Chapter Summaries

Longinus persuaded Giant King Olaf to avoid a direct war with Charlotte Linlin and instead use a small group of giants as bait in a trap. He left the palace with Olaf’s permission to take twenty warriors aboard his ship.

• Longinus warned the giants that Charlotte Linlin had become stronger than him and that a revenge campaign could be difficult.
• Giant King Olaf declared that Elbaf would break its old promise and seek revenge for the Nun.
• Longinus argued that a prolonged pursuit could worsen the giants’ food shortages and proposed using warriors aboard his ship as bait.
• Longinus explained that Linlin wanted giants for her nation and that he would leak their whereabouts to lure her into an ambush.
• Helding, Yuriel, Oliver, and other giants volunteered to join the dangerous mission, while Olaf authorized Longinus to take as many warriors as he wished.
• Longinus limited the group to twenty warriors, and Olaf praised him as a good friend of the Giant Race.

Longinus refused Sakazuki’s plan to sacrifice the giants and blame Big Mom, choosing instead to protect Elbaf’s forces while drawing Big Mom’s attention. He privately admitted that he was also serving as bait and decided he would have to find a way to kill Big Mom first.

• Longinus reported to Sakazuki that his mission in Elbaf had succeeded and that he had secured twenty giants, including the Giant King’s son.
• Sakazuki proposed killing the giants and blaming Big Mom to provoke Elbaf into attacking the Big Mom Pirates.
• Longinus rejected the plan, arguing that the Marines should preserve the giants as a potential ally and that he would try to hold Big Mom back.
• Sakazuki agreed to follow the original plan but warned Longinus to prioritize his own survival if the situation became hopeless.
• After ending the call, Longinus revealed that Big Mom had pursued him for years and concluded that he needed to find a way to kill her first.

Big Mom learned that her target had left Elbaf aboard a ship carrying twenty giants, including a prince, and rushed to pursue him. In Dressrosa, Doflamingo began manipulating a confrontation between King Riku and pirates to undermine the royal family and reclaim the kingdom.

• Big Mom struck Perospero with lightning for failing to find her target, then ordered Katakuri to locate him.
• Katakuri reported that the target had left Elbaf with twenty giants, including a prince, and Big Mom set out to fulfill her dream.
• Doflamingo explained that he had coached a pirate captain to expose the Riku Royal Family's alleged incompetence and stir up support for the Donquixote family.
• The pirate captain demanded ten billion Beli from King Riku and threatened to make war on Dressrosa if he refused.
• King Riku said he could not produce the money quickly and asked for time to convert the royal palace; the pirate captain gave him three days.

Kyros returned to protect King Riku and Violet from Doflamingo’s pirates, then fought through the attackers with overwhelming skill. When Kyros was about to defeat Captain Joseph, Joseph’s body moved against his will, letting him counterattack and leave Kyros badly wounded.

• Doflamingo and his officers mocked King Riku and discussed recruiting the renowned Kyros.
• Kyros arrived with Violet and urged King Riku not to accept the pirate captain’s demand.
• King Riku trusted Kyros, who ordered Repent to protect the king and princess while he confronted the pirates.
• Kyros charged into the pirate force and quickly killed many attackers, alarming Captain Joseph.
• Joseph swung his giant hammer at Kyros, but Kyros dodged until he found an opening to strike.
• Joseph’s body was suddenly manipulated into using Snake-skin Movement, and he struck Kyros with his hammer despite suffering severe pain.

Kyros struggled to protect King Riku and Violet after Joseph badly wounded him, until Longinus arrived with twenty giants and stopped Joseph’s hammer with one finger. Longinus then detected Doflamingo manipulating events from the shadows and struck toward him.

• Kyros coughed up blood and collapsed while trying to defend King Riku and Violet from Joseph.
• A rumble announced the arrival of twenty giants, and Doflamingo recognized them as being from Elbaf and identified Longinus among them.
• Doflamingo forced Joseph to attack Longinus, who stopped the giant hammer with one finger.
• Longinus sensed Doflamingo hiding nearby, destroyed the bar with a punch, and called out the hidden manipulator.

Longinus confronted Doflamingo after Doflamingo tried to attack him, easily overpowering him despite Doflamingo’s tricks and awakened ability. The chapter left Doflamingo bound in midair as Longinus continued beating him.

• Longinus revealed that he had no intention of capturing Doflamingo at first, but decided to punish him for ordering an attack.
• Longinus shattered Joseph’s steel hammer with one finger, then handed the frightened pirate to Vice Admiral Giandor.
• Doflamingo controlled two giants into attacking Longinus, but Longinus caught their blows and told the giants not to interfere.
• Longinus vanished and punched Doflamingo into the burning bar, then bound him with invisible Armament Haki.
• Doflamingo awakened his Devil Fruit and sent sixteen waves of strings surging toward the flames, but Longinus remained in control and continued punching him while he hung bound in midair.

Longinus defeated Doflamingo and his officers, then earned Dressrosa’s gratitude by apologizing for the Marines’ shortcomings and arranging to buy grain. Violet used her ability to look into Longinus’s heart and found it perfectly pure, while Longinus secretly switched the soul controlling his body.

• Longinus overwhelmed Doflamingo, and when Diamante and the other officers tried to rescue him, Longinus knocked them aside with a Tempest Kick.
• Longinus apologized to King Riku for the Marines’ inability to protect the New World, winning the king and Kyros’s admiration.
• Longinus explained that his Marines had come to Dressrosa to buy food, then offered to pay a ten percent premium for the grain.
• King Riku agreed to sell the grain and invited Longinus and the Marines to a banquet.
• Violet used her ability to inspect Longinus’s heart and told Kyros that it was completely pure.
• Longinus silently switched the soul controlling his body as he followed King Riku toward the Royal Highlands.

At Dressrosa's royal banquet, Longinus described Elbaf and the giants affirmed their respect for his strength. When Big Mom arrived, Longinus and the giants vowed to hold her off while King Riku evacuated the people.

• Longinus told Kyros and King Riku that the giants came from Elbaf and described the legendary kingdom.
• Yuriel explained that giants respected powerful warriors, and the giants praised Longinus for defeating them.
• Doflamingo revealed that he had plans involving Apophis and the World Government if Longinus proved difficult to overcome.
• Repent warned King Riku that Big Mom and her pirates had arrived in Dressrosa.
• Longinus urged King Riku to get the people to safety and volunteered to face Big Mom, while the giants also pledged to fight.

Longinus visited Doflamingo in the underground prison and offered to make him a Shichibukai in exchange for helping deal with Big Mom. Doflamingo agreed under pressure, and Longinus freed and equipped him and his men, leaving them poised to join the coming battle.

• Doflamingo warned Diamante, Pica, and the other prisoner that Longinus might kill them before the battle with Big Mom began.
• Longinus entered the prison and proposed that Doflamingo become a Shichibukai so he could help deal with Big Mom.
• Doflamingo tried to negotiate for better terms, but Longinus beat him until Diamante and the others begged him to stop and said Doflamingo had agreed.
• Longinus gave the four collars and turtleneck sweaters to conceal them, then removed their Seastone chains and provided healing syringes.
• Doflamingo questioned whether Big Mom's people had found Longinus by accident, and Longinus warned him not to speculate carelessly.

Longinus and the giants temporarily set aside their feud with Doflamingo to fight Big Mom and the Charlotte Family. Longinus resisted Big Mom’s elemental attacks and struck her, while Katakuri recognized that his unusual resistance made him a dangerous opponent.

• Longinus ordered Doflamingo and the giants to hold off Katakuri and the Charlotte commanders while he faced Big Mom.
• Helding charged Big Mom, who recognized him as a childhood companion and pulled him into an embrace; Longinus stopped the other giants from attacking with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Longinus clashed Conqueror’s Haki with Big Mom’s, then charged through her lightning and flames and punched her away.
• Katakuri realized Zeus’s lightning and Prometheus’s flames had little effect on Longinus, whose years of training had given him resistance to elemental attacks.
• Longinus judged that Big Mom’s soul and elemental abilities were poorly suited to harming him, though her body remained hard enough to hurt his fingers.

Longinus fought Big Mom through her storm of attacks and gained the upper hand with his speed, Observation Haki, and powerful blows. As Big Mom fell into a deep abyss, Katakuri prepared the Charlotte Family to confront Doflamingo’s group, who had sided with the Marines.

• Big Mom destroyed the Royal Highlands in a rage, but Longinus ran through her storms and struck her repeatedly.
• Big Mom fought Longinus with her fists and giant sword, while he used his speed and future sight to dodge her attacks.
• Longinus wounded Big Mom with an Armament Iron Fist and then drove her into an abyss with Rokuogan—Maximum Wheel.
• Smoothie was shocked that Big Mom was being suppressed, while Katakuri said Longinus would eventually run out of stamina.
• Katakuri learned that the Donquixote Family was working for the World Government and ordered his family to avoid the main battle and defeat them.

Katakuri and Doflamingo clashed while the other fighters struggled to keep pace with the battle between Longinus and Big Mom. Longinus tricked Big Mom into closing her eyes, but his attack failed to injure her, and her counterattack sent him plunging into the abyss.

• Katakuri awakened his Devil Fruit and attacked Doflamingo, who answered with his own awakening and turned the battlefield into tangled mochi and strings.
• Katakuri rejected Doflamingo’s suggestion to stop fighting and unleashed Nine Head Mochi against him.
• Big Mom’s anger caused the ground to collapse, sending several giants and Charlotte Family members into the abyss as she emerged atop Onix.
• Longinus and Big Mom resumed their fight, and Longinus baited her into closing her eyes with a Finger Pistol barrage.
• Longinus struck at Big Mom’s eyes, but his fist was trapped between her eyelids, and her furious counterattack sent him into the abyss.

Longinus battled BIG, surviving her blows with the aid of the Seven Star Sword’s Life Force and a medicine he injected, while trying to understand her Steel Balloon defense. The fight continued with both sides trading devastating attacks, and Longinus ended the chapter wondering whether he could obtain BIG’s innate talent.

• Longinus healed himself after BIG’s punch and returned to the fight, while Katakuri warned the Charlotte Family that he was still alive.
• Longinus and BIG collided again, and Longinus noticed that her strength had increased in her furious state; Doflamingo became interested in Longinus’s healing medicine.
• Longinus kicked BIG’s knee, spun her through the air, and slammed her into the ground before she retaliated with Elbaf’s Spear: Ikoku and blasted him through the rock.
• Longinus healed himself again and theorized that BIG’s Steel Balloon was an innate Armament Haki talent that disappeared when she lost consciousness.
• Longinus wondered whether there was a way to obtain the Steel Balloon talent.

Longinus fought Big Mom beneath Dressrosa and flooded the underground passages, but she escaped on Perospero’s candy waves. Katakuri foresaw Marine reinforcements arriving soon and began organizing the Charlotte Family’s retreat, while Longinus realized Doflamingo had hidden himself in a cocoon.

• Longinus and Big Mom clashed deep underground, and their blows shook Dressrosa as they neared the planet’s core.
• Longinus broke through a rock wall and unleashed seawater, forcing Big Mom to flee toward the surface.
• Longinus struck Big Mom into the sea, but Perospero caught her on waves made of candy.
• Big Mom resumed fighting Longinus, while Katakuri sensed that the battle was going wrong and foresaw Marine reinforcements arriving.
• Katakuri ordered Brulee to take the Charlotte Family into her Mirror World and went to find those trapped in the collapse and convince Big Mom to retreat.
• Longinus discovered that Doflamingo had hidden inside a cocoon with an extremely faint aura.

Longinus provoked Big Mom with the truth about Mother Carmel and unleashed his Brilliant Strike as she faltered. The attack pierced Big Mom, while Katakuri and the other Charlotte family members tried to escape.

• Longinus’s Conqueror’s Haki knocked Brulee unconscious, so Katakuri told the Charlotte family to scatter and flee Dressrosa.
• Longinus and Big Mom’s battle carved an inland lake into Dressrosa’s Royal Highlands as Katakuri urged his mother to escape before Sakazuki and Borsalino arrived.
• Katakuri distracted Big Mom by reminding her of the plan to turn people into giants, but Longinus claimed the Government had abandoned the experiment.
• Longinus provoked Big Mom by revealing that Mother Carmel had intended to sell her to the Government, then hinted at the secret behind Carmel’s disappearance.
• Longinus unleashed the Brilliant Strike after telling Big Mom that she had eaten Mother Carmel and the children, and the strike pierced her body.

Longinus struck Big Mom through the heart and believed he had killed her, while Katakuri escaped with Brulee and the surviving Charlotte Family through the Mirror World. Sakazuki and Borsalino arrived to find the island devastated and learned of Big Mom’s apparent death.

• Big Mom collapsed after Longinus shattered her heart, and Katakuri worried that the Charlotte Family would be vulnerable to its enemies without her.
• Longinus revealed himself on Minos, while Katakuri awakened Brulee and led her and the others into the Mirror World to escape approaching threats.
• Sakazuki and Borsalino arrived and found the island reduced to ravaged ruins.
• Longinus told Sakazuki and Borsalino that Katakuri had used Future Sight to help the pirates escape and that Big Mom was probably dead.
• Sakazuki praised Longinus for apparently killing Big Mom, then questioned why he had been carried there by Borsalino.

After Big Mom’s defeat, Longinus directed Sakazuki and Borsalino to capture fleeing pirates and assist Dressrosa, while securing Doflamingo’s protection as a Shichibukai. Doflamingo reflected on the disastrous operation and decided to leave Dressrosa and recover in hiding.

• Borsalino and Sakazuki praised Longinus for helping take down Big Mom, and Longinus assigned them to capture pirates and handle the remaining cleanup.
• Sakazuki prepared to attack Doflamingo and his crew, but Longinus intervened and reminded him that Doflamingo was now a government Shichibukai.
• Doflamingo promised to show the government and Navy his sincerity, and Sakazuki left to deal with pirates trapped in the canyon.
• Pica, Trebol, and Diamante regrouped with Doflamingo, who lamented that the operation had brought him beatings, a Slave Collar, and a Shichibukai appointment.
• Doflamingo questioned why his Healing Potion had not restored him as much as Longinus, and Longinus claimed his superior body control made the potion more effective.
• Doflamingo decided to leave Dressrosa and hide while he recovered.

After Longinus killed Big Mom, Sakazuki reported the victory to Sengoku, who prepared to announce it at Marine Headquarters. News of the feat reached Zephyr’s training camp, where recruits including Hina and Smoker celebrated Longinus’s achievement.

• The giants mourned three fallen warriors and celebrated Big Mom’s death as the fleet sailed back toward Marine Headquarters with Cracker and Perospero captured.
• Sengoku learned from Sakazuki that Longinus had shattered Big Mom’s heart before Sakazuki and Borsalino arrived, and he was astonished that Longinus had defeated her alone.
• Sengoku decided to spread news of the Navy’s victory and tell Headquarters personnel in advance.
• Zephyr’s recruits heard that Longinus had slain Big Mom, and Hina and Smoker reacted with excitement while Zephyr praised his former disciple.

Morgans learned that Longinus had killed Big Mom and prepared to publish the photographs Minos had taken. In Alabasta, Hiyori rejected Kawamatsu’s suggestion that Longinus help defeat Kaido and vowed to avenge her parents herself.

• Morgans saw Minos’s photographs of Longinus piercing Big Mom and celebrated the scoop.
• Longinus praised Minos for taking the photographs and trained it to serve as his photographer.
• Kawamatsu showed Hiyori the newspaper report about Longinus defeating Big Mom.
• Hiyori refused to involve Longinus in the Kōzuki Clan’s struggle against Kaido and vowed to become a sword saint and defeat him herself.

In a tavern, Shanks and his crew were mocked by pirates who doubted the reports about the New World and BIG MOM’s defeat. When the Supernova Ister challenged Shanks and dismissed Longinus, Shanks’s crew overwhelmed Ister and his men with their presence, and Shanks left warning Ister that Longinus was even stronger than he was.

• Tavern patrons discussed the Gluttony Pirates’ defeat and the news that BIG MOM had been defeated by Longinus, now a Vice Admiral.
• Shanks told the mocking patrons that BIG MOM’s bounty was two billion Beli, but they laughed at him until Ister entered and recognized him as Red-Haired Shanks.
• Ister challenged Shanks for information about the New World and demanded his logbooks, while dismissing reports of Longinus’s strength as Marine propaganda.
• Ister boasted that he could defeat even an admiral, but Lucky Roux’s force slammed him and his crew to the floor, leaving many unconscious.
• Shanks mocked Ister’s lack of strength, walked out of the tavern, and said Longinus was stronger than him.