Chapter Summaries

Silver Axe and Ochoku fought Ortolan together, but his lightning speed kept him out of reach until Shanks used his Conqueror’s Haki to create an opening. Silver Axe launched Ortolan into the air, where Shanks struck him with a powerful slash.

• Silver Axe entered an explosive state and struck Ortolan with enough force to crater the ground, while Ochoku attacked from behind.
• Ortolan evaded their attacks with lightning speed, and he and Ochoku clashed across Hachinosu Island too quickly for Silver Axe to intervene.
• Gion and Issho watched the battle, with Issho saying his Observation Haki and ability could help counter Ochoku’s speed.
• Shanks used his future-seeing Observation Haki to time a burst of Conqueror’s Haki that briefly stiffened Ortolan.
• Silver Axe seized the opening and sent Ortolan flying, and Shanks followed with a powerful slash that struck him in midair.

After Red-Hair Shanks struck Ortolan, Ortolan entered Sulong despite the lack of a moon and unleashed his savage power. He overwhelmed Shanks and charged again, but Silver Axe stepped in and caught his horns, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Shanks appeared and attacked Ortolan, then proposed joining Ochoku and Silver Axe against their common enemy.
• Ortolan rose from the crater with severe wounds, and his body transformed into a massive, silver-haired Sulong.
• Ortolan charged Shanks and blocked Silver Axe’s axe with the back of his hand before pursuing Shanks.
• Shanks clashed with Ortolan using Conqueror’s Haki, and the shockwave tore across Hachinosu Island and created a tsunami that Issho subdued.
• Ortolan knocked Griffin from Shanks’s hand, headbutted him into the ground, and charged again as Shanks struggled with broken bones.
• Silver Axe intercepted Ortolan and grabbed his horns, but Ortolan drove him backward until his feet were buried to his knees.

Ortolan overwhelmed Shanks and Silver Axe while fighting in his Sulong state, until Gion injected Vegapunk’s medicine and helped him recover his reason. With Gion and Issho joining Ortolan, Wang Zhi’s group faced the Marines’ full strength.

• Ortolan knocked Silver Axe aside and relentlessly attacked Shanks, forcing Beckman and Ochoku to intervene and help Shanks escape.
• Shanks, Beckman, Silver Axe, and Wang Zhi coordinated attacks against Ortolan, but his strength and erratic fighting made him difficult to stop.
• Wang Zhi nearly struck Ortolan’s wounded arm before an unseen gravity field disrupted the fighters and forced Wang Zhi to withdraw.
• Gion arrived, attacked Silver Axe to keep him back, and injected medicine into Ortolan’s arm while Issho joined them.
• The medicine restored Ortolan’s reason, and Wang Zhi’s group faced Ortolan, Gion, and Issho with grave expressions.

Ortolan and Shanks resumed their duel while Gion and Issho fought Ochoku, Beckman, Silver Axe, and the other pirates. Shanks tried to stall until his allies could help, but Ortolan overwhelmed him and pierced his back with laser beams.

• Ortolan told Issho and Gion to handle the other pirates while he took on Shanks, and Ochoku ordered Shanks to keep Ortolan occupied.
• Issho attacked Ochoku and Beckman with gravity as Gion charged Silver Axe, starting battles on both sides.
• Ortolan formed Lightning Armor and shattered Shanks's opening slash, then pursued him with lightning attacks.
• Ortolan used Day Tiger to draw Shanks into a clash before teleporting behind him and kicking him flying.
• Shanks evaded Ortolan's axe kick and heavy punch, but Ortolan's eye lasers pierced his back.

Ortolan defeated Shanks, who lost his left arm, and accepted Beckman’s life in exchange for sparing him. The Red Force escaped under pursuit while Ortolan turned back to the battle against Ochoku and Silver Axe.

• Ortolan struck Shanks with a devastating attack, and Yasopp shot Ortolan’s injured shoulder to disrupt his killing blow.
• Shanks escaped the fatal strike but lost his left arm, and a crewman carried the unconscious captain away as Beckman confronted Ortolan.
• Beckman ordered Yasopp to take the Red Force and offered his life, Shanks’s severed arm, and Griffin in exchange for Shanks’s survival.
• Ortolan accepted the trade, and Beckman shot himself and died after watching the Red Force sail away.
• Ortolan left Shanks and the fleeing pirates alone and returned to the fight between Ochoku and Silver Axe.

Ortolan and the Marines cornered Silver Axe and Ochoku, who chose to fight rather than flee. Silver Axe and Ochoku were left defeated in the crater, and the chapter ended with both accepting their deaths together.

• Silver Axe and Ochoku regrouped against Issho and Gion, and Silver Axe told Ochoku to escape if he got the chance.
• Ortolan lost interest in prolonging the fight and ordered Gion and Issho to kill Silver Axe and Ochoku.
• Silver Axe charged Ortolan, caught him in a grapple, and created an opening for Ochoku to flee.
• Ochoku instead appeared behind Ortolan and stabbed toward his heart, but Ortolan unleashed Thunder Self-Detonation Bomb and slammed Silver Axe into the ground.
• Gion and Issho struck Ochoku as the blast settled, leaving him pinned and badly wounded while Silver Axe lay near death.
• Ochoku explained that he had nowhere to go and chose to die beside Silver Axe, who agreed that their end together was not so bad.

After clearing Hachinosu Island and killing Ochoku and Silver Axe, Ortolan planned how to use the victory to strengthen the Marines and hunt Shanks. He prepared to hand the island to Moria while considering how to eventually bring Kaido and the rest of the New World under control.

• Smoker led Marines in sweeping Hachinosu Island, arresting the surviving pirates as Ortolan ordered Hina to report the victory and shape its publicity.
• Tesoro reported that Penn was alive but badly injured, and Ortolan said the Marines should highlight his defense of subordinates.
• Smoker reported that the fleet had failed to catch the Red Hair Pirates, so Ortolan ordered Vivre Cards made from Shanks's severed arm and offered a promise to anyone who delivered Shanks's head.
• Issho told Ortolan that Moria was on his way, and Ortolan decided the Marines would rest before handing Hachinosu Island over to him.
• Ortolan considered using the Big Mom Pirates to absorb Kaido's Beasts Pirates, then concluded that strengthening himself and the New World Marines was the priority.

Rosinante warned Sengoku that Ortolan was secretly building a large private Marine force and might intend to split the Marines, but Sengoku told him the deployments were part of a high-command plan and ordered him to stop investigating. Rosinante refused to end his undercover mission with the Donquixote Family, and Sengoku let him stay.

• Sakazuki read Bane's report that Ortolan had defeated Ochoku and Silver Axe, then ordered Marine forces to help hunt the Red Hair Pirates.
• Sengoku instructed the Propaganda Department to publish an announcement and coordinate with Morgans.
• Rosinante told Sengoku that Doflamingo was organizing a Sea Police Force with help from Vergo, whom Rosinante believed was a former Donquixote Family criminal.
• Rosinante reported that Ortolan had secretly gathered about fifty thousand elite Marines and at least fifty Headquarters warships in unrecorded New World camps, and urged Sengoku to detain and investigate him.
• Sengoku said he already knew about the camps and Vergo, claimed they were part of a high-command plan, and ordered Rosinante not to investigate Ortolan again.
• Rosinante refused Sengoku's suggestion to return to Headquarters, so Sengoku allowed him to continue his undercover work beside Doflamingo.

After news spread that Ortolan had destroyed Hachinosu Island and targeted Shanks, powerful figures across the New World weighed their responses. Most of the Shichibukai and Underworld leaders joined the hunt for the Red Hair Pirates, while Mihawk stayed neutral.

• Newgate refused Kozuki Oden's suggestion to shelter Shanks, unwilling to risk his tacit understanding with the Marines and provoke Ortolan.
• Kaido accepted the Hachinosu outcome and prepared for business with Ortolan while offering to help search for the Red Hair Pirates.
• Smoker celebrated Hachinosu's destruction and ordered his forces to hunt Shanks, hoping to earn a favor from Ortolan and draw more pirates to Vendalace Island.
• Mihawk declined to take sides, regretting that Shanks would not challenge him during his two-year wait to claim the title of world's greatest Great Swordsman.
• The other Shichibukai, Jinbe and Fisher Tiger, and Underworld figures including Lu Feld, Umit, Spandam, and Stussy began searching for the Red Hair Pirates.

The Red Hair Pirates were hunted across the New World after Shanks’s head became a hugely valuable bounty, forcing them to flee while short on supplies. After Lucky Roux escaped a mob on Slankov Island, Smoker learned they were in his territory and set out to pursue them.

• Lucky Roux escaped bounty hunters and armed townspeople on Slankov Island, then leaped aboard the fleeing Red Force as Yasopp covered their retreat.
• Bounty hunters explained that fake Red-Hair Vivre Cards were flooding the black market while the New World’s hunt for Shanks grew feverish.
• Yasopp told Lucky Roux that the crew had run out of food and could not safely leave the New World through Fish-Man Island because gangs were monitoring its ports.
• Yasopp reported that Shanks remained unconscious despite his stabilized injuries, and Lucky Roux fell silent over their captain’s guilt about losing his arm and a brother.
• Smoker received word that the Red Hair Pirates had entered his territory, took Shanks’s Vivre Card, and ordered his crew to prepare the fastest ship for a pursuit.

While recovering at G-5, Ortolan considered retrieving Skypiea’s gold to fund his plans, then received orders from Fleet Admiral Sengoku to oversee the World Government’s effort to obtain the Op-Op Fruit. He agreed to observe the transaction involving Doflamingo and Diez Barrels, while privately expecting Rosinante to disrupt it and leave Sengoku to suffer the consequences.

• Momonga learned that a Vivre Card pointed toward the waters around Slankreef Island and ordered a Marine Colonel to follow it.
• Ortolan rested at G-5 and considered using Issho’s abilities to retrieve Skypiea’s gold for Tesoro’s Golden City plan and Doflamingo’s Marine Security Plan.
• Sengoku told Ortolan that Diez Barrels had found the Op-Op Fruit and planned to sell it through Doflamingo, whom the Celestial Dragons had ordered the Marines to monitor.
• Ortolan recalled how Rosinante could interfere with the mission and cause Doflamingo and Sengoku trouble.
• Ortolan agreed to observe the transaction but did not promise to deliver the fruit to the World Government.

Rosinante secretly took Trafalgar Law and Lami to Minion Island to get the Op-Op Fruit before Doflamingo could trade it to the World Government. Ortolan persuaded Doflamingo to wait for his promised lead on Pure Gold, then Rouge realized she loved Ortolan and kissed him.

• Rosinante overheard Doflamingo arranging the Op-Op Fruit trade and rushed to tell Trafalgar Law that it could cure his and Lami's Lead-Platinum Disease.
• Rosinante secretly left Dressrosa with Trafalgar Law and Lami to reach Minion Island before Doflamingo.
• Ortolan warned Doflamingo that the World Government demanded the Op-Op Fruit and promised to help him find Pure Gold instead.
• Doflamingo agreed to wait for Ortolan and travel to the North Blue with him.
• Rouge realized she had fallen in love with Ortolan, begged him not to leave her, and kissed him before he could explain that Gion might move in.

Ortolan departed G-5 for Dressrosa while Rouge and Gion began a long-delayed conversation. Elsewhere, Smoker pursued the Red Hair Pirates and attacked the Red Force, leaving the clash with Lucky Roux unresolved as Momonga watched nearby.

• Ortolan left G-5 aboard a warship, and Rouge asked Gion to have a proper talk; Gion agreed.
• Tesoro told Stella that he would eventually leave G-5 and follow the Admiral once construction was ready.
• Smoker pursued the Red Force and struck it with a crushing shockwave, while Yasopp and Lucky Roux shielded the ship with Armament Haki.
• Smoker leapt toward the Red Force, crushed Yasopp's bullet, and clashed with Lucky Roux after he transformed into a muscular fighter.
• Momonga watched the fight from a nearby warship and waited to see whether Smoker could defeat the Red Hair Pirates, while wondering why Borsalino had not arrived.

Borsalino told Momonga that the Five Elders suspected Shanks was the lost child of Saint Figarland Greenguard, but would not recognize him unless he became valuable. Smoker defeated the Red Hair Pirates, found Shanks broken by his losses, and returned to the Marines with Shanks’s straw hat.

• Borsalino arrived beside Momonga and explained that Saint Saturn suspected Shanks was a Celestial Dragon, but considered him worthless in his current state.
• Smoker battered Lucky Roux, threw him into the sea, and fought through the Red Force, killing several Red Hair Pirates.
• Smoker found the injured Shanks in a cabin and watched his Conqueror’s Haki collapse when he tried to fight back.
• Smoker told Shanks that his companions had been thrown into the sea and that Ben Beckman had died on Hachinosu Island, leaving Shanks numb.
• Smoker left the ship carrying Shanks’s straw hat and reflected that the cruel sea was also captivating.

Momonga confirmed that Shanks had died and reported the news to Ortolan while heading to Punk Hazard to obtain Devil Fruit materialization transfer technology. He was left carrying Shanks’s straw hat, which had begun sprouting, and was told to deliver it to Garp.

• Momonga confirmed Shanks’s death, and Smoker left after claiming credit for killing him and securing Ortolan’s favor.
• Momonga told Borsalino he wanted the Devil Fruit transfer technology so he could use the Gulp-Gulp Fruit to gain other abilities, and their warship set course for Punk Hazard.
• Momonga called Ortolan and reported that Smoker had killed Shanks and that Shanks’s Vivre Card had burned to ashes.
• Ortolan agreed to consider giving Smoker a chance to join his ship, then told Momonga to spread the news and withdraw Shanks’s bounty.
• Ortolan asked Momonga to deliver Shanks’s straw hat to Garp, and Momonga noted that the hat was sprouting.

Buggy and Rayleigh mourned Shanks after the news of his death, while both accepted that he had chosen his own path. Newgate feared Ortolan’s ambitions would engulf the New World, leaving the sea poised for a struggle over who would rule it.

• Buggy read that Shanks had died at Ortolan’s hands, grieved for his former crewmate, and resolved to stay in East Blue rather than seek revenge.
• Rayleigh and Shakky discussed Shanks’s death and agreed that Rayleigh had no reason to interfere in the choices of the captain of the Red Hair Pirates.
• Rayleigh predicted that Ortolan would soon draw Whitebeard, Kaido, and Charlotte Linlin into a struggle for control of the New World.
• Aboard the Moby Dick, Newgate saw Kozuki Oden mourning Shanks and told Marco he feared Ortolan’s ambitions would overwhelm the New World.

Aboard the Flamingo, Ortolan and Doflamingo discussed how the Donquixote Family’s trade had helped stabilize and enrich the North Blue. The chapter ended with Doflamingo explaining that Corazon had disappeared again with Law, while Ortolan looked forward to meeting the boy.

• Ortolan watched Donquixote Family cargo ships leaving the North Blue as Doflamingo explained that their goods and supplies were making the family wealthy.
• Ortolan and Doflamingo discussed how Doflamingo’s influence and trade had helped bring stability and prosperity to the North Blue.
• Ortolan explained that the support of people who benefited from prosperity could prove crucial if the World Government tried to oppose him.
• Doflamingo said Corazon had taken Law and disappeared again, leaving Ortolan smiling in anticipation of meeting the boy.

Doflamingo and Ortolan arrived at Minion Island while Rosinante secretly prepared to steal the Op-Op Fruit from Diez Barrels before his brother could reach it. Rosinante killed Barrels and escaped with the fruit, but he left behind a pistol bearing the Donquixote Family and Heart Pirates emblems.

• Doflamingo and Ortolan arrived at Minion Island, and the terrified villains hurried to make the harbor presentable for them.
• Rosinante watched Barrels’s group from outside an abandoned church while Law and his sister stayed hidden in the mountain forest.
• Rosinante planted explosives around the church and detonated them, burying Barrels and his men in the rubble.
• Rosinante shot the dazed Barrels, took the unharmed Op-Op Fruit, and ran from the ruins.
• Rosinante accidentally left his pistol beside Barrels’s corpse, with the Donquixote Family and Heart Pirates emblems visible on it.

Doflamingo and Ortolan reached the church on Minion Island to meet Diez Barrels, but found him murdered and the transaction gone. A Donquixote Family pistol at the scene led Doflamingo to suspect Rosinante had stolen the Op-Op Fruit and framed the family.

• Ortolan explained Doflamingo's fabricated Marine career and proposed that he would eventually become Flamingo Vice Admiral.
• Doflamingo and Ortolan found the church in ruins and Diez Barrels dead among the rubble.
• Ortolan discovered a Donquixote Family flintlock pistol beside Barrels, and Doflamingo insisted someone had framed him.
• Doflamingo dismantled the genuine pistol and found a Heart Pirates emblem on it.
• Doflamingo concluded that Rosinante had learned of the deal, killed Barrels, and taken the Op-Op Fruit to save Trafalgar Law.

Ortolan used his Observation Haki to find Rosinante and brought Doflamingo to confront him. Rosinante admitted he had given the Ope Ope no Mi to Law despite knowing it was part of a classified Marine mission, and Ortolan exposed him as a Marine Commander, leaving Doflamingo stunned.

• Doflamingo suspected Rosinante had taken the Ope Ope no Mi and began raising the Birdcage to seal Minion Island.
• Ortolan scanned the island with his Observation Haki, found Rosinante, and transported himself and Doflamingo to him.
• Rosinante told Law to hide the truth, revealed he was a Marine Commander, and urged Law to seek Sengoku’s protection if they were separated.
• Doflamingo demanded the Ope Ope no Mi, and Rosinante revealed that Law had already eaten it.
• Ortolan questioned Rosinante about the Marine mission, and Rosinante admitted he had learned its details from Sengoku and sabotaged it by giving Law the fruit.
• Ortolan rebuked Commander Rosinante for betraying the Marines’ trust, while Doflamingo wondered why the Marines had sent a Commander to spy on him, a Rear Admiral.