Ch. 421Sea Overlord: Unrivaled, the Three Emperors' Combination Attack!

Charlotte Linlin turned Edward Newgate’s broken Cloud-Cutting Sword into a living Homie, and Whitebeard accepted it as his son. The three Emperors unleashed Hakai: Unrivaled against Rosen, who countered with both Zangetsu but could not overcome their combined attack.

  • Charlotte Linlin infused Cloud-Cutting Sword with her soul, restoring it as a powerful Homie that called her Mother and Edward Newgate Old Man.
  • Edward Newgate welcomed Cloud-Cutting Sword as his son and vowed that no one, not even Rosen, would break it again.
  • Edward Newgate, Charlotte Linlin, and Shiki joined forces and struck Rosen with Hakai: Unrivaled.
  • Rosen split Zangetsu into two blades and launched a golden crescent that the Emperors’ combined Haki pushed back.
  • Rosen followed with Moon Cutter Cross Rush, forming a cross-shaped crescent that halted its retreat but still failed to match the Emperors’ attack.

Ch. 422The Born Destroyer? Taken Down in One Slash

Rosen entered Bankai and Semi-complete Hollowfication, then overwhelmed the three Yonko with Heaven Chain Zangetsu and his Haki. He badly wounded Charlotte Linlin in one slash and countered Shiki and Edward Newgate’s attacks, leaving his shock cannon rushing toward Newgate.

  • Rosen activated Bankai, revealed Heaven Chain Zangetsu, and used Hollow Flash to halt the Yonko’s combined Conqueror’s Haki attack.
  • Rosen appeared before Charlotte Linlin and stopped her Emperor Sword with a single casual swing.
  • Rosen unleashed Moon Cutter and severely wounded Charlotte Linlin, sending her plummeting toward the sea as Prometheus’s flames failed to harm him.
  • Shiki and Edward Newgate attacked Rosen together with a thousand-meter Slash Wave and a Tremor-Tremor shockwave.
  • Rosen used Moon Cutter to meet Shiki’s slash and Susanoo: Evening Elephant to shatter Newgate’s shockwave, then sent the shock cannon toward Newgate.

Ch. 423Burying the Death God with the New World as His Grave!

Rosen was overwhelmed by the combined attacks of Edward Newgate, Shiki, and Charlotte Linlin, who dragged his damaged Susanoo into a vast ocean vortex. The three kings kept the sea churning to bury him at the New World’s seabed, but they waited tensely for proof that he was dead.

  • Rosen’s Susanoo withstood bolts of lightning from Charlotte Linlin as she recovered on an iceberg Shiki had raised, and Rosen summoned a second Zanpakuto.
  • Edward Newgate tilted the sky and sea with his vibrations while Shiki formed a giant sea lion that seized the Susanoo and dragged it toward the ocean.
  • Charlotte Linlin flew above the Susanoo and split its head with a Conqueror’s Haki slash, forcing it into the sea.
  • Edward Newgate repeatedly struck the air, creating a vortex over ten kilometers wide that pulled Rosen’s Susanoo toward the seabed nearly ten thousand meters below.
  • Shiki and Charlotte Linlin watched the vortex as Edward Newgate continued churning the ocean, hoping the deep-sea pressure and vibrations would exhaust Rosen’s Haki and kill him.

Ch. 424Great Crimson Ice Ring! How Could the Weapon Fruit Be So Inconvenient?

Rosen escaped Edward Newgate’s underwater whirlpool by unleashing Hyōrinmaru’s Bankai, freezing the sea across a vast area and confronting the three Yonko. As Rosen advanced, the Yonko attacked together, but he countered their assaults and blocked Charlotte Linlin’s strike with his ice wings.

  • Rosen activated Great Crimson Ice Ring and froze the whirlpool, seabed, and ocean for over a hundred kilometers around Fudovitian Island.
  • Edward Newgate, Charlotte Linlin, and Shiki realized Rosen had survived and recognized his Zanpakuto as Hyōrinmaru’s Bankai.
  • Rosen emerged atop an ice dragon and announced that he would show the Yonko the true form of the strongest Ice-Snow Type Zanpakuto.
  • Shiki summoned four giant ice lions and Charlotte Linlin attacked with Zeus and Prometheus, but Rosen trapped the lions in pillars of ice and froze the lightning and fire.
  • Edward Newgate unleashed Airquake and Shiki raised an iceberg beneath Rosen, while Charlotte Linlin struck at him with Napoleon.
  • Rosen blocked Charlotte Linlin’s slash with his Haki-coated ice wings, and freezing air began spreading along Napoleon toward her hand.

Ch. 425Four Realms Ice Binding! The Blade Points, Freezing the World's Strongest Man

Rosen used Great Crimson Ice Ring to freeze Edward Newgate despite his tremor powers, leaving Charlotte Linlin and Shiki stunned. Shiki attacked the ice in an attempt to save Newgate.

  • Charlotte Linlin tried to protect Napoleon with Prometheus and Haki, but Rosen's ice continued freezing the Homie.
  • Shiki attacked Rosen with Lion Slash Wave, but Rosen blocked him and Charlotte Linlin with an Armament-coated ice wing.
  • Edward Newgate charged Rosen with Murakumogiri, but Rosen used Senka to appear behind the Emperors.
  • Rosen pointed Great Crimson Ice Ring at Newgate and froze him and Murakumogiri solid with Four Realms Ice Binding.
  • Charlotte Linlin and Shiki waited for Newgate to break free, but Rosen said he could not escape the ice at his current strength.
  • Shiki slashed at the ice around Newgate, determined to save the man he recognized.

Ch. 426Have You Finally Made Your Entrance? Remnants of the Beasts Pirates

Rosen battled Shiki and Charlotte Linlin after freezing Edward Newgate with Great Crimson Ice Ring, while they deduced that its long-range freezing required him to take four steps. As the two Emperors attacked together, a fire dragon descended from the clouds, revealing the arrival of Calamity King and the Beasts Pirates’ remnants.

  • Prometheus tried to melt Edward Newgate’s ice sculpture, but Great Crimson Ice Ring froze his flames, and Charlotte Linlin explained that its Bankai could freeze elements and Haki.
  • Shiki realized Rosen’s long-range freezing required four steps, and he and Charlotte Linlin inferred that disrupting those steps could prevent him from freezing targets from afar.
  • Rosen blocked Shiki’s sword waves and stopped Shiki and Charlotte Linlin’s combined Hakai with Heaven Chain Zangetsu.
  • Rosen prepared a Gran Rey Cero as a fire dragon descended from the clouds, and he identified the newcomer as Calamity King, a remnant of the Beasts Pirates.

Ch. 427Freeze Shiki Within Four Steps

Rosen overwhelmed King with Hollow Flash and froze Shiki with Four Realms Ice Binding, leaving Charlotte Linlin to realize the battle was effectively lost. He revealed that the ability’s “four steps” referred to time rather than footsteps, and that he had deliberately misled his enemies about its trigger.

  • Rosen’s Hollow Flash shattered King’s Guardian Fire Dragon Emperor and drove King’s Lunarian defenses to their limit.
  • Charlotte Linlin gave Zeus and Prometheus to Shiki, who combined their power with his Haki to launch a devastating slash at Rosen.
  • Rosen froze Shiki, his swords, and the Homies before Shiki could strike, while Hollow Flash extinguished King’s flames and blasted him from the sky.
  • Rosen cut through Hakai and explained to Charlotte Linlin that Four Realms Ice Binding required the time it took to walk four steps, not four actual steps.
  • Charlotte Linlin realized Rosen had deliberately planted a false impression about his ability, and Rosen accepted her accusation that he had used a trick.

Ch. 428I was invincible already. What need did I have for ONE PIECE?

Rosen defeated Charlotte Linlin, Shiki, and Edward Newgate with his Bankai, freezing all three after rejecting Linlin’s belief that ONE PIECE could grant him anything he wanted. As Rosen left the frozen pirates, Sakazuki faced the remaining Sweet Commanders and began overwhelming their assault.

  • Charlotte Linlin lamented that her defeat meant she would never learn whether ONE PIECE existed, but Rosen told her he had no interest in it because his Zanpakuto let him accomplish whatever he wanted.
  • Charlotte Linlin accepted that Rosen was invincible and stopped resisting, and Rosen froze her beside Shiki and Edward Newgate.
  • Rosen judged the Four Emperors and legendary pirates too weak, put away his Zanpakuto, and left the three ice sculptures behind.
  • Charlotte Katakuri, Charlotte Smoothie, and Charlotte Cracker attacked Sakazuki together after Sakazuki had killed Charlotte Snack.
  • Sakazuki evaded Katakuri’s Haki-coated fists with Future Sight and magma movement while burning nearby pirates, frightening Katakuri and showing him how powerful Rosen’s Navy was.

Ch. 429Akainu: This World Only Needs One King, and That Is Rosen

Sakazuki fought the Sweet Commanders and the surrounding pirates alone, using his strength and future-sight to avoid their attacks and defeat Charlotte Cracker. After injuring Charlotte Smoothie and overpowering Charlotte Katakuri, he left Katakuri realizing how far he stood beneath Rosen’s strongest Marine.

  • Sakazuki broke through Charlotte Cracker’s Biscuit Soldiers and charged straight at him.
  • Sakazuki overpowered Cracker’s Wave Pretzel, knocked Pretzel from his hand, and drove a magma fist through his chest.
  • Sakazuki used Observation Haki and elementalization to let Charlotte Katakuri’s trident and Charlotte Smoothie’s sword pass through his body.
  • Sakazuki declared that Rosen was the world’s only king, then attacked Smoothie with Inferno Wolf as she abandoned her sword and retreated.
  • Sakazuki stomped Katakuri’s trident into the ice and told him he was next, leaving Katakuri overwhelmed by Sakazuki’s power.

Ch. 430Kizaru: Farewell, Phoenix

Borsalino trapped Marco in a ring of light clones and used their laser barrages to exhaust the Phoenix’s stamina and regeneration. With Marco’s flames extinguished and his body unable to heal, Borsalino unleashed one final attack, leaving Marco’s fate uncertain.

  • Borsalino surrounded Marco with fifty light clones and revealed they could fire laser beams, not just wield Cloud-Gathering Swords.
  • Marco tried to break through the encirclement, but Borsalino repeatedly intercepted him with Light Speed Kicks and sent him back into the laser barrage.
  • Over a minute, the clones’ lasers pierced Marco more than a thousand times as his blue flames dwindled and his stamina ran out.
  • Marco’s flames went out, and more than thirty wounds stopped healing as he hung helplessly in the air.
  • Borsalino recalled the clones and fired Yata no Kagami at Marco, declaring, “Farewell, Phoenix.”

Ch. 431Kuzan: Besides the Ice-Ice Fruit, I Also Know a Little Hand-to-Hand Combat

Kuzan overwhelmed Jinbe during the battle, freezing the pirates around him and defeating the fish-man in a direct clash. Jinbe ended the chapter frozen on the ice as Kuzan revealed his formidable hand-to-hand combat skills.

  • Jinbe attacked Kuzan with Haki-coated water pillars, but Kuzan froze and shattered them without being touched.
  • Kuzan urged Jinbe to surrender and protect Fish-Man Island, but Jinbe refused because he had to fight for Whitebeard's crew.
  • Jinbe left the sea and charged Kuzan with his strongest Fish-Man Karate technique as the dwindling pirates could no longer hold the Marines back.
  • Kuzan met Jinbe's punch with his Ice Glove and sent him flying with overwhelming physical strength.
  • Jinbe crashed onto the ice and froze solid, while Kuzan said he was skilled in hand-to-hand combat as well as the Ice-Ice Fruit and Haki.

Ch. 432Give Up! Your Captains Are Already Dead

The Three Admirals defeated Marco, Jinbe, and Katakuri, then announced that Edward Newgate, Charlotte Linlin, and Shiki had died fighting Rosen. As the Admirals prepared to wipe out the demoralized pirate crews, the sky suddenly cracked, and Marco recognized the sign as Edward Newgate’s power.

  • Kuzan froze Jinbe, while Marco and Katakuri fell gravely wounded before the Three Admirals.
  • Sakazuki told Marco, Jinbe, and Katakuri that Edward Newgate, Charlotte Linlin, and Shiki had died, breaking the pirates’ will to fight.
  • Sakazuki, Kuzan, and Borsalino discussed whether to kill the remaining pirates, with Sakazuki willing to take the blame himself.
  • The Admirals prepared to attack the defeated crews, but a sky-splitting quake spread across the battlefield.
  • Marco saw the sky crack with white light and wept, believing the phenomenon meant Edward Newgate had returned.

Ch. 433Whitebeard's Last Dance: Tremor-Tremor Awakening Beyond Death

Rosen tried to leave after freezing Edward Newgate, Shiki, and Charlotte Linlin, intending to preserve their bodies for experiments, but Newgate broke free of the ice. Newgate awakened the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and made Rosen’s body vibrate from within, injuring him and exposing him to danger for the first time since arriving in this world.

  • The Three Admirals sensed that Edward Newgate was dead despite the Tremor-Tremor Fruit-like fractures spreading across the sky, and Marco feared the power was Whitebeard’s final dance.
  • Rosen left Shiki, Charlotte Linlin, and King’s bodies intact as valuable research materials after freezing them and preserving their corpses.
  • Rosen foresaw the sky-shattering event, then saw cracks spread through the ice sealing Edward Newgate.
  • Edward Newgate shattered his ice prison and demanded to know what Rosen planned to do to his family.
  • Edward Newgate made the air and Rosen’s entire body vibrate, breaking through Rosen’s defenses and causing him to bleed.

Ch. 434Farewell, Rosen

Edward Newgate buried Rosen beneath kilometers of ice with an awakened Tremor-Tremor Fruit slash, and the battlefield believed Rosen had been defeated. Newgate turned toward the remaining Marines, but Rosen appeared behind him unharmed and revealed he could change the aura of his body from dead to living.

  • Edward Newgate struck Rosen with a Haki-coated, awakened slash that shattered the ice and buried him kilometers below the surface.
  • The pirates cheered, while Marco realized Newgate's aura still belonged to a corpse and feared the Whitebeard Pirates were about to lose their king.
  • Newgate sensed a corpse beneath Rosen's grave but forced his dead body onward to protect his family from the Marines and Shichibukai.
  • Rosen appeared behind Newgate unharmed, shocking him despite his Observation Haki detecting Rosen's corpse-like aura.
  • Rosen said, "Shatter, Kyoka Suigetsu," and changed his aura from that of a dead man to that of a living person, leaving Newgate stunned.

Ch. 435Kyōka Suigetsu in the Left Hand, Heaven Chain Zangetsu in the Right

Rosen used Kyōka Suigetsu to deceive Edward Newgate and struck him with Heaven Chain Zangetsu’s Moon Cutter, leaving him gravely wounded. Newgate unleashed a massive Tremor-Tremor Fruit attack, but collapsed in a pool of blood as someone approached him.

  • Rosen told Edward Newgate that his awakened Tremor-Tremor Fruit could not touch him, then revealed that Kyōka Suigetsu had concealed his true position.
  • Rosen pierced Newgate’s heart with Heaven Chain Zangetsu and released Moon Cutter, destroying his heart and much of the left side of his body.
  • Newgate seized Heaven Chain Zangetsu and unleashed a vast vibration attack, believing he had finally destroyed Rosen.
  • Newgate tried to reach another battlefield but collapsed from his injuries and struggled against death.
  • A pair of boots appeared in Newgate’s blurred vision, and an unseen person asked whether he was still unwilling to give up.

Ch. 436Forgotten? You're Already Dead, Newgate

Rosen defeated Edward Newgate, who had been fighting after his death by refusing to remember that he had died. After restoring his damaged Zanpakuto, Rosen returned to the battlefield above the Marines and pirates, where Marco realized Whitebeard was truly dead.

  • Rosen reminded Edward Newgate that he had already died, and Newgate remembered being frozen by Great Crimson Ice Ring.
  • Edward Newgate’s will finally gave out, and he died in the pool of blood.
  • Zangetsu and Uncle Zangetsu emerged from the ice canyon, revealing that Rosen had used materialized Zanpakuto to fight Newgate.
  • Rosen repaired the cracked Zangetsu blades and used Senka to return above the battlefield.
  • Marco saw Rosen appear without Edward Newgate, Charlotte Linlin, or Shiki and accepted that Whitebeard was dead.

Ch. 437Heaven Falls! The Four Emperors Swept Away in a Single Day

After killing Edward Newgate, Rosen unleashed a vast wave of Conqueror's Haki that overwhelmed the remaining pirates on the battlefield. Fewer than a hundred survived it conscious, and the Marines recognized that the Four Emperors had been swept from the era in a single day.

  • Jinbe, Katakuri, and Marco saw Rosen return and accepted that Edward Newgate, Charlotte Linlin, and Shiki were dead.
  • Rosen addressed the remaining pirates and spread Conqueror's Haki across the battlefield, leaving the Marines untouched.
  • Sakazuki, Kuzan, and Borsalino felt the overwhelming pressure and recognized that Rosen's Haki had grown stronger after his battles.
  • Rosen's Haki descended like a tsunami, knocking tens of thousands of pirates unconscious and leaving fewer than a hundred conscious.
  • Borsalino, Sakazuki, and Kuzan acknowledged Rosen's overwhelming strength and the end of the Four Emperors' rule.

Ch. 438Surrender, or Die—Choose, Pirates!

Rosen defeated the Big Mom and Whitebeard Pirates, killed Jinbe and Katakuri, and forced the surviving pirates to surrender while preserving Marco for the Marines’ plans. After declaring the war over, Rosen learned from Douglas Bullet about Teach’s Dark-Dark Fruit and its ability to nullify Devil Fruit powers.

  • Rosen killed Jinbe and Katakuri after they accepted their defeat, while he froze Marco and ordered that he be taken to Judge’s Forbidden Zone.
  • Rosen demanded that the remaining pirates surrender or die, and Vista led the Whitebeard Pirates in laying down their weapons while the Big Mom Pirates also surrendered.
  • Rosen declared the Marines victorious and ordered them to find and gather every fallen Marine’s body.
  • Douglas Bullet told Rosen that a Whitebeard Pirate named Teach had possessed the Dark-Dark Fruit, which could draw in Devil Fruit users and nullify their powers.

Ch. 439Death Reversal! Twin Sky Shield, Rejecting Death

Rosen used Twin Sky Shield to restore and revive a Marine killed in battle, revealing that his power could reject death. After learning that revival consumed more stamina the longer and stronger the dead had been, he began bringing the other fallen Marines back to life.

  • Rosen dismissed Blackbeard's death and the lost chance to obtain the Dark-Dark Fruit, while Douglas Bullet and other Marines resolved to capture Devil Fruit users alive for future research.
  • Momonga reported that all 358 fallen Marines had been recovered, and Rosen inspected their bodies on an ice field.
  • Rosen used Twin Sky Shield and rejected death to restore Subaru, who had been killed by Vista, and bring him back to life.
  • Subaru thanked Rosen, and Rosen explained privately that reviving the dead consumed more stamina when they had been dead longer, were stronger, or had been killed by a stronger opponent.
  • Rosen used Twin Sky Shield on a second Marine who had lost both hands and revived him as the surrounding Marines watched.

Ch. 440Three Admirals: This Era Is Called Rosen

Rosen used his power to revive hundreds of Marines, growing weak as he restored them from even the most gruesome deaths. His devotion to preventing Marine casualties deepened the Three Admirals’ reverence for him, and the chapter left them viewing his era as one defined by Rosen.

  • Rosen revived a second Marine, convincing the Shichibukai that he could bring the dead back repeatedly and prompting fear and awe among them.
  • Rosen restored Marines whose bodies had been split apart or torn limb from limb, continuing through the first hundred resurrections despite his weakening aura and labored breathing.
  • Borsalino urged Rosen to rest, and Douglas Bullet tried to stop him after Rosen revived two hundred Marines.
  • Rosen insisted on continuing and reminded Douglas Bullet that a Marine leader’s greatest strength was bringing his troops home without casualties.
  • Borsalino and Kuzan bowed to Rosen, while Sakazuki silently resolved to make him king.
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