Chapter Summaries

Rosen arrived at GL Branch 1 in the New World, where Sakazuki and the Marines recognized his overwhelming Susanoo. He and Sakazuki exchanged praise and established a cordial first impression, while Sakazuki remained determined to compete for Fleet Admiral.

• A lookout reported a fast-moving figure approaching GL Branch 1, and Sakazuki told Lunz to keep the Marines at their posts because the visitor was Rosen.
• Sakazuki recalled Rosen’s achievements and watched as Rosen approached in his Susanoo, recognizing that Rosen surpassed him in Armament Haki.
• Rosen dispelled his Susanoo, landed at the fortress, and apologized to the Marines for arriving without notice.
• Rosen greeted Sakazuki as Senior and praised his strength, while Sakazuki welcomed the respectful address and felt an immediate desire to befriend him.
• Sakazuki acknowledged Rosen’s ability and character but resolved to continue pursuing the Fleet Admiral position.

Rosen visited Sakazuki at GL Branch 1, bringing him a whetstone and discussing the strength and purpose of the Marines. Their conversation turned into a confrontation over the Fleet Admiral position, and Rosen told Sakazuki he had come to give him a chance to understand him and obey him.

• Sakazuki welcomed Rosen into his office and made him ordinary green tea.
• Rosen gave Sakazuki a whetstone, and Sakazuki explained that he sharpened his unused saber to keep himself and the Marines ready for war.
• Rosen praised Sakazuki's leadership and the elite Haki-trained force he had built at GL Branch 1.
• Sakazuki challenged Rosen over whether he could command the Admirals if he became Fleet Admiral.
• Rosen said he could not bear to see Admiral Akainu following behind the Five Elders, and Sakazuki recognized that Rosen was challenging him over the Fleet Admiral position.
• Rosen told Sakazuki that he had come to give him a chance to understand him and obey him.

Rosen told Sakazuki he wanted to become Fleet Admiral without fighting him, then proposed taking on a Four Emperors Crew alone to earn his submission. Sakazuki warned him that the plan would be suicidal and could ruin his career, leaving Rosen’s proposal unresolved.

• Sakazuki interpreted Rosen’s request for submission as a declaration of war, but Rosen said his blade was not meant to strike at the Marines.
• Sakazuki praised Rosen’s actions against the Shichibukai and said a candidate for Fleet Admiral had to be willing to challenge powerful foes.
• Rosen explained that he intended to remove one of the New World’s emperors himself, not lead Marine Headquarters into war.
• Sakazuki objected to Rosen attacking a Four Emperors Crew alone and warned that pirates would overwhelm him and that unauthorized defeat could end his Marine career.
• Sakazuki used Kaido, the Calamities, and Whitebeard to explain why even an admiral could not win against an emperor and multiple powerful allies at once.

Rosen told Sakazuki that he planned to fight two Four Emperors over the deaths of Zefa’s family, which the Five Elders had concealed. Sakazuki still refused to let him go without authorization and challenged him to a fight, declaring that Rosen would become Fleet Admiral if he won.

• Rosen refused Sakazuki’s offer of Marine support, explaining that his campaign against the Four Emperors was a personal matter tied to Zefa’s family.
• Rosen revealed that his investigation implicated Ochoku and Bakingom in the deaths of Zefa’s family, and Sakazuki was moved by his devotion to their teacher.
• Sakazuki urged Rosen to report the matter to Marine Headquarters, but Rosen argued that the Five Elders would block a war against two Four Emperors and had concealed the truth to preserve their balance of power.
• Sakazuki admitted that he understood the Five Elders’ strategy but maintained that, as an admiral and Rosen’s senior, he had to stop Rosen from acting without authorization.
• Rosen insisted on going ahead, so Sakazuki challenged him to defeat him and promised that Rosen would become Fleet Admiral if he won.

Rosen refused to fight Sakazuki and explained that he intended to destroy the Ochoku Pirates alone, prompting Sakazuki and Borsalino to worry about the danger. After the three reconciled, Rosen reaffirmed his plan to end the crew and bring closure to Zefa’s family’s murder.

• Sakazuki told Rosen that upholding his justice might require him to draw his blade even against teachers, family, and comrades.
• Sakazuki called Borsalino and asked him to come to GL Branch 1 after learning Rosen planned to fight a Four Emperor alone.
• Borsalino flew to GL Branch 1 in alarm, while Rosen and Sakazuki talked and came to understand each other.
• Borsalino urged Rosen to wait for Marine Headquarters’ support, and Sakazuki said he would not oppose a war approved by Headquarters.
• Rosen declared that the Ochoku Pirates were not worth all the trouble and said he would defeat them to end the Great Pirate Era and avenge Zefa’s family.

Rosen showed Sakazuki and Borsalino that his Conqueror’s Haki had reached Gol D. Roger’s level and invited them to witness the view above the Four Emperors. He opened a Black Hole to take them with him, while Sakazuki began considering supporting Rosen as king if he could stand against the Wang Zhi Pirates.

• Borsalino warned Rosen that fighting a Four Emperors Crew meant facing its commanders and thousands of pirates, not just its captain.
• Rosen unleashed tightly controlled Conqueror’s Haki that split the clouds above GL Branch 1 without harming the Marines, and declared that he had reached Gol D. Roger’s height.
• Rosen opened a Black Hole in the office and invited Sakazuki and Borsalino to follow him.
• Sakazuki worried that GL Branch 1 would be left undefended, but Rosen assured him he could monitor the base and return at any time.
• Borsalino recalled Rosen’s ambition to eradicate pirates, and Sakazuki considered supporting Rosen as king if he could fight the Wang Zhi Pirates to a draw.

Rosen, Sakazuki, and Borsalino traveled through a Black Hole to an uninhabited island near GL Branch 1 so Rosen and Sakazuki could fight without restraint. Sakazuki unleashed his Great Eruption, and Rosen countered by releasing his Bankai, leaving their attacks about to collide.

• Rosen brought Sakazuki and Borsalino through the Black Hole to an uninhabited island near GL Branch 1.
• Sakazuki warned Rosen that his Magma-Magma Fruit had immense attack power and that Rosen needed Haki to protect himself.
• Borsalino explained that Sakazuki surpassed him and Kuzan and was stronger than Douglas Bullet and Dracule Mihawk.
• Sakazuki attacked Rosen with Great Eruption, sending a colossal magma fist toward him.
• Rosen released his Bankai, turning his Zanpakutō into a vast torrent of Cherry Blossom Blades that swept toward Sakazuki's magma fist.

Rosen tested Sakazuki’s Magma-Magma Fruit with Senbonzakura Kageyoshi, then cut apart a Great Eruption with the White Emperor Sword. Sakazuki escalated the spar by unleashing Meteor Volcano, and Borsalino watched as the barrage descended on Rosen.

• Rosen’s Senbonzakura Kageyoshi gradually lost ground against Sakazuki’s replenishing magma fist.
• Rosen dismissed the cherry blossom blades and used the White Emperor Sword to sever Sakazuki’s Great Eruption.
• Rosen concluded that the Magma-Magma Fruit’s volcanic impact force mattered more than its heat.
• Sakazuki raised both arms and fired hundreds of magma fists into the sky with Meteor Volcano.
• Borsalino watched from a distant tree as Sakazuki focused on Rosen, whom he regarded as a monster who might surpass him.

Rosen’s Senbonzakura Kageyoshi neared collapse under Sakazuki’s Meteor Volcano, so he drew Ryujin Jakka and revealed its overwhelming flames. The chapter left Sakazuki and Borsalino stunned as Rosen’s flames burned Sakazuki’s Magma Fists to ashes.

• Sakazuki bombarded Rosen’s Senbonzakura Kageyoshi with hundreds of Magma Fists, filling the surrounding island with molten magma.
• As the blade formation began to fail, Rosen drew an ancient Zanpakuto and cut an incoming Magma Fist in two.
• Rosen released Ryujin Jakka, whose towering flames engulfed the Magma Fists overhead.
• Sakazuki claimed his magma could extinguish any flames, but Rosen used Castle Blaze to trap and burn the Magma Fists.
• Rosen dispersed the flaming hand and revealed that Sakazuki’s Magma Fists had been reduced to ashes.

Rosen revealed that Ryujin Jakka wielded flames as hot as the sun’s surface and demonstrated its power against Sakazuki. Their clash burned away Sakazuki’s Inferno Wolf, but its volcanic force still knocked Rosen back several steps.

• Borsalino watched Rosen’s flames burn Sakazuki’s Magma Fist to ashes and was shocked by the reversal of magma’s advantage over fire.
• Rosen explained that Ryujin Jakka was the strongest heat-type Zanpakuto and could release flames comparable to the sun’s surface temperature.
• Rosen charged Sakazuki and struck with Ryujin Jakka as Sakazuki answered with Inferno Wolf, causing a violent clash that melted the surrounding ground and trees.
• Ryujin Jakka burned Sakazuki’s magma hound away, forcing Sakazuki to withdraw his fist before the flames could consume his arm.
• The collision’s volcanic force pushed Rosen back several steps, showing that Sakazuki’s attack could still hurt him even as its magma burned away.

Rosen challenged Sakazuki’s belief that Ryujin Jakka’s flames could only burn and lacked concentrated destructive force. Their Hellhound and Torch clash blasted Sakazuki into a mountain, leaving him burned and coughing blood.

• Rosen recognized that Sakazuki’s attacks combined magma with the explosive force of volcanic eruptions, while Sakazuki judged Ryujin Jakka’s flames could be endured long enough to strike.
• Sakazuki urged Rosen to use another sword, claiming Rosen could never defeat him with Ryujin Jakka, but Rosen challenged him to prove that assumption wrong.
• Sakazuki launched Hellhound at Rosen, concentrating his magma’s destructive force into a single punch.
• Rosen met Hellhound with a downward slash, then unleashed Torch, turning the surrounding flames into a massive explosive firestorm.
• The blast hurled Sakazuki more than a thousand meters into a mountain, burning him badly and making him cough up blood.

Rosen used Ryujin Jakka’s explosive flames against Sakazuki, who adapted by combining his Magma-Magma Fruit with powerful Haki and physical techniques. As Sakazuki’s Hellhound melted Rosen’s Susanoo fist, Rosen formed a blazing Totsuka Blade and brought it down toward him.

• Sakazuki admitted he had underestimated Rosen and vowed to use his full strength against him.
• Sakazuki attacked Rosen with a barrage of Magma Fists and a surprise charge, but Rosen used his flames to destroy the fists and engulf him in an explosive blaze.
• Sakazuki endured the explosion and struck with a Hellhound empowered by his Magma-Magma Fruit, Haki, and physical techniques.
• Rosen formed a Third Form Susanoo with Armament Haki, and its fist met Sakazuki’s Hellhound but began to melt.
• Rosen shaped Armament Haki and Ryujin Jakka’s flames into a blazing Totsuka Blade, then slashed it down toward Sakazuki.

Rosen used Susanoo and Ryujin Jakka to overpower Sakazuki, then fired a Haki Flame Arrow that burned away a mountain and left Sakazuki blackened and sprawled on the ground.

• Sakazuki countered Susanoo's Blazing Totsuka Blade with Inferno Wolf, but Rosen forced him to one knee with Castle Blaze.
• Sakazuki escaped Castle Blaze by turning into magma and tunneling through the island's underground rock layers.
• Rosen formed a complete Susanoo, made a Haki Great Bow, and combined Armament Haki with Ryujin Jakka to create a Flame Arrow.
• Sakazuki emerged from the ground in the arrow's path, and Rosen shot him before he could evade.
• The Flame Arrow hurled Sakazuki into a mountain and erupted into a fireball that incinerated the mountain, leaving him charred and sprawled on the ground.

Rosen overwhelmed Sakazuki in a duel, but Sakazuki endured the assault and warned him that defeating an Emperor was different from surviving a war against an entire crew. He argued that the Wang Zhi Pirates’ numbers could turn Rosen’s planned fight against Ochoku into a losing battle.

• Borsalino watched Rosen suppress Sakazuki with Ryujin Jakka, Susanoo, Armament Haki, and Future Sight without using Conqueror’s Haki.
• Rosen asked Sakazuki whether they needed to continue as Susanoo advanced on him.
• Sakazuki recovered from Rosen’s Haki Flame Arrow and explained that an opponent had to be pressed until they could no longer fight.
• Sakazuki admitted Rosen surpassed him in several abilities but claimed he could keep Rosen occupied for ten days and ten nights.
• Sakazuki warned that Ochoku’s tens of thousands of subordinates could interfere with Rosen and help the Wang Zhi Pirates win the war.

Rosen revealed that he had secretly planted ten masses of Ryujin Jakka’s explosive flames beneath the island during his battle with Sakazuki. He demonstrated their power as the pillars erupted, leaving Sakazuki and Borsalino surrounded by a devastating display called Scorching Hell.

• Sakazuki told Rosen that he wanted him to abandon the plan to face the Wang Zhi Pirates alone, while Rosen questioned whether Sakazuki could really fight him for ten days and ten nights.
• Rosen told Sakazuki to sense the island’s core with Observation Haki, then adjusted the flames underground so Sakazuki could detect them.
• Sakazuki sensed ten blazing presences beneath the island and recognized them as the flames of Ryujin Jakka.
• Rosen revealed that he had buried the ten masses of flame underground when he fired Armament Haki and explosive-flame arrows at Sakazuki.
• The island split open as ten enormous pillars of flame erupted, melting the ground and setting the island ablaze while surrounding Sakazuki and Borsalino.
• Rosen explained that the pillars would have detonated around Sakazuki if he had meant to kill him, then named the technique Scorching Hell.

Rosen demonstrated that Scorching Hell could devastate the island and its surroundings, forcing Sakazuki to admit he could not hold him off. Sakazuki acknowledged Rosen as the only Fleet Admiral he would accept and asked him to return alive before bowing to him.

• Rosen told Sakazuki that Scorching Hell could turn land within a 110-kilometer radius into scorched earth, and Borsalino fled to safety.
• Rosen explained that he had held back because Sakazuki was a Marine and his senior, leaving Sakazuki unable to maintain his claim that he could fight for ten days and nights.
• Sakazuki admitted that Rosen surpassed him in strength, ability, and breadth of mind, and revealed that he had already given up competing for Fleet Admiral.
• Rosen praised Sakazuki as the pinnacle of an admiral and urged him to fulfill his potential as a leader.
• Sakazuki said Rosen was the only person he would accept as Fleet Admiral, urged him to return alive, and bowed his head to him.

At the Navy School’s graduation ceremony, Zefa waited for Rosen, only for Sengoku to arrive with news that Rosen remembered Zefa’s birthday. Sengoku revealed that Zefa cherished the graduating Marines as his greatest birthday gift, while Zefa’s worsening old injuries remained a concern.

• Zefa celebrated graduation day by taking photos with his students and repeatedly watching the academy gates for Rosen.
• Sengoku arrived, teased Zefa, and told him that Rosen remembered his birthday.
• Sengoku recalled that Zefa’s old injuries had worsened, leaving him reliant on medication and prone to asthma after fighting or intense training.
• Zefa confirmed it was his birthday, and Sengoku explained that watching each class graduate was the gift he wanted most.
• The graduates and former students fell silent and grew emotional at Sengoku’s revelation.

At Zefa’s birthday and the Military Academy graduation, Borsalino revealed that Rosen had prepared a surprise for his teacher. The surprise began as a live broadcast showing Rosen above Hachinosu Island in the New World.

• Zefa invited his students and fellow Marines to take pictures with him, and the celebration continued through the morning.
• Borsalino arrived from the New World, but Zefa looked past him for Rosen and asked about his junior.
• Borsalino told Zefa that Rosen was preparing a birthday gift, then Marines set up Den Den Mushi, amplifiers, and a giant projection screen in the square.
• Borsalino started the broadcast, and the screen showed Hachinosu Island with Rosen standing above it.

Sengoku, Zefa, and the other Marines learned that Rosen had gone alone to Hachinosu Island to attack the Ochoku Pirates after defeating Sakazuki in a battle over the Fleet Admiral Position. Borsalino revealed that Rosen had chosen Zefa’s birthday to flatten the island as a birthday celebration.

• Sengoku and Zefa saw Rosen arrive alone on Hachinosu Island and feared he was challenging the Ochoku Pirates.
• Borsalino explained that Sakazuki had fought Rosen over the attack and lost, clearing Rosen’s path to the Fleet Admiral Position.
• Gion and Tokikake wondered why Rosen had not brought Bullet, Donquixote Doflamingo, or Dracule Mihawk to the island.
• Sengoku questioned why Rosen had chosen the Ochoku Pirates and Zefa’s birthday for his attack.
• Borsalino revealed that Rosen had gone to flatten Hachinosu Island to celebrate Zefa’s birthday.

Borsalino revealed that Rosen had spent seven months pursuing the pirates who murdered Zefa’s family and had attacked Ochoku as a birthday gift for his teacher. Moved by Rosen’s actions, the Marines and the other Admirals rallied behind him, leaving Kuzan to accept Rosen as their future Fleet Admiral.

• Borsalino rebuked Zefa for dismissing Rosen’s birthday gift and explained how Rosen had spent seven months investigating the murder of Zefa’s family.
• Borsalino revealed that Ochoku and Bakingom had murdered Zefa’s family in revenge for Zefa stopping Ochoku from taking the Tremor-Tremor Fruit at God Valley.
• Zefa was overwhelmed by emotion when he learned Rosen had attacked Ochoku to give his teacher the killer’s head as a birthday gift.
• Borsalino praised Rosen’s determination, and Marines at Military Academy Square watched him on the screen with renewed respect.
• Tianzheng told Kuzan he would make Rosen king and challenge anyone who opposed him.
• Kuzan accepted Rosen’s leadership, completing the Three Admirals’ pledge to support Rosen as king.