Chapter Summaries

After Hawkins’s divination made Yaen reconsider the Red Line, Yaen realized the World Government’s true foundation was the network of more than two hundred World Member Nations, not merely Holy Land Mary Geoise and the Celestial Dragons. He left the hospital room with a newly recognized obstacle: the twisted cycle linking the World Government, its member nations, and the piracy that sustained their wealth.

• Yaen asked Xiao Jin to contact Dragon and have the organization gather information about the Red Line.
• Yaen considered eliminating the future Supernova early but weighed the consequences for the Revolutionary Army and the World Government’s stability.
• Remembering Hawkins’s words about “The World” and “The Tower,” Yaen recognized that he had overlooked the World Member Nations as the World Government’s true foundation.
• Yaen realized that the World Government protected its member nations, which in turn plundered nonmember lands, while pirate wealth ultimately flowed into their more stable trade networks.

Yaen realized that the World Government relied on the World Member Nations as a powerful class of beneficiaries, and that the Revolutionary Army’s Island Commune Plan could spark a catastrophic war against them. Overwhelmed by the lives such a conflict might cost and doubts about whether victory would merely create a new tyranny, he fell into prolonged confusion.

• Yaen concluded that the World Government had secured eight hundred years of rule by using the World Member Nations as allies and the Marines to restrain pirates.
• Yaen recognized that the Island Commune Plan would create a new class opposed to the World Member Nations, making the Revolutionary Army’s struggle a war across the entire sea.
• Yaen feared that a population of more than twenty billion could lose half its people in the conflict and questioned whether the Revolutionary Army’s success would be worth the cost.
• Yaen rejected the idea of destroying Holy Land Mary Geoise with pure military force, fearing that the Revolutionary Army would become a new World Government and its leaders could become new Celestial Dragons.
• Yaen remained dazed for days or longer, even after the CP0 squad arrived and Vice Admiral Hope visited him.

Yaen struggled with the possibility that the Revolutionary Army’s war against the World Government would cause a disastrous conflict between the World Member Nations and the small and medium-sized islands. After rejecting the Hanged Man’s apparent guidance toward surrender, he resolved to find a way to defeat the World Government while preventing mass deaths, but his first schemes seemed unrealistic.

• Dragon noticed Yaen’s troubled state and told him that CP0 had joined the defenses of the G-9 Branch and was testing Yamato’s attitude toward the World Government.
• Yaen told Dragon he needed to stop and reflect, then left him worried about the Revolutionary Army’s chief of staff.
• Yaen went to a coastline in Wano Country while maintaining the illusion that he was gravely injured and unconscious at the G-9 Branch.
• Yaen studied the Hanged Man card and rejected the idea that he should surrender to the World Government to prevent war.
• Yaen resolved to defeat the World Government while saving the sea’s people, but dismissed plans to turn the World Member Nations against the government or collapse their system from within.

Yaen decided that Hueco Mundo should become the enemy blamed for the sea’s hatred, allowing the Revolutionary Army to unite the islands and create a New Era. He planned to strengthen the organization and considered how to accelerate the awakening of more Void Soul Reaper Blades.

• Yaen realized the Revolutionary Army could redirect class conflict by making Hueco Mundo stand against the World Member Nations.
• Yaen chose to make himself the Hanged Man and bear the world’s hatred as Hueco Mundo’s leader.
• Yaen decided Hueco Mundo needed stronger forces and reviewed its members, including baby-5, Robin, Corazon, Luo, Hancock, Perona, Fisher Tiger, and Enel.
• Yaen calculated that the next batch of Artificial Devil Fruits could help awaken the eighth Void Soul Reaper Blade.
• Yaen worried that producing enough Artificial Devil Fruits for later blades would require more SAD and Tontatta Tribe cultivators, and wondered whether their birth rate could be increased.

Yaen visited Corazon in Baimu to discuss increasing the Tontatta Tribe’s birth rate and doubling Artificial Devil Fruit production. Corazon dismissed the goal as impossible to achieve within six months.

• Yaen traveled to Baimu to speak with Corazon about Tontatta population growth and Artificial Devil Fruit production.
• Monet pretended to sprain her ankle and fell into Corazon’s arms, but Yaen suddenly appeared in the office.
• Corazon stopped Monet from sounding the alarm, told her Yaen was not an enemy, and sealed the office with his Silent-Silent Fruit.
• Yaen teased Corazon about his private life, and Corazon complained about the heavy workload of managing Dressrosa, the New World organization, and Baimu’s refugees.
• Yaen asked Corazon to double Artificial Devil Fruit production within six months, and Corazon said the Tontatta Tribe could not increase its population that quickly.

Yaen revealed to Corazon that he had absorbed the Artificial Devil Fruits as sacrifices to gain power from the supposed Lord of the Void, who was actually Yaen himself. Corazon explained that he had suspected the truth for years, and Yaen left him with assurances that the arrangement was not dangerous.

• Corazon said he would try to obtain the requested Artificial Devil Fruits within a year and questioned why Yaen needed so many.
• Yaen led Corazon to the hidden chamber and sliced through more than two thousand Artificial Devil Fruits, absorbing them into a white orb of light.
• Yaen admitted that the Lord of the Void had never existed and that he had used Devil Fruits to gain power.
• Corazon revealed that he had long suspected Yaen was sacrificing the collected Devil Fruits and using the resulting power to build the Void organization.
• Corazon traced his suspicions to Namakura Island's Black Magic legend, and Yaen went along with his explanation of how the sacrifices worked.
• Corazon worried that the Lord of the Void might influence Yaen, but Yaen reassured him and said Devil Fruits were more dangerous than Black Magic.

Yaen told Corazon that Devil Fruits likely contained collective consciousnesses that influenced their users, while considering the combat potential of the awakened Leopard King blades. A World Government ship carrying Rob Lucci and the new CP9 Members sailed to meet Yaen, whom Lucci revered and longed to see again.

• Yaen told Corazon what he had learned from Red-Haired Shanks about the influence of Devil Fruits' collective consciousnesses, and let Corazon keep his own interpretation of Yaen's Black Magic.
• Yaen connected the body-strengthening Leopard King blades to Rob Lucci and worried that Lucci's growing strength could draw CP0's attention.
• Aboard a World Government ship, Kalifa and Kaku questioned Lucci about why the CP9 Members had left Water 7 together.
• Lucci revealed that their mission was to escort a World Government psychologist to meet Teffimoe Yaen, the hero who had saved the sea during the Alabasta incident.
• Lucci warned the CP9 Members that they must risk their lives to protect the meeting with Yaen, threatening to kill anyone who interfered.

Yaen tried to solve the Revolutionary Army’s urgent problem with the Big Mom Pirates by proposing that Corazon marry into the Charlotte Family and use the opportunity to find Kaido’s Vivre Card. Corazon rejected the plan, saying he could not endure marrying Charlotte Linlin.

• Yaen learned that Lucci had led CP9 out of Water 7 and ordered comrades to track the group and investigate its latest orders.
• Yaen considered how to stop Charlotte Linlin from finding Kaido while preserving the Revolutionary Army’s plans for Wano Country and the Island Commune Plan.
• Yaen realized that Corazon’s Donquixote bloodline might attract the Charlotte Family and devised a marriage alliance to get close to Linlin and locate Kaido’s Vivre Card.
• Yaen entered Corazon’s Mental Space and proposed the plan, but Corazon rejected it, saying he would die if he had to go through with it.

Yaen tried to persuade Corazon to marry Charlotte Linlin so they could take her Vivre Card and stop her attacks on Luo’s laboratory. As the Revolutionary Army targeted the Donquixote Family and the G-9 Branch remained under CP0’s protection, the Big Mom Pirates announced that Charlotte Linlin would marry Donquixote Rosinante.

• Yaen told Corazon that marrying Charlotte Linlin was the only feasible way to obtain her Vivre Card and protect Luo’s research.
• Yaen asked Corazon whether he trusted him, but the chapter left his proposed plan unexplained.
• With Yaen unconscious, CP0 and Major General Hope managed the G-9 Branch and decided not to help the Donquixote Family without orders.
• The Revolutionary Army seized the Donquixote Family’s resources and occupied its territory in the Baimu region.
• The Big Mom Pirates announced that Charlotte Linlin would marry Donquixote Rosinante.

As the Big Mom Pirates prepared for Charlotte Linlin’s wedding to Corazon, the Navy and Gorosei debated whether to interfere. Corazon approached the Whole Cake Sea nervously, hoping Yaen’s plan would not fail him.

• Sengoku and the Gorosei reacted with shock to Corazon’s planned marriage to Charlotte Linlin and decided that intervening risked provoking the Big Mom Pirates and the Revolutionary Army.
• Charlotte Linlin eagerly anticipated the wedding and ordered her forces to erase anything that might obstruct it.
• Charlotte Linlin sent Charlotte Katakuri and Charlotte Smoothie to receive Corazon on Whole Cake Island.
• Perospero’s officers discussed Charlotte Linlin’s unstable excitement, the wedding cake preparations, and Cracker and Snack’s disappearance; Perospero chose to delay telling Charlotte Linlin about them.
• Perospero told the officers that Corazon would soon arrive in the Whole Cake Sea and ordered them to prepare to receive him.
• Corazon sighted the Whole Cake Sea and nervously hoped Yaen would not let him down.

Yaen arranged for Bon Clay to impersonate him at the G-9 Branch so he could leave without arousing suspicion. Bon Clay learned how to copy Yaen’s appearance and mannerisms, and the chapter ended with him promising not to reveal the deception.

• Yaen asked Enel to use a Vivre Card to search for Kong and Ying, then spoke with a nurse who entered his ward.
• Yaen identified the nurse as Bon Clay, who revealed his true appearance and confirmed that he was the Revolutionary Army’s contact for the mission.
• Yaen instructed Bon Clay to take his place at the G-9 Branch while he left, explaining that several people there could still recognize when he acted out of character.
• Bon Clay copied Yaen’s appearance, and Yaen coached him on mimicking his temperament, habits, and behavior toward the branch’s personnel.
• Bon Clay promised to maintain Yaen’s identity without revealing any flaws.

Corazon arrived at Whole Cake Island to marry Charlotte Linlin, while the Charlotte Family watched him closely. Yaen remained away, joking that Linlin’s fertility might make Corazon a father and considering delaying his arrival.

• Corazon arrived at Whole Cake Island, where Katakuri and Perospero greeted him and the Charlotte siblings whispered about his chances of surviving the marriage.
• Perospero explained that Linlin was preparing for the wedding and hosted Corazon at a banquet before arranging a luxurious room for him.
• Perospero discussed Corazon’s motives with Mont Dor and ordered Brûlée to monitor him through the Mirror World.
• Corazon stayed quietly in his room while noticing the spies watching him and worrying that Yaen’s plan had trapped him.
• Yaen relaxed with wine aboard Little Gold’s Castle and considered delaying his trip so Corazon might have children with Linlin.

Yaen raced toward the Whole Cake Sea while Charlotte Linlin abruptly moved Corazon’s wedding forward, driven by a special soul aura she sensed. Corazon was forced into wedding preparations, and festivities began across Whole Cake Island.

• Yaen traveled at full speed toward the Whole Cake Sea on Xiao Jin, whose lifespan and physical limits had been extended by Luo’s procedure.
• Charlotte Linlin rampaged across Whole Cake Island while impatiently demanding her wedding cake, killing more than a hundred Big Mom Pirates and destroying dozens of houses.
• Perospero told Charlotte Linlin that Corazon had arrived, and she ordered the wedding to take place that night after sensing a special soul aura.
• Perospero informed Corazon that the wedding had been moved forward, and Corazon’s protests failed to stop the maids from dressing him for the ceremony.
• Perospero coordinated the preparations as wedding music and festivities spread across Whole Cake Island.

Yaen learned that Charlotte Linlin had moved her wedding to Corazon forward, leaving him unable to reach Whole Cake Island in time. At the wedding, Linlin became fixated on Corazon’s soul scent, and her Gluttony Disorder seemed close to erupting.

• Yaen panicked after hearing that Charlotte Linlin had advanced the wedding by three days, but he knew Xiao Jin could not arrive in time.
• Maids removed Corazon’s clown makeup, dressed him in a white suit, and carried him to the wedding plaza in a small carriage.
• Corazon searched for Yaen at the plaza but saw only powerful members of the Big Mom Pirates and realized escape would be difficult.
• Charlotte Linlin crashed onto the plaza in her wedding dress and excitedly approached Corazon.
• Charlotte Linlin smelled Corazon’s soul and declared it wonderful, alarming the Charlotte Family as signs of her Gluttony Disorder appeared.

As Charlotte Linlin began her wedding ceremony with Corazon on Whole Cake Island, Yaen revealed he was still a thousand kilometers away and planned to stop the wedding with a long-range attack. He launched Bankai: Suzumebachi toward the wedding cake, leaving its impact unknown.

• Perospero brought out the wedding cake and directed the Homies to begin the ceremony as Charlotte Linlin dragged Corazon to the plaza.
• Corazon despaired over the wedding and contacted Yaen, who admitted he was still about a thousand kilometers from Whole Cake Island.
• Yaen used his connection with Corazon and Observation Haki to locate him and lock onto the wedding cake.
• Yaen fired Bankai: Suzumebachi, launching a golden missile toward Whole Cake Island.

Corazon faced a forced wedding to Charlotte Linlin on Whole Cake Island, but his panic and sudden vomiting were interrupted when Charlotte Katakuri foresaw a meteor-like attack. Katakuri tried to stop Yaen’s Bankai Thunder Whip, which exploded above the wedding plaza and engulfed the island in a shock wave.

• Corazon realized he could not escape Whole Cake Island as Charlotte Linlin brought him before the priest to exchange vows.
• Corazon tried to accept marrying Charlotte Linlin, then vomited and left the Big Mom Pirates confused.
• Charlotte Katakuri saw a vision of a golden meteor striking the wedding plaza and warned the gathered officers.
• Katakuri unleashed Mochi Thrust to intercept Yaen’s Bankai Thunder Whip, but the attack exploded overhead.
• A huge shock wave swept across Whole Cake Island as a small mushroom cloud rose over the Whole Cake Sea.

A mysterious attack detonated above Whole Cake Island, triggering Charlotte Linlin’s Gluttony Disorder and throwing the wedding plaza into chaos. While the Big Mom Pirates tried to contain her, Corazon headed for Charlotte Linlin’s residence to search for Kaido’s Vivre Card and the red Poneglyph.

• Charlotte Katakuri assessed the explosion’s damage and realized an unseen attacker had launched the golden streak.
• Charlotte Linlin went berserk after discovering her wedding cake was ruined, and her officers scrambled to find a replacement while evacuating people.
• Corazon privately confronted Yaen about the dangerous attack, while Yaen explained that detonating Bankai: Hornet Thunder Whip had drained him.
• Corazon became fascinated by the mushroom cloud and considered its explosion a work of art.
• Yaen urged Corazon to use the chaos to find Kaido’s Vivre Card and the red Poneglyph, and Corazon slipped toward Charlotte Linlin’s residence.

Corazon infiltrated Whole Cake Island to search for Kaido’s Vivre Card and the red Poneglyph, but after finding nothing in Charlotte Linlin’s room, he broke into the Big Mom Pirates’ Treasure Room. Charlotte Cont recognized Corazon as Donquixote Rosinante, leaving him facing the room’s guards.

• Corazon used the Silent-Silent Fruit to evade detection and entered Charlotte Linlin’s room while the Big Mom Pirates dealt with her rampage.
• Charlotte Brulee monitored Corazon from the Mirror World but waited to alert her brothers.
• After searching Charlotte Linlin’s room for hours without finding anything, Corazon informed Yaen and headed to the Treasure Room.
• Corazon enclosed the Treasure Room in a soundproof barrier and smashed its Seastone door with his scythe.
• Charlotte Cont confronted Corazon and recognized him as Donquixote Rosinante, while Corazon announced that he had come to take items important to the future of the sea.

Corazon entered Charlotte Linlin’s Treasure Room to seize its Road Poneglyph and fought the guards who tried to stop him. He wiped out the room’s defenders, leaving a terrified pirate alone as Charlotte Brûlée failed to call for help from the Mirror World.

• Corazon found three Poneglyphs in the Treasure Room, including the Road Poneglyph he had come to retrieve.
• Charlotte Cont confronted Corazon and ordered him to leave, but Corazon declared that Charlotte Linlin’s destruction of the wedding entitled him to the treasure as compensation.
• Charlotte Cont attacked Corazon, who struck him down and then transformed into his four-armed form to attack the surrounding Homies soldiers and officers.
• Corazon slaughtered the Treasure Room’s guards behind a Soundproof Barrier while Charlotte Brûlée watched from the Mirror World.
• Charlotte Brûlée and a surviving pirate tried to contact the others, but their Den Den Mushi calls failed as Corazon approached the pirate.

Charlotte Katakuri rushed to the Treasure Room after Brulee reported Corazon’s break-in and confronted him after he finished sending the Poneglyph records to Robin. Katakuri’s awakened Mochi Mochi Fruit overwhelmed the enclosed room, leaving Corazon trapped beneath a barrage of mochi.

• Brulee contacted Katakuri and told him that Corazon had defeated Comte and broken into the Treasure Room.
• Katakuri told Brulee to hide, then left the battle restraining Charlotte Linlin to confront Corazon.
• Corazon finished transmitting the writing on the three Poneglyphs to Robin and realized Katakuri had arrived.
• Corazon used the Silent-Silent Fruit to bypass Katakuri’s Observation Haki and attack, but Katakuri blocked him with Armament Haki.
• Katakuri awakened his Mochi Mochi Fruit and transformed much of the Treasure Room into mochi.
• Katakuri’s mochi masses crashed down around Corazon, apparently trapping him with no room to escape.