts Pirates reached the Zenith of the West, where a swordsman named Issho attacked their warship with a powerful gravity slash as Kaido prepared to respond.

• Kaido's sparring brought out Lu Li's Conqueror's Haki, which intimidated the nearby Explorers, and he urged Lu Li to practice Supreme Conqueror's Coating.
• Lu Li reviewed his improved attributes and newly awakened Conqueror's Haki, then sparred with Xue Feng through the night while helping her gain control of Armament Haki.
• Lu Li and Xue Feng spotted the Zenith of the West, and the Beasts Pirates sailed toward the island at its starting point.
• A swordsman with a cane, two scars across his eyes, and Gambler's Hotline attacked the approaching Beasts Pirates warship with Gravity Blade: Ferocious Tiger.
• Kaido stepped onto the bow and struck seriously for the first time in front of Lu Li.

Kaido and his crew reached Sky Island after Kaido split the sea and King safely brought their ship to shore. Lu Li persuaded Issho to reconsider his judgment of the Beasts Pirates by showing evidence of their treatment of Wano's people, leaving Issho uncertain and considering a visit to Wano Country.

• Kaido struck Issho's invisible blade aura with Thunder Bagua, splitting the sea and creating a vast vortex.
• King used Guardian Fire Dragon Emperor to clear the waves and bring the warship safely to the island's harbor.
• Kaido confronted Issho, but Lu Li reminded him they had come for a purpose and began speaking with the swordsman instead.
• Issho condemned the Beasts Pirates for occupying Wano Country, while Lu Li asked whether their rule could be just if it improved people's lives.
• Lu Li played a Recording Dial of Wano residents praising Kaido and offered to take Issho back to Wano so he could judge the country for himself.
• Issho examined the Recording Dial and, sensing Lu Li had not lied, began to doubt his assumptions about the Beasts Pirates.

Lu Li persuaded Issho that Kaido’s plans for Wano Country and the fight against the Celestial Dragons aligned with Issho’s ideals, and Issho agreed to return with the Beasts Pirates. The group celebrated before Kaido named him the fifth All-Star, Fujitora, and asked Lu Li about the Recording Dial.

• Lu Li argued that the Celestial Dragons and Heavenly Tribute caused widespread suffering, and explained Kaido’s dream of overthrowing their rule.
• Issho said he would return with Lu Li and join the Beasts Pirates if Wano Country was truly as Lu Li described.
• Kaido welcomed Issho, who apologized to King, and ordered a feast instead of continuing to Sky Island.
• During the feast, Issho gambled with the crew, and Kaido named him the fifth All-Star; Issho chose the title Fujitora.
• Kaido asked Lu Li how he had obtained the Recording Dial, and Lu Li explained that he had recorded Kaido’s housing speech for Yamato, who had criticized his stiff delivery.

The Five Elders ordered Vice Admirals to monitor the coming clash near Sky Island and keep the Lunarian remnants from falling into pirate hands without provoking the Four Emperors. As Big Mom’s fleet approached, Borsalino and Aramaki followed in a Marine warship, with Aramaki eager to fight and seeking the reward for killing Lu Li.

• The Five Elders discussed the Poneglyph and rumored Lunarian remnants on Sky Island, then ordered Vice Admirals to delay the pirates and retreat if the Four Emperors united against them.
• Big Mom sailed toward the island with Katakuri, intent on obtaining the Poneglyph and adding Lunarians to her collection.
• Big Mom told Katakuri to ignore the Marine warship following them as she prepared to meet Kaido.
• Borsalino followed Big Mom with Rear Admiral Strawberry and Aramaki, warning Aramaki that the Four Emperors were dangerous.
• Aramaki dismissed Borsalino’s caution and considered killing Big Mom to earn merit and advance to Admiral.
• The Marines received a supplementary order to kill Calamity Lu Li, whose death would earn a major promotion and military merit.