Chapter Summaries

Longinus used Wapol’s body to sneak into Gods' Domain and test the defenses around a strange temple, but Wapol was erased as soon as he entered. Imu questioned the Five Elders about the intruder and ordered them to prevent anyone else from entering the temple.

• Longinus guided Wapol through Gods' Domain and spotted an ancient, columned temple that reminded him of the building where Imu kept the enormous straw hat.
• Longinus disguised Wapol as a Celestial Dragon and used Observation Haki to confuse the gate guards into letting him inside.
• Longinus staged a chase so Wapol could charge into the temple, but Wapol was instantly erased when he crossed its threshold.
• Longinus woke up in his room and concluded that the temple’s defenses had erased Wapol, while noting he could prepare better for another test.
• Imu questioned the kneeling Five Elders about Wapol’s intrusion, then ordered them not to let anyone else enter the temple.

After reclaiming Whole Cake Island, the Charlotte Family learned about major events from the past seven years and received news that the World Government was preparing to move against them. Katakuri decided they should seek help from Apophis as the family faced an uncertain threat.

• Charlotte Linlin happily ate roast meat during the family’s welcome-back banquet while Katakuri recounted events from the family’s seven-year absence.
• Katakuri told the family that Longinus had become the strongest admiral, prompting them to give up hope of revenge against him.
• Katakuri revealed that the King of the Near Sea had bitten off Red-Haired’s left arm, leaving the family bewildered.
• Katakuri and the Charlotte Family read a joint proposal from several kings accusing Big Mom of violating them and calling for war against the Big Mom Pirates.
• Katakuri warned that the World Government intended to move against the family, and he decided to ask Apophis for help.

Katakuri asked Apophis for reinforcements against the Marines, who had ordered a war against the Big Mom Pirates. As Kaido’s and Apophis’s forces gathered near Whole Cake Island, Katakuri warned that the Marines might not want to win and become too powerful.

• Katakuri called Apophis to request reinforcements, and Apophis agreed without asking for details.
• Apophis wondered why the World Government was so concerned about the pirate conflict and considered the consequences of Big Mom’s defeat.
• Sengoku convened the Marines’ top officers to discuss the war, and Longinus warned that Kaido, Red-Haired, and Apophis might intervene.
• A rear admiral reported that the Beasts Pirates and Demon Sword Pirates were gathering toward Whole Cake Island.
• Katakuri and the Charlotte family learned that the Marines were sending four Admirals and sixteen Vice Admirals, and Katakuri suggested the Marines might hold back to avoid becoming too powerful.

Katakuri explained why the Marines might restrain themselves from crushing the alliance of three Five Emperor crews, while warning his family that pirates’ disunity gave the Marines their strength. The Marine fleet reached Whole Cake Island and opened fire, and Kaido burst through Katakuri’s defensive shield.

• Katakuri told the Charlotte Family that the Marines’ unity against pirates made them powerful, and reasoned that overwhelming the three allied crews could provoke the World Government to pressure the Marines.
• Katakuri said his theory about the Marines holding back was only an analysis and hinted that he had other contingencies.
• A fleet carrying four Marine Admirals and sixteen Marine Vice Admirals arrived near Whole Cake Island, with Akainu commanding the operation.
• Akainu ordered fifty warships to open fire before the Marines exchanged words with the pirates.
• Katakuri awakened his Devil Fruit and raised an earthen shield, but Kaido transformed into a dragon and burst through it.

The Marines and the Big Mom Pirates clashed as Akainu and Kizaru attacked Kaido, while Longinus intercepted Kizaru’s laser and fought Apophis. The battle took an absurd turn when Garp and Charlotte Linlin stopped to share barbecue, leaving the other fighters stunned.

• Akainu’s magma attack hurt Kaido, and Kizaru fired a laser at him before Longinus redirected it toward the fleet and destroyed it.
• Apophis attacked Longinus through a Space Gate, and Longinus countered his sword strike with a kick.
• Garp launched himself at the approaching Big Mom Pirates’ fleet and landed embedded in its flagship deck.
• Charlotte Linlin offered Garp barbecue, and Garp overcame his suspicions to join her in eating.
• Akainu was distracted by Garp and Charlotte Linlin’s barbecue and was struck by Kaido.

Katakuri fought Aokiji to a standstill while Enel and Kizaru struggled to land hits on each other. King found that Issho’s gravity powers countered him, so he flew off to find another opponent.

• Aokiji ambushed Katakuri, but Katakuri dodged with Future Sight and the two clashed with ice and mochi attacks.
• Enel blanketed the area with lightning, but Kizaru evaded it and refused to fight him seriously.
• King crossed blades with Issho, whose gravity shattered their warship and forced King into his pteranodon form.
• Issho used gravity to disrupt King’s flight, but King escaped with powerful wingbeats and flew away to seek Enel.

Longinus and the Marines fought the pirate alliance in the New World until Red-Haired arrived and called for the war to end. The Five Elders also learned that Impel Down was under attack and ordered Akainu to send reinforcements, leaving him furious at their commands.

• Longinus overwhelmed Apophis while the Five Elders learned the Marines held the advantage in the New World battle.
• CP0 reported that Impel Down had been attacked, with Dragon suspected of seeking to free Ivankov and Inazuma, and then reported that the Red Hair Pirates were heading to the battlefield.
• Red-Haired arrived and demanded that the fighting stop, while Apophis put away his weapon and Akainu objected to being ordered around.
• The Five Elders told Akainu to send Kizaru and White Ram to Impel Down and end the war, but Akainu angrily challenged their treatment of the Marines.

Akainu ordered the Marines to retreat after the Five Elders ended their call, and Longinus prepared to return toward Impel Down. There, Dragon searched for Ivankov and Inazuma and found a prisoner willing to escape with him.

• The Five Elders hung up on Akainu, who punched the sea in anger before ordering the Marines to retreat.
• Garp chatted with Charlotte Linlin while Kaido demanded that the battle continue, and Akainu charged at him.
• Longinus told the Marines to withdraw and asked Aokiji to watch over Akainu while he and Kizaru headed back toward Impel Down.
• Dragon searched Impel Down for Ivankov and Inazuma but could not find them on the fifth or sixth levels.
• Dragon spoke with a curly-haired prisoner who knew Ivankov had disappeared, then agreed to take the prisoner along when he asked to escape.

Dragon freed Victor from Impel Down’s Level 6 and learned that Victor had been imprisoned after killing masked attackers. The two escaped through the prison, but Magellan confronted Dragon and tried to stop them as they fled.

• Dragon’s Conqueror’s Haki knocked out more than half the Level 6 prisoners, while Victor endured it without difficulty.
• Victor told Dragon that he had killed masked attackers who were setting fires and slaughtering people, then let himself be captured because dealing with them was troublesome.
• Dragon refused to rescue the beautiful lady and led Victor toward the exit, explaining that Magellan, CP0, and two Marine Admirals threatened their escape.
• When Magellan blocked the way with poison, Victor charged straight through the poisonous wall and continued ahead.
• Magellan unleashed Poison Giant: Hell’s Judgment, but Dragon scattered the poisonous mist with a hurricane and escaped.

Dragon escaped Impel Down with Victor, whose Wood-Wood Fruit had encased the prison in a vast sphere of vines. They encountered Longinus and Kizaru at sea, where Dragon and Longinus began fighting while Victor clashed with Kizaru.

• Dragon flew out of Impel Down and found Victor exhausted after using his Wood-Wood Fruit to trap the prison in a gigantic wooden sphere.
• Dragon carried Victor away, and Magellan, Shiryu, and the CP0 agents escaped the sphere too late to catch them.
• Longinus and Kizaru encountered Dragon and Victor in the sky, and Dragon refused to surrender.
• Dragon and Longinus exchanged powerful attacks, while Victor struck Kizaru and began fighting him.

Longinus and Kizaru fought Dragon and Victor, but the Revolutionary Army escaped after Dragon used a hurricane and Victor trapped the Navy officers. Longinus concluded that the Navy faced growing threats from both the pirates and the Revolutionary Army.

• Victor and Kizaru clashed, with Victor's rapid healing offsetting Kizaru's light attacks.
• Longinus and Dragon exchanged powerful martial arts blows, then Longinus activated his transformation and pursued Dragon through a hurricane.
• Longinus and Dragon traded nearly a thousand punches inside the hurricane before their clash caused it to burst apart.
• Victor bound Longinus and Kizaru with vines and dropped a giant wooden sphere into the sea while Dragon carried Victor away.
• Longinus and Kizaru escaped, and Longinus reflected that the Big Mom Pirates and Victor had strengthened the Navy's enemies.

Ace met Red-Haired Shanks, who urged him to explore the sea and grow before challenging its strongest figures. Ace reconsidered his reckless course and set out on a new adventure, while Marine Admiral Longinus learned that Ace had rejected the World Government’s Shichibukai invitation and entered the New World.

• Ace visited Red-Haired Shanks, introduced himself as Luffy’s brother, and joined the Red Hair Pirates’ welcoming banquet.
• Ace declared that he would become Pirate King by defeating the world’s strongest, and Shanks advised him to gain experience before challenging the summit.
• After the banquet, Shanks wondered whether Ace’s birthplace, Baterilla Island, connected him to something he should ask Senior Rayleigh about.
• Deuce warned Ace that he had become reckless, and Ace agreed to grow stronger before challenging the world’s pinnacle as the Spade Pirates began a new adventure.
• Commodore Skar told Longinus that Ace had rejected the World Government’s Shichibukai invitation and entered the New World.

Longinus learned that Ame no Habakiri had been found and was being carried toward the Gold City by the Blood Sail Pirates. He visited Vegapunk to ask how to put someone’s deep consciousness to sleep, then left the unconscious Kuma in the doctor’s care.

• Skar told Longinus that the Blood Sail Pirates had found Ame no Habakiri in the Mink Principality’s ruins and were fleeing toward the Gold City.
• Longinus visited Vegapunk’s deep-sea laboratory, where Kuma was undergoing mechanical modification and was about thirty percent mechanized.
• Longinus asked Vegapunk for a way to make a person’s deep consciousness fall asleep, and Vegapunk gave him an injection for the cerebral cortex.
• Vegapunk warned that using the injection could allow the person’s consciousness to return, but confirmed it could put him to sleep if necessary.
• Longinus left Kuma’s care to Vegapunk.

Ace and his crew discovered an Ancient Stone Tablet bearing a Poneglyph in an underground palace, where Blood Sail Hak arrived and challenged them for it. Ace struck Hak with his Logia powers, and Hak revealed he had a Supreme Great Sword, though his crew pointed out that he fought with a battle axe.

• Hak planned to hide on a deserted island after pirates blocked his route, and his crew praised his claim that fate had made him the future Pirate King.
• Ace accidentally triggered a mechanism that opened an underground tomb, and Deuce privately concluded that Ace seemed like the protagonist of a story because of his extraordinary luck.
• Ace and his crew found a Stone Tablet at the palace's deepest point, and Deuce identified it as an Ancient Stone Tablet recording the Poneglyph.
• Hak entered the palace and declared that he would take the Stone Tablet, while Ace insisted he would become the Pirate King.
• Ace attacked Hak with Flame Impetus, and Hak used Armament Haki to block the blow before revealing Ame no Habakiri as one of the twelve Supreme Great Swords.
• A subordinate reminded Hak that he usually fought with a battle axe, and Ace laughed at him.

Ace fought Hak over Ame no Habakiri in the underground palace, repeatedly recovering and growing stronger despite his injuries. After Hak died from shock and anger, Vista arrived to claim the sword, and Smoothie appeared as the gathered pirates prepared for a confrontation.

• Ace protected the Spade Pirates from the Blood Sail Pirates while fighting Hak, then struck Hak with Divine Fire: Ignis Fatuus.
• Ace and Hak continued fighting until a powerful Conqueror’s Haki erupted, drawing the island’s arriving pirates toward the underground palace.
• The pirates spotted Ame no Habakiri and rushed for it while Ace and Hak lay bloodied on the ground.
• Ace stood up after his injuries healed, and Hak died after Ace insisted that such rapid recovery was normal.
• Vista asked the pirates to give him Ame no Habakiri, but Smoothie arrived and called the gathered pirates trash.

Ace and Deuce were caught in a chaotic battle over Ame no Habakiri and a Poneglyph, where King confronted Ace and proved far stronger. King left Ace bloodied and mocked him by comparing his accomplishments as a rookie to Longinus and Red-Haired.

• King arrived, killed a pirate who stood in his way, and demanded Ame no Habakiri as Vista, Smoothie, and the other pirates attacked him.
• Ame no Habakiri flew into the ground in front of Ace, and pirates attacked him and Deuce; Ace answered with a fiery punch that revealed his Flame-Flame Fruit powers.
• King spotted the Poneglyph, and Ace tossed Ame no Habakiri away to draw the pirates after it and help his companions escape.
• King struck Ace with a powerful slash and chose to pursue the Poneglyph for Kaido rather than focus on the sword.
• Ace counterattacked with Flame Ring: Fire Pillar, but King split the flames and blasted him into the Poneglyph, leaving him wounded.
• King called Ace the third strongest rookie he had met after Longinus and Red-Haired, and Ace was shaken as he remembered spending his fourteenth year beating up Luffy.

King defeated Ace and was about to finish him when Apophis seized Ame no Habakiri and left, warning that a troublesome opponent was approaching. The arrival of Admiral Shirozou Longinus sent the pirates fleeing, while Ace watched in awe and declared that he wanted to earn a reputation like his.

• King offered Ace a place in the Beasts Pirates, but Ace refused and continued fighting despite being outmatched.
• King defeated Ace and prepared to kill him, but Ame no Habakiri flew toward him and Apophis caught it.
• Apophis called the sword barely usable, warned the pirates to flee because a troublesome person was coming, and left through a Space Gate.
• Shirozou Longinus arrived, prompting Vista, Smoothie, King, and the other pirates to retreat or scatter in terror.
• Ace praised Longinus's reputation and said he wanted to reach the same level, but Deuce shoved him and told him to run.

Ace returned to save Deuce, Banchi, and the others, but Longinus's griffin Minos defeated him with one blow. Longinus discovered a Poneglyph and decided to imprison Ace, while a call with Garp revealed that Ace was his grandson.

• Ace recognized Longinus's overwhelming Conqueror's Haki and turned back to rescue his unconscious companions.
• Minos struck Ace with its Armament Haki-coated claw and sent him flying through the mountain range.
• Longinus found a Poneglyph in the forest as Ace returned to stand by his companions.
• Longinus questioned Ace about Garp and Luffy, but Ace denied knowing Garp and having a younger brother named Luffy.
• Longinus called Vice Admiral Garp, who admitted Ace was his grandson and told Longinus to imprison him for five or ten years.

Longinus refused Ace’s plea to spare his companions and prepared to escort him to Impel Down, but Rayleigh arrived and asked him to let Ace go. Longinus fought Rayleigh, whose legendary strength still left him struggling against Longinus.

• Longinus hung up after Ace and Garp argued, then refused Ace’s plea to take all the blame and spare his companions.
• Ace attacked Longinus in desperation, but Longinus slapped him down and said he would escort him personally to Impel Down.
• Rayleigh appeared and asked Longinus to pretend he had not seen them, while Ace realized Rayleigh had come to save him because of his bloodline.
• Longinus revealed he knew Rayleigh had been teaching Hiyori and Kuina swordsmanship, then attacked him when Rayleigh prepared to fight.
• Rayleigh blocked Longinus’s fist with his Long Sword, but Longinus sent him sliding backward and slapped away his slash.
• Ace watched Longinus and Rayleigh’s destructive battle and wondered whether the Devil Fruit he or Luffy had eaten was fake.

Rayleigh fought Longinus in a fierce sparring match while Ace watched, then Ace joined in and was nearly killed by Longinus’s kick. Rayleigh saved him as Longinus’s attack split the island, leaving Ace stunned by the scale of his power.

• Rayleigh and Longinus exchanged powerful blows, with Rayleigh relying on observation and swordsmanship while Longinus held the advantage.
• Rayleigh wounded Longinus with a close-range sword strike, but Longinus’s injury began healing almost immediately.
• Ace attacked Longinus with Great Flame Ring: Fire Emperor, but Longinus emerged from the flames unharmed.
• Longinus appeared above Ace and brought down a devastating kick, which Rayleigh blocked at the last moment.
• Longinus’s kick split the island, while Rayleigh was injured protecting Ace and blamed Garp for Ace’s foolishness.