Chapter Summaries

Luffy and BIG MOM clashed in a Conqueror’s Haki battle that devastated Cake Island and sent a massive tsunami across Totto Land. As the Big Mom Pirates considered attacking the Straw Hats’ scattered crew, Perospero warned that Ronan’s presence made any such move fatal.

• BIG MOM struck at Luffy with Ikoku Sovereignty, and their Conqueror’s Haki collided without their weapons making contact.
• The clash destroyed Cake Castle and much of Cake Island, triggered magma eruptions, and sent a towering tsunami surging toward nearby islands.
• Daifuku proposed that the Big Mom Pirates attack the Straw Hat Pirates’ other members while Luffy and BIG MOM fought.
• Perospero stopped Daifuku and warned that Ronan would kill them all if they made a move against the Straw Hats.
• Perospero and the other officers accepted that they could only wait for BIG MOM’s battle to end.

Luffy battled BIG MOM on the verge of destroying Cake Island while Sanji reunited with Reiju amid the ruins. Ronan turned his attention to the wary Katakuri and warned him that the island would not hold out much longer.

• Luffy shattered BIG MOM's Ikoku Sovereignty with his Black-Gold fist, and BIG MOM answered by unleashing her flaming Emperor's Sword: Hakai.
• Luffy and BIG MOM's attacks collided, sending a vast shockwave across Cake Island and causing its ground and coastline to break apart.
• After both fighters were blasted backward, Luffy taunted BIG MOM, and they charged at each other to continue their battle.
• Reiju approached Sanji in the ruined VIP seating area and greeted her younger brother as they reunited.
• Ronan addressed Katakuri, who stood with his trident but did not attack, and warned him that Cake Island would not last much longer.

Ronan forced Katakuri to choose between obeying him and facing certain defeat, while Perospero urged Katakuri to abandon Big Mom and join the Straw Hat Pirates. Katakuri began to accept that protecting his siblings mattered more than loyalty to his mother, and prepared to evacuate them.

• Ronan ordered Katakuri to bring his fleet and evacuate the unconscious guests and siblings, warning that he would sink any ship that tried to escape him.
• Ronan urged Katakuri to abandon Big Mom and join the Straw Hat Pirates to overturn the World Government and the old order.
• Perospero privately argued that Big Mom could not defeat Ronan and Luffy, and urged Katakuri to seize the chance to break free and join the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Katakuri watched Big Mom fighting Luffy and gradually loosened his grip on Mogura as he considered Perospero's words.
• Katakuri used Observation Haki to find that his siblings had survived under the officers' protection, and reflected that his perfect-big-brother mask had been meant to protect them, not Big Mom.

Ronan forced the Big Mom Pirates and Germa to evacuate to a deserted island while Luffy and BIG MOM continued their battle on the collapsing Cake Island. After two hours, BIG MOM’s stamina had faltered, but Luffy remained fresh and charged into her barrage with a powerful new attack.

• Katakuri agreed to lead the Big Mom Pirates to a deserted island, and Ronan ordered Nami, Zoro, and the others to evacuate with them.
• Ronan ordered Judge Vinsmoke and his group to come along after their giant snail warship was destroyed.
• Sanji reunited with Reiju, and the factions began evacuating from the ruins aboard the Sunny Merry and the surviving warships.
• Luffy and BIG MOM fought for two hours, devastating Cake Island as BIG MOM grew exhausted and Luffy grew stronger.
• BIG MOM unleashed lightning, fire, and sword attacks, but Luffy charged through the barrage and launched his Black-Gold: Monkey King Barrage.

Luffy overwhelmed BIG MOM with his powerful fist and sent her crashing into the ruins. Their battle destroyed Cake Island, and the Straw Hat Pirates declared Luffy the victor as the Charlotte Family remnants watched their kingdom sink.

• Luffy smashed BIG MOM’s lightning, flames, and sword attack before punching her in the face and sending her through mountains into the cliffside ruins.
• BIG MOM emerged bloodied and exhausted, then angrily accused Luffy of knowing only how to swing his fists.
• Luffy boasted that one powerful move was enough to send BIG MOM flying as his Black-Gold Thunder Fire erupted again.
• Cake Island’s foundations collapsed, and the island sank beneath a tsunami, leaving a massive whirlpool.
• Usopp worried about Luffy, but Zoro and Ronan declared that Luffy had won and defeated a Four Emperor.
• Nami celebrated the crew’s growth while Charlotte Katakuri stood silently among the displaced Charlotte Family remnants.

After Luffy defeated BIG MOM, Sanji returned with both Luffy and the unconscious Emperor, leaving the Charlotte Family in despair. Ronan asked about the Memo-Memo Fruit, and Perospero immediately offered up his sister Pudding to win Ronan’s favor.

• Katakuri announced that BIG MOM had lost, and the Charlotte Family reacted with grief and disbelief while Perospero secretly welcomed the chance to escape his mother’s control.
• Sanji said Luffy had exhausted himself and flew off to retrieve him.
• Sanji returned carrying the unconscious Luffy and Charlotte Linlin, confirming BIG MOM’s defeat to the gathered Charlotte Family and Germa 66.
• Ronan asked whether someone in the Charlotte Family had eaten the Memo-Memo Fruit, making Katakuri worry for Pudding.
• Perospero knelt before Ronan and revealed that his sister Charlotte Pudding had the fruit, offering her services to him.

Perospero betrayed his family to pledge himself to Ronan and summoned Pudding to him. Ronan recognized Pudding as the Memo-Memo Fruit user, leaving her trembling before him.

• Perospero ordered Pudding to approach Ronan, provoking Katakuri's fury.
• Perospero dismissed Katakuri's anger and inwardly resolved to abandon his family and join the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Ronan praised Perospero's pragmatism, and Perospero enthusiastically declared his loyalty.
• Pudding approached Ronan as Nami and Sanji watched, and Ronan asked whether she had eaten the Memo-Memo Fruit.
• Pudding confirmed it and trembled under Ronan's intimidating gaze.

Ronan won Pudding’s trust by admiring her Three-Eye Tribe heritage, then proposed using her Memo-Memo Fruit to rewrite BIG MOM’s memories. The scheme alarmed Katakuri and Zoro, who feared BIG MOM could resist or eventually break free.

• Ronan asked Pudding to raise her head and examined her third eye without disgust, praising its beauty and potential.
• Pudding was overwhelmed by Ronan’s acceptance and began to trust him.
• Ronan asked Pudding whether she could rewrite BIG MOM’s memories and make the Emperor submit to his plan.
• Katakuri realized Ronan intended to use Pudding to control BIG MOM and feared her powerful soul could resist the attempt.
• Zoro warned Ronan that turning BIG MOM into an ally was dangerous because she could regain control and become a threat.

Ronan said he could help Pudding awaken the hidden power of her third eye, which might let her alter BIG MOM’s memories despite the danger. Robin explained the Three-Eye Tribe’s rare psychic ability, and Perospero asked Ronan if he could awaken it in Pudding despite her mixed blood.

• Zoro warned Ronan that BIG MOM was too dangerous to keep alive, but Ronan insisted they should try his plan.
• Pudding explained that her Memo-Memo Fruit could not overcome BIG MOM’s powerful soul and Conqueror’s Haki without help.
• Ronan told Pudding that his intervention could unleash her third eye’s ability.
• Robin recalled ancient records describing the Three-Eye Tribe’s rare psychic power to see through illusions and hear the Voice of All Things.
• Perospero asked Ronan whether he could awaken Pudding’s hidden ability despite her mixed blood.

Ronan confirmed that Pudding’s Three-Eye Tribe heritage could awaken the power to read ancient script, then revealed an Advanced Qi Replenishing Pill whose effects stunned the Big Mom Pirates. The chapter left Katakuri and Perospero realizing the pill could restore strength, heal hidden injuries, and raise a person’s potential.

• Ronan confirmed that Pudding could awaken the Three-Eye Tribe’s power to interpret ancient script, and Perospero connected it to BIG MOM’s long-held hopes.
• Katakuri recognized Pudding’s value and felt relieved that Ronan and his companions could protect her.
• Ronan asked Chopper for an improved Advanced Qi Replenishing Pill, and Chopper produced it in a jade bottle.
• The pill’s fragrance and life energy astonished the Big Mom Pirates, while the Straw Hat Pirates treated it casually.
• Ronan explained that the pill could restore stamina and Haki, heal hidden injuries, and increase bodily potential, leaving Katakuri and Perospero stunned.

Ronan offered Pudding an Advanced Qi Replenishing Pill and explained that her third eye had remained dormant because her body could not withstand the power within it. Pudding considered whether accepting the gift could help her take control of her fate, then glanced at Katakuri.

• Perospero concluded that joining the Straw Hat Pirates had been the right choice and imagined the Charlotte Family rising to glory under them.
• Ronan approached Pudding and explained that her weak life force, not an impure bloodline, had kept her third-eye power dormant for her protection.
• Ronan offered Pudding the Advanced Qi Replenishing Pill, saying it could replenish her life force enough to awaken her bloodline power.
• Pudding realized that accepting the pill might give her strength and a chance to control her own fate.
• Pudding slowly turned to look at Katakuri nearby.

Pudding swore loyalty to Ronan and drank his elixir, which awakened her Three-Eye Tribe potential and transformed her into a fighter with strength comparable to a Marine Headquarters Rear Admiral. Katakuri was stunned by the elixir’s power, while Ronan explained that Pudding’s dormant bloodline had made the transformation possible.

• Pudding told Ronan she wanted to awaken her power and follow him, then vowed never to betray him.
• Ronan gave Pudding an emerald elixir, and she swallowed it without hesitation.
• The elixir surrounded Pudding with a green cocoon as her body transformed and life energy caused flowers to bloom along the shore.
• Pudding emerged radiating the strength of a Marine Headquarters Rear Admiral, shocking Katakuri.
• Ronan explained that Pudding’s dormant Three-Eye Tribe bloodline had allowed her to withstand the elixir’s power.

Ronan explained that Pudding’s transformation came from her awakened bloodline, then ordered her to alter the unconscious BIG MOM’s personality and make her a loving mother who would join the Straw Hat Pirates’ faction. Pudding began using her enhanced Memo-Memo Fruit power on BIG MOM, leaving the Charlotte Family and the others waiting to see whether she could control the Emperor.

• Ronan explained to Katakuri that the elixir had awakened Pudding’s unique bloodline rather than granting anyone strength without limit.
• Ronan asked whether Pudding could rewrite BIG MOM’s memories if she were unconscious and unable to resist, and Pudding said she believed she could control her.
• Ichiji, Sanji, Zoro, and the surviving Big Mom Pirates reacted with shock at the possibility of controlling a Four Emperor.
• Ronan ordered Pudding to remove BIG MOM’s violent traits and give her a gentle, loving personality that would join his faction.
• Katakuri accepted the plan, and Pudding approached the unconscious BIG MOM and pierced her brain with purple chains of light from her third eye.

Pudding used her awakened power to alter BIG MOM’s memories, with Ronan sustaining her through the night with True Qi. When BIG MOM opened her eyes, an ancient, sinister soul seized control of her body and struck Pudding through the memory channel, leaving the Big Mom Pirates facing an imminent threat.

• Pudding extracted BIG MOM’s memories and began altering them, but the vast memories and soul defenses overwhelmed her.
• Ronan replenished Pudding’s strength with gentle True Qi, allowing her to continue the dangerous memory surgery through the night.
• At dawn, Pudding reached BIG MOM’s childhood memories, where Mother Carmel and Charlotte Linlin’s primal madness lay.
• BIG MOM opened her bloodshot eyes, and Katakuri realized that a strange, evil soul—not BIG MOM—was controlling her body.
• The strange soul blasted Pudding through the memory channel, and BIG MOM’s body began rising as its power surged.

Ronan pinned BIG MOM to the ground and suppressed the parasitic soul with his Conqueror's Haki while Pudding purified it with her third eye. After the old ghost was destroyed, Perospero recognized her as Mother Carmel, the previous Soul-Soul Fruit user.

• Ronan pierced BIG MOM's chest with the Eighteen-Foot Spear and pinned her to the ground.
• Ronan used his Conqueror's Haki to suppress the hostile soul inside BIG MOM and ordered Pudding to destroy it.
• Pudding unleashed her third eye's purple light, burning the parasitic soul out of BIG MOM.
• The old woman's black-smoke form identified herself as the rightful owner of BIG MOM's body before disintegrating.
• Perospero recognized the ghost as Mother Carmel and explained that she had been the previous Soul-Soul Fruit user.

Pudding used her third eye and the Memo-Memo Fruit to erase Mother Carmel from Big Mom and permanently remake Charlotte Linlin’s memories at the level of her soul. Charlotte Linlin awoke with a clear mind and a tender look toward Pudding, leaving the Big Mom Pirates stunned.

• Perospero revealed that Mother Carmel had been hiding inside Big Mom, but Ronan dismissed her as a coward and said she was dead.
• Pudding announced that she had permanently altered Big Mom’s memories and removed the original memories from her soul.
• Ronan praised Pudding as the sharpest invisible blade in his hand, and she pledged herself to him.
• The Big Mom Pirates and Judge Vinsmoke realized Pudding’s power could remake even powerful people’s minds and make them loyal to Ronan.
• Charlotte Linlin stirred among the rubble, opened her eyes, and looked at Pudding with genuine delight.

BIG MOM reunited with Pudding and her children, then bowed to Ronan with genuine reverence, leaving Vinsmoke Judge convinced that the world was about to change. After waking from his recovery, Luffy immediately attacked BIG MOM, catching her crew by surprise.

• BIG MOM joyfully greeted Pudding and her children, and Katakuri used Observation Haki to confirm her affection was genuine.
• BIG MOM addressed Ronan as "Lord Ronan" and bowed to him with sincere reverence.
• Vinsmoke Judge watched BIG MOM's submission and concluded that Ronan had reshaped her soul and beliefs.
• Luffy woke from a night of recovery and sensed BIG MOM nearby.
• Luffy launched a powerful punch at BIG MOM, startling Perospero, Daifuku, Oven, and the other BIG MOM Pirates.

Sanji stopped Luffy from attacking BIG MOM and explained that she had joined their side, bringing Totto Land and Germa 66 under the Straw Hat Pirates. At a feast days later, Ronan ordered BIG MOM and Katakuri to rebuild their forces and wait, while Zoro suggested their next target might be Mary Geoise.

• Sanji deflected Luffy's punch and told him that BIG MOM was now an ally.
• Luffy accepted Sanji's explanation, and the Big Mom Pirates and Germa 66 pledged allegiance to the Straw Hat Pirates.
• BIG MOM's forces replaced their flags with Straw Hat flags across Totto Land and bowed to Ronan and Luffy.
• Several days later, Ronan told BIG MOM and Katakuri to recover, rebuild Totto Land, use Germa 66's research, and wait for the right moment.
• Zoro asked whether the Straw Hat Pirates would attack Mary Geoise, shocking the BIG MOM Pirates officers.

Ronan declared that overthrowing the World Government was the crew’s ultimate goal, but only after they united the New World and reached Laugh Tale. With two Red Road Poneglyph rubbings secured, the crew set its sights on Wano, where Luffy would face Kaido as his final trial before becoming an emperor.

• Nami boasted that the Straw Hat Pirates and Germa had become powerful enough to challenge the World Government, and Ronan affirmed that overthrowing it was their ultimate goal.
• Ronan said the crew would first defeat the remaining emperors, unite the sea, and reach Laugh Tale before fighting the World Government.
• Robin returned with a perfect rubbing of Big Mom’s Red Road Poneglyph, giving the crew two of the four coordinates needed to find Laugh Tale.
• Sanji revealed that Kaido held the third known Red Road Poneglyph, and BIG MOM offered to lead her fleet to Wano and kill him.
• Luffy insisted that he would face Kaido alone, and Ronan agreed that the battle would be Luffy’s final trial before becoming an emperor.
• Ronan ordered Pudding to use her Memo-Memo Fruit and Three-Eye Tribe gift to bring the Beasts Pirates under control after Luffy defeated Kaido.

Ronan laid out a ruthless plan for dealing with the Beasts Pirates in Wano and assigned Katakuri to protect Pudding while she altered their officers’ memories. He promised Katakuri a chance to surpass his current limits, leaving him eager to reach the strength of a Yonko.

• Ronan decided to kill the Beasts Pirates’ fanatics, recruit those who respected strength, and have Pudding control treacherous core officers.
• Ronan ordered Pudding to show no mercy to any Beasts Pirate who resisted, and she eagerly agreed to rewrite their souls.
• Ronan tested Katakuri’s Observation Haki, then told him to accompany Pudding to Wano and keep enemies at least three meters away from her.
• Ronan promised Katakuri an extraordinary opportunity to break past his limits after the Beasts Pirates were defeated.
• Katakuri realized Ronan might be the source of the Straw Hat Pirates’ rapid growth and wondered whether he could rise to Yonko strength.