Chapter Summaries

After sealing Kaido’s Devil Fruit abilities with a Seastone tattoo, Rosen ordered Douglas Bullet to take him to Judge. Rosen then witnessed Aizen defeat Barragan with Kyōka Suigetsu, and his Heaven-Defying Comprehension granted him the same illusion-type ability.

• Rosen explained that Kaido’s Seastone tattoo had sealed his Devil Fruit powers and regeneration, and Sengoku accepted the method of keeping him alive.
• Rosen ordered Douglas Bullet to escort Kaido to Judge after the Investiture Ceremony.
• Rosen’s surroundings flickered, revealing Aizen, Ichimaru Gin, and Kaname Tosen confronting Barragan in Las Noches.
• Aizen used Kyōka Suigetsu to deceive Barragan, defeat him, and bring Hueco Mundo’s king to his end.
• Rosen returned to Marine Headquarters and received the Kyōka Suigetsu exclusive skill, which let him control a target’s five senses through Complete Hypnosis.

King, Queen, and Jack discussed Kaido’s defeat and learned that Rosen had sealed him with Seastone tattoos, leaving him unable to escape. King planned to seek Big Mom’s help while Jack and Queen guarded the Beasts Pirates’ territory.

• King told Jack that Kaido’s defeat by Rosen was different from his earlier losses and that Kaido had no future under Marine custody.
• Queen showed Jack footage of Rosen turning Seastone into tattoos on Kaido, which stopped Kaido’s regeneration and left him trapped.
• Jack insisted on sailing to Marine Headquarters to rescue Kaido, but King stopped him and said they needed a plan.
• King said he would go to Whole Cake Island to seek Big Mom’s help and ordered Jack and Queen to protect Wano and the Beasts Pirates’ territory.
• Queen and Jack mistakenly thought King intended to become Big Mom’s husband, until King endured their remarks and began explaining his plan.

After Rosen captured Kaido, the world’s major powers united around the need to survive his strength, while Crocodile abandoned Project Utopia and asked Nico Robin to help him obtain the Ancient Weapons by another means.

• King recalled Kaido’s close relationship with Big Mom and flew to Whole Cake Island to persuade her to help the Beasts Pirates.
• Monkey D. Dragon gathered the Revolutionary Army’s four commanders and changed its strategy to bring its forces together.
• Edward Newgate assembled his forty-three allied pirate crews to prepare for a possible Marine advance.
• Crocodile watched Rosen’s Investiture Ceremony and decided not to rally Baroque Works against Marine Headquarters.
• Crocodile told Nico Robin to abandon Project Utopia and find a way to obtain the Ancient Weapons without carrying out the plan.

Crocodile abandoned Project Utopia but remained determined to obtain an Ancient Weapon, and he persuaded Nico Robin to stay by promising her a Poneglyph. They reached Alabasta’s capital, where Crocodile revealed he planned to conquer the kingdom alone, drawing the Marines’ attention to Robin as well.

• Crocodile told Nico Robin he wanted her to devise a way to obtain the Ancient Weapons, then admitted her remaining value was deciphering Poneglyphs.
• Crocodile promised Nico Robin that a Poneglyph would soon be placed before her, and she chose to follow him rather than leave Baroque Works.
• A Headquarters Criminal Investigation Bureau agent secretly reported that Crocodile and Nico Robin had left Rain Dinners and were heading toward Alabasta’s capital.
• Crocodile and Nico Robin rode F-Crocodiles to the capital and went straight to the Royal Palace.
• Crocodile warned Nico Robin that his actions would make her a focus of the Marines, and she stayed to gamble that Alabasta held a Poneglyph.
• Crocodile declared that he would conquer the Kingdom of Alabasta by himself and told Nico Robin to focus on translating.

Crocodile attacked the Alabasta Royal Palace, revealing that his heroic act was over and declaring his intent to conquer the kingdom and obtain Pluto. He defeated Pel and Chaka and buried the royal guards in quicksand, leaving the palace defenses in ruins.

• Crocodile struck down the palace gates and walls with Desert Sword, then declared himself the Desert King and said he would conquer Alabasta.
• Crocodile swept away the guards with a sand tornado and defeated Pel, draining the moisture from his body with a sand blade.
• Chaka arrived with more guards and ordered them to shoot Crocodile, but the bullets passed through his Logia body.
• Crocodile turned the palace grounds into quicksand, burying the guards, then impaled Chaka with Desert Great Sword.
• Crocodile drained Chaka’s moisture and pressed on with his plan to conquer Alabasta and claim Pluto before the Marines or Rosen could stop him.

Crocodile destroyed the Alabasta Royal Palace and demanded that Cobra lead him to the Ancient Weapons. Cobra agreed in exchange for the survivors’ lives, hoping to protect Vivi.

• Crocodile mocked the palace guards as weak, then used Desert Empire to desiccate the palace and kill its defenders.
• Igaram tried to evacuate Cobra and Vivi, but the palace crumbled into sand before they could escape.
• Crocodile approached Cobra and revealed that he sought the Ancient Weapons.
• Crocodile threatened Vivi, and Cobra agreed to lead him to the Ancient Weapons if he let the survivors live.

Crocodile attacked Nico Robin after she claimed Alabasta’s monument held no information about Pluto, but a mysterious burst of ice saved her and froze him. Robin recognized Kuzan’s power, while Crocodile realized Rosen might be present as a hidden voice invoked Kyōka Suigetsu.

• Crocodile brought Nico Robin and Cobra to Alabasta’s underground burial chamber and demanded that Robin identify Pluto’s location.
• Robin said the monument recorded Alabasta’s history and contained no mention of an Ancient Weapon, then Crocodile attacked her with a sand blade.
• Robin dodged Crocodile’s first strike, but he avoided her water trap and pursued her for a second attack.
• A sudden wave of ice froze Crocodile, Robin, and the monument, and Robin called out for Aokiji to reveal himself.
• Crocodile broke free using his power to drain moisture and sensed no third person, but he heard Kuzan address Rosen before a voice said, “Shatter, Kyōka Suigetsu.”

Rosen used Kyōka Suigetsu to end the illusion that had trapped Crocodile and Nico Robin, revealing a desert where the underground chamber and King Cobra had never been. Crocodile realized Rosen had controlled his senses and Observation Haki, and Rosen told him he was merely returning Crocodile’s world to him.

• Rosen said “Shatter, Kyōka Suigetsu,” and the false burial chamber, stone monument, and King Cobra vanished as the scene changed to a desert.
• Nico Robin recoiled in shock, and Kuzan reassured her that he and Rosen were real and explained how Crocodile had been deceived.
• Kuzan recalled watching Crocodile attack empty air, speak to nonexistent people, and enter a nonexistent burial chamber under Kyōka Suigetsu’s control.
• Crocodile questioned Rosen about what was real and what was illusion, then tensed himself to evade or counterattack.
• Rosen told Crocodile, “This is Your World,” and said he was merely returning it to him.

Rosen revealed that he had placed Crocodile under Kyōka Suigetsu’s hypnosis from the moment Crocodile approached the Alabasta Royal Palace, then offered him a collar. Crocodile appeared to submit before striking Rosen, but Rosen’s illusion left Crocodile’s attack futile and ended with Crocodile stabbed and on his knees.

• Rosen told Crocodile that Kyōka Suigetsu had controlled him since he approached the Alabasta Royal Palace.
• Crocodile realized Rosen had been reading his thoughts and accepted the collar Rosen offered him.
• Crocodile pretended to submit, then attacked Rosen with Desert Great Sword and Desert Empire.
• Crocodile believed he had killed Rosen after drying out the body in his grasp.
• Rosen appeared unharmed behind Crocodile and pulled his Zanpakuto from Crocodile’s body, leaving him kneeling in the desert.

Rosen used Kyōka Suigetsu to keep Crocodile trapped in Complete Hypnosis, and Crocodile realized the effect lasted forever. Crocodile tried to attack everything around him with his sand, but Rosen severed both his arms, leaving him helpless.

• Rosen explained that Kyōka Suigetsu made Crocodile experience an illusion whenever he thought he had defeated Rosen.
• Crocodile realized that once someone fell under Kyōka Suigetsu, they remained hypnotized forever, and Rosen confirmed his deduction.
• Crocodile refused to give up and unleashed countless sand blades across the area, aiming to destroy Rosen, Nico Robin, and Kuzan without needing to identify them.
• Crocodile claimed his sand could strike Rosen in the real world even while he was trapped in an illusion.
• Rosen severed Crocodile's left arm and then his right, leaving the Desert King standing helplessly in pain.

Rosen used Kyoka Suigetsu to overwhelm Crocodile, severing his limbs and piercing his spine while keeping him trapped in an illusion. Crocodile realized he could no longer distinguish reality from illusion and lay helpless, unsure whether he was truly on the Grand Line or still imprisoned in Rosen’s deception.

• Crocodile lost both arms and both legs to attacks from Rosen’s invisible Zanpakuto.
• Rosen pierced Crocodile’s spine, leaving him unable to move as he exhausted himself attacking the illusory desert.
• Rosen appeared before Crocodile and revealed that he had let him witness Kyoka Suigetsu’s power.
• Rosen released Kyoka Suigetsu, making Crocodile see the desert and Alabasta vanish and an ocean appear in their place.
• Crocodile realized he had been trapped in an illusion since approaching the royal palace, but could not tell whether the beach before him was real.

Rosen broke Crocodile with Kyōka Suigetsu, bound him, and threw him into the sea as bait for a Sea King. He then confronted Nico Robin and revealed that the Poneglyphs and Ancient Weapons were not taboos of the Marines, leaving her stunned by a newspaper headline.

• Nico Robin and Kuzan watched Crocodile collapse under Kyōka Suigetsu and recognized the terror behind Rosen’s power.
• Rosen bound Crocodile with Haki threads and threw him into the sea, where a Sea King sensed his blood and approached.
• Rosen told Nico Robin she was next, and she asked whether he had come to capture her or force her to reveal Pluto’s location.
• Rosen said the Poneglyphs and Ancient Weapons were taboos of the World Government, but not of the Marines.
• Rosen handed Nico Robin a newspaper, and its headline left her stunned.

Rosen explained that Marine Headquarters had broken away from the World Government and told Nico Robin that the Marines had revoked her wanted notice, though the World Government might still pursue her. He left Robin free to search for Poneglyphs and gave her a cowboy hat transformed by Conqueror's Haki.

• Nico Robin read that Marine Headquarters had declared independence and realized the World Government had tacitly accepted it.
• Rosen pointed out that his codename, Death God, revealed that the Celestial Dragons had already lost control of Marine Headquarters.
• Rosen dismissed Ancient Weapons and the world's hidden history as his goals, then frightened away a Sea King while using Crocodile as bait.
• Rosen told Nico Robin that the Marines had revoked her wanted notice and would no longer hunt her for seeking Poneglyphs, while warning that the World Government remained separate from the Marines.
• Rosen turned Nico Robin's purple cowboy hat black-purple with Conqueror's Haki and returned it to her.

Rosen confronted Nico Robin over the Ohara Incident, explaining why he believed the scholars’ actions had endangered ordinary civilians while admitting the Marines and World Government were wrong. He left her with a Haki-infused hat and challenged her to prepare for revenge, while Crocodile accepted a collar and agreed to serve the Marines until he could kill Rosen.

• Kuzan warned Nico Robin that Rosen had sealed powerful Haki inside her cowboy hat to protect her as she pursued the Poneglyph.
• Rosen argued that Ohara’s scholars had gambled with the lives of civilians by provoking the World Government, and asked Robin whether she had wanted her mother or the Poneglyph as a child.
• Rosen admitted that the Marines and World Government had been wrong and explained that he had canceled Robin’s wanted status and would let her seek revenge if she could face him.
• Rosen pulled Crocodile out of the sea, offered him a pet collar, and restored his severed limbs and spine with his Zanpakuto.
• Crocodile threatened to kill Rosen, then put on the collar and agreed to serve as the Marines’ guard dog until he could take revenge.

Rosen left Nico Robin with the truth that Kuzan had secretly protected her for ten years, then traveled through a Black Hole to Thriller Bark. There, he summoned Moonlight Moria, who ordered his allies and zombie army assembled to resist him.

• Crocodile left after Rosen dismissed his threat, and Robin asked Rosen what he would have done during Ohara's Buster Call.
• Rosen said his blade had never spilled civilian blood, then entered a Black Hole and revealed that someone had helped Robin survive the Marines' pursuit.
• Robin realized Kuzan had secretly protected her, and Kuzan admitted he had let her go and guarded her despite being unable to change the Marines.
• Rosen crossed the Black Hole to the fog-covered sea around Thriller Bark and summoned Moonlight Moria.
• Moria recognized Rosen's arrival as a threat and ordered his zombie army, Perona, Absalom, and the others to prepare for battle.

Rosen used his Conqueror’s Haki to knock out Thriller Bark’s crew and strip the shadows from Moria’s zombie army, then cleared the Devil Triangle’s fog and clouds. Moria, left alone and terrified, went to meet Rosen after realizing his creations were destroyed.

• Rosen sensed that Moria was gathering his crew and zombies, then unleashed Conqueror’s Haki across Thriller Bark.
• Perona, Absalom, Shimotsuki Ryuma, and the rest of the zombie army fell unconscious under Rosen’s Haki.
• Rosen’s Conqueror’s Black Lightning forced the shadows out of the zombies, sending them back to their owners and dismantling Moria’s army.
• Rosen’s Haki tore apart the clouds and fog over the Devil Triangle, letting sunlight shine over Thriller Bark.
• Moria saw that the fallen corpses had lost their shadows and, after Rosen called him to come, left the castle to meet him.

Rosen confronted Moria in Thriller Bark and demanded that he submit, but Moria attacked and was swiftly cut down. Moria then absorbed stored shadows to transform into a giant, powered-up form and rose to face Rosen.

• Rosen told Moria to surrender his dignity or let Rosen take it from him, then threw an oversized collar before him.
• Moria attacked Rosen with Horn Blade Shadow, but Rosen stopped the spear with one finger and shattered it with Conqueror's Haki.
• Rosen appeared behind Moria and slashed him across the chest, leaving him bleeding on the ground.
• Moria summoned stored shadows and absorbed them, growing larger than a giant and declaring that he had prepared for Rosen.

Rosen overwhelmed Moria with Conqueror’s Haki, stripped away Shadow’s Asgard, and put a collar on him before leaving Thriller Bark. On Amazon Lily, Boa Hancock read a newspaper about Rosen and wondered at the man who had stood against the Celestial Dragons.

• Moria absorbed a thousand shadows and attacked Rosen with a mountain-sized fist.
• Rosen’s Conqueror’s Haki stopped Moria’s attack, expelled the shadows, and left him collapsed in the bloodied ground.
• Rosen put a collar on Moria and left through a Black Hole, while the Haki-torn opening in the sky above Thriller Bark remained.
• Moria lay in despair, unable to rise after Rosen had defeated his zombie army and Shadow-Shadow Fruit ability.
• Boa Hancock soaked in a hot pool on Amazon Lily and reread a newspaper article about Rosen defying the Celestial Dragons.

After learning that Marine Headquarters had declared independence, Boa Hancock faced pressure from Flame Flower to decide whether Amazon Lily would fight Rosen’s Marines or flee. Before she could answer, Rosen appeared above Kuja Castle, leaving the island’s fate in question.

• Boa Hancock read that Marine Headquarters had declared independence and realized Rosen was behind the upheaval.
• Flame Flower forced her way into Hancock’s bath and demanded she choose whether to fight the Marines or leave Amazon Lily with the Kuja Pirates.
• Flame Flower promised to follow Hancock either way, and Hancock was moved by her loyalty.
• A powerful aura appeared above Kuja Castle, startling Hancock and Flame Flower.
• Flame Flower saw Rosen emerge from a Black Hole in the sky and recognized him as the man who would decide Amazon Lily’s fate.

Boa Hancock met Rosen at Amazon Lily after refusing to mobilize the Kuja warriors, and asked whether he intended to collar her. Rosen confirmed that he did, leaving Hancock poised to ask him questions before he acted.

• Flame Flower recognized that Amazon Lily could not withstand Rosen and urged Boa Hancock to fight or flee.
• Boa Hancock changed into a red cheongsam, then stopped Sandersonia from gathering the Kuja warriors and set out with Flame Flower, Sandersonia, and Marigold.
• Boa Hancock met Rosen aboard the Perfume Yuda while he waited at Amazon Lily's border without harming the islanders.
• Boa Hancock found that her charm had no effect on Rosen and asked if he was going to put a collar on her.
• Rosen confirmed that he intended to collar Boa Hancock, and she asked him to answer a few questions first.