Chapter Summaries

Charles and the passengers aboard his ship witnessed the Red Hair Pirates destroy the World Pirates' fleet, then watched Shanks's ship sail toward Beast Island. Charles chose to remain at sea, convinced the coming conflict could bring him profit.

• Charles thought that an alliance between Lord World and the Big Mom Pirates could help him advance beyond the Black Sea Merchant Association.
• Charles saw that the Red Hair Pirates had devastated the World Pirates' fleet and killed Great Axe Carter.
• Charles ordered his ship to retreat, but a sniper shot down its flag as a warning, and the Dragon Head Pirate Ship passed without attacking.
• Charles recognized the departing pirates as Red-Haired Shanks and heard passengers speculate that he was heading to Beast Island to confront Lord World.
• Charles slapped a passenger who urged them to return and insisted that war was their chance to prosper.

Aboard the passenger ship, Longinus questioned Charles about World’s planned alliance with Big Mom and learned that World intended to offer her a living griffin. He suspected Red-Haired might have attacked World’s fleet to seize the creature.

• Longinus reconsidered his plan to attack World directly after learning Big Mom might be involved in an alliance with him.
• Longinus approached Charles and asked how World intended to gain Big Mom’s support.
• Charles explained that Big Mom and Kaido’s alliance had weakened after their shared war and that World hoped to win her over with a rare gift.
• Charles revealed that World had captured a living griffin to present to Big Mom.
• Longinus suspected Red-Haired might have targeted World’s fleet because he wanted the griffin.

Longinus used his influence over Charles to secure an introduction to World, while learning about the planned banquet and the World Pirates’ recent battle with Red-Haired Shanks. The chapter left Longinus heading toward the banquet with the World Pirates’ weakness and reliance on Big Mom’s reinforcements in mind.

• Longinus pressured Charles into revealing what he knew, then offered information about the Marine who had nearly captured World as a gift and persuaded Charles to arrange an introduction.
• After Longinus left, Charles decided to claim the credit for his information and treat him as a disposable stepping stone.
• Katakuri told Smoothie that World had captured a young Griffin, fed it a Devil Fruit, and imprisoned it with Seastone chains.
• Three days later, Longinus and Charles arrived at Beast Island, where Sebastian confirmed that the banquet would be held and claimed World had defeated Red-Haired Shanks.
• Longinus listened with Observation Haki and realized the World Pirates had been losing until Big Mom’s reinforcements helped them repel the Red-Haired Pirates.

Longinus encountered Yasopp on Beast Island and rejected the Red Hair Pirates’ offer to cooperate against the World Pirates. He left Yasopp with a warning to tell Beckman that they were only coincidental allies against a common enemy, not partners.

• Longinus knocked out a Giant Rhinoceros with one punch and wondered how strong the island’s forest king, the Griffin, would be.
• Yasopp approached Longinus and praised his strength, then said he had come bearing goodwill from the Red Hair Pirates.
• Yasopp argued that Longinus should target the World Pirates and cooperate with the Red Hair Pirates rather than face the World Pirates and Big Mom Pirates alone.
• Longinus recognized that Yasopp was repeating a speech Beckman had prepared and remarked that the Red Hair Pirates were a greater threat than World’s crew.
• Longinus refused to consider them partners and told Yasopp to inform Beckman that they had merely chosen the same enemy at the same time.

On Beast Island, the Red-Haired Pirates discussed the marine they had encountered, while Waldo gathered pirates and the Big Mom Pirates to advance a revenge plan against the World Government and Marine Headquarters. The chapter ended with Waldo insisting that once his followers joined his cause, they would be trapped on his path to the bitter end.

• Shanks celebrated after the battle, and Yasopp asked Beckman whether the marine they had met was reliable.
• Beckman warned Yasopp not to mistake the marine for an ally and compared his rivalry with Shanks to Garp and Roger's.
• Two days later, pirates gathered at Waldo's encampment to see a griffin bound in Seastone chains.
• Waldo complained that Big Mom had not come herself, and Katakuri replied that his group was enough.
• Waldo demanded Big Mom's public support and wanted to be recognized as the fourth overlord so more New World pirates would join him.
• Waldo revealed that he wanted revenge and said the World Government would leave his followers no choice but to continue fighting once they joined his cause.

Katakuri agreed to lend the Big Mom Pirates’ flag to World, while Charles tried to win favor by reporting that Longinus had come to the New World alone. Charles’s plan ended in disaster when Longinus revealed himself at World’s banquet, and Charles fainted after realizing whom he had brought before World.

• Katakuri agreed to lend the Big Mom Pirates’ flag to World and warned that strength alone could earn recognition as ruler of the New World.
• Charles approached World and claimed he had important intelligence about Longinus, who had reportedly arrived in the New World alone.
• Katakuri and Smoothie recognized Longinus as the Marine who had severely injured Nozette, and World asked Charles where Longinus was.
• Charles called for his supposed subordinate, and Longinus revealed himself and walked toward World.
• Charles tried to deny responsibility for Longinus, then fainted when Longinus gave his name.

Longinus confronted World and demonstrated that his strength had grown enough to overpower World’s attacks, but World’s hundredfold speed forced him to endure a devastating collision. Longinus bound World and counterattacked with Rokuogan: Maximum Wheel, leaving both fighters hurled to opposite sides of the forest.

• World dismissed Longinus’s challenge, then attacked him with a thirtyfold-accelerated table that Longinus’s Armament Haki repelled.
• World enlarged and accelerated his blade fiftyfold, but Longinus caught it with one hand and knocked World flying.
• World used Momo: Hundredfold Speed to strike Longinus before he could evade, injuring him despite his Armament Haki and Iron Body defenses.
• Longinus seized World with his hair and hit him with Rokuogan: Maximum Wheel, sending both fighters flying in opposite directions.

The Big Mom Pirates and World’s men watched Longinus fight World before the Red Hair Pirates arrived and blocked the Big Mom Pirates from interfering. Shanks and Katakuri began fighting while Beckman confronted Cracker, leaving the crews poised for battle.

• Smoothie, Perospero, Cracker, and Katakuri assessed World’s strength and warned that his frozen body was nearing collapse.
• Katakuri caught a bullet and spotted the Red Hair Pirates on the cliff, where Shanks demanded that the Big Mom Pirates leave the battle between Longinus and World alone.
• Shanks and Beckman explained that their crew shared Longinus’s goal, but Katakuri refused to back down and drew Earth Dragon.
• Shanks leaped down to attack Katakuri, who awakened his Devil Fruit and clashed with him in a series of powerful exchanges.
• Cracker prepared to help Katakuri, but Beckman warned him off and offered to fight him instead.
• Cracker summoned Biscuit Soldiers and urged the Big Mom Pirates to join the battle.

Longinus and Waldo fought at full strength, with Waldo unleashing his speed and destructive power before Longinus stopped his charge and injured him. Waldo recovered and prepared to continue fighting, declaring that killing Longinus would complete his revenge.

• Waldo cast aside his hesitation and charged Longinus at a speed he could barely control, crashing through a mountainside.
• Longinus dodged Waldo’s charge, then used Rokuogan: Maximum Wheel to create an opening and seize him by the head.
• Longinus stopped Waldo’s Death Charge at the forest’s edge, despite mangling his hands, and drove a knee into Waldo’s abdomen.
• Waldo retaliated with a Rocket Headbutt, but Longinus kicked him away before he could land it.
• Waldo shoved aside the pirates who rushed to help him, recovered from his injuries, and vowed to kill Longinus as revenge against the World Government and Marine Headquarters.

Longinus and Waldo fought as Waldo pushed his failing body beyond its limits, while the battle threatened to engulf the other pirates on Beast Island. Waldo unleashed a massive chain storm, forcing Shanks and Katakuri to order everyone to flee or take cover.

• Waldo taunted Longinus and urged him to run, but Longinus refused to back down and called him a failure.
• Waldo attacked Longinus with his Hundred Times Human Cannon, and Longinus redirected him into the battlefield where Shanks and Katakuri were fighting.
• Longinus and Waldo traded blows across the battlefield, impressing the Red Hair Pirates and Big Mom Pirates with their strength.
• Waldo removed his chains and spun them into a growing storm that darkened the sky above Beast Island.
• Katakuri ordered his crew to retreat, while Shanks told everyone to flee to the island’s edge or dig holes for cover.

Longinus unleashed his full power against Waldo’s storm and pierced Waldo’s heart, while the Red Hair and Big Mom Pirates sheltered underground. Waldo recognized the scale of Longinus’s ambition before dying, and the other crews emerged to learn who had won the clash of Conqueror’s Haki.

• Waldo hurled his devastating storm at Longinus, who strode into it and erupted with enough power to tear apart the tempest.
• Yasopp and Lucky Roux dug deeper underground while Beckman restrained Shanks from rushing into the storm to save Griffin.
• Shanks and Beckman encountered Katakuri, Cracker, and Smoothie underground, and the pirates’ weaker crewmates collapsed when Longinus and Waldo clashed with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Shanks and Katakuri led the others outside after the storm subsided.
• Longinus stood with his arm through Waldo’s heart as Waldo recognized his ambition to reach beyond the ranks of Marine admirals and died.

Longinus reflected on Waldo’s Conqueror’s Haki, then discovered that the surviving griffin had escaped using the Speed-Speed Fruit and chose to follow him. After Longinus named it Minos, Shanks realized the Marine had taken the griffin and mourned his lost chance.

• Longinus considered how Waldo’s Conqueror’s Haki differed from his expectations and decided to ask Admiral Sengoku about using it.
• A surviving griffin flew to Longinus, and he learned that Waldo had given it the Speed-Speed Fruit and that it wanted to follow him to repay him for its father’s death.
• Longinus accepted the griffin’s submission and named it Minos.
• Katakuri, Smoothie, Beckman, and the others emerged from the crater and recognized Waldo’s defeat.
• Shanks saw Longinus leaving with Minos and cried that the Marine had stolen his griffin, so Beckman dragged him away.

Longinus returned to Marine Headquarters riding a griffin and carrying Waldo’s head, astonishing the recruits and senior officers. Sengoku persuaded Kong to publicize Longinus’s victory to deter pirates, leaving Longinus poised to become a public Marine hero.

• Rice, Herbert, Strawberry, Dalmatia, and Doberman watched Longinus arrive on a griffin and learned that he had killed World Breaker Waldo.
• Doberman explained that the Red Hair Pirates had attacked Waldo’s island after he tried to ally with Big Mom, and identified the head Longinus carried as Waldo’s.
• The recruits realized Longinus had apparently defeated Waldo and his crew alone, and their excitement over his feat grew.
• Sengoku told Kong and Garp that Longinus had killed Waldo after Waldo burned his life force in a battle that nearly destroyed the island.
• Sengoku urged Kong to spread news of Longinus’s victory to deter pirates, and Kong agreed.

News that Longinus killed Waldo spread across the seas, drawing reactions from Big Mom, Kaido, and Whitebeard’s crews. Big Mom threatened Longinus, Kaido became interested in testing him, and Whitebeard offered Teach a chance to seek revenge.

• Reports said Longinus had stormed the World Pirates, killed Waldo, and destroyed an island, though many initially doubted the story.
• Big Mom raged over Longinus stealing her gift and Katakuri’s supposed defeats, but Katakuri redirected her attention by revealing the World Government’s Human Gigantification research.
• Big Mom praised Katakuri for promising to steal the technology, then vowed to make Longinus fear her if he returned to the New World.
• Kaido asked King about Longinus, heard King describe the Marine’s strength, and said he wanted to test Longinus himself.
• Whitebeard discussed Waldo’s death and Longinus’s return with his crew, then offered Teach help getting revenge for his earlier beating by Longinus.

After Longinus’s capture of World made him a celebrated hero, Fleet Admiral Kong considered promoting him to rear admiral at seventeen. Longinus declined the unusually rapid promotion and left with Kong’s promise to promote him in a year or two.

• Longinus’s victory over World elevated his reputation at Marine Headquarters, where Marines praised him as a hero.
• Kong told Longinus that his achievements warranted promotion to rear admiral, despite his young age.
• Longinus asked Kong not to promote him beyond the usual standards and said he wanted to advance through his own achievements.
• Longinus reasoned that refusing the promotion would avoid resentment and protect his reputation in the Navy.
• Kong agreed to make Longinus a commodore and promised to promote him to rear admiral within one or two years.

Sengoku explained to Longinus how Conqueror's Haki awakens, why it is not proof of a king's birthright, and how it can be developed into a power that affects reality. He left Longinus with a lesson in its ultimate potential: a King's Domain that could merge with and rule over all things.

• Longinus questioned the idea that Conqueror's Haki marked someone as a natural-born king, citing its rarity among the Navy and the pirates he had seen in Impel Down.
• Sengoku explained that Conqueror's Haki was an innate potential in everyone, though difficult to awaken and often mistaken for evidence of ambition and kingship.
• Longinus and Sengoku shared their ambitions: Longinus wanted to make the world better, while Sengoku wanted Justice to reign over it.
• Sengoku urged Longinus not to reject Conqueror's Haki because of rumors and began teaching him about its true power.
• Sengoku explained that advanced Haki could go beyond Future Sight and shockwaves, and that Conqueror's Haki could ultimately become a King's Domain that merged with and ruled over all things.

Sengoku explained the true power of Conqueror’s Haki and how Roger, Garp, and Golden Lion’s abilities countered one another, then gave Longinus several days of instruction. Afterward, Longinus tested Minos’s remarkable flying speed and considered how it could help him escape or become a powerful ally if it learned Armament Haki.

• Sengoku told Longinus that Roger had mastered Conqueror’s Haki’s ability to influence, merge with, and command all things, and revealed that this power shaped the Battle of East Blue Sea.
• Sengoku explained how Roger, Garp, and Golden Lion countered one another, then advised Longinus to seek his own direction in developing Conqueror’s Haki.
• Sengoku taught Longinus techniques for controlling Conqueror’s Haki over three days before ending their training for the time being.
• Longinus ordered Minos to fly at maximum speed and saw Marine Headquarters shrink into a tiny dot below them.
• Longinus considered using Minos’s speed for travel and escape, and wondered whether Minos could learn Armament Haki.

Longinus returned to G2 Branch as its newly appointed commodore, arriving on his griffin, Minos. After the Marines recognized him and he waited for proper clearance, Vice Admiral Borsalino welcomed him and anticipated having a capable subordinate.

• Longinus landed at G2 Branch harbor on Minos and introduced himself to the wary Marines as their new commodore.
• Will recognized Longinus, and the Marines celebrated his return and admired Minos.
• Longinus asked Will to report his arrival to Vice Admiral Borsalino before entering the base.
• Minos grew agitated at the crowd, but Longinus calmed it with his voice and apparent use of Conqueror's Haki.
• Vice Admiral Borsalino arrived, praised Longinus, and said that his capable subordinate would make his work easier.

Longinus returned to the G2 Branch, where Borsalino briefly announced his new posting to Lodestar Island. Adkin warned him that Saint Lucia Kingdom had been taken over under suspicious circumstances, leaving Longinus to investigate the unrest.

• Borsalino held a brief meeting and announced that Longinus would be stationed on Lodestar Island.
• Adkin, Jonathan, and other officers congratulated Longinus on his promotion and praised his defeat of World Breaker Waldo.
• Adkin told Longinus that Borsalino would likely put him to work dealing with powerful pirates now that he had arrived.
• Adkin warned Longinus that he had lost authority on Lodestar Island after the island’s residents installed a new King.
• Adkin explained that outsiders had persuaded the people of Saint Lucia Kingdom to overthrow the royal family, though he had been unable to discover how they did it.

Adkin told Longinus that Avalo Pizarro had plunged Lodestar Island into wars and massacres while using fabricated evidence to evade punishment. Longinus accepted the mission to address the crisis and planned to consult King Cobra, while the alliance against Saint Lucia remained on the back foot.

• Adkin explained that Avalo Pizarro had conquered two kingdoms, massacred their people, and avoided consequences by releasing footage that supposedly proved they had plotted against him.
• Adkin said Pizarro had continued waging wars, earning the support of Saint Lucia's citizens and army while the other royal families' alliance struggled against his forces.
• Longinus agreed to go to Lodestar Island and told Adkin to await news at the branch.
• Adkin recommended that Longinus first speak with King Cobra, who had opposed Saint Lucia's atrocities and helped form the alliance.
• Adkin revealed that Saint Lucia's king was Avalo Pizarro, known by the surrounding royal families as the Tyrant King and the Corrupt King.