Chapter Summaries

The Warrior Guild's five hundred Martial Disciples overwhelmed the pirates, and Ronan killed Captain Blood Shark just as he threatened the Blacksmith. Ronan recognized the recruits as true Warriors, marking the birth of a formidable legion in the Grant Kingdom.

• The Blacksmith blocked a pirate leader's cleaver with his forearm and killed him with a punch, as the Warrior Guild's Martial Disciples launched a close-combat assault.
• The Martial Disciples slaughtered or routed most of the pirates within minutes.
• Captain Blood Shark charged into the battle and wounded two Martial Disciples before attacking the Blacksmith.
• Ronan hurled an Eighteen-Foot Spear through Blood Shark's chest, pinning him to his ship's mast and killing him with Thunder True Qi.
• Ronan praised the Martial Disciples and declared them true Warriors, prompting the five hundred recruits to roar in celebration.

Luffy struggled with the paperwork involved in governing the Grant Kingdom until Sabo, his long-lost sworn brother and the Revolutionary Army’s Chief of Staff, appeared. Sabo and Luffy reunited tearfully, and Luffy demanded to know why Sabo had never come to find him and Ace.

• Luffy complained about the kingdom’s paperwork while Nami insisted he take responsibility for governing it.
• Sanji, Ronan, Zoro, and the others sensed a concealed presence approaching the Leader’s Office.
• Sabo entered the office and greeted Luffy, who recognized him and rushed to embrace him.
• Sabo apologized for failing to help Luffy save Ace at Marineford, and they comforted each other.
• Luffy asked Sabo why he had not come to find him and Ace after surviving.

Sabo joined the Straw Hat Pirates in the Grant Kingdom, where the Revolutionary Army took over rebuilding and governing the country. He proposed an alliance to liberate the West Blue’s oppressed stateless nations, and Luffy launched the campaign; the chapter then introduced the drought-stricken Valencia Duchy as its first target.

• Sabo explained that his memories had returned after he saw news of Ace and thanked the Straw Hat Pirates for their actions at Marineford and in the Grant Kingdom.
• Sabo brought Revolutionary Army experts to take charge of the Grant Kingdom’s governance, economic recovery, reconstruction, and refugee relief while the Warrior Guild handled defense.
• Sabo showed the group a chart of oppressed stateless nations in the West Blue and asked the Straw Hat Pirates to help overthrow their rulers while the Revolutionary Army restored basic services.
• Luffy agreed to the plan and declared that ten people would each take charge of liberating one nation, forging an alliance between the Straw Hat Grand Fleet and the Revolutionary Army.
• The story turned to Valencia Duchy, where a king’s Climate Extraction Array had diverted the country’s water and clouds to the royal capital, leaving the land without rain for three years.

Nami confronted the drought kingdom’s greedy King and destroyed his palace and the Weather Machine that had drained the nation’s water. The King and his guards were erased, while the surrounding residential districts were spared.

• The King watched starving commoners fight over muddy water while he lounged among ice and wine on his balcony.
• A vast black thundercloud gathered over the palace, and Nami appeared in the sky with her Golden Staff.
• The King ordered his soldiers to shoot Nami, but her electrostatic field deflected their bullets.
• Nami unleashed thousands of Thunderbolts at the palace, melting the Weather Machine and vaporizing the royal complex.
• The King and his guards were destroyed, leaving a crater where the palace had stood.

Nami brought rain to the drought-stricken Valencia Duchy and left its people and recovery to the Revolutionary Army and Warrior Guild. The story then shifted to the frozen nation of Krag, where a three-sworded swordsman approached the Black Iron Royal City.

• Nami’s storm ended Valencia’s three-year drought, and the commoners celebrated the rain and worshipped her.
• Nami told Sabo’s subordinates and the Warrior Guild officials to rebuild the country after she had broken its shackles.
• A Warrior Guild flag was raised in the royal capital’s square as Valencia began its recovery.
• In Krag, enslaved commoners mined Aurora Ore under brutal conditions while the guards enforced the Krag King’s rule.
• A tall swordsman with three katanas walked through the blizzard toward the Black Iron Royal City, untouched by the snow.
• The Royal City Guards confronted the swordsman, and their captain drew his blade.

Zoro used One Sword Style: Iaido to cut down more than a hundred royal guards outside the Black Iron Royal City. As the guards fell, Barat, the Krag Kingdom’s brutal ruler, emerged from the shattered city gate.

• The royal guard captain led more than a hundred armored guards in surrounding Zoro outside the Black Iron Royal City.
• Zoro drew Wado Ichimonji slightly and unleashed his ghostly killing intent, paralyzing the captain and his men with fear.
• Zoro performed One Sword Style: Iaido, appearing behind the formation after cutting through all the guards.
• The guards and their armor split at the waist, and their blood froze as it fell onto the ice.
• Barat kicked apart the city gate and emerged from the Black Iron Royal City.

Zoro confronted Barat outside the Black Iron Royal City and revealed the overwhelming power of his Asura sword style. He unleashed a colossal slash at Barat and the city, leaving the outcome unstated.

• Barat charged Zoro and brought his massive Zhanmadao down in a devastating attack.
• Zoro blocked Barat’s several-ton strike with Shusui and condemned Barat’s oppression of the weak.
• Zoro released a terrifying sea of dark red Ghost Qi that stopped the blizzard and drew the attention of the miners below.
• Zoro formed a three-headed, six-armed Shura Dharma Form and declared his Nine Sword Style Asura: Draw.
• Barat launched a desperate horizontal slash, and Zoro charged into it with nine swords to unleash a gigantic dark-red sword light carrying the power of spatial severance.

Zoro defeated Barat with a single slash, splitting the King's City and freeing its slave miners. In Rosali, Sanji encountered starving residents and followed a little girl home, where the sight inside her shack plunged him into horror.

• Zoro cut Barat and the black iron King's City in two with one slash.
• The slave miners wept as Zoro planted a Warrior Guild flag and asked where he could buy booze.
• Sanji entered Rosali's sunless slum, where starving commoners lay among the dead.
• A little girl begged Sanji for food, and he gave her a nutrient-rich rice ball.
• Sanji followed the girl to her shack and saw a hellish tragedy behind its ragged curtain.

Sanji witnessed the starvation and desperation in Rosali’s slums, then vowed to end the hunger after burying a little girl’s family. He stormed the Gourmet Palace, defeated its royal guards, and left the terrified King and Nobles pleading for their lives.

• Sanji found a little girl whose mother and infant brother had died, then killed the adults next door who had been trading children for food.
• Sanji buried the girl’s mother and brother and promised the girl that no one in the country would go hungry again.
• Sanji flew to the Gourmet Palace, where he saw the King and Nobles feasting and wasting food while the commoners starved.
• Sanji insulted the Nobles and defeated more than a hundred royal guards with a barrage of precise kicks.
• The frightened King begged Sanji for mercy and offered him gold.

Sanji destroyed the palace’s load-bearing mountain, bringing the royal palace down on the King and nobles. He then turned the royal ingredient storehouse into a giant kitchen and prepared Special Grade Seafood Fried Rice for the starving commoners, who gathered at the ruins drawn by its aroma.

• Sanji rejected the nobles’ money and unleashed ghostly blue flames as his anger over the starving commoners peaked.
• Sanji used his Diable Jambe kick to shatter the mountain supporting Gourmet City’s palace.
• The palace collapsed into the slums’ outskirts, burying the King and nobles and leaving surviving commoners injured in the ruins.
• Sanji found the royal supplies, made a giant wok from a piece of the palace, and began cooking with premium rice, Sea Kings meat, and spices.
• The starving commoners rushed toward the ruins after smelling Sanji’s Special Grade Seafood Fried Rice.

Sanji fed Rosali’s starving commoners and planted the Warrior Guild’s flag atop the palace ruins. At Kalva Grand Canyon, Usopp prepared to hunt the musketeers who tormented chained workers, ending with his Observation Haki mapping the distant targets.

• Sanji distributed fried rice to Rosali’s starving commoners until they were fed and asleep.
• Sanji planted the Warrior Guild flag atop the palace ruins.
• Kalva’s musketeers shot an exhausted old man and mocked the chained workers as they gambled on their kills.
• Usopp concealed himself on a peak three kilometers from the canyon and calculated the wind, distance, and trajectory for his shot.
• Usopp extended his Observation Haki to map the canyon, the workers, and the musketeers inside their watchtower.

Usopp used his giant slingshot and Haki to kill the guards holding tens of thousands of slaves captive and free them. Hailed as the God of Snipers, he led the freed commoners toward the Kalva Kingdom’s royal palace.

• Usopp fired Haki-coated rounds from three kilometers away, killing the sharpshooters in the watchtowers.
• When guards took cover behind granite walls, Usopp used acid bullets to melt through the defenses and kill them.
• Usopp shot the locks off the slaves’ chains, freeing the captives and earning their cries of “God of Snipers.”
• Two hours later, Usopp led the tens of thousands of freed commoners as they toppled the royal palace gates.

Usopp faced the Royal Guards and the guard captain in Kalva’s palace square, revealing that he had mastered a body-hardening martial art as well as sniping. After Usopp killed the guard captain with one slap, the King and Imperial Guards surrendered.

• King of Kalva ordered the Royal Guards to shoot Usopp and the rioting commoners, but the guards hesitated in fear.
• The guard captain charged Usopp with Soru and attacked his neck with two kukri knives.
• Usopp hardened his neck with Thirteen Protectors' Horizontal Training, stopping the captain’s blades without injury.
• Usopp struck the guard captain with a palm, shattering his skull and sending his body crashing through three marble pillars.
• King of Kalva collapsed in fear, and the Imperial Guards dropped their weapons and surrendered.

Usopp ended the Kalva Kingdom’s monarchy and slavery by raising the Warrior Guild’s flag, while Chopper arrived in Cholera and created an antidote that cleared the city’s toxic haze. The commoners breathed clean air again, and the furious Earl ordered his men to kill Chopper.

• Usopp raised the Warrior Guild’s flag over the palace and declared that the Kalva Kingdom would have no king or slaves.
• Chopper entered Cholera and found the commoners suffering from the Earl’s poisonous gas and extortionate antidote prices.
• Chopper developed an antidote in half a day and had the Warrior Guild’s Martial Disciples spray it into the toxic haze.
• The antidote neutralized the poison and restored clean air to Cholera’s streets.
• The Earl recognized Chopper as the one who had ruined his business and ordered his men to kill him.

After confirming the commoners were safe, Chopper transformed into a fifteen-meter Demon God and attacked the forces and poison factory responsible for Cholera City's suffering. He endured the city’s cannon barrage and flattened the factory with a single blow.

• Chopper ate an improved Rumble Ball and transformed into a fifteen-meter Demon God while retaining control of his reason.
• The Earl ordered the private soldiers to fire their cannons and flintlocks at Chopper, but the weapons could not harm him.
• Chopper stepped through and destroyed the twenty-meter city wall as he advanced on the biochemical factory.
• Chopper struck the factory with an Armament Haki-coated palm, crushing its pipes, reactors, and buildings into wreckage.

Chopper destroyed Cholera City's plague factory, killed the Earl, and cleared the poison from the city, allowing its people to see sunlight and breathe freely. The story then shifted to Styx, where Malado ordered masked executioners to kill six commoners as a warning to the population.

• Chopper lifted the Earl from the ruins and dropped him to his death.
• Chopper returned to his reindeer form as Cholera City's poison gas cleared and sunlight reached the survivors.
• Malado ruled Styx through a hallucinogenic poison and fear of the Underworld.
• Malado ordered his disguised executioners to kill six bound commoners in Death Announcement Square.

Brook appeared in Death Announcement Square and stopped the executioners from carrying out their staged executions. When Wizard Malado attacked him with poisonous mist and hallucinations, Brook revealed that the gas could not harm him because he had no brain or lungs.

• As the executioners prepared to kill the captives, Brook's violin music and eerie laughter emerged from the mist.
• Brook stepped into the square, revealed his skeleton face, and condemned the executioners for faking deaths to terrorize and exploit people.
• The executioners dropped their scythes and fled in terror at the sight of Brook.
• Wizard Malado unleashed his poisonous mist and hallucinations, summoning illusory hellhounds across the square.
• Brook joked that the poison could not affect him because he had no brain or lungs, leaving Malado stunned.

Brook used the Soul Reaper Sword to freeze Malado and the executioners, ending their rule over Styx Island. The Revolutionary Army arrived to help the islanders rebuild, while Brook sailed away toward the agreed gathering point.

• Brook summoned frost from the Underworld and froze the poison mist across Styx Island.
• Brook raced through the square and froze Malado and the executioners into ice sculptures.
• The freed commoners saw the moonlight break through the island's fog as Brook saluted them from the church tower.
• The Revolutionary Army arrived, took control of the city's defenses, and helped the commoners establish a new government.
• The Revolutionary Army found Brook's farewell message on the tower after he had vanished.
• Brook sailed toward the agreed gathering point as the fog over Styx Island disappeared.

Nico Robin infiltrated the City of Oblivion’s palace, killed four Shadow Guards, and recovered the Book of Sins containing the truth about the King’s bloody rise to power. She headed toward the King’s bedchamber to end his rule, while the King discovered that his guards were no longer answering him.

• Nico Robin used her powers to snap the necks of four Shadow Guards in the Royal Secret Archives.
• Robin recovered the Book of Sins, which recorded how the King slaughtered the royal bloodline and seized the throne.
• Remembering Ohara’s destruction, Robin vowed to end the King’s oppression and fixed her attention on his bedchamber.
• The King panicked over the quiet patrols and ordered his guards to protect his door.
• The King’s personal guards remained eerily silent outside his bedchamber.

Robin defeated the Shadow Guard and confronted the King with evidence of his crimes, while the Revolutionary Army took control of the capital. By dawn, the city’s people saw new soldiers patrolling its streets.

• Robin entered the King’s bedchamber after finding the Shadow Guard agents dead in the corridor.
• The Shadow Guard commander ambushed Robin, but she crushed him with her Haki-coated arms.
• Robin struck the King with the file documenting his murder of his elder brother and the burial of fifty thousand people.
• Three Revolutionary Army units took over the King’s City, and officers secured the palace.
• At dawn, the commoners saw Revolutionary Army soldiers patrolling the streets instead of the Shadow Guard.