Chapter Summaries

Rosen cured Trafalgar Law’s Lead Disease with a single slash, and Law thanked him while Rosinante chose to keep watching Doflamingo. After warning Rosinante about Vergo’s Marine spy network, Rosen studied intelligence on Germa 66 and began planning how to use its technology in his North Blue strategy.

• Rosinante noticed Law’s healthy complexion, and Law realized Rosen had cured his Lead Disease with one slash.
• Rosen confirmed the cure, and Law knelt to thank him for saving his life.
• Rosen credited Rosinante for helping Law and asked him to monitor Doflamingo, but Rosinante chose to remain undercover.
• Rosen warned Rosinante that Doflamingo had planted Vergo among the Marines and urged him to be careful around unfamiliar Marines.
• Rosen reviewed reports on Vinsmoke Judge and Germa 66, then circled part of a North Blue map as he formed a plan for the region.

Trafalgar Law learned that Rosen could see the future and had reached the pinnacle of power in only four months. After Rosen’s warship left Donquixote Headquarters, Doflamingo and his officers discussed whether they could defy his orders, but Doflamingo explained that Rosen’s control over their Vivre Cards left them no escape.

• Rosinante told Law that Rosen had used advanced Observation Haki to see what would happen before they entered the office.
• Rosinante explained that Rosen had risen from a new cadet to a powerhouse in less than four months, shocking Law.
• Rosen’s warship departed Donquixote Headquarters as Doflamingo and his officers watched it leave with relief and fear.
• Trebol urged Doflamingo to flee to the Grand Line or New World, but Doflamingo said the family’s Vivre Cards gave Rosen control over them.
• Doflamingo warned that Douglas Bullet could destroy the Donquixote Family if they disobeyed Rosen.

After Rosen forced Donquixote Doflamingo to submit, the Donquixote Family reshaped its businesses to follow Rosen’s rules, and the news of Doflamingo’s collar spread across the world. Judge Vinsmoke, wary of Rosen’s power, responded by bringing Germa Kingdom ashore and going legitimate.

• Diamante protested the Donquixote Family’s submission, but Donquixote Doflamingo ordered the family to abandon drugs, restrict arms sales, and capture pirates for the slave trade.
• Donquixote Doflamingo tried to remove his collar, then accepted that he could only submit until he had the strength to oppose Rosen.
• The Donquixote Family destroyed its drugs, changed its arms and slave businesses, and released captives who had not yet been auctioned.
• Newspapers revealed that Donquixote Doflamingo had become a Shichibukai and showed Rosen putting a collar on him, spreading Rosen’s name and stirring concern across the world.
• Judge Vinsmoke learned of Rosen’s actions and ordered Germa Kingdom to come ashore and go legitimate.

Vinsmoke Judge rushed to secure the Germa Kingdom’s entry into the World Government to protect it from Rosen. After Spandam failed to help, Judge called Stussy, who agreed to arrange approval in exchange for Celestial Gold.

• Vinsmoke Judge feared Germa 66 would become Rosen’s next target after Donquixote Doflamingo and decided to make the Germa Kingdom a World Government member nation.
• Judge called Spandam, who demanded more payment, so Judge ended the call after realizing Spandam had taken money without advancing the application.
• Judge contacted Stussy and appealed to their shared role in her creation, asking her to help secure the Germa Kingdom’s membership.
• Stussy agreed to arrange the application’s approval and told Judge to prepare the Celestial Gold for CIPHER POL.
• Judge felt relieved that membership would shield him from Rosen and smugly imagined Donquixote Doflamingo remaining a prisoner while he became a king.

At North Blue Branch 1, Colonel T Bone assembled his Marines to receive Rosen, the Commodore sent to reverse the sea’s worsening pirate crisis. As Rosen’s warship approached, the Marines saw his arrival as proof that the North Blue had already passed from Donquixote Doflamingo’s control.

• T Bone ordered all Marines at Branch 1 to assemble and accompany him to the docks to welcome the arriving Commodore.
• The Marines discussed reports that Donquixote Doflamingo had become a Shichibukai but was forced to abandon much of the Donquixote Family’s criminal activity under Rosen’s control.
• T Bone allowed the Marines to share the news, hoping Rosen’s victory over Doflamingo would lift their morale.
• After waiting at the docks for nearly an hour, T Bone and the Marines spotted Rosen’s warship approaching Branch 1.

Rosen arrived at North Blue Branch 1 and witnessed the Marines’ suffering under the Great Pirate Era. He saluted their courage and resolve, then drew his Zanpakuto and activated Bankai.

• Rosen sensed the thoughts of Branch 1’s Marines and learned how badly pirates had devastated the North Blue, especially through T Bone’s experiences.
• Rosen docked at Branch 1 and told the Marines, “I’m here,” earning T Bone’s salute for his actions against Donquixote Doflamingo and the other Marines’ respect.
• Rosen ordered the Marines to remove their uniforms, revealing scars, wounds, and missing limbs; Dol was shaken, while Douglas Bullet showed recognition.
• Rosen acknowledged the Marines’ resolve, drew his Zanpakuto, and called out “Bankai” and “Kannon Opening Kurenai Kai!”

Rosen used his Bankai to heal every Marine at Branch 1, then declared that the shift of offense and defense had begun. Later, he reviewed Marine intelligence on Germa 66 and learned that the World Government was preparing to recognize the Germa Kingdom as a member state.

• Rosen summoned Kannon Opening Kurenai Kai and healed the Branch 1 Marines' injuries, scars, and disabilities.
• T Bone and the other Marines thanked Rosen, who told them he had come to announce that the shift of offense and defense had begun.
• Dol delivered the Criminal Investigation Bureau's intelligence on Germa 66 to Rosen at his office.
• Rosen discussed Vinsmoke Judge and Germa 66 as potential targets, noting that Judge was both Germa's king and a wanted criminal.
• Dol told Rosen that the World Government had approved Germa's application for membership, pending confirmation that its Celestial Gold reached Mary Geoise.

Rosen revealed that Donquixote Doflamingo had robbed the Germa Kingdom’s Celestial Gold shipment, alarming Dol about the World Government’s likely response. Doflamingo offered to kill the only witness and keep Rosen’s involvement hidden, leaving Rosen free to strike Germa 66.

• Dol reminded Rosen that Marines lacked jurisdiction over World Government member nations and could not arrest their kings or launch military campaigns against them.
• Rosen showed Dol a recording of Doflamingo standing aboard the captured World Government fleet, whose crew and Cipher Pol personnel had been knocked unconscious.
• Dol realized the ships carried the Celestial Gold Vinsmoke Judge was paying to the Celestial Dragons and warned Rosen that robbing it could bring severe consequences.
• Rosen explained that he had ordered Doflamingo to watch Germa Kingdom and rob the shipment after Judge tried to restore his reputation.
• Dol pointed out that Doflamingo’s public ties to Rosen made it impossible to hide their connection, while Doflamingo silently endured her calling him Rosen’s dog.
• Doflamingo offered to kill the CP9 agent beneath his foot, the only person who had seen his face, so the robbery could not be traced to Rosen and Rosen could target Germa 66.

Donquixote Doflamingo intercepted the Celestial Gold fleet and tried to kill the CP9 agent Fos Fog, but Rosen stopped him and questioned Fos Fog about the murder of Zefa’s family. Fos Fog revealed that the World Government had secretly sent three CIPHER POL organizations to erase someone’s movements, and Rosen ordered Doflamingo to break Fos Fog’s limbs and bring him in alive.

• Dol warned Doflamingo that his actions could implicate Rosen, but Doflamingo explained he had struck after the fleet entered the Grand Line and planned to use the theft to justify an attack on Germa 66.
• Doflamingo prepared to kill the captured CP9 agent, but Rosen stopped him and identified the agent as Fos Fog.
• Rosen offered Fos Fog his life in exchange for information about who killed Zefa’s family, and Fos Fog said he did not know the culprit but described a secret CIPHER POL mission to erase someone’s movements.
• Rosen ordered Doflamingo to break Fos Fog’s hands and feet and bring him in, leaving Fos Fog alive for further questioning.
• Doflamingo noted that one of Rosen’s three assigned matters was resolved and that the Ope Ope Fruit and Gild Tesoro remained.

Dol confronted Rosen about his attack on Germa Kingdom and warned that Cipher Pol and Doflamingo could expose his actions. Rosen reassured her of his protection, then summoned Douglas Bullet, who arrived ready to carry out his orders.

• Dol realized Rosen had already made his second strike against Germa Kingdom and questioned the risks of using Doflamingo to seize Celestial Gold and target Vinsmoke Judge.
• Rosen told Dol that the World Government would have to believe him to keep its place in the Grand Line, and urged her to stay by his side and uphold her justice.
• Rosen used top-tier Observation Haki to contact Douglas Bullet, who recognized that Rosen had grown stronger and went to his office.
• Douglas Bullet entered Rosen's office and asked which enemy he wanted killed, addressing him as Admiral.

Rosen ordered Douglas Bullet to capture Vinsmoke Judge alive, explaining that the scientist could help advance Bullet’s Combine Fruit. The chapter leaves Bullet setting out from Branch 1 in a B-2 bomber he handcrafted to complete the mission within six hours.

• Rosen ordered Douglas Bullet to bring Vinsmoke Judge back alive because his inventions could help develop Bullet’s Combine Fruit.
• Dol gave Douglas Bullet intelligence locating Germa 66 near the Nodis Kingdom, and Rosen set a six-hour deadline with a sparring match as his reward.
• Douglas Bullet accepted the mission and left Rosen’s office with a Den Den Mushi.
• Rosen reassured Dol that Bullet could make the journey, then they watched him use the Combine Fruit to assemble a B-2 bomber from materials in the base plaza.
• Douglas Bullet boarded the bomber, confident he could capture Vinsmoke Judge and return to Branch 1 on time.

Douglas Bullet tested the B-2 bomber he had created with the Combine Fruit and flew to the Germa Kingdom. He crashed into the seaborne kingdom, where clone soldiers surrounded him as a blond man in a Battle Suit arrived to confront the intruder.

• Douglas Bullet merged with his B-2 bomber and took off, astonishing Dol with its speed.
• Dol warned Rosen that Douglas Bullet had grown far more dangerous, but Rosen told her he had grown even stronger himself.
• Douglas Bullet enjoyed flying toward Nodis Kingdom and spotted the Germa Kingdom about a hundred kilometers southeast of it.
• Douglas Bullet hardened the bomber with Armament Haki and crashed into Germa, damaging buildings and splitting snail ships from the seaborne kingdom.
• Germa's alarms sounded, and clone soldiers surrounded the crash site as a blond man in a Battle Suit flew in and prepared to give the order to attack.

Douglas Bullet confronted Judge Vinsmoke in Germa Kingdom and demanded that he come before Rosen, who watched the encounter by livestream. Judge tried to use Germa 66’s World Government affiliation as a shield, but Stussy revealed that the Celestial Gold fleet had been attacked and its escort was incapacitated, leaving Judge’s protection in doubt.

• Douglas Bullet emerged among Germa’s clone soldiers and told Judge Vinsmoke that Rosen wanted to see him, threatening to take him by force if necessary.
• Judge argued that Germa 66 was a World Government-affiliated nation and that Rosen could not attack its king without Marine Headquarters’ approval.
• Bullet revealed that Rosen was watching the confrontation through a Den Den Mushi livestream, and Judge appealed directly to the Admiral.
• Judge contacted Stussy to confirm Germa’s affiliation, but she told him the Celestial Gold fleet had been attacked and the CP9 escort was out of contact.

After the Celestial Gold was stolen, Vinsmoke Judge lost Germa Kingdom’s chance to join the World Government and faced Douglas Bullet’s attack. Judge’s clone army failed to harm Bullet, who dismissed Germa 66’s weapons as inferior to what he could make himself.

• Vinsmoke Judge suspected Rosen had stolen the Celestial Gold, then blamed Donquixote Doflamingo for inspiring the robbery.
• Stussy told Judge that Germa Kingdom’s membership application had been denied because he could not pay another batch of Celestial Gold.
• Judge ordered his clone soldiers to fire on Douglas Bullet rather than surrender.
• Bullet endured the bullets, shells, and explosions without injury and called Germa 66’s technology disappointing.

Douglas Bullet demonstrated the Combine Fruit’s Terminator T-1000 weapons to Vinsmoke Judge by setting thirty of them against Germa 66’s Replication Soldiers. The Terminators annihilated the clone army, leaving Judge alone above the blood-soaked Germa Kingdom as his faith in Germa’s technology collapsed.

• Vinsmoke Judge stopped fleeing after Douglas Bullet disparaged Germa 66’s technology.
• Douglas Bullet revealed a Terminator T-1000 that regenerated after Replication Soldiers riddled it with bullets.
• Judge claimed the Terminators were Bloodline Factor creations, but Douglas Bullet said they were weapons made with the Combine Fruit.
• Douglas Bullet sent thirty Terminator T-1000s to attack the Replication Soldiers, and they adapted by taking the clones’ weapons and firing back.
• The Terminators wiped out the clone army and gathered behind Douglas Bullet, leaving Vinsmoke Judge alone as his pride in Germa’s technology crumbled.

Douglas Bullet captured Vinsmoke Judge after defeating Germa’s clone army and brought him back to Branch 1. Rosen watched the mission’s live broadcast, then caught Bullet’s crashing aircraft with a Haki arm as it arrived at the base.

• Douglas Bullet pressured Vinsmoke Judge into surrendering, and Judge agreed to go with him alive.
• Dol questioned why Rosen wanted Judge, while Rosen explained that Judge was a scientist and that surrendering to Bullet was unsurprising.
• Rosen finished watching the battle and capture broadcast, then left his office with Dol to eat.
• Douglas Bullet flew toward Branch 1 with Judge bound atop the B-2 bomber, and Judge feared the aircraft would crash.
• Rosen extended a Haki arm from Uranus Tower, caught the falling bomber, and tossed it onto the base’s beach.

Douglas Bullet brought Vinsmoke Judge to Branch 1, where Rosen revealed that he wanted Judge’s scientific abilities. Rosen explained that Judge’s Bloodline Factor research and modified children could produce powerful fighters, making Judge’s technology far more valuable than Bullet had realized.

• Douglas Bullet crash-landed the B-2 bomber, nearly killing Vinsmoke Judge, then carried him to Rosen’s office before the six-hour deadline.
• Rosen welcomed Judge to Branch 1 and told him he wanted Judge to use his abilities for him.
• Douglas Bullet dismissed Germa 66’s technology as toys, but Rosen explained that its core lay in Judge’s Bloodline Factor research and his children.
• Rosen described how Judge’s modified children could become powerful fighters, especially with Battle Suits, Navy training, Haki, and Devil Fruits.
• Dol and Douglas Bullet realized that Judge’s technology could produce fighters capable of challenging pirates with bounties exceeding one billion Berries.

Rosen used his funding and knowledge of Germa to persuade Vinsmoke Judge to work with him, then revealed that he had taken Germa’s Celestial Gold. He left Judge facing the threat of a Buster Call and the reality that Rosen had controlled the encounter from the start.

• Rosen argued that Judge could achieve more scientific research with his support than as a pirate or a World Government king.
• Judge questioned whether Rosen had enough money, so Rosen showed him a room filled with Berries and offered another sum of funding.
• Judge realized Rosen had stolen Germa’s Celestial Gold and threatened to report him to Fleet Admiral Sengoku.
• Rosen handed Judge a Den Den Mushi and challenged him to see whether Sengoku would believe him.
• Rosen revealed a Golden Den Den Mushi, and Judge recognized that Rosen could call a Buster Call.

Rosen offered Vinsmoke Judge a choice between leading a new Science Unit in North Blue Branch 1 and dying as a pirate, prompting Judge to ask about Rosen’s intentions. Rosen revealed that he intended to build a Marine Headquarters of his own in North Blue, and left his allies with the full weight of that ambition.

• Rosen offered Vinsmoke Judge a position leading Branch 1’s Science Unit or death as a pirate.
• Judge demanded to know why Rosen had subdued the Shichibukai, seized Celestial Gold, and planned a branch Science Unit.
• Rosen told Judge, Dol, and Douglas Bullet that he must have a Marine Headquarters of his own.
• Rosen explained that Marine Headquarters was too closely bound to the World Government for him to remake it from within.
• Rosen recalled what he had witnessed in North Blue and reaffirmed his intention to build his own Marine Headquarters.

Rosen declared his ambition to build an independent Marine Headquarters, and Douglas Bullet, Dol, and Judge Vinsmoke pledged themselves to him. Judge Vinsmoke relocated Germa and its technology to Branch 1, but he was stunned when Rosen ordered 350 Battle Suits.

• Rosen said he wanted his own Marine Headquarters, officers, Science Unit, and Criminal Investigation Bureau to help end the Great Pirate Era.
• Douglas Bullet knelt before Rosen, and Dol followed, pledging their support without speaking.
• Judge Vinsmoke also knelt and decided to use Germa 66's technology to help Rosen build a new Marine Headquarters.
• Judge Vinsmoke moved Germa Kingdom to Branch 1 and transferred its laboratories, clone soldier production lines, and resources there.
• Rosen ordered Judge Vinsmoke to make 350 Battle Suits, and Judge Vinsmoke protested that their cost would be at least 35 billion Berries and that ordinary Marines should not receive them.