Chapter Summaries

More than a hundred identical Terminator T-X units surrounded Capone Bege and revealed themselves as North Blue Branch 1’s Confidential Special Forces “Bullet.” They wiped out the Capone Family forces at the restaurant, leaving Capone Bege alone.

• Capone Bege and his men watched identical blonde women emerge from across Pittsburgh Island and surround them.
• The women identified themselves as Terminator T-X units from North Blue Branch 1, and Capone Bege recognized Rosen’s forces.
• The Terminator T-X units transformed their arms into electrified cannon barrels, while Capone Bege ordered Vito to summon his men.
• A Terminator T-X unit revealed that the forces Capone Bege had sent to attack the Gotti Family had already been taken care of.
• Vito and the Capone Family members opened fire, but the Terminator T-X units blasted them down, leaving Capone Bege alone.

The Terminator T-Xs overwhelmed Capone Bege and endured his attacks as he transformed into his castle giant form. Douglas Bullet arrived, shattered the giant with one punch, and revealed that Rosen’s campaign targeted pirates and underground forces across all Four Seas.

• A Terminator T-X taunted Capone Bege while more than a hundred T-Xs surrounded him with Plasma Cannons.
• Capone Bege unleashed Castle: Demolition, but the Terminator T-Xs regenerated from his cannon fire and mocked his weapons as outdated.
• Capone Bege transformed into his eighty-meter-tall Castle: Full-Size “Big Father” and attacked the Terminator T-Xs.
• Douglas Bullet descended and shattered Capone Bege’s castle form with one punch, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Douglas Bullet said Rosen’s mission targeted the pirates and underground forces across all Four Seas, then ordered the Terminator T-Xs to finish Capone Bege.

Douglas Bullet’s Terminators killed Capone Bege and continued Rosen’s campaign to control West Blue. In Cocoyasi Village, Bellemere and Gen faced the Arlong Pirates’ life tax until a villager announced that the Marines had arrived.

• Douglas Bullet’s Terminator T-X units killed Capone Bege, and Bullet declared that West Blue would have only one voice: Rosen’s.
• Bullet and his Terminator army left by transport plane to attack the next Mafia group, continuing their purge of West Blue’s Mafia groups and pirate crews.
• Bellemere failed to gather the 200,000 Berries demanded by the Arlong Pirates, while Cocoyasi Village’s impoverished residents had already given what they could.
• Gen offered Bellemere 80,000 Berries from his own savings, but Bellemere refused to let him sacrifice his life for hers and asked him to care for Nami and Nojiko if she died.
• A villager ran through Cocoyasi Village announcing that the Marines had arrived, leaving Bellemere and Gen stunned.

Dol slaughtered the Arlong Pirates at Cocoyasi Village while the villagers learned the Marines had arrived and that their life-payment money would be returned. With his crew dead, Arlong faced Dol and ominously declared that she would die.

• Simon told the villagers that a Marine officer had defeated the fish-men and would return the money they had paid to the Arlong Pirates.
• Bellemere and Gen rejoiced that Bellemere no longer had to die, and Cocoyasi's villagers rushed to the dock to thank the Marines.
• Dol recalled how intelligence networks led her to Cocoyasi before Arlong's deadline, then killed fish-men in front of Arlong to make him feel the villagers' pain.
• Nami and Nojiko lowered their hands and watched as Dol continued killing the fish-men, showing no pity for the crew that had threatened Bellemere.
• Dol reduced the Arlong Pirates to Arlong and Hachi, then beheaded Hachi and confronted Arlong.
• Arlong laughed at the deaths of his comrades, then warned Dol that she would die.

Rosen praised Dol for destroying the Arlong Pirates and promised to take responsibility for any conflict with Silvers Rayleigh. After reassuring Branch 1 that they should carry out their orders without fear, he saw Nami rush forward to defend Dol.

• Dol showed Rosen the aftermath of the Arlong Pirates' defeat and apologized after learning that Hachi had once saved Silvers Rayleigh.
• Rosen praised Dol for following his orders and said he would personally handle Pluto Rayleigh if Rayleigh objected.
• Rosen told the Marines not to fear powerful enemies and declared that none could stand against them if they advanced alongside him.
• Nami rushed into view to explain that Dol had saved Cocoyasi Village, while Bellemere tried to pull her back.
• Rosen recognized Nami and asked Dol to lower the camera, and Dol placed the communication device in front of Nami.

Rosen spoke with young Nami and learned she had exceptional navigational talent, including the ability to sense changes in the weather. He accepted her as a Trainee Marine of Branch 1 and promised she could become his ship’s navigator when she grew up.

• Rosen asked Nami about her dream, and she said she wanted to become a Marine like Dol, though she admitted she was afraid of hardship.
• Nami told Rosen and Dol that she could predict weather changes and draw sea charts, then fetched her charts from the village.
• Dol compared Nami’s charts with the Marines’ and found them exceptionally accurate, even though Nami had taught herself navigation by reading stolen books.
• Rosen offered to admit Nami as a Trainee Marine and promised to make her his navigator once she grew up and mastered navigation.
• Nami and Rosen pinky-swore that she would become his navigator, and Bellemere, Nojiko, and the villagers smiled as they watched.

Dol left Cocoyasi Village after giving Nami a necklace containing Rosen's sealed Haki for protection. Meanwhile, Rosen condemned the Shichibukai system and sensed that someone had unsealed Haki he had stored in a container.

• Dol told Nami she would return after clearing out the East Blue and gave her Rosen's Haki necklace, along with assurances that she had other protection.
• Dol boarded her warship and sailed away from Cocoyasi Village as Nami and the villagers watched her leave.
• Rosen told Monet that the World Government had freed the Arlong Pirates to recruit Jinbe as a Shichibukai and said he wanted to put collars on every Shichibukai.
• Rosen sensed through his Armament Haki Infant that someone had unsealed Haki he had sealed inside a container.

After fifteen Battle Suits were destroyed in the South Blue and T Bone was reported in danger, Rosen reassured Branch 1 and opened a black hole in the sky. He stepped through it, apparently heading from the North Blue to the South Blue to reach T Bone.

• Monet told Rosen that someone had forced Dol’s group to use the Haki he had sealed away, and Rosen suggested the threat might have come from the Grand Line.
• Alarms in Branch 1’s Science Unit reported fifteen destroyed Battle Suits, and Vinsmoke Judge traced them to the South Blue and concluded that T Bone was in trouble.
• Vinsmoke Judge went to report the crisis to Rosen, who said he already knew and told the branch not to panic or notify Douglas Bullet.
• Rosen created a black hole by tearing open the sky and stepped inside as Monet and Vinsmoke Judge watched in shock.

T Bone spotted Dracule Mihawk destroying a Grand Line Marine warship and recognized the immense danger he posed. Mihawk sensed T Bone’s powerful Haki and launched a serious slash at his ship, leaving T Bone to face the attack.

• T Bone’s Marines finished defeating a pirate crew in the South Blue, then spotted a battered Grand Line warship nearby.
• Dracule Mihawk split the warship in two with a Great Swordsman’s slash, and T Bone recognized him as the Marine Hunter.
• T Bone ordered his men to contact Branch 1 and report Mihawk’s arrival, judging that only Rosen or Douglas Bullet could handle him.
• Mihawk sensed T Bone’s Haki and decided the Marine could help forge Yoru into a Black Blade.
• Mihawk unleashed a powerful dark green slash toward T Bone’s warship.

Dracule Mihawk attacked T Bone and the Marines with a long-range Slash Wave, destroying their warship, but T Bone survived thanks to his second-generation Battle Suit. As T Bone confronted Mihawk, he unlocked the Haki Rosen had sealed in his sword, and Mihawk realized the power he had sensed belonged to an unknown swordsman.

• T Bone charged at Mihawk’s Slash Wave to give the Marines time to escape, but the strike shattered his sword and cut the warship in two.
• The Marines in Battle Suits helped their unarmored comrades leap from the ship, while T Bone survived the attack with a severe wound.
• T Bone challenged Mihawk for attacking Marines, and Mihawk said he considered them tools for forging his Black Blade.
• T Bone poured his Haki into his sword to unlock the Haki Rosen had sealed inside it.
• Mihawk recognized that the Haki he had sensed belonged not to T Bone, but to an unknown powerhouse.

T Bone revealed that Rosen had sealed a Susanoo into his sword and used it to confront Dracule Mihawk. Mihawk overpowered the Susanoo’s attacks, leaving T Bone’s Yata Mirror cracked and the battle unresolved.

• T Bone unleashed the Armament Haki sealed in his sword, forming a fifty-meter-tall Susanoo Third Form.
• Dracule Mihawk recognized Rosen’s power in the Susanoo and declared his desire to test it in battle.
• T Bone attacked Mihawk with a Haki longsword, but Mihawk blocked it with Black Blade Yoru without damaging his boat.
• T Bone transformed the Susanoo’s weapon into a longbow and fired a Haki arrow, which Mihawk pierced before countering with a massive Slash Wave.
• T Bone changed the longbow into the Yata Mirror to block Mihawk’s Slash Wave, but the impact forced him back and cracked the mirror.

T Bone released all the Haki Rosen had sealed in his sword to save the retreating Marines, transforming his Third Form Susanoo into its Perfect Form. Dracule Mihawk welcomed the power, hoping to use their clash to forge Yoru into a Black Blade.

• Dracule Mihawk saw through T Bone's attempt to stall and threatened to kill the retreating Marines unless he released all of Rosen's Haki.
• When T Bone hesitated, Dracule Mihawk sent a Slash Wave toward the Marines, forcing T Bone to act.
• T Bone apologized to his subordinates and unsealed all the Haki in his sword, revealing the Perfect Susanoo.
• Dracule Mihawk faced the towering Susanoo with intense fighting spirit, intending to transform Yoru into a Black Blade through their battle.

T Bone failed to control Rosen’s Perfect Susanoo, leaving him exposed to Dracule Mihawk’s attack, but the Susanoo moved on its own and revealed Rosen’s voice. Rosen reassured T Bone, who vowed to train harder.

• T Bone unsealed Rosen’s Haki to summon the Perfect Susanoo but could not control its full form.
• Dracule Mihawk recognized T Bone’s predicament, then attacked him with a deadly slash in anger and disappointment.
• The Susanoo caught Mihawk’s slash and swatted it away without T Bone’s command.
• Rosen spoke through the Susanoo, comforted T Bone, and praised his courage in protecting the Marines.
• T Bone wounded his own arm and vowed never to disappoint Rosen again, while Rosen insisted he had never disappointed him.

Rosen remotely controlled Susanoo from the North Blue to fight Dracule Mihawk in the South Blue, using only Armament Haki. Mihawk recognized Rosen’s distant control and welcomed the battle as a chance to forge a black blade.

• Rosen sent T Bone and the other Marines away, then announced that he would take over the fight against Dracule Mihawk.
• Susanoo drew a Haki Longsword and cut through Mihawk’s Slash Wave, then pursued him through the air with a second blade.
• Mihawk coated Yoru in Armament Haki and met Susanoo’s strike head-on, but the clash sent him bouncing across the sea before he plunged beneath the water.
• Rosen’s remote-controlled Susanoo was forced back because Rosen’s true body was absent and it could use only Armament Haki.
• Mihawk returned to his boat and realized Rosen was controlling Susanoo from the North Blue, then declared him an ideal opponent for forging a black blade.

Rosen battled Dracule Mihawk through a portion of Haki sealed in T Bone's sword, controlling a Susanoo that could not use Observation Haki, Conqueror's Haki, or Rosen's Paramecia Ability. He used the Six Styles to keep up with Mihawk, and the fight continued as Susanoo launched a Finger Pistol.

• Dracule Mihawk identified Rosen's Susanoo as an embodiment of his will and demanded that Rosen prove himself by defeating the Haki sealed in T Bone's sword.
• Mihawk attacked Susanoo with a massive Slash Wave, but Rosen blocked it with a Yata Mirror and countered with Yasakani no Magatama.
• Mihawk used Observation Haki and Future Sight to evade and cut through Susanoo's attacks as Rosen sped after him with Shave and launched Tempest Kick.
• Rosen used Susanoo's four arms to attack Mihawk with more Yasakani no Magatama, then thrust a Finger Pistol at him.

Rosen’s Susanoo overwhelmed Dracule Mihawk with powerful attacks, but the Haki sustaining it ran out before the duel could be settled. As Susanoo vanished, Rosen warned Mihawk that he had lost his last chance to escape the South Blue and that they would meet again soon.

• Rosen’s Susanoo struck Mihawk with a Finger Pistol and a Haki arrow, blasting him into the sea and splitting the water with the impact.
• Rosen prepared another arrow, but Susanoo began to dissolve as the Armament Haki sealed in T Bone’s sword ran out.
• Mihawk emerged from the sea, regretted the battle ending, and decided to hunt the Marines who had escaped, expecting Rosen to come after him.
• Rosen told Mihawk that he had missed his final chance to escape the South Blue and would soon be unable to go anywhere or do anything.
• Susanoo vanished before it could finish speaking, leaving Rosen’s warning that they would meet again soon.

Rosen tore open the sky and descended into the South Blue to confront Dracule Mihawk, who had been hunting Rosen’s Marines. Mihawk welcomed the fight, intent on using Rosen’s blood to forge Yoru into the world’s strongest Black Blade.

• Mihawk threatened Rosen and continued to pursue T Bone and the other Marines, declaring himself the Marine Hunter.
• A black fissure opened in the sky above the South Blue, and Rosen emerged from it before Mihawk.
• Rosen told Mihawk that he had tracked him down and would make him wear a collar.
• Mihawk greeted Rosen’s arrival with excitement and vowed to cut him down to forge Yoru and claim the title of the world’s strongest swordsman.

Rosen summoned Dual-Blade Zangetsu and challenged Dracule Mihawk without using Susanoo. Their immense sword attacks collided, and Rosen added a second slash that formed the Moon Cutter Cross Rush, leaving Mihawk facing a cross-shaped strike from above.

• Dracule Mihawk drew Yoru, turned it into a Black Blade with Armament Haki, and challenged Rosen to fight at full strength.
• Rosen summoned Zangetsu, whose sword cry and sharpness shook the skies and startled Dracule Mihawk.
• Rosen appeared above Mihawk wielding two blades and swung the longer Zangetsu to send a massive crescent slash crashing down.
• Dracule Mihawk answered with an enormous slash, and their attacks collided in a storm that split the sea and tore through the sky.
• Rosen swept the shorter Zangetsu sideways, creating a second golden crescent that joined the first into the Moon Cutter Cross Rush.

Rosen fought Dracule Mihawk at sea, using his twin Zangetsu blades and Moon Cutter attacks to break through Mihawk’s defenses. After Mihawk blocked two crescents from opposite sides, Rosen landed a devastating final strike that engulfed him in a torrent of golden slashes.

• Mihawk dodged Rosen’s Moon Cutter Cross Rush, but Rosen caught up and clashed with him using Zangetsu.
• Rosen unleashed a point-blank Moon Cutter during their blade lock, driving Mihawk hundreds of meters backward.
• Rosen passed Mihawk and sent a second Moon Cutter at his back, trapping him between two crescents.
• Mihawk coated Yoru and a small blade with Haki, then shattered both Moon Cutters.
• Rosen charged Mihawk and struck him with a golden Zangetsu, unleashing a torrent of slashes that swallowed him and blasted through the sea.

Rosen overwhelmed Dracule Mihawk in their duel, but Mihawk survived the Moon Cutter and awakened Yoru into a true Black Blade. The chapter ended with Mihawk preparing to use his newfound strength to defeat Rosen.

• Rosen split the sea open to expose Dracule Mihawk and interrupt his counterattack.
• Mihawk emerged with a deep chest wound and said that fighting powerful enemies forged both a swordsman and his blade.
• Rosen acknowledged that he had never needed to struggle against stronger opponents to surpass them.
• Mihawk withdrew his Armament Haki and revealed that Yoru had become a Black Blade during their battle.
• Mihawk raised Yoru, infused it with Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki, and vowed to defeat Rosen.