Chapter Summaries

Admiral Shirozou Longinus arrived to arrest the Supernovas who were attacking civilians and Marines on Sabaody Archipelago. He swiftly defeated them, then killed Captain Kid with a single punch while Minos pursued the fleeing Urouge.

• Captain Kid challenged Capone Bege and Hawkins to a contest to kill Marines and civilians, but they refused to join him.
• Longinus arrived with Minos and ordered Kid, Hawkins, Bege, and Killer to surrender and go to Impel Down.
• Kid, Hawkins, and Bege attacked Longinus, but he defeated all three with ease and knocked Killer into the ground.
• Urouge joined Kid's assault with a sneak attack, but Longinus emerged unharmed and sent Minos after him.
• Kid charged Longinus with a giant steel arm, but Longinus shattered it and killed Kid with a punch.

Longinus defeated Kid and Killer with ease, terrifying the other Supernovas. Elsewhere, Blackbeard revealed Ace’s lineage and impending execution to Luffy, who attacked him and was saved by Rayleigh.

• Longinus killed Kid with one punch, then shattered Killer’s scythe and killed him as well.
• Capone Bege feared Longinus’s strength, while Hawkins surrendered after divining that resistance would lead to his death.
• Blackbeard tried to persuade Kizaru to let him capture Rayleigh, but Luffy and the Straw Hats arrived and Luffy demanded to know what had happened to Ace.
• Blackbeard revealed that Ace was part of Roger’s bloodline and that he had handed him over to the Marines for execution.
• Luffy attacked Blackbeard, who dragged him in with Dark Water and slammed him into the ground.
• Rayleigh blocked Blackbeard’s next blow and told him that Luffy’s generation had only just begun.

Nami and the others escaped the clash between Rayleigh and Blackbeard, then learned that Admiral Shirozou Longinus and his Griffin were on the island. Luffy resolved to save Ace and ordered the Straw Hat Pirates to disband, but the crew fled together in the opposite direction from the Griffin.

• Nami and the others dragged the injured Luffy away while Kizaru let them escape and Blackbeard lost interest in pursuing them.
• Robin reasoned that Kizaru had come because Rayleigh was fighting a Shichibukai, then warned that another admiral might also be on the island.
• Robin identified the Griffin flying overhead as Admiral Shirozou Longinus's mount and revealed that Longinus had once defeated Rayleigh.
• Luffy recovered enough to announce that he would disband the crew and go save Ace, but Robin urged everyone to escape first.
• The Straw Hats ran in the direction opposite the Griffin's flight, unaware that it was chasing a panicked pirate rather than carrying anyone.

Kizaru received orders to help Shirozou capture the Straw Hat Pirates after Luffy attacked the Celestial Dragons, but he pretended the call had cut out. Meanwhile, Longinus subdued several Supernovas and confronted Luffy’s group as they left the forest.

• Blackbeard pressed Shakky for information about God Valley and revealed his ambition to defeat Shirozou before Whitebeard.
• Kizaru received orders from Headquarters to assist Shirozou after Straw Hat Luffy seriously injured one Celestial Dragon and another went missing, then hung up before the caller finished naming Luffy.
• Luffy’s group encountered Capone Bege, who had been beaten and dropped from a falling castle, and Longinus appeared to claim responsibility.
• Minos dropped the battered Urouge before the group, while Hawkins revealed that two Supernovas had been killed, two had tried to escape and been crippled, and he had surrendered.
• Luffy’s group realized that Longinus had cornered them after defeating five Supernovas.

Longinus freed Camie from her explosive slave collar, then confronted the Straw Hat Pirates for their role in the Celestial Dragons incident. He defeated them in seconds and ordered them sent to Impel Down.

• Longinus safely removed Camie's slave collar, earning the trust and gratitude of Camie and Pappug.
• Longinus told Luffy and the others to surrender, arguing that their actions had helped plunge the island into conflict.
• Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji attacked Longinus, but he stopped Luffy's Gear Second strike and caught Zoro's swords barehanded.
• Zoro and Sanji launched a combined attack, but Longinus repelled them with Haki and a kick.
• Luffy used Gum-Gum Gigant Pistol, but Longinus smashed the giant arm and defeated him.
• Longinus ordered Seastone handcuffs placed on the Straw Hat Pirates and sent them to Impel Down.

Longinus captured Luffy and the Straw Hats after Luffy sent a Celestial Dragon flying, while Rayleigh and the others withdrew from their standoff with Blackbeard and Kizaru. Elsewhere, Redfield killed Jelmak and Blackbeard arrived to invite him to join his crew.

• Longinus captured the pirates and told Luffy that his friends might be released after five or ten years, while Luffy could face life imprisonment.
• Blackbeard retreated from Rayleigh and Kizaru, and Kizaru left after completing his mission.
• Rayleigh and Shakky worried about Hachi and Luffy, while Rayleigh trusted Longinus to honor his principles.
• Redfield killed the Soul-Soul Fruit user and drained Jelmak until the Celestial Dragon died.
• Blackbeard found Redfield and asked him to join his crew.

Redfield fought Blackbeard and rejected his offer of cooperation unless Blackbeard proved his strength. After learning that a Road Poneglyph may be on vanished God's Island, Longinus learned that Saint Jelmack was missing and worried that the Whitebeard Pirates had begun their operation.

• Redfield overcame Blackbeard's Dark Fruit with Martial Arts and battered him until Blackbeard retreated.
• Blackbeard proposed that God's Island held the final Road Poneglyph and asked Redfield to cooperate, but Redfield demanded that he prove his strength.
• Blackbeard vowed to show his power in the coming clash of the strongest.
• A Marine rear admiral told Longinus that Saint Yakvis was hospitalized and Saint Jelmack was missing and presumed dead.
• Longinus told Kizaru that the government would protect Luffy as leverage against Dragon, then worried that the Whitebeard Pirates had begun their operation.

Whitebeard led the Whitebeard Pirates and their forty-three allied crews toward Marine Headquarters to rescue Ace, while privately planning to destroy the base and send his sons away. He rejected Marco’s suggestions to trade hostages or seek allies, determined to answer Sengoku’s challenge himself.

• Marco confirmed that all forty-three allied pirate crews had gathered, and Whitebeard ordered them to set sail for Marine Headquarters to bring Ace home.
• Whitebeard told Marco that he had not wanted his sons to come because he feared they would die, but he planned to rescue Ace and send them away.
• Whitebeard said he would use the destruction of Marine Headquarters to slow the Marines down, recalling that the Golden Lion had once destroyed half of it.
• Marco suggested exchanging captured Marines or seeking help from other Emperors, but Whitebeard refused to evade Sengoku’s challenge and doubted anyone besides Kaido would join them.
• Whitebeard reassured Marco that they were going to bring their family home, while Marco privately wished they could find Lone Red before the final battle.

At Marine Headquarters, Longinus reported that a prison riot at Impel Down had escalated and claimed he had foreseen a terrifying future. Sengoku approved his request to go there and suppress the unrest, while Garp admitted he was grateful Longinus had imprisoned Luffy.

• Sengoku and Vice Admiral Tsuru discussed the Marines’ preparations for war and the threats posed by Whitebeard, Kaido, and Red-Haired Shanks.
• Longinus told Sengoku that Buggy’s escape had sparked a riot at Impel Down, where Straw Hat Pirates were freeing prisoners and heading toward Infinite Hell to rescue Luffy.
• Longinus reported that Blackbeard had entered Impel Down illegally, but Magellan had defeated his group and the rioting prisoners were being contained.
• Longinus said his Future Sight had shown him a terrifying future, and Sengoku approved his request to fly to Impel Down and stop the riot.
• After Longinus left for Impel Down with Minos, Garp told Sengoku he feared Luffy would have joined the Marineford battle if Longinus had not imprisoned him.

Marineford prepared for Ace’s execution, but the absence of Admiral Shirozou raised questions before Sengoku revealed Ace was Gol D. Roger’s son. The Whitebeard Pirates then invaded the harbor, where Sengoku revealed that Shirozou had anticipated their route and the Marines had set Sea Kings beneath the bay; Whitebeard launched a massive wave as the battle began.

• Spectators noticed Admiral Shirozou was missing from Marineford, while Sengoku revealed that Ace was the son of Pirate King Gol D. Roger.
• A Marine Commodore reported that the Gate of Justice had opened without orders and the power room had lost contact.
• The Whitebeard Pirates’ ships emerged inside Crescent Bay, with one battered ship surfacing amid blood and mangled Sea King limbs.
• Sengoku revealed that Shirozou had predicted the pirates’ route and the Marines had prepared a Sea King nest beneath the harbor.
• Whitebeard asked where Shirozou was, and Sengoku said he had been sent to handle a difficult task and might return by the war’s end.
• Whitebeard swung his Naginata and sent a wave hundreds of meters high toward Marineford.

Whitebeard unleashed his power against the Marines at Marineford as the battle to rescue Ace began. Meanwhile, Magellan learned that a large force led by Ivankov and Inazuma was advancing on Impel Down’s Level 6, while the two remained unaware of the prison guard’s suspicious motives.

• Aokiji froze the sea, but Whitebeard shattered the ice and dispersed Akainu’s magma and the resulting hot rain with his Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
• Whitebeard’s display frightened the Marines and impressed the Shichibukai, and he ordered his pirates to charge and rescue Ace.
• Magellan defeated the escaped prisoners on Level 2, then learned that pirates led by Ivankov and Inazuma were heading for the Infinite Hell on Level 6.
• Magellan ordered the exits sealed and hypnotic gas released, and said he would release Shiryu if those measures failed.
• Inazuma questioned how a prison guard knew about Luffy’s imprisonment, but Ivankov trusted the guard because he knew about Mori and Impel Down’s secrets.

The Okama King, Luffy, Crocodile, and Jinbe learned that Longinus was guarding Impel Down’s exit, complicating their attempt to rescue Ace. Meanwhile, Shiryu joined Blackbeard and helped him recruit prisoners through a deadly contest, but Lafitte reported that Longinus had arrived at Impel Down.

• Shiryu left Infinite Hell with his sword and refused to follow Magellan’s orders to stop the Straw Hat crew.
• The Okama King told Luffy that Dragon was a great man, and Luffy revealed that Longinus had captured him.
• A group of pirates reported that Longinus had wiped out the first prisoners who tried to escape, leaving Crocodile and Jinbe unwilling to confront him while Luffy insisted on rescuing Ace.
• Shiryu joined Blackbeard, who demonstrated the Dark Fruit’s ability to suppress Devil Fruit powers and ordered the prisoners to fight for a place in his crew.
• Burgess and the others opened the cells, starting a slaughter, and Lafitte warned Blackbeard that Longinus had arrived at Impel Down.

Blackbeard and Shiryu learned that Admiral Shirozou Longinus was guarding Impel Down’s exit, while the escaped prisoners gathered on the fifth level and planned a joint assault. The chapter ended with Blackbeard and Ivankov agreeing to ally and their followers charging toward Longinus’s defenses.

• Blackbeard, Lafitte, and Shiryu realized Longinus might have foreseen their prison break with Future Sight, and Shiryu proposed using the other pirates as a diversion and finding a powerful ally.
• On the fifth level, the Straw Hat Pirates reunited, and Nami explained that Longinus guarded the entrance while Magellan hunted prisoners throughout the prison.
• Crocodile proposed exploiting Magellan’s absence to concentrate their forces against Longinus, while Buggy panicked at the prospect of facing him again.
• Blackbeard arrived with the sixth-level criminals and persuaded Ivankov to ally with him, arguing that neither group could escape alone.
• Blackbeard declared that their alliance would challenge the strongest Marine Admiral, and the assembled pirates charged toward the sunlit world of freedom.

Admiral Longinus stood guard at Impel Down’s gates when Blackbeard Teach and a group of powerful pirates arrived, planning to escape before Magellan could reach them. Longinus overwhelmed the attackers and left their escape attempt blocked.

• Longinus rejected Domino’s offer to rest while guards cleared away the pirates he had defeated.
• Blackbeard Teach, Bullet, Jinbe, Crocodile, Ivankov, Shiryu, and other pirates charged the gates after Inazuma blocked the passages between levels.
• Longinus struck the crowd with a Tempest Kick, killing dozens and severely injuring hundreds of pirates.
• Bullet challenged Longinus, while Shiryu urged the pirates to focus on escaping before Magellan arrived.
• Longinus’s aura incapacitated most of the pirates, then he knocked Shiryu, Blackbeard, Crocodile, Jinbe, and Ivankov aside.
• Longinus unleashed Finger Pistol: Myriad Blades and blasted the remaining pirates away, stopping their escape attempt.

Longinus overwhelmed the escaped prisoners at Impel Down, forcing Blackbeard, Shiryu, Bullet, and the others to attack him together. After killing Van Augur, Longinus demanded that the pirates fight him with their full strength.

• Longinus used Conqueror's Haki and invisible air blasts to scatter the pirates while the guards and prisoners watched.
• Shiryu convinced the pirates to attack Longinus together and try to knock him into the sea so they could escape.
• Longinus charged through their combined assault, seized Blackbeard, and used him to knock out Burgess and strike Shiryu.
• Bullet attacked Longinus, but Longinus restrained him and drove a knee into his abdomen.
• Van Augur shot Longinus with an Armament Haki bullet, but Longinus killed him with Finger Pistol: Laser Cannon.
• Blackbeard urged the survivors to stop holding back, and Longinus challenged them to attack with their strongest power.

Longinus fought off the escaped prisoners in Impel Down, enduring their attacks while killing Vasco Shot and defeating Bullet’s stone armor. The Okama King’s hormone attack missed Longinus and struck Crocodile instead, transforming him into a woman.

• The jailers charged to protect Longinus, but he told them to stay back and revealed that most of his apparent injuries had nearly healed.
• Longinus knocked Crocodile and the Okama King aside, then killed Vasco Shot while Shiryu’s attack inflicted a serious wound on him.
• Longinus defeated Bullet’s second-stage fusion by shattering his stone armor and sending him flying after a series of clashes.
• The Okama King tried to transform Longinus with his hormone attack, but Longinus used Crocodile as a shield and the attack turned Crocodile into a woman.

Longinus fought off Blackbeard, Bullet, and Shiryu while the Straw Hats and their allies tried to escape Impel Down. The Okama King fled toward the sea with Luffy, Crocodile, Jinbe, and Robin, but Longinus’s attack struck them and sent Usopp, Chopper, and many pirates falling into the water.

• Crocodile attacked the Okama King after Ivankov’s transformation made his voice sound different, while Blackbeard took the chance to strike Longinus’s wound.
• Longinus battered Blackbeard, Bullet, and Shiryu despite his injuries, and Burgess lost an arm when he tried to punch him.
• Zoro and Sanji failed to injure Longinus, while Robin tried to reassure them about facing a Marine Admiral.
• The Okama King escaped through a wall toward the sea with Crocodile, Jinbe, Robin, and Luffy, as Robin pulled several others toward his head.
• Longinus hurled a shockwave at the fleeing group, striking the Okama King and snapping Robin’s arm rope, which left Usopp, Chopper, and a large group of pirates falling into the sea.

Longinus stopped Blackbeard’s escape from Impel Down but was gravely injured in the battle. After using the Seven Star Sword to restore his strength, he left for Marine Headquarters to join the top-level battle.

• Blackbeard, Bullet, and Shiryu attacked Longinus from behind and knocked him into the sea, then fled when they realized he was still alive.
• Longinus returned to the prison entrance and killed Deadly Poison Q, while Blackbeard abandoned his escape plan and left with Shiryu and Lafitte.
• Longinus ordered the prison guards to recover the pirates who had fallen into the sea and told Magellan he had to hurry to Marine Headquarters.
• Magellan arrived and found Longinus badly wounded, but Longinus used the Seven Star Sword’s absorbed essence to restore his condition.
• Longinus mounted Minos and departed for Marine Headquarters, while Magellan blamed himself and demanded to know what had happened.

At Impel Down, Hancock explained how Longinus was seriously wounded while stopping the escape, and Magellan learned that ten prisoners had escaped. At Marine Headquarters, Kaido and the Big Mom Pirates joined the battle, while a hidden middle-aged man prepared to introduce another force.

• Hancock told Magellan that Crocodile exploited a distraction to escape and that Longinus had been injured protecting the prison from Blackbeard and the other attackers.
• Domino reported that ten prisoners had escaped from Impel Down, excluding the Blackbeard Pirates, and Magellan blamed himself for Longinus's injuries.
• Kaido arrived at Marine Headquarters and taunted the wounded Whitebeard.
• A Marine rear admiral reported that the Big Mom Pirates had mobilized and that Impel Down's communications had been cut off.
• The Big Mom Pirates' main fleet appeared alongside the Beasts Pirates, alarming the Marines and surprising a hidden middle-aged man.
• The hidden man decided the new arrivals were within his plans and prepared to bring another force into the war.

Katakuri revealed that the Big Mom Pirates had joined the alliance to pressure Marine Headquarters into freeing their captured family members, not to aid Whitebeard. After Whitebeard rallied his crew and opened a route across the ice, he clashed with Akainu, whose attack targeted his chest wound.

• Katakuri told Smoothie and Daifuku that the Beasts Pirates would draw the Marines' attention and that the Big Mom Pirates' true goal was securing the release of family members captured thirteen years earlier.
• Jozu and Marco were badly wounded while distracted by Whitebeard's injury, and Whitebeard broke the ice trapping the ships and urged his crew to charge.
• Whitebeard confronted Akainu, who accused him of being weakened by age, and their attacks shook the island as they clashed.
• Whitebeard raised a massive tsunami and froze a path toward the execution platform, while Akainu attacked him with a meteor shower and aimed for his chest wound.
• Whitebeard countered Akainu's magma fist with a quake-powered punch, and their forces unleashed a destructive storm that shattered the ice and earth around them.