Ch. 281The Grand Wedding

Yaen was forced to marry Hancock in a grand ceremony on Amazon Lily, where her genuine happiness made him realize how deeply he might hurt her. After they entered the bridal chamber, they found Robin waiting inside.

  • Sengoku refused Yaen’s pleas to cancel the marriage, while Garp kept watch over him.
  • Hancock welcomed Yaen to Amazon Lily, and a procession escorted him through the island to the Imperial Palace.
  • Yaen saw Hancock’s happiness and felt guilty, but he apologized and continued with the wedding rather than escape.
  • Hancock said she was happy to marry Yaen and took part in the ceremonies wholeheartedly.
  • After the wedding, Yaen and Hancock entered the bridal chamber and found Robin sitting in a chair with a book.

Ch. 282Cheers...

At Hancock and Yaen’s wedding banquet on Amazon Lily Island, Garp kept pushing wine on Yaen while Robin remained in the bridal chamber. The celebration lasted until night, ending with Yaen passed out and Garp still trying to toast him.

  • Hancock changed into a cheongsam, linked arms with Yaen, and left the room while Robin stayed behind.
  • Marigold opened the banquet in the Imperial Palace square, where Amazon Lily Island citizens and warriors celebrated Hancock and Yaen’s marriage.
  • Garp replaced Yaen’s small bowl with a huge one and forced him to drink, claiming each round was on behalf of Navy officers and family members.
  • As the banquet continued late into the night, Garp kept drinking with Yaen until Yaen passed out and fell asleep on the ground.

Ch. 283Chapter 283

After the banquet, a drunken Yaen ended up in bed with Hancock and Robin, though he remembered little of the night. He woke the next morning with both women beside him and realized something had happened.

  • Sandersonia escorted the drunk Garp back to his warship while Marigold told Hancock the banquet was over.
  • Hancock found the passed-out Yaen and brought him to a room, where she and Yaen collapsed on the floor.
  • Robin checked that the room was private, put Yaen in bed, and tended to him while lamenting that he might abandon her.
  • Yaen mistook Robin's crying for Hancock's and promised a grand wedding, prompting Robin to embrace him.
  • Hancock woke and crawled toward Yaen as Robin and Yaen grew close beside her.
  • Yaen woke the next morning with Hancock and Robin pinning down his arms and realized what had happened.

Ch. 284It Was Great Not to Get Chopped to Pieces

Yaen woke to find Hancock and Robin beside him after Garp had gotten him drunk, and he promised to take responsibility for what had happened. A month later, both women were pregnant, leaving Yaen wondering whether he could protect their children in the chaotic seas.

  • Garp knocked on Yaen's door to check whether he had fulfilled his mission, while Hancock and Robin woke beside Yaen and realized what had happened.
  • Yaen confronted Garp for getting him drunk, and Garp left after telling him he would return in a few days.
  • Hancock and Robin argued over their place in Yaen's life until Yaen said he would not choose between them and promised to take responsibility.
  • Hancock and Robin both told Yaen they believed in him and would stand by him.
  • A month later, Garp departed, and Yaen learned that both Hancock and Robin were pregnant.
  • Yaen worried that he might not be able to protect his children in the dangerous seas.

Ch. 285Connection with the Era

Yaen grappled with the sudden responsibility of becoming a father and realized his children tied him more deeply to this era. As Hancock and Robin’s pregnancies progressed, he strengthened Amazon Lily’s defenses and left the island with Xiao Jin.

  • Yaen feared that his children might face the dangers Hancock and Robin had endured, and worried he could not protect them from the Celestial Dragons.
  • Hancock comforted Yaen and agreed to become a mother, and Yaen accepted his connection to the child she carried.
  • Yaen found Robin working on Revolutionary Army reports and offered to take over her duties so she could rest while pregnant.
  • Over the following months, Yaen continued training and planning as Hancock and Robin’s stomachs grew.
  • Yaen secretly transferred Perona to Amazon Lily Island to bolster its defenses, then left the island with Xiao Jin.

Ch. 286For the Next Generation

Yaen attended a Revolutionary Army meeting and urged its leaders to accelerate their work toward building an ideal New Era for the next generation. After the meeting, he explained to Dragon why the organization needed strict discipline.

  • Yaen ended Fleet Admiral Sengoku's weekly call about Hancock and concealed that he had left Amazon Lily Island to earn money for baby formula.
  • Yaen joined Dragon and the Revolutionary Army leaders, then criticized the slow progress of their first Five-Year Plan and urged them to prepare to seize future opportunities.
  • Yaen reviewed the organization's progress across the Six Major Regions, noting strong gains in the North Sea but disappointing results elsewhere, especially the second half of the Grand Line.
  • After the leaders left the meeting, Dragon asked whether Yaen had been too strict, and Yaen argued that discipline was essential because the Revolutionary Army's mistakes could cost many lives.

Ch. 287Planning Demon Valley Town

Yaen and Dragon planned to turn Demon Valley Town into a hidden Revolutionary Army base and pirate-hunting center. They entered a tavern to gather information about when the Upstream Current would erupt next.

  • Yaen told Dragon that the Revolutionary Army needed regional cores and proposed using a lawless pirate gathering place to conceal one.
  • Yaen and Dragon traveled to Demon Valley Town on Jaya Island with Ivankov and Bartholomew Kuma, whose presence deterred the pirates.
  • Yaen proposed secretly clearing out pirates and establishing a pirate-hunting center that could later operate under the guise of bounty hunters.
  • Yaen and Dragon surveyed Demon Valley Town and discussed how to transform it into a base for the organization.
  • Dragon suggested entering a tavern to ask about the next Upstream Current, and Yaen reluctantly went inside with him.

Ch. 288The Tragedy Caused by Juice

Yaen, Dragon, and Kuma visited a tavern in Demon Valley Town, where Yaen asked about the next Skyward Sea Current eruption. After pirates mocked and provoked them, Kuma subdued one while Yaen left with his companions.

  • Kute tried to trip Yaen, and Ivankov broke his leg before carrying him outside.
  • Dragon, Yaen, and Kuma sat at the bar, where Yaen ordered juice and the others ordered liquor.
  • Yaen paid the tavern owner one hundred thousand Belly and learned that the Skyward Sea Current would erupt five days later, five nautical miles northwest.
  • The tavern owner warned Yaen that the Dough Pirates had a combined bounty of fifty million Belly, and Yaen said his group was not good either.
  • A drunken pirate deliberately spilled liquor into Yaen's juice, so Kuma slammed him into the floor.
  • Yaen placed the contaminated juice beside the injured pirate and left the tavern with Dragon and Kuma.

Ch. 289Sky Island

After Ivankov wiped out the Dough Pirates, Yaen and the others waited for the Skyward Sea Current to erupt so they could locate the Sky Island. Yaen and Dragon reached the island, but two sudden bolts of lightning struck them as they explored.

  • Dragon left the tavern with Yaen and the others, while the pirates discovered that Ivankov had defeated the Dough Pirates and their captain.
  • Yaen teased Ivankov about turning Kute into a woman, then returned to his room to continue refining his plans.
  • Five days later, Yaen explained that the Skyward Sea Current would help them locate the Sky Island, not carry them there.
  • Yaen and Dragon flew through the clouds to the Sky Island while Ivankov returned to Jaya Island and Kuma waited for their confirmation.
  • Yaen and Dragon explored the island's clouds and strange surroundings until two unexpected bolts of lightning struck them.

Ch. 290Life Return Gel Hand

Yaen and Dragon flew to Sky Island to meet its ruler, Enel, after surviving a lightning attack and discussing Yaen’s plans for using Life Return. Enel ordered the Four Priests to test them, while Yaen and Dragon arrived at Angel Island and prepared to negotiate.

  • Lightning struck Yaen and Dragon, leaving Dragon with an afro while Yaen claimed his standard-issue cloak had protected him; Dragon restored his hair with Life Return, and Yaen laughed.
  • Dragon praised Yaen’s Life Return Gel Hand, prompting Yaen to consider using Life Return to prepare for future intimacy with Dragon.
  • Yaen and Dragon recognized that the lightning came from someone on Sky Island, and Enel ordered the Four Priests to give the two Blue Sea People the Trial of God.
  • Yaen and Dragon reached Angel Island, where Dragon struggled to breathe in the thin air, and Kuma arrived with more than a hundred Revolutionary Army personnel and technical workers.
  • Yaen asked Kuma to oversee the survey and contact with the residents, then convinced Dragon to give him any valuable spoils from Sky Island’s ruler as a wedding gift and savings for the baby’s formula.

Ch. 291God · Enel

Enel attacked Yaen and Dragon, but Yaen blocked his lightning and answered with a powerful lightning strike of his own that damaged the vine supporting Enel’s temple. Enel confronted them, demanding to know whether Yaen’s power came from the Lord of the Void.

  • Enel overheard Yaen and Dragon discussing their spoils and launched a pillar of lightning at them, declaring that they would die beneath God's judgment.
  • Yaen used Binding Path #81: Sky Sever to block Enel’s lightning, then fired Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō toward the Holy Domain.
  • The Four Priests watched Yaen’s lightning pierce the base of the enormous vine supporting the temple, leaving them shocked that someone else could control lightning.
  • Dragon asked Yaen how he could use lightning when he was known as a Cherry Blossom Fruit user, and Yaen pointed to his mask and said it was the power of the Void Organization.
  • Enel emerged before Yaen and Dragon, asked whether the Lord of the Void had granted Yaen’s power, and declared himself God.

Ch. 292A Close-Combat Mage Who Manipulated the Violent Winds

Yaen and Dragon confronted Enel, who planned to conquer the Blue Sea after learning the Celestial Dragons were weak. Dragon attacked Enel with a wind-driven punch, revealing that Enel’s Logia body could still be struck.

  • Dragon asked whether Enel was a Celestial Dragon, and Yaen explained that the Celestial Dragons were called gods in the Blue Sea.
  • Enel learned that the Celestial Dragons were weak and announced that he would plan to bring the Blue Sea under his rule.
  • Yaen gave up on recruiting Enel and moved behind Dragon after Enel demanded to know how Yaen wielded thunder.
  • Dragon decided to fight Enel, tore off his damaged cloak, and unleashed violent winds.
  • Dragon closed in on Enel and punched him through more than a dozen trees, leaving both Dragon and Yaen surprised that the blow had landed.

Ch. 293I Am... a God

Enel revived himself with lightning after Dragon’s punch and fought back with powerful attacks, but Dragon continued to overwhelm him. As Yaen gathered gold from the Golden City for the Revolutionary Army and his children’s future, Enel declared that he would show Dragon a god’s true might.

  • Dragon struck Enel with a wind-powered punch, leaving Enel’s heartbeat nearly stopped.
  • Enel revived his heart with lightning and attacked Dragon with a Thunder Bird and a Thunder Beast.
  • Yaen sent Xiao Jin to gather gold from the Golden City, intending to keep some and leave the rest as funding for the Revolutionary Army.
  • Dragon battered Enel with wind and Haki while Enel used lightning and rapid movement to evade him.
  • Enel, furious at being driven back, promised Dragon that he would witness a god’s true might.

Ch. 294Despair of the Heavenly Gold

As Enel unleashed a massive storm over the Holy Domain, Kuma tried to calm the panicking residents of Angel Island and explain that the Revolutionary Army had come to overthrow their so-called God. Remembering Yaen’s faith that humans could challenge even true gods, Kuma promised to protect the islanders while the battle unfolded.

  • Enel unleashed his 200 Million Volts · God of Thunder, darkening the sky and frightening the Sky Islanders.
  • Kuma read Yaen’s prepared message aloud, identifying the Revolutionary Army and urging the residents to remain calm.
  • A Sky Island resident challenged Kuma’s claim that humans could oppose God, and Kuma recalled asking Yaen whether humanity could escape the Celestial Dragons’ rule.
  • Kuma repeated Yaen’s words that humans could stand shoulder to shoulder with gods or even slay them.
  • Kuma demonstrated his power by destroying a street with a shock wave, then asked the residents to stay in their homes and promised to keep them safe.

Ch. 295One Finger

Enel transformed into Thunder God Form and fought Dragon in a destructive clash that threatened Holy Domain and its gold. Yaen signaled Dragon to take the battle into the sky, but Dragon turned and led Enel’s pursuit straight toward him.

  • Enel transformed into Thunder God Form and charged Dragon with a lightning-filled punch.
  • Dragon met Enel’s attacks with fierce winds, and the two exchanged blows that damaged the island.
  • Yaen worried that their fight would destroy Holy Domain and its remaining gold, so he signaled Dragon to move the battle elsewhere.
  • Dragon launched Enel into the air and drew him away from the ground, but then turned toward Yaen with Enel and two lightning dragons pursuing him.

Ch. 296Firmly Held Beliefs

Dragon left Yaen to fight Enel, whose conviction that he was a true god remained unshaken despite Yaen's arguments. Enel's lightning overwhelmed Yaen's Bankai, so Yaen released it and summoned a different power: flames.

  • Dragon dodged Enel's lightning dragons, then passed Yaen and left him to handle Enel.
  • Enel struck Yaen with his Thunder God Form, but Yaen's Black Rope Heavenly Punishment Myo-o severed its palm before it quickly regenerated.
  • Dragon recognized Yaen's strange ability and attributed it to the Lord of the Void, while Enel questioned whether Yaen had borrowed his powers from a god.
  • Yaen told Enel that he was a Devil Fruit user, not a god, but Enel insisted that his lightning was divine power and vowed to punish Yaen.
  • Enel's lightning spear clashed with the Myo-o's blade and sent a massive electrical shock through it, leaving Yaen numb and nearly blind.
  • Yaen released the Myo-o, blocked the spreading lightning with Sky Sever, and began the release incantation for Flowing Blade, Fire of the End.

Ch. 297The World Has No Gods

Yaen defeated Enel with Flowing Blade, Fire of the End, gaining a way to fight Logia users with overwhelming flames. With Enel charred and unable to move, Yaen told him that the world had no gods.

  • Yaen's flames dispersed Enel's lightning and cleaved his One Hundred Million Volts Dragon in two.
  • Yaen unleashed Scorching Hell, surrounding Enel with towering pillars of flame as the two powers shook the Holy Domain.
  • The Four Priests watched from afar and feared the battle would destroy the Holy Domain, while insisting Enel would win.
  • Yaen sheathed Flowing Blade, Fire of the End, and Enel's lightning vanished as he fell from the sky, charred and nearly unable to move.
  • Yaen reflected that his flames let him fight back against Logia users, then approached Enel and told him the world had no gods.

Ch. 298God's Mission?

Yaen defeated Enel, but Dragon’s explanation of Yaen’s power revived Enel’s belief in gods. Enel decided his defeat made him the Lord of the Void’s subordinate god and declared that finding the true God was his first mission.

  • Yaen told Enel that the world had no gods and that Enel had been defeated, leaving Enel despondent.
  • Dragon revealed that Yaen belonged to the Void Organization and had been granted the power to evaporate the sea by the Lord of the Void.
  • Enel forced himself to stand and argued that Yaen’s power proved a true God existed.
  • Yaen claimed the Lord of the Void was beyond the sea and said he did not know how to meet the God.
  • Enel concluded that his defeat made him a subordinate god and that the Lord of the Void had given him his first mission.

Ch. 299Do You Think I Have a Chance?

Enel believed Yaen was the Lord of the Void’s subordinate and collapsed after Dragon told him how to attract the Lord’s attention. Yaen left Enel in Dragon’s care, denied that his flames could evaporate the sea, and told Dragon to rely on ideas and the people rather than seek the Lord’s power.

  • Dragon told Enel that he needed to display extraordinary value and enjoyment to attract the Lord of the Void’s attention, and Enel promptly fainted.
  • Yaen suggested killing Enel, but Dragon argued that Enel’s strength made him worth reforming, so Yaen left him in Dragon’s care.
  • Dragon questioned Yaen about his flames, and Yaen claimed that their vast reach and extreme temperature were exaggerations meant to frighten Kaido and the World Government.
  • Dragon concluded that Yaen still had Admiral-level combat power despite his claims of weakness, then asked whether he had a chance of receiving power from the Lord of the Void.
  • Yaen said he did not know how to find the Lord of the Void and urged Dragon to trust in ideas and the strength of ordinary people.

Ch. 300Sky Island Plan

Yaen laid out plans to turn Sky Island into the Revolutionary Army’s base and revealed that he knew how to find Pluton and its blueprints. After Dragon hurried off to secure the island, Yaen confronted Enel’s Four Priests.

  • Yaen and Dragon agreed to stabilize Sky Island and make it a Revolutionary Army base, with the long-term goal of turning it into an aerial fortress.
  • Yaen told Dragon that he knew how to find Pluton and its blueprints, and said the weapon could provide knowledge and materials for modifying Sky Island.
  • Yaen explained that the Revolutionary Army needed to secure Sky Island and establish defenses before searching for Pluton, and Dragon left to handle the island’s affairs.
  • Yaen used Observation Haki to locate Enel’s Four Priests, who denied being connected to Enel when he confronted them.
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