Chapter Summaries

Zephyr and Longinus faced Edward Weevil after his pirate crew attacked their trainee warship, and Zephyr intervened to protect Ain and Binz. Weevil recovered from Zephyr’s punch and charged back toward him.

• Weevil chose to attack the Marine trainee warship and killed a pirate crew member who questioned him.
• Longinus identified Weevil as a vicious pirate he had been tracking, and Zephyr decided to confront him because he believed he had once let Weevil go.
• Weevil broke free of Binz’s vines and swung his Naginata at Binz and Ain.
• Zephyr caught Weevil’s blade and punched him through the pirate ship, protecting his students.
• The pirates recognized Zephyr and Longinus as Marine Admirals and considered fleeing, but Weevil charged back at Zephyr, complaining that the punch had hurt.

Zephyr fought Weevil aboard a Marine warship while teaching his trainees the Rokushiki techniques, but Weevil exploited Zephyr’s concern for his students. Longinus intervened to protect Zephyr and the trainees, then unleashed a devastating punch that blasted Weevil and a distant island.

• Zephyr demonstrated Iron Body, Tempest Kick, Paper Art, Finger Pistol, and Shave combined with Iron Body as he fought Weevil, while Longinus watched and considered the World Government’s plans to weaken Marine Headquarters.
• Zephyr struck Weevil with Rokuogan, and Weevil’s Naginata cut off his left arm before the weapon turned toward Zephyr’s trainees under the control of stitching threads.
• Longinus stepped in front of Zephyr, caught the Naginata blade, and crushed it before it could reach the trainees.
• Weevil detached parts of his body and sent them toward Longinus, who answered with a shockwave punch that blasted Weevil and sank a small island nearly a thousand meters away.

Longinus explained to Zephyr that he had foreseen a future in which Edward Weevil killed the trainees and severed Zephyr’s arm, prompting him to hunt Weevil and change that outcome. Back at Marine Headquarters, Zephyr seemed relieved, while Longinus returned to his villa and found it smelling musty and decayed.

• Zephyr asked Longinus why he had joined the trainee voyages and shown such hatred toward Weevil, and Longinus revealed that his Observation Haki had shown him a fragment of a disastrous future.
• Longinus told Zephyr that he had foreseen the trainees dying and Zephyr weeping in the rain while holding his severed arm, and Zephyr took comfort in the possibility that the future had changed.
• After the warship returned to Marine Headquarters, Garp teased Zephyr about finding a woman, and the two launched into a fight that Longinus called a friendly exchange.
• Ain asked whether anyone should stop Zephyr and Garp, and Longinus said their scuffle would help Zephyr let go of his burdens.
• Longinus returned to his villa, noticed a musty, decaying smell, made tea, and sat down to rest.

Longinus tested Perona’s Negativity Ghost ability and concluded that powerful souls and Haki could shorten its effects but not fully negate rule-based abilities. After returning to Marine Headquarters, he learned that a pirate claiming to be the Clown Emperor Buggy had surrendered in Loguetown.

• Longinus confronted Perona about frightening away a cleaner, agreed to provide her with toys, and asked her to use her ability on him.
• Perona’s Negativity Ghost briefly affected Longinus, and he determined that his soul’s strength shortened the effect from about thirty seconds to roughly three.
• Longinus had Perona try again while he covered himself in Armament Haki, and he quickly broke free but concluded that Haki could not completely prevent the ability’s effects.
• After two months away on patrol, Longinus returned to Marine Headquarters and heard that Bullet’s crew had been wiped out by the Red Hair Pirates, though Bullet escaped.
• Hina relayed Smoker’s report from Loguetown that a former senior officer of the Roger Pirates had surrendered under the name Clown Emperor Buggy.

Longinus learned that Buggy had become the focus of Navy attention and ordered the East Blue branches to find him while he investigated Bullet and the Red Hair Pirates. On Beast Island, Buggy mistook his crew’s admiration for proof of his own elaborate plan and stayed in hiding.

• Smoker proposed a Buster Call against Buggy, but Longinus decided to search for him personally and told East Blue Marines not to act recklessly.
• Longinus asked Hina to find Bullet’s whereabouts and track the Red Hair Pirates’ movements.
• Hina reported that Bullet was last seen at Carnival City and the Red Hair Pirates were near the G5 Branch, leading Longinus to suspect both were heading toward the East Blue.
• On Beast Island, Buggy blamed Red-Haired for his sneezing while Mohji and Cabaji praised his hidden strength and former place aboard the Pirate King’s ship.
• Buggy told his crew that their hiding was a strategic ambush, and they wept as they vowed to follow him.

Longinus arrived in Loguetown, where Smoker and the Marines welcomed him and Tashigi eagerly met the celebrated Admiral. He reassured Smoker about the search for Buggy, praised his commitment to justice, and offered him a promotion to Commodore once the current matter was over.

• Smoker learned that Admiral Shirozou was heading to Loguetown and told Tashigi that Longinus had always valued and guided Marines.
• Longinus arrived on Minos, whose dramatic landing frightened townspeople and pirates, and the Marines cheered his arrival.
• Smoker told Longinus that the Marines had not found any trace of Clown Emperor Buggy, and Longinus reassured him that the East Blue was safe while he was there.
• Longinus revealed that reports about Smoker's conduct had accumulated but said his actions upheld justice and that he did not blame him for clashing with others.
• Longinus acknowledged that Smoker had been unfairly held at Captain for years and offered to promote him to Commodore after the current matter was over.

In Orange Town, Longinus fed the starving townspeople by catching a Sea King, then led the Marines back to sea to pursue the Buggy Pirates. When Smoker pointed out the Sea Restaurant Baratie ahead, Longinus agreed to take the whole crew there for lunch.

• The mayor told Longinus and Smoker that the Buggy Pirates had stolen all the town’s food, and Longinus refused to feed the townspeople by taking supplies from his soldiers.
• Longinus dove into the sea and returned with a thirty-meter Sea King, enough to feed the town for half a month.
• Longinus urged the Marines to capture the Buggy Pirates before they could harm another town, and the warship left Orange Town.
• Longinus told Tashigi that pirates would persist as long as the sea existed and mentioned the Train Network Plan underway on the Grand Line.
• Smoker pointed out the Sea Restaurant Baratie, and Longinus agreed to bring all the soldiers there for lunch.

Smoker and Longinus arrived at the Baratie with a Marine force, unsettling the restaurant’s former pirates. When Longinus recognized Sanji by his full name, the boy froze, and Zeff realized that the refined Marine was the legendary admiral Shirozou Longinus.

• Sanji and Patty argued over their roles in the kitchen before a chef announced that a wealthy beauty wanted to order.
• The cooks and customers panicked when they learned that Smoker and a Marine warship had arrived, but Smoker told Hakusa and the others that they were there to eat.
• Smoker seated Longinus by the window, and Sanji came out to take their order before flirting with Tashigi.
• Longinus asked Sanji whether his full name was Vinsmoke Sanji, leaving the boy stunned.
• Zeff spotted Longinus through the kitchen doorway and identified him as the Marine Headquarters admiral Shirozou Longinus.

Longinus recognized Sanji as a member of the Vinsmoke Family and explained that he had held him as a baby, while Smoker feared Sanji was tied to the Four Emperor Apophis. The confrontation at the restaurant eased, but Sanji rejected his family identity and the chefs learned how dangerous the name behind it was.

• Zeff warned the chefs not to provoke Longinus, recalling that he had once seen Longinus sink an island with his physical strength.
• Sanji confronted Longinus over knowing the name Sanji, prompting Zeff and the chefs to rush into the dining hall as the Marines stood to face them.
• Smoker identified Sanji as a Vinsmoke and suspected he served Apophis, but Longinus calmed the Marines and chefs and told everyone to sit down.
• Longinus said he had held Sanji when he was about one year old and recognized the Vinsmoke features, though Sanji did not remember him.
• Sanji said he had never shared his brothers’ path, and Longinus expressed regret that the Vinsmoke Family had fallen into darkness.
• Zeff explained that Apophis was one of the Four Emperors, while the chefs affirmed that Sanji was still their ship’s cook regardless of his identity.

Buggy led his starving crew to raid the Baratie, only to find it filled with Marines and face Smoker and Admiral Longinus. Longinus said he had come personally because of Buggy’s supposed status among the Roger Pirates, leaving Buggy terrified and in tears.

• Buggy’s pirates caught a rabbit, but Buggy threw it away after hearing that the Baratie restaurant was nearby and ordered his crew to seize it.
• Buggy’s crew burst into the Baratie and found more than a hundred Marines, while Smoker recognized them and confronted Buggy.
• Longinus introduced himself as a Marine Headquarters Admiral who had come specifically for Buggy.
• Smoker claimed Buggy was a top officer of the Roger Pirates, and Longinus said he had chosen to deal with Buggy personally instead of ordering a Buster Call.
• Buggy’s crew and the Baratie’s customers reacted with shock as Buggy broke down in fear.

Longinus confronted Buggy at Baratie, then revealed that Douglas Bullet had been manipulating events and came to seize Buggy. Longinus refused to hand him over and prepared to arrest Bullet.

• Longinus struck near Buggy with a devastating punch that unleashed a tsunami but deliberately stopped short of hitting him.
• Longinus revealed that he had sensed Bullet beneath the sea, and Smoker identified the hidden opponent as Douglas Bullet.
• Bullet emerged aboard a whale-shaped submarine and demanded that Longinus hand over Buggy.
• Buggy tried to convince Longinus to arrest him, but Longinus dismissed his claims and refused to give him to Bullet.
• Longinus explained that Bullet wanted to use Buggy against Red-Haired over the Ancient Stone Tablet, then declared that he would arrest Bullet.

Bullet awakened his Devil Fruit and transformed into a three-hundred-meter Steel Beast, forcing Longinus into a massive battle at sea. Longinus knocked Bullet into the water, but Bullet rose again and tried to reach more islands to grow stronger as Longinus pursued him.

• Bullet awakened his Devil Fruit, merging the submarine, nearby ships, and Beast Island into a towering Steel Beast.
• Longinus met Bullet's first attack head-on, and their clash unleashed a shock wave that battered the sea and damaged the Baratie.
• Longinus and Bullet exchanged powerful blows; Longinus knocked off the Steel Beast's horn and sent Bullet crashing toward the sea, while the impact threatened to break apart the Baratie.
• Smoker ordered the Baratie to head for Orange Town and explained that Longinus was conserving stamina while Bullet's enormous body drained his strength.
• Bullet rose from the water and tried to reach more islands to grow stronger, but Longinus struck him again and forced him backward.

Bullet merged with the Catapult and attacked Longinus, but Longinus endured his barrage and proved too strong to hit. Bullet then destroyed the Sea Restaurant to threaten him, and Longinus protected everyone aboard; Bullet reappeared as an even larger giant in the clouds.

• Bullet merged with the Catapult and unleashed a barrage of Haki-reinforced cannons at Longinus, who charged through and struck him.
• Longinus explained that his body had been reinforced with Armament Haki, while Bullet failed to land a hit with his claws.
• Bullet aimed his cannons at the Sea Restaurant and destroyed the ship, but Longinus blocked the attack and saved everyone except Smoker from the blast.
• The survivors mistook Longinus for dead until he revealed he was unharmed, then they realized Bullet had disappeared.
• Bullet laughed from the horizon, appearing as a giant whose head was hidden among the clouds.

Longinus fought Bullet after Bullet fused into an enormous beast and gained the upper hand. When Bullet threatened Longinus’s companions to force him to hand over Buggy, Longinus activated Blast Form and knocked the giant into the sea.

• Bullet fused into a giant beast and struck Longinus into the sea, then claimed he was the strongest man in the world.
• Longinus rose from the sea and endured Bullet’s attacks, arguing that Bullet could not kill him and was not truly the strongest.
• Bullet demanded that Longinus hand over Buggy and threatened to kill everyone else if he refused.
• Longinus activated Life Return: Blast Form after deciding to arrest Bullet before facing Red-Haired.
• Longinus appeared at the giant beast’s chest and struck it with hundreds of punches, knocking it into the sea.

Longinus defeated Bullet and prepared to send him and Buggy to Impel Down, but Red-Haired arrived and asked to take them. Longinus agreed to release only one, and Red-Haired chose Buggy before sailing away.

• Longinus broke through Bullet’s fused beast form by attacking Bullet’s true body, then defeated him with a barrage of punches.
• The people of Orange Town celebrated Longinus’s victory, while Buggy tried to sneak away and was caught.
• Longinus said Buggy and Bullet would be imprisoned in Impel Down, and Buggy fainted at the news.
• Red-Haired arrived aboard the Red Force and asked Longinus to hand over Buggy and Bullet.
• Longinus agreed to release only one prisoner, and Red-Haired chose Buggy before leaving with him.

After Red-Haired left, Longinus offered compensation to the Sea Restaurant’s owners, who refused, before receiving alarming news. Aboard the Red Force, Red-Haired learned that Big Mom had returned from the final sea, and Beckman warned that the era was about to run wild again.

• Longinus told Smoker he had no reason to hide his decision to release Red-Haired, apologized to Zeff for the restaurant’s destruction, and offered to arrange compensation that the chefs refused.
• Longinus received a message that made him solemn, while Red-Haired and Beckman discussed his strength and his defeat of Bullet.
• A Red Force pirate reported that Kaido, Apophis, and Big Mom had returned from the final sea.
• Red-Haired and Beckman questioned how Big Mom could be alive despite her apparent death and the Soul-Soul Fruit’s reappearance.
• Beckman concluded that Big Mom’s return meant the era was about to run wild again.

Half a month earlier, Apophis’s ships found an island where the Charlotte Family had been stranded with Big Mom, and they encountered the Beasts Pirates. The Charlotte Family learned that Apophis had become one of the Four Emperors, leaving them worried about what awaited them if they escaped.

• Kaido went berserk above the ships, and Apophis swallowed the dark lightning before the clash tore open the clouds and whipped the sea into a storm.
• The crews spotted an island, while the Charlotte Family fought to keep Big Mom occupied and Oven burned the meat they were preparing for her.
• The Charlotte Family saw the approaching ships and hoped to seize them to return to the New World.
• Queen and King went ashore with their crew and found the ragged Charlotte Family, whose members recognized them as Beasts Pirates.
• Daifuku proposed that the Beasts Pirates help deal with Big Mom, and the pirate officers gathered around her.
• Enel declared that he served Apophis, and King explained that Apophis had founded the Demon Sword Pirates and become one of the Four Emperors, alarming the Charlotte Family.

Apophis interrupted Kaido and Big Mom’s battle, then discovered that Big Mom had lost her memories and was acting like a child. He agreed to take the Charlotte Family with him in exchange for an offensive and defensive alliance.

• King revealed that Longinus had become a Marine Admiral and killed the returned Golden Lion, shocking the Charlotte Family.
• Kaido arrived and struck Big Mom with his Wolf Fang Club, while Apophis appeared before the Charlotte Family.
• Apophis assessed Big Mom’s strength and stopped her fight with Kaido by slashing them apart, then gave Big Mom meat and Kaido booze.
• Big Mom treated Katakuri and Apophis as new friends and acted like a child, so Katakuri explained that she remembered only being seven or eight.
• Apophis ended the voyage and offered to take the Charlotte Family with him if they formed an offensive and defensive alliance, which Katakuri accepted.

News that Kaido, Apophis, and BIGMOM had returned from the Final Sea spread across the world, alarming the Revolutionary Army and Rayleigh. Apophis’s former territory became the site of Enel’s attack on the Red Hair Pirates, who were left nearly destroyed.

• Sabo and Koala debated Admiral Shirozou Longinus’s strength and reputation as Dragon read that Kaido, Apophis, and BIGMOM had returned from the Final Sea.
• Rayleigh and Shakky discussed Bullet’s capture, Apophis’s danger, and Rayleigh’s efforts to train Kuina to defeat him.
• Red Hair learned that Bullet had been captured and considered taking over the Barrett Pirates’ territory.
• The Red Hair Pirates discovered that their island had once belonged to Apophis and tried to evacuate.
• Enel struck the island with A Million Thunder, killing more than half the Red Hair Pirates and turning Red Hair to charcoal when he charged at him.

The Five Elders discussed the return of the pirates from the Final Sea and the Revolutionary Army’s growing threat, deciding to focus on Dragon while using the upcoming Reverie to pressure Big Mom. On Fish-Man Island, Longinus attended Queen Otohime’s speech and encouraged Shirahoshi to develop her ability to hear voices.

• The Five Elders worried that the returned pirates might have discovered the secret of Laugh Tale and considered provoking a conflict with the Big Mom Pirates.
• A report told the Five Elders that riots had broken out in the North Blue and South Blue and that four kingdoms had been overthrown, likely by the Revolutionary Army.
• The Five Elders decided to prioritize the Revolutionary Army and use the upcoming Reverie to encourage kingdoms oppressed by Big Mom to submit a joint proposal.
• Neptune and Shark Star discussed Fish-Man Island’s first attendance at the Reverie and agreed to avoid causing Longinus trouble.
• Longinus attended Queen Otohime’s speech and reflected on her mental influence through Observation Haki.
• Shirahoshi told Longinus she had faintly heard something about an agreement, and he encouraged her to keep developing her ability.