Chapter Summaries

Apophis killed a Ghoul Mask impostor at the Hunter Guild and demanded information, leaving with a file on Skull Crusher Buffett after handing over Ogre Barlo’s head for his bounty.

• Apophis’s arrival forced the Ghoul Mask man aside, and the impostor realized his body had been fatally split before collapsing dead.
• The terrified pirates recognized Apophis, and the bald guild manager hurried to bring him the branch’s records.
• Apophis studied the Hunter Guild’s information and asked for the file on Skull Crusher Buffett.
• The manager described Buffett’s criminal empire, strength, weapon, and base in the Aitfei Kingdom.
• Apophis presented Ogre Barlo’s head and left without taking payment, so the manager told Harry to credit his account with a rounded-up hundred million Beli.

Robin, traveling under a new identity in West Blue, witnessed Captain Jones’s crew confront a band of pirates after their passenger ship was attacked. The supposed veterans from the Grand Line were quickly beaten and admitted they were only pretending to be pirates, leaving Robin amused and wary of West Blue’s hidden characters.

• Robin listened as passengers praised Longinus and hoped to become as amazing as he was.
• Three pirate ships attacked Robin’s passenger ship, and their captain, Jack, demanded the passengers’ spoils.
• Captain Jones mocked Jack and claimed to be a veteran pirate who had returned from the Grand Line.
• Jack’s crew quickly defeated Jones, who confessed that his crew were not pirates and had only been using psychological warfare.
• Robin felt embarrassed at having believed Jones’s act and reflected that West Blue was full of hidden talents.

Robin tried to escape a pirate massacre aboard Captain Jones's ship and sought refuge in the first-class cabin, where she encountered the feared Demon Sword Apophis. The chapter ended with Apophis calmly listening to music as Robin realized she had reached him.

• The Red-Haired Pirate Captain shot Captain Jones after learning that Apophis was aboard the ship, then ordered the pirates to kill everyone.
• Robin remembered her promise to survive and rejected jumping into the sea because she was a Devil Fruit user.
• A pirate cornered Robin, but she struck him in the crotch and escaped through the slaughtering crowd.
• Robin rushed into the cabin Captain Jones had mentioned and found a masked man listening to music on a Sound-Recording Phone-Snail.
• Robin recognized the man as Apophis and was surprised that he seemed unlike the cold-blooded murderer she had imagined.

Robin hid beneath a bed while Apophis played a requiem that drove a pirate captain to shoot himself. After Robin woke among the dead and encountered fleeing fishermen, she wondered whether she had to become strong to control her fate.

• Robin hid beneath the bed as pirates came to capture her, and the captain hesitated outside Apophis’s room after hearing his music.
• The captain entered and tried to shoot Apophis, but Apophis told him to stay quiet until the fourth movement began.
• As the requiem played, Robin and the captain were overcome by the urge to kill themselves, and the captain finally shot himself.
• Robin stayed beneath the bed until fatigue, hunger, and thirst put her to sleep.
• Fishermen later found Robin among the corpses and fled when they saw her, while Robin thanked Apophis and wondered whether she needed to become strong to control her fate.

Capone Bege’s defenses failed to stop Apophis from reaching Buffett’s hall. Bege trapped Buffett between Apophis and an iron grating, revealing that the Godfather himself was his final line of defense.

• Buffett and Capone Bege discussed Apophis’s arrival and relied on the Eight Treasures Navy and layered defenses to protect them.
• Explosives killed the Mafia men who lured Apophis into the blast zone, but Apophis survived, and a terrified survivor warned that everyone opposing him would die.
• Capone Bege dismissed the survivor’s warning and told Buffett that poison gas formed their second line of defense.
• Apophis appeared at the hall’s doorway before the defenses had bought even three minutes.
• Capone Bege lowered an iron grating between himself and Buffett and declared that Buffett was the third line of defense, leaving the Godfather facing Apophis alone.

Apophis defeated Benjamin Buffett in a brief fight at the Mafia's Paradise, destroying his Three-headed Flail and breaking through the alloy fence. Watching from afar, Capone Bege fled, realizing he could not challenge Apophis.

• Buffett tried to stall Apophis with offers and threats, then retrieved his rusted Three-headed Flail when Apophis allowed him to arm himself.
• Buffett attacked with the flail, but Apophis stopped its hammers with one foot and made Buffett fall into them.
• Apophis shattered the Three-headed Flail with a single strike and blasted Buffett through the alloy fence.
• Apophis told Buffett that retreating from the Grand Line ten years earlier had made him a loser, leaving Buffett stunned by his defeat.
• Capone Bege watched the fight through binoculars and decided to retreat to the other side of the island.

Huajao and Wolf Fang arrived at the ruined port in the Aitfei Kingdom and learned that Apophis had survived Buffett’s bombing. Apophis killed Buffett after finding transaction records, but discovered the last Aska Island slave trade had happened seven years earlier, leaving him still searching for the right lead.

• Huajao rejected Wolf Fang’s warning and insisted he would defeat Apophis with Hasshoken to establish his authority.
• Huajao and Wolf Fang saw that the port had been destroyed, and learned Apophis had emerged unharmed while Buffett’s men were wiped out.
• Apophis questioned Buffett about slave-ship records connected to Aska Island, while Buffett tried to bargain for his safety.
• Apophis revealed that he had found Buffett’s transaction records and killed him.
• Apophis saw that the last transaction with Aska Island had occurred seven years earlier and realized he had targeted the wrong person.

Apophis faced Huajao and the Flower Country pirates after killing Buffett, but his Sword Intent and Seven Star Sword quickly overwhelmed them. Wolf Fang saved Huajao from a fatal strike at the cost of an arm, and urged the pirates to ambush Apophis while Huajao fought him.

• Huajao stumbled over Buffett’s severed head as he confronted Apophis, while Wolf Fang recognized that Apophis had defeated Buffett almost instantly and urged the group to leave.
• Huajao rejected Wolf Fang’s advice and charged after Apophis when he saw him heading for the exit.
• Apophis’s Sea of Blood Sword Intent froze Huajao briefly, and Wolf Fang shoved him aside, taking a sword strike that severed his arm.
• Wolf Fang warned Huajao that the sword caused unbearable pain, while Huajao vowed to fight by judging Apophis’s footsteps.
• Unable to see clearly through the pain, Wolf Fang told the pirates to support Huajao and attack Apophis with firearms during the fight.

Huajao used Armament Haki and Hasshoken to fight Apophis, but Apophis overwhelmed him while the Seven Star Sword’s blood mist drove the surrounding pirates into a frenzy. The chapter ended with Apophis flinging Huajao across the battlefield.

• Huajao coated his Naginata with Armament Haki and clashed with Apophis, who drove him into the ground.
• Apophis attacked the gathered pirates as they fired at him, while blood flowed into him and the Seven Star Sword released scarlet mist.
• The blood mist intensified the pirates’ violent impulses, turning them against one another as Huajao emerged from the rubble and confronted Apophis.
• Huajao attacked with Hasshoken Secret Technique, Cone Dragon · Cone Nail, and Apophis countered with Crimson · Crescent.
• Their clash shattered and compressed the ground, and Apophis sent Huajao crashing across the battlefield.

Apophis slaughtered the Eight Treasures Navy and killed Huajao and Wolf Fang after rejecting their attempts to bargain. Capone Bege fled the battlefield and decided to become a pirate, while Qing Jiao's family vowed revenge against Apophis.

• Huajao and Wolf Fang tried to negotiate with Apophis, blaming Buffett and offering him favor with the Flower Country, but Apophis refused.
• Apophis killed Huajao and Wolf Fang despite Wolf Fang warning that Qing Jiao would seek revenge.
• Capone Bege ordered his men to abandon their base and set sail, intending to unify the West Blue and enter the Grand Line.
• One day later, Qing Jiao vowed to kill Apophis, rejected Huajao's return as leader of the Eight Treasures Navy, and promised to avenge his father and the fallen navy.

Longinus learned that Apophis had killed a notorious pirate and provoked Chinjao, then received a Marine distress call and prepared to investigate. He went ahead with Gregory while ordering the rest of the warship to wait for his signal before joining the fight.

• Gregory told Longinus that Apophis had wiped out Buffett’s force, and Abraham explained that the killing had drawn Chinjao back to sea.
• Longinus listened as Gregory mocked Apophis’s masked appearance, then answered an emergency call on a Marine Den Den Mushi.
• A Marine reported that Commodore Morgan was struggling against Scorpion Furman and Sharp Blade Joseph in the Coaster Sea Area.
• Longinus ordered Gregory to take him to the scene first and told the rest of the crew to follow cautiously and attack only on his signal.

Longinus and his trained Marines arrived as Commodore Morgan’s G8 Branch warship was under attack by Foreman and Joseph’s pirate alliance. Longinus defeated Foreman with one punch, and a second Marine warship’s cannon fire broke the pirates’ morale, leaving Joseph stranded amid the retreat.

• Commodore Morgan warned Foreman and Joseph that the Marines would pursue them, but the pirate captains mocked him and announced they planned to enter the New World.
• Longinus spotted the G8 warship and ordered Abraham and the others to attack the pirates while Gregory dove toward the battle with him.
• Longinus evaded Foreman’s Scarlet Poison Needle and punched him through the ship into the sea, where the Devil Fruit user drowned.
• Joseph realized he was outmatched as the G8 soldiers gained the advantage against the pirates.
• A second Marine warship fired on the pirate ranks, prompting many pirates to flee and leaving Joseph furious that they had abandoned him.

After the battle, Commodore Morgan thanked Longinus for saving the G8 Branch and learned that the young Marine was only a major and the highest-ranking officer aboard the warship. Longinus left Morgan and the G8 recruits impressed, and Morgan hoped the two branches would support each other at Headquarters.

• Commodore Morgan met Longinus and was astonished to learn that the young officer was a major and a recruit heading to Headquarters.
• The six G8 recruits despaired at the gulf between their abilities and Longinus's strength, while Gregory and the others enjoyed seeing them humbled.
• Morgan asked to meet the warship's commanding officer, and Longinus revealed that he was in command.
• Morgan asked Longinus to report with him to Admiral Sengoku and to look after the G8 recruits at Headquarters.
• Longinus spoke of mutual exchange and progress, and Morgan praised him as a Marine Hero of the new era.

Longinus reflected on the growing conflict between the World Government, the Marines, and the Revolutionary Army as he arrived at Marine Headquarters with Commodore Morgan. He went with Morgan to report to Sengoku, while the new recruits headed to the training camp and Colonel Hughes reevaluated his own standing.

• Longinus considered how the World Government might seek to curb the Marines’ growing influence and concluded that the era’s unrest had begun two years earlier.
• The damaged G8 warship arrived at Marineford, and Commodore Morgan told the duty colonel he would explain what had happened to Sengoku.
• Morgan asked Colonel Hughes to escort the G2 and G8 recruits to the barracks and warned them that training camp would bring new challenges.
• Hughes was surprised to learn that Longinus was already a major and that several of the recruits held high ranks and had earned substantial military merit.
• Morgan left with Longinus to meet Sengoku, while Hughes led the other recruits toward the training camp and rejected Gregory’s attempts to call him Senior.

Sengoku worried about the growing pirate threat while Garp disrupted his discussion with Tsuru. Longinus arrived at Marine Headquarters after helping defeat the Scorpion Pirates and the Blade Pirates, and Sengoku welcomed him as a promising Marine before Garp boasted about himself.

• Sengoku complained that pirate crews were increasing and that Whitebeard, Kaido, and Big Mom were making dangerous moves, while Garp ignored him and provoked a fight.
• Commodore Morgan brought Longinus to meet Sengoku, then walked in on Sengoku and Garp grappling and pretended they had been training.
• Morgan reported that the Scorpion Pirates and the Blade Pirates had intercepted an escort warship, killing a third of its Marines and three Marine recruits.
• Morgan explained that Major Longinus had arrived in time and eliminated both pirate crews, impressing Sengoku with his ability.
• Longinus entered and saluted Sengoku, while Garp praised Longinus's appearance and urged him to inherit the title of Marine Hero and surpass Sengoku.

Longinus recounted how he helped rescue the Marines at the ambush, earning Sengoku’s praise and a Second Class Combat Hero Model Medal. Sengoku and Vice Admiral Tsuru then discussed Longinus’s leadership and ideas about Justice, while Tsuru kept his booklet to use in recruitment promotions.

• Longinus explained that he had gone to the battlefield with a flying companion and coordinated the warship’s soldiers after judging the fight could be salvaged.
• Sengoku awarded Longinus the Second Class Combat Hero Model Medal, gave G2 Branch and G8 Branch collective merits, and cleared Commodore Morgan of punishment.
• Garp urged Longinus to train under him, then fled when Sengoku objected.
• After Longinus and Commodore Morgan left, Vice Admiral Tsuru praised Longinus as a born leader, and Sengoku described his utilitarian Justice.
• Sengoku showed Vice Admiral Tsuru Longinus’s Sayings, and she decided to use some of them in recruitment promotions.

Commodore Morgan showed Longinus around Marineford and explained the three-year recruit training program, including its preparation for Rokushiki and Haki. He left Longinus urging him to take advantage of Admiral Zephyr’s instruction and master both forms of Haki.

• Commodore Morgan described Marineford’s safety, facilities, and training grounds to Longinus.
• Commodore Morgan explained the training camp’s three years of study, assessments, combat practice, and branch-base training, noting that few cadets graduated.
• Longinus said he still had much to learn, and Commodore Morgan praised his humility.
• Commodore Morgan explained that Rokushiki helped draw out Haki and that cadets received Haki instruction in their third year.
• Commodore Morgan encouraged Longinus to learn Two-Color Haki under Admiral Zephyr’s guidance.

Longinus arrived at Marine Headquarters' training camp and met his dormitory roommates, who described the class's top recruits. The chapter left Longinus curious about the two newcomers ranked above him: a swordswoman and a Mythical Zoan user.

• Longinus registered at the training camp, and a ponytailed girl recognized him as the Marine who had saved a ship and escorted him to his dormitory.
• Gregory, Abraham, and T Bone welcomed Longinus and explained the class's divisions and the contempt directed at recruits from different branches.
• Gregory said Headquarters recruits had ranked Longinus third among the class's three monsters and described arguing with them.
• Gregory and Abraham told Longinus that the second-ranked recruit was a beautiful swordswoman with swordsman-level skill.
• Gregory revealed that the recruit ranked first was a Zoan user with a Mythical Zoan, and Longinus took the news seriously.

Gion learned that Longinus’s heroic deeds were real and resolved to apologize for misjudging him. Meanwhile, Algernon warned Longinus’s companions that Gion had come looking for them, and they feared she meant to challenge Longinus’s standing at the training camp.

• Gion read Longinus’s sayings and asked Tsuru whether he was a fictional Navy hero.
• Tsuru explained that Longinus’s recorded deeds were true, and Gion decided to apologize to him for assuming he sought fame.
• Gregory, Abraham, and T Bone discussed their training and heard that Gion had defeated Kaki after he harassed her.
• Algernon rushed in and told the others that Gion had come looking for them.
• Abraham urged everyone to go out and defend Longinus’s reputation even though he was away training.

Gion went to apologize to Longinus, but his men mistook her visit for a challenge and then for an attempt to pursue him. Meanwhile, Longinus met Dragon during deep-sea training and shared his view of Justice, leaving Dragon impressed and Longinus eager to shape his reputation as a Marine Hero.

• Gion arrived at Longinus's barracks to apologize, but Gregory and the others confronted her, believing she had come to challenge their boss.
• Gion clarified that she only wanted to apologize and left; Gregory claimed she was trying to pursue Longinus, while T Bone took his theory seriously.
• Longinus fought a monster in the deep sea, then met Vice Admiral Dragon, who had also been training there.
• Dragon warned Longinus not to accept Garp as a teacher and recommended Teacher Zephyr instead.
• Dragon asked Longinus what Justice meant, and Longinus said Justice was whatever could steadily make the world better.
• Dragon praised Longinus as an outstanding Marine, while Longinus reflected on the uses of his reputation and Dragon's future.