Chapter Summaries

After waking from his twenty-two-year sleep, Gigue reunited with his uncle Garling and used his awakened Vampire Fruit to restore Garling’s youth and strengthen his vitality. Gigue learned that the Five Elders knew Monkey D. Luffy possessed the Nika Fruit but had not treated him as a serious threat, and he planned to return to public affairs.

• Gigue reunited with Garling, who had grown old while Gigue slept for twenty-two years.
• Gigue bit Garling and used his awakened Vampire Fruit ability, First Embrace, to rejuvenate him.
• Garling tested his restored strength and discovered that his Conqueror’s Haki had grown even stronger.
• Gigue and Garling discussed the Divine Knights, the Fleet Admiral position, and Gigue’s plan to address Aramaki’s stalled promotion.
• Gigue explained that Nika Aura had suppressed his attempts to wake, then asked why the Five Elders had ignored Luffy’s Nika Fruit.
• Garling said the Five Elders knew what fruit Luffy had, but the Navy had become less useful without Gigue.

After returning from the Holy Land, Gigue came back to Marineford as the Marines argued over Luffy, Aramaki, and the World Government’s decisions. He appeared through a dark vortex just as Akainu proposed hunting down the Straw Hat Pirates.

• Gigue drank with Garling, then returned to his Royal Chamber and spent the night with Lucia and the others.
• After a month in the Holy Land, Gigue prepared to return to Marineford with Lucia and Ginny and visited the Five Elders for documents.
• At a Marine conference, Zephyr confronted Garp about Luffy, and Tsuru and Sengoku defended Garp.
• Sengoku told Aramaki that the World Government had again rejected his promotion to admiral, prompting Aokiji to protest.
• Kizaru raised the threat of Luffy defeating two Shichibukai, and Akainu offered to wipe out the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Gigue appeared through a dark vortex in the conference room and greeted the assembled Marines.

Gigue returned to Marine Headquarters after twenty-two years and confronted Sengoku over Aramaki being kept as an Admiral Candidate. He placed three admiral appointment documents on the table, naming Green Bull, Grizzly, and Nightingale.

• The Marine officers erupted with excitement when Gigue returned, and Akainu, Kizaru, Zephyr, Aokiji, and Aramaki welcomed him.
• Gigue asked Sengoku why Aramaki had remained an Admiral Candidate for so many years.
• Gigue challenged Sengoku for failing to press the World Government firmly on Aramaki's promotion, while Garp offered to return to prison.
• Gigue told Garp to remain with the Marines and said he was addressing the matter at hand, not blaming him.
• Gigue placed three admiral appointment documents on the table for Green Bull, Grizzly, and Nightingale.

Sengoku announced that Aramaki, Bartholomew Kuma, and Lucia had been appointed admirals, leaving the Marines with seven admirals under Gigue’s influence. Sengoku noticed another document tucked in Gigue’s arms, but Gigue dismissed it as scrap paper and said the time was not right.

• Sengoku verified the Five Elders’ signatures and announced the three admiral appointments.
• Aokiji congratulated Aramaki, while Kuma hesitated over his promotion and Gigue reassured him.
• The Marines reacted to the prospect of having seven admirals united under Gigue’s leadership.
• Tsuru speculated that Gigue had traded his bid to become Fleet Admiral for the three appointments, unaware that Gigue was a Celestial Dragon.
• Sengoku asked Gigue about another document, and Gigue tucked it away, calling it scrap paper and saying the time was not right.

After Gigue returned to Marineford, he learned that Zoro had killed Saint Charlos at Sabaody and set out to handle the incident. Zoro stood amid the defeated Marines and Charlos’s dead body as Rosward and Shalria remained at his mercy.

• News spread that Gigue had returned and the Marines had gained three Admirals, including Lucia; Doflamingo reacted with alarm in Dressrosa.
• Gigue spoke with Stussy, who reported that the Straw Hat Pirates had arrived at Sabaody Archipelago.
• Ginny told Gigue that a Celestial Dragon had been killed, and Kizaru reported that Charlos’s father and sister were still at the scene.
• Gigue stopped Kizaru from going to Sabaody and flew there himself.
• Zoro stood among the defeated Marines and Charlos’s corpse while Rosward shielded the unconscious Shalria and angrily challenged him.

Zoro and Luffy attacked the Celestial Dragons, prompting Toki and the old man to warn that a Marine Admiral would come. The Straw Hat Pirates left the scene, while Ace apologized for Luffy and followed after him.

• Zoro explained that Charlos had shot at him, and Toki warned the Straw Hat Pirates that a Marine Admiral was coming because a Celestial Dragon had been attacked.
• Chopper confirmed that Charlos was dead, and Luffy blocked Rosward's shot before punching him unconscious.
• Luffy told his friends that no one could hurt them, then left with the Straw Hat Pirates as Shalria cried over the fallen Celestial Dragons.
• Ace apologized to the gathered pirates for Luffy's actions and was recognized as the captain of the Spade Pirates.
• Kid challenged Ace to a fight, but Ace declined because an Admiral was coming and he needed to catch up with Luffy.

Gigue arrived after Charlos was killed, healed the wounded Marines, and identified Zoro as the likely culprit. When Kid and the other Supernovas clashed with Marine reinforcements, Gigue left to confront them.

• Kid left the scene after Killer urged him to retreat, while the other pirate crews scattered.
• Gigue descended before Shalria, silenced her, and recognized the injured Marine officer Babus.
• Gigue healed the wounded Marines and realized Charlos had died from a sword wound that likely came from Zoro.
• A Marine reported that Kid and the other Supernovas were fighting reinforcements, and Gigue set out to meet them.
• In Civilian District 34, Kid's crew attacked the Marines as Killer led the charge.

Gigue hunted down the Supernovas on Sabaody Archipelago, killing Kid and his crew, Hawkins, Capone Bege, and Urouge with overwhelming ease. He then confronted Apu after Urouge fell.

• Kid disarmed the Marines and prepared to crush them, but Gigue appeared, shattered his mechanical arm, and killed him.
• Gigue used Kid’s corpse to slaughter the Kid Pirate Crew, then reduced Killer and Kid’s remains to ashes with lightning.
• Gigue found Hawkins and killed him despite his Straw-Straw Fruit ability, then hurled Hawkins’s head through a house and into Capone Bege, killing Bege and many of his subordinates.
• Gigue tracked down Urouge and Apu at the shopping street, killed Urouge with a kick, and faced Apu after Apu attacked him with a sound wave.

After killing Apu, Gigue’s massacre of the Supernovas frightened pirates across Sabaody. On the Sunny, Luffy told Rayleigh how Shanks’s straw hat came to him before Ace arrived and met Rayleigh, who was moved by Ace’s words about Roger.

• Gigue killed Apu with sound waves, bringing the number of Supernovas he had killed to six and spreading fear across Sabaody.
• Rayleigh worked on the Sunny while Luffy told him that Ace and Sabo were his brothers and that Shanks had given him Roger’s straw hat.
• Luffy explained that Shanks had brought the Rubber Fruit for Ace, but Luffy had accidentally eaten it instead.
• Ace arrived with his crew, reunited with Luffy, and met the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Ace bowed to Rayleigh and said his mother had told him that Roger often spoke of Rayleigh as his closest companion.

Marine Admiral Gigue arrived at Sabaody and confronted Rayleigh and the pirates after Zoro killed a Celestial Dragon. Gigue killed Zoro with a single strike, and Sanji attacked him in a rage.

• Shakky warned Rayleigh that Black Dragon was slaughtering pirates across Sabaody, including six Supernova crews, and Rayleigh urged everyone to flee.
• Gigue descended before the group, immobilized them with his presence, and ignored Rayleigh to question Zoro about killing a Celestial Dragon.
• Gigue drew Muramasa and struck so quickly that he broke Third Kitetsu and ruined Wado Ichimonji and Shusui.
• Zoro's body split apart along a diagonal cut, and the Straw Hat Pirates cried out as he died.
• Sanji charged at Gigue with Diable Jambe while Rayleigh restrained Luffy.

Sanji’s attack failed against Gigue, and Rayleigh stayed behind to let Luffy and the others escape. After overpowering the aging Rayleigh, Gigue revealed that Shanks was his younger brother, leaving Rayleigh stunned as his death neared.

• Sanji kicked Gigue but injured himself, while Luffy and the others realized they could not defeat him.
• Rayleigh drew his sword, unleashed Conqueror’s Haki, and challenged Gigue so Shakky could lead Luffy and the others away.
• Rayleigh and Gigue fought across the battlefield as Brook and Franky helped Sanji and carried Zoro’s body away.
• Gigue outpaced Rayleigh, who struggled to keep fighting with one arm and dwindling stamina.
• Gigue told Rayleigh that he had once wanted to kill him for returning to find Roger, then revealed that Shanks was his foolish younger brother.

Gigue killed Silvers Rayleigh, then attacked Shakky and the fleeing Straw Hat Pirates and Ace's group. The chapter ended with Luffy collapsed in grief as Gigue killed Usopp.

• Gigue defeated Rayleigh in a clash of Conqueror's Haki and killed him with Nation Suppressing.
• Shakky realized Rayleigh had died when his Vivre Card burned to ash, and she confirmed his death to Ace and the others.
• Gigue stabbed Shakky with Rayleigh's sword and pulled it free with Dark Gravity, leaving her to collapse beside Rayleigh's sword.
• Sanji jumped in front of Nami, but Gigue killed him by making his head disappear.
• Usopp attacked Gigue with his slingshot, and Gigue flicked a pellet into his forehead, killing him.

Gigue killed Usopp and Ace, leaving Luffy devastated before a strange force awakened within him. Toki sent Luffy, Nami, and the others through time, but Gigue’s darkness limited their jump to no more than one year.

• Gigue killed Usopp, then emerged unharmed from Ace’s flames and used his gaze to kill or incapacitate more than half of the Spade Pirates.
• Gigue aimed Usopp’s head at Luffy, but Ace jumped in front of him and took the fatal strike; Gigue later took both Usopp’s and Ace’s heads.
• Luffy broke down as Nami tried to comfort him, then a strange drumbeat sounded from his chest and he confronted Gigue as Joy Boy.
• Luffy evaded Gigue’s attack and urged Toki to use her Devil Fruit, but Gigue’s darkness blocked her time passage.
• A White Flame Cloud appeared around Luffy, and his force dispersed much of the darkness; Toki then sent him, Nami, and the others into the future by less than a year before fainting.

After the Straw Hat Pirates escaped, Gigue captured Law and learned that Rosinante had rescued him and kept him undercover from Doflamingo. Gigue knocked Law unconscious and took him to Mary Geoise, claiming he would honor Rosinante’s trust.

• Gigue reflected that Joy Boy had intervened to help Luffy escape and concluded that Toki would eventually appear on his timeline.
• Law and the Heart Pirates prepared to board their ship when Gigue arrived and stopped them with a sword slash.
• Law used ROOM to attack Gigue, but Gigue resisted his Devil Fruit ability with Haki and captured him.
• Law explained that Rosinante had saved him and that he became a pirate after the World Government branded him a criminal.
• Gigue knocked out the Heart Pirates, then struck Law unconscious and took him toward Mary Geoise.

After the Sabaody incident, Gigue reported Luffy's escape to Garling and brought Law, whose Op-Op Fruit could enable the Immortality Surgery, to be studied by Vegapunk. News of the massacre reached Baltigo, where Sabo vowed to find Luffy and kill Gigue, but Dragon stopped him from acting without orders.

• Gigue told Rosward and Shalria that Charlos's killer had been executed, refused to escort them home, and vanished.
• Gigue told Garling that the Nika Fruit user, Luffy, had escaped and brought Law to be sent to Egghead for study of the Op-Op Fruit.
• News spread that Gigue had killed the Supernovas and Rayleigh, and newspapers reported that Ace was Roger's son and showed his death.
• At Baltigo, Rouge mourned Ace while Sabo learned that Ace was dead and Luffy was missing, then declared he would find Luffy and kill Gigue.
• Dragon knocked Sabo down with a gale and forbade him and the Revolutionary Army from searching for Luffy without orders.

Kaido ordered Jack and King to confront Doflamingo over the delayed shipment, while Doflamingo refused Rosinante’s request to rescue Law and argued with him about Dressrosa. After Violet reported that Jack had injured Pica, Doflamingo went to face him and told Rosinante to stay behind.

• Kaido sent Jack to demand the shipment from Doflamingo and told King to accompany him while remaining hidden at first.
• Rosinante asked Doflamingo to use his Shichibukai position to free Law, but Doflamingo refused and said Law was already gone from the Marines.
• Doflamingo and Rosinante argued over whether the Riku Family should rule Dressrosa and whether Doflamingo’s weapons dealings had harmed other countries.
• Violet reported that Jack had returned and injured Pica, so Doflamingo left to confront him and ordered Rosinante to stay inside.

Jack attacked the Darkseid Family at the SMILE Factory in Dressrosa, but Doflamingo arrived and used his awakened Float-Float Fruit to control the battlefield. Jack remained furious and challenged Doflamingo, who taunted him from the air.

• Jack shrugged off Gladius and Diamante's attacks, then charged through Pica, Trebol, Pique, Lao G, and the other Darkseid Family officers, injuring several of them.
• Doflamingo arrived, rescued the injured officers, and buried Jack under a pile of boulders.
• Jack transformed into a mammoth and threatened Doflamingo, who said Jack would pay for harming his family and mocked his tusks.
• Jack charged Doflamingo, but Doflamingo dodged from the air and trapped Jack and his crewmen with waves of earth.
• Jack returned to Beast Form and tried to reach Doflamingo, who kept flying away and taunted him to come up.

Doflamingo defeated Jack with his Float-Float Fruit, but King arrived before he could take Jack’s tusks. King offered Doflamingo a place under Kaido, and after Doflamingo refused, King attacked him while Jack waited below.

• Doflamingo used his powers to batter Jack until Jack collapsed.
• Doflamingo moved to take Jack’s tusks, but King’s Flame Emperor attack forced him away.
• King rescued Jack and said Kaido wanted Doflamingo beaten half to death, then offered him a place among the Flying Six and a chance to become the Fourth Disaster.
• Doflamingo refused to submit to Kaido and said he would serve only the man destined to become the world’s sole king.
• King attacked Doflamingo with a flaming punch and struck him out of the sky with Mink Self-Esteem Emperor as Jack waited below.

Doflamingo lured King and Jack to the sea, where his awakened Float-Float Fruit let him overwhelm the two Beasts Pirates Lead Performers. He captured Jack in a sphere of seawater and forced King to stop fighting, then asked what Doflamingo wanted.

• Doflamingo escaped King's and Jack's pincer attack and drew them from Dressrosa toward the sea.
• At the shore, Doflamingo raised seawater into waterspouts and water dragons, using them to pressure King and knock Jack around.
• King switched to his speed form and broke through Doflamingo's seawater barrier, but hesitated when Doflamingo seemed to give up resisting.
• Doflamingo revealed that Jack was trapped in a massive sphere of water and warned that Jack would sink if Doflamingo were hurt.
• King stopped attacking and asked Doflamingo what he wanted.

King and Doflamingo’s standoff escalated when Gigue answered Doflamingo’s call and backed him against Kaido. Gigue ordered Doflamingo to sink Jack, provoking Kaido’s Beasts Pirates as Gigue’s speedboat approached a huge pirate ship in the fog.

• King called Kaido, who demanded that Doflamingo release Jack and come to Onigashima.
• Doflamingo answered a Den Den Mushi connected to Sengoku and spoke with Gigue, who promised not to take Rosinante away and said he would visit Dressrosa.
• Gigue learned that Kaido was confronting Doflamingo and challenged him, then ordered Doflamingo to sink Jack.
• Doflamingo sent Jack into the sea and swept him away, prompting King to call for a rescue and Kaido to threaten Gigue.
• Gigue ended the call and rose from his speedboat as an enormous pirate ship emerged from the fog.