Chapter Summaries

King returned to Fenrir Island after Oshi went berserk and several Beasts Pirates leaders went missing, but a colossal red dragon emerged from the storm clouds and terrified the island. In the reception hall, Wright’s negotiations with the Self-Reliance Army were interrupted when their representative spotted the dragon and asked whether it belonged to the Beasts.

• King, Taolong, and veteran officers returned to Fenrir Island, where Obe said Sister Ra had assured her that Oshi would be fine and ordered them back to their posts.
• King prepared to fly back to Wano Country, but dark storm clouds and a sense of lethal pressure made him and the officers realize something immense was concealed above them.
• A flash of lightning revealed a colossal red dragon, frightening people across the island, including Saluzo and an underworld visitor touring the Beasts’ armory.
• Wright rejected Mr. Monkey’s offer to buy arms on low-cost installment terms, explaining that the Beasts had no need to accept such a deal.
• Mr. Monkey rose as fierce winds swirled around him, then stared through the window at the dragon and asked Wright whether it belonged to the Beasts.

Osiris returned to Fenrir Island in her complete dragon form, carrying a baby and dozens of dead pirates. After Oshi buried the pirates in the Beasts Pirates’ cemetery, she invited Obe to ask what had happened.

• The Tattooed Man and Wright saw Osiris looming over Fenrir Island, sending its residents and pirates into panic.
• King prepared to attack Osiris, but Obe stopped him and explained that the dragon was not an enemy.
• Osiris lowered the baby from her mouth to Obe, then flew away; Obe handed the child to King and chased after her.
• Oshi landed at the Beasts Pirates’ cemetery and buried the dozens of dead subordinates she had brought back, including Rusty.
• After finishing the burial rites, Oshi turned to Obe and invited her to ask questions.

Oshi explained that Burufatt had died and that she had avenged him, while revealing the changes brought by fully grasping her underworld god authority. She refused Obe’s request to revive someone, insisting that she would not let anyone trample on death.

• Obe noticed Oshi’s newly majestic appearance, including red eyeshadow and crimson Priest Glyphs around her golden irises.
• Oshi told Obe that Burufatt had died, that she had avenged him, and that his remains had been given a sea burial according to his final wish.
• Oshi explained that she had found a child in the deep sea clutching Sister Ra’s golden feather and brought him back because he might be connected to Burufatt.
• Oshi said she had returned in Sky Dragon Form to transport the buried people’s remains, but her inexperience made the transformation’s effects more dramatic than intended.
• Obe asked Oshi to try reviving someone, but Oshi refused and said her duty was to uphold the boundary between life and death.

Oshi explained to Obe why she would not resurrect Burufatt, despite now having the power to do so, and raised a crystal gravestone bearing his portrait. As they left the cemetery, Ra spotted an unfamiliar ship approaching the island where she and Queen were waiting.

• Oshi told Obe that she could bring Burufatt back but refused to violate the boundary between life and death.
• Oshi created a red crystal gravestone for Burufatt, and sunlight refracted inside it to reveal his portrait.
• Oshi and Obe watched fireflies in the cemetery before heading back together.
• Ra noticed an unfamiliar ship approaching the island where Queen was preparing dinner.
• Queen looked toward the sea, and Ra told him the ship would enter their field of vision in about half an hour.

Dr. Clover and the Ohara scholars sailed into the Calm Belt to search for an island using clues from ancient ruins. As they discussed the danger of their expedition and Olivia’s young child, a woman’s voice came from the stern.

• A scholar questioned whether Dr. Clover had chosen the right course, and Dr. Clover insisted the ruins’ clues pointed to an island in the area.
• Dr. Clover’s students teased the doubting scholar and recalled Dr. Clover’s past clashes with Marines and the World Government.
• Dr. Clover warned his students not to report their research to the World Government, explaining that his senior disciple had vanished after boarding an official research ship that pirates attacked.
• The scholars said Olivia was watching the experimental Beast Repellent Powder at the stern and discussed her decision to join the expedition despite having a nearly two-year-old child.
• A woman’s voice came from the stern as Dr. Clover pondered Olivia’s risks.

Dr. Clover’s research team tested Olivia’s Beast Repellent Powder while searching for an island, but a huge sea creature struck their ship after dark. The ship survived, though three scholars were missing, and Dr. Clover ordered a search.

• Olivia reported that the powder repelled some smaller Sea Kings, but its effect on large sea beasts remained uncertain.
• Dr. Clover ordered the exhausted power team to rest, then told Marcus to anchor the ship for the night.
• Marcus saw the sea turn black, and the anchor struck something before a massive shadow surged beneath the ship and tossed it into the air.
• Marcus and Olivia found Dr. Clover missing, then heard him call from outside the ship; Marcus pulled him and an unconscious scholar aboard.
• Olivia reported that three people had been thrown overboard and were still missing, while Conner was unconscious with a head injury.
• Dr. Clover sent the wounded to the infirmary and ordered the remaining crew to search the water with lookouts and searchlights.

A colossal Sea King attacked Dr. Clover, Marcus, Olivia, and the research ship after the Beast Repellent Powder was lost, but it suddenly burst into glowing particles before it could swallow them. Ra watched the strange lights from shore with Queen, while Olivia and Dr. Clover tried to understand the miraculous rescue.

• Marcus and Dr. Clover realized the ship’s anchor had caught a Sea King, and they suspected the missing Beast Repellent Powder had failed to repel it.
• A gigantic black-and-white whale rose from the sea and dove toward the research ship, leaving Marcus, Dr. Clover, Olivia, and the scholars unable to escape.
• Ra declined Queen’s smoked meat at first, then tasted it and privately assessed his cooking and discovered his thoughts and preference for sweets.
• Ra and Queen saw a distant shower of lights over the sea, which Queen mistook for Flying Fish.
• The Sea King froze just before swallowing the research ship, then burst into countless warm points of light, and Olivia awoke to find the crew alive.

After a night in the Calm Belt, the Ohara scholars landed by accident on an island where Queen and La were waiting. La treated the injured Conner and revealed that she knew Cyrus Wright, leaving Dr. Clover and the others stunned to learn Wright might still be alive.

• The scholars debated the strange light that had consumed the Sea Kings until Olivia reminded them to search for their three companions, who were eventually rescued.
• Olivia told Kara that the ship's fresh water was running low and Conner's condition was worsening, so they needed to turn back and find a doctor.
• The scholars lost their way and landed on a deserted island, where Queen threatened them before La welcomed them with breakfast.
• Dr. Clover explained that the group came from Ohara to search the Calm Belt, while Marcus urged everyone to find help for the unconscious Conner.
• La treated Conner and told Dr. Clover that Cyrus Wright had mentioned him, shocking the scholars who believed Wright was dead.

Ra proved to Dr. Clover and the Ohara scholars that Cyrus Wright was alive and explained that he had become an important internal affairs officer of the Beasts Pirates. She invited the scholars to visit the pirates’ territory, leaving them to confront Wright’s ties to the powerful arms-dealing organization.

• Ra formed a lifelike image of Wright from refracted light, and Dr. Clover recognized his former student.
• Dr. Clover asked Ra why Wright had not returned to Ohara, and she said he was on Fenrir Island in the New World.
• Olivia identified Fenrir Island as the headquarters of Beasts Heavy Industries, an arms dealer operated by the Beasts Pirates.
• Ra confirmed that Wright served as an important internal affairs officer of the Beasts Pirates and said he was safe and fulfilled.
• Ra invited the Ohara scholars to visit the Beasts Pirates’ territory for an exchange and study.

Ra explained her theory that major events in the outside world sent worldline fluctuations into the Millennium Puzzle, helping her reach other worlds, and said she would wait until she could control the Creator God’s power before choosing when to return. She invited the Ohara scholars to visit the Beasts Pirates, and Dr. Clover accepted so he could see Wright again.

• Ra reasoned that the erased century might conceal a dangerous truth and welcomed the chaos that its revelation could bring.
• Ra connected disturbances in the Millennium Puzzle to major events in the world, forming her Worldline Fluctuation Resonance Hypothesis.
• Ra recalled that her own intervention against Sengoku had produced no Puzzle response, and concluded that only local people could create effective worldline fluctuations.
• Ra decided to wait until she could control the Creator God’s power before choosing the time of her return.
• Ra invited the Ohara scholars to visit the Beasts Pirates, and Dr. Clover accepted in hopes of seeing Wright.

After learning Ra belonged to the Beasts Pirates, the scholars of Ohara debated whether Dr. Clover should visit the crew to see Wright. Most of them trusted Ra’s intentions and supported the visit, but Kara sensed something deeply unnatural about her and urged everyone to leave.

• The scholars panicked when Ra revealed she was a Beasts Pirate, then relaxed after she left.
• Dr. Clover asked Marcus and Olivia what they thought about visiting the Beasts Pirates to see Wright, and both agreed to accompany him.
• Kara objected to the plan, but Marcus, Olivia, and the other scholars pointed to Ra’s kindness and decided an on-site investigation was worthwhile.
• Kara explained that he could not see Ra’s face and sensed that her gaze regarded them as something unlike living creatures.
• A lazy hum followed Kara’s warning and drew everyone’s attention away.

Conner woke on the deserted island and learned from Dr. Clover and the Ohara scholars what had happened after he lost consciousness. Elsewhere, Queen finished modifying his Brachiosaurus body into a weapon platform and explained his bizarre ideas to Ra, who stopped him from demonstrating the rockets indoors.

• Conner woke up, and the Ohara scholars crowded around him with concern.
• Dr. Clover checked that Conner was unharmed, then explained how he had ended up on the deserted island in the Calm Belt.
• Ra returned to the base and found Queen welding rocket launchers onto his transformed body.
• Queen proudly described his supposed Ancient Brachiosaurus anatomy and his new rocket-firing design to a bewildered Ra.
• Queen prepared to demonstrate the weapons, but Ra warned him not to fire indoors because the ceiling might not withstand the impact.

Dr. Clover and the Ohara scholars discovered ancient ruins on the island and began investigating their architecture. The ruins resembled a building on Kru Island, while their broken compass spun endlessly, leaving them with a clue that the island might be connected to the kingdom absent from history.

• A supply team returned to the research ship empty-handed and told Dr. Clover they had found extensive ancient ruins on the island.
• La told Queen the approaching scholars were heading to the ruins rather than coming to mooch another meal.
• Dr. Clover and the Ancient Architecture Group examined a moss-covered stone building and dated it to roughly one thousand to eleven hundred years old.
• Dr. Clover recalled that the scholars had found a Poneglyph on Kru Island, whose message had led them to this island in the Calm Belt.
• Kara showed Dr. Clover the cracked compass, whose needle had spun erratically since the previous night and continued spinning on the island.

Dr. Clover explored the ruins’ ruined church district and concluded that an immense force had devastated half the city only a few years earlier. After falling into a man-made basement and injuring his back, he discovered something in the darkness.

• Ohara’s archaeological team split into groups to survey the town-sized ruins while Dr. Clover headed alone toward the city center.
• Dr. Clover found the church reduced to rubble and saw that the surrounding half of the city had vanished, leaving flat terrain and low shrubs.
• He examined brittle building stones and volcanic glass, then inferred that extreme heat had destroyed the area a few years earlier.
• Dr. Clover fell into a pit, hurt his back, and decided to wait for the team to find him.
• He realized the pit was a man-made basement and touched a cold object in the darkness, recognizing its familiar feel.

Dr. Clover discovered a Poneglyph in an underground chamber and read fragments describing the history of an unknown kingdom. Ra offered to show him another Poneglyph in the Beasts' territory, leaving Clover curious about her motives and her interest in history.

• Dr. Clover identified the dark stone wall as a Poneglyph after feeling its carvings.
• Ra illuminated the chamber, and Dr. Clover read fragments about a religious city, a kingdom, and a rebellion.
• Dr. Clover concluded that the inscription supported his theory that an unknown kingdom had existed.
• Ra revealed that the Beasts' territory held a Poneglyph and said other New World pirate crews, including the BIG MOM Pirates, had them too.
• Dr. Clover questioned Ra's motives, and Ra assured him she approached him with goodwill because she was interested in the world's history.

Ra examined the Beasts' Poneglyph and accepted Dr. Clover's invitation to visit Ohara, promising to bring a rubbing. Back at Queen's laboratory, she found that Queen had eaten all the chicken soup, but she calmly told him she would make more.

• Ra told Dr. Clover that she wanted to understand history, and he invited her to visit Ohara's Tree of Omniscience library.
• Dr. Clover returned to inform his expedition team about the Poneglyph and retrieve tools to make a rubbing.
• Ra returned to Queen's laboratory and found Queen had eaten the chicken soup and the black chicken.
• Queen apologized and begged Ra to forgive him, but Ra asked whether he had enjoyed the soup and promised to make it again.
• Queen washed the pots and bowls, relieved that Ra had not punished him.

Queen grew comfortable with Kara and enjoyed her chicken soup alongside the Ohara scholars, while Kara tried to keep Conner from learning to cook from Ra. The scholars left the next morning to decipher a Poneglyph, and Queen returned to the laboratory to ask Ra what was for lunch.

• Kara served chicken soup to Queen and the Ohara scholars, whose fatigue faded after tasting it.
• Conner asked Ra to teach him cooking, but Kara objected until Dr. Clover allowed him to learn on Ra’s next visit to Ohara.
• The scholars packed up and left after completing their survey and making a rubbing of a Poneglyph that Dr. Clover thought described erased history.
• Queen celebrated the scholars’ departure by firing a rocket launcher at the sea, while Kara took over pedaling the ship’s wheel as they left.
• Queen returned to the laboratory and asked Ra what they were having for lunch, and she suggested roast suckling pig.

Ra slaughtered a wild boar and roasted it for Queen, who ate while crying despite feeling guilty about the animal’s death. After two weeks of Ra repeatedly serving him pork, Kaido returned to the island carrying a baby and greeted Zayn.

• Ra told Queen about the New Year pig custom and described how pigs were slaughtered, while Queen cowered in fear.
• Ra killed a wild boar by cutting its carotid artery as Queen watched in horror.
• Ra roasted the boar and offered Queen a piece, and he ate it while tearfully apologizing to the dead animal.
• Ra mistook Queen’s reaction for a love of pork and served him different pork dishes every few days over the next two weeks.
• Kaido returned to the island carrying a baby, greeted Zayn, and remarked that he had grown fatter.

Kaido reunited with Queen, who had joined the Beasts Pirates and was acting strangely after Ra's cooking. Ra took charge of Kaido's crying infant daughter, discovered Kaido had not named or fed her, and decided to contact Wright to find a wet nurse.

• Kaido found Queen hiding in a corner and learned from Ra that he had agreed to join the Beasts Pirates.
• Kaido ate Ra's braised lion's head meatballs while Ra urged Queen to return to the kitchen for more food.
• Kaido's baby daughter cried, and Ra took her from him and admired her features.
• Ra asked whether the baby had a name and when Kaido had last fed her; Kaido admitted he had not considered feeding her.
• Kaido said the child's mother was unavailable, and Ra decided to contact Wright to find a wet nurse.

Miss Ra and Kaido arranged for Arlong’s stepmother and baby sister, Shyarly, to join them as a wet nurse for Kaido’s child. Arlong reunited with his stepmother, but remained guarded and demanded to know why she had come to the Beasts’ territory.

• Miss Ra asked Wright to find a wet nurse, and Wright explained that Oshi had also brought back a baby who needed one.
• Wright said Jinbe had found a suitable fish-man wet nurse: Arlong’s stepmother, who had agreed to come with her daughter, Shyarly.
• Arlong’s underlings gathered around him as he held Shyarly, then he drove them away and confronted his stepmother.
• Arlong’s stepmother soothed Shyarly and greeted Arlong, while he insisted that his childhood departure had been his own choice.
• Arlong asked his stepmother why she was on the Beasts’ territory.