Chapter Summaries

Kuzan, Marco, and Jinbe attacked Blackbeard but failed to capture him and were forced to retreat. Marco abandoned his attempt to kill Blackbeard and followed the plan to regroup with the two fleets and harass the enemy from the perimeter.

• Kuzan blocked Blackbeard's attack, and Blackbeard answered with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, killing numerous pirates as Kuzan, Marco, and Jinbe resisted his shockwaves together.
• Blackbeard unleashed Dark Water, forcing Kuzan, Marco, and Jinbe to retreat before his officers and pirates surrounded them.
• Kuzan ordered a withdrawal, and Jinbe stopped Marco from charging Blackbeard by warning that it would cost them their lives.
• Blackbeard taunted Marco about Whitebeard, but Jinbe and San Juan disrupted the fight, and Vista arrived to help Marco break through the encirclement.
• Jinbe reminded Marco to follow the Alliance Leader's plan, and Marco agreed to regroup with the two fleets, harass Blackbeard's forces from the perimeter, and avoid direct engagement.

After a costly naval battle, Blackbeard drove back Marco’s forces but learned that Uchiha Hiko was attacking his territories. Hiko ordered Kuzan’s alliance to hold position and prepare to strike Blackbeard’s rear, revealing the next stage of his plan.

• Marco led Whitebeard’s remnants into battle with the Blackbeard Pirates, and after nearly ten hours of fighting, the Uchiha Alliance and Whitebeard’s forces withdrew with heavy losses.
• Blackbeard learned that Uchiha Hiko was attacking his border territories and explained that he could not turn back while Marco’s forces pursued him.
• Blackbeard ordered his fleet to stop at Shalria Island to rest, resupply, and shake off their pursuers before returning to fight Hiko.
• Kuzan reported the fleet’s position and battle losses to Uchiha Hiko, who said the fallen would be remembered.
• Uchiha Hiko ordered Kuzan to hold position and strike Blackbeard’s rear once the battle began, blocking his retreat.

Blackbeard’s fleet left Shalria Island after his pirates ravaged the country, but Shanks the Red-Haired attacked them during their return voyage. Shanks’s forces broke through Blackbeard’s defenses, and his Conqueror’s Haki knocked out nearly a quarter of the fleet’s ordinary pirates.

• Blackbeard ordered his officers to prepare to sail and had Lafitte lead the pirates in slaughtering Shalria’s people.
• Shanks and his crew set out to attack Blackbeard, intending to settle their own score with Uchiha Hiko afterward.
• Blackbeard’s patrol ships disappeared one after another, and he ordered his fleet to continue home despite the reports.
• Shanks’s Red-Haired Pirates launched a fierce attack and tore through Blackbeard’s fleet toward his flagship.
• Shanks unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, causing nearly a quarter of Blackbeard’s ordinary pirates to collapse unconscious.

Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates engaged Blackbeard's forces, and Shanks split the tsunami Blackbeard unleashed before the two sides clashed directly. Hiko then ordered his alliance and Marco's fleet to attack Blackbeard from behind as Buggy's forces advanced from the front.

• Beckman and the Red-Haired Pirates deflected Blackbeard's opening barrage and shot a pirate who shouted a warning.
• Blackbeard unleashed the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power to raise a tsunami, destroying several of his own ships and crews.
• Shanks split the giant wave with a sword strike, then blocked Blackbeard's follow-up attack to protect his ship.
• Blackbeard and more than a dozen of his core officers charged the Red-Haired Pirates, who met them head-on.
• Jinbe informed Hiko that Shanks had joined the battle, and Hiko told Buggy the change would not disrupt his plan.
• Hiko ordered the Uchiha Alliance and Marco's fleet to attack from behind while Buggy's forces struck from the front.

Uchiha Hiko launched a surprise seabed encirclement of the Blackbeard Pirates, coordinating attacks with Kuzan, Marco, and Buggy’s forces. Blackbeard’s devastating counterattack reached the Konoha Go, where Hiko stopped it with a Sage Art Rasengan that tore through the battlefield.

• Hiko ordered the fleet to surface from beneath the sea and surround the Blackbeard Pirates as Kuzan, Marco, and their allies attacked from other directions.
• Blackbeard learned his fleet had been surrounded, and Shanks explained that Hiko had drawn him into a three-pronged ambush.
• Blackbeard realized the ships had approached underwater, then unleashed a massive Tremor-Tremor Fruit attack that shattered nearby ships and injured his own men.
• Shanks protected his ship from Blackbeard’s shockwave, though the impact drove the vessel backward across the sea.
• Hiko activated his Dojutsu and fired a Sage Art: Great Ball Rasengan: Shatter, destroying the shockwave and blasting through the battlefield.

Uchiha Hiko stopped Blackbeard’s attacks and revealed a gigantic golden Susanoo, establishing himself as a force on the level of the Four Emperors. Blackbeard then attacked him with the Dark-Dark Fruit’s power.

• Hiko’s Rasengan tore through the battlefield, stunning the pirates and prompting Beckman to warn Red-Haired about Hiko’s strength and alliance.
• Red-Haired rejected Beckman’s suggestion to join forces with Blackbeard against Hiko.
• Hiko swallowed Blackbeard’s powerful shockwave with Kamui, leaving Blackbeard shocked by the ability’s resemblance to the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Hiko transformed into a massive golden Susanoo with ten wings and ten arms, alarming the fighters who had seen his earlier power.
• Blackbeard unleashed Dark Water, sweeping Hiko’s golden form into a black tornado of mist.

Uchiha Hiko emerged unharmed from Blackbeard's attack and swept through the battlefield in his golden Susanoo, turning the battle in the Uchiha Alliance's favor. He left Shanks the Red-Haired to settle his grudge with Blackbeard and ended the chapter arriving beside Kuzan and Ichiji.

• Urouge rallied the Uchiha Alliance members and insisted that Uchiha Hiko would withstand Blackbeard's attack.
• Hiko shattered Blackbeard's black tornado and descended as a golden giant.
• Shanks the Red-Haired intercepted Blackbeard and demanded to settle their personal grudge, while Hiko agreed to move aside after mocking Shanks's Face-Face Fruit ability.
• Hiko swept across the battlefield in his Susanoo, incinerating enemy Pirates while protecting the Uchiha Alliance members and boosting their morale.
• Hiko reached Kuzan and Ichiji as the Dressrosa Army and Germa Corps' pincer attacks disrupted the Blackbeard Pirates.

Hiko oversaw the battle against the Blackbeard Pirates and urged his allies to preserve their strength as they closed in on the enemy. He argued with Kuzan that peace mattered more than justice and left Kuzan shaken by his willingness to sacrifice pirates to remake the world.

• Ichiji told Hiko that Marco had broken from the alliance’s formation to attack Blackbeard personally, and Hiko criticized Marco’s impulsiveness.
• Hiko ordered his forces to monitor the battle, protect their fighting strength, and focus on defeating Blackbeard’s leaders.
• Ichiji went to coordinate the Germa Army’s commanders, while Hiko urged Kuzan to take greater responsibility in the alliance.
• Hiko explained that he intended to entrust the alliance’s military forces to his subordinates and expected them to help change the world.
• Kuzan questioned the cost of war, and Hiko declared that he would sacrifice Blackbeard’s forces and other pirates if necessary to achieve peace.
• Kuzan compared Hiko’s reasoning to Sakazuki’s, while Hiko rejected the pursuit of justice and argued that the alliance offered people practical hope for peace.

Uchiha Hiko ordered the Uchiha Alliance to withdraw and encircle the battlefield, forcing the Red-Haired Pirates and Marco’s forces to face Blackbeard’s recovered troops. Red-Haired retreated, while Jinbe abandoned Marco after he refused to follow the withdrawal order.

• Hiko reprimanded Kuzan for holding onto idealistic views, then took command and ordered the Alliance to disengage and surround the battlefield.
• The Alliance’s retreat let the Blackbeard Pirates regroup and turn their attacks on Red-Haired and Marco’s forces.
• Red-Haired rejected Blackbeard’s proposal to join forces, then ordered his crew to retreat after carving a chasm through the sea.
• Jinbe urged Marco to withdraw, but Marco angrily questioned Hiko’s plan and refused to give the order.
• Jinbe told Marco he would support Hiko, then leaped from the ship and disappeared into the sea.

Uchiha Hiko’s forces trapped the Blackbeard Pirates after the Red-Haired Pirates blocked their escape, while Marco’s fighters remained surrounded. Hiko confronted Blackbeard and offered him a choice, beginning with leaving the New World and surrendering his territory.

• Kyros reported that the Red-Haired Pirates were retreating, while Hiko explained his plans and Kuzan questioned his attitude toward pirates.
• Jinbe returned to Hiko’s ship and apologized because Marco refused to retreat; Hiko said Marco had chosen revenge over a new future for Whitebeard’s remnants.
• Hiko sensed that the Red-Haired Pirates had blocked Blackbeard’s escape route, leaving Blackbeard’s forces encircled and Marco’s forces trapped among them.
• Hiko addressed both sides and argued with Blackbeard’s officer over why the conflict began in Dressrosa.
• Blackbeard asked what Hiko wanted, and Hiko offered two choices, beginning with Blackbeard Teach leaving the New World and giving up his territory.

Uchiha Hiko rejected the Blackbeard Pirates’ mockery and revealed that his second choice for them was death, unleashing Tsukuyomi. Far away, Otsutsuki Kaguya sensed his growing power and ordered the Divine Tree’s fruit to ripen faster, leaving her intent on opposing him.

• The Blackbeard Pirates mocked Hiko’s confidence, while Shanks and Beckman grew wary and ordered their crew to retreat farther.
• Hiko began gathering a strange, gentle white aura, and Otsutsuki Kaguya sensed his overwhelming power from her chamber in Mary Geoise.
• Kaguya demanded to know why the Divine Tree’s fruit had not ripened, then killed a noble who said it would take several more days.
• Hiko told the assembled forces that his second choice was death and unleashed his Divine Technique: Tsukuyomi, plunging the world into darkness and overwhelming their minds.

Uchiha Hiko used Tsukuyomi to overwhelm the Blackbeard Pirates, but Blackbeard endured the attack and wounded him with a Tremor-Tremor Fruit strike. The Tsukuyomi ended, yet the terror it inflicted broke the Blackbeard Pirates’ fighting spirit, leaving only a handful of officers beside Blackbeard.

• Hiko projected Tsukuyomi directly into the consciousnesses of tens of thousands of Blackbeard Pirates, leaving many screaming in an illusion of hell.
• Blackbeard resisted the widespread Genjutsu, endured its mental assault, and struck Hiko from behind with a powerful Tremor-Tremor Fruit punch.
• Hiko was injured and his concentration faltered, interrupting Tsukuyomi and freeing the Pirates from its illusion.
• Blackbeard pointed out that Hiko could bleed and urged his men to attack, but the terrified Pirates refused to advance.
• Hiko said those controlled by Tsukuyomi would struggle to regain the courage to fight him, while Beckman and Red-Haired watched.
• The Blackbeard Pirates’ fighting spirit collapsed, leaving many insane or paralyzed with fear and only a handful of officers standing with Blackbeard.

Uchiha Hiko overwhelmed Blackbeard and the remnants of the Blackbeard Pirates, killing their officers and burning their fighters while Blackbeard could not break through Hiko’s defenses. As a Pirate surrendered and challenged Blackbeard, Blackbeard attacked him, and Hiko let the blow land, believing his plan had succeeded.

• Blackbeard urged his terrified subordinates to fight, but they retreated in fear as the battle turned against them.
• Uchiha Hiko killed Doc Q with a golden beam and attacked the Blackbeard Pirates with his Flame Beast while using Kamui to absorb Blackbeard’s Dark-Dark Fruit power.
• Hiko’s flames killed and trapped the Pirates, while he interrupted Blackbeard’s attacks and taunted him about being a Four Emperors crew.
• A Pirate with an eight-hundred-million-Beli bounty surrendered and accused Blackbeard of failing to save his crew, prompting other Pirates to lose hope.
• Blackbeard redirected his attack toward the surrendering Pirate, and Hiko deliberately let the attack through, concluding that his plan had succeeded.

Hiko’s strategy shattered the Blackbeard Pirates’ morale and unity until Blackbeard’s violence against his own men caused their final collapse. Hiko ended the battle and ordered the surviving pirates to board Buggy’s ship for judgment, while Blackbeard was left behind as Lafitte walked away.

• Hiko’s tactics, the encirclement, and Tsukuyomi weakened the Blackbeard Pirates until Blackbeard killed a senior officer and broke his crew’s cohesion.
• Beckman realized Hiko had intended to dismantle the Blackbeard Pirates from the start, and Red-Haired reconsidered whether he could challenge Hiko.
• Blackbeard killed a pirate who urged him to accept defeat, while Lafitte watched in shock and the other pirates lost hope.
• Hiko dispelled the flames and ordered the surviving pirates to board Buggy’s ship and await judgment.
• The pirates abandoned Blackbeard, and Lafitte walked away, promising to avenge him as Blackbeard roared in despair.

Uchiha Hiko defeated Blackbeard after seeing through his attempted ambush and killed him with a powerful Rasengan. Blackbeard’s death left Hiko established as one of the strongest forces in the New World.

• Blackbeard accepted that Hiko had outmatched him and begged to be spared, offering to join Hiko’s ranks.
• Hiko revealed that he had sensed Blackbeard using the Dark-Dark Fruit to prepare an ambush beneath his feet.
• Blackbeard unleashed his power and engulfed Hiko in darkness, but Hiko evaded the attack and appeared behind him.
• Hiko entered Sage Mode and struck Blackbeard with a massive pillar of light, killing him and destroying his flagship.
• Red-Haired confirmed that Blackbeard’s aura had vanished as the blast and waves battered the ships nearby.

After killing Blackbeard, Uchiha Hiko forced the surviving Blackbeard Pirates to join Buggy or die, then claimed Blackbeard’s territory and fleet while driving Marco away. Red-Haired recognized Hiko as a new emperor whose rise would shake the New World.

• Hiko confirmed Blackbeard was dead, then ordered the surviving Pirates to join Buggy or be killed.
• Lafitte surrendered first, and the remaining Blackbeard Pirates followed as Buggy incorporated their crews and fleet.
• Hiko rejected Marco’s demand for territory, claimed all of Blackbeard’s lands, and ended his cooperation with Marco.
• Flower Sword and Diamond stopped Marco from attacking Hiko, and Marco left with his subordinates.
• Red-Haired watched Hiko’s rise and realized a new emperor had emerged in the New World.

Uchiha Hiko reflected on his plan to dismantle pirate power after defeating Blackbeard and expanded the Alliance's influence across the New World. As nations flocked to join the Alliance, Hiko questioned whether he could trust those that had once supported Blackbeard.

• Hiko told Red-Haired that he intended to eliminate pirates who threatened his goal of a peaceful and prosperous age, and Red-Haired warned him that pirates would not be easy to defeat.
• Blackbeard was killed, his forces were dismantled, and the Uchiha Alliance took over his territories, becoming the war's greatest victor.
• Buggy refused attempts to make him the next of the Four Emperors and continued as a Warlord of the Sea.
• Nations seeking the Alliance's protection traveled to Dressrosa, while Hiko left the takeover of Blackbeard's territory to Luo and his other subordinates.
• Kuzan remained at Hiko's side, and Hiko continued trying to influence him while the Alliance's business operations and internal stability grew.
• Kuzan asked whether Hiko would accept the nations seeking Alliance membership, and Hiko questioned trusting those that had funded Blackbeard before his defeat.

Uchiha Hiko rejected opportunistic nations seeking to join his alliance and discussed Marine activity and strange movements among the Celestial Dragons. At Marine Headquarters, officers examined evidence that Hiko’s rise had sharply reduced piracy, leaving them to question whether he had surpassed the Marines’ impact.

• Hiko told King Riku to reject nations that had refused to join the alliance earlier, while Kuzan reported that Marines and Charlotte Linlin were only involved in minor clashes.
• Hiko discussed stabilizing the alliance’s territories and asked King Riku about intelligence from Mary Geoise, where many Celestial Dragons had recently departed on supposed vacations.
• Hiko asked Kuzan to help contact Waldo, a Celestial Dragon who had shown interest in him, and Kuzan agreed to try through his Marine connections.
• At the former G1 Marine base, Tsuru and Garp discussed Hiko’s potential, while Kongming presented figures showing piracy had declined since Hiko appeared and fallen further after he defeated Blackbeard.
• The Marine officers were stunned by the decline in piracy and wondered whether Hiko’s impact exceeded that of the Marines.

After Uchiha Hiko defeated the Blackbeard Pirates and took their territory, the Marines assessed the upheaval in the New World and their deteriorating relationship with him. Tsuru revealed that BIGMOM and Blackbeard had planned a joint attack on Dressrosa, while Akainu warned that the Marines could not afford to lose Hiko as an ally.

• Akainu regretted that the Marines had failed to support Uchiha Hiko against the invading Blackbeard Pirates, prompting Hiko to ally with three pirate factions and destroy them.
• Kizaru told the Marines that Charlotte Linlin's fleets had repeatedly harassed Marine bases, possibly to distract them rather than rescue her captured children.
• Kongming and Tsuru explained that BIGMOM's forces had been scouting waters near Dressrosa and planned to attack alongside Blackbeard's Pirates in a pincer assault on Hiko's forces.
• Tsuru said Hiko's defeat of Blackbeard had broken the Four Emperors' alliance and prevented BIGMOM from attacking without exposing her plan to the Uchiha Alliance and Marine 420.
• Akainu warned the officers that Hiko's rise had already shifted the balance of power and that losing him as a weapon against Pirates would be disastrous for the Marines.

Akainu decided to lead a Marine force to Wano Country to confront Kaido, while assigning Garp to remain at Marine Headquarters and act as a link to Uchiha Hiko. In Mary Geoise, Waldo learned that someone from Dressrosa wanted to contact him through Kuzan’s channel and grew worried.

• Akainu agreed to tolerate Uchiha Hiko’s alliance with Pirate forces as long as Hiko continued helping reduce the number of Pirates in the New World.
• Tsuru proposed concentrating Marine forces on Wano Country, and Ryokugyu reported that the wary Shogun’s growing ties with Kaido had hindered the Marines’ efforts there.
• Akainu assigned Garp and Sengoku to handle rookie Pirates, gave Kizaru broad emergency command authority, and announced that he would lead Fujitora, Ryokugyu, Tsuru, ten Vice Admirals, and fifty thousand soldiers against Kaido.
• Akainu refused Garp’s offer to lead the Wano expedition and instead told him to stay at Marine Headquarters, where he could contact Uchiha Hiko if the situation required it.
• A CP0 agent told Waldo that a message from Dressrosa had arrived through a Marine patrol and that its sender wanted to contact him through Kuzan’s channel.