Chapter Summaries

Luffy and the Straw Hats fought Sadie’s Jail Beasts in the scorching level of hell. They defeated three of the beasts, while Chopper stopped Minotaur Zebra’s hammer and prepared to fight back.

• Sadie ordered Minotauros to crush Luffy, but Luffy shattered the beast’s mace with a single punch and sent him crashing into a stone wall.
• Sadie ordered Minotaur Koala, Minotaurus, and Minotaur Zebra to attack, and Zoro, Sanji, and Chopper each faced one of them.
• Zoro cut down Minotaur Koala with One Sword Style: Iaido.
• Sanji knocked Minotaurus out with a flaming Diable Jambe kick.
• Chopper caught Minotaur Zebra’s descending warhammer with his bare hands and taunted him.

Nami and the others defeated Little Sadie and the four Jail Beasts on Level 3, then descended to Scorching Hell to reach Ace. Deputy Warden Hannibal blocked their path across the narrow bridge.

• Chopper battered Minotaur Zebra into the ground, completing the defeat of Level 3's four Jail Beasts.
• Little Sadie attacked Luffy with her whip, but Nami struck her with a 200-million-volt lightning attack and left her incapacitated.
• Luffy's group headed through the iron gate to Level 4, while Zoro noted that Ronan and Magellan's battle was intensifying above.
• The group found Scorching Hell filled with boiling blood and magma, and Luffy asked whether Ace was below.
• Hannibal confronted the group at the narrow bridge, declaring that he would capture them for justice and to claim the Warden's position.

Luffy and his crew fought past Hannibal’s defense of Impel Down’s fourth level and entered the freezing fifth level, where they confronted CP0 agent Lion's Scorch. Lion's Scorch revealed that Ace had already been transferred toward the Execution Platform, then prepared to fight Luffy.

• Hannibal and the Flame Squad attacked Luffy’s group to stop them from passing through the Gate of Justice.
• Hannibal explained that he was protecting the weak and the victims of criminals, but Luffy said he had to save Ace and defeated him with a powerful Rocket Punch.
• Luffy’s group crossed into Impel Down’s freezing fifth level, where Zoro sensed a powerful enemy ahead.
• The crew encountered Lion's Scorch, who claimed to have held the title of CP0’s “Strongest Genius” before Rob Lucci.
• Lion's Scorch told Luffy that his subordinates had transferred Ace through the internal elevator, then challenged Luffy to survive long enough to see Ace again.

Lion's Scorch awakened his Zoan Devil Fruit and overwhelmed Zoro with a powerful strike, but Zoro recovered and held him off so Luffy could continue toward Ace. Lion's Scorch caught Luffy with a supersonic Finger Pistol, yet Luffy survived and sprang back to his feet.

• Lion's Scorch awakened his Cat-Cat Fruit: Lion Form, gaining a flowing dark Flame Cloud and immense power.
• Zoro attacked Lion's Scorch with Three Sword Style: Demon Slash, but Lion's Scorch struck him down with Rokushiki Ultimate: Finger Pistol Fist.
• Zoro recovered from the blow and urged Luffy to go save Ace while the others kept Lion's Scorch occupied.
• Luffy rushed toward the depths, but Lion's Scorch moved faster than sound and hit him with Lion Bite Finger Pistol.
• Luffy smashed through several glaciers but stood up again, his Indestructible Vajra Body having kept the attack from breaking his skin.

Lion's Scorch attacked the Straw Hat Pirates and threatened to kill Luffy's companions if he pursued Ace, forcing Luffy to choose between them. Luffy refused to abandon anyone, but before the fight began, a mysterious figure crashed through the ceiling and landed among them.

• Lion's Scorch used his speed to wound Usopp and Franky, and Usopp pretended to die until Nami punched him awake.
• Lion's Scorch explained that he had spared the crew and threatened to kill them if Luffy left to save Ace.
• Usopp and Franky urged Luffy to go after Ace, but Luffy declared that abandoning his companions was never an option.
• Zoro, Sanji, and the others prepared to fight beside Luffy.
• The ceiling exploded, and a slender figure landed in the center of the ruins amid falling rubble and blue lightning.

Ronan rejoined the Straw Hat Pirates after defeating Magellan, and they prepared to fight Lion’s Scorch, the awakened Zoan captain of CP0. Nami used the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to create a tenfold gravity field that slowed Lion’s Scorch as the group readied their attack to reach Ace.

• Ronan arrived in Extreme Cold Hell and confirmed that he had defeated Magellan, shocking Lion’s Scorch.
• Ronan explained that Lion’s Scorch had an awakened Zoan Devil Fruit and was a dangerous close-combat fighter.
• Luffy rallied the Straw Hat Pirates to attack Lion’s Scorch quickly because Ace was still waiting for them.
• Nami spread tiny golden particles across the battlefield and used electromagnetic force to create a tenfold gravity field.
• The gravity field slowed Lion’s Scorch and suppressed his Flame Cloud, while Ronan and Luffy praised Nami’s technique.

Luffy, Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji attacked Lion's Scorch under the crushing gravity, while Robin used her enhanced strength to restrain him for one second. The four launched their finishing attacks as Lion's Scorch braced himself with Armament Haki.

• Zoro and Sanji revealed that they could fight under tenfold gravity, and Ronan urged the group to finish quickly before Lion's Scorch adapted.
• Luffy, Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji charged Lion's Scorch from four directions.
• Robin used Eighty Wheels Bloom: Four Trees Embrace to lock Lion's Scorch's body and hold him in place despite his struggle.
• Luffy, Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji struck Lion's Scorch with their named attacks while Robin's restraint gave them an opening.
• Lion's Scorch summoned his Armament Haki and used Iron Body: Steel to brace for the incoming attacks.

The Straw Hat Pirates defeated Lion's Scorch with a coordinated attack, but CP0 had already taken Ace away. Ronan and Zoro split off to search Level 6 for CP0's escape route while Luffy and the others pursued upward.

• Lion's Scorch died in the crater after Luffy, Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji struck him with a combined assault enabled by Nami's field suppression and Robin's restraint.
• Ronan credited Nami and Robin's support for helping the crew defeat an opponent close to an admiral in strength.
• Nami warned that CP0 had taken Ace, and Luffy urged the crew to hurry after him.
• Ronan explained that Impel Down had an unrecorded Level 6 and proposed splitting up to find CP0's escape route.
• Luffy sent Ronan and Zoro downward while he, Sanji, Chopper, Franky, Usopp, Nami, and Robin headed back toward the upper levels.
• Ronan spread his Observation Haki underground but found that the prison's stone and architecture obstructed his senses.

Ronan and Zoro broke through the floor of Level 5 and entered Impel Down’s Level 6, where they found Jinbe and learned that CP0 had taken Ace toward a secret port beneath the prison. They were left facing the possibility that Ace was already being transported to Navy Headquarters as Level 6’s prisoners began stirring.

• Ronan and Zoro combined their attacks to smash a hole through Level 5 and descended into Level 6, Infinite Hell.
• Ronan used Observation Haki to locate Jinbe, and he and Zoro made their way to the Sea Knight’s Seastone cell.
• Ronan introduced himself and Zoro as members of the Straw Hat Pirates and asked Jinbe where Ace was.
• Jinbe told them that CP0 had taken Ace to a secret port beneath Impel Down, where he might already have boarded a Warship for Navy Headquarters.
• Level 6’s prisoners began stirring and calling out to Ronan and Zoro to release them.

Ronan freed Jinbe and confronted the dangerous prisoners in Impel Down’s Level 6, refusing Blackbeard’s offer to join forces. Blackbeard tried to tempt him with the power to plunder Devil Fruits, pointing to Douglas Bullet, who challenged him from a nearby cell.

• Zoro cut through Jinbe’s Seastone Chains, and Jinbe offered to help Ronan rescue Ace at Navy Headquarters.
• Ronan worried that the Level 6 prisoners would escape and bring disaster to the Great Sea, while Zoro suggested killing them all.
• Shiryu offered to help Ronan clear the floor in exchange for his freedom, but Ronan dismissed him and advanced toward Blackbeard’s cell.
• Ronan smashed through Blackbeard’s cell wall and held his Eighteen-Foot Spear to Blackbeard’s throat, rejecting his proposal to work together.
• Blackbeard offered to use his Dark-Dark Fruit to plunder Devil Fruit abilities and pointed to Douglas Bullet as an example.
• Douglas Bullet challenged Blackbeard from the darkness.

Ronan killed Douglas Bullet and Blackbeard in Impel Down’s Level 6, rejecting Blackbeard’s offer of powerful Devil Fruits. He then decided to break the prison’s outer wall and let the deep sea drown the remaining chained prisoners.

• Ronan used his spear to pierce Bullet’s chest and kill him despite the Seastone chains suppressing Bullet.
• Blackbeard celebrated Bullet’s death and urged Ronan to take the Combine Fruit, but Ronan said he had killed Bullet because he was dangerous.
• Blackbeard offered the More-More Fruit belonging to Byrnndi World, but Ronan ignored him and stabbed Blackbeard to death.
• Zoro asked whether they should kill the other prisoners, but Ronan said the deep-sea pressure and their Seastone chains would keep them from causing trouble.
• Ronan told Jinbe and Zoro to punch through the outer wall and drown Infinite Hell.

Ronan broke open Impel Down's Level 6 wall and led Jinbe through the flooding prison, while Luffy and the others waited at the sea entrance and learned that Ace had already been taken away. A CP0 agent intercepted them as a Marine fleet closed in, and he launched an attack on the injured Franky.

• Ronan used Tiger Push Mountain to shatter the outer wall, flooding Level 6 and sweeping away its prisoners, then charged toward the passage Jinbe had indicated.
• At Impel Down's sea entrance, Luffy and the others found no sign of Ace, and Nami concluded that the departing ship had already passed through the Gate of Justice.
• A masked CP0 agent appeared from a watchtower and stopped Luffy's Rocket Punch with a single finger.
• The CP0 agent revealed that a Marine fleet was approaching and transformed using Life Return to hold off the pursuers.
• CP0 rushed past Luffy and Sanji and targeted the injured Franky.

CP0 fatally wounded Franky before Luffy, Nami, and Robin defeated him. As Franky appeared to die with his heart destroyed, he asked Sanji to retrieve his miniature reactor, and the crew tried to use it as a replacement heart.

• CP0 attacked Usopp, but Nami, Robin, and Luffy worked together to immobilize and kill him.
• Chopper said Franky's heart had been shattered and that he could not save him.
• Franky told Sanji to retrieve the miniature reactor and said he wanted to use it as his heart.
• Luffy forced the reactor into Franky's chest, but it did not activate and Franky's pulse disappeared.
• Brook recalled that Nami had activated the Sunny Merry's reactor with electricity, so Usopp urged Nami to charge Franky.

Nami revived Franky by sending lightning into his reactor, and the Straw Hats prepared to face Akainu's fleet outside Impel Down. Akainu unleashed Meteor Volcano, turning the prison into a sea of lava and forcing the crew to board the Sunny Merry as his ships moved to surround them.

• Nami jolted Franky's reactor with Thunder Million Volts, bringing him back to life and restoring his strength.
• Akainu confirmed the Straw Hats had taken over Impel Down and declared that his fleet would make the sea their grave.
• Akainu launched Meteor Volcano, raining magma onto Impel Down and destroying its stone entrance despite the guards and prisoners inside.
• Nami, Sanji, and Usopp warned that the land was unsafe, so Luffy ordered the crew to board the Sunny Merry.
• Akainu ordered his flagships to spread out and surround the Straw Hats as magma engulfed Impel Down.

The Straw Hat Pirates fought Akainu’s fleet, with Franky destroying several warships and Nami striking the Navy with a storm of lightning. Akainu reached the Sunny Merry and clashed head-on with Luffy, leaving their battle unresolved.

• The Navy spread its ships into a radial formation and bombarded the Sunny Merry, while the Straw Hat Pirates evaded and deflected the attacks.
• Sanji urged Luffy to break through the Navy’s encirclement, and Luffy ordered the crew to destroy the warships.
• Franky fired the Sunny Merry’s Lion’s Roar Laser Cannon and All-Range Laser Strike, sinking four Navy flagships.
• Nami summoned a vast thunderstorm that struck the Navy fleet and threw its formation into chaos.
• Akainu used Geppo to reach the Sunny Merry and attacked Luffy with Great Eruption.
• Luffy met Akainu’s punch with Gomu Gomu no Thunder Ape King Cannon, and the two attacks collided in midair.

Akainu attacked the Sunny Merry, but Nami and Sanji destroyed his magma hounds before Franky launched the ship out of reach. Sanji planned to kite Akainu while the crew recovered Luffy and Usopp.

• Akainu knocked Luffy into the sea with a volcanic punch and sent two magma hounds toward the Sunny Merry.
• Usopp dove into the sea to retrieve Luffy while Nami and Sanji confronted Akainu’s hounds.
• Nami vaporized one hound with her Super Electromagnetic Cannon, and Sanji shattered the other with a Thunder Fire kick.
• Akainu regenerated his arm and charged at the Sunny Merry, but Franky fired its Wind Dial and launched the ship away.
• Sanji told the crew to keep Akainu chasing them until his Geppo exhausted him.

The Straw Hat Pirates repeatedly escaped Akainu’s attacks while fending off Navy officers aboard the Sunny Merry. After Luffy and Usopp were rescued from the sea, the crew planned to keep Akainu chasing them, but Franky revealed that the ship’s reactor was running low on energy.

• Sanji fought Vice Admiral Doberman and countered five Rear Admirals’ attack as Chopper, Robin, and Nami took the other officers down.
• Franky used the Sunny Merry’s Wind Dial to propel the ship beyond Akainu’s magma attack, leaving Akainu furious.
• Sanji defeated Doberman and sent him tumbling into the sea.
• Usopp rescued the unconscious Luffy from the water, and Robin’s arms pulled them both onto the deck.
• The crew decided to keep evading Akainu to protect the Merry, but Franky said its reactor was low on energy and asked Nami to charge it.

Ronan, Zoro, and Jinbe helped the Merry escape Akainu’s attack and the Navy blockade. With Ace already at Marineford, Ronan’s crew decided to join Whitebeard’s coming battle and rescue him when the war began.

• Ronan emerged from the sea and shattered Akainu’s Hell Hound attack, while Zoro and Jinbe struck Akainu back.
• Frankie charged the Merry’s Super Wind Dial, and the ship flew past Impel Down and escaped the Navy blockade.
• Nami, Robin, and Ronan discussed the danger Kizaru would have posed and why the Navy had sent only Akainu after them.
• Ronan explained that Ace had been taken to Marineford, where the Navy had assembled its forces to face Whitebeard.
• Luffy vowed to save Ace, and Ronan said they would join Whitebeard’s battle and break into the battlefield when the war began.

Ronan and Luffy prepared to sail to Marineford with Jinbe to rescue Ace, while news of the Straw Hat Pirates’ escape from Impel Down sent shockwaves across the world. Luffy received a bounty of fifteen billion Belly, and Nami revealed that Ronan’s bounty had doubled.

• Ronan asked Chopper how many Qi Replenishing Pills the remaining herbs could make, and Chopper said they could make nine more.
• Luffy finally noticed Jinbe, who asked to join the crew on its journey to Marineford and clasped hands with Luffy after Luffy welcomed him as a friend.
• News Birds spread reports of Luffy punching Saint Rosward and the Straw Hat Pirates escaping the ruined Impel Down after defeating Magellan and evading Akainu.
• Nami showed the crew their new bounty posters, and Luffy’s bounty was revealed to be fifteen billion Belly.
• Ronan warned Luffy that the Navy would target him at Marineford, and Nami announced that Ronan’s bounty had doubled.

The Straw Hats examined their new bounty posters and compared the Navy’s assessments of their strength and potential. The chapter left them reacting to their rewards, with Usopp disappointed that his bounty had risen by only twenty million.

• Nami showed Ronan's poster, which gave him a twelve-billion-belly bounty, and Robin explained that the Navy judged his combat strength while using Luffy to conceal the crew’s threat.
• Ronan accepted his bounty as a declaration of war, and Jinbe praised his strength.
• Nami revealed Zoro's 1.05-billion-belly bounty and Sanji's 920-million-belly bounty, prompting the two to argue until Nami struck them with her staff.
• Ronan reassured Sanji that his more-than-triple increase reflected his high growth potential, and Sanji used the praise to boast at Zoro.
• Nami displayed her 850-million-belly bounty under the title “Thunder Goddess.”
• Usopp received a 120-million-belly bounty and complained that it had increased by only twenty million.