Chapter Summaries

Baccarat drove the Straw Hat Pirates through Gran Tesoro’s lavish commercial district and explained how the gold-covered ship city operated. Tesoro offered Nami as much gold as she could carry, and the group arrived at a palace-like mall to prepare for the grand banquet.

• Baccarat showed the Straw Hat Pirates Gran Tesoro’s extravagant streets and described the ship’s scale, independence, and giant sea turtle power source.
• Baccarat praised Tesoro as the powerful ruler of the entertainment city and explained that he had built it from gold gathered around the world.
• Nami admired the solid-gold street railings and said her thief’s blood was boiling.
• Tesoro told Nami she could take as much gold as she could carry when she left, and Nami reacted with ecstatic gratitude.
• Baccarat brought the group to a luxurious mall, where they changed outfits in preparation for the grand banquet.

Nami, Robin, and the Straw Hat Pirates dressed in elegant white suits before Baccarat led them to Gran Tesoro’s enormous casino. Gild Tesoro invited them to gamble at his expense, and as Nami eagerly accepted, Luffy disappeared to play a slot machine.

• Nami and Robin stepped out in glamorous evening gowns, followed by the Straw Hat men in custom white suits.
• Ronan emerged in a white suit, impressing Baccarat and earning Gild Tesoro’s praise.
• Baccarat guided Ronan’s group to the Golden King Hotel and Gran Tesoro’s vast casino.
• Gild Tesoro told the Straw Hats they could keep any winnings and charge their losses to him.
• Nami excitedly seized Gild Tesoro’s sleeve, while Luffy raced off to pull a slot machine’s lever.

Ronan let the Straw Hat crew explore the casino while Gild Tesoro led him, Zoro, and Sanji to a private welcome banquet atop the Golden King Hotel. The banquet began with lavish food, wine, and attentive attendants, leaving Sanji overwhelmed by the luxurious service.

• Ronan gave Nami, Robin, Usopp, Chopper, and Brook permission to enjoy the casino, and they hurried off to gamble and explore.
• Zoro and Sanji dismissed the casino games, so Gild Tesoro invited them and Ronan to a private banquet on the hotel's top floor.
• Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji rode a Pure Gold elevator above Gold City and entered Gild Tesoro's lavish banquet hall.
• Dozens of young women welcomed the guests, and Gild Tesoro seated Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji at the banquet table.
• Two attendants fed Sanji grapes and wine, and he blissfully declared that he had found the ALL BLUE.

At Gild Tesoro’s banquet, Ronan accepted the women and fine wine while Zoro rejected the advances, and Tesoro praised Ronan’s response. Elsewhere in Gran Tesoro, CP0 agent Lucci led a squad into a dark alley.

• Zoro warned the two women away, saying they were disturbing his drinking.
• Ronan pulled two women into his arms and toasted Gild Tesoro, who declared it an honor to satisfy him.
• The banquet grew lively as Sanji cheered and the guests drank.
• Lucci and a squad of CP0 agents entered a dark alley where gang members and drunken pirates had gathered.

CP0 agents Rob Lucci and Stussy monitored Gild Tesoro’s welcome to the Straw Hat Pirates and Ronan, whom the World Government regarded as a major threat. Lucci judged Ronan too powerful for CP0 to attack on its own and said the decision required higher authorities.

• A pirate crew cowered as Lucci’s masked CP0 team passed through a dark alley.
• Lucci and Stussy stopped in a clock tower overlooking the Golden King Hotel and discussed Tesoro’s influence and their surveillance mission.
• Stussy and Lucci learned that Tesoro had welcomed the Straw Hat Pirates and Ronan with a grand ceremony.
• Lucci told Stussy that Ronan’s killing intent had warned him of a deadly gap in their strength.
• Lucci said the World Government considered Ronan a threat on the level of the Four Emperors and that attacking him was not CP0’s decision alone.

Lucci and Stussy assessed the danger of an alliance between Ronan’s Group and Tesoro, and Lucci decided to report it to the Five Elders in the morning. At breakfast in Gran Tesoro, Tesoro courted Ronan while Sanji and Zoro argued over Sanji’s night of indulgence.

• Lucci warned Stussy that Ronan’s Group and Tesoro together posed an unprecedented threat to the World Government.
• Lucci decided to wait until morning to report the intelligence to the Five Elders.
• The next morning, Tesoro chatted with Ronan over an extravagant breakfast at the Golden King Hotel.
• Sanji appeared exhausted and blissful after the previous night, prompting Zoro to mock him for lacking self-control.
• Sanji and Zoro traded insults, and Sanji raised a flaming leg as their argument threatened to become a fight.

Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji sensed five powerful intruders approaching the Gold City, and Gild Tesoro realized they had all mastered Future Sight. Five black teleportation arrays then appeared over the city, revealing that the Five Elders had descended in person.

• Ronan sensed several dangerous uninvited guests approaching the Gold City and warned Gild Tesoro.
• Gild Tesoro used his awakened Gold-Gold Fruit and Observation Haki to search the city and its surroundings but detected no intruders.
• Zoro and Sanji also sensed the approaching danger, and Zoro confirmed that he, Sanji, and Ronan had used Future Sight.
• Five black pillars struck the Gold City and formed pentagram teleportation arrays as an overwhelming presence spread across the city.
• Gild Tesoro recognized the arrivals as the Five Elders and recoiled in shock.

The Five Elders descended on Gold City and unleashed their overwhelming power while demanding that Ronan and the Straw Hat Pirates come out and die. Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji remained ready to fight as Gild Tesoro stood terrified beside them.

• Sanji asked Ronan whether Luffy, Nami, and the others were still asleep in the lower-level casino, and Gild Tesoro confirmed they were.
• Ronan unleashed his highest-level Conqueror's Haki, devastating Gold City and causing crowds of people to collapse.
• Five Elders arrived through enormous teleportation circles, and their spatial power destroyed buildings around the central plaza.
• Saint Topman Warcury appeared in his Fengxi form, roared, and demanded that Ronan come out and die.
• Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji stood ready to fight in the Golden King Hotel's sky garden while Gild Tesoro was overcome with terror.

Gild Tesoro confronted his terror of the Five Elders as Ronan challenged him to stop hiding from the people who had ruined his life. Remembering Stella and resolving to overthrow the Celestial Dragons, Tesoro awakened his Conqueror's Haki as Saint Warcury's Haki storm threatened the sky garden.

• Ronan scorned Gild Tesoro for being too frightened to face the Five Elders despite his vows.
• Tesoro recalled how a Celestial Dragon took Stella from him and how she later died in a slave camp.
• Tesoro overcame his fear, vowed to kill the Celestial Dragons and overthrow the rotten world, and declared he would no longer hide like a stray dog.
• Gild Tesoro awakened his Conqueror's Haki, unleashing black-red lightning against Saint Warcury's approaching Haki storm.

Gild Tesoro fought Saint Warcury's overwhelming Conqueror's Haki until memories of Stella and his past helplessness drove him to awaken his will anew. He forced back Saint Warcury's pressure as Ronan, Zoro, and Sanji watched from the ruined hotel rooftop.

• Gild Tesoro's Haki clashed with Saint Warcury's, and the force nearly destroyed the Golden King Hotel.
• Saint Warcury's command to kneel triggered Tesoro's memories of Stella being dragged away by a Celestial Dragon while Tesoro was helplessly restrained.
• Tesoro's rage over his past caused his Conqueror's Haki to grow stronger, and he pushed back Saint Warcury's aura.
• Tesoro vowed to kill every Celestial Dragon, while Ronan praised him for finding his path.
• Zoro acknowledged Tesoro's newly awakened Haki, and Sanji calmly studied the ruined rooftop.

As dawn broke over the ruined hotel, Tesoro faced the Five Elders and declared his intent to destroy them alongside Ronan’s Group. Saint Warcury then announced that the Five Elders had come to annihilate Ronan and the Straw Hat Pirates.

• Saint Topman Warcury returned to human form after his clash of Conqueror’s Haki with Tesoro ended.
• Saint Warcury and Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro mocked Tesoro as a former Celestial Dragon slave.
• Tesoro calmly resolved to work with Ronan’s Group, overthrow the Celestial Dragons, and avenge Stella and his past suffering.
• Tesoro declared war on the Five Elders as dawn broke.
• Saint Warcury called Ronan and the Straw Hat Pirates a threat and proclaimed that the Five Elders would destroy their alliance.

Luffy and the Straw Hats reached the ruined Gold City and found that the Five Elders’ Conqueror’s Haki had killed and injured innocent visitors. As Luffy prepared to attack, Zoro restrained him, and Ronan warned that the World Government fleet had surrounded the city; a blinding beam then arrived from the fleet.

• Luffy saw the destruction of Gold City and the dead tourists, then swore to kill the Five Elders.
• Warcury dismissed the victims as ants and told Luffy he would die there.
• Zoro stepped in front of Luffy and warned him that the Five Elders were formidable opponents.
• Usopp and the others realized they were facing the Five Elders and panicked.
• Ronan warned that a World Government fleet surrounded Gold City and that an all-out war was beginning.
• A brilliant beam shot from the fleet and descended onto the ruins.

Admirals Kizaru and Ryokugyu arrived at Gold City and announced that the Navy had surrounded it with a massive fleet under Steel Bone Kong’s command. Ronan recognized Kong’s overwhelming presence as the battle reached a point of no return.

• Kizaru appeared in the ruins, followed by Ryokugyu, and both bowed to the Five Elders.
• Ryokugyu taunted Ronan and the Straw Hat Pirates, declaring that two Admirals and a Buster Call-level fleet had been sent to destroy them.
• Ryokugyu revealed that Commander-in-Chief Steel Bone Kong was leading the operation from the World Government flagship.
• Ronan looked toward Kong and felt the immense pressure of his presence across the sea.
• Ronan realized that the Navy and the Five Elders had sealed off every escape as the climactic battle began.

Ronan realized the World Government had come to erase the Straw Hat Pirates and Gold City, not capture them. As the Five Elders, two Navy Admirals, and an overwhelming fleet closed in, the Straw Hats prepared to fight together and survive.

• Ronan understood that the World Government planned to destroy the pirates and Gold City with overwhelming force.
• Zoro tied his green bandana around his head, drew his swords, and urged Luffy and the crew to fight without regrets.
• Luffy told his companions they would reach the end of the world together and ordered everyone to stay alive.
• Sanji, Nami, Usopp, Chopper, Robin, Franky, and Brook each readied their powers and declared their resolve to fight.
• The Straw Hat Pirates stood together among the golden ruins, and Aramaki's face twisted at their defiant hope.

Ryokugyu unleashed his Woods-Woods Fruit power and declared his fanatic devotion to the World Government’s class hierarchy. Saint Warcury ordered Ryokugyu and Kizaru to eliminate Tesoro, and as the two Admirals trapped and bombarded him, the Straw Hat Pirates prepared to intervene.

• Ryokugyu transformed his arm into a giant wooden hand and filled the ruins with vines and carnivorous flowers.
• Ryokugyu threatened to use his enemies as fertilizer, but Saint Warcury cut him off and ordered a swift purge with no survivors.
• Saint Warcury ordered Ryokugyu and Kizaru to attack Tesoro, whom the Five Elders considered a dangerous traitor.
• Ryokugyu’s vines formed a cage around Tesoro while Kizaru fired a rain of lasers from above.
• Luffy and Zoro condemned the Admirals for ganging up on Tesoro, and Sanji launched himself into the sky to intercept Kizaru.

Saint Warcury summoned overwhelming reinforcements to surround Luffy, Ronan, and their allies at Gold City. With Steel Bone Kong, Navy Vice Admirals, and an awakened Rob Lucci arriving, Warcury prepared to assign opponents and begin the slaughter.

• Saint Warcury rejected Luffy’s challenge to fairness and promised that his opponents would be at least as numerous as Tesoro.
• Steel Bone Kong crossed the sea and sky with Geppo, then landed beside the Five Elders at Gold City.
• Several Navy Headquarters Vice Admirals followed Steel Bone Kong and formed up on the battlefield.
• Rob Lucci arrived in his awakened leopard form and vowed to take revenge on Ronan and the Straw Hat crew for Enies Lobby.
• Saint Warcury declared that the sea and sky were sealed off and prepared to distribute the prey for the battle.

The Five Elders and Steel Bone Kong prepared to eliminate Ronan and the Straw Hat Pirates, assigning opponents for the coming battle. Ronan faced Steel Bone Kong and Topman Warcury, while Zoro, Luffy, and Sanji were targeted by Saint Nusjuro, the remaining Five Elders, and Rob Lucci.

• Steel Bone Kong stepped forward and declared that Ronan would die among the ruins, but Ronan summoned the Eighteen-Foot Spear and challenged him.
• Steel Bone Kong and Topman Warcury joined forces to fight Ronan.
• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro drew Shodai Kitetsu and targeted Roronoa Zoro, who vowed to take the blade as his trophy.
• The remaining three Five Elders claimed they would handle the Straw Hat Kid.
• Rob Lucci arrived in his awakened form and claimed Fire Leg Sanji as his opponent.

Sanji faced Lucci as the confrontation between Ronan's Group and the Five Elders' faction neared its start. Meanwhile, Tesoro was overwhelmed by Kizaru and Ryokugyu, but unleashed his strongest attack against both Admirals before Kizaru countered.

• Shepherd Ju Peter gave Lucci permission to kill Sanji by any means, and Lucci vowed to avenge his humiliation from two years earlier.
• Sanji lit a cigarette and prepared to fight Lucci with his Diable Jambe flames.
• Kizaru's lasers shattered Tesoro's golden shields while Ryokugyu's parasitic vines pursued and wounded him.
• Tesoro poured his remaining strength into Golden Divine Punishment, sending eight giant golden tentacles toward Kizaru and Ryokugyu.
• Kizaru answered Tesoro's attack with a Light Speed Kick.

Gild Tesoro was overwhelmed by Ryokugyu and Kizaru, who mocked his hope and his newly awakened Conqueror’s Haki. As memories of Stella’s death and his enslavement resurfaced, Tesoro’s Haki surged to a new level, and he seized absolute control of the gold beneath Gold City.

• Ryokugyu destroyed Tesoro’s golden attacks with Haki-coated wooden spikes and left him kneeling among the ruins.
• Ryokugyu taunted Tesoro about his weakness and mocked his faith that the Straw Hat Pirates could bring hope.
• Tesoro relived his impoverished youth, his love for Stella, and the Celestial Dragons’ abuse that ended with Stella’s death.
• Tesoro erupted with vastly stronger Conqueror’s Haki, intertwined with the awakened power of his Gold-Gold Fruit.
• Tesoro declared that everything in Gold City was under his control as a massive tide of underground gold surged into the sky.

Gild Tesoro transformed into a nearly hundred-meter golden giant and clashed with Kizaru, whose Light Speed Kick sent him staggering. As Tesoro briefly became rigid, Ryokugyu trapped the giant in a crushing web of enormous vines.

• Gild Tesoro gathered the gold around him into a colossal armored giant and unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki.
• Kizaru attacked Tesoro with a Light Speed Kick, and Tesoro met him with a massive Haki-coated punch.
• The collision flattened nearby ruins and sent Tesoro staggering backward while Kizaru was blasted away.
• Ryokugyu exploited Tesoro’s brief opening and used Myriad Phenomena: God-Binding Tree to bind the giant with enormous vines.