Chapter Summaries

After Luffy woke, Neptune revealed that Sade had left Fish-Man Island aboard Noah with Shirahoshi and the Fish-Man warriors, while the World Government launched a Buster Call against them. At the New World’s entrance, Fujitora sensed something enormous approaching the Marine fleet.

• Luffy woke and learned from Neptune that Sade had taken Shirahoshi and Fish-Man warriors aboard Noah and departed for the New World.
• Otohime explained that Shirahoshi was Poseidon and could command the Sea Kings that pulled Noah away.
• Otohime revealed that the World Government had launched a Buster Call against Sade and his group, alarming Luffy and Robin.
• Robin described the Buster Call’s destructive force, while Neptune and Robin trusted that Austin’s strength would protect Sade’s journey.
• At the New World’s entrance, Fujitora drew his cane sword and sensed something enormous coming toward the Marine fleet.

Fujitora led the Marine forces to the Shattered Islands for a Buster Call against Dark Sun, but questioned why the World Government had ordered such an overwhelming deployment. Rob Lucci refused to explain and revealed that the archipelago had been created by a battle between Black Spear and Whitebeard in their youth.

• Fujitora reassured a nervous Marine recruit as the fleet entered the operational zone.
• Rob Lucci told Fujitora that CP0 and a large force of intelligence agents had joined the operation to capture Dark Sun.
• Fujitora asked why the World Government had mobilized such a force, but Lucci said he had no right to know.
• Fujitora and Lucci landed on the archipelago, where Fujitora sensed that its formation was unnatural.
• Lucci explained that Black Spear and Whitebeard had shattered the former supermassive island in their youth.

The Marines prepared to intercept Sade Geou, but his enormous ship Noah emerged from the sea and confronted their fleet. Fujitora summoned a meteor to attack, and Shirahoshi began opening a colossal mouth from the ocean toward the sky.

• Fujitora and Lucci learned that the devastation around the islands had been caused by the Warp Fruit and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, then led the Marines in preparing an ambush for Sade.
• On the third day, Fujitora sensed something approaching and warned the fleet as the sea began to tremble and rise into a tsunami.
• Fujitora used his Gravity Sword: Reversal to send the tsunami back into the sea, revealing the enormous ship Noah beneath its coating.
• Sade appeared at Noah's bow and mocked the Marines, while Lucci declared that he and Fujitora would kill Sade and his fish-man crew.
• Fujitora summoned a meteor from space, and Sade called on Shirahoshi, who began praying as a gigantic mouth opened from the sea toward the sky.

Austin flew to Punk Hazard to retrieve Vegapunk’s artificial pink dragon Devil Fruit, believing Momonosuke would soon arrive. There, he unexpectedly met Kuina, who had come to grow stronger through battles, and asked whether she wanted to become stronger.

• Austin read that Sade had received a 1.6 billion Beli bounty after the Black and White Island War, then worried that Shirahoshi might be caught up in his troublemaking.
• Austin suspected Kuzan had thrown his fight with Sakazuki and might be hiding in the New World to thwart his plans.
• Austin landed on Punk Hazard, intending to take the pink dragon Mythical Zoan Fruit before Momonosuke could eat it.
• Austin encountered Kuina, gave her a cloak to protect her from the cold, and learned she had come to seek strength through battles with powerful opponents.
• Austin asked Kuina whether she wanted to become stronger.

Austin explained that Kuina’s weak physique was the main obstacle keeping her from matching Zoro and suggested a Zoan Devil Fruit could help her grow stronger. As the Straw Hat Crew, Smoker, and Trafalgar Law converged on Punk Hazard, Law’s body-swapping attack struck just as Austin and Kuina appeared, leaving Kuina intrigued by her new body.

• Austin asked Kuina why she thought she fell behind Zoro, and she guessed that her gender was the reason.
• Austin told Kuina that her body was too weak but said a Zoan Devil Fruit might strengthen her; Kuina accepted the possibility of becoming monstrous if it helped her improve.
• Austin and Kuina headed toward the laboratory while the Straw Hat Crew investigated Punk Hazard and helped the kidnapped children escape.
• Smoker confronted Trafalgar Law, who expanded his Room and used his power to swap the bodies of Sanji and the others.
• Austin and Kuina appeared between the two sides as the attack took effect, and Kuina examined her unfamiliar body and called the swap interesting.

Austin and Kuina had their bodies switched by Luo’s Op-Op Fruit power, and Kuina discovered the overwhelming strength of Austin’s body. The chapter left Austin preparing to test that body’s limits by confronting Luo and the Marines.

• Austin teleported with Kuina into the laboratory, where Luo’s Op-Op Fruit power exchanged their bodies and those of the Straw Hat Crew.
• Sanji, Nami, and the others realized they had switched bodies, while Luo panicked after finding himself in Austin’s body.
• Kuina tested Austin’s strength and unleashed Armament Haki powerful enough to make Punk Hazard and the surrounding sea shake.
• Austin explained that Conqueror’s Haki could not be used after the body swap, then told Kuina to leave with him.
• Kuina drew Wado Ichimonji and confronted Luo, Smoker, Tashigi, and the other Marines to test Austin’s body.

Luo revealed that Austin had swapped consciousness with Kuina, prompting Smoker to attack what he thought was a rare chance to capture the legendary pirate. Austin fought Smoker and Luo in Kuina’s weaker body, then unleashed a devastating slash before their consciousnesses returned to their original bodies.

• Luo explained that his Devil Fruit had swapped Austin’s consciousness into the swordswoman’s body and asked Smoker to join forces.
• Smoker recognized a chance to capture Austin and attacked him despite Luo’s objections.
• Austin parried Smoker’s attacks with Wado Ichimonji and wounded him with Cherry Blossom End: Black Light.
• Luo trapped Austin in Room and tried to strike him, but Austin shattered the sphere with a powerful slash.
• Kuina awoke in her own body to find a canyon that had cut through half of Punk Hazard.

Austin returned to his own body after releasing stored Haki, then continued exploring Punk Hazard with Kuina. Caesar and Monet learned of his arrival, and Caesar mistook the Seagull King’s presence for support for his weapons experiment.

• Austin’s Haki broke Luo’s Room and reversed the body swap, while Luo realized Austin had stayed in control and had prepared enough Haki to end the effect safely.
• Austin told Luo he had come to relax, then left with Kuina as Smoker warned Tashigi that Punk Hazard might be more dangerous than they had expected.
• Caesar and Monet heard that Austin was on the island; Caesar panicked at first, then decided Austin had come to see his experiment succeed.
• Austin passed on a question to Caesar without asking it, and the Seagull King appeared; Monet identified the bird, while Caesar assumed it had come to help and called Doflamingo.
• Doflamingo was bewildered to hear that Austin had arrived on Punk Hazard.

Austin gave Kuina Vegapunk’s artificial Pink Dragon Fruit, and she became a powerful dragon-human. Meanwhile, Vergo overwhelmed Smoker while holding Luo’s heart, and revealed that Austin had taught him Haki.

• Austin took Kuina to Vegapunk’s old laboratory and gave her the artificial Pink Dragon Fruit.
• Kuina ate the fruit and transformed into a nearly three-meter-tall pink dragon-human, gaining vastly greater strength.
• Austin told Kuina that her remaining gaps were Haki and swordsmanship, then urged her to test her new strength against Zoro.
• The Straw Hat Crew and Luo formed an alliance to defeat Caesar and the Donquixote Family officers and destroy SAD.
• Vergo seized Luo’s heart, while Luo declared that he would stop Doflamingo in the name of Corazon.
• Smoker attacked Vergo but was badly beaten, and Vergo revealed that Austin had taught him his powerful Armament Haki.

Luo defeated Vergo after using a technique inspired by Austin’s ability and the Op-Op Fruit’s awakening. Austin appeared afterward, restored Vergo’s head, and told him he had not lost unfairly.

• Vergo overwhelmed Smoker with his Armament Haki, and Smoker returned Luo’s heart before collapsing.
• Luo confronted Doflamingo over Vergo and SAD, but Vergo blocked Luo’s Room attack and badly injured him.
• Luo used “Room: Teleportation: Don’t Move” to freeze Vergo briefly, then cut him apart and defeated him.
• Doflamingo mourned Vergo over the Den Den Mushi before ending the call, and Luo split Vergo’s remaining head in two.
• Austin arrived, pressed Vergo’s severed head back together, and praised his Haki while explaining how Luo had exploited his ability and psychological warfare.

Austin exposed how Luo tricked Vergo, then recruited Vergo after Doflamingo abandoned him. Aboard the Thousand Sunny, Momonosuke feared Austin, while Doflamingo arrived at Punk Hazard and confronted Smoker.

• Austin explained that Luo had moved the ground and buildings to make Vergo think he was unable to advance, then cut him with a strike infused with the beginnings of ROOM's awakening.
• Austin offered Vergo a place in his crew, and Vergo accepted by kneeling and offering his heart after realizing Doflamingo planned to destroy Punk Hazard.
• On the Thousand Sunny, Sanji told the others that Austin had appeared in the laboratory and used a powerful slash while in another woman's body.
• Momonosuke recognized Austin's name and, frightened, hinted that Austin had castrated him; Kin'emon misunderstood his distress.
• As the Straw Hats set out for Dressrosa, Doflamingo flew to Punk Hazard and caught Smoker before he could leave.

Doflamingo attacked the Marines on Punk Hazard and nearly killed Smoker before Kuzan intervened. Austin then appeared behind Kuzan, revealing his connection to Doflamingo as he reunited with Kuzan two years after Kuzan left the Marines.

• Smoker reported Punk Hazard’s poison-gas crisis to Marine Headquarters as Doflamingo arrived and knocked out the Marines.
• Doflamingo wounded Smoker and prepared to kill him, arguing that the World Government had not truly acted against him.
• Kuzan froze Doflamingo and stopped him from finishing off Smoker.
• Austin appeared behind Kuzan, called Doflamingo an acquaintance, and melted the ice around him.
• Kuzan turned to face Austin, and the two met again for the first time since Kuzan defected from the Marines two years earlier.

Kuzan attacked Austin on Punk Hazard to settle their old grudge, and the two fought across the frozen coast and glaciers. As Doflamingo prepared to interfere, an unknown swordsman appeared and warned him not to disrupt Austin’s battle.

• Austin asked Kuzan whether he had defected from the Navy, and Kuzan said he could attack without restraint now that he had left.
• Kuzan unleashed Ice Age, freezing the coast and sea, but Austin shattered the ice spreading across his arm.
• Kuzan intensified the fight by draining Haki through the freezing battlefield, and Austin prepared to answer with his space-warping power.
• Austin struck an iceberg with enough force to lift it, while Kuzan struggled to stay on his feet.
• Doflamingo tried to interfere, but a black-blade swordsman appeared and blocked him with Five Colored Strings.

Kuina intervened to keep Doflamingo from disrupting Austin’s duel, while Austin overwhelmed Kuzan inside the glacier and urged him to keep living and pursue his goals. The chapter ended as Austin hurled Kuzan toward the ground with King: Underwater Fall.

• Kuina appeared in her pink dragon-human form and blocked Doflamingo’s attack, declaring that no one could interfere with Austin’s battle.
• Kuina fought Doflamingo with her black blade, while Marines recognized her as Colonel Tashigi.
• Austin tracked Kuzan through the glacier with Observation Haki and broke through Kuzan’s ice defenses.
• Austin seized Kuzan by the face and told him to stop acting as if he wanted to die and pursue what he could accomplish by staying alive.
• Austin used King: Underwater Fall to throw Kuzan toward the ground.

Kuzan fought Austin on Punk Hazard, enduring a devastating battle that left him gravely wounded. After Austin departed, Smoker asked why Kuzan had come, and Kuzan said he had hoped Austin could help him face his confusion.

• Kuzan survived Austin's King: Underwater Fall by turning his body to ice, and the two began a second round without using their Devil Fruit abilities.
• Kuzan fought Austin in a bare-knuckle Haki battle for nearly a day but was ultimately left severely wounded.
• Austin said Kuzan might have beaten Sakazuki and offered to speak to the Five Elders about bringing him back to the Marines, but Kuzan declined.
• Austin left Punk Hazard, and Marine soldiers rescued Kuzan and Smoker.
• Smoker asked Kuzan why he had come, and Kuzan replied that he thought Austin would know how to face confusion.

Kuzan decided to oppose Austin’s plans in his own way after Smoker questioned his view of the pirate. The story then revealed how Seagull King had attacked Caesar for conducting human experiments on children, before King Luffy and his companions arrived.

• Kuzan told Smoker that he planned to stop the messes Austin caused and left for his own path of justice.
• Doflamingo joked that Austin had missed a chance to kill Kuzan, then refused when Austin offered to arrange a fight with him.
• The chapter showed Seagull King confronting Caesar during a weapons demonstration and crushing him with an Armament Haki-coated claw.
• Seagull King struck Caesar for using children in experiments, while the underworld figures watching through Den Den Mushi ended their calls.
• King Luffy and his companions arrived, and Chopper stepped in when Seagull King challenged the raccoon and monkey to keep fighting.

Austin learned that Doflamingo had found the Float-Float Fruit and proposed using it as the prize in a Dressrosa arena tournament. As the tournament plans took shape, two young men approached the island, expecting Luffy to arrive soon.

• Caesar was taken away by the Straw Hat Crew, while Seagull King flew off without responding to them.
• Austin told Doflamingo that Vergo was alive and now served Austin as a bodyguard while training his Haki.
• Doflamingo revealed that his network had found the Float-Float Fruit, and Austin proposed holding an arena tournament in Dressrosa.
• Austin suggested offering a much larger prize, but Doflamingo warned that a contest with such stakes would destroy Dressrosa, so they settled on using the Float-Float Fruit.
• Two young men approached Dressrosa by boat, and one told Sabo that Luffy would arrive soon.

Ace and Sabo arrived in Dressrosa as the Straw Hat Crew and other rookies gathered for an arena event centered on Golden Lion Shiki’s Float-Float Fruit. Watching the arrivals, Austin decided to bring in outside help to keep the coming conflict balanced and called Saint Saturn.

• Ace and Sabo traveled to Dressrosa after Ace’s two-year confinement, with Sabo investigating Doflamingo’s arms deals and Ace carrying a sword for Austin.
• Newspapers announced an arena event featuring Golden Lion Shiki’s Float-Float Fruit, drawing the Straw Hat Crew and numerous young pirates to Dressrosa.
• King Luffy, Nami, and Zoro reacted to the report, while Luo suspected the event was a trap but recognized that the crew still had to confront Doflamingo.
• Austin watched the rookies arrive and worried that the three brothers might overpower Doflamingo and unbalance the event.
• Austin called Saint Saturn, who answered with surprise.

Austin contacted Saint Saturn and used his knowledge of Saturn’s secret research on Joy Boy’s robot to persuade him to send experts to Dressrosa. Saturn agreed and then ordered Sakazuki to mobilize Ryokugyu.

• Austin’s call caused the maids and guards nearby to vanish, while Violet was blinded by pain after watching him.
• Saint Saturn dismissed his guards and told Austin that the World Government would never compromise over Joy Boy.
• Austin revealed that he knew Saturn had secretly kept Joy Boy’s robot, and Saturn agreed to hear his request.
• Austin asked Saturn to send experts to Dressrosa to help new pirates challenge Doflamingo, offering to return Dressrosa to the World Government afterward.
• Saint Saturn agreed, ended the call, and told Sakazuki to inform Ryokugyu.

Sakazuki and the veteran Marines discussed the World Government’s order to send aid to Doflamingo in Dressrosa, but Tsuru judged that Doflamingo was still almost certain to lose. In Dressrosa, Ryokugyu told Austin he had been ordered to put on an act, while Austin remained indifferent to Doflamingo’s fate.

• Sakazuki told Tsuru, Garp, and Sengoku that the Five Elders had ordered Marines to help the Shichibukai.
• Tsuru and Sengoku considered whether the World Government wanted to protect the balance of power or use the situation to target Austin.
• The Marines’ report revealed that Luffy’s crew, Law, the Revolutionary Army, and traces of Ace were in Dressrosa, and Tsuru concluded Doflamingo had almost no chance of winning.
• Ryokugyu told Austin that Marine Headquarters had ordered him to put on an act in Dressrosa.
• Austin decided Doflamingo’s defeat was expected and reflected on how Doflamingo had used his name while doing wicked things.