Chapter Summaries

After Uta’s concert, Luo Ya arranged the next show and negotiated with Revolutionary Army commander Belo Betty over the Celestial Tribute and the band’s charitable proceeds. He recovered part of the tribute for the Navy while entrusting the Revolutionary Army with running the Peace Association.

• Luo Ya sent Fullbody and Jango to prepare a concert in West Blue and planned to hold future concerts across the Four Seas and Grand Line.
• Luo Ya met Belo Betty at the Revolutionary Army’s camp and said Navy headquarters had ordered him to investigate the Goa Kingdom’s Celestial Tribute.
• Betty admitted the Revolutionary Army held the tribute, and Luo Ya offered to let them keep twenty percent in exchange for managing the Peace Association and distributing the band’s charitable proceeds.
• Luo Ya instructed Betty to establish the Peace Association’s East Blue branch on Glass Bead Island, hire staff with clean records, and pay them standard wages.
• The Frost Wolf Mini returned with nearly eight billion Beli, and Luo Ya told Sengoku he had recovered about half the Celestial Tribute before requesting a warship to collect it.

After the Reverie ended, the Marines were drawn into a widening war against the Revolutionary Army. On Naples Island, Capone Bege approached Uta and Luo Ya with an elaborate display of fandom, while concealing his real intentions.

• The Reverie ended, and the kings of fifty nations agreed to intensify their efforts against the Revolutionary Army, leaving the Marines overwhelmed.
• Capone Bege learned that Uta was performing on Naples Island and decided to meet her after discovering that Luo Ya was her band leader.
• Men in black entered Bege’s castle and asked him to cooperate in kidnapping Uta.
• Luo Ya protected Uta from pirates who tried to abduct her during the concert, and the group later returned to their hotel.
• Bege and hundreds of suited mafia members surrounded the hotel, then revealed themselves as Uta fans and invited her to stay with him.
• Luo Ya agreed to go with Bege, intending to see what the mafia boss had planned.

After dinner, Bege offered to manage security for Uta’s concert tour, while secretly plotting to kill Luo Ya. At Mary Geoise, a CP0 officer learned the first agents had gone silent and ordered CP9 to move against Uta.

• Bege revealed that government agents had tried to kidnap Uta and asked Luo Ya to let him handle security for the Peace Band’s worldwide tour.
• Luo Ya accepted Bege’s offer, seeing him as a useful security asset despite suspecting his motives.
• Bege toasted Luo Ya while secretly planning to find his weakness and kill him; Luo Ya left the captured agents’ fate to Bege.
• At Mary Geoise, a CP0 officer learned the dispatched agents had gone silent and ordered a subordinate to contact Spandam and send CP9 after Uta.

Peace Band’s tour reached its final stop on Baikal Island, where CP9 plotted to kidnap Uta but struggled to put their plan into action. After the concert, Trafalgar Law thanked Luo Ya for defeating Doflamingo, and Luo Ya urged him to honor Corazon’s memory by not harming people.

• Luo Ya told Caesar to inform Big Mom’s envoy that the Giant Drug did not exist and that he would attend the Tea Party in Totto Land.
• Peace Band performed to a packed crowd, where CP9’s Spandam, Jabura, Inuwi, and Kumadori were caught among Uta’s fans and argued after Inuwi and Kumadori wet Spandam.
• Spandam assigned Inuwi to lure Luo Ya away, Jabura to kidnap Uta, and Kumadori to provide support, while he stayed to enjoy Uta’s singing.
• After the concert, Trafalgar Law brought Bepo and his other Peace Band fan-subordinates to get autographs from Luo Ya and the band.
• Law thanked Luo Ya for defeating Doflamingo, and Luo Ya reminded him that Corazon would not want him to fall into depravity; Law insisted that he was a doctor.

Luo Ya discovered that CP9 had targeted Uta and forced Spandam to reveal that a CP0 Captain was leading the mission. He challenged the Captain to come to Alabasta, where he would be waiting.

• Luo Ya recognized that Inuwi’s owl calls were a signal and caught the CP9 agent outside the hotel.
• Inuwi accidentally revealed that Jabura was meant to kidnap Uta and that Spandam was at the Wrench Tavern.
• Luo Ya withstood Inuwi’s strongest punch and brought him to the tavern at extraordinary speed.
• Spandam confessed that a CP0 Captain was in charge of the mission after Luo Ya threatened him with a lamp.
• Luo Ya contacted the CP0 Captain and warned him that Uta was his, challenging him to meet in Alabasta.

Luo Ya arrived in Alabasta and learned that the kingdom had endured two years of drought while Crocodile was celebrated as its hero. He brought Crocodile outside and made it rain over Rainbase, leaving the drenched Shichibukai furious.

• Uta woke up unaware that Yamato had beaten the two CP9 agents, and Luo Ya set sail aboard the Frost Wolf for Alabasta.
• Pell escorted Luo Ya, Yamato, and Uta toward the royal capital and explained that Alabasta had suffered drought, sandstorms, and rumors blaming King Cobra for the crisis.
• Luo Ya asked Pell to help with an idea intended to make Crocodile lose his composure.
• Robin told Crocodile that Black Hair had arrived, and Crocodile agreed to meet him at Rain Dinners.
• Luo Ya met Crocodile at the casino, led him outside, and caused rain to fall over Rainbase after two years without it.
• Crocodile clenched his fists as Luo Ya asked whether he liked the gift.

After Luo Ya brought rain to Alabasta, Crocodile prepared to accelerate his Utopia Project, while Aramaki confronted Luo Ya and demanded Uta. Their battle began in the desert, ending the chapter with Luo Ya’s golden cross-shaped slash.

• Yamato, Uta, and Dragon brought three days of rain to Alabasta, and grateful people hailed Luo Ya as the Rain God at his concert.
• Crocodile watched the concert broadcast, suspected Luo Ya might know of his plan, and ordered Robin to gather Baroque Works so he could accelerate the Utopia Project.
• Aramaki watched the concert from afar, then met Luo Ya in a desert oasis and demanded that he hand over Uta on the Celestial Dragons’ orders.
• Aramaki transformed into a giant tree man and attacked Luo Ya with towering trees and bamboo, but Luo Ya cut through his defenses and charged him.
• Luo Ya unleashed Time Lag: Cross Impact, sending a golden cross-shaped slash across the desert.

Luo Ya and Aramaki fought through the night in the Alabastan desert, their battle creating a vast forest. After neither could defeat the other, Luo Ya summoned rain and proposed they stop fighting and work together, leaving Aramaki considering his offer.

• Bell reported to Cobra that a forest had appeared outside the royal city, and Yamato recognized that Luo Ya was fighting Aramaki.
• Cobra, Vivi, Yamato, and Bell went to see the forest, while Crocodile worried that its water and resources would undermine his Utopia Project.
• Luo Ya and Aramaki continued their fierce battle, and Aramaki explained that fighting in the dry desert drained his strength.
• Luo Ya realized Aramaki was difficult to exhaust while rooted in the earth, but Aramaki refused to fight in the air.
• Luo Ya sent Xiao Fen to bring rain, then suggested that he water the forest while Aramaki planted trees and that they end their fight.
• Aramaki considered Luo Ya's proposal and found it persuasive.

Luo Ya and Aramaki transformed Alabasta’s desert into a forest, then faced Crocodile, whose plans had been disrupted by their work. Aramaki fought Crocodile’s sand-based powers and ended the chapter slamming him into the ground with a Haki-coated fist.

• Luo Ya and Aramaki planted trees and watered them across Alabasta’s southern desert while sharing drinks and joking together.
• Aramaki explained that his forest could last for years, though Alabasta’s climate would eventually threaten it without care.
• Crocodile arrived in a sandstorm, blamed the pair for ruining his plans, and attacked Aramaki.
• Aramaki grew into a giant tree man and struck Crocodile’s sandstorm aside, but Crocodile drained the moisture from his plants with the Suna Suna no Mi.
• Aramaki abandoned the tree form, rushed Crocodile, and smashed him into the ground with a Haki-coated fist.

Aramaki defeated Crocodile, but Luo Ya spared him and offered him an alliance. Luo Ya revealed that Alabasta held no information about Pluton and claimed he knew a country that did, leaving Crocodile with a new lead to consider.

• Aramaki overwhelmed Crocodile, drained his strength, and left him alive before flying away to report his failed mission.
• Luo Ya revived Crocodile with water, then explained that killing him would serve little purpose and that his scheme to take Alabasta had likely failed.
• Crocodile admitted that his body and Haki had fallen behind, though he remained composed after his defeat.
• Luo Ya called Crocodile an ally and asked whether he planned to continue his scheme.
• Luo Ya told Crocodile that Pluton was not in Alabasta and claimed he knew a country that recorded the Ancient Weapon's exact whereabouts.

Luo Ya brought Uta and Yamato to Skypiea, then went alone to God's Island after Enel took an interest in Xiao Fen. Enel demanded the dragon, but Luo Ya struck him down with one punch.

• Luo Ya flew the Frost Wolf through the clouds with Xiao Fen and paid the entry fee to reach Skypiea.
• On Angel Island, Luo Ya asked Conis to show Uta and Yamato around while he headed to God's Island to slay a god.
• Enel ordered the God's Officials to let Luo Ya approach and demanded that Xiao Fen be given to him.
• Luo Ya summoned Xiao Fen above the shrine and refused Enel's demand.
• Luo Ya punched Enel in the head, shattering his skull and leaving him dead.

Luo Ya defeated Enel and brought him to Angel Island, then took Yamato and Uta to ring Shandora’s Golden Bell. As the bell’s message confirmed the Golden City’s existence, Luo Ya prepared to leave for the New World and appointed Yamato Skypiea’s new god.

• Luo Ya knocked out Enel, restrained him with Sea Stone handcuffs, and ordered Xiao Fen to burn down the shrine as the God's Officials resisted.
• Aisha sensed that Enel and the God's Officials had vanished, so Wiper led the Shandia warriors toward God's Island.
• Luo Ya arrived at Angel Island with the defeated Enel, then flew with Yamato and Uta to the Golden Bell.
• Yamato struck the Golden Bell, whose chimes reached the Shandia and Kurike, confirming that Shandora and the Golden City existed.
• Luo Ya prepared to take Enel to the New World, told Yamato and Uta to stay on Skypiea, and named Yamato the island's new god.

Luo Ya visited Egghead, reunited with Vegapunk and the others, and devised a way to preserve Kuma’s will in a Pacifista. He then helped Vegapunk test a method for extracting Devil Fruit powers, eating the fruit made from Enel’s extracted ability and awakening azure lightning in his eyes.

• Luo Ya entered Egghead after Rear Admiral Drake obtained permission from Vegapunk for his visit.
• Luo Ya joined Vegapunk, Kuma, Bonney, Sentomaru, and Kizaru for a pizza party and learned Bonney needed another year to recover.
• Luo Ya realized Law’s Personality Transplant Surgery might preserve Kuma’s will by transferring it into a Pacifista.
• Luo Ya and the others danced together before he brought Enel to Vegapunk for an ability-extraction experiment.
• Vegapunk extracted Enel’s lightning ability into a fruit, and Luo Ya ate it, revealing azure lightning in his eyes.

After eating the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, Luo Ya returned to Skypiea, where he and his companions departed for Water 7. There, the Peace Bringers Band received the Ybel Peace Prize, while a Celestial Dragon awaited Uta in Holy Land Mary Geoise.

• Luo Ya thanked Vegapunk for helping him obtain the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, then stayed at the research institute for examinations before leaving.
• Luo Ya returned to Skypiea and demonstrated his new lightning form and enhanced Observation Haki to Yamato.
• Luo Ya, Yamato, and Uta departed Skypiea aboard Xiao Fen, leaving the Skypieans and Shandia People to call a truce and ring the bell in farewell.
• Luo Ya and the others arrived in Water 7, where the Peace Bringers Band received the Ybel Peace Prize for promoting world peace.
• A Celestial Dragon in Holy Land Mary Geoise welcomed Uta.

Luo Ya reunited with the Marines at Sabaody, learned that Celestial Dragons might attend Uta’s concert, and prepared to head for the New World afterward. Meanwhile, Cavendish’s attempt to compete with the Peace Band failed, and he was confronted by Roronoa Zoro.

• Luo Ya reunited with Lu Yun, Speed, and the G-5 Marines, then learned the branch was nearly complete and Smoker had become a vice admiral.
• Lu Yun gave Luo Ya a Big Mom Pirates Tea Party invitation and warned him that Celestial Dragons might come to watch Uta’s concert; Luo Ya planned to leave for the New World after the concert with a warship.
• At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku asked Zephyr to arrange Luo Ya’s return after the concert and discussed the danger of Saint Rosward’s family causing trouble at Sabaody.
• Cavendish grew jealous of the Peace Band’s popularity, but his handshake-event tickets failed to sell.
• Roronoa Zoro approached Cavendish and identified him as a pirate with a 180-million-Beli bounty.

Zoro fought Cavendish on Sabaody, then learned Luo Ya would be at Uta’s concert and headed toward Soap Bubble Park. Lost and walking in the wrong direction, he encountered Charloss and cut him down after Charloss fired at him.

• Zoro and Cavendish fought fiercely on Island 13 until Cavendish left to protect his appearance and invited Zoro to settle things at Uta’s concert.
• Zoro saw Luo Ya on the concert poster, memorized the venue, and entered Shakky’s Rip-off Bar for food and drinks.
• At Soap Bubble Park, Saint Rosward decided to buy Uta for one billion Beli as a present for Charloss.
• Zoro wandered toward Island 17 in the opposite direction from the concert and asked Charloss if he needed directions.
• Charloss shot at Zoro, who dodged the bullet and slashed him, prompting the crowd to flee in horror.

Luo Ya killed the agents sent to take Uta and turned the crowd against them, while Saint Rosward summoned an Admiral. After hypnotizing Cavendish, Luo Ya watched him transform and attack Rosward, leaving the Celestial Dragon slashed and bleeding.

• A government official told Luo Ya that Saint Rosward wanted Uta and offered one billion Beli for her, so Luo Ya killed the official’s guards, cut out the official’s tongue, and dragged him toward the stage.
• Luo Ya told the audience the official had tried to kidnap Uta, and after they shouted for his death, Luo Ya beheaded him in front of Saint Rosward and Shalria.
• Saint Rosward ordered Marine Headquarters to send an Admiral, and Sengoku dispatched Akainu and Aokiji after receiving distress calls about attacks on Celestial Dragons.
• The audience fled when word spread that an Admiral was coming, while Luo Ya learned that Zoro had slashed another Celestial Dragon and Cavendish challenged him for the title of most popular.
• Luo Ya hypnotized Cavendish, who soon vanished from the stage and slashed Saint Rosward across the chest.

Cavendish’s second personality attacked the Celestial Dragons in the Concert Hall, and Luo Ya helped Cavendish and Zoro escape before the Marines arrived. He stayed behind, killed the wounded guards, and kept Shalria alive while warning her not to threaten him.

• Cavendish’s second personality slashed Saint Rosward and Shalria, then attacked Luo Ya, who stopped him and brought Cavendish back to himself.
• Luo Ya told Cavendish and Zoro to flee together for Fish-Man Island and promised to hold off the Marine Admiral; Zoro left after running the wrong way.
• Yamato and the others left the Concert Hall, and Luo Ya killed the wounded guards while sparing the two Celestial Dragons.
• As Marines rushed in, Luo Ya used electricity to revive Shalria and made it appear that he had saved her.
• Shalria threatened to make Luo Ya her slave, and he quietly warned that he would kill her if she threatened him again.

Luo Ya confronted Akainu and Aokiji over their late arrival after the Celestial Dragons were attacked, then tried to recruit Aokiji to help remove Akainu and reform the Marines. Aokiji refused, leaving Luo Ya to consider backing Akainu instead.

• After the medical staff took the injured Celestial Dragons to the hospital, Luo Ya told a Rear Admiral that the culprits had run west.
• Akainu and Aokiji arrived at the concert hall, and Akainu challenged Luo Ya over the attack.
• Luo Ya mocked the Admirals for arriving late and defended himself by pointing out that he had saved Shalria and had been suspended from duty.
• Akainu left to pursue Cavendish and Roronoa Zoro, while Luo Ya followed Aokiji and suggested they join forces to take out Akainu.
• Aokiji dismissed Luo Ya's proposal, and Luo Ya concluded that Aokiji lacked the resolve to lead the Marines and considered speaking with Akainu instead.

Cavendish and Zoro ran into Aokiji while trying to escape Sabaody, and Aokiji froze Zoro before Cavendish rescued him. Luo Ya stopped Aokiji from pursuing them and then slammed the Admiral into the ground with Abyss.

• Cavendish caught up with the directionally challenged Zoro and tried to lead him toward Island 33.
• Luo Ya and Aokiji encountered Cavendish and Zoro on a bridge, and Aokiji blocked their escape.
• Zoro attacked Aokiji with Three-Sword Style: Bull demon, but Aokiji turned into ice and froze him.
• Cavendish cut off Aokiji's arm, carried the frozen Zoro away, and fled south after Luo Ya cleared the ice pursuing them.
• Luo Ya stopped Aokiji from chasing Cavendish and challenged him over letting Nico Robin go.
• Luo Ya moved faster than Aokiji could track, grabbed his face, and hurled him into the ground with Abyss.