Chapter Summaries

Mo Xingchen persuaded Garp and then Sakazuki to consider attacking a Great Pirate crew during their return to Marine Headquarters. Sakazuki hesitated as Mo Xingchen taunted him about following Sengoku’s orders, leaving the plan undecided.

• Mo Xingchen proposed that he and Garp sneak off to fight a Great Pirate, but Bogard reminded them that Sakazuki would not allow it.
• Mo Xingchen summoned Sakazuki to Garp’s warship and greeted him with cigars and whiskey to win him over.
• Sakazuki explained that Sengoku had ordered him to escort Mo Xingchen and Garp back to Marine Headquarters without letting them cause trouble.
• Mo Xingchen argued that the three of them could attack a Pirate Emperor crew on their way back and claim they had encountered the pirates by chance.
• Sakazuki grew conflicted as Mo Xingchen suggested that he was eager to eliminate the Great Pirates Sengoku had kept him from confronting.

After learning that the World Government had blocked the chance to eliminate Kaido, Sakazuki agreed with Mo Xingchen to target Shanks instead. After days of searching Red Hair Pirates territory, the Marines spotted the Red Force, and Sakazuki eagerly prepared to face Shanks.

• Sakazuki tried to turn the fleet around to attack Kaido, but Mo Xingchen stopped him and explained how he had defeated Kaido and what the Gorosei had demanded.
• Sakazuki condemned the World Government for abandoning the opportunity to wipe out the Beasts Pirates.
• Mo Xingchen persuaded Sakazuki to target Shanks rather than the aging Whitebeard or the distant Charlotte Linlin, and Sakazuki insisted that Shanks be left to him.
• Mo Xingchen, Garp, and Sakazuki spent days searching Red Hair Pirates territory without using the intelligence division, trying not to alert Sengoku.
• A lookout spotted the Red Force, and Sakazuki celebrated the chance to confront Shanks.

Shanks tried to flee when he learned that Garp, Akainu, and Tianshu were pursuing him, while the Marines raced after the Red Hair Pirates. Garp’s cannonball only helped Shanks’s ship surge ahead, leaving Mo Xingchen to conclude that they would have to rely on speed.

• Shanks praised Ace to Beckman, then called for the Red Force to approach two Marine ships before learning Garp, Akainu, and Tianshu were aboard.
• Shanks ordered the Red Hair Pirates to raise their ship to maximum speed and flee.
• Mo Xingchen watched the Red Force escape as Sakazuki said the Marine warships could match its speed using steam engines.
• Garp threw a cannonball at the Red Force, but Shanks’s Flying Slash destroyed it and the explosion propelled the pirate ship farther ahead.
• Mo Xingchen, Garp, and Sakazuki assessed their long-range attack options, and Mo Xingchen decided they could only compete with the pirate ship’s speed.

With the Red Hair Pirates pursued by three Admiral-level Navy officers, Beckman devised a plan to flee into Whitebeard’s territory and trigger the New World’s pirate alliance against Navy interference. Meanwhile, Mo Xingchen answered a furious call ordering him, Akainu, and Garp back immediately.

• As the Navy ships closed in, Shanks asked Beckman how the Red Hair Pirates could escape the three Admiral-level pursuers.
• Beckman proposed entering Whitebeard’s territory, explaining that Whitebeard would not let the Navy capture a Four Emperors crew and that pirates united against Navy incursions into the New World.
• Shanks ordered his crew to turn toward Whitebeard’s territory after the officers teased him about why the Navy was pursuing them.
• Beckman predicted the Fleet Admiral would recall the Navy officers to prevent another full-scale war in the New World.
• On the Navy warship, Akainu and Garp avoided answering a ringing Den Den Mushi until Mo Xingchen reluctantly picked it up.
• The caller roared at Mo Xingchen, Akainu, and Garp to return immediately.

Mo Xingchen provoked Shanks into stopping his ship and meeting him alone, while Sakazuki and Garp hoped to fight the Red Hair captain. Mo Xingchen boarded Shanks's vessel and took control of the meeting, leaving Shanks frustrated and looking to Beckman for help.

• Sengoku hung up on Mo Xingchen, and Sakazuki accepted that they would all be scolded when they returned.
• Mo Xingchen mocked Shanks over a loudspeaker, and Beckman challenged him to come aboard alone after stopping the warships.
• Mo Xingchen agreed, reassured Sakazuki that he would get to fight Shanks, and set out alone in a small boat with Chun Jun.
• Mo Xingchen sang as he crossed the sea, impressing the Marines and pirates watching him.
• Mo Xingchen boarded the Red Force, sat at Shanks's table, and told Shanks to sit, leaving Shanks stifled and turning to Beckman for help.

Mo Xingchen negotiated with Shanks and Beckman aboard the Red Force, openly admitting that the Marines had intended to wipe out the Red Hair Pirates but were withdrawing. He challenged Shanks to a one-on-one fight, with the winner deciding whether Shanks could leave alive.

• Ben Beckman joined Shanks and Mo Xingchen at the table and explained that he handled diplomacy for the Red Hair Pirates.
• Mo Xingchen tried to unsettle Beckman and Shanks, then asked for ice and casually chilled his drink.
• Mo Xingchen said the pursuit had originally been meant to wipe out the Red Hair Pirates, but confirmed Beckman had correctly guessed that the Marines were withdrawing.
• Shanks asked why Mo Xingchen had come, and Mo Xingchen proposed a one-on-one fight: Shanks would leave if he won and die if he lost.

Mo Xingchen secured Shanks’s agreement to duel Sakazuki, while Shanks revealed his long-standing rivalry with Mo Xingchen and awakened stronger Conqueror’s Haki. As pirates converged on their position, Mo Xingchen warned Sakazuki to fight decisively and withdraw within a day.

• Shanks told Beckman that he had first met Mo Xingchen at Roger’s execution and had regarded him as a rival for twenty years.
• Shanks admitted he did not know whether he could beat Mo Xingchen, but declared that he had to fight him and unleashed stronger Conqueror’s Haki.
• Mo Xingchen returned to the Marine warship, where Sakazuki asked whether the negotiations had succeeded.
• Mo Xingchen told Sakazuki that Shanks had agreed to a one-on-one duel and warned him to use his strongest attack and withdraw within a day.
• Sakazuki reported that Vice Admiral Tsuru had warned of pirates gathering nearby and that Whitebeard had set out for them two days earlier.

Shanks and Sakazuki faced off on a deserted island while Mo Xingchen and Garp watched casually from the sidelines. Sakazuki launched the first attack, and Shanks met it with a lightning-wreathed sword strike as their clash tore through the island.

• Shanks wondered why Mo Xingchen had come to arrange a fight for Sakazuki, then pushed his embarrassment aside and approached the Marine admiral.
• Mo Xingchen asked Garp who would win, and Garp said the outcome was uncertain while recalling Shanks's growth and Sakazuki's intense training.
• Shanks and Sakazuki silently gathered their fighting spirit before Sakazuki attacked with Dog Biting Red Lotus.
• Shanks used his Observation Haki to anticipate Sakazuki's move, unleashed his Conqueror's Haki, and charged with Griffin.
• Shanks shouted God's Evasion and struck Sakazuki's magma fist, sending violent waves of air through the island and boiling the surrounding sea.

Shanks and Sakazuki clashed in a brutal contest of strength, and their Conqueror's Haki overwhelmed the surrounding Marines. After both were injured, Sakazuki launched a second attack with Great Eruption, leaving Shanks to face the enormous magma fist.

• Shanks and Sakazuki locked blades and fists, each willing to risk severe injury to kill the other.
• Shanks unleashed overwhelming Conqueror's Haki that knocked out weaker Marine soldiers, while Bogard and Luo discussed how it compared to Mo Xingchen's Haki.
• The clash ended in an explosion that left Shanks with burns and strained arms and Sakazuki with deep cuts across his right arm.
• Sakazuki discarded his Justice Cape and charged Shanks again, launching Great Eruption with an enormous magma fist.
• Shanks faced the descending magma fist without feeling much danger compared with their earlier close-quarters clash.

Shanks and Sakazuki fought one-on-one, with Sakazuki’s relentless magma attacks forcing Shanks into a dangerous position. Shanks turned Sakazuki’s pursuit into a trap and launched a powerful counterattack, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Sakazuki’s repeated magma attacks filled the beach with molten rock and restricted Shanks’s movement.
• Shanks stumbled on the magma, and Sakazuki struck with Dog Biting Red Lotus, burning Shanks as he blocked and was driven backward.
• Sakazuki pursued Shanks while the Marines cheered and Beckman stopped the Red Hair Pirates from intervening.
• Shanks baited Sakazuki into closing the distance, then rolled aside and charged back with God's Evasion.
• Sakazuki recognized the danger too late, reinforced his right fist with Armament Haki, and charged into Shanks’s slash.

Mo Xingchen and Garp watched Sakazuki and Shanks fight, then discussed Sakazuki’s mistakes and Shanks’s ability to adapt. The two injured fighters returned after their exchange, with neither appearing close to defeat.

• Shanks’s slash broke through Sakazuki’s attack and sent him flying past Mo Xingchen and Garp, while Mo Xingchen covered his coconut instead of catching him.
• Garp questioned Mo Xingchen’s lack of help, and Mo Xingchen explained that catching Sakazuki would have been a reflex rather than interference.
• Mo Xingchen criticized Sakazuki for committing too much strength and distance to one attack, saying he should have tested Shanks and built an advantage first.
• Mo Xingchen praised Shanks for quickly adapting to a cautious fighting style after losing an exchange, while Garp joked that Mo Xingchen had not influenced him.
• Sakazuki returned with severe wounds on his right arm, and Shanks returned with burns across his left forearm and chest.

Sakazuki and Shanks fought a brutal, hours-long battle while Mo Xingchen and Garp watched. As the fight continued into the night, Mo Xingchen joked with Garp and imagined returning to Sengoku with a box of donuts after Garp had died.

• Sakazuki and Shanks charged at each other and began a ferocious fight, trading sword strikes, magma, Haki, and blood.
• Marine soldiers and Red Hair Pirates officers watched the battle for hours, while a lieutenant colonel swallowed his agreement after recalling that he had been beaten for saying “exactly.”
• Mo Xingchen asked why the battle was taking so long, and Garp explained that fights between powerful opponents could last several days and nights.
• Mo Xingchen teased Garp about powerful attacks leaving their targets unharmed, making Garp choke on a donut and threaten to punch him.
• Mo Xingchen pictured himself and Sakazuki telling Sengoku that Garp had died, then burst out laughing while Garp watched in disgust.

Mo Xingchen stopped the battle between Sakazuki and Shanks, then revealed his hostility toward Shanks was not because he was a pirate. When Yasopp pointed a gun at him, Mo Xingchen struck him and left the Red Hair Pirates fearing he would break his promise.

• Sakazuki and Shanks traded devastating attacks, each suffering life-threatening injuries before they finally stopped.
• Mo Xingchen intervened as the two prepared to fight again and ordered Shanks to leave.
• Shanks asked Mo Xingchen why he seemed hostile toward him, and Mo Xingchen confirmed that he was.
• When Yasopp aimed his gun at him, Mo Xingchen swiftly kicked him in the stomach and sent him flying.
• Beckman stopped the Red Hair Pirates from retaliating and asked Mo Xingchen if he intended to break his promise.

Mo Xingchen confronted Shanks over his treatment of Makino, then used the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Art to destroy the approaching pirate ships. He let the Red Hair Pirates leave for now, but warned Shanks that the matter with Makino was not over, and explained to Sakazuki that he was keeping his promise.

• Mo Xingchen told Shanks to stay away from Makino unless he could make her happy, and Shanks mistook his anger for romantic jealousy.
• Mo Xingchen used Shanks's sword to summon a lightning pillar that carved a huge hole in the sea and pulled nearby pirate ships into a whirlpool, while the others fled.
• Mo Xingchen let Shanks go for encouraging Ace to become a pirate and warned him that their dispute over Makino remained unresolved.
• Beckman urged Shanks to retire and return to the East Blue, and Shanks headed with his crew to check on Yasopp.
• Luo treated Sakazuki, who questioned why Mo Xingchen had spared the Red Hair Pirates; Mo Xingchen said that keeping promises mattered to him.

Sakazuki recovered from his fight with Shanks and revealed that his Devil Fruit had awakened. On the way back to the warship, Mo Xingchen declined Morgans’s offer to publicize his own achievements but suggested a sensational headline about Sakazuki’s attack.

• Sakazuki asked Mo Xingchen for a cigar despite his injuries, then revealed that his Devil Fruit ability had awakened.
• The medical team carried Sakazuki toward the warship, and he told Mo Xingchen that his powerful attack could have wiped out more pirates if he could use it repeatedly.
• Garp praised Sakazuki for injuring Shanks but mentioned that he had never made Roger lose an arm, angering Sakazuki.
• Morgans called Mo Xingchen and offered to publicize his latest achievements, but Mo Xingchen declined to make himself the focus.
• Mo Xingchen suggested a sensational headline about Sakazuki attacking Shanks, and Morgans laughed and praised his knack for news.

Mo Xingchen, Garp, and the injured Sakazuki returned to Marine Headquarters, where soldiers greeted them as heroes. The six officers waited outside the Marshal's Office, and a communications soldier opened the door only to be met with their murderous stares.

• Pirate ships followed Mo Xingchen's warships for days but did not attack as the fleet returned from the New World.
• After receiving treatment, Sakazuki got up despite the doctors' advice, and he angrily reacted to Morgans's news report while relaxing on deck with Mo Xingchen and Garp.
• Sakazuki changed into his Justice Coat with his torso exposed, saying his wounds made clothes uncomfortable.
• Marine soldiers welcomed the returning officers with cheers of “Justice” and “Certain victory,” celebrating Sakazuki's battle against Shanks.
• The six officers stood silently outside the Marshal's Office until a communications soldier opened the door and saw their killing intent.

Mo Xingchen and the others faced Marshal Sengoku and Vice Admiral Tsuru after their latest mistake, and Sengoku reprimanded them. The reprimand eased when Sakazuki’s reopened wounds forced him to leave for treatment, and Garp then persuaded Sengoku to let him return to the Grand Line bases.

• Mo Xingchen led the six into the Marshal’s Office, where they stood under Vice Admiral Tsuru’s watchful gaze while Sengoku reviewed documents.
• Mo Xingchen addressed Sengoku as Uncle, and Sengoku ordered him to use his title while on duty.
• Sengoku began scolding Sakazuki, but Sakazuki coughed up blood from reopened wounds and left to recover at Marine Headquarters.
• Mo Xingchen and Garp realized Sakazuki had used his injuries to escape the reprimand and muttered insults after he left.
• Sengoku turned his anger on Garp, who argued that the Grand Line bases needed him, and Sengoku let him return to the front.

Garp and Bogard left Sengoku’s office after the group abandoned Mo Xingchen and Luo to face the fallout. Vice Admiral Tsuru calmed Sengoku and urged Mo Xingchen to explain what had happened before the Marines planned their next deployment.

• Garp and Bogard left the office, then joined Sakazuki and T-Bone outside for cigars.
• Mo Xingchen realized that his companions had left him to bear the blame, while Luo remained beside him.
• Zephyr and Vice Admiral Tsuru struggled to suppress their laughter as Sengoku tried to scold Mo Xingchen.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru intervened, accepted some responsibility, and asked Mo Xingchen to explain what happened before the next deployment.
• Sengoku spared Mo Xingchen but ordered Trafalgar Law to clean toilets for a month for failing to stop his superior.

Mo Xingchen reported his pursuit of Ace and battle with Kaido to Sengoku, then assessed his strength as the Marines considered their position against the pirate emperors. The senior Marines agreed that they could not rush into a major offensive, while Zephyr took hope in the younger generation’s future.

• Luo tried to return to Sengoku’s office after seeing Garp, Sakazuki, and the others laughing, but they restrained him and carried him away.
• Mo Xingchen told Sengoku that he had encountered Rayleigh, defeated Kaido and the Beasts Pirates, and later watched Akainu fight Shanks before pirates escorted Akainu away.
• Sengoku decided the Marines should leave Rayleigh alone unless he caused trouble, to avoid reviving the Roger Pirates’ old crew.
• Mo Xingchen told Tsuru that he could likely defeat one pirate emperor crew but might only draw against two captains working together.
• Zephyr proposed an offensive into the latter half of the Grand Line, but Tsuru warned that the Marines lacked enough mid-level forces to handle all the pirates.
• Tsuru reminded Zephyr that the Marines’ young recruits could carry on the fight, and Zephyr felt hopeful about the future.

Sengoku sought a way to disrupt the Four Emperors’ peaceful balance, but Mo Xingchen’s extreme suggestions led Vice Admiral Tsuru to warn him about the hidden ruler behind the Empty Throne. After Mo Xingchen agreed to be cautious, Tsuru proposed stirring up the Grand Line with a catfish.

• Sengoku proposed provoking the Four Emperors into fighting so the Marines could exploit the chaos.
• Mo Xingchen argued that the Emperors had little reason to fight and suggested secretly eliminating a crew or gathering pirates to destroy them with his ultimate move.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru told Mo Xingchen that Garp changed after God Valley and later revealed that he had said the Empty Throne had an owner.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru warned Mo Xingchen that the Gorosei and the ruler on the throne would target him if he became too powerful to control.
• Mo Xingchen agreed to act cautiously, and Vice Admiral Tsuru proposed tossing a catfish into the stagnant waters of the latter half of the Grand Line.