Chapter Summaries

Garen forced Judge and his sons to submit, then revealed that he had orchestrated Germa 66’s downfall with Reiju. Judge was left to reflect as Reiju departed with Garen, while he wrongly concluded that Garen’s charm had won her over.

• Garen had Luo remove Judge’s heart and used Enel’s lightning to make Judge surrender, forcing Ichiji and Niji to submit as well.
• Luo brought the unconscious Yonji to the group and restored his consciousness, and Yonji realized that Germa had fallen.
• Garen revealed that he, not Doflamingo, had defeated Yonji, sheltered Kentucky, and seized the Cloning Technology, while Reiju had been on his side from the start.
• Judge accused Reiju of betraying him, but Garen defended her and left with her, telling Judge to reflect on himself.
• Judge wondered why Reiju had turned against him and decided that Garen’s charm must have won her over.

Kuzan became Marine Marshal, but the Five Elders immediately showed him that they controlled the Marines and demanded he approve Edward Weevil as a Shichibukai. After compromising, Kuzan began wondering whether to keep patching the system or tear it down and build something new.

• Kong appointed Kuzan Marine Marshal, and Sengoku warned him that the role would be difficult.
• The Five Elders told Kuzan they planned to fill Shichibukai vacancies with Cavendish and Edward Weevil.
• Kuzan opposed Weevil’s appointment because of his crimes and his attack on Zephyr’s training ship.
• The Five Elders threatened to make Kuzan a powerless puppet, and he reluctantly agreed to comply.
• Sengoku told Kuzan that a Marshal’s duties were to obey orders and take the blame, while still striving for justice.
• Kuzan recalled Garen’s criticism of the Marines and wondered whether to repair the system or replace it.

Smoker explained to Tashigi why Zephyr’s actions during the recent war had angered the World Government, then decided to continue returning the kidnapped children despite one destination’s proximity to Whitebeard’s territory. The chapter ended with Smoker ordering the ship to depart and complete its mission before reporting to G-5 Base.

• Smoker read that Edward Weevil had been appointed a Shichibukai, while Tashigi questioned Fleet Admiral Kuzan’s decision and worried about Zephyr.
• Smoker explained that Zephyr’s independent Pirate Guerrilla Squad had turned a staged conflict with the Whitebeard Pirates into a real war and ignored the government’s ceasefire order.
• Tashigi checked their route and told Smoker that more than fifty children still needed to be returned, including some from an island near Whitebeard’s territory.
• Smoker weighed the risk of sailing near Whitebeard’s territory and decided to leave immediately to reunite the children with their parents.

Doflamingo withdrew his money from Tezoro and bargained for shelter on Gran Tesoro by threatening to expose Tezoro’s past as a slave. After learning that Garen had arrived, Doflamingo fled and decided to seek refuge with the Big Mom Pirates as Big Mom’s son-in-law.

• Tezoro mocked Doflamingo’s downfall and asked where he planned to go with his money.
• Doflamingo asked to hide on Gran Tesoro and threatened to reveal Tezoro’s former identity as a slave, persuading Tezoro to shelter him.
• Doflamingo withdrew part of his treasure and moved into a room Tezoro arranged for him.
• Trebol called Doflamingo to report that Garen was on Gran Tesoro, so Doflamingo ordered Trebol to escape by boat.
• Tezoro called to ask why Doflamingo was leaving, and Doflamingo said he was going to become Big Mom’s son-in-law.

Tezoro discovered that Garen had arrived in Gran Tesoro and scrambled to secure protection, eventually finding an unusually powerful Marine rear admiral aboard. Meanwhile, Buggy dominated the casino with impossible luck, leaving Baccarat unable to drain his fortune.

• Doflamingo fled Gran Tesoro at high speed, prompting Tezoro to investigate his sudden departure.
• Tezoro identified Garen in the surveillance footage and contacted the World Government for protection.
• When Marines could not arrive quickly, Tezoro searched the ship for visiting officers and found Rear Admiral Buggy.
• Buggy won more than two hundred million Beli at the casino and handed chips to his soldiers and Baccarat.
• Baccarat realized her Lucky-Lucky Fruit could not drain Buggy's seemingly endless luck.

Buggy won heavily at Tezoro’s casino, then refused to protect Tezoro from Garen until Kuzan ordered him to do his best. Kuzan warned Garen that Tezoro knew he was coming and that reinforcements would take two days to arrive.

• Buggy’s casino winnings terrified Baccarat, who escorted him to Tezoro after Tezoro summoned him.
• Tezoro offered Buggy five hundred million Beli and asked him to protect him from Garen.
• Buggy refused, claiming he would not oppose his old friend Garen, and condemned Tezoro as an evildoer.
• Tezoro called Kuzan and got him to order Buggy to protect him; Kuzan told Buggy to do his best.
• Kuzan messaged Garen that Tezoro knew about him, reinforcements were two days away, and Buggy was the only protection nearby.

Garen learned from Kuzan that Tezoro had arranged protection against him, but he delayed confronting Tezoro to enjoy Gran Tesoro with Nami and Reiju. The chapter left Tezoro's attack postponed while Garen agreed to put sunscreen on Nami.

• Tezoro bragged that Kuzan had agreed to protect him, and Buggy accepted the job in exchange for money.
• Tezoro learned that Garen was lounging on the artificial beach with Nami and Reiju, so he ordered his staff to make Garen's visit enjoyable.
• Kuzan told Garen that Tezoro had requested World Government protection and hired Buggy, prompting Garen to decide to confront him.
• Garen postponed leaving to watch Nami and Reiju play beach volleyball.
• Nami sat on Garen's lap and asked him to put sunscreen on her, delaying his departure again.

Garen enjoyed a remarkably lucky day in Gran Tesoro, winning nearly six hundred million Beli at a card game and spending the night with Nami and Reiju. The next morning, the two women woke in bed together, while Garen claimed they had spent the night playing Fight the Landlord.

• Nami, Reiju, and Garen received lavish gifts and a free meal, then headed to the casino.
• Garen asked Baccarat to teach the casino Fight the Landlord, and he won nearly six hundred million Beli with her luck-enhancing help.
• Nami and Reiju drank heavily while Garen played cards, then clung to him as he took them to a hotel.
• The next morning, Nami and Reiju woke beside each other in disarray and questioned Garen about what had happened.
• Garen claimed that the three of them had played Fight the Landlord all night after Nami and Reiju refused to let him leave.

Garen met Tezoro to seek his help tracking Doflamingo, freeing the people controlled by his Gold-Gold Fruit, and financing a major East Blue railway project. Tezoro agreed to release the workers and lend Garen money, then balked when Nami named the proposed loan as 200 billion Beli.

• Reiju and Nami woke up embarrassed after recalling that they had clung to each other in Garen's bed while drunk, and the three left the hotel with their rivalry gone.
• Baccarat greeted Garen and told him that Gran Tesoro's guests were learning Fight the Landlord, but Garen said he never wanted to hear about the game again and asked to see Tezoro.
• Tezoro told Garen that Doflamingo had fled toward Big Mom Pirates territory and promised to notify him if Doflamingo returned to withdraw his deposited money.
• Garen demanded that Tezoro free the people controlled by Gold Dust, and Tezoro agreed to release them and hire workers normally.
• Garen asked Tezoro for financing for East Blue's Sea Train lines, and Nami estimated the project would cost 162.534 billion Beli.
• Garen asked Tezoro to round the loan up to 200 billion Beli and promised repayment once the railway corporation became profitable.

Garen confronted Tezoro to demand 200 billion Beli, using Buggy’s supposed failure to protect him to demonstrate that the Marines would not intervene. Tezoro transformed Gran Tesoro into a Golden Giant, and Garen prepared to exploit gold’s conductivity with help from Enel.

• Tezoro summoned Buggy and demanded that the Marine uphold justice, but Garen knocked Buggy aside and persuaded him to pretend to be badly injured.
• Garen told Buggy that Fleet Admiral Kuzan had high hopes for him, and Buggy agreed to stay down while Garen faced Tezoro.
• Tezoro awakened his Gold-Gold Fruit, turned the ship and its surroundings into gold, and formed a towering Golden Giant.
• Reiju changed into her Germa 66 combat suit to protect Nami as Tezoro’s golden waves reshaped the ship.
• Garen called Enel to join him and explained that gold was an excellent conductor of electricity.

Garen and Enel defeated Tezoro, melted his Golden Giant, and forced him to agree to lend money for East Blue transportation construction. As Garen began taking Tezoro away in Seastone Handcuffs, CP0 arrived, leaving Garen to realize his delay had allowed the World Government’s reinforcements to reach them.

• Garen and Enel attacked Tezoro, and Enel’s lightning paralyzed him through the gold of his Golden Giant.
• Garen poured thunder into the Golden Giant until it melted, leaving Tezoro burned, shocked, and unable to resist.
• Garen forced Tezoro to agree to lend him two hundred billion and warned him to cooperate, then restrained him with Seastone Handcuffs.
• Tezoro called for help when he spotted a white-clad figure, and Garen insisted that the Marines could not arrive until the next day.
• CP0 appeared in the street, and Garen realized that his leisurely delay had given the World Government’s secret police time to arrive.

Garen confronted CP0 after Tezoro called them for help, claiming he only wanted to borrow 200 billion Beli. He overpowered CP0’s masked leader and discovered she was Kalifa, an old acquaintance whose past with Garen shocked Nami, Reiju, and Tezoro.

• Garen recognized Spandam among the CP0 agents and told their masked leader that his dispute with Tezoro was about borrowing money.
• Tezoro revealed that Garen wanted 200 billion Beli, stunning the CP0 agents and prompting their leader to question the amount.
• Garen attacked when CP0 tried to negotiate, but stopped briefly after the leader used an ability resembling Golden Lion’s Float-Float Fruit.
• Garen crushed the leader’s earthen wall, restrained her, and removed her mask, revealing Kalifa.
• Kalifa greeted Garen warmly and said a lot had happened since they last met.
• Nami told Reiju that she had last seen Kalifa and Garen lying in the same bed, leaving Tezoro’s hope of rescue shattered.

Garen reunited with Kalifa during negotiations over Tezoro’s debt and learned how the World Government hunted her after the Water 7 incident, before recruiting her into CP0. He offered to protect her if she wanted to leave, but Kalifa insisted she was staying, and Garen turned to face Spandam with his sword as negotiations began.

• Garen and Kalifa sat down to discuss Tezoro’s debt while Tezoro remained shackled and Spandam stood nearby.
• Kalifa told Garen that the World Government had ordered her, Kaku, and Blueno killed after Spandam blamed them for CP9’s failure.
• Kalifa explained that obtaining the Float-Float Fruit’s power saved her from the pursuit, though Kaku and Blueno had already died, and the World Government later recruited her into CP0.
• Garen offered to protect Kalifa if she wanted to escape CP0, but Kalifa said she had no intention of leaving.
• Spandam objected to Garen’s remarks about the World Government, and Garen drew his greatsword and said Spandam could negotiate with it.

Garen subdued Spandam, Tezoro, and Kalifa, taking their hearts to ensure their obedience while persuading Kalifa to work as his spy inside the World Government. The group emerged and told their waiting subordinates that the conflict had been resolved through successful mediation.

• Garen ignored Spandam's threats and subdued Kalifa with Seastone Handcuffs when she tried to stop him.
• Spandam begged for his life and offered World Government intelligence, so Garen had Luo remove his heart and Enel shock him into submission.
• Garen ordered Luo to remove Tezoro's heart as well, then secured Tezoro's cooperation.
• Luo removed Kalifa's heart, and Garen put it away, removed her handcuffs, and persuaded her to work for him.
• Garen and his group left the room, and Tezoro and Kalifa told their waiting subordinates that mediation had succeeded and the conflict was resolved.

Doflamingo reached Totto Land seeking Big Mom’s protection and agreed to join her family through marriage. Big Mom revealed she wanted to marry him specifically because he was a former Celestial Dragon and could give her a child with Celestial Dragon blood.

• Doflamingo arrived at Cake Island with Trebol and followed Charlotte Perospero to meet Big Mom.
• At Big Mom’s feast, Doflamingo offered her treasure and pledged to serve her in exchange for protection from Kaido, the World Government, and Garen.
• Big Mom proposed that Doflamingo marry one of her daughters, and he agreed under pressure.
• When Doflamingo asked which daughter he would marry, Big Mom revealed she wanted him as her own husband because he was a former Celestial Dragon.
• Big Mom demanded that Doflamingo accept the marriage, and he reluctantly agreed.

After learning that Doflamingo would marry Big Mom, Garen went to Cake Island to assassinate him and carry him away using Golden Lion’s Float-Float Fruit. His operation was interrupted when Big Mom burst through the castle wall, furious that someone had disturbed her.

• Tezoro told Garen that Doflamingo would marry Big Mom on Cake Island in one week, and Garen vowed to kill him despite the Big Mom Pirates’ strength.
• Three days later, Garen infiltrated Doflamingo’s castle at night and used the Float-Float Fruit’s power to prepare to lift the building.
• Garen heard a strange sound, sensed a powerful presence approaching, and realized the enemy was not Doflamingo.
• Big Mom smashed through the castle wall with her sword and demanded to know who had interrupted her while she was making babies.

Garen confronted Big Mom after interrupting her with Doflamingo, then clashed with her in a battle that shook Cake Island. Doflamingo tried to escape during the fight but was stopped by Big Mom’s children.

• Big Mom threatened Garen, while Doflamingo emerged from the wrecked castle and recognized his enemy.
• Doflamingo charged toward Garen, but Big Mom restrained him and attacked Garen with Emperor Sword: Poro Blade.
• Garen met Big Mom’s strike with Justice Rage and Fatal Strike, and their clash devastated the castle and shook Cake Island.
• Big Mom and Garen exchanged dozens of blows as their battle spread tremors across the island.
• Doflamingo seized the chance to flee, but Big Mom’s adopted children confronted him and made him stop.

Garen turned Big Mom’s Mighty Nation attack against her, then used the same giant sword technique to overwhelm her children and carve a ravine across Cake Island. As Katakuri rallied his siblings, Garen prepared a second, chained series of Mighty Nation slashes.

• Katakuri recognized Garen as the swordsman who had pursued Doflamingo, but judged Big Mom to have the upper hand and told his siblings not to intervene.
• Big Mom unleashed Elbaf Spear: Mighty Nation, but Garen used Laurent's Eye of the Mind to stop her blow and counterattack, sending her crashing into the ground.
• Big Mom’s children charged Garen, who transformed into a giant and answered with his own Elbaf Spear: Mighty Nation.
• Katakuri shielded his siblings from Garen’s slash, which carved a huge ravine across Cake Island and pressed Katakuri into the ground.
• Katakuri recovered and warned that Garen’s giant technique consumed stamina, but Garen began Elbaf Spear: Mighty Nation Consecutive Slashes.

Garen overwhelmed the Big Mom Pirates with his swordsmanship, but Big Mom stopped his attack and negotiated a truce rather than risk making a powerful enemy. Garen agreed to stay as a guest until Doflamingo was no longer useful to her, leaving Doflamingo alone with Big Mom.

• Garen’s Might of the Nation Triple Slash drove Katakuri and his siblings back, but Big Mom blocked the attack and destroyed his sword energy.
• Big Mom recognized that she could not kill Garen and proposed making peace, but Garen refused to abandon his promise to kill Doflamingo.
• Big Mom invited Garen to her wedding and offered to hand over Doflamingo once she no longer needed him in exchange for Garen becoming a guest.
• Garen accepted the deal and left with Perospero, while Big Mom approached the despairing Doflamingo.

At Big Mom’s banquet, she tried to recruit Garen through marriage, but he refused. When one of Shiryu’s former prisoners revealed that the group had taken Fish-Man Island’s Poneglyph and Ryugu Palace’s Jade Box, Garen agreed to let Big Mom keep the treasures and became intrigued by what the Jade Box contained.

• Big Mom welcomed Garen as her honored guest and proposed that he marry one of her daughters, but he firmly declined.
• Big Mom questioned why Garen had married princesses elsewhere but would not marry into Totto Land, and he explained that he already had enough women in his life.
• Shiryu of the Rain arrived late with the Impel Down prisoners, and Big Mom tolerated his group’s blunt manner because of their strength.
• One of Shiryu’s prisoners taunted Garen and revealed that the group had taken Fish-Man Island’s Poneglyph and Ryugu Palace’s Jade Box as wedding gifts for Big Mom.
• Big Mom offered to return the treasures, but Garen let her keep them since Shiryu’s group had given them to her.
• Garen focused on the Jade Box and looked forward to the wedding, curious about what it contained.