Chapter Summaries

Raiga and the other CP0 agents entered the sealed Sea Stone Mine under the cover story of recovering Raiga’s dead brothers, while Ace insisted on helping them dig. After a long search, Ace uncovered a huge glowing piece of Kryptonite, and the group’s real intentions became impossible to hide.

• Garen arranged for Ace, Teach, and Raiga’s group to enter the mine shaft where Kryptonite had been found and sealed away.
• Raiga claimed his brothers had been buried in the shaft, and Ace and Teach helped persuade the mine worker to get permission for them to enter.
• Teach realized the group had come to steal Kryptonite but pretended not to know, while Raiga tried to send Ace and Teach away.
• Ace insisted on helping excavate the mine, forcing Raiga, Teach, and the CP0 agents to dig alongside him.
• After Ace unearthed dozens of skeletons, he found a person-sized glowing piece of Kryptonite, drawing every watcher’s attention.

Teach rescued Ace from Raiga’s attack but let the CP0 agents escape with the Kryptonite, hoping to avoid trouble. Ace insisted they pursue the agents, leaving Teach trapped in the collapsed mine and helping him dig out.

• Ace recognized the glowing stone as Kryptonite and tried to carry it to the Alliance, but Raiga attacked him with Finger Pistol.
• Teach dodged the attack and protected Ace, while Raiga admitted that he and the others were CP0 agents and Bell took the Kryptonite.
• Ace attacked Bell with Fire Fist - Fire Pillar, but Bell blocked the flames with his fur and then collapsed the tunnel to cover the agents’ escape.
• Teach secretly felt relieved that the agents had taken the Kryptonite, but Ace insisted they catch up and stop them.
• Ace and Teach dug through the rubble together, and Teach warned Ace to put out his fire before he used up the oxygen.

Raiga split the CP0 agents into separate groups to escape with the Kryptonite while Garen secretly arranged to let one agent get away. Ace and Teach caught up with Raiga and Bell, but Bell revealed his overwhelming strength and knocked Ace unconscious.

• Raiga and the other agents broke out of the mine, split the Kryptonite, and scattered in different directions, with Bell staying beside Raiga as bait.
• Garen sent pursuit teams after the fleeing agents but ordered them to let the one heading southwest escape.
• Ace and Teach flew ahead of Garen and confronted Raiga and Bell in a forest.
• Raiga attacked with a sword, but Ace easily overcame his sword strike, surprising Garen with Raiga's apparent weakness.
• Bell unleashed his Mink Tribe Electricity and struck Ace with Thunderous Wrath Claw, sending him flying and leaving him unable to fight.
• Bell declared that he was Thunder God, and Garen realized he had mistaken Bell for Thunder God's keeper.

Teach tried to protect the unconscious Ace from Bell's attack, but Garen arrived and fought Raiga and Bell. Raiga and Bell restrained Garen with Kryptonite, leaving Teach stunned and tempted by the chance to act against his sworn enemy.

• Teach shielded Ace from Bell's electrified Thunder Chariot, taking the impact and rescuing Ace from the ground.
• Raiga stopped Bell from attacking Teach, and the two CP0 agents began to flee until Garen arrived and struck Bell with his greatsword.
• Teach tried to leave with the unconscious Ace while Raiga and Bell decided to use Kryptonite to kill Garen.
• Bell held Garen in a crushing bear hug while Raiga wrapped a Kryptonite rope around his neck.
• Raiga and Bell celebrated after Garen appeared subdued, while Teach dropped Ace and considered taking advantage of the situation.

Garen faked weakness after being captured with Kryptonite, manipulating Teach into choosing between killing him and preserving his good-person reputation. Teach saved Garen, and Garen warned him that he would have to keep pretending to be good for the rest of his life.

• Teach considered killing Garen when Raiga's punch sent Garen flying into his reach.
• Garen pretended to be helpless and begged Teach to remove the Kryptonite as Raiga and Bell urged Teach not to save him.
• Teach crushed the Kryptonite and helped Garen up, choosing to protect his reputation and avoid betraying a companion.
• Garen revealed that he had baited Teach into exposing his true nature and said he had never been a good person.
• Garen told Teach to keep up his benevolent mask for life, and Teach tearfully declared that he was a good person.

Garen’s forces surrounded Raiga and Bell, who fought back as Bell revealed the destructive power of his Giant Bear Fruit and Raiga prepared an artificial moon. Bell transformed into Sulong, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Garen called down Golden Lion and the hidden Alliance officers, forcing Teach to join Garen against Raiga and Bell.
• Bell transformed into a fifty-meter-tall bear and unleashed the devastating Ultra Wheel - Thunder Six King Gun, while Garen shielded his allies with Laurent's Eye of the Mind.
• Raiga activated and threw a mysterious sphere into the sky, where it hovered and glowed like a moon.
• Bell transformed after staring at the artificial moon, and Golden Lion recognized the device as the key to triggering Sulong.

Bell used his Sulong transformation to escape with Raiga, but Garen intercepted them and fought Bell alongside Golden Lion. Teach’s dragon breath accidentally caused Raiga’s death beneath Bell’s paw, driving Bell to charge Teach while Garen praised Teach for drawing his fury.

• Bell transformed into Sulong form, kept his sanity, and used Rokushiki: Soru to flee with Raiga on his back.
• Garen caught Teach and raced after Bell, then intercepted him; Golden Lion joined Garen in attacking the giant bear.
• Teach attacked Bell from a distance with Scorching Dragon Breath, striking Raiga as he jumped from Bell’s back.
• Raiga fell beneath Bell’s paw and died, and Bell blamed Teach and charged at him in a rage.
• Garen called the incident an artificial taunt and praised Teach, who cursed him after being flattened by Bell’s paw.

Garen and Golden Lion helped Teach survive Bell’s relentless attack, and the group finally defeated Bell after a day-long battle. Garen then revealed he had the Dark-Dark Fruit and recovered Bell’s Devil Fruit energy, leaving Teach devastated over his lost dream as Ace praised him for saving his life.

• Garen struck Bell to give Teach a chance to escape, then he and Golden Lion attacked Bell while Bell kept pursuing Teach.
• Bell fought on for an entire day before collapsing and shrinking back to his original form.
• Garen praised Teach for drawing Bell’s attacks, then used a black candy to manifest the Dark-Dark Fruit and recover Bell’s Devil Fruit energy.
• Garen told Teach he had taken the Dark-Dark Fruit to keep him from becoming a criminal and revealed that his candies could temporarily grant its powers.
• Ace woke up, saw Teach’s injuries, and praised him for saving his life, making Teach cry even harder.

Garen asked Ace and Teach to bring Whitebeard a proposal for the Whitebeard Pirates to join the League of Heroes while retaining their flag, territories, and internal governance as a special zone. Ace accepted the idea of peaceful evolution and agreed to discuss it with Whitebeard.

• Garen explained that the League opposed pirates but considered the Whitebeard Pirates' protection of civilians different from criminal piracy.
• Garen invited the Whitebeard Pirates to join the League, promising not to seize their members, property, or territory.
• Ace rejected the proposal at first, saying Whitebeard and the crew would not abandon their pirate identities.
• Garen offered a compromise: the Whitebeard Pirates could keep their flag and governing system in a special zone if they joined the League and obeyed its laws.
• Teach questioned whether Garen would preserve the special zone after Whitebeard and the older crew members died, and Garen argued that the crew could eventually evolve beyond its pirate identity.
• Ace accepted Garen's proposal in principle and promised to ask Whitebeard to consider it.

The Five Elders discussed how to force Garen into a war and decided to invade his East Blue territory to seize League members as hostages. They chose Kizaru to lead the Navy operation and ordered him to take a piece of Kryptonite for protection.

• Two CP0 agents returned to Holy Land Mariejois with two pieces of Kryptonite after Bell and the other senior agents died in Wano Country.
• Churchill and the Five Elders agreed that the World Government needed to confront Garen, while Gorbachev warned that attacking his forces in the New World would be dangerous.
• Gorbachev proposed targeting League members in East Blue to force Garen to respond, and Lincoln argued that the Navy should lead the operation while CP0 supported and supervised it.
• The Five Elders rejected Fujitora as commander and chose Kizaru, whose speed could help him escape if he encountered Garen.
• The Five Elders ordered Kizaru to deploy to East Blue and take one piece of Kryptonite with him.

Luffy despaired after learning Garen had found One Piece, while Zoro and Sanji reminded him that a lost dream did not end his journey. In Syrup Village, Kuro recruited Morgan to help him murder Kaya and steal her fortune, dismissing Morgan’s warnings about Demacia’s presence on the island.

• Luffy slumped in despair over Garen finding One Piece, and Sanji worried that he might never recover.
• Zoro told Sanji that a setback would not stop them from pursuing their dreams, and Sanji resolved to keep searching for All Blue and to confront Garen over Reiju.
• Zoro revealed his precise swordsmanship by smoothing a brick wall with his blade, then ordered Sanji to bring mortar.
• Kuro told Morgan that the Black Cat Pirates had been captured and might reveal that Kuro was alive, so they needed to escape Syrup Village with money.
• Kuro persuaded Morgan to attack Kaya’s estate and kill her so they could take her wealth and flee, and Morgan agreed.
• Morgan warned Kuro that Demacia flags and a military camp were visible on the island, but Kuro dismissed them as harmless construction workers.

Kuro brought Kaya to the construction site so Axe-Hand Morgan could stage her assassination, but he discovered that several powerful families’ heirs were working and eating there. Kuro tried to stop Morgan, but Morgan entered and announced his robbery before Kuro could warn him off.

• Kuro accompanied Usopp and Kaya to the construction site, where he planned to have Axe-Hand Morgan kill Kaya and disguise the murder as an attack by an escaped convict.
• The workers welcomed Usopp with laughter and teased him about his stories, while Kaya and Kuro were surprised by the delicious food.
• A worker told Usopp that Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji had powerful family connections, and Usopp confirmed some of the claims by checking the book he carried.
• Kuro realized the danger of involving the powerful heirs, ran out of the cafeteria, and tried to signal Morgan to leave.
• Morgan ignored Kuro and entered the construction site, announcing that he had come to rob them.

Axe-Hand Morgan robbed the construction site, where Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji confronted him and discovered he had mastered Armament Haki. The trio began overpowering him with their teamwork, and Zoro launched a rebar-inspired sword technique as Morgan fell toward him.

• Morgan threatened the workers and raised his Haki-coated axe, prompting Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji to step forward.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji recognized Morgan's Armament Haki and eagerly challenged him instead of backing down.
• Zoro blocked Morgan's full-force axe strike and knocked him back, while Luffy and Sanji joined the fight.
• Luffy used his rubber arms and the scaffolding to launch Morgan into the air, and Sanji struck him with a spinning kick.
• Zoro prepared to attack Morgan with his rebar-inspired sword technique, Steel-Cutting Flash.

Kuro revealed himself as Kuro of a Hundred Plans and ambushed Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji, giving himself and Axe-Hand Morgan the advantage. The Ace Construction Crew stepped forward to defend their men, showing Kuro that the workers were far stronger than he had assumed.

• Axe-Hand Morgan, badly wounded by Zoro, realized Kuro was his only hope, while Kuro decided to stop hiding and launched a surprise attack on Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji.
• Kuro wounded Zoro’s sword arm and Sanji’s leg, revealed his identity to Kaya and the others, and vowed to kill everyone present.
• Kuro and Axe-Hand Morgan gained the upper hand as Kuro repeatedly slashed Luffy and Zoro and Sanji struggled to fight while injured.
• Usopp prepared to join the fight, but the foreman stepped forward and challenged Kuro on behalf of the construction workers.
• The construction workers displayed their strength by wielding heavy materials with ease, and the foreman twisted steel bars into a club as he warned Kuro not to underestimate the Ace Construction Crew.

Kuro fled Syrup Village after the Ace Construction Crew overwhelmed him, but the workers pursued him in a cola-powered ship and drove him toward a Navy fleet. Seeing a chance to turn his pursuers into enemies of the Navy, Kuro reported that Dragon’s son was aboard the ship behind him.

• The Ace Construction Crew joined Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji in fighting Kuro and Axe-Hand Morgan, forcing Kuro to flee while Morgan was left helpless.
• The foreman ordered the workers to chase Kuro after seeing Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji injured, and Kuro escaped Syrup Village in a small boat.
• The workers pursued Kuro aboard a cola-powered ship, while Luffy launched stones, steel ingots, and bricks at his boat.
• Kuro encountered a Navy fleet ahead and realized the Navy had become Demacia’s enemy.
• Kuro waved to the Navy officers and claimed that Dragon’s son, leader of the League bandits, was aboard the pursuing ship.

Kizaru captured Luffy, Sanji, and Kuro after Kuro revealed their identities to the Marines. Garen learned that the captives had been split between two groups and chose to rescue Sanji first, while deciding to use Luffy’s capture to push Shanks into action.

• Kuro told Kizaru that Luffy was aboard the cola ship and that Sanji was Garen’s brother-in-law, so Kizaru captured Kuro and set out to seize the ship’s passengers.
• Reiju told Garen that Kizaru had captured Sanji and Luffy while they were pursuing a pirate near Syrup Village.
• Garen asked Kuzan for information and learned that CP0 had sent Luffy toward Marine Headquarters separately while Kizaru escorted Sanji through the Calm Belt.
• Garen chose to rescue Sanji first, reasoning that Luffy was protected by Garp, Kuzan, and Fujitora and that his whereabouts were unknown.
• Garen told Reiju to inform Shanks that Luffy had been captured, hoping to persuade the Red Hair Pirates to stop remaining neutral.

Garen tried to persuade Kizaru’s Navy fleet to surrender, first appealing to the soldiers and then broadcasting Zephyr’s testimony. When the Navy refused, Garen used blaring loudspeakers to draw Sea Kings toward the warships, leaving the fleet in danger.

• Navy soldiers guarding Sanji debated their treatment of him and voiced doubts about serving the World Government.
• Garen arrived with League of Heroes airships and urged the Navy soldiers to join his cause rather than fight their fellow supporters of justice.
• Zephyr broadcast his condemnation of the World Government, shaking the fleet’s soldiers and officers, while loyalist officers restored order.
• A Navy loyalist refused to surrender, so Garen continued broadcasting the speeches at punishing volume.
• A Navy officer realized the noise had attracted Sea Kings in the Calm Belt, and Garen turned the loudspeakers up further while leaving the Navy to choose whether to surrender.

Garen’s propaganda and the Sea Kings’ attack pushed the Marine fleet toward mutiny, prompting Kizaru to fight back. Garen neutralized him in midair, and Kizaru surrendered after realizing he could not win.

• Garen’s amplified voice roused waves of Sea Kings, and Marine officers cut down the first attackers before a larger second wave emerged.
• As the Marines faced mounting Sea King attacks, soldiers began throwing down their weapons, and an officer urged Kizaru to act.
• Kizaru used Yasakani no Magatama to destroy the Sea Kings and bombard Garen’s airships, but Dark Cloak shields protected the vessels.
• Garen confronted Kizaru, who tried to suppress him with a green stone, but the stone had no effect and Garen sealed Kizaru’s Devil Fruit Ability with a dark tide.
• Kizaru admitted that the Kryptonite legend was false and surrendered, saying he had tried and could not defeat Garen.

After Kizaru surrendered with the Marine fleet, the Five Elders announced war and ordered Luffy’s public execution. Ace, Whitebeard, and Shanks joined the effort to rescue him, leaving the coming conflict poised to grow into a massive upheaval.

• Kizaru surrendered to Garen, and the Marines laid down their weapons before the ghost Golden Lion lifted their fleet clear of the Sea Kings.
• Garen’s report portrayed Kizaru’s surrender as the start of a rebellion, prompting the Five Elders to mobilize for war and announce Luffy’s execution.
• Ace asked Whitebeard to let him rescue Luffy, and Whitebeard decided that the entire crew would go with him.
• Shanks learned that Whitebeard was joining the war and told Benn Beckman to inform Garen that he would help rescue Luffy.

Garp and Sengoku visited Luffy in prison and were shaken by the World Government’s unjust treatment of him. Fujitora persuaded them to oppose the coming war, and Kuzan joined them, leaving the Navy’s top figures ready to act together.

• Garp and Sengoku visited Luffy in Marine Headquarters prison under CP0 escort and saw him shackled and imprisoned despite his innocence.
• CP0 stopped Garp from approaching Luffy, deepening the two old Navy men's anger and doubts about their loyalty to the World Government.
• Fujitora asked Garp and Sengoku whether the war served justice and revealed that he was working with Garen to prevent it.
• Sengoku agreed to join Fujitora's effort, and Garp tacitly accepted as well.
• Kuzan arrived and joined Garp, Sengoku, and Fujitora in deciding to end the war together.