Chapter Summaries

Yaen began his vacation as news of his defeat of Pluton spread, while Garp, Vivi, and Dragon each responded to the report. Vivi prepared for the approaching Reverie, and Yaen asked Dragon about progress with Alabasta.

• Hancock linked her arm through Yaen’s as they headed toward the port with the Kuja warriors, drawing stunned attention from the crowd.
• A newspaper report naming Yaen the Hero of the Marines and announcing his victory over Pluton spread across the sea.
• Garp showed Luffy the report and demanded that he become a Marine hero, while Luffy insisted on becoming Pirate King.
• Vivi read the newspaper, found that it omitted Alabasta’s name, and began preparing for the approaching Reverie.
• Yaen called Dragon from the beach and asked about his progress with Alabasta, while Dragon struggled to answer amid noisy distractions.

Yaen enjoyed a vacation with the Kuja Pirates while discussing World Government surveillance and Alabasta’s protection with Dragon. He planned to delay returning to Marineford and help preserve Alabasta’s membership in the World Government at the next Reverie.

• Yaen supervised the Kuja Pirates’ beach vacation while keeping an eye on the warriors’ safety.
• Yaen told Dragon that the World Government had named him a Hero of the Marines despite their recent conflict, and Dragon explained that the government’s arrogance made it underestimate the chance Yaen would rebel.
• Yaen said he would delay returning to Marineford to avoid World Government surveillance.
• Yaen urged Dragon to help preserve Alabasta’s status as a World Government member nation at the next Reverie so the government would lack a public justification to attack it.
• Dragon agreed to persuade kings attending the Reverie, while Yaen judged that Alabasta could be protected by gaining enough opposition to the World Government’s plans.

Yaen relaxed with Robin on Gross Island and refused Sengoku’s demand that he return to Marineford with Hancock. He revealed that Hancock was carrying twins, leaving Sengoku thrilled and promising Robin that their children could grow up in the outside world.

• Robin joined Yaen at the beach and said she hoped their child would grow up outside rather than become a shut-in with her.
• Sengoku called Yaen and ordered him to return to Marineford with Hancock, but Yaen refused.
• Sengoku argued that Marineford could provide Hancock with excellent medical care and that Yaen’s presence there would deter pirates.
• Yaen explained that Hancock might be unhappy living among men at Marineford and said she was on a honeymoon in the North Sea.
• Yaen revealed that Hancock was pregnant with twins, and Sengoku became overjoyed.
• After ending the call, Yaen apologized to Robin and promised their children could live normally in the outside world.

Yaen took Hancock and Robin on a three-month trip around the North Sea before bringing them to a secure research institute as they neared childbirth. There, Law reported that his study of the bloodline factor had only begun and suggested a more direct way to enhance combat power.

• Yaen promised Robin she would one day live openly beneath the sunlight, then encouraged her to enjoy the amusement park with baby-5.
• Yaen spent three months touring the North Sea with Hancock and Robin, then secretly brought them to a sealed island as their delivery dates approached.
• Yaen met Trafalgar Law, who had prepared medical rooms and delivery arrangements for Hancock and Robin at the Biology Research Institute.
• Law told Yaen that he had discovered the bloodline factor but that decoding and modifying it could take decades or centuries.
• Law suggested bypassing the bloodline factor by directly modifying the human body, as pink, tentacle-like structures emerged from his back.

Yaen learned that Luo’s Evil Lust Concubine could forcibly modify bodies and accelerate evolutionary changes as Luo explained his research. The chapter ended with Luo demonstrating his ability by transforming a Great Wolf into a wolf-eared girl, shocking Yaen.

• Luo explained to Yaen his theory that living things could be modified by exploiting their capacity for evolution and adaptation.
• Luo described studying more than eighty races and argued that their differences came from adapting to their environments.
• Yaen explained that natural evolution usually took thousands of years, prompting Luo to realize his ability could forcibly bypass that process.
• Luo explained that his power let him modify bodies in a thoroughly “trampling manner” and brought in a Great Wolf to demonstrate.
• Luo used the pink substance and his Op-Op Fruit powers to transform the Great Wolf into a wolf-eared girl, leaving Yaen stunned.

Robin transformed a Great Wolf into a beast-eared woman and explained to Yaen that her human-like body was an unstable evolutionary result. Their discussion led Yaen to suspect that the Fur Tribe and other unusual races were created through ancient bloodline technology, leaving him considering a large-scale search for the Poneglyphs.

• Robin used the Evil Lust Concubine's ability and the Op-Op Fruit to evolve a Great Wolf into a beast-eared woman, but she retained wolf instincts that could endanger her survival.
• Robin told Yaen the transformed wolf had no human bloodline factors and that its human-like appearance was an evolutionary direction it had chosen.
• Robin explained that the Mink Tribe, Fish-Men, Merfolk, and Giants differed from natural evolution, and suspected their origins involved bloodline-factor modification.
• Yaen connected Robin's theory to BIGMOM's Human Gigantification experiment and feared that the World Government might possess ancient technology from the Void Century.
• Yaen reconsidered his plans and began weighing a large-scale search for the Poneglyphs so Robin could decipher them.

Yaen rejected Luo’s proposal to pursue human modification through the “Theory of Evolution” without permission, then reviewed Luo’s records and discovered a troubling name among his failed healing cases. The chapter ended with Yaen recognizing “Trafalgar Salo” on the list.

• Luo urged Yaen to prioritize human modification based on the “Theory of Evolution” over studying the lineage factor.
• Luo explained that he planned to use the “Op-Op Fruit” and the “Evil Lust Concubine” to test evolutionary variables and identify a perfect path.
• Yaen forbade all human experimentation until he gave permission.
• Yaen reviewed Luo’s Revolutionary Army records and found that eleven of his 90,770 healing attempts had failed.
• Yaen recognized “Trafalgar Salo” among the names of the failed cases.

Yaen learned that Luo’s drive to research Lead Poison Disease stemmed from failing to save his father, then waited anxiously as Hancock and Robin went into labor. Their newborns released overwhelming Reiatsu that knocked out the island’s inhabitants, and the two babies’ powers collided in the delivery room.

• Yaen realized that Luo’s father had been among the eleven patients Luo had failed to save and decided Corazon should guide him.
• Yaen monitored Luo’s research while waiting for Hancock and Robin to give birth, and kept watch over the island with Observation Haki.
• As labor began, Yaen sensed an ominous presence and ordered the laboratory to enter emergency status.
• After Robin’s baby was born, its Reiatsu exploded across the island, knocking out the medical staff and nearly staggering Luo.
• Yaen found that Robin’s newborn was the source of the Reiatsu, then heard Hancock’s baby cry and felt a second wave erupt.
• The two newborns released different Reiatsu that collided inside the delivery room.

Yaen discovered that the newborns’ powerful Conqueror’s Haki was making their fragile bodies collapse, and he used Illusion to stop them from crying and clashing. Though the immediate clash ended, their condition continued to worsen, leaving Yaen searching for a way to save them.

• Yaen realized the black-and-red lightning came from the babies’ Conqueror’s Haki clashing, while their own power was damaging their bodies.
• Yaen tried to stop the babies’ cries and Haki with his Reiatsu, but their distress only made the power grow stronger.
• Yaen used Illusion to make the newborns believe they were back in their mothers’ wombs, calming them and ending the clash.
• Yaen treated Hancock and Robin and explained that the babies’ inherited Reiatsu had awakened as Conqueror’s Haki too powerful for their bodies.
• Yaen reassured Hancock and Robin that he would find a way, though the babies’ bodies were still deteriorating.

Yaen and Luo searched for a way to save the newborns, whose powerful Conqueror's Haki was destroying their fragile bodies. The chapter ended with Yaen discovering that their special constitutions prevented them from becoming Devil Fruit Users, leaving their survival uncertain.

• Luo examined the newborns and warned that their bodies would suffer irreversible damage within an hour and collapse completely within three.
• Luo said his evolution method was unlikely to work and that saving them might require nearly complete mechanical modification, which Hancock rejected.
• Yaen suggested Zoan Devil Fruits might strengthen the newborns, and Luo brought two fruits from his laboratory.
• Yaen fed a small piece of one fruit to Robin's newborn, but the child's body continued collapsing; Yaen then confirmed his Zanpakutō could still absorb that fruit's energy.
• Yaen gave a piece of the second fruit to Hancock's newborn, but the result was the same, and he concluded that neither child could become a Devil Fruit User.

Yaen learned that modifying the twins’ Lineage Factor had only a ten percent chance of success, but he realized Hancock’s petrification could preserve them until he found a suitable sequence. He arranged for the twins to be petrified and vowed to wake them once he could save them.

• Yaen asked Luo whether there was another way to save the twins, and Luo proposed modifying their Lineage Factor.
• Luo explained that success was about ten percent with the Evil Lust Concubine’s and Op-Op Fruit’s abilities preserving their lives, while a stable modification without side effects had less than a one percent chance.
• Yaen learned that a suitable Lineage Factor sequence could let Luo preserve the twins’ lives, but Luo needed it within two hours.
• Yaen realized Hancock could use her Love-Love Fruit to petrify the twins and temporarily halt their bodily functions.
• Yaen restored the twins’ senses except for pain so they could see him, then Hancock petrified them as Yaen promised he would wake them again.

Yaen named the newborns Kong and Ying, then had Hancock petrify them to halt their bodies’ collapse. He left to find what they needed, while Vinsmoke Judge prepared his children for Germa 66’s journey to the Reverie.

• Yaen named the boy Kong and the girl Ying, hoping they would one day cross the sea of stars.
• As Kong and Ying’s bodies began to collapse, Yaen asked Hancock to use the Love-Love Fruit to petrify them and suspend their time.
• Yaen told Hancock and Robin to rest and protect the stone children, then sped away from the island to seek what they needed.
• A one-eyed pirate spotted Yaen’s trail in the sky, but it vanished before he could track it.
• Near the Red Line, Vinsmoke Judge told his children that Germa 66 would cross into the Grand Line and attend the Reverie at Mary Geoise.

Vinsmoke Judge prepared Reiju, Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji for the Reverie, urging them to gather intelligence and provoke wars to restore Germa 66’s fortunes. After learning that only a rear admiral would escort them, Judge took the assignment as an insult, and Niji offered to teach the marine a lesson.

• Vinsmoke Judge praised his four children as Germa 66’s masterpieces while they mocked Sanji, whom Judge had locked away.
• Judge instructed his children to observe etiquette at the Reverie, gather information about nations inclined toward war, and incite conflicts that could make Germa 66 profitable as mercenaries.
• Judge explained that Germa 66’s finances were nearing collapse because the North Sea had become unusually peaceful while he maintained high research and military spending.
• Rear Admiral Kuras called Judge to confirm the escort route and their arrival time, but Judge dismissed the marine’s assurances and hung up.
• Judge complained that the Navy had sent only a rear admiral to escort Germa 66, and Niji promised to find an excuse to teach him a lesson.

Yaen found Germa 66 crossing the Calm Belt and prepared to obtain its Lineage Factor sequence without endangering his Marine comrades. Just as he approached, he awakened Hyōrinmaru and unleashed its power against Germa 66’s defenses.

• Judge ordered Germa 66’s Giant Snails to begin crossing the Calm Belt along the Red Line.
• Yaen found the Vinsmoke Family and reasoned that their isolation in the Calm Belt would let him pursue the Lineage Factor without risking his Marine comrades.
• Yaen awakened Hyōrinmaru, released it, and flew toward Germa 66’s central Giant Snail.
• Germa 66’s soldiers spotted Yaen, withdrew the Giant Snails’ heads into their shells, and opened fire with a coordinated barrage.
• Yaen recognized the soldiers as Artificial Soldiers and struck back with Hyōrinmaru’s Ice Birds Pillars.

Yaen, using the code name Hyōrinmaru, attacked Germa 66 and confronted Judge and his children. He froze Niji and unleashed another wave of ice at Ichiji and Yonji, who countered with their suit-powered attacks.

• Yaen froze Germa 66's shell barrage and bullets with his ice abilities.
• Judge arrived with Reiju, Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji, recognized Yaen was not Aokiji, and heard him identify himself as a member of the Void Organization.
• Niji charged Yaen with Electric Shock Leg, but Hyōrinmaru's chain caught his ankle and froze him into an ice statue.
• Ichiji and Yonji charged Yaen, who sent an Ice Dragon Tail Spin toward them.
• Ichiji countered with Sparkle Double Whirlwind as he and Yonji prepared to meet the freezing current.

Yaen froze Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji in an instant, leaving Judge and Reiju stunned. He offered Judge a deal for Germa 66's Lineage Factor technology, but Judge immediately refused.

• Ichiji's flames failed against Yaen's cold current, and Yonji pulled him clear before hurling him toward Yaen.
• Yaen used Ice Dragon Tail Spin: Absolute Void to freeze Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji inside an iceberg.
• Judge and Reiju reacted with shock as Yaen stood atop the iceberg and confronted Judge.
• Yaen offered to fulfill one condition in exchange for all of Judge's Lineage Factor technology.
• Judge rejected the offer, insisting that the technology was essential to Germa 66 and his ambitions.

Yaen confronted Judge over Germa 66’s Bloodline Factor Technology, but Judge denied possessing it. Yaen demanded compensation for the failed deal and the damage he claimed Germa 66 had caused, leaving Judge to ask how many Belly he wanted.

• Judge rejected Yaen’s request for Bloodline Factor Technology and insisted Germa 66 did not possess it.
• Yaen froze the surroundings and told Judge to call for the nearby Marines if he wanted help.
• Yaen proposed compensation after the deal failed, but Judge initially said Germa 66 did not need to compensate him.
• Yaen argued that Germa 66 owed him for bombarding him, having his sons attack him, and wasting his time.
• Judge accused Yaen of invading and damaging Germa 66, but Yaen called the destruction self-defense.
• Judge, unwilling to seek help from the World Government and aware Germa 66 could not defeat Yaen, asked how many Belly he wanted.

Yaen pressured Judge to hand over Germa 66’s Bloodline Factor Technology, while secretly ensuring the Marines would not respond to the kingdom’s distress call. The chapter revealed that Revolution Army members had infiltrated sensitive Marine positions, leaving Germa 66 isolated as negotiations continued.

• Yaen demanded Germa 66’s Bloodline Factor Technology as compensation and warned Judge that Germa 66 would be destroyed if he refused.
• Judge claimed Germa 66’s distress signal would bring the Marines, but Yaen said they would not come without his approval.
• A Marine Colonel aboard Rear Admiral Kuras’s warship ignored Germa 66’s ringing distress call while reading a book.
• Rear Admiral Rant dismissed Germa 66’s distress report as false and persuaded a lieutenant to accept his explanation.
• Rear Admiral Rant admitted he expected to evade responsibility by claiming drunkenness, while considering his deputy as a possible successor.
• The chapter explained that Revolution Army members had spent years entering sensitive Marine positions and that many Marines shared the Revolution Army’s ideals.

Yaen transformed with Bankai Crimson Lotus Hyōrinmaru and overwhelmed Germa 66’s soldiers with freezing cold after Judge refused to compensate him. As Germa’s weapons failed against Yaen’s ice barrier, the Giant Snail beneath Yaen and Judge fell from the Red Line toward the Calm Belt.

• Judge refused to compensate Yaen and surrounded him with Germa 66 soldiers and weapons, threatening to demonstrate Germa’s military power.
• Yaen activated Bankai Crimson Lotus Hyōrinmaru, freezing the area and revealing his ice-dragon form as snow began falling over the Calm Belt.
• Yaen froze the advancing Germa soldiers into human-shaped statues after noting that they obeyed orders without emotion or hesitation.
• Judge ordered the other Giant Snails to fire, but Yaen’s Prism Ice Array withstood Germa 66’s cannons and electromagnetic weapons.
• The Giant Snail carrying Yaen and Judge shook violently, broke away from the Red Line, and began falling toward the Calm Belt.

Yaen’s attack froze the Giant Snail beneath him, sending it crashing into the Calm Belt and drawing out countless Super Giant Sea Kings. After Yaen froze one of the creatures to save Judge, the rest roared in fury, and Rear Admiral Kuras’s warship sensed the sea trembling.

• Yaen’s extreme cold froze the Giant Snail’s flesh, and it plunged from the Red Line into the Calm Belt.
• Judge escaped the wreckage but abandoned Reiju and the three Ichiji brothers as Super Giant Sea Kings rose around them.
• A Super Giant Sea King tried to strike Judge, but Yaen froze and shattered it with ice.
• Yaen confronted Judge about compensating him, while the other Super Giant Sea Kings roared in anger.
• Rear Admiral Kuras’s warship near the Calm Belt felt the sea begin to tremble.