Chapter Summaries

Whitebeard rejected Jinbe’s plea to retreat after Ace escaped and declared that he would counterattack the Navy’s top fighters to break the World Government’s military power. Jinbe warned that destroying the Navy would plunge the world into chaos.

• Garp and Sengoku arrived and confronted Whitebeard over his slaughter of Navy soldiers.
• Whitebeard accused the Navy of starting the war and vowed to kill its highest combatants.
• Jinbe arrived with Akainu pursuing him and begged Whitebeard to retreat because Ace had escaped.
• Whitebeard refused to leave, claiming the weakened Garp and Sengoku could not stop him and that victory would break the Navy’s spine.
• Jinbe warned that eliminating the Navy’s strongest forces would leave civilians vulnerable to rampant pirates.

Whitebeard rejected Jinbe’s plea and declared that he would destroy the corrupt world before starting over. Garp and Sengoku joined forces against him, and the chapter ended as their attacks collided in midair above the Island of Justice.

• Whitebeard told Jinbe that the world was terminally ill and ordered him to stand down.
• Akainu confronted Whitebeard, but Whitebeard ignored him and focused on Garp and Sengoku.
• Garp asked Sengoku to fight alongside him, and Sengoku transformed into the Great Buddha and agreed.
• Whitebeard leaped into the air and struck down with Murakumogiri, infused with Conqueror’s Haki and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit’s power.
• Garp launched Galaxy Impact while Sengoku attacked with the Great Buddha: World-Ending Buddha Palm, and all three attacks collided.

Whitebeard, Garp, and Sengoku’s clash destroyed Marineford, splitting the island apart and sinking it beneath the sea. As a vast vortex swallowed the survivors, Aokiji tried to save them by freezing the raging ocean.

• Whitebeard, Garp, and Sengoku’s collision unleashed a shockwave that vaporized Marineford’s defenses and hurled Marines and pirates into the air.
• The clash split Marineford down the middle, and half the island collapsed into a deep rift and sank beneath the sea.
• Seawater rushed into the abyss, triggering a steam explosion and a massive vortex that swallowed wreckage, Marines, and pirates.
• Aokiji leaped over the vortex and used Ice Age to freeze the surrounding waves and the spinning sea into a glacier.

Aokiji froze the sea and rescued drowning marines before Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates arrived to stop the battle. Shanks urged Whitebeard to end the war and protect his surviving sons, but Whitebeard demanded that Shanks prove his strength.

• Aokiji froze the sea into a vast ice field, saving marines from drowning as Whitebeard, Garp, and Sengoku recovered from their battle.
• Shanks arrived at Marineford aboard the Red Force with Ben Beckman, Lucky Roux, Yasopp, and the other Red-Haired Pirates.
• Shanks declared that he had come to end the war and challenged anyone who opposed him, prompting Akainu to abandon his attack under Ben Beckman's aim.
• Whitebeard confronted Shanks and insisted that he still sought justice for his sons and intended to destroy the Navy.
• Shanks told Whitebeard that the war had gone far enough and urged him to preserve the Whitebeard Pirates, but Whitebeard demanded proof of Shanks's strength.

Whitebeard and Shanks clashed above Marineford, splitting the sky before Whitebeard declared victory and ordered his surviving pirates to retreat. Some time later, the battered Straw Hat Pirates recovered on an unnamed island and reflected on how much stronger they needed to become, as a News Bird arrived at their camp.

• Whitebeard and Shanks crossed Murakumogiri and Griffin, tearing a vast rift through the clouds above Marineford.
• Whitebeard admitted his age, declared that the Whitebeard Pirates had won, and ordered his forces to retreat with their fallen comrades.
• Luffy, Ronan, Zoro, and the others watched as the Whitebeard Pirates withdrew across the ice field.
• On an unnamed island, Zoro, Sanji, Luffy, and Ronan recovered from their wounds and considered their shortcomings after the war.
• A News Bird flew into the Straw Hat Pirates’ camp and landed on a wooden crate.

The Straw Hats learned that the Whitebeard Pirates had won the war and Marineford had sunk, then saw the enormous new bounties the Navy had issued for them. The chapter ended with the crew reacting to their posters and their newly elevated status as major threats.

• Nami read that the Whitebeard Pirates had won the war, the Navy had suffered heavy casualties, and Marineford had sunk beneath the sea.
• The crew found new Navy bounty posters, and Luffy silently took in his thirty-five-billion-Belly bounty.
• Ronan saw his thirty-two-billion-Belly bounty and remarked that his photograph was clear.
• Nami was shocked by her twenty-five-billion-Belly bounty, while Zoro and Sanji argued over their respective bounties of twenty billion and fifteen billion Belly.
• Chopper panicked over his twelve-billion-Belly bounty, Franky celebrated his eight-hundred-million-Belly poster, and Robin calmly viewed her six-hundred-million-Belly bounty.

With the Navy weakened, pirates spread chaos across the Great Sea while the Straw Hat Pirates learned how enormous their bounties had become. On the island, a mysterious visitor arrived, and Ronan recognized him as Monkey D. Dragon, Luffy’s father.

• Nami read the Straw Hat Pirates’ new bounties and learned the World Government considered them a force capable of overturning the world order.
• Nami read reports of attacks and unrest across the seas as the depleted Navy struggled to protect its remaining routes and bases.
• The chapter described Whitebeard securing his territory while Kaido, Charlotte Linlin, and other major powers prepared to exploit the turmoil.
• At night, the island’s jungle fell silent as a powerful stranger approached the camp.
• Zoro confronted the cloaked stranger, while Ronan recognized him as Revolutionary Army leader Monkey D. Dragon.

Ronan realized the upheaval caused by his actions had brought Monkey D. Dragon out of the shadows early, and Dragon revealed himself to the Straw Hat Pirates as Luffy’s father. Luffy struggled to recognize him, while the crew reacted with shock and jokes.

• Ronan suspected the altered course of history had prompted Dragon to approach Luffy ahead of schedule.
• Dragon lowered his hood, identified himself as Monkey D. Dragon, and said he was Luffy’s father.
• Usopp sprang up in shock, dislocated his ribs, and collapsed, while Sanji joked about the strange family reunion and Nami struck him.
• Luffy asked Dragon if he was really his father and admitted he had no memory of him.
• Zoro told Luffy that he and Dragon clearly looked and acted alike.

Dragon told Luffy that the Navy's defeat at Marineford had shattered the World Government's image of absolute rule and created an unprecedented power vacuum, then invited the Straw Hat Pirates to help the Revolutionary Army change the balance of power. Luffy rejected the invitation, and Dragon remained prepared to steer the upheaval toward his own aims.

• Luffy questioned why Dragon had come to the deserted island, while Nami scolded him for disrespecting his father and a potential sponsor.
• Dragon praised Luffy's companions and explained that the events at Marineford had forced him to meet Luffy earlier than planned.
• Dragon told Nami that the Navy's defeat had weakened the World Government's hold, inspiring member states, commoners, and rebels to challenge the old order.
• Dragon invited the Straw Hat Pirates to join the Revolutionary Army in changing the world's balance of power.
• Luffy refused to abandon his adventure for Dragon's war and declared that he would become the Pirate King.
• Dragon showed no surprise at Luffy's refusal and resolved to guide the upheaval toward the course he wanted.

Dragon confronted Luffy about the devastation that followed the Marineford war, telling him that his pursuit of freedom had helped unleash widespread violence and suffering. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates were overcome with guilt, until Ronan struck his spear into the rock and interrupted the confrontation.

• Dragon asked Luffy why he had set sail, and Luffy said he wanted to become Pirate King and the freest man on the Great Sea.
• Dragon blamed Luffy's war at Marineford for weakening the Navy and worsening the world's collapse into violence, plunder, and disorder.
• Dragon described the suffering of ordinary people and told Luffy that the war he started had helped cause it.
• Luffy was stunned by Dragon's accusations, while Usopp, Sanji, and Zoro each reacted with grief and guilt.
• Ronan drove the Eighteen-Foot Spear into the rock at the edge of the camp, interrupting the moment of despair.

Ronan challenged Dragon’s blame for the Marineford disaster, arguing that destroying the corrupt World Government was necessary, while Nami and Luffy demanded a way to help those suffering in the upheaval. Dragon approved of their resolve and recognized the Straw Hat Pirates as the powerful, principled allies the Revolutionary Army needed.

• Ronan told Luffy and the others that Marineford’s destruction had shattered the old system and that rebuilding required tearing it down.
• Nami confronted Dragon and asked how the Straw Hat Pirates could use their strength to save suffering civilians.
• Luffy regained his resolve and demanded to know what he could do to save the people hurt because of them.
• Dragon laughed, ended his oppressive aura, and saw the Straw Hat Pirates as a powerful force that could help the Revolutionary Army’s campaign.

Dragon described a nation in West Blue suffering invasion, exploitation, and pirate raids, then offered Luffy the choice to help it before continuing toward the New World. Luffy chose to aid the country first, and his crew prepared to follow him.

• Dragon revealed that a non-member nation in West Blue was being invaded by a neighboring World Government Member State, exploited by its nobles, and plundered by pirates.
• Ronan accused Dragon of trying to recruit the crew as unpaid fighters for the Revolutionary Army, but Dragon said they could resume their journey after helping the country.
• Ronan asked Luffy, as captain, to decide whether the crew would divert from its planned route.
• Luffy told his companions that he had chosen to help the people in West Blue before continuing their adventure.

The Straw Hat Pirates agreed to sail to the West Blue and liberate the Grant Kingdom, then arrived at a poisoned frontier town and discovered masked soldiers herding civilians into a depression. Robin overheard a soldier’s radio, while Ronan recognized that the operation was a silencing rather than an invasion.

• Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates agreed to help save a nation in the West Blue, and Dragon supported their decision.
• Luffy ordered the crew to prepare to sail, and Dragon watched them depart with pride.
• The General Merry landed near a ruined town in the Grant Kingdom, where Ronan and Zoro found corpses showing signs of poisoning.
• Chopper tested the residue and identified a potent mixed poison gas that caused paralysis and suffocation.
• Luffy led the group to a depression where masked soldiers used sprayers to herd thousands of civilians.
• Ronan noticed the soldiers’ cylinders bore the marking “WG-73,” and Robin used her Devil Fruit to listen to an officer’s radio.

Robin revealed that the World Government had turned the isolated country into a testing ground, with its king and nobles sacrificing millions of citizens for shelter in Mary Geoise. Enraged, Luffy and the crew attacked the chemical defense forces and headed for King's City, where a CP0 officer ordered an even deadlier extermination.

• Robin explained that CP0 was testing neurotoxins and biological weapons on citizens whose lives had been erased from official records.
• Luffy leaped into the depression and knocked out an officer, while Zoro disabled poison equipment and Ronan incapacitated soldiers operating heavy weapons.
• Three armored biochemical prototypes attacked, and Franky drew their fire and struck one with tracking missiles while Chopper began analyzing the toxins.
• Luffy ordered Chopper to help the commoners, then rushed toward King's City with Ronan, while Zoro and Sanji joined the cleanup.
• At King's City, a CP0 officer dismissed reports of the intruders and ordered the release of Death Spores to leave no survivors.

Luffy and Ronan broke into the CP0 command center, defeated its officer, and broadcast the World Government’s secret experiments and purge plans to the world. Luffy declared that Grant Kingdom was under his control, while Ronan realized Dragon had concealed the true situation from them.

• Luffy smashed into the command center and confronted the CP0 Officer overseeing the experiment.
• The CP0 Officer transformed into a Mythical Zoan Gargoyle, but Ronan intercepted his attack and wounded him with Xing Yi Thirteen Spears: Collapse.
• Ronan opened the command console, allowing Luffy to broadcast secret recordings and live footage across the seas.
• Luffy exposed the World Government’s crimes and declared Grant Kingdom under his control.
• Ronan connected the false intelligence Dragon had given them with the truth that CP0 had already seized Grant Kingdom and was using its people as test subjects.

Luffy publicly claimed the Grant Kingdom after exposing the World Government’s human experiments, igniting worldwide outrage and fulfilling Dragon’s plan. As the CP0 Officer activated a poison-gas purge, Ronan and Luffy fought to stop him.

• Ronan realized Dragon had lured Luffy to the Grant Kingdom so Luffy would witness the World Government’s atrocities and oppose it.
• Luffy’s declaration that the Grant Kingdom was under his control spread worldwide, prompting Morgans to prepare an extra edition and Saint Saturn to order the island erased.
• Dragon heard Luffy’s declaration at Baltigo and welcomed the beginning of the New Era’s storm.
• The CP0 Officer activated the Ultimate Purification Protocol, warning that Death Spores would cover the island in thirty seconds.
• Luffy attacked the gargoyle-form CP0 Officer, who blocked his strike and launched bone spikes at him.
• Ronan leaped above the CP0 Officer and hurled his spear downward, concentrating his power, thunder, and Conqueror’s Haki into its tip.

Luffy and the Straw Hat crew stopped the World Government’s poison gas plan, defeated its forces, and saved the people of the Grant Kingdom. As the survivors cheered Luffy and he vowed to defend them, rebuilding began, but the kingdom still needed a new order.

• Ronan killed the Gargoyle Officer while Luffy destroyed the underground poison gas control hub with a powerful punch.
• Sanji, Zoro, and Franky defeated the remaining enemies as Chopper prepared an antidote and Nami spread it across the kingdom with rain.
• The surviving commoners knelt and cheered for Luffy after the poison gas cleared and they saw their oppressors defeated.
• Ronan warned Luffy that the World Government would retaliate, and Luffy vowed to send away anyone who threatened the people’s smiles.
• The Grant Kingdom began rebuilding, though establishing a new order remained a challenge.

After Luffy claimed the ruined country, Nami confronted him with the immense work of governing and feeding its three million people. Sanji warned that abandoning them would leave them vulnerable, and Ronan began to explain why the Straw Hats’ flag alone would not deter powerful threats.

• Luffy complained that ruling meant handling paperwork, assigning homes, and finding food for the people.
• Nami scolded Luffy for declaring the country under his control and described its destruction, missing supplies, and lack of defenses.
• Luffy suggested leaving the people their meat and escaping after dark.
• Sanji argued that leaving would expose the three million commoners to secret World Government forces and predatory pirate crews.
• Ronan agreed with Nami and Sanji, warning that the Straw Hat flag would not frighten the most dangerous attackers.

Ronan established the Grant Warrior Guild to give ordinary citizens the strength to protect themselves rather than rule them. As recruitment began, he addressed tens of thousands of survivors and declared the world unequal and ruled by the strong.

• Ronan told Luffy that the people of Grant needed to be armed with strength, and proposed founding a Warrior Guild in the ruins of the royal capital.
• Franky built the guild’s steel fortress, and Zoro carved its charter abolishing noble privilege and slavery and opening membership to all citizens of Grant.
• Ronan adapted his Thirteen Protectors’ Horizontal Training into a ten-layer progression system that ordinary people could learn gradually.
• Tens of thousands of survivors of the World Government’s Poison Gas Experiment gathered outside the guild, hoping to gain strength to protect their families.
• Ronan appeared on the fortress terrace and began telling the crowd that the world was unequal and rotten to its roots.

Ronan rallied the Grant Kingdom’s commoners to join the Warrior Guild and trained them in the first tiers of Horizontal Training. Three months later, five hundred Martial Disciples stood against the Blood Shark Pirate Crew’s invasion and proved their bodies could repel bullets.

• Ronan promised free instruction in the first three tiers of Horizontal Training and described how higher techniques would be earned through guild missions and trials.
• Over three months, the capital became a training ground where commoners hardened their bodies with brutal practice and Sea Kings meat.
• The Blood Shark Pirate Crew attacked Oak Haven Harbor, expecting to plunder a kingdom without an army.
• Five hundred Warrior Guild members formed a line on the beach and faced the pirates’ advance under a one-eyed Blacksmith’s command.
• The Martial Disciples’ synchronized Horse Stances and hardened bodies flattened the pirates’ bullets, leaving only faint red marks on their skin.