Chapter Summaries

After rejecting Big Mom’s marriage proposals, Garen vanished from Cake Island and secretly visited Shiliew of the Rain, prompting Big Mom to suspect they were plotting against her. Their supposedly secret conversation turned out to be a brief, absurd exchange about the banquet’s desserts.

• Garen rejected Big Mom’s marriage proposals, and the banquet ended with the guests fleeing her anger.
• Katakuri offered to guide Garen around Cake Island, but Garen used his speed to leave him behind.
• Big Mom searched Cake Island for Garen and ordered her Homies to investigate where he had gone.
• Big Mom learned that Garen had secretly entered Shiliew of the Rain’s residence and grew suspicious of their meeting.
• Big Mom decided to increase her vigilance toward Shiliew’s group and send Pudding to approach Garen.
• Garen told Shiliew he had come to complain about the banquet’s desserts, and Shiliew ordered him to leave.

Garen used dinner with Pudding, Big Mom’s daughter, to draw out information about the wedding while pretending to get drunk. Pudding tried to read his memories, but Garen’s drunken reflexes drove her back, leaving her unable to approach him.

• Garen welcomed Pudding into his villa after she claimed Big Mom had sent her to serve him and intended to marry them.
• Pudding and Garen shared dinner and wine, and she described her mistreatment by the Big Mom Pirates.
• Garen, acting drunk, hinted that unexpected allies would intervene when the wedding fireworks went off, then collapsed before revealing more.
• Pudding tested whether Garen was asleep and moved to touch his head so she could read his memories.
• Garen suddenly unleashed a sword aura that split the wall, then fell asleep again, frightening Pudding into keeping her distance.

At Big Mom’s wedding banquet, Garen met CP0 agent Stussy, who offered help in killing Doflamingo to protect the World Government’s secrets. Garen arranged for CP0 to handle Doflamingo while he planned to confront Big Mom, though he admitted he might not defeat her.

• Garen and Pudding entered the wedding banquet, where Morgans questioned whether they planned to marry; Garen hinted that major news would soon unfold.
• Morgans introduced Garen to Stussy, who flirted with him before secretly identifying herself as a CP0 agent.
• Stussy told Garen that CP0 knew he intended to target Doflamingo and offered assistance, while Garen rejected her assumptions about his motives.
• Garen asked how much combat power CP0 had brought, and Stussy said her agents could rival the Sweet Commanders.
• Garen asked CP0 to kill Doflamingo during the coming disturbance while he dealt with the bigger target, Big Mom.

At Big Mom’s wedding, Garen watched her suspicion toward him and Shiryu’s group build while the celebration appeared peaceful. When Big Mom opened the Ryugu Jade Box and its explosives detonated, Garen used the chaos to provoke Shiryu as Doflamingo reacted strangely to the scene.

• Garen and Stussy returned to the banquet hall, where Stussy warned Morgans not to publish reckless rumors about them.
• Garen observed that Big Mom’s forces had surrounded Shiryu’s group, but Shiryu calmly told his companions to attend the wedding without reacting.
• Big Mom and Doflamingo entered as the wedding’s main attractions, and Big Mom proceeded with the ceremony while watching Garen.
• Big Mom ate the wedding cake and began opening gifts, but Katakuri failed to stop her from opening the Ryugu Jade Box.
• The box’s explosives detonated, wrecking part of the castle and leading Big Mom’s children to accuse Shiryu’s group of attacking her.
• Garen urged the trapped Shiryu to make his move, then used Taunting Shout as Doflamingo recognized the scene.

The Ryugu Jade Box explosion sparked a battle among Shiryu’s group, the Big Mom Pirates, and CP0, while Big Mom suffered Food Pangs after her wedding cake was destroyed. As the fighting spread, Garen finally stood before the rampaging Big Mom.

• Shiryu attacked Katakuri, and their clash set off a fierce melee between Shiryu’s group and the Big Mom Pirates.
• CP0 agents led by Stussy attacked Doflamingo, who fled toward Big Mom for protection.
• Big Mom erupted in Conqueror’s Haki and began rampaging after realizing the explosion had destroyed the remaining wedding cake.
• Doflamingo sought refuge among Katakuri and the Big Mom Pirates, drawing them into conflict with CP0 as the battle spread.
• Garen stepped forward to face Big Mom while she roared for cake.

Garen lured the frenzied Big Mom away from the castle and used her hunger to trick her into swallowing his greatsword. He enlarged himself and the sword inside her, impaling Big Mom as Perospero watched in terror.

• Big Mom attacked Garen, and their clash briefly restored some of her awareness before Food Pangs took over again.
• Garen promised Big Mom wedding cake and led her away from the castle while Perospero and several siblings followed.
• Garen stopped near dessert houses, and Big Mom tore into them before accusing him of lying about the cake.
• Garen wrapped his greatsword in cake and cream, then fed it to Big Mom despite Perospero's warning.
• Garen activated Death Descent, expanding the sword inside Big Mom until it pierced through her chest and back.
• Perospero panicked as Big Mom screamed, and Garen taunted her about the taste of his greatsword.

Katakuri and the Big Mom Pirates rushed to help Big Mom, but Garen lifted their battlefield into the sky and continued attacking her. On the isolated floating island, Garen brought out Golden Lion, leaving Big Mom to face the two enemies alone.

• Katakuri abandoned the fight with Shiryu and led the Big Mom Pirates toward Big Mom, while Shiryu’s group fled in the opposite direction.
• Doflamingo tried to join Katakuri’s force, but Katakuri struck him into the pursuing World Government agents.
• Garen and Golden Lion lifted the battlefield into the sky with the Float-Float Fruit, leaving Katakuri and the others behind on Cake Island.
• Garen pulled his greatsword from Big Mom’s chest, reopening her wound as Perospero used syrup to stop the bleeding.
• Garen brought the floating island to a remote altitude above the sea, where Golden Lion emerged from underground and shocked Big Mom.

Garen and Golden Lion trapped Big Mom’s wounded crew and launched a joint assault, forcing her sons to join the fight. Garen then turned Cracker’s biscuit powers against him, creating gigantic Biscuit Soldiers that surrounded everyone.

• Big Mom recognized Golden Lion beside Garen and ordered Perospero, Cracker, and the others to retreat on Zeus.
• Golden Lion shook the floating island and buried Big Mom’s group beneath a wave of earth while Garen’s Mocking Shout forced Big Mom to attack him instead of escaping.
• Garen and Golden Lion struck Big Mom from above and below, reopening her wounds and burning her arm before pressing their attack.
• Perospero shielded Big Mom with a Candy Wall, but Garen melted it; Cracker sent Biscuit Soldiers after Garen, who smashed through them and rushed past Cracker without attacking him.
• Garen transformed into a giant and created more than a dozen enormous Biscuit Soldiers, surrounding Big Mom and her crew.

Garen and Golden Lion overwhelmed Big Mom and her children, killing Perospero, Cracker, and the others before finishing Big Mom. On Cake Island, Katakuri and the family realized she was dead when the Homies collapsed and their souls scattered.

• Garen used his biscuit giants to surround Big Mom and her children, turning the battle against them.
• Garen disguised himself among the biscuit giants and struck Perospero down with a fatal blow to the head.
• Garen and Golden Lion cornered the wounded Big Mom after her sons, including Cracker, had been killed.
• Garen and Golden Lion resumed their attack, and Big Mom died.
• The Homies across Cake Island collapsed as their soul fragments scattered, and Katakuri and the others realized Mama was dead.

After killing Big Mom, Garen gained a powerful transformation and returned to Cake Island, where he killed the wounded Doflamingo. The chapter left Garen established as a new emperor and revealed his motive for pursuing Doflamingo: punishing human traffickers and their families.

• Big Mom died, and Garen gained the Great Demise skill upon reaching Level 17.
• Garen transformed, displaying golden wings and power that placed him among the strongest figures on the seas.
• Garen flew to Cake Island at tremendous speed, where Katakuri, Stussy, and the others saw his return.
• Garen approached the wounded Doflamingo, who pleaded for rescue and offered to reveal the Celestial Dragons' national treasure.
• Garen told Doflamingo he had pursued him to punish human traffickers, then beheaded him.

After Big Mom and Doflamingo died, Garen took control of the surviving Big Mom Pirates and killed Smoothie and other people on his blacklist. The chapter ended with Katakuri kneeling before Garen and pleading for mercy for his younger siblings.

• Garen asked Stussy and the CP0 agents to help clear the remaining Big Mom Pirates from Cake Island, and Stussy agreed.
• Garen stopped the fleeing pirates with a sword slash and announced that Big Mom was dead.
• Garen killed several people from his blacklist, then defeated and killed Smoothie despite Katakuri's attempts to intervene.
• When Garen turned his attention to the remaining Charlotte Family members, Katakuri knelt and begged him to spare his siblings.

After killing Big Mom, Garen accepted Katakuri’s loyalty and took command of the Big Mom Pirates, but required their officers to face his judgment before joining him. With Stussy taking the guilty pirates into custody, Garen began organizing his takeover of Totto Land, while Morgans prepared a sensational report about the wedding.

• Katakuri knelt before Garen and offered his loyalty in exchange for mercy for his siblings, and Garen accepted him as a subordinate.
• Katakuri’s siblings and the Big Mom Pirates’ peripheral officers followed his lead and submitted to Garen.
• Garen announced that the pirates would face his sword’s judgment, sending those who failed to Stussy for processing and imprisonment in Impel Down.
• Garen secretly asked Stussy to take special care of those whose evil scores exceeded one hundred, and the judgment left her with a ship full of prisoners.
• Garen reminded Stussy to have the Marines pay his bounty before she departed with Doflamingo’s corpse and the captured pirates.
• Garen began planning the annexation of Totto Land with Katakuri and his selected subordinates, while Morgans drafted a sensational headline about Big Mom’s wedding.

Smoker learned that Zephyr had turned against the Marines, then discovered that Garen had become a new Four Emperor after taking over Totto Land. As Garen reunited with Nami and Reiju and settled his new territory, Smoker called him for help while under fire.

• Smoker received Marine Headquarters' warning that Zephyr had betrayed the Marines, seized Dyna Stone, and become a target of a manhunt.
• Tashigi showed Smoker a newspaper reporting that Garen had killed Big Mom and Doflamingo, captured half the Big Mom Pirates, and become a new Four Emperor.
• Ten days later, Nami, Reiju, Judge, and Germa 66 arrived at Cake Island, where former Big Mom Pirates were laboring under Garen's reforms.
• Judge saw Katakuri serving beside Garen and began to reconsider his resentment toward his new son-in-law.
• Pudding brought Garen a Den Den Mushi call for help, prompting Nami and Reiju to question her role as his temporary secretary.
• Under a hail of bullets, Smoker demanded over the Den Den Mushi that Garen answer his call.

Smoker and Tashigi returned lost children to a poor village protected by Whitebeard, where they learned Marines had once robbed the villagers and apologized for it. As Smoker promised to defend the civilians from an approaching pirate crew, his unit was wiped out, and he later called Garen for help because Zephyr was chasing and beating him.

• Smoker and Tashigi arrived at a Whitebeard-protected fishing village and brought the lost children home.
• Tashigi won the villagers’ trust, and the village chief explained that Whitebeard’s crew protected them without taking money while Marines had seized their supplies during the war.
• Smoker, Tashigi, and the Marine soldiers apologized to the villagers for their comrades’ actions.
• Unknown pirate ships approached as the Marines prepared to leave, and Smoker vowed to protect the village.
• The Marines were wiped out, and Smoker later told Garen that Zephyr was chasing and beating him.

Smoker, Tashigi, and the villagers were captured by pirates seeking a hidden Devil Fruit, which Smoker recognized as the Dark-Dark Fruit. When the pirate captain threatened the Marines, the villagers refused to abandon them, until Whitebeard Pirates commander Thatch arrived at the dock.

• Smoker and Tashigi were captured with the Marines and villagers after losing a battle against an unknown New World pirate crew.
• The pirate captain forced the old village chief to reveal that the village had hidden a Devil Fruit for the Whitebeard Pirates.
• The pirates retrieved the pale purple fruit, and Smoker identified it as the Logia Dark-Dark Fruit, worth more than five hundred million Beli.
• The pirate captain released the villagers but threatened to use the Marines' heads to raise his bounty, while the villagers refused to leave Smoker and Tashigi behind.
• Smoker urged the villagers to escape and declared that protecting civilians was the Marines' duty.
• Thatch arrived at the dock and introduced himself as the Whitebeard Pirates' Fourth Division Commander.

Thatch rescued Smoker and Tashigi, then welcomed them as honored guests after learning they were friends of Garen. After three days of friendship between the Marines and Whitebeard Pirates, Zephyr spotted Smoker shaking hands with Thatch and ordered an attack.

• Thatch defeated the pirates who had captured Smoker and his Marines, freed them, and arranged medical care for the wounded.
• Thatch recognized Sakura Ten and Kareki as swords given to Tashigi by Garen, learned Smoker and Tashigi were Garen's friends, and returned Smoker's Jitte.
• Thatch hosted Smoker and Tashigi at a banquet, and the Marines stayed on the island for three days while the Whitebeard Pirates compensated and helped the villagers.
• Smoker and Thatch became friends, and the two groups warmly said farewell as Smoker's unit prepared to leave.
• Ain told Zephyr that Smoker was meeting amicably with the Whitebeard Pirates, and Zephyr recognized his former student and ordered his forces to attack.

Zephyr attacked Smoker and Thatch, then captured them after Smoker refused to kill Thatch. Garen learned Zephyr planned to destroy the New World’s final End Point and agreed to help Kuzan save him, while Whitebeard mobilized to rescue Thatch.

• Zephyr’s forces overwhelmed Smoker and Thatch, and Zephyr beat both men down.
• Smoker stood up for Thatch and challenged Zephyr’s claim that all pirates deserved to die; Zephyr spared them and ordered his men to imprison them.
• Garen learned from Kuzan that Zephyr had stolen Dyna Stone and destroyed two End Points, and agreed to help save him from Sakazuki’s kill mission.
• Whitebeard learned Zephyr had captured Thatch and ordered his crew to set out and bring him back.

Zephyr led the NEO Marines to Volcanic Hot Spring Island, intending to destroy its End Point despite the tens of thousands of residents nearby. The Marines ambushed his forces, but Zephyr revealed Dyna Stone explosives and charged at them, leaving Akainu scrambling to evacuate his soldiers.

• Zephyr rejected Smoker's plea to spare the island's residents and insisted that destroying the End Point would bring peace.
• Zephyr led the NEO Marines ashore, where Marine forces surrounded them on land and at sea.
• Akainu and five Vice Admirals confronted Zephyr and demanded that he stop his attack.
• Zephyr revealed rings of Dyna Stone strapped to himself and his officers, threatening to destroy the island rather than surrender.
• Zephyr activated a piece of Dyna Stone and charged the Marine formation, prompting Akainu to order his soldiers to retreat.

Zephyr's suicidal attack threatened to trigger a catastrophic volcanic eruption, but Garen arrived in time to rescue him and remove the Dyna Stones. The explosion still caused the volcano to erupt and sent magma toward the town, where Garen used Binz's plant-controlling ability to try to stop it.

• Akainu rescued Navy soldiers from a Dyna Stone blast, then led the pursuit as Zephyr and his team fought their way to the volcano's crater.
• Zephyr charged through Akainu's magma defense and detonated a Dyna Stone, using the blast to fall into the crater with more than a dozen armed Dyna Stones.
• Garen caught Zephyr before he fell into the magma, tore the Dyna Stones from his body, and flew them into the sky, where they exploded.
• The blast shook the volcano and triggered an eruption that sent magma toward the town, forcing residents to flee toward the coast.
• Garen spotted Binz using his Shove-Shove Fruit to control plants, then landed in the forest and activated Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands to stop the magma.

Garen protected Zephyr and his disciples from Akainu, then confronted the Marines with his assembled forces and invoked his Shichibukai treaty rights. When Akainu attacked, Garen vanished into the magma and reappeared unharmed, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Garen raised a Thousand-Armed Giant Buddha that blocked the volcanic magma from reaching the town.
• Akainu attacked the incapacitated Zephyr, Ain, and Binz, but Garen's Buddha arms crushed the lava fist and carried the three to safety.
• Garen summoned Katakuri, Reiju, and his other fighters from an airship, overwhelming the Marine officers with their numbers and strength.
• Garen cited the Shichibukai treaty's protections and refused Akainu's demand to hand over Zephyr.
• Akainu attacked Garen, who charged into the lava fist, disappeared into the magma, and re-formed beside Akainu unharmed.