Chapter Summaries

Garen devastated the fleeing prisoners outside Impel Down and tried to protect Hancock, then Magellan led the guards out of the collapsing prison and insisted on helping. Garen used a spell fragment to copy Magellan’s Venom-Venom Fruit and prepared to unleash a giant Poison Cloud, leaving the guards in danger nearby.

• Garen’s Buddha attack annihilated a wave of prisoners, and he caught Hancock after his golden transformation ended.
• Garen canceled his giant form, set Hancock down, and resumed attacking prisoners as they escaped Impel Down.
• Hancock joined the fighting with Fragrant Foot, but Garen told her to stand behind him and let him protect her.
• Magellan led hundreds of guards out of Impel Down, explaining that surface tremors threatened to collapse the prison, and insisted on fighting beside Garen.
• Garen copied Magellan’s Venom-Venom Fruit, warned everyone to run, and transformed into a Poison Giant Soldier.

Garen’s enormous Poison Giant Soldier flooded Impel Down and the glacier with lethal poison, forcing both sides to retreat and ending the riot. Shiryu’s prisoners seized a Marine warship while Jozu brought Whitebeard another, and Whitebeard openly chose to flee with his wounded sons.

• Garen summoned a giant Poison Giant Soldier whose poison spread through Impel Down, turning Crimson Hell into Red Poison Hell and killing prisoners who tried to escape upward.
• The poisonous fog forced Marines, Whitebeard’s pirates, Revolutionary Army fighters, and prisoners to flee; Kuzan’s ice wall failed to stop it, and Sengoku ordered a retreat.
• At the glacier’s edge, the group spotted Sengoku’s warship, but Shiryu and other escaped sixth-level prisoners revealed they had seized it and sailed away.
• Jozu pushed Whitebeard’s warship out of the poison and collapsed after being poisoned, while Whitebeard praised him and Sengoku tried to shame Whitebeard into staying.
• Whitebeard laughed and admitted to Sengoku that he was running away with his wounded sons.

Garen returned to the battlefield and learned that Whitebeard had seized the Navy’s warships, prompting Sengoku to launch an emergency plan targeting Teach. Whitebeard saved Teach from the Admirals’ first assault, but Akainu eventually pierced Teach’s chest with magma.

• Garen found the battlefield empty after his temporary Devil Fruit effects vanished, then followed the fighting to the glaciers where Whitebeard’s forces were boarding captured warships.
• Sengoku halted the Navy’s pursuit and ordered the emergency plan, leading the officers to attack Whitebeard while Akainu, Blue Pheasant, and Kizaru targeted Teach.
• Kizaru wounded Teach with a barrage of lasers, Blue Pheasant froze him, and Akainu sent a magma hound at him, but Whitebeard stopped the attack with a vibration and took Sengoku’s punch.
• Whitebeard’s intervention let Teach escape, but a falling chunk of ice blocked his path and gave Akainu the opening to pierce his chest with magma.

Akainu appeared to kill Teach, but Marco revealed that Teach survived because he had multiple hearts, and Whitebeard withdrew his crew to get him treated. Teach woke to learn Akainu had destroyed two of his hearts, leaving him alive but believing his lifelong dream was impossible.

• Akainu pierced Teach with magma, and Ace attacked him before Whitebeard struck Akainu with a powerful slash.
• Marco announced that Teach was still alive because his body had more than one heart, so Whitebeard escorted him away for treatment.
• Marco and Ivankov treated Teach aboard the warship and reported that one of his three hearts remained intact.
• Teach awoke and learned that Akainu had destroyed two hearts, which he had needed to pursue his dream of taking multiple Devil Fruit powers.
• Teach fell into despair as his family tried to comfort him, while Whitebeard hurried to his bedside.

After the Marines’ defeat, Garen learned that Nami, Vivi, and Robin had encountered Enel on Sky Island, where Vivi drove him off but he stole their airship. Sengoku discovered that Garen was protecting Nico Robin, but backed down from confronting him.

• Sengoku accepted responsibility for the Marines’ defeat and reflected that he might soon lose his position as Fleet Admiral.
• Nami called Garen to report that the group had found Sky Island and that Enel had attacked them.
• Vivi explained that her sand had stopped Enel’s lightning, but Enel had stolen their airship; Nami added that Robin had found a Poneglyph and that Sky Island held great treasure.
• Garen told the group to stay safe until he arrived, then Sengoku questioned him about protecting Nico Robin.
• Garen openly defended Robin and warned Sengoku not to force him into becoming a pirate, so Sengoku chose to forget the confrontation.

Enel attacked Nami, Vivi, and Robin for raiding the City of Gold, but Vivi countered his lightning and wounded him. Enel then powered up the Ark Maxim to unleash Lightning Descent, only for another Thunder God to appear behind him.

• Enel sensed Nami, Vivi, and Robin taking treasure from the City of Gold and flew there to attack them.
• Vivi raised a sand wall that absorbed Enel’s lightning strikes while Nami and Robin continued collecting treasure.
• Vivi launched a Desert Greatsword at Enel, desiccating his lower leg before he could fully transform into lightning.
• Enel transformed into a 200 Million Volt Thunder God and used the Ark Maxim to gather a massive storm cloud for Lightning Descent.
• As Enel threatened to destroy the City of Gold, a powerful voice challenged him, and he turned to see the foot of another Thunder God.

Garen confronted Enel after arriving to protect Nami, Vivi, and Robin, and overwhelmed him with his enormous thunder god form. Lightning could not harm either man, so Garen dropped the transformation and defeated Enel with Armament Haki and his fists.

• Garen appeared in a towering lightning form and reassured Nami, Vivi, and Robin that he would handle Enel.
• Enel unleashed Lightning Descent, but Garen caught the attack and crushed it in his hands.
• Garen struck Enel with a massive lightning bolt, but Enel absorbed the electricity and emerged unharmed.
• Enel attacked Garen with 200 Million Volt Discharge, but the lightning had no effect on Garen either.
• Garen dismissed his transformations and sliced Enel with a black Armament Haki-coated greatsword, draining the lightning power from his body.
• Garen covered his fists in Armament Haki and beat Enel until he was bruised and swollen.

Garen defeated Enel and captured him with Golden Lion's help, then explained that he could borrow other people's Devil Fruit abilities. He demonstrated the power using Robin's and Vivi's fruits, but his attempt to use Hancock's Love-Love Fruit turned Hancock, Nami, and Vivi to stone while Robin resisted.

• Garen beat Enel until he surrendered, but Enel fled as a bolt of lightning while Garen reunited with Nami.
• Golden Lion captured Enel with Seastone Handcuffs and returned with Hancock, prompting Nami to confront Garen about her presence.
• Garen told Robin he would keep Enel alive for his rare Rumble-Rumble Fruit and explained that he could borrow Devil Fruit abilities.
• Garen used Robin's Flower-Flower Fruit to create enormous arms, then borrowed Vivi's Sand-Sand Fruit and formed a giant sand tanuki.
• Garen tried Hancock's Love-Love Fruit technique, Perfume Femur, and turned Hancock, Nami, and Vivi to stone while Robin remained unaffected.

Garen returned from Sky Island to Rainbase with gold and other treasures, then learned that his actions at Impel Down had made him famous across the seas. Kentucky revealed that he possessed Germa 66’s cloning technology, which Garen planned to use for construction and communications instead of making soldiers.

• Garen brought Enel and Golden Lion to Rainbase, where Golden Lion forced Enel through punishing physical training.
• Garen arrived at the airship factory and asked Kentucky why the employees revered him; Kentucky explained that Garen’s role in the Impel Down battle had become widely known.
• Garen reassigned Kentucky from helium research to biological research, and Kentucky revealed that he had escaped Germa 66 with its cloning research materials.
• Kentucky described cloning obedient warriors, but Garen asked whether the technology could mass-produce Den Den Mushi and Sky Island shells.
• Garen declared that cloning should support Demacian Justice’s construction projects, then learned that Kentucky’s former employer was Germa 66.

Garen arranged to retrieve Kentucky’s stolen Germa 66 cloning research from the North Blue by airship, planning to stop in Nami’s hometown of Cocoyasi Village for the East Blue Sea Train ceremony. News of his return drew Zoro, Luffy, and the Baratie crew toward Cocoyasi Village.

• Kentucky told Garen he had hidden Germa 66’s complete cloning research on an island in the North Blue, and Garen decided to retrieve it.
• Nami plotted an airship route to the island, and Garen chose to hold the Sea Train groundbreaking ceremony in Cocoyasi Village so he and Nami could visit her hometown.
• Zoro heard that Garen would return to Cocoyasi Village and resolved to earn money for food and travel so he could challenge the famed swordsman.
• Luffy agreed to travel with the construction crew to Cocoyasi Village for a month after the foreman promised he would be fed there.
• Sanji agreed to accompany Zeff and the Baratie crew to Cocoyasi Village after hearing that Boa Hancock, the world’s most beautiful woman, might have a connection to Garen.

Roronoa Zoro arrived in Cocoyasi Town to challenge Garen but took a construction job because he had run out of money. At the worksite, he met Monkey D. Luffy, who shared his ambition to challenge Garen, and the two recognized each other’s determination before Luffy was called back to work.

• Zoro reached Cocoyasi Town and followed a hiring notice to the construction site, where he applied to be a carpenter.
• Zoro demonstrated extraordinary woodworking by carving and polishing lumber with his katana, earning a position as a senior technician.
• Zoro met Luffy, whose enormous hunger and claim that he would defeat Garen amused the other workers.
• The workers doubted Luffy’s ambitions and laughed when he named Whitebeard, Golden Lion, Sengoku, and Garp, his grandfather.
• Zoro introduced himself as Roronoa Zoro and said he believed in Luffy’s dream, then shared his own goal of becoming the world’s greatest swordsman.
• Luffy said he would challenge Garen after eating and called his dream becoming King of Navigation, before a worker summoned him to move bricks.

At the Sea Train groundbreaking banquet, Sanji stood up for the workers when a noble demanded that Luffy and the others be thrown out. Garen arrived and ordered Demacia Company to stop compromising with unreformed nobles, promising to hold off the World Government.

• Zeff praised Garen for bringing workers, Marines, merchants, and nobles together at the banquet, while Sanji dismissed the gathering as mere show.
• Sanji investigated a dispute and learned that Luffy had eaten food from a noble's table because he was hungry.
• When the noble demanded that the workers be expelled, Sanji instead threw the noble out of the banquet hall.
• The noble threatened to report Sanji to Demacia Company's leaders, and Garen appeared and questioned the company's partnership with nobles.
• Garen told Wallace that Demacia Company would make no more compromises, said he would hold off the World Government, and ordered his attendants to seize the noble.

Garen arrived at the company banquet with Nami, while Luffy and Zoro prepared to challenge him after they finished eating. Sanji learned about Garen’s rumored relationships and grew furious, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Garen had a troublesome nobleman removed, then entered the banquet with Nami, drawing the guests’ attention.
• Sanji spotted Nami beside Garen and felt heartbroken and jealous, then realized Hancock was not there.
• Zoro drew his sword to challenge Garen, but Luffy persuaded him to wait until after their meal.
• Luffy and Zoro explained that they wanted to use Garen as a test of their dreams, and Sanji shared his dream of finding the All Blue.
• Sanji heard workers gossip about Garen’s relationships with Nami, the princess of Alabasta, his secretary, and possibly Tashigi, then angrily denounced him.

At the banquet, Sanji mistook Garen’s generosity toward Tashigi for another attempt to seduce a woman, while Garen gave Tashigi two swords once wielded by Golden Lion Shiki. The chapter ended with Zoro mistaking Tashigi for his childhood friend Kuina, leaving Sanji and the onlookers baffled.

• Sanji’s coworkers warned him not to challenge Garen and explained Garen’s influence in Cocoyasi Village, deepening Sanji’s resentment.
• Smoker and Tashigi arrived at the banquet, and Garen greeted them while Tashigi thanked him for the famous swords he had previously given her.
• Garen presented Tashigi with Sakura Ten and Kareki, the paired swords of Golden Lion Shiki, and encouraged her to become a great swordsman.
• Sanji accused Garen of deceiving Tashigi with gifts, drawing Zoro’s attention when he heard about the famous swords.
• Zoro rushed to Tashigi and called her Kuina, but she said she had never met him, leaving Sanji and the coworkers stunned.

Zoro challenged Garen to a swordsman's duel, while the crowd and Sanji mistook the situation for a fight over Tashigi. Garen intimidated Zoro with the famed swords he had collected, then went to fetch a suitable weapon, returning with a kitchen knife.

• Zoro realized Tashigi was not Kuina and apologized for mistaking her for someone else.
• Sanji accused Garen of stealing Zoro's love and deceiving Tashigi, prompting Garen to protest to Nami.
• Zoro challenged Garen to a duel, insisting it was only between swordsmen despite Sanji urging him to win Tashigi back.
• Garen asked Tashigi to display four famed swords and warned Zoro about the strength of their former owners.
• Zoro tied on his bandana, clenched a third sword in his mouth, and accepted the challenge despite Garen's killing intent.
• Garen decided not to use his greatsword, left to find a suitable weapon, and returned with a kitchen knife.

Garen overwhelmed Zoro with a devastating sword slash, then spared him and challenged him to grow stronger. He also defeated Luffy and demonstrated advanced uses of the Gomu Gomu Fruit, leaving Luffy eager to train and Sanji backing away from a challenge.

• Zoro attacked Garen with Three-Sword Style: Demon Slash, but Garen evaded his strikes with ease.
• Garen unleashed a massive sword slash that carved through the beach and sea, frightening Zoro and silencing the onlookers.
• Zoro accepted the lesson and bowed, and Garen spared him while telling him to return when his swordsmanship had improved.
• Luffy challenged Garen, who knocked him into a trench and then evaded his Gomu Gomu no Pistol.
• Garen demonstrated Second Gear, Third Gear, and Fourth Gear techniques, then told Luffy to master them before challenging him again.
• Garen asked who else wanted to challenge him, and Sanji quietly stepped back.

Garen made Sanji endure a brutal lesson and ordered him, Luffy, and Zoro to train for the next few days. After Zeff fired him, Sanji accepted Luffy’s invitation to join his crew and pursue the All Blue, though their plan to train at a construction site left him uneasy.

• Garen punched Sanji until his face swelled, then announced that he would train him, Luffy, and Zoro while staying in Cocoyasi Village.
• Luffy invited Sanji to become the cook on his future ship and pursue the Pirate King, prompting Sanji to share his dream of finding the All Blue.
• Sanji refused because he did not want to leave Zeff, but Zeff fired him and urged him to stop denying his dream.
• Sanji accepted Luffy’s invitation and agreed to join the crew to pursue the All Blue.
• Luffy and Zoro planned to train until the following year and said they would start at a construction site, leaving Sanji dismayed.

Garen faced questions from Nami’s family about his rumored romances, then bid farewell to Tashigi as she left the East Blue for a Marine post in the New World. He gave her a training manual, unaware that she believed it was a rare, priceless text.

• Akin, Nojiko, and Nami questioned Garen about rumors linking him to Hancock, Vivi, and several other women, and he denied the allegations.
• Tashigi arrived and told Garen she was resigning as Demacia Company’s chief instructor because she and Smoker had been promoted and assigned to Marine G-5.
• Tashigi offered to return the four famed swords Garen had given her, but Garen let her keep them and encouraged her to accept her Marine post.
• Garen warned Tashigi to call him if she faced danger and gave her a training notebook containing techniques from Garp, Mihawk, and Boa Hancock.
• Tashigi tearfully thanked Garen and left, while Garen revealed that her supposedly priceless manual was a mass-produced book published by Demacia Company.

Garen published a training manual containing Rokushiki, Mihawk’s swordsmanship insights, and Nine Serpent Island’s Haki methods, prompting a furious debate at Marine Headquarters. The Navy ultimately kept the book as training material, while Akainu’s conflict with Blue Pheasant over the Fleet Admiral position intensified.

• Before leaving Cocoyasi Village, Garen confirmed to Wallace that he would publish the manual and argued that spreading training knowledge would not cause chaos.
• Marine Headquarters received copies of the book, and Akainu demanded that it be banned as a provocation against the Navy.
• Sengoku asked who would be sent to arrest Garen, and Akainu realized the Admirals were unwilling or unable to take him on.
• Akainu and Blue Pheasant’s opposing views of justice surfaced as their powers filled the Fleet Admiral’s office with heat, cold, and a storm.
• Kizaru argued that the Navy could benefit from the book’s Haki training methods, and Akainu agreed to keep it as Marine training-camp material.

Kaya gave Usopp a copy of Swordmaster, inspiring him to swear he would become a warrior of the sea after Kuro insulted his father. Kuro initially dismissed Usopp’s ambitions, but learning that Yasopp was a senior officer of the Red Hair Pirates made him decide to train hard himself.

• Kaya gave Usopp Swordmaster, a book on growing stronger, and Usopp eagerly accepted it despite being unable to afford its price.
• Kuro berated Usopp for touching Kaya and mocked his father Yasopp, prompting Usopp to declare he would become a warrior of the sea.
• Usopp left with Swordmaster, while Kuro dismissed the book and reflected on why he preferred gaining wealth legally rather than risking his life as a pirate.
• Kuro read Swordmaster and found that Yasopp was listed among the Red Hair Pirates’ senior officers and top experts from East Blue.
• Kuro realized Usopp had been hiding his potential and resolved to train hard to protect himself.