Chapter Summaries

Garen declined Niji’s challenge and sent Enel to fight him instead. Enel absorbed Niji’s lightning and struck back, but Niji endured the attack and countered with Armament Haki; Enel then flew away, leaving his next move unclear.

• Garen assigned Enel to spar with Niji, explaining that Niji had to defeat his subordinate before he could challenge Garen.
• Niji used his combat suit’s invisibility to approach Enel and attack with an Electric Shock Fist.
• Enel sensed Niji with electrical Observation Haki, absorbed his lightning, and struck him with a two-hundred-million-volt attack.
• Niji resisted the shock, escaped Enel’s lightning body, and punched him with an Armament Haki-coated fist.
• After realizing he was outmatched in close combat, Enel transformed into lightning and flew out of sight.

Enel defeated Niji by using his long-range lightning attacks and superior mobility, prompting Garen to demonstrate his own overwhelming power. Judge was left convinced that Garen’s strength met his standards.

• Enel repeatedly struck Niji with lightning from the sky, then evaded him whenever Niji tried to close the distance.
• Exhausted and scorched, Niji landed back on the floating island and refused to accept his loss, while Judge acknowledged that he had been defeated.
• Niji questioned whether Garen’s achievements relied on the same kind of evasive tactics, and Garen offered to demonstrate his strength himself.
• Garen transformed into a giant, flew into the clouds, and unleashed a storm of countless massive lightning pillars around Germa’s floating island.
• Judge was overwhelmed by Garen’s display and said that his strength met the standards.

Doflamingo waited for Jack and the artificial Devil Fruit materials, but a newspaper report about the Admirals' duel at Punk Hazard revealed that Garen had sabotaged the shipment. Doflamingo called Vergo to investigate the ruined base and heard Garen's threat repeated through the Den Den Mushi.

• Doflamingo waited at Dressrosa's docks for the raw materials and welcomed Jack, who demanded the artificial Devil Fruits and threatened him if he failed Kaido.
• Jack and Doflamingo read that Akainu had lost his duel with Blue Pheasant at Punk Hazard, and Jack questioned Doflamingo about the production base there.
• Doflamingo reassured Jack that the base was unaffected, then suspected Caesar had been captured and called him for an explanation.
• Garen answered Caesar's Den Den Mushi and mocked Doflamingo, revealing that the raw materials had been destroyed at Punk Hazard.
• Doflamingo called Vergo to investigate the base, but Vergo's voice completed Garen's threat to kill him.

Doflamingo devised a plan to capture Garen using Monet and Sugar, while Garen and Nami arrived in Dressrosa. When Monet and Sugar appeared to be under attack, Nami urged Garen to help, but he refused.

• After learning that Caesar and Vergo were in Garen's hands, Doflamingo summoned Monet, Sugar, and Trebol and explained his plan to use Sugar's Hobby-Hobby Fruit to turn Garen into a toy.
• Trebol warned Doflamingo that Sugar's capture could doom Dressrosa, but Monet agreed to the mission and said Garen had an obvious weakness.
• One day later, Garen and Nami walked together along Lovers' Avenue, where Nami warned Garen not to rescue any beautiful women.
• Monet, covered in blood, fled from armed men who held Sugar hostage and threatened to kill her.
• Nami urged Garen to save Monet and Sugar, but Garen turned cold and refused.

Garen refused to rescue Monet and Sugar, believing their apparent escape was a trap arranged by Doflamingo, until Nami mistook his hesitation for a promise to avoid other women. Princess Rebecca unexpectedly rescued the sisters, prompting Doflamingo to order Gladius to pursue them and force Garen to act.

• Monet and Sugar improvised a desperate plea for mercy while Garen stood by, and Doflamingo watched the staged scene through a Den Den Mushi.
• Nami urged Garen to intervene, then assumed he was keeping a promise not to rescue other women, so Garen played along and held back the truth.
• A pink-haired girl appeared and defeated the dozen armed men with a wooden stick, rescuing Sugar and helping Monet to her feet.
• Garen turned to leave after Rebecca rescued the sisters, while Doflamingo recognized her as King Riku's missing eldest daughter.
• Doflamingo ordered Trebol to send Gladius after Monet and Sugar without restraint, hoping to force Garen into action.

Garen refused to stay with Monet and Sugar, who claimed they had escaped the Donquixote Family, and left Rebecca to protect them. When Gladius attacked, Garen watched calmly and hinted to Nami that Monet would be fine.

• Monet pursued Garen and invented a tragic story about joining the Donquixote Family to protect Sugar and their town, persuading Nami and Rebecca to sympathize with them.
• Garen agreed to help by defeating Doflamingo but said Rebecca could protect Monet and Sugar until then, and he left with Nami.
• Gladius arrived and accused Monet of abducting Sugar and defecting, while Monet played along with his accusation.
• Gladius blasted Rebecca aside and attacked Monet with explosive stones, but Garen told Nami to keep watching because Monet would be fine.

Monet was left badly wounded after Gladius’s explosions, and she realized Doflamingo had ordered her death to make Garen trust Sugar. Rebecca chose to protect Monet despite learning of her betrayal, and Garen rescued her from Gladius, leaving Rebecca to collapse safely on the ground.

• Gladius prepared to kill the gravely injured Monet, who realized Doflamingo had sent him to dispose of her and win Garen’s trust for Sugar.
• Rebecca stood between Gladius and Monet, and Gladius revealed that Monet had helped the Donquixote Family find Rebecca’s mother.
• Rebecca chose to protect Monet anyway, saying she believed Monet was a good person despite her past actions.
• When Gladius tried to kill them both, Rebecca shoved him back, but he seized her and prepared to explode.
• Garen struck Gladius through the heart with his flaming greatsword and freed Rebecca.
• Garen asked if Rebecca was all right, then stepped aside as she staggered and fell to the ground.

Monet turned against Doflamingo’s plan and tried to stop Sugar from targeting Garen, but Sugar insisted on touching him. Garen let Sugar into his arms, resisted her Hobby-Hobby Fruit power, and took the spell fragments she dropped.

• Rebecca reassured Monet that Doflamingo would fall and promised she and Sugar could live normal lives afterward.
• Sugar repeatedly tried to get Garen to hug or carry her, while Garen refused until the group prepared to leave.
• Monet stopped Sugar from approaching Garen and urged her to walk away from Doflamingo’s control, but Sugar insisted on being carried.
• Garen picked up Sugar and allowed her to touch his face, but his Twilight of the Gods skill prevented her from turning him into a toy.
• Garen picked up the spell fragments Sugar dropped and told her he would play with her instead.

Garen turned Sugar into a toy, undoing her power’s effects across Dressrosa and plunging the island into chaos. Doflamingo ordered the Donquixote Family to prepare for battle while secretly preserving an escape plan, but Jack took him under guard.

• Garen used Sugar’s ability to turn her into a stuffed bear, and Nami and Monet forgot Sugar’s existence.
• Sugar’s transformation ended the effects of her ability, restoring her victims and their memories and triggering a riot across Dressrosa.
• Doflamingo and Trebol, unable to remember Sugar or the source of the restored people, mistook them for a hidden enemy force and decided to flee.
• Doflamingo told Trebol to gather the family officers and prepare to face the enemy alongside the Beasts Pirates, while Trebol and Pica kept the escape plan alive.
• Jack arrived at the palace, ordered Doflamingo to stay by his side, and led him toward the disturbance.

Rebecca recovered her memories of her father, and Monet agreed to join Garen after he offered her and Sugar a new life. After learning that Doflamingo was in the Royal Capital with Jack and a large army, Garen prepared an aerial assault with Germa 66.

• Rebecca remembered that her father, Kyros, had been turned into a toy and had protected her for years, and Monet comforted her.
• Garen revealed that Sugar had been made to experience the effects of her Hobby-Hobby Fruit, then offered Monet and Sugar a chance to work for him.
• Monet accepted Garen's offer and told him that Doflamingo was in the Royal Capital.
• Jack took command of Doflamingo's assembled forces and ordered them to suppress the unrest and watch for Garen.
• Garen brought his allies and Germa 66 above the Royal Capital, then transformed into a giant bomb and prepared to descend with Baby 5 as Enel and Golden Lion readied their attacks.

Garen launched a devastating assault on Doflamingo and Jack’s forces, nearly destroying the Royal Capital and wiping out most of their armies. As clone soldiers surrounded the survivors, Garen confronted Doflamingo and declared that he had come to fulfill his promise.

• Doflamingo searched for a chance to escape while Jack stayed beside him, then a huge bomb appeared in the storm clouds and exploded above the army.
• Garen emerged from the blast as the explosion killed most of the Donquixote Family soldiers and many of Jack’s Beasts Pirates.
• Enel unleashed Myriad Thunderbolts, striking Jack and raining lightning down on the survivors.
• Garen announced a final opening gift as a floating rock nearly the size of the Royal Capital crashed down; Jack tried to stop it, but the impact crushed much of the city and almost all the remaining troops.
• Giant snails surrounded the ruined Royal Capital, and clone soldiers emerged to encircle Doflamingo’s battered forces.
• Garen, Judge, Reiju, Ichiji, Niji, Enel, Luo, baby-5, and their allies confronted Jack and Doflamingo, and Garen announced that he had come to fulfill his promise.

Garen exposed Doflamingo’s failed artificial Devil Fruit production to turn Jack against him, but Jack still intended to kill Garen. Garen secured Judge’s help against Jack by promising an alliance with Germa 66, leaving Judge eager to make them family.

• Judge denied that Germa 66 intended to fight the Beasts Pirates and accused Doflamingo of stealing Germa technology, prompting Doflamingo to call him shameless.
• Jack warned Judge that Kaido intended to protect Doflamingo, while Garen revealed that he had destroyed Doflamingo’s factory and captured its technical personnel.
• Jack confirmed his intent to kill Garen and planned to restore the artificial Devil Fruit supply by capturing him.
• Garen asked Judge to hold Jack off while he fought Doflamingo, but Judge hesitated over provoking the Beasts Pirates.
• Judge agreed to help after Garen promised to bear the consequences and accepted a closer alliance with Germa 66.
• Judge asked Garen to help Germa Kingdom reclaim North Blue, and Garen agreed before Judge told him to call him Uncle.

Garen fought Jack and left him trapped in a crater before confronting Doflamingo, who accepted his apparent execution. When Garen struck, Doflamingo turned out to be a thread decoy, leaving Garen's attack wasted.

• Jack charged Garen, but Garen met his blow head-on and proved strong enough to knock him back.
• Garen evaded Jack's attempt to grab him, threw him into a crater, and continued toward Doflamingo.
• Doflamingo claimed he would not resist and argued with Garen about justice before asking to die.
• Luo arrived to avenge Corazon, but Garen stopped him from attacking and said he would bear the hatred himself.
• Garen swung his sword at Doflamingo, who revealed himself to be a mass of white threads and escaped the strike.

Garen discovered that Doflamingo had escaped using a string clone and Pica’s control of the rock beneath the Royal Capital. Unable to catch Doflamingo, Garen killed Pica by crushing his rock giant and left a Five Finger Mountain at the center of Dressrosa.

• Garen realized Doflamingo’s body was a Shadow Rider String clone and used Observation Haki to sense him escaping underground.
• Garen split the rock beneath the Royal Capital with a massive sword strike, but Pica formed a giant from the rock and revealed that Doflamingo had already fled.
• Garen sensed Pica hiding in the rock giant and demanded that he reveal Doflamingo’s direction, but Pica refused.
• Garen used the Stone-Stone Fruit to raise a gigantic hand from the ground and crush Pica’s rock giant.
• Pica died beneath the crushed rocks, and Garen’s enormous hand remained as a Five Finger Mountain in Dressrosa.

Doflamingo escaped Dressrosa by boat while Garen’s battle with Pica shook the island, then Garen turned to Jack and fought him over Jack’s ivory. After Jack transformed into a mammoth, Garen examined his tusks and declared that he would take them.

• Doflamingo and Trebol fled Dressrosa in a small boat as Pica fought Garen, and they rowed away when Garen raised a massive Five Finger Mountain.
• Garen failed to sense Doflamingo, then approached Jack after Jack’s fight with Judge’s family paused.
• Jack offered to settle their dispute if Garen handed over the scientist with artificial Devil Fruit technology, but Garen demanded Jack’s ivory instead.
• Garen struck Jack with his sword and Demacia, driving him into a crater and gaining the upper hand.
• Jack transformed into a giant mammoth and blocked Garen’s blade with his tusks, but Garen touched the ivory and claimed it for himself.

Garen defeated Jack by using his aerial mobility to wear him down, then killed him despite Judge’s warning that it would provoke Kaido. Judge realized Germa 66 would be implicated in the conflict with the Beasts Pirates.

• Jack transformed into a mammoth and matched Garen’s strength, but Garen rejected the idea of gaining the Mammoth Fruit’s powers because he disliked the form.
• Jack used his trunk to seize Garen’s greatsword, but Garen summoned the blade back and struck Jack with Demacian Justice.
• After Jack recovered and charged, Garen stayed airborne and repeatedly attacked him from above, leaving Jack unable to reach or escape him.
• Jack eventually collapsed and reverted to human form, and Garen placed his blade against Jack’s neck.
• Judge urged Garen not to kill Jack and provoke Kaido, but Garen killed Jack, saying he did so because Jack was a true pirate.
• Garen’s answer that he intended to provoke every pirate left Judge fearing Germa 66 had joined a doomed cause.

After killing Jack, Garen agreed to Judge’s alliance proposal while plundering the Donquixote Family’s assets in Dressrosa. Monet revealed that Doflamingo had stored most of his wealth with Gild Tesoro, giving Garen a possible lead on his whereabouts and another target for his campaign.

• Garen took Jack’s head to claim the bounty, and Judge decided to strengthen his alliance with Garen by arranging a ceremony.
• Garen agreed to Judge’s proposal and put Germa 66’s clone soldiers to work restoring order while he dealt with the Donquixote Family’s remaining officers.
• Garen looted the Donquixote Family treasury, but Monet explained that most of its wealth was held in underground bank accounts that only Doflamingo could access.
• Monet revealed that Doflamingo’s banking partner was Gild Tesoro, who stayed aboard the mobile entertainment ship Gran Tesoro.
• Garen decided to seek out Gran Tesoro, hoping to find Doflamingo or seize Tesoro’s wealth.

Garen settled Dressrosa’s restoration and joined Judge in announcing an alliance, but Judge unexpectedly declared that Garen would become engaged to Reiju. After Garen rejected the marriage and revealed his interest in Germa 66’s technology and forces, Judge refused to surrender them, and Garen demanded everything Germa 66 owned.

• Garen met King Riku’s family and Gancho, affirmed King Riku’s lawful rule, and called for freedom for the dwarves and stronger security cooperation.
• Judge announced Germa’s alliance with Garen and declared that Reiju would become engaged to him, startling Garen, Reiju, and Nami.
• After King Riku and the others left, Garen objected to the marriage announcement and Judge insisted he had thought Garen wanted to become family through Reiju.
• Garen revealed that he wanted Germa 66’s cloning technology, scientific team, and fighting forces, while Judge refused to hand over the kingdom’s core science.
• Judge offered a marriage alliance, scientific assistance, and military support instead, but Garen summoned his armor and demanded everything belonging to Germa 66.

Garen attacked Judge after Reiju refused to obey her father, and Judge was badly wounded by a single sword strike. As Judge protested that Garen had betrayed their alliance, Garen defended his actions as necessary for the East Blue’s progress and advanced on him again.

• Judge ordered Reiju to transform into her battle suit, but she remained seated and refused to help him.
• Judge called Reiju a defective product, and Garen interrupted to tell him that his daughter was not his tool.
• Garen struck Judge with a Whirlwind Slash, crushing his battle suit and leaving him with severe injuries.
• Judge accused Garen of betraying their alliance and dishonoring himself.
• Garen dismissed Judge’s appeal to honor, defended his duty to the East Blue, and approached him with his sword raised.

Judge ordered Ichiji and Niji to hold Garen back while he fled, but Reiju caught up with him and poisoned him. She planned to take her immobilized father back to Garen as her “husband.”

• Judge ordered Ichiji and Niji to hold Garen while he escaped from Germa's castle.
• Ichiji and Niji risked their lives to restrain Garen, allowing Judge to gain distance.
• Reiju pursued Judge and told him Ichiji and Niji were holding Garen back.
• Judge rebuked Reiju for questioning his orders and treating his children as expendable warriors.
• Reiju poisoned Judge, dropped him into the sea, and lifted his paralyzed body to take him back to Garen.