Chapter Summaries

Neji and Izumi defeated Trebol and knocked Sugar unconscious, restoring the people and animals she had turned into toys and igniting chaos across Dressrosa. Doflamingo confronted Law amid the upheaval, and Law revealed that Doflamingo sought eternal life through the Ope Ope no Mi’s Immortal Surgery.

• Neji blasted away Trebol’s slime, and Izumi kicked Trebol into the wall.
• Neji captured Sugar while Izumi used a Great Fireball to destroy Trebol’s attack, then Neji knocked Sugar unconscious.
• Sugar’s ability ended, restoring the toys to their original forms and triggering widespread chaos across Dressrosa.
• Doflamingo left his fight with Law and Luffy, saw the city erupt, and attacked Law with Five Color Threads.
• Law escaped Doflamingo’s attack with ROOM but collapsed from exhaustion as Doflamingo approached.
• Law accused Doflamingo of seeking the Immortal Surgery to gain eternal life and reminded him that it would cost the user’s life.

Law confronted Doflamingo over Corazon and declared his intent to kill him, but Doflamingo began forming the Birdcage as Luffy and Law attacked. Meanwhile, Neji left the Cadre Tower with Izumi and Rebecca, met Haku and Koala at the harbor, and gave them the next phase of the plan before departing.

• Law told Doflamingo he had returned to uncover his secrets and avenge Corazon, and Doflamingo dismissed his efforts as trivial.
• Doflamingo revealed that his string duplicate had helped him create the Birdcage, prompting Law to warn Luffy to stop him.
• Luffy activated Second Gear and hit Doflamingo with a Jet Pistol, forcing him to slide backward.
• Neji left Sugar with Izumi, observed the palace battle, and led Izumi and Rebecca out of the Cadre Tower.
• Neji met Haku and Koala, explained the next phase of the plan, and told Koala to pass the instructions to Sabo.
• Neji departed with Izumi and Rebecca while Koala agreed to continue gathering intelligence and prepare the revolutionaries.

Neji captured Pica and brought him to the palace rooftop, where Luffy and Doflamingo were fighting. After healing Law and asking Luffy to step aside, Neji confronted Doflamingo and revealed that he was supposed to be dead.

• Fujitora ordered the Marines to prioritize rescuing civilians while Dressrosa remained trapped inside the Birdcage.
• Neji seized Pica, weakened him with Seastone, and sent him through the Gate of Time and Space.
• Neji brought Rebecca, Izumi, and Sugar to the palace rooftop and protected them from the clash between Luffy and Doflamingo.
• Neji healed Law and told Luffy to hand Doflamingo over so he could question him.
• Neji confronted Doflamingo and reminded him that he was supposed to be dead.

Neji fought Doflamingo above the palace, using Nen to overpower his attacks and force him into the Birdcage. As Law and the others moved to confront Diamante, Doflamingo activated the Birdcage and began shrinking it across the nation.

• Doflamingo recognized Neji as Vice Admiral Norsen and questioned how he had survived, then attacked him with Bullet String.
• Neji deflected Doflamingo’s threads and sent Nen orbs against him, forcing Doflamingo to leap clear and counter with Hyper-Rope Whip.
• Neji sent Law and the others to the plaza before the palace gates, where Law could help Kyros fight Diamante.
• Neji used Attract and Repel to pull Doflamingo in, batter him, and send him crashing into the Birdcage.
• Doflamingo clung to the Birdcage and activated it, causing it to shrink inward across the nation.

Fujitora left the Marines to confront Neji and Doflamingo as the Birdcage closed around Dressrosa. After rejecting Doflamingo’s offer to help capture Neji, Fujitora asked Neji who he was.

• Pirates failed to damage the shrinking Birdcage, and Fujitora ordered the Marines to rescue civilians while he went to meet Neji.
• Neji flew toward Doflamingo and used Vortex to pull in the Parasite Strings, forcing Doflamingo to grab the Birdcage and pull himself free.
• Fujitora caught some of the threads and arrived above the palace, where Neji and Doflamingo faced him in a three-way standoff.
• Doflamingo urged Fujitora to capture Neji, calling him Vice Admiral Norsen, but Fujitora refused to let a pirate interfere in Marine matters.
• Fujitora asked Neji who he was.

Neji watched Fujitora leave, then fought Doflamingo to observe his awakened Devil Fruit. Doflamingo unleashed a barrage of thread attacks and, believing Neji was defeated, sent another strike into the dust cloud.

• Fujitora refused to interfere in the affairs of member nations and left to rescue civilians, ignoring Doflamingo.
• Neji attacked Doflamingo with Repulsive Force and challenged him to reveal his full strength.
• Doflamingo awakened his Devil Fruit, turning the surrounding ground and clock tower into white threads under his control.
• Doflamingo attacked Neji with waves of threads and Haki-reinforced defenses, while Neji broke through with Repulsive Force, Shave, and the Fist of the Short Inch.
• Neji emerged from Doflamingo's thread barrage with a lightning tiger, but Doflamingo pierced it and launched another attack into the dust cloud.

Neji defeated Doflamingo with True Several Thousand Hands, preserved his life, and sent him through the Gate of Time and Space. After the Birdcage collapsed and the Marines began restoring order in Dressrosa, Neji set out to meet King Riku, with Kyros and Rebecca joining him.

• Neji overwhelmed Doflamingo with a thousand Haki-coated wooden fists, and Doflamingo stopped resisting after deciding that the Revolutionary Army might challenge the Celestial Dragons.
• Neji used a sphere of light to barely preserve Doflamingo's life, then sent him through the Gate of Time and Space as the Birdcage collapsed.
• The Donquixote Family fought desperately after Doflamingo fell, but the Marines defeated them, and Fujitora requested reinforcements while resolving to abolish the Seven Warlords system.
• Neji arrived at the palace plaza, where Luffy had defeated Diamante, and told Rebecca that she and her aunt would serve as hidden Revolutionary Army agents.
• Kyros asked to accompany Neji, who transported him and Rebecca to King Riku as he helped former palace guards resist pirates and save civilians.

Neji secured King Riku’s support for the Revolutionary Army’s push to abolish the Seven Warlords system, then left Dressrosa with Izumi through the Gate of Time and Space. At a tavern, Izumi reflected on the strength of the people and the strange Devil Fruit abilities in this world.

• Kyros apologized to King Riku for failing to protect Scarlet, and King Riku comforted him while Rebecca wept with Violet.
• Violet told Neji that she had convinced King Riku to join him, and King Riku offered the Revolutionary Army his support.
• Neji asked King Riku to propose abolishing the Seven Warlords system at the World Conference and said Koala and other specialists would later discuss legal and business matters.
• Neji told King Riku to seek Marine help stabilizing Dressrosa, then left with Izumi through the Gate of Time and Space.
• At a tavern, Izumi told Neji that people in this world were extraordinarily strong and that Devil Fruit abilities were bizarre.

Neji and Izumi spent a quiet day together in his private world, where he explained that he wanted to release his resentment and find the Poneglyphs. While they slept, political unrest spread through the Pirate World as King Riku and other nations secretly organized against the Seven Warlords, and Sabo confirmed to Dragon that Neji was alive.

• Neji led Izumi into his private world, where they enjoyed the grassland, lake, and time together.
• Neji told Izumi that he wanted to release his resentment, oppose the World Government where convenient, and find the four Road Poneglyphs.
• Fujitora publicly apologized to King Riku, angering Akainu and deepening Marine dissatisfaction with the Fleet Admiral.
• King Riku contacted Elizabello II and Cobra, and they began secretly uniting nations to call for the abolition of the Seven Warlords.
• Sabo and his companions learned that Burgess was following them and began making plans with Baldiva.
• Sabo told Dragon over a Den Den Mushi that Neji was still alive.

Dragon told the Revolutionary Army that Neji was alive but ordered them to keep it secret, and announced that they would move their headquarters to prepare for the Blackbeard Pirates. Sabo and the others set their trap while Burgess watched, unaware of their plans.

• Dragon ordered the Revolutionary Army to keep Neji’s survival secret and announced that they would relocate their headquarters.
• Dragon explained that the Marines might discover Baldiva and that the Mentor had advised moving to support their plan against the Blackbeard Pirates.
• The Revolutionary Army agreed to move after learning that the new headquarters could travel through the sky, and Dragon promised they would soon see Neji.
• Ivankov begged Dragon to stop Neji from asking him for more hormones, and Dragon said he would try to persuade him.
• Sabo, Koala, and the others prepared for the Blackbeard Pirates on the island while Burgess watched from beneath their ship and waited for his captain to arrive.

Neji and Izumi returned to the Sky Island he had built and activated it as a mobile Revolutionary Army base, setting its course for White Earth Island. He planned to restore Kuma’s consciousness with a backup of his memories, while the Revolutionary Army awaited his arrival.

• Neji and Izumi explored the Sky Island, whose beautiful cloud paths and structures concealed a fortress filled with weapons.
• Neji entered the control room, checked the island’s systems, and started it moving toward the Revolutionary Army’s temporary base near White Earth Island.
• Neji told Izumi he intended to repair Kuma and used his ability to travel with her to White Earth Island.
• The Revolutionary Army, including Dragon and Sabo, awaited Neji’s return as the damaged Kuma rested in standby mode.

Neji repaired Bartholomew Kuma and used copied memories to restore his consciousness, reuniting him with the Revolutionary Army. He then told Dragon he would handle Blackbeard and his captains while the Revolutionary Army dealt with their subordinates.

• Dragon and the Revolutionary Army confirmed that Neji had returned and brought him to Kuma, whom they had not dared to repair themselves.
• Neji repaired Kuma's damaged body, then inserted a USB drive to restore his memories and awaken his consciousness.
• Kuma rebooted, apologized to everyone, and searched for Mentor before Neji revealed himself.
• Ivankov, Sabo, Koala, Haku, and the others embraced Kuma as he returned to the Revolutionary Army.
• Dragon asked Neji how he planned to face the Blackbeard Pirates, and Neji said he would handle Blackbeard and his captains while the Revolutionary Army fought their subordinates.

Burgess welcomed Blackbeard and the full force of the Blackbeard Pirates to White Earth Island for a surprise attack on the Revolutionary Army. After the pirates landed and spread out across the island, Neji asked Dragon to leave Blackbeard to him.

• Burgess told Blackbeard that the Revolutionary Army had gathered at its headquarters and welcomed him to the harbor.
• Blackbeard rallied his captains and crew, promising them the spoils of destroying the Revolutionary Army.
• Burgess knocked out Revolutionary Army guards as the Blackbeard Pirates landed and came ashore.
• Shiryu turned invisible to attack, Lafitte flew ahead to gather information, and Devon and the other pirates split up to block the island's exits.
• The Revolutionary Army prepared for the attack, and Neji asked Dragon to let him fight Blackbeard.

Neji and the Revolutionary Army began defending their positions against the Blackbeard Pirates. On White Earth Island, Neji confronted Blackbeard, whose Devil Fruit powers failed to affect him, and left him furious and in pain.

• Neji created six Shadow Clones and sent them to handle the Revolutionary Army's other opponents while he and Izumi headed to White Earth Island.
• Blackbeard's crew reached the island, and Neji appeared before them after Blackbeard's quake-like punch cleared the dust.
• Blackbeard used Dark Water against Neji twice, but Neji remained unaffected and revealed his own power to attract Blackbeard.
• Neji blocked Blackbeard's quake punch with a Nen Barrier, pulled him close, and punched him hard enough to send him crashing into his men.
• Blackbeard's Dark-Dark Fruit absorbed the injury but left him suffering intense pain, and Neji claimed that his male Dark-Dark Fruit countered Blackbeard's female one.

Blackbeard unleashed his darkness against Neji and admitted he had wanted Wapol's Munch-Munch Fruit so he could steal other Devil Fruit powers. Neji revealed he knew the name Imu and vowed to keep Blackbeard there, while battles continued across the island.

• Blackbeard created a domain of darkness and tried to recruit Neji, who asked why he had attacked Drum Island.
• Blackbeard confessed he had pursued Wapol's Munch-Munch Fruit and acknowledged that Neji had uncovered its ability to take other users' powers.
• Blackbeard warned that the World Government would destroy the Revolutionary Army and reacted with suspicion when Neji mentioned Imu.
• Blackbeard attacked Neji with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, but his punch struck a smoke-like avatar rather than Neji's real body.
• A stone statue battled the giant battleship Wolf as Shiryu confronted Neji and attacked with his sword, but Neji's Truth-Seeking Orb blocked him and countered his invisibility.

Neji defeated Shiryu in a sword fight and offered him a place as an assassin if Neji defeated the Blackbeard Pirates. Meanwhile, Neji, Dragon, and Izumi watched the battles across White Earth Island, where Blackbeard faced Neji’s third Shadow Clone.

• Neji disarmed Shiryu and held him at swordpoint with his Truth-Seeking Orb blades.
• Shiryu recognized Neji’s swordsmanship and agreed to join him if Neji defeated the Blackbeard Pirates.
• Neji returned Raiu to Shiryu and said Shiryu would become his blade against the higher-ups.
• Neji watched the island battles from White Earth Island with Dragon and Izumi as Blackbeard faced a third Shadow Clone.
• Dragon praised Neji’s clones for giving the Revolutionary Army time to evacuate, and Neji said the battle would make the Blackbeard Pirates pay dearly.

Neji told Dragon that the Revolutionary Army would have to shape the world's future without his continued guidance, then watched the battle while his clone kept Blackbeard occupied. When Blackbeard threatened to destroy the island, Dragon gathered the Revolutionary Army and used furious winds to trap the pirates.

• Neji told Dragon to cripple Blackbeard's forces, drive them back, and publicize the Revolutionary Army's victory, while Dragon said the world's people would decide its future.
• Neji and Shiryu watched the battles from a rocky peak as Wolf fought the Justice Golem, Bartholomew Kuma battled, and Sabo developed his Flame-Flame Fruit abilities.
• Blackbeard grew furious after hours of fighting with Neji's clone and gathered darkness across the sky, threatening to destroy the island.
• Catarina ordered the pirates to retreat as the growing darkness signaled the island's destruction.
• Neji told Dragon to gather their people, and Dragon summoned fierce winds and tornadoes that trapped Blackbeard's forces on the island.

Neji and Dragon evacuated the Revolutionary Army from White Earth Island as Blackbeard unleashed the combined powers of his Devil Fruits. Neji’s lightning attacks broke through Blackbeard’s darkness and battered the pirates, but Blackbeard continued fighting.

• Dragon used his wind powers against Blackbeard, who dispersed the tornadoes with darkness and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
• Neji teleported the Revolutionary Army members away and then sent Dragon to safety.
• Blackbeard tore at the air, shaking the earth and sea across White Earth Island while Neji and Izumi held their ground.
• Neji launched the Spear of Nen into the darkness, then detonated it to blast open the sky with lightning and strike the pirates.
• Neji summoned a Golden Lightning Tiger and a White Dragon, which attacked Blackbeard and the pirates.
• Blackbeard countered the tiger with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and erupted with power again.

Neji fought Blackbeard on White Earth Island, unleashing a radiant attack that overwhelmed Blackbeard’s darkness and devastated the island. Neji disappeared after the battle, while the badly injured Blackbeard ordered his crew to retreat with intelligence he had obtained.

• Blackbeard attacked Neji with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and spread darkness across the ground, but Neji refused to ask him for information.
• Neji and the Golden Lightning Tiger unleashed Thousand Lotuses Blooming: Modified, and Blackbeard countered with Sky Shock.
• The lotus’s light destroyed most of the darkness and carved a passage through the island and sea.
• Neji vanished along with the fading Golden Lightning Tiger, leaving the survivors on White Earth Island to watch the sea collapse into a whirlpool.
• Catarina Devon, Bacchus Shot, and Abalo Pizarro considered splitting up before Blackbeard emerged from the black mist, badly injured.
• Blackbeard ordered his men to retreat, saying they had suffered heavy losses but gained valuable intelligence, and Burgess helped him prepare to leave.

Neji introduced the Revolutionary Army to its new headquarters, a mobile Island Cloud base ten thousand meters above the sea. He explained three ways to travel to and from it, leaving Dragon and the others impressed by how easily the base could evade the World Government.

• The Revolutionary Army members explored the Island Cloud, while Sabo and Koala bounced around on its springy surface.
• Neji arrived with Izumi and explained that the Island Cloud base was difficult to attack or find.
• Neji demonstrated balloons as a means of reaching the base and explained that the mobile Sky Island could travel to islands with an Eternal Pose.
• Neji showed the group aerial Wavers and airships powered by various Shells.
• Neji revealed that Kuma could use his Paw-Paw Fruit to send people to their destinations, and suggested Dragon could ride rising air currents to reach the base.