Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Hiko used the standoff between Germa and the Blackbeard Pirates to negotiate with Reiju, offering Germa control over North Blue in exchange for joining his alliance and obeying him. Reiju considered his offer and the strength behind his recent achievements, while the confrontation with the Blackbeard fleet remained unresolved.

• Hiko told his forces to hold position as the Blackbeard Pirates and Germa army hesitated to provoke one another.
• Abaro Pizarro held back the Blackbeard fleet, wary of Dressrosa's strength and the newly arrived Germa army.
• Hiko approached Reiju and asked whether Germa had decided to ally with him or the Four Emperors.
• Reiju questioned why Hiko had rejected Germa before and why he had brought the Celestial Dragons to negotiate now.
• Hiko offered the Vinsmoke Family authority over North Blue if Germa joined his alliance and followed his orders.
• Hiko pointed to his recent victories and political maneuvering as proof of his strength, leaving Reiju impressed and intrigued.

Reiju’s negotiations with Uchiha Hiko failed, and Judge ordered the Germa Army to stay out of the coming battle. Mistaking Germa’s withdrawal for proof that Dressrosa was isolated, Abaro sent the Blackbeard Pirates charging toward Hiko’s forces.

• Reiju said the Vinsmoke Family wanted benefits Dressrosa could not currently provide, so Hiko ended the negotiations and rejected her offer of an alliance.
• Hiko told Reiju to leave and warned that Dressrosa would take on the Germa Army whether it watched from the sidelines or joined the Blackbeard Pirates.
• Reiju reported the failed talks to Judge, who ordered the Germa Army not to intervene and said they would wait and see how Hiko fared.
• Abaro saw the Germa fleet pull back and concluded that Germa and Dressrosa had failed to reach an agreement.
• Abaro dismissed his first mate’s concern about a possible trap and ordered the Blackbeard Pirates to charge at the Dressrosa Army.

Uchiha Hiko unleashed his enhanced Susanoo against the Blackbeard Pirates fleet and began destroying its ships. The fleet concentrated its cannon fire on Susanoo, leaving the outcome of the barrage uncertain.

• Hiko ordered the Celestial Dragons to return to their ship and told all personnel to stand by.
• Hiko summoned a gigantic violet-gold Susanoo with eight pairs of wings and eight arms.
• Susanoo fired on the Blackbeard Pirates fleet, destroying several ships before Abaro ordered the fleet to attack Hiko.
• Hiko used Kamui to absorb the cannon barrage, then smashed a pirate ship and crushed the pirates who charged at Susanoo.
• Abaro ordered every remaining ship to focus its cannon fire on Susanoo, and the barrage surrounded the giant.

Uchiha Hiko used water dragons and Susanoo to devastate the Blackbeard Pirates’ fleet, leaving thousands of Pirates dead or stranded in the sea. Enraged by Hiko’s taunts, Abalo leaped toward him to attack.

• Lucci assessed Uchiha Hiko’s displayed power as Four Emperors level, while Kaku and the CP0 agents watched the battle.
• When the Blackbeard Pirates surrounded Susanoo and opened fire, Hiko summoned a massive water dragon to shield it.
• Hiko sent multiple water dragons against the pirate ships, then struck alongside them with Susanoo and destroyed more vessels.
• The Blackbeard Pirates destroyed the water dragons, but more than a dozen ships were wrecked and thousands of Pirates fell into the sea.
• Abalo took up two massive blades, leaped toward Susanoo, and vowed to show Hiko the strength of the New World.

After Uchiha Hiko drove the Blackbeard Pirates into retreat, the Vinsmoke Family reconsidered its refusal to submit to him, while Hiko returned to the Konoha Go exhausted but confident he would recover.

• Uchiha Hiko overwhelmed the Blackbeard Pirates, forcing them to gather their remaining forces and retreat.
• Reiju reported Hiko’s strength to Judge, who regretted misjudging him and told Reiju and Ichiji to test whether they could restore their relationship with him.
• Reiju and Ichiji realized Judge was considering joining Hiko’s side but wanted more than the right to rule the North Blue.
• The Dressrosa Army celebrated its victory, while Hiko refused to meet most visitors, including the Celestial Dragons.
• Luo offered to treat the weary Hiko, who explained that he had defeated the Blackbeard Pirates by breaking their morale and capturing their commander, then said he only needed rest to recover.

After defeating the BIGMOM and Blackbeard fleets, Uchiha Hiko returned to Dressrosa to a welcome from nations hoping to join his proposed grand alliance. He arranged for the Navy to take custody of the captured pirates and prepared to turn his growing reputation into political influence, while warning Luo that harsher trials lay ahead.

• Uchiha Hiko ordered the Dressrosa Army to pursue the fleeing Blackbeard Pirates for over an hour, capturing surviving pirates and returning to Dressrosa the next evening.
• Important figures from the nations gathered at sea to welcome Hiko after learning of his victories, regretting their earlier rejection of his grand alliance proposal.
• Luo told Hiko that Admiral Fujitora, Sengoku, Tsuru, and five Vice Admirals had come to take custody of the captured pirate commanders, and that the Navy would pay bounties and provide supplies.
• Hiko told Luo that bounty hunting was only an early strategy and that taxing allied nations would provide sustainable development once the grand alliance was established.
• Hiko warned Luo that Dressrosa's emergence would begin a contest with major powers and that the trials ahead would be harsher; Luo asked who else Hiko wanted in his lineup.

After defeating fleets from the BIGMOM and Blackbeard Pirates, Hiko returned to Dressrosa and learned that nations which had rejected his proposed grand alliance now wanted to join. He told King Riku and Rebecca that he would judge applicants by their sincerity and willingness to face the alliance’s powerful enemies.

• Hiko joked with Luo about the conflicts that might arise as he recruited more capable subordinates.
• The citizens of Dressrosa welcomed Hiko at the harbor, grateful that he had saved their country again.
• King Riku told Hiko that leaders who had rejected the grand alliance now regretted their decision and wanted another conference.
• Rebecca urged Hiko to accept the nations because their support could help Dressrosa recover, and Hiko defended her suggestion.
• Hiko told King Riku that alliance members would have to be prepared to oppose the Four Emperors, the Marines, and the World Government, and asked how much the nations’ sincerity was worth.

King Riku agreed to represent Uchiha Hiko in preliminary alliance negotiations, and Hiko named the planned alliance the Uchiha Name. As news of Hiko’s victories in Dressrosa spread, Kuzan questioned Blackbeard’s confidence and considered returning to Dressrosa.

• Hiko told King Riku to meet with countries interested in joining the alliance and gauge their offers without formally recruiting them.
• Hiko authorized King Riku to represent him in negotiations and said he would personally preside over the future alliance assembly.
• Hiko named the planned alliance the Uchiha Name.
• Kuzan read reports of Hiko defeating and capturing prominent pirates in Dressrosa while meeting with Blackbeard.
• Blackbeard dismissed the danger Hiko posed, but Kuzan challenged his assumptions and wondered whether to return to Dressrosa.

Kuzan rejected Blackbeard’s offer to become his second-in-command and revealed that he planned to visit Dressrosa and Uchiha Hiko. Blackbeard attacked to stop him, but Kuzan escaped the encirclement and trapped Blackbeard and his crew in an ice prison before Blackbeard broke through his blizzard.

• Blackbeard offered Kuzan the position of second-in-command, but Kuzan condemned the Pirates’ lawlessness and refused to join them.
• Kuzan said he had remembered an interesting place and planned to visit Dressrosa to see Uchiha Hiko.
• Blackbeard and his officers surrounded Kuzan, but Kuzan declared that his new decision would not change.
• Blackbeard fired on Kuzan, and his officers attacked, but Kuzan used Shave and his elemental form to evade them.
• Kuzan created an ice prison around Blackbeard and his crew, then unleashed a blizzard and hailstones inside it.
• Blackbeard countered Kuzan’s Blizzard Avalanche with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and began using Dark Water.

Blackbeard and his officers attacked Kuzan after he refused to join the Blackbeard Pirates, but the former Admiral used his ice powers to hold them off. Kuzan escaped behind a defensive ice wall, and Blackbeard led his crew in pursuit.

• Blackbeard used the Dark-Dark Fruit to swallow Kuzan's ice barriers while Catarina and the other officers attacked him.
• Kuzan froze Doc Q and wounded Lafitte, but Blackbeard struck him with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and blasted him away.
• Kuzan formed an ice wall to defend himself as Blackbeard shattered it with a powerful punch.
• Blackbeard discovered Kuzan had escaped while the ice wall concealed his retreat.
• Blackbeard ordered his officers to chase Kuzan, deciding that the former Admiral had to be recruited or destroyed.

After Uchiha Hiko’s victory over two Four Emperors’ fleets, leaders from nations gathered in Dressrosa hoping to join his proposed grand alliance. Hiko agreed to consider them as second-batch members, but his demand for taxes met immediate resistance.

• Uchiha Hiko convened a conference with King Riku, Jinbe, and prominent figures from nations around the world.
• Hiko rebuked the leaders for rejecting his alliance proposal before his victory and returning only after he proved his strength.
• The leaders claimed they had previously lacked confidence and now saw Hiko as protection from the Four Emperors and other Pirates.
• Hiko announced that the original alliance principles remained, but new members would face additional conditions.
• Hiko said second-batch members would have to pay taxes to fund the alliance, prompting many leaders to argue against the proposal.

Uchiha Hiko demanded absolute obedience from those joining his Grand Alliance and faced doubts about how he would govern it. After accepting the Vinsmoke Family’s terms for control over allied nations in the North Blue, he outlined the alliance’s headquarters, military, aid, and planning measures, though tax details remained undecided.

• Hiko told the assembled leaders that alliance members had no right to interfere with his plans or choose whether to obey his rules.
• When questioned about guarantees, Hiko named aid for weaker nations and an alliance military, but made no promises beyond asking people to trust him.
• Ichiji offered the Vinsmoke Family’s strength in exchange for the right to govern allied nations in the North Blue, and Hiko accepted the terms.
• A representative asked about the alliance’s development, security, aid, and taxes, prompting Hiko to describe its annual conference, military, and support for weak nations.
• Hiko said King Riku would draft a tax proposal for alliance members to review, and the gathered leaders reacted with mixed expressions.

Uchiha Hiko discussed the growing Uchiha Grand Alliance and Marine deployments with Sengoku as his actions continued to reshape the New World. He remained in Dressrosa, building up his forces while the Four Emperors stayed wary of a confrontation.

• Newspapers reported Hiko’s alliance plans and Fujitora’s defeat of more than twenty pirate ships in the Ailand Sea.
• Sengoku told Hiko that the Marines had defeated Charlotte Linlin’s fleet and sent a powerful force to protect the mission to Dressrosa.
• Hiko had established the Uchiha Grand Alliance, and the Germa Corps had destroyed twenty pirate groups across six routes, killing more than a thousand pirates.
• Hiko asked whether the Marines would help if several Four Emperors attacked him, but Sengoku pointed out that Hiko already had substantial forces of his own.
• Hiko began forming a Devil Fruit Corps and coordinating the alliance nations’ funds and defenses so they could quickly aid one another.

Uchiha Hiko discussed the World Government’s hostility toward his grand alliance with Sengoku as Marines arrived in Dressrosa. Fujitora then warned that a powerful group of uninvited guests was approaching, led by a newly established Four Emperor.

• Hiko explained that he had prepared Dressrosa to repel a Four Emperors fleet, though the Marines had already forced the BIGMOM Pirates’ revenge fleet to retreat.
• Hiko asked Sengoku about the World Government’s response to the Uchiha Grand Alliance, and Sengoku revealed that its leaders had considered sending forces to sanction it.
• Momousagi, Fujitora, Hina, and other Marines joined Sengoku after completing the supplies handover and arranging the prisoners’ transfer.
• Fujitora offered to deal with a group advancing toward Dressrosa, hoping to improve Hiko’s opinion of the Marines.
• Hina said the newcomers had recently defeated Whitebeard’s remnants and claimed a Four Emperors’ throne.

Hiko learned that the Marines planned to contain Blackbeard’s advancing forces until reinforcements arrived, leaving Dressrosa to prepare largely on its own. Kuzan then appeared, confirming he had fought Blackbeard and asking Hiko whether Dressrosa could protect him if he joined its ranks.

• Hina mocked Blackbeard’s motives, while Hiko questioned why the Pirate had attacked Dressrosa so openly.
• Fujitora told Hiko that Marine Headquarters ordered containment until reinforcements could arrive, then planned a two-sided assault.
• Hiko decided to rely on Dressrosa’s own strength and accelerate his Devil Fruit legion plan, refusing Fujitora’s offer of aid.
• After the Marines left, Hiko called out a hidden visitor, and Kuzan emerged from behind the cabin.
• Kuzan confirmed that Blackbeard had beaten him and asked Hiko whether he could protect him if he joined Dressrosa.

Kuzan asked to join Uchiha Hiko’s alliance, and Hiko realized his defection had brought Blackbeard’s attack on Dressrosa forward. Hiko accepted Kuzan’s offer while warning him that serving the alliance would mean hard work as they pursued a world-changing ideal.

• Kuzan asked Uchiha Hiko to take him in, claiming Blackbeard was hunting him and he had nowhere else to go.
• Hiko suspected Kuzan’s defection had prompted Blackbeard to attack Dressrosa and could draw the other Emperors into an early war.
• Hiko accepted that Kuzan’s arrival had disrupted his plans and told him he would be one of his most relied-upon allies.
• Hiko warned Kuzan that the alliance needed him to work and help its member nations rather than slack off.
• Hiko described his goal of making the alliance prosperous and secure so nations would join it willingly, and Kuzan recognized how strongly that vision could threaten the world order.

Uchiha Hiko recruited Kuzan into the Alliance and gathered his core subordinates aboard the Konoha Go to discuss upcoming strategic arrangements. Hiko announced Kuzan’s membership, stunning everyone present.

• Kuzan agreed to join Hiko’s Alliance after Hiko assured him he would be trusted and expected to work hard.
• Hiko reflected that Kuzan’s recruitment would greatly raise the Alliance’s prestige despite bringing the burden of a massive Four Emperors fleet.
• Law, Jinbe, Urouge, Drake, King Riku, Kyros, Ichiji, Caesar, and other core members gathered aboard the Konoha Go.
• Hiko welcomed Kuzan as the Alliance’s newest member, leaving the assembled subordinates shocked.

Kuzan joined Uchiha Hiko’s Alliance, but Hiko revealed that Blackbeard’s main force was approaching Dressrosa. The Alliance struggled to find enough forces to defend the newly restored country, and the chapter left the looming battle unresolved.

• Kuzan bowed to the Alliance members and declared himself their like-minded partner, unsettling Luo, Urouge, and Drake with the prospect of his influence.
• Hiko announced that Blackbeard’s main force would soon arrive at Dressrosa, confirming that the Marines’ intelligence and Kuzan’s information were reliable.
• King Riku asked whether Dressrosa could be defended, and Hiko assessed the Alliance’s available troops, including the sixty Devil Fruit Users and the possibility of increasing their number to one hundred.
• Jinbe offered the Ryugu Palace Guards and the Kraken Unit, but Hiko refused to leave Fishman Island’s defenses exposed.
• Ichiji pledged that Germa 66 could handle up to one hundred thousand troops, but Hiko warned that Blackbeard’s force included many formidable fighters the Alliance lacked.
• Luo offered to call his crew from Zou, but Hiko said they would not change the situation as the Alliance faced a severe disadvantage and no clear way to prevent a devastating battle.

Uchiha Hiko devised a plan to divert Blackbeard’s invasion by provoking an attack on his territory and then striking his retreating forces. The alliance accepted the risky strategy despite the chance of antagonizing Red-Haired, and Hiko committed to moving ahead.

• Kuzan suggested attacking Blackbeard’s fleet with Ice Ages, but the others dismissed the idea.
• Hiko proposed attacking Blackbeard’s headquarters, and Luo pointed out that raiding a Pirate stronghold would not disrupt their supplies.
• Hiko explained that he would recruit Buggy to attack Blackbeard’s territory and leak the news to Red-Haired, hoping to draw both Pirates into the conflict.
• Kuzan warned that exploiting Buggy and Red-Haired’s friendship could make Red-Haired an enemy, but Hiko decided the alliance had to strike first.

Hiko laid out a plan to use Buggy and Red-Haired against Blackbeard, then claim Blackbeard’s territories and recruit Whitebeard’s remnants. He assigned Jinbe to contact the remnants and Kuzan to guard Dressrosa, and declared that the Alliance would strike first.

• Kuzan warned that provoking Red-Haired while the Alliance faced Kaido, Blackbeard, and Charlotte Linlin risked drawing all four Emperors into the conflict.
• Hiko proposed joining forces with Buggy to attack Blackbeard from three sides and take over his territories, using Whitebeard’s remnants to help govern them.
• Hiko told Jinbe to explain the Alliance’s offer to Whitebeard’s remnants and invite those willing to join after the war.
• Hiko assigned Kuzan to protect Dressrosa while King Riku handled the Alliance’s affairs, and Kuzan accepted.
• Hiko announced that the Alliance would strike first and teach the world’s Pirates what they should and should not do.