Chapter Summaries

Ortolan returned to Ohara and learned that Professor Clover and Mary Geoise had reached a consensus but wanted to meet Orbia in person. While Spandam escorted her to the Tree of Knowledge, Borsalino told Ortolan about Dr. Vegapunk’s research and warned him to discuss the risks before providing blood samples.

• Ortolan arrived at Ohara and exchanged praise and jokes with Spandam and Borsalino.
• Borsalino told Ortolan that the CP Agency had sealed off Ohara’s sea region and that Professor Clover had reached a consensus with Mary Geoise, which wanted to see Orbia.
• Ortolan asked Spandam to take Orbia to the Tree of Knowledge while he stayed behind with Borsalino.
• Borsalino explained that Dr. Vegapunk might be able to treat Ortolan’s condition if it was related to his bloodline, but would require tests and samples.
• Borsalino warned Ortolan that Vegapunk’s research involved Devil Fruit users, Lineage Factor, and cloning, and advised him to meet the doctor before deciding.
• Ortolan thanked Borsalino and said he would visit Punk Hazard to speak with Dr. Vegapunk.

After Ohara's scholars were spared and assigned to Punk Hazard, Ortolan agreed to take Orbia's daughter Robin to Marineford and arranged for Orbia to see her before they left. The group departed Ohara with Robin, while Borsalino warned Ortolan to return them both safely.

• Professor Clover thanked Ortolan for saving Ohara and asked whether he truly believed the world could change; Ortolan said many people were working toward that goal.
• Orbia asked Ortolan to take Robin with him, and Ortolan agreed to bring her to Marineford and care for her.
• Ortolan accompanied Orbia to her sister's home, where Robin recognized her mother and eagerly embraced her.
• Ortolan left with Orbia and Robin, and Borsalino arranged for the Tree of Knowledge's books to be loaded onto the Marine ships.
• Borsalino warned Ortolan not to let Orbia's beauty tempt him and insisted that both Orbia and Robin be returned alive or dead.

Ortolan returned to Marineford with Robin just as Golden Lion Shiki attacked the headquarters, demanding that the Marines hand over Roger. Ortolan intercepted Shiki and unleashed a powerful assault, driving him from the sky toward the ground.

• Ortolan reassured Robin that she could see Orbia and the Doctor again, and Robin vowed to become an outstanding Marine so she could join them.
• Ortolan sensed a strange force lifting warships into the sky as Shiki appeared above the Fortress of Justice and demanded Roger.
• Issho used gravity to protect Marines falling from the airborne ships while Marineford sounded the alarm and launched its defenses.
• Momonga charged Shiki, but Shiki gained the advantage until Ortolan intervened and caught both of his blades with his hands.
• Shiki sent two floating warships crashing into Ortolan, Momonga, and himself, but Momonga escaped the wreckage as Ortolan resumed the fight.
• Ortolan struck Shiki with lightning, lasers, and a powerful blow that forced Shiki's swords into his chest and drove him toward the ground.

Ortolan, Garp, and Sengoku battled Shiki at Marineford, with Ortolan trapping Shiki in a massive lightning bull while Garp and Sengoku intervened to keep the attack from destroying the island. The chapter ended after their combined strikes collided in a blinding blast that evaporated the rain across the sky.

• Sengoku and Garp decided to join the fight after recognizing that Shiki had weakened since his prime.
• Shiki trapped Ortolan inside a huge sphere of earth and stone, but Garp attacked Shiki before he could recover.
• Garp overpowered Shiki’s Haki in their exchange, and Sengoku appeared behind Shiki with a massive shockwave attack.
• Ortolan broke free and summoned the lightning Bull of Heaven, which charged down toward Shiki from the clouds.
• Garp and Sengoku launched coordinated attacks at the lightning bull to prevent it from striking Marineford, catching Shiki between their wide-area attacks.
• The attacks collided in a blinding, soundless blast that evaporated the rain within a broad section of the sky.

After Ortolan's lightning attack left Shiki gravely injured, the Marines captured him alive and arranged treatment to keep his dangerous Devil Fruit from reappearing. Sengoku and Garp prepared to escort Roger to the East Blue, while Ortolan reunited with Momonga and traded jokes about their ranks and his marriage.

• Shiki regained consciousness after the combined attack, but Ortolan quickly struck him with a Thunder Self-Detonation Bomb and knocked him out again.
• Garp checked Shiki and found him alive but near death, so Sengoku sent medics to take him for treatment and prevent the Float-Float Fruit from returning to circulation.
• Garp and Sengoku speculated that Shiki had attacked because of Roger, and Sengoku urged the Marines to rebuild Marineford and escort Roger to the East Blue.
• Ortolan met Momonga, who thanked him for helping save his life, and Ortolan teased him about becoming a Vice Admiral.
• Momonga teased Ortolan about settling down and starting a family after hearing that he had married, leaving Ortolan speechless.

Ortolan spent a warm morning with Rouge and Robin before learning Robin would start school, then reported to Admiral Sengoku for new orders. Sengoku assigned him to a joint operation connected to the Roger matter, leaving Ortolan to follow the case through.

• Ortolan told Rouge and Robin that he might go to the East Blue, and Rouge urged him to be careful.
• Gion told Ortolan that Robin’s school arrangements were complete and that Robin could start classes the next day.
• Ortolan and Gion went to the Fortress of Justice, where Gion headed to the Intelligence Department and Ortolan went to Sengoku’s office.
• Ortolan found Sengoku and Tsuru drinking tea together and recalled Garp’s gossip about Sengoku’s feelings for Tsuru.
• Sengoku told Ortolan to join a joint operation and see the Roger matter through from beginning to end.

Ortolan learned that he would travel to Loguetown for Roger’s execution and met Rosinante in Sengoku’s office. Rosinante declined a promotion and sought a transfer to the Intelligence Department to monitor Doflamingo’s growing Donquixote Family.

• Sengoku told Ortolan that he, Tsuru, Garp, and the others would leave for Loguetown at noon, and Ortolan agreed to go.
• Rosinante entered Sengoku’s office and greeted Ortolan, who asked him to use his first name.
• Sengoku congratulated Rosinante on graduating from Zephyr’s program, but Rosinante explained that he had declined a promotion to Commodore after failing the practical training.
• Rosinante asked Tsuru to transfer him to the Intelligence Department, and she agreed to approve his application when he returned.
• Rosinante said he wanted to watch the Donquixote Family because Doflamingo had been growing stronger, and Ortolan left while the others continued talking.

Ortolan reunited with Sakazuki and Kuzan at Marineford before the fleet departed for the East Blue. He learned that Sakazuki’s return might leave him as the likely choice to oversee the New World, a posting he welcomed as a chance to gain grassroots experience and strengthen his future career.

• Ortolan greeted Sakazuki at the military port, and Sakazuki said he would be stationed at Headquarters after returning from the New World.
• Ortolan joked with Kuzan, who regretted missing the mission to capture Roger and questioned Ortolan about his marriage.
• Kuzan warned Ortolan that Sakazuki’s transfer could leave Headquarters needing Ortolan to serve as its New World figurehead.
• Ortolan said he welcomed the prospect of becoming a base commander to gain management experience and build his foundations before seeking higher rank.
• Tsuru arrived, and Ortolan and Kuzan boarded Garp's Dog Head Warship as the fleet departed Marineford for Mary Geoise.

Garp's fleet sailed toward Loguetown after the Marines announced Roger's execution, drawing the attention of powerful figures across the seas. Ortolan read the news aboard Garp's ship as Crocodile, Doflamingo, Mihawk, and Charlotte Linlin each reacted to the coming event.

• Ortolan and Garp joked aboard the Dog Head Warship while Issho, Bogard, and Kuzan played cards nearby.
• Ortolan bought Garp's favor by offering him premium senbei from Totto Land and explained that Sengoku had approved his continued contact with the Charlotte Family.
• A News Coo delivered a newspaper announcing that Roger would be executed in Loguetown, and Ortolan realized the Marines had begun publicizing the event.
• Crocodile read the announcement on Feranks Island and headed for the harbor.
• Doflamingo read the news at the Donquixote Family base, gave orders, and swung toward the East Blue.
• Mihawk noticed Ortolan's photograph in the newspaper, while Charlotte Linlin laughed that Roger's crimes on Cake Island were being repaid by her son.

As Roger’s execution began in Loguetown, Marines secured the square while pirates and other notable figures gathered to watch. From his lookout over the execution platform, Ortolan spoke with Dragon about Roger’s surrender and the coming New Era.

• Garp ordered the Marines to take their positions after preparations for Roger’s execution were completed.
• Crowds filled Loguetown’s square, including Crocodile, Moria, Doflamingo, Shanks, Buggy, and the young Smoker.
• Ortolan took up a lookout position atop Loguetown’s tallest clock tower while Garp and the other Marine leaders guarded the execution platform.
• Dragon appeared behind Ortolan in a whirlwind and challenged him over the false claims tying Dragon to Roger and their supposed battle.
• Ortolan told Dragon that Roger had been terminally ill and had effectively turned himself in, then described the execution as the opening of the New Era.

Ortolan watched Roger approach his execution and realized that Roger would become the true Pirate King through his final words. Roger’s treasure announcement launched a new era before the Marines executed him.

• Ortolan declined Dragon’s invitation to join the Freedom Army and said he had planted a seed.
• Roger walked proudly through Loguetown to the execution platform, where he briefly spoke with Garp.
• Roger saw Shanks and Buggy in the crowd and thought of Rouge as he prepared to die.
• A young man asked Roger where his treasure was, and Roger declared that anyone could find it by searching the sea.
• Garp ordered the execution, and the executioners killed Roger as the Pirate Age began.

After Roger’s execution sparked the Great Pirate Era, Ortolan returned to Marineford and learned that pirate numbers were already surging. Marine Headquarters began planning countermeasures while Mary Geoise ordered the Marines to target Dragon’s Freedom Army, leaving Ortolan to recognize that the crisis was pushing Dragon toward revolution.

• Aboard the warship, Garp regretted Roger’s execution speech as Ortolan acknowledged that the resulting chaos might be necessary to create a new order.
• Ortolan and the others returned to Marineford, where Fleet Admiral Kong and Admiral Sengoku discussed rapid recruitment, expanded operations, and the need for a larger military budget.
• Fleet Admiral Kong told Garp that Mary Geoise was classifying Dragon’s Freedom Army as an extremely dangerous organization and would assign the Marines missions against it in cooperation with the CP Agency.
• Ortolan wondered whether Dragon would appreciate being forced to evolve the Freedom Army and joked that Dragon might attack him the next time they met.
• Admiral Sengoku reported that pirate numbers across the Four Seas had risen forty percent over the previous year and could reach three to five times that level by the following year.

The New World’s territories and arms trade shifted as Buggy and Shanks parted ways in Loguetown, where Smoker joined the Marines by revealing his Logia ability. In the North Blue, Doflamingo arranged for Vergo to enter Marine Headquarters while preparing the Donquixote Family to become pirates.

• Shiki’s former territories were divided among rival powers, while the Big Mom Pirates expanded into the arms trade after obtaining Caesar.
• Buggy rejected Shanks’s invitation to sail together, and the two friends said farewell in Loguetown.
• Smoker claimed to be eighteen to enlist, then revealed his smoke Logia ability and was taken to meet the Loguetown base commander.
• Doflamingo paid a North Blue Marine Captain to recommend Vergo to Marine Headquarters and ordered Diamante to silence the captain afterward.
• Doflamingo told Diamante that the Donquixote Family would enter the pirate world as the New Era approached.

Rouge safely gave birth to a healthy boy, and Ortolan agreed to name him Bane Portgas Ace. As Ortolan and Garp planned to use a transfer to the New World as a pretext for a future divorce, Rouge began to reconsider separating from him for Ace’s sake.

• Ortolan, Robin, Lucci, and Garp waited anxiously while Rouge gave birth, and Doctor Maya announced that both mother and baby were safe.
• Rouge and Ortolan named their son Bane Portgas Ace, leaving the D. out of his name.
• Garp told Ortolan that he had rejected the Fleet Admiral’s plan to transfer him to the New World, suggesting instead that a later transfer could help justify a divorce.
• Rouge silently reconsidered the planned divorce, worrying that Ace would lose Ortolan’s protection if she left him.
• Rouge returned home with Ace after several days of recovery, and Sengoku, Zephyr, Steel Bone, and Ortolan’s friends came to visit.

At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku offered Ortolan three options for his New World posting, including command of G-5, a lawless and self-funded frontline base. Ortolan became interested in taking it after learning Douglas Bullet had nearly wiped out its forces, leaving its commander permanently disabled.

• Ortolan joked with Sengoku about roasting a lamb and fed a draft document to Sengoku's goat.
• Sengoku told Ortolan that he needed grassroots experience before he could become an admiral and outlined three possible New World assignments.
• Ortolan dismissed G-1 as offering little chance to earn merit, then became intrigued when Sengoku proposed G-5.
• Sengoku explained that G-5 housed unruly Marines, received no ordinary military funding, and survived by plundering pirates.
• Sengoku revealed that Douglas Bullet had nearly wiped out G-5's main force over a month earlier and permanently disabled its commander, Vice Admiral Wolf.

Ortolan prepared to leave Marineford and rebuild G-5, while Rouge watched his affectionate bond with Ace and felt guilty around Gion. Momonga volunteered to transfer to G-5, and Kuzan clarified that he had only come to say goodbye.

• Ortolan finished changing Ace's diaper and told Rouge he would miss Marineford before leaving for G-5.
• Gion, Kuzan, and Momonga visited, and Gion explained that she might be sent to the New World to work with the Pleasure District.
• Ortolan said Sengoku had given him two Rear Admiral slots and explained that he planned to build his team at G-5.
• Momonga offered to transfer to G-5, and Ortolan was surprised by his proposal.
• Ortolan looked toward Kuzan, who quickly said he had only come to see Ortolan off.

Ortolan took command of the depleted G-5 Marine Base and planned to rebuild it by requesting ships, personnel, and funding from Headquarters. He then called Katakuri and told him he had been transferred to G-5, prompting Charlotte Linlin to urge him to quit the Marines and return to her crew.

• Ortolan approved the two G-5 Commanders' transfer requests and inspected the base's ships, discovering that nearly all its standard warships had been sunk.
• Ortolan told Momonga to request fifty warships and fifty thousand troops from Headquarters, hoping to secure enough resources to rebuild G-5.
• Ortolan assigned Issho and Momonga to assess the base's supplies, weapons, personnel, and pending transfer requests, with a deadline of one week.
• Ortolan called Katakuri, who was dining with Charlotte Linlin and Perospero, and told him he had become G-5's base commander.
• Charlotte Linlin asked what had gone wrong and told Ortolan to quit the Marines and come back if the job did not work out.

Ortolan proposed that G-5 and the Big Mom Pirates cooperate by sharing intelligence so the Marines could target rival pirates, and Charlotte Linlin agreed only to consider helping when needed. The call ended without a firm deal, while both sides weighed the advantages and risks of working together.

• Ortolan explained G-5’s mission and proposed that the Big Mom Pirates provide targets for Marine operations against their competitors.
• Charlotte Linlin said stability benefited Totto Land and agreed to help Ortolan when he needed it, without making a firm commitment.
• Ortolan considered how Totto Land’s organized, nation-like system gave the Big Mom Pirates an advantage over other pirate powers.
• Perospero asked why Charlotte Linlin had not agreed outright, and she explained that Ortolan needed her more than she needed him.
• Charlotte Linlin considered whether money and weapons could give her influence over G-5, but doubted Ortolan would let her control his forces.

Ortolan negotiated to sell captured pirate ships to Katakuri while G-5 struggled with a depleted force and no warships. Sengoku approved limited reinforcements and agreed to take responsibility if Ortolan built a much larger force through questionable methods.

• Ortolan had reduced G-5 to just over six hundred Marines after many personnel left or were reassigned, leaving him unable to fully crew a warship.
• Momonga explained to Issho that G-5 was selling recovered pirate ships directly to pirates to raise funds and reduce its burden.
• Ortolan offered Katakuri thirty-eight captured pirate ships for fifty million Belly each, then suggested finding ways to sell scrapped Marine warships as well.
• Sengoku called Ortolan about Momonga's request for reinforcements and offered fifteen warships and five thousand experienced soldiers instead of the requested fifty warships and fifty thousand troops.
• Ortolan accepted Sengoku's offer and said he would build up G-5 himself; Sengoku promised to shoulder responsibility as long as Ortolan did not betray the Marines or commit a serious crime.

Ortolan warned Katakuri that the World Government might cut weapons research and production, creating an opportunity for Totto Land to supply arms. They agreed to trade warships for weapons directly, leaving G-5 better supplied through a deal with pirates.

• Ortolan told Katakuri that he wanted Totto Land's advanced weapons in exchange for G-5 warships.
• Ortolan explained that the World Government might cut military research funding amid economic troubles and could eventually outsource weapons production.
• Katakuri recognized the Marines might be evaluating black-market arms because they expected their future supplies to be outsourced, and promised to discuss expanding production with Mama.
• Ortolan proposed buying weapons directly from Totto Land for G-5 to avoid delays and competition for Marine supplies.
• Katakuri agreed to settle the warship deal in arms at fifty million per ship, and Vice Admiral Bane made the trade with pirates within a month and a half of taking command of G-5.