Chapter Summaries

Garen, disguised as Phantom, turned on Kurozumi Orochi aboard a floating warship and led the CP0 agents into battle against Orochi’s samurai. After Orochi dodged his sneak attack and their duel began, Garen blocked Orochi’s sword technique with ease and prepared to strike back.

• Garen persuaded Kurozumi Orochi to bring the CP0 agents aboard his ship, then attacked him from behind with a shadow blade.
• Kurozumi Orochi dodged the attack because he instinctively distrusted strangers standing behind him, and both sides prepared to fight.
• Garen ordered the CP0 agents to cripple the Wano Country samurai without killing them, and the two groups clashed across the ship.
• Kurozumi Orochi attacked Garen with Phantom Demon Slash, but Garen blocked the two swords with a shadow-coated armguard.
• Garen mocked Orochi’s grandiose sword technique, knocked his blades aside, and began a Shadow Swordsmanship counterattack.

Garen defeated Kurozumi Orochi with a feint and a hidden shadow-blade attack, causing Orochi’s samurai to surrender. After Orochi accused him of shamelessness, Garen openly agreed and peeled a layer of face from his own face.

• Garen overwhelmed Kurozumi Orochi with Shadow Strike and Shadow Judgment, then pierced his chest with a second shadow blade and wounded his vital organs with Shadow Thorns.
• Kurozumi Orochi collapsed to his knees, and the Wano Country samurai lost heart and surrendered to Garen’s side.
• Kurozumi Orochi accused Garen of shamelessly using a second blade after announcing a single-blade technique.
• Garen mocked the World Government’s lack of scruples and admitted he had no shame.
• Garen peeled a layer of face from his own face and tossed it to the ground before Kurozumi Orochi and the CP0 agents.

Garen revealed that he had killed the real Commander Phantom, executed Kurozumi Orochi, and forced the CP0 agents to pledge allegiance to his uprising. Meanwhile, Sabo and the Revolutionary Army fought King and Queen; King escaped the aerial battle only to be attacked by the CP0 agents.

• Garen revealed his identity to the CP0 agents, admitted he had killed the real Commander Phantom, and declared that he opposed the World Government.
• Garen killed Kurozumi Orochi and demanded that the CP0 agents either join his uprising or die; they submitted and pledged allegiance.
• Sabo used the imitation Rumble-Rumble Fruit to fight King, while the Revolutionary Army's officers besieged King and Queen.
• King unleashed a Flame Hurricane, escaped the Revolutionary Army's encirclement, and flew toward the floating ships seeking help.
• The CP0 agents attacked King and claimed they were undercover agents, following Garen's orders.

Dragon confronted Kaido while Garen’s forces moved to eliminate Kaido’s allies, but Kaido tried to flee after realizing Garen was not present. Enel and over a hundred temporary Rumble-Rumble Fruit users combined their lightning into a colossal Thunder God, leaving Kaido’s escape blocked by a force neither he nor Dragon had expected.

• Dragon confronted Kaido and blocked his path while Garen’s airships arrived, and Kaido’s frightened subordinates watched him transform and flee.
• Dragon intercepted Kaido, countered his Dragon Breath with Sky Dragon Wing Strike, and stopped his charge with Sky Dragon Hook.
• Kaido pushed through Dragon’s attacks and tried to escape toward the sea, while Dragon doubted the reinforcements would be strong enough to stop him.
• Enel led Zephyr, Cavendish, Hajrudin, Chinjao, and over a hundred temporary Rumble-Rumble Fruit users into the sky.
• Enel formed the Thunder God’s head as the other lightning users fused their power into its body, creating a Thunder God over a thousand meters tall.

The giant Thunder God overwhelmed Kaido with lightning and kept him trapped in an electric net while its users repeatedly renewed their temporary abilities. After the Thunder God finally collapsed, Kaido tried to flee but saw five airborne warships approaching, realizing his teammates had been killed.

• Kaido tried to escape, but the Thunder God struck him with God's Judgment and paralyzed him.
• The Thunder God bound Kaido with Thunder God's Whip and repeatedly electrocuted him, while his rapid healing kept him alive.
• When the first group of temporary ability users renewed their knockoff Rumble-Rumble Fruit powers, Garen's staggered rotation tactic kept the Thunder God at full strength.
• The Thunder God continued roasting Kaido until it finally withdrew its electric net and collapsed into clusters of electric plasma.
• Kaido recovered enough to consider fleeing, then saw five airborne warships approaching and realized his teammates were dead.

Garen and Dragon trapped Kaido in a powerful storm, then Garen and the officers used stacked gravity to crush him and send him plunging into the sea. Kaido disappeared beneath the waves after crashing into the ocean.

• Kaido attacked Garen’s airships with Dragon Breath, but their Float-Float Fruit users evaded the flames.
• Garen and Dragon struck Kaido from above and below, then used Taunting Shout and Raging Cyclone to trap him in a fused tornado.
• Garen ordered Zephyr and the other officers to use the Press-Press Fruit and form a Gravity Array above Kaido.
• More than a hundred temporary ability users stacked their gravity, crushing Kaido’s dragon body and sending him falling toward the sea.
• Kaido crashed into the ocean at tremendous speed and was swallowed by the waves.

Garen pursued Kaido into the sea and used his unusual abilities to overwhelm him despite the seawater. Kaido escaped the sea and transformed to flee, only to collide with Garen’s colossal Dragon Form.

• Garen followed Kaido into the sea, where Kaido’s Dragon Form was sealed but his modified body quickly healed his injuries.
• Kaido believed Garen’s abilities were also suppressed underwater, but Garen used the Wind-Wind Fruit to create a powerful seawater vortex.
• Garen combined the vortex with Fish-Man Karate to crush and cut Kaido inside a massive spiraling water sphere.
• The collapsing current launched Kaido out of the sea, and he transformed into Dragon Form to escape.
• Kaido flew into Garen’s enormous Dragon Form, which blocked his path and left him crawling across Garen’s body.

As Garen’s victory over Kaido seemed certain, Evil King persuaded Golden Lion’s prisoners that they could seize the New World with a hidden weapon capable of defeating Garen. Garen’s colossal golden Dragon Form shook the sky and sea, but Evil King renewed his confidence in the glowing green stone he held.

• An Impel Down prisoner questioned Golden Lion’s plan after noticing Garen’s powerful allies, but Golden Lion dismissed his concerns and claimed he had his own methods.
• Evil King convinced the prisoners that Golden Lion could use a treasure to defeat Garen, then seize Demacia’s and the Beasts Pirates’ territories and rule the New World.
• Garen emerged from the clouds in a Dragon Form tens of kilometers long, and its movements rocked the sea and shook the floating ships for three minutes.
• The prisoners asked Evil King whether a monster like Garen could be killed, and Evil King’s ambition briefly faltered before he saw Golden Lion’s calm demeanor.
• Evil King reassured himself that Golden Lion’s treasure would work and tightly gripped the green-glowing stone in his pocket.

Garen returned after killing Kaido and ordered his subordinates to collect the Mythical Zoan Fruit’s energy. Evil King then attacked him with a Kryptonite knuckle duster, and Garen was genuinely injured, leaving him curious about who would bring Kryptonite to challenge him next.

• Garen rose from the sea with Kaido’s mangled corpse and told his subordinates to use the Dark-Dark Fruit to collect its Devil Fruit energy.
• Golden Lion reminded Garen that Evil King and the other prisoners were still waiting, believing the story about Kryptonite.
• Evil King mistook Garen and Golden Lion’s private conversation for a tense standoff and quietly crept toward Garen.
• Evil King struck Garen with a green Kryptonite knuckle duster and followed with a punch that bruised Garen’s face.
• Golden Lion asked whether Kryptonite was real, and Garen admitted he wanted to see which hero would bring it to him next.

Garen let the Evil King publicly expose kryptonite’s power to weaken him, then revealed that Golden Lion had secretly switched sides and helped kill the Evil King. With the Impel Down escapees cornered in the sky, Garen prepared to fight them, becoming especially fired up after seeing Catalina’s Nine-Tailed Fox abilities.

• The Evil King used kryptonite knuckle-dusters to subdue Garen and threatened Dragon and the others while holding him hostage.
• The Evil King called on Golden Lion to help them escape, but Golden Lion stabbed him from behind, freeing Garen to mortally wound him with his greatsword.
• Garen told the dying Evil King that Golden Lion had become his ally and abandoned the escapees, and the Evil King died in a rage.
• Garen ordered an attack on Catalina, Big Barrel, and the other Impel Down escapees, who had no way to flee the floating platform.
• Catalina revealed her Nine-Tailed Fox abilities, and Garen began imagining using the Dark-Dark Fruit to take them before charging at her.

Garen defeated Catalina and the remaining Impel Down fugitives, then claimed the Devil Fruits and territories left behind by Kaido’s forces. As Dragon asked about the future, Garen proposed uniting Demacia and the Revolutionary Army as the League of Heroes.

• Catalina transformed into a seductive beauty and tried to beg Garen to spare her, but he resisted her sorcery and killed her and the other trapped fugitives.
• Garen assessed the spoils of war, including Kaido’s territories and several Devil Fruits, among them Catalina’s Nine-Tailed Fox Fruit.
• Garen imagined spending the night with Nami, but Dragon mistook his thoughts for concern about the coming conflict with the World Government.
• Garen outlined plans to take over Wano Country, liberate workers, train troops, and prepare for war.
• Garen proposed that Demacia and the Revolutionary Army merge into a single organization called the League of Heroes.

Garen united Demacia and the Revolutionary Army as the League of Heroes, establishing its leadership and a Hero Association to organize ordinary people who fought for justice. As the Five Elders prepared to crush the new alliance, they learned of Kryptonite, a stone that had nearly killed Garen, and decided to seize it.

• Garen persuaded Dragon, Sabo, and the Revolutionary Army leaders to join Demacia in forming the League of Heroes.
• Delegates established the League with Garen as Speaker-General and Dragon as Deputy Speaker, and created the Hero Association with ranked heroes.
• News of the League's founding spread worldwide, while the Five Elders learned that Garen had taken Wano Country and cut off the World Government's Sea Stone supply.
• The Five Elders learned that Golden Lion had joined the League and that Stussy had betrayed the World Government, helping explain Kaido's defeat.
• A Five Elder reported that Evil King had nearly killed Garen with Kryptonite from a sealed Sea Stone mine, and the Five Elders resolved to obtain the stone.

Kuzan faced the growing conflict between the Navy and Garen’s League of Heroes as Garen launched a propaganda campaign at Marine Headquarters. Kuzan suppressed a brewing mutiny, but the Marines’ trust in the World Government and their Fleet Admiral had already begun to erode.

• Kuzan learned that the World Government had declared Garen and the League of Heroes its foremost enemy, leaving the Fleet Admiral trapped between his Navy and his ally.
• Garen’s airships dropped crates of pamphlets, Den Den Mushi, and projection devices over Marine Headquarters.
• The Marines watched a broadcast in which Stussy and Caesar Clown exposed the World Government’s crimes and secret experiments.
• Kuzan ordered the Marines to confiscate the propaganda and devices, suppressing a possible mutiny.
• Some Marines cursed Kuzan as a Celestial Dragon lapdog, leaving him feeling wronged.

Garen returned to Rainbase to evacuate Vivi, Robin, Hancock, and the Demacia branch before the World Government could use them against him. He prepared to take them to the New World, but Robin misunderstood his request to discuss history as a romantic advance.

• Garen and Golden Lion flew from Wano Country to Rainbase, where Vivi, Robin, Hancock, and the branch executives awaited them.
• Hancock threw herself into Garen's arms, and Garen also drew the bashful Vivi into an embrace.
• Vivi said King Cobra was safe as a member-state king but warned that he disliked Garen's reputation as a princess killer.
• Garen told Hancock to have the Kuja warriors board a ship so he could fly everyone to the New World.
• Garen called Robin over to discuss history, but Robin thought he was proposing a relationship and blushed as he insisted she could not refuse him.

Garen gave Robin a notebook containing his invented account of the Void Century, which portrayed Demacia and the League of Heroes as the original force for justice and the World Government as their corrupt successors. Robin questioned some of the story but accepted its purpose, and Garen ended by describing himself as the heir to Demacian Justice Theory who would bring down the World Government.

• Garen told Robin that his notebook contained the hidden truth of the Void Century, then admitted he had invented the history himself.
• Robin read Garen’s account of Demacia’s founding of the Demacian Alliance and its eventual corruption by royal families.
• Garen’s story described the nineteen royal families establishing the World Government after the alliance collapsed, while the Nefertari Family remained loyal to Demacian ideals.
• Robin read that the World Government erased Demacian history and that the Will of D was actually Demacian Justice Theory, prompting Garen to denounce bloodline-based ideas of inheritance.
• Garen concluded his invented history by casting himself as Demacia’s heir, who would spread its ideology and bring the World Government to an end.

Garen persuaded Robin to help fabricate Demacia ruins on a deserted island and present them as Laugh Tale, planning to use the discovery to end the Great Age of Pirates. Robin agreed to design the site, then silenced Garen when he began suggesting ways to profit from the fake artifacts.

• Robin accepted that Garen’s version of history could become the world’s official account, even if her own research was buried.
• Garen showed Robin Nami’s map and an aerial photograph of a deserted island and asked her to create fake Demacia ruins, artifacts, and ancient inscriptions.
• Garen explained that he would present the ruins as Laugh Tale and claim the Pirate King’s treasure had already been found, hoping to end the Great Age of Pirates.
• Garen argued that people would trust his claim because Roger’s crew had never publicly described Laugh Tale, and he planned to use gold, Poneglyphs, media, and Buggy to support the story.
• Robin agreed to design the fabricated ruins, but used her Flower-Flower Fruit to shut Garen’s mouth when he proposed auctioning the fake artifacts.

Garen traveled to Fish-Man Island to protect Shirahoshi from the World Government, but told Neptune he had come to fulfill the promise by bringing the whole island to the surface. With Golden Lion's help, he raised Fish-Man Island into the sky, letting its people see the sun for the first time.

• Garen arrived at Ryugu Palace with Vivi, Robin, and Hancock, where they met the enormous Shirahoshi and Neptune.
• Garen warned Neptune that the World Government might target Fish-Man Island, and Neptune offered to send Shirahoshi away with him.
• Garen clarified that he intended to move all of Fish-Man Island rather than take Shirahoshi away alone.
• Garen and Golden Lion used the Float-Float Fruit to lift Fish-Man Island from the seabed and carry it toward the surface.
• Fish-Man Island emerged into the sky, and Neptune and the island's residents wept as they basked in sunlight.

Garen moved Fish-Man Island toward Wano Country and learned that CP0 had sent a top agent called Thunder God to search for Kryptonite. At Wano’s Sea Stone mine, the agent, Kuroda Raiga, tried to trick the League’s guards into letting him inside, but they offered to retrieve the bodies for him instead.

• Garen brought Fish-Man Island toward Wano Country, where Shirahoshi excitedly explored the sunlight and sea above the water.
• Spandam told Garen that CP0 had dispatched a top agent codenamed Thunder God to Wano Country to find Kryptonite.
• Garen realized that the World Government was sending the agent into a trap, since Kryptonite would soon be offered for sale.
• Kuroda Raiga arrived at the guarded Sea Stone mine with his retainers and claimed he had come to recover the remains of former fellow prisoners.
• The League’s guards believed Raiga’s story but refused to let him enter, offering to retrieve the bodies for him instead.

Raiga and Bell failed to enter the guarded Sea Stone mine and returned to Kuri to plan another way to steal the Kryptonite without alerting Garen. There, Ace and Teach were looking after Tama, and Teach transformed into a pink dragon to give her a ride.

• Raiga begged the League soldiers to let him retrieve his companions' bodies, but they refused and said he needed permission from a high-ranking League officer.
• Bell wanted to fight the guards, but Raiga stopped him and explained that they needed to avoid drawing Garen's attention before finding the Kryptonite.
• Raiga returned with Bell to their base in Kuri and worried that the mine's defenses made a quiet theft nearly impossible.
• Ace stayed in Wano Country to look after Tama after learning she was safe, and Teach had spent several days helping him babysit her.
• Tama asked to ride Teach's dragon, so Teach summoned his anger at Garen, transformed into a pink dragon, and let her climb onto his head.

Garen secretly staged a performance to make CP0 agents believe they had discovered valuable Kryptonite, but Ace and Teach’s unexpected arrival forced him to change the plan. Raiga gained their help getting into the Sea Stone mine, while Garen watched the operation head off course.

• Garen tracked Raiga’s CP0 group and prepared a staged street fight that would let them take Kryptonite and make it seem valuable to the World Government.
• Garen halted the actors when Ace, Teach, and Tama appeared, and Raiga recognized the two pirates as potential allies who could help his group reach the mine.
• Tama feared Bell, so Raiga had Bell use Life Return to transform his fur into a panda-like pattern, charming Tama and the people nearby.
• Raiga told Ace a moving story about recovering his brother’s body, and Ace promised to help him enter the mine.
• Teach suspected something was wrong but joined Ace, and the two pirates accompanied Raiga’s group toward the Sea Stone mine as Garen lamented the performance accident.