Chapter Summaries

Vegapunk explained that Sade had to come to Egghead in person and that his machine needed a powerful magnetic field, while Austin considered who could provide one. Meanwhile, Shanks defeated Kid and his crew, but an unseen figure appeared to block the giants’ attack on them.

• Vegapunk told Austin that Sade had to come to Egghead in person and that the machine needed a powerful magnetic field for its drive conversion.
• Austin considered Enel as a possible source of magnetism, then wondered who else could help.
• Shanks asked Yasopp whether anyone had found Sade, then turned his attention to the approaching Kid Pirates.
• Kid began charging Damned Punk, but Shanks used Future Sight and struck him down with Divine Departure.
• The Kid Pirates surrendered and offered their Poneglyph rubbings, but Shanks refused them as the giants prepared Heavenly Departure.
• An unseen black figure appeared at the Kid Pirates’ bow and reached out to catch the giants’ attack.

Austin stopped the Red-Haired Pirates from killing Kid, sealed the unconscious pirate in a black cube, and arranged for Shanks to take credit for defeating the Kid Pirates. Meanwhile, the Five Elders feared Austin would pursue Luffy and the Nika fruit, but they could only speculate about his next move.

• Austin caught and redirected Dorry and Brogy's combined Heavenly Departure, then sealed the unconscious Kid in a black cube because he had a use for him.
• Shanks questioned Austin's intervention, and Austin promised that the world would believe he had wiped out the Kid Pirates, protecting Shanks's reputation and territories.
• Austin traveled through the Mirror World toward Sade's moving ship, briefly seeing the little fat black guy bullying Luo along the way.
• The Five Elders learned that Morgans's newspaper had circulated King Luffy's Wanted Poster and realized Austin's subordinate was behind it.
• Saint Mars warned the Five Elders that Austin might target Luffy and the Nika fruit because of his interest in events from eight hundred years ago, leaving them unsure how to respond.

Sade sailed toward Egghead aboard the enormous Noah, drawing the World Government’s attention and confronting Rob Lucci. After Sade overwhelmed Lucci and moved on to find Austin and Vegapunk, Kuina faced Lucci herself.

• The Straw Hat Pirates arrived at Egghead with Lilith, who said Vegapunk was busy conducting an important experiment.
• Vegapunk waited nervously at Egghead’s shore as Sade sailed toward the island aboard Noah, pulled by colossal Sea Kings.
• Rob Lucci recognized Sade and flew to Noah’s bow, despite Kaku warning him that the Government had ordered them not to fight a Sea Emperor without authorization.
• Sade misunderstood Lucci’s Zoan form, then used Dark Water and a punch to knock him out of the air and send him flying.
• Sade left Lucci to Kuina and continued toward Austin and Vegapunk, while Lucci recovered and challenged Kuina, who answered with Bad Wind.

Sade chose to become the Dark Sun God and underwent cultivation beneath Egghead as the World Government and Marines mobilized against the island. The chapter ended with Sade's arrival interrupting Kizaru as he prepared to kill Dr. Vegapunk.

• Sade told Dr. Vegapunk he wanted greater power to change the sea, then entered a cultivation chamber and began resonating with the power of the Sun God Nika.
• After learning Sade had reached Egghead, Sakazuki ordered Rob Lucci to wait for Kizaru, while the Five Elders decided to go to the island.
• Kuina wounded Lucci in battle, and Kizaru left for Egghead after spotting Sade's ship.
• Dr. Vegapunk emerged from the underground laboratory and found CP0 and Kizaru waiting; Kizaru aimed a charged laser at him.
• Sade pressed down Kizaru's arm and told him not to force himself to kill Dr. Vegapunk.

Austin disrupted Kizaru’s confrontation with Vegapunk, while Sade emerged from his transformation and awakened Nika’s power. After meeting Emmett, Sade declared his goal of becoming a true King to defeat the World Government and the world’s pirates.

• Austin appeared before Kizaru and Vegapunk, then pretended to attack Kizaru and sent him crashing into a warship.
• Sade left the underground laboratory in his transformed body and explored the power he had gained.
• Sade’s use of his power awakened the giant robot Emmett, who mistook him for Joy Boy.
• Sade told Emmett he was not Joy Boy and explained that he wanted to become World King.
• Sade declared that he would defeat the World Government and every pirate to change the world and become a true King.

Emmett recognized Sade as a future king and learned his full name was Sade D. Geo. At Egghead, Austin disrupted the Five Elders’ attack while King Luffy fought Saturn and Kizaru, until the Elders saw an ancient giant and robot they believed should be dead.

• Emmett sensed Joy Boy’s qualities in Sade, asked his real name, and learned he was Sade D. Geo.
• Saturn arrived on the battlefield and confronted Austin, who said he would not personally fight the Five Elders.
• Austin’s authority over the Pacifistas caused their orders to conflict, while Saturn charged toward Vegapunk.
• King Luffy restrained Saturn and Kizaru with his Nika powers as Saturn summoned the other Five Elders.
• A familiar drumbeat sounded, and the Five Elders saw a flame-wreathed giant and a massive robot, then cried out in disbelief that they were alive.

Austin’s plan to awaken Sade as the Dark Sun God unfolded as Sade confronted the Five Elders with Nika’s power and a trace of Joy Boy’s Conqueror’s Haki. Sade overwhelmed the Elders, and the chapter ended as his enormous white form began turning black.

• The Five Elders accused Austin of creating a counterfeit Joy Boy, but Austin smiled and tugged a hidden knot inside Sade’s hat.
• A fraction of Joy Boy’s stored Conqueror’s Haki erupted alongside Sade’s own Haki, frightening the Five Elders and briefly stiffening them.
• Sade seized the Five Elders in his enormous hand but could not grab Austin, who watched from the sky.
• Austin revealed that he had spent years and vast sums cultivating Sade mainly to surprise Imu, and Sade proved strong enough to overpower the Elders.
• Sade coated his fist in Conqueror’s Haki and smashed the Five Elders into the ground, then began changing from white to black.

Sade seized the Five Elders and declared that he would challenge the hidden masters behind them, while Austin arranged a worldwide broadcast of Sade’s speech. Austin then confronted Imu in Mary Geoise and used Sade’s words and Conqueror’s Haki to shake Imu, leaving the ruler trembling.

• Sade crushed the Five Elders repeatedly and warned them to tell their true masters that he would come for them.
• Sade asked Austin to broadcast his words, and Austin used Black Spear and the Mirror World to project him across mirrors around the world.
• Austin entered Mary Geoise, captured Gunko, and placed a gigantic mirror before Imu in the Room of Flowers.
• Sade’s promises of a peaceful, prosperous world reached Imu through the mirror, and Austin pulled the knot to unleash Conqueror’s Haki across Mary Geoise.
• Imu trembled under Sade’s speech and Haki as Austin remarked on Imu’s expression and took a picture.

Austin took a photograph of Imu, while Sade’s speech sparked rebellion around the world and divided the world into the World Government and the King’s army. Crocodile and Mihawk decided Cross Guild needed to strengthen itself and set out for Impel Down.

• Austin narrowly avoided Imu’s attack after photographing her and joked that she should not be angry.
• Sade’s speech spread worldwide, inspiring oppressed people and some nations to rebel and join his cause.
• Rebels seized Cross Guild’s weapons, prompting Crocodile and Mihawk to discuss the disruption caused by Sade’s movement.
• Crocodile and Mihawk chose to strengthen Cross Guild while staying neutral and decided to visit Impel Down.

Cross Guild launched an operation to free Doflamingo from Impel Down and recruit him, while Buggy, Mihawk, and Crocodile fought their way into the prison. Hannyabal vowed to stop them as they descended and freed prisoners.

• A jailer unlocked most of Doflamingo’s restraints and gave him a Den Den Mushi, through which Crocodile invited him to join Cross Guild.
• Doflamingo realized Cross Guild’s operation was connected to their big Boss and agreed to meet them.
• Buggy, Mihawk, and Crocodile approached Impel Down aboard a large ship, with Buggy bringing Mr. 3 along.
• Mihawk cut through the prison’s Seastone defenses, Crocodile swept away jailers, and Buggy used Mr. 3’s Candle-Candle Fruit to free captured pirates.
• After learning that Buggy and his subordinates were descending through Impel Down and releasing prisoners, Hannyabal vowed to stop them.

Mihawk and Crocodile led a Cross Guild assault through Impel Down, with Mihawk holding off Magellan so Crocodile could reach the Sixth Level. Buggy and his followers joined the advance, and Crocodile arrived at a cell where someone was waiting for her.

• Impel Down sounded its alarms as guards and Jailer Beasts mobilized against Mihawk and Crocodile.
• Mihawk and Crocodile fought through the prison, then Mihawk stayed behind to battle Magellan while Crocodile headed for the Sixth Level.
• Mihawk and Magellan's clash endangered the Fifth Level prisoners, as Buggy arrived with his newly gathered followers.
• Buggy's followers praised him after he survived a slash from Mihawk, and the group continued toward the Sixth Level.
• Crocodile knocked Hannyabal aside and reached a cell, where a prisoner greeted her with laughter.

Crocodile and the Cross Guild broke Doflamingo out of Impel Down, where he immediately slaughtered prisoners and jailers before Mihawk stopped him from fighting Buggy. As Crocodile explained the upheaval in the world, Doflamingo warned that the Celestial Dragons still had powerful secrets, and Crocodile suggested Austin might have an Ancient Weapon of her own.

• Crocodile confronted Doflamingo in Impel Down and explained that Austin had not ordered his rescue.
• Buggy and the prisoners arrived, and Mr. 3 freed Doflamingo with a wax key.
• Doflamingo attacked the jailers and prisoners with his threads, then sliced Buggy apart when Buggy protested.
• Mihawk blocked Doflamingo from attacking Buggy and reminded him that the Cross Guild needed him.
• Crocodile told Doflamingo about Sade's war against the World Government and the chaos dividing the world.
• Doflamingo warned that the Celestial Dragons had deep reserves of power, and Crocodile asked whether Austin had prepared an Ancient Weapon.

Crocodile, Doflamingo, Mihawk, and Buggy escaped Impel Down with the prisoners after Buggy blasted open the Gate of Justice. Meanwhile, Sade’s group sailed toward Elbaf with Austin, who wondered whether the giants still welcomed him after King Harald’s death.

• Crocodile told Doflamingo that Sade commanded island-sized Sea Kings and could overpower the World Government’s naval forces.
• The escaped prisoners reached the Gate of Justice, and Doflamingo proposed leaving them behind so the Shichibukai could fly over it.
• Buggy defended the prisoners as his companions and fired a Buggy Cannon that blasted a hole through the gate.
• Sade’s group sailed aboard Noah toward Elbaf, where Sade hoped to gain the giants’ assistance.
• Austin recalled his history with Harald and Loki and wondered whether Elbaf still welcomed him.

In another timeline, baby Austin was left at Gick’s home, where Gick fought off CP0 agents who came to take him. Austin gradually realized he had been reborn in the One Piece world, but his new grandfather’s strange green, chunky milk left him horrified.

• Austin showed Sade how he could use Observation Haki and the Power of Space to look into another timeline.
• After the God Valley battle, Gick returned to Dullamos Island and received Austin’s letters and photographs from Kong Ao.
• Gick found a black-haired baby in a basket at his doorstep and recognized the CP0 agents who demanded the child.
• Gick confronted the agents with his sword, and baby Austin fell asleep after watching him draw it.
• As he grew more aware, Austin realized he had transmigrated into the One Piece world and was being raised by Gick.
• Gick forced Austin to drink green, chunky milk, and Austin protested that he was being fed shit.

Austin grew up as a young azure dragon on Dullamos while Roger and Whitebeard raced to find him. When Garp arrived on the island, Austin accidentally set his warship on fire, and Garp caught him and invited him to join the Marines as his disciple.

• As a baby, Austin was fed mashed Azure Dragon Fruit by Gick and transformed into a dragon.
• In 1492, the Roger Pirates sailed to Dullamos to find Austin, while the Whitebeard Pirates arrived to stop Roger from taking him.
• Austin hunted fish and Sea Kings with his dragon abilities, then cooked them on the shore.
• Garp landed on Dullamos with Marines searching for someone, and Austin worried they might be after Gick.
• Austin set the Marines' warship on fire as a diversion, but Garp caught him and offered to train him as a Marine.

Garp captured Austin and brought him to Marine Headquarters, persuading him to join the Marines by promising to teach him his techniques. At Marineford, Garp revealed to Sengoku that he had brought Austin back before Roger could.

• Garp ignored Austin's refusal and took him aboard a Marine warship, then convinced him to join by offering to teach him the Fist Bone techniques.
• Austin spotted Gick on Dullamos Island and waved goodbye, while Garp refused to treat Gick as a pirate.
• Gick threw Austin a necklace containing the black cube, telling him to take care of himself.
• Garp told Austin to smash ten warships before he would teach him martial arts, and Austin immediately struck the warship and was scolded.
• Garp arrived at Marine Headquarters with Austin and told Sengoku that he had brought him back before Roger could.

Austin began Garp’s Fist Bone training at Marine Headquarters, where his strength remained astonishing even under Seastone restraints. After Garp invited him to serve as an assistant instructor at the Navy training camp, Austin accepted, unaware that Sengoku had arranged the position to help him feel more connected to the Navy.

• Austin was promoted straight to Chief Petty Officer, but he remained dissatisfied and ate his way through the training base’s stored food.
• Garp took Austin to the decommissioned warships and began Fist Bone training, ordering him to punch without Haki or Devil Fruit powers.
• Austin smashed the warships with his bare strength, so Garp put low-purity Seastone shackles on him to make the training more challenging.
• As Austin’s reputation as a monster spread through Marine Headquarters, Garp told him the Navy training camp had begun and offered him an assistant instructor position.
• Austin accepted the assistant instructor job, while Sengoku had also added his name to the camp staff so he could meet other powerful recruits, including Kuzan.

Austin joined the Marine training camp at Marineford as an assistant instructor, impressed Zephyr with his talent, and declared that he sought a justice of doing as he pleased by becoming the strongest. Zephyr judged that Austin might defect someday but still assigned him to train the recruits, and Austin began his first class with a challenge to a curly-haired Marine.

• Austin ordered the recruits to assemble and cut a lock of hair with a slash when they mistook him for a lost child.
• Zephyr arrived, recognized Austin, warned him about the camp’s monster recruits, and heard Austin describe his justice as doing as he pleased.
• Austin quickly mastered physical combat techniques, including the Six Powers and Life Return, astonishing Zephyr.
• Zephyr made Austin responsible for leading the recruits’ training and privately recorded his concern that Austin might defect from the Marines.
• Austin gathered the recruits and announced that his class would consist of practice, then called a curly-haired Marine wearing a hat to step forward.

Austin demonstrated his strength to the new Marine recruits by defeating Kuzan, a Logia user, with a Seastone-tipped Dragon Gun. He warned the recruits that Devil Fruit powers would not protect them from stronger opponents.

• Austin singled out Kuzan and invited him to demonstrate his Ice-Ice Fruit powers.
• Kuzan attacked with ice spears and Ice Ball, but Austin shattered them with his dragon tail.
• Austin let Kuzan freeze him, then broke free by transforming and struck Kuzan with a Seastone-tipped Dragon Gun.
• Kuzan collapsed after the Seastone attack, and Austin revealed he had prepared the weapon by scraping Seastone from shackles.
• Austin bent a recruit's hand and told the Marines they were weak, even if they possessed Logia powers.

Austin trained Marine recruits and sparred with Kuzan at Marine Headquarters before leaving with Garp to pursue the Roger Pirates in the New World. News of Austin’s departure reached a burly woman who had bought information about him.

• Austin used combat drills to train Marine recruits, while Kuzan watched with fierce determination despite his lingering weakness.
• Austin mocked Kuzan during his warship-punching practice, and Garp laughed as the two junior Marines squabbled.
• Borsalino told Sakazuki that Sengoku wanted them to spar with Austin, and Sakazuki agreed to fight him without holding back.
• Garp took Austin and Kuzan aboard his dog-headed warship after learning that the Roger Pirates had appeared, and they sailed toward the New World.
• A burly woman received confirmation that Austin had left Marineford and headed for the New World.