Chapter Summaries

Koshiro fought Apophis, trying to grasp the Breath of Time so he could protect Kuina, but he was repeatedly overwhelmed. Kuina woke in a coffin at Isshin Dojo and reunited with Zoro, while Koshiro and Apophis continued their battle nearby.

• Koshiro tried to surpass time with new sword attacks, but Apophis defeated him repeatedly.
• Koshiro struggled to understand the Breath of Time and renewed his vow to protect Kuina when he heard a faint voice.
• Kuina woke in a coffin at Isshin Dojo and thought she had died.
• Zoro mistook Kuina for a corpse, and she slapped him when he touched her.
• Zoro told Kuina that a dangerous fighter had challenged Koshiro, and they heard a clash outside.

Apophis defeated Koshiro, who died after unleashing his full potential, then revived and reshaped Koshiro’s corpse as a new vessel. At the same time, Kuina and Zoro reached the devastated back mountain and saw the destruction left by the fight.

• Koshiro asked Apophis to spare Kuina, and Apophis promised he would not kill her before Koshiro died.
• Apophis revealed that he had moved his heart to avoid Koshiro’s fatal strike and said Koshiro had lost after seeing only one fragment of the future.
• Apophis explained that he had pushed Koshiro to surpass his limits to test hidden potential and obtain a powerful body, then revived Koshiro and used Shadow Revolution to make the corpse resemble him.
• Apophis noted the new body’s limits and said he would begin the third stage of his plan after dealing with matters in East Blue.
• Kuina recognized Koshiro’s voice and, unable to walk, let Zoro carry her to the back mountain.
• Kuina and Zoro found the forest reduced to ruins and realized Koshiro’s battle had caused the devastation.

Apophis defeated Koshiro and confronted Kuina and Zoro, but Longinus arrived before Apophis could kill them. Apophis revealed that Koshiro had badly injured him and warned the children that Longinus was a formidable opponent, setting the stage for their confrontation.

• Apophis told Kuina and Zoro that Koshiro was dead, then effortlessly knocked them aside when they attacked him.
• Zoro charged at Apophis again, and Apophis raised Nidai Kitetsu to strike before Longinus intervened from the sky.
• Longinus rescued Zoro and asked the children what had happened, but Zoro and Kuina kept silent about Koshiro's death.
• Kuina and Zoro warned Longinus about Apophis, who revealed that Longinus was one of the world's strongest figures and that Koshiro's final slash had seriously injured him.

Longinus fought Apophis, who escaped after their battle destroyed the back mountain, and explained that defeating him would require becoming the world's strongest Great Swordsman. Kuina chose to join the Marines, while Zoro remained behind and vowed to grow stronger.

• Longinus and Apophis clashed, and Minos protected Zoro and Kuina from the sandstorm as they watched the fight.
• Minos carried Zoro and Kuina away as a blade of light shattered the mountaintop, and Longinus revealed that Apophis had escaped after being injured.
• Longinus told Zoro and Kuina that Apophis was on par with Hawk Eyes Mihawk and advised them to join the Marines if they wanted a chance at revenge.
• Zoro refused to join the Marines, but Kuina decided to go with Longinus, leaving Wado Ichimonji with Zoro as a memento.

Longinus arrived at the bar in Windmill Village while Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates were worried about facing the powerful Marine Vice Admiral with Shanks injured. The chapter ended with Longinus confronting Shanks over his claim that a Sea King had bitten off his arm.

• Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates teased each other about Shanks losing an arm, while Luffy blamed himself for the injury.
• Shanks told Luffy that pirates could lose anything except their partners and that one person alone could never become the Pirate King.
• Hartz reported that Vice Admiral Longinus had arrived with only a little girl, prompting the pirates to prepare for a dangerous confrontation.
• Shanks warned Luffy and Makino that Longinus was powerful and had cut off his own hand.
• Longinus entered the bar and questioned Shanks's story that a Sea King had bitten off his arm.

Longinus confronted Red-Haired in Windmill Village, then revealed he had come to draw out Apophis, the Crimson Swordsman. Apophis arrived and challenged Longinus to resume their unfinished battle, while Red-Haired was left out of their confrontation.

• Longinus joked with Red-Haired and Luffy at Makino's bar, then explained he had come to keep Red-Haired from causing trouble.
• Longinus told Red-Haired he was pursuing a troublesome man and had come to wait for him to appear.
• Apophis entered the bar, and the pirates recognized him as the Crimson Swordsman and a feared great swordsman.
• Apophis said he had sought Red-Haired but changed his mind because Red-Haired had lost an arm, then challenged Longinus to continue their unfinished battle.
• Longinus accepted the challenge, leaving Red-Haired bewildered as the two prepared to fight.

Longinus arranged for himself and Apophis to fight in front of the Red Hair Pirates, hoping to make their separate identities unmistakable while witnessing Red-Haired’s advanced Conqueror’s Haki. The clash left Longinus impressed by Red-Haired’s power as Red-Haired and Apophis continued fighting.

• Longinus watched the Red Hair Pirates gather as he and Apophis fought across the sea, while Red-Haired complained about being ignored.
• Red-Haired charged into the battle, but Longinus and Apophis struck him together and sent him flying.
• Apophis called Red-Haired a cripple, provoking him to attack with Griffin as Apophis countered with a blood-red slash and a storm of starlight-like blades.
• Red-Haired unleashed advanced Conqueror’s Haki, shattering Apophis’s attack and briefly disrupting him before their swords clashed.
• Longinus observed Red-Haired’s Haki and recognized it as the overwhelming power that had helped him rise among the emperors.

Longinus joined Apophis and Red-Haired in a fierce three-way battle, struggling against Shanks’s Haki while demonstrating overwhelming strength despite his injuries. After three days and nights, the fight ended without a victor, and Longinus prepared to leave with Minos and a young girl.

• Longinus charged into the fight, and his punch pierced Red-Haired’s King’s Domain and sent him flying.
• Red-Haired urged Apophis to cut off his left hand, but Apophis refused and joined Longinus and Red-Haired in the battle.
• Red-Haired’s Conqueror’s Haki briefly stalled Longinus’s Iron Body, allowing Griffin to pierce his chest before Longinus struck back.
• The three fought across the sky and sea for three days and nights while the pirates and villagers held a beach feast.
• Red-Haired said the battle had no result, and Longinus summoned Minos with a young girl aboard to leave.

After the battle with Shanks, Longinus left with Minos and learned that the clash had drawn attention across the sea. He received a new assignment to find a missing Celestial Dragon, Donquixote Mjosgard.

• Shanks told Beckman that Longinus was exceptionally strong and that Apophis seemed to be holding back, while Beckman resolved to gather more information about Apophis.
• Longinus made calls from Minos's back as Kuina trained and explained that she never wanted to feel powerless again.
• Longinus reassured Kuina that she could not have changed what happened and said her father would be proud of her determination.
• An Elder told Longinus that a Celestial Dragon had gone missing after an attack in the Silona Sea and ordered him to search for him.
• Longinus learned that the missing Celestial Dragon was Donquixote Mjosgard and agreed to do his best to find him.

Hody Jones plotted to provoke a riot on Fish-Man Island so his men could steal the Rage Drug, but his plan was interrupted by a gigantic Sea King outside the island’s bubble shield. The Sea King opened its mouth toward the shield, and the Fish-Men spotted someone inside.

• Hody Jones revealed that he planned to stage an attack on a Celestial Dragon and manipulate the resulting confrontation to discredit Otohime or kill her.
• Hody Jones explained that the ensuing riot would draw Neptune’s army away, giving his men a chance to steal the Rage Drug from the royal palace.
• Hody Jones and the Fish-Men heard an uproar outside and saw a gigantic Sea King looming beyond Fish-Man Island’s bubble shield.
• The Sea King opened its mouth as if to bite through the shield, and the Fish-Men saw someone inside its mouth.

Apophis entered Fish-Man Island illegally after terrifying a giant Sea King and the border guards. Hody Jones learned that Apophis had killed a Celestial Dragon and ordered Dos and Zeo to lure him to Gyoncorde Plaza, while Neptune and Jinbe identified the intruder as the Crimson Swordsman.

• A giant Sea King fled from Apophis after he emerged from its mouth, and Apophis crossed Fish-Man Island’s shield.
• Apophis used his Fear Domain to frighten a guard and entered the island without permission.
• Hody Jones beat Locke for praising humans, then learned that Apophis had killed a Celestial Dragon.
• Hody ordered Dos and Zeo to watch Apophis and lure him to Gyoncorde Plaza the next day.
• Neptune asked Jinbe about the masked intruder, and Jinbe concluded that Apophis was the legendary Crimson Swordsman.

Jinbe warned Neptune that Apophis was powerful enough to threaten Fish-Man Island, then volunteered to learn his purpose. Apophis caught two Fish-Man District rebels who had been following him and forced them to guide him to the Mermaid Cafe.

• Jinbe told Neptune that Apophis had fought Longinus and Shanks to a draw, and cautioned that seeking Marine reinforcements could provoke him.
• Jinbe offered to approach Apophis himself, and Neptune reluctantly agreed.
• Zeo and Dos plotted to use Apophis against the royal family and followed him through Fish-Man Island.
• Apophis appeared behind Zeo and Dos, frightened them with his Ring of Fear, and ordered them to guide him to the Mermaid Cafe.
• Zeo and Dos secretly communicated by writing on each other's bodies, while nearby Fish-Men mistook their behavior for a romance.
• Apophis threatened to leave them behind unless they got up, and the two rebels agreed to guide him.

Apophis robbed Shyarly’s fortune-telling café on Fish-Man Island and discovered that her Crystal Ball would answer his questions. The chapter ended with the Crystal Ball revealing a giant Lantern Fish whose glowing lantern pointed toward the Pure Gold.

• Zeo and Dos held hands and secretly prepared answers as they followed Apophis to Shyarly’s café.
• Apophis ignored the merfolk guard and entered the café, where the human pirates mocked his mask and Shyarly.
• Apophis announced that he had come to rob the café, then killed Hoop Gilson when the pirate attacked him.
• Apophis confronted Shyarly and said he would knock her out and take her if her fortune-telling power belonged to her.
• Shyarly explained that the Crystal Ball had the ability, and Apophis asked it to show him the Pure Gold.
• The Crystal Ball revealed an enormous Lantern Fish with a brightly glowing golden lantern.

Apophis took Shyarly’s crystal ball and left the Mermaid Cafe, while Jinbe learned that Arlong had been killed after enslaving humans in the East Blue. Apophis killed Dos and Zeo after they revealed Hody Jones’s involvement in a plan, prompting Jinbe to head for Fish-Man District to prevent a disaster.

• Apophis took Shyarly’s crystal ball, and Shyarly reassured Jinbe that she had given it to him willingly.
• Jinbe told Shyarly that Arlong had been killed by Marines after establishing an empire in the East Blue and enslaving humans.
• Apophis recognized Dos and Zeo as Hody Jones’s subordinates, then killed them both with a tap of his finger.
• Jinbe identified the dead Fish-Men and concluded that Apophis was the only person on the island capable of killing them so quickly.
• Jinbe decided to go to Fish-Man District to stop its residents from provoking Apophis and endangering Fish-Man Island.

Hody Jones accelerated his secret plan after learning Jinbe had discovered the deaths of Zeo and Dos, while Ikaros lured Otohime and Shirahoshi to Gyoncorde Plaza. Hody began the operation by beating a Celestial Dragon in a sack, leaving him badly hurt.

• Hammond told Hody Jones and Ikaros that Zeo and Dos had died near the Mermaid Cafe and that Jinbe had been seen leaving the area.
• Hody Jones decided to start the operation early, ordering Ikaros to lure Otohime to Gyoncorde Plaza and Hammond to blend disguised Fish-Man into the crowd.
• Apophis waited near the plaza because he could not identify Shirahoshi using Observation Haki alone.
• Ikaros persuaded Otohime to give a speech at Gyoncorde Plaza, and Otohime brought Shirahoshi along despite the guard captain's suspicions.
• Hody Jones beat a Celestial Dragon inside a sack, then learned that Ikaros's plan had succeeded.

Otohime protected a treacherous Celestial Dragon, and Shirahoshi’s cry summoned a host of Super Giant Sea Kings, revealing her connection to Poseidon. Apophis investigated the power and then raced into the deep sea after the Sea Kings, while Longinus prepared to use another identity for his plans.

• Otohime took a bullet meant for the Celestial Dragon and tried to preserve peace, but he pressed his musket to her head.
• Apophis sent a shadow into Shirahoshi, and her cry summoned more than a dozen Super Giant Sea Kings before the Celestial Dragon could shoot.
• Apophis concluded that Shirahoshi’s power came from a ripple blending mind and aura, and planned to study it through a closer connection with Dragon Palace Castle under another identity.
• Jinbe arrived with his army, and the Celestial Dragon panicked when Apophis appeared and threatened to kill him later.
• Apophis asked how long the Sea Kings had been gone, then shot through the dome to pursue them into the deep sea.

Hody Jones and the Fish-Man District thugs seized the royal palace, while Apophis hunted a Super Giant Sea King from inside its body. The Sea King's thrashing shook Fish-Man Island as Jinbe and Otohime rushed toward the palace, leaving the Celestial Dragon terrified and the island facing chaos.

• A squad captain told Jinbe and Otohime that Hody Jones and the Fish-Man District thugs had captured Neptune and the three princes.
• Otohime recognized that the Treasure Chest's power had strengthened the rebels, and Jinbe led the group toward the royal palace.
• Apophis lured a giant python Sea King into swallowing him, then stabbed one of its enormous blood vessels from inside.
• The Sea King's agony churned the ocean and shook Fish-Man Island, alarming Jinbe, Otohime, and their companions.
• Otohime explained that the disturbance came from a Super Giant Sea King, while Jinbe carried the panicked Celestial Dragon toward the palace.

Hody Jones held Neptune and his sons hostage while demanding war against humans, but Vice Admiral Longinus arrived and incapacitated Hody and his massive force. Hody then exploded from the effects of the Rage Drugs, leaving Jinbe and the others stunned.

• Jinbe and Queen Otohime found Hody Jones holding Neptune and his sons captive with tens of thousands of Fish-Men behind him.
• Hody denounced the royal family, called for war against humans, and threatened to kill Neptune unless Jinbe killed the Celestial Dragon.
• Queen Otohime tried to shoot herself to save the captives, but Jinbe knocked the firearm from her hand and challenged Hody.
• Vice Admiral Longinus arrived, and Jinbe identified him as the Marine who had defeated him two years earlier.
• Hody swallowed a plateful of Rage Drugs, but he and his followers collapsed and lost their strength when Longinus appeared.
• Hody exploded from the drugs' effects while Jinbe and the others watched in bewilderment.

Longinus ended Hody Jones’s rebellion and calmed Saint Mjosgard, but the dead Sea King revealed that Apophis remained a threat to Fish-Man Island. Longinus arranged to leave for the surface, while Queen Otohime decided to accompany him and seek support for peace between humans and fish-men.

• Longinus reassured the royal family and Jinbe that he would not punish them for Saint Mjosgard’s near-death, then warned that dangers still lurked outside Fish-Man Island.
• A dead, dried-out Super Giant Sea King struck the island’s air membrane, and Longinus explained that Apophis’s Demon Blade had drained its life force.
• Longinus asked Neptune for a ship so he could leave before Apophis returned, and Neptune assigned Jinbe to escort him and the unconscious Saint Mjosgard to the surface.
• Longinus offered to establish a Marine branch on Fish-Man Island and serve as its base commander to help prevent another rebellion.
• Queen Otohime asked to travel to the surface with Longinus to share her experiences and seek support for peace, and Neptune agreed to let her go.

Longinus visited the Five Elders after bringing Queen Otohime and Jinbe to Mary Geoise, where he secured permission to establish a Marine branch on Fish-Man Island. The Five Elders also discussed hunting Apophis and hinted that Longinus could earn a promotion by the end of the year.

• Longinus, Queen Otohime, and Jinbe arrived in Mary Geoise with Saint Mjosgard, and Captain West escorted Longinus to the Five Elders.
• Longinus told the Five Elders that Apophis had appeared on Fish-Man Island and hunted a Super Giant Sea King, prompting them to order CP0 and the Marines to find and eliminate him.
• Longinus asked to establish a Marine branch on Fish-Man Island, arguing that the Revolutionary Army could exploit discontent among ordinary Fish-Men.
• Longinus told the Five Elders that Dragon had tried to take Fisher Tiger and that Whitebeard was unlikely to oppose the Marines over Fish-Man Island.
• The Five Elders approved Longinus's proposal and told him that accomplishing something before the end of the year could help secure his promotion.