Chapter Summaries

Ronglin forced Caesar Clown to submit, then escaped with him and another companion after taking Marine supplies. Ten days later, Caesar read reports that Ronglin had become wanted worldwide with a 500-million-Beli bounty, while their ship remained sparsely equipped and barely crewed.

• Ronglin threatened to kill Caesar unless he submitted and warned him that he would die if he went beyond Ronglin’s perception.
• Caesar argued over the limits on his freedom, then agreed to serve Ronglin rather than risk being killed.
• Ronglin and his companions moved Marine supplies aboard their small ship and sailed away without pursuit.
• Ten days later, Caesar read newspaper reports announcing Ronglin’s worldwide wanted status and 500-million-Beli bounty.
• Caesar complained that Ronglin’s ship had only three people aboard, little useful equipment, and no flag.

Ronglin’s crew remained lost at sea until Jinbe suggested attending an underground Dark Exchange to buy supplies and a Log Pose. Ronglin decided to use the gathering to challenge the underworld, while Jinbe agreed to follow him and Caesar feared being dragged into a war against the world.

• Caesar complained that Ronglin’s poor sense of direction had kept the ship circling the same waters for two days, and Ronglin told Jinbe to find a way out.
• Caesar suggested that Jinbe might be deliberately keeping them lost to steal Ronglin’s Devil Fruits, and Ronglin struck Caesar and ordered him to treat the crew as companions.
• Jinbe explained that the Dark Exchange was an annual underground trading event and suggested they attend to buy supplies, including a Log Pose.
• Caesar worried that attending would draw attention, but Ronglin said he would use the event to make the underworld fear him.
• Jinbe agreed to stand with Ronglin against the world for Fish-Man Island, while Ronglin threatened to kill Caesar or try to reform him.

Ronglin and Jinbe were pursued by ten unidentified warships and chose to fight rather than surrender. Ronglin’s Conqueror’s Haki barely slowed the attackers, revealing that they were far from ordinary.

• Caesar praised Ronglin’s ideals and asked to join him, but Ronglin ignored him.
• Ronglin sensed a large force beneath the sea, and Jinbe turned the boat to flee.
• Ten warships surfaced and ordered Ronglin’s crew to surrender, but Ronglin and Jinbe prepared to fight while Caesar stayed aboard.
• Ronglin rose into the air as Jinbe dove beneath the sea, and the warship commander ordered his forces to eliminate Phantom Ronglin.
• Ronglin unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki on the charging attackers, but nearly all of them kept advancing.

Ronglin battled hundreds of CP0 agents while Jinbe confronted a CP0 officer aboard a warship. Ronglin remained unscathed and unleashed a devastating attack as the surviving agents charged him again.

• Ronglin fired a barrage of Finger Pistols at the charging CP0 agents, who retaliated with Finger Pistols and Tempest Kicks from every direction.
• Jinbe surfaced beside a warship and attacked its CP0 officer with Fish-Man Jujutsu, but the officer blocked the water column with a wall of wind.
• The CP0 officer tried to recruit Jinbe, and Ronglin laughed at the suggestion while enduring the agents’ ongoing assault.
• Ronglin burst through the surrounding attacks with a Crescent Air Blade, sweeping CP0 agents from the sky and leaving himself unharmed.
• The remaining 363 CP0 agents charged Ronglin, who struck them with his enhanced Six King Gun, Human Cannonball, and sent many vomiting blood.

Ronglin destroyed most of the CP0 force sent to capture him and confronted the remaining officer aboard his ship. The officer revealed a Mythical Zoan transformation and attacked Ronglin at high speed, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Ronglin's attack annihilated three warships and most of the CP0 agents, while Caesar watched from a distance and resolved not to defy him.
• Ronglin confronted the officer, who demanded the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and declared that the Celestial Dragons could replace the fallen CP0 agents.
• The officer transformed into a white-furred Mythical Beast Type: Bai Ze and struck Ronglin from behind with a powerful attack.
• Ronglin mocked the officer's boast, and the transformed officer charged at him through the air.

Ronglin fought CP0 Vice Commander Adele Baiyu, whose Mythical Zoan Bai Ze form failed to withstand Ronglin’s attack. Adele then transformed again and launched an ice-blade assault, leaving their battle ongoing.

• Ronglin dodged Adele’s attack and struck him with Rokuougan, knocking him out of his Bai Ze form and injuring him.
• Adele introduced himself as a CP0 Vice Commander and offered to recruit Ronglin, but Ronglin rejected him and insulted the Celestial Dragons.
• Adele warned Ronglin that CP0 forces were searching for him, while Ronglin noted that the remaining soldiers were too frightened to fight.
• Adele transformed and unleashed Chilling Prison, surrounding himself with spinning ice blades as Ronglin charged straight toward him.

Ronglin used Armament Haki and Tai Chi to counter Ade’s attacks, then evaded Ade’s sudden burst of speed. Ade revealed that his Mythical Zoan fruit, the White Tiger God Beast, absorbed energy from the air to enhance all his physical attributes.

• Ronglin hardened his body with Armament Haki and withstood Ade’s barrage of ice blades.
• Ronglin redirected Ade’s powerful strike with Tai Chi, sending him crashing through the ship’s deck.
• Ronglin sensed Ade’s aura surge and used repeated Shave techniques to escape his high-speed pursuit.
• Ade transformed into his beast form and asked Ronglin why he was so fast.
• Ade revealed his White Tiger God Beast fruit could absorb heat, kinetic energy, and potential energy to enhance his recovery, defense, attack, and speed.

Ronglin defeated Ade by overpowering him with Haki and using the Time-Time Technique to land a devastating strike. As Ade flew toward the distant sky, his soldiers rushed to save him.

• Ronglin mocked Ade for serving the Celestial Dragons, and Ade boasted about his strength.
• Ronglin clashed with Ade and used his Haki to wound him and crush his fist.
• Ade activated his Divine Beast Blessing, absorbing energy to increase his power.
• Ronglin slowed time, struck Ade through the chest, and sent him flying.
• Ade's soldiers cried out, leaped into the sea, and charged toward Ronglin to save their lord.

Ronglin saw through Adele Baiyu’s escape and failed to catch him after he transformed into the Bai Ze Divine Beast and fled at great speed. Back aboard the ships, Ronglin found Jinbe defeating the soldiers, then heard Adele order the crews to fire their cannons despite the casualties.

• Jinbe struck the soldiers with a powerful Fish-Man Karate shockwave, scattering them across the deck.
• Ronglin realized Adele was healing by absorbing surrounding elements and using vibrations to stay airborne, then pursued him with Moonwalk.
• Adele transformed into the Bai Ze Divine Beast and escaped beyond the horizon, leaving Ronglin unable to catch him.
• Ronglin returned to the ships and watched Jinbe overwhelm the remaining soldiers with versatile attacks.
• Adele ordered the ships to fire every cannon at Ronglin, threatening the crews and their families if they refused.

Ronglin and Jinbe fought off Ade’s warships after Ade ordered them to fire on Ronglin despite his own soldiers being aboard. They crippled the fleet and escaped, leaving Ade to face the consequences of his failed mission.

• Ade ordered the other warships to fire on Ronglin’s ship, while Ronglin pleaded with them not to kill their comrades.
• Jinbe raised a water curtain to block the shells and used sea creatures to disrupt the warships’ aim.
• Ronglin and Jinbe damaged all the warships until they could no longer pursue without sinking.
• Ronglin returned to his ship, where Caesar fussed over him, while Ade watched helplessly and feared punishment.
• Ronglin told Caesar how Ade had abandoned his subordinates, and Caesar remarked that the government’s pursuit made piracy unsurprising.

Ronglin, Caesar, and Jinbe used a Log Pose taken from the CP0 fleet to sail toward the Dark Exchange, speculating that CP0 had been heading there on a major mission. After nearly two days at sea, they reached a massive island.

• Jinbe gave Ronglin a Log Pose he had snatched during the battle with the CP0 fleet.
• Ronglin and Caesar inferred that the ten CP0 warships and their Vice Commander might have been targeting the upcoming Dark Exchange.
• Jinbe steered the ship along the Log Pose’s direction while Ronglin decided they would handle whatever awaited them.
• The group passed pirate and merchant ships without trouble, and a band of pirates fled when they recognized Jinbe.
• After sailing for nearly two days, Ronglin, Caesar, and Jinbe spotted a massive island.

Ronglin and Caesar went ashore on an island crowded with pirates and other powerful visitors, while Jinbe stayed behind to guard the ship and three Devil Fruits. As Ronglin asked for directions to the Dark Exchange, he encountered Basil Hawkins, who warned that a great calamity was coming.

• Ronglin suspected CP0's mission and the gathering of famous figures could lead to trouble, but decided to go ashore with Caesar while Jinbe guarded the ship.
• Ronglin entrusted Jinbe with the case containing three Devil Fruits before the ship moored in a concealed spot beside a cliff.
• Ronglin and Caesar flew up the cliff and headed toward the island's prosperous city to buy supplies.
• Ronglin grabbed a passerby and asked how to reach the Dark Exchange, but the frightened man ran away without answering.
• Basil Hawkins approached Ronglin and predicted that a great calamity was about to descend.

Ronglin learned that the Celestial Dragons planned to crush the Pirate Alliance and take control of the Dark Exchange, then rejected Hawkins’s proposed alliance. He revealed that he had already destroyed a Celestial Dragon fleet and decided to investigate and disrupt their plans despite the danger.

• Hawkins warned Ronglin that people who asked about the Dark Exchange had been disappearing and said the Celestial Dragons planned to seize underground trade.
• Hawkins said he wanted to ally with Ronglin, but Caesar warned that pirate alliances rarely lasted.
• Ronglin told Hawkins he had destroyed ten Celestial Dragon warships and killed hundreds of CP0 members, prompting Hawkins to leave with his subordinates.
• Ronglin told Caesar he intended to uncover and sabotage the Celestial Dragons’ conspiracy, leaving Caesar horrified.

A Celestial Dragon informed Akainu and Aokiji about a gathering of pirates drawn by a Log Pose rumored to lead near Laugh Tale, and asked them to secure it. After hearing that Ronglin had defeated CP0’s Second Fleet, Akainu learned that his old enemy had arrived too.

• The blond Celestial Dragon met Akainu and Aokiji at his mansion and explained that the Celestial Dragons intended to control the underworld’s profits.
• The blond man reported that Jack and Charlotte Snag had arrived, while Shanks’s people and Whitebeard’s remnants had not appeared.
• The blond man revealed that pirates were gathering because a Log Pose reportedly pointed close to Laugh Tale, and Akainu and Aokiji agreed to secure it.
• The blond man said CP0’s First Fleet would handle the other pirates because Ronglin and Jinbe had defeated Ade and devastated the Second Fleet.
• Akainu reacted angrily when he learned Ronglin had arrived, recalling his grudge from Marineford.

Ronglin sensed that Akainu and Aokiji had arrived on the island and hurried away with Caesar to avoid them. Their location was reported through a hidden network, leaving their escape uncertain.

• A blond CP0 commander told an attendant he would give Lord Ade another chance, then Akainu and Aokiji left the hall.
• Ronglin sensed Akainu and Aokiji nearby while resting with Caesar in a coffee shop.
• Caesar panicked and nearly used his Gas-Gas Fruit ability, but Ronglin restrained him and warned him to stay calm.
• Ronglin paid for their drinks and left with Caesar to put distance between themselves and the admirals.
• A waiter passed a note reporting Ronglin and Caesar's location through a concealed transfer system.
• Caesar asked about Ronglin's powerful Observation Haki, and Ronglin joked that it might be because he was handsome.

Ronglin intervened when two pirates beat a young man for trying to stop their crimes, killing both with his powers. He left the youth alive and affirmed that justice should not depend on an opponent’s identity.

• Ronglin saw two middle-aged pirates beating a wounded youth who had tried to stop them from robbing someone.
• The youth declared that he would keep standing up for justice despite the beating, while Caesar’s devil factors began to stir.
• Ronglin stopped one pirate from smashing a brick into the youth’s head by shattering it with a burst of force.
• Ronglin killed one pirate with a force attack and killed the other with a Crescent Cyclone Slash after learning they served Kaido.
• Ronglin told the youth that saving someone should not depend on who the opponent was, and the youth asked who he was.

Ronglin persuaded the injured boy, Justice Di Chuang, to join his crew by speaking about justice and conviction. He sent Caesar to take the boy back to the ship for treatment, where the story left them heading to Jinbe.

• Ronglin offered the boy a place beside him on the path of true justice, and the boy accepted despite his frail condition.
• Ronglin warned Caesar not to say anything immoral in front of the new recruit, then introduced him as an evil scientist being reformed.
• Caesar protested that he was Caesar Clown, a former World Government researcher, while Ronglin ordered him to take the injured boy to Jinbe for treatment.
• The boy introduced himself as Justice Di Chuang and agreed to rest so he would not burden his companions.
• Caesar carried Justice Di Chuang through the air toward the ship using his Gas-Gas Fruit ability.

Ronglin’s public appearance and the deaths of two Beasts Pirates drew Jack’s wrath, while Akainu and Aokiji chose to wait and watch the pirates clash. Jack set out to hunt Ronglin, who remained unaware that trouble was coming as he explored the island.

• Ronglin waited in an alley for a lurking observer, but the person fled without revealing themselves.
• Akainu and Aokiji received a report that Ronglin had helped homeless youths and killed two Beasts Pirates, prompting Jack to search for him.
• Aokiji and Akainu agreed to wait for the pirates to weaken each other, while learning that the Celestial Dragons had sent Bony-Sen and Adele Baiyu to secure the Log Pose leading to Laugh Tale.
• Jack shot a subordinate who reported the deaths and ordered his men to find Ronglin.
• Ronglin leisurely explored Erebus Island alone after Caesar left, unaware that Jack was coming for him.

Ronglin went to watch two pirate crews fight over a Treasure Map and discovered that a powerful blond man had arranged the conflict to make pirates kill one another. The blond man revealed his plan to Ronglin as the battle neared its end.

• Ronglin heard that the Flame Pirates and Snow Sea Pirates were fighting over a Treasure Map and hurried to Sixth Plaza.
• Da Qingshan fought the scruffy-bearded captain, hoping to give the map to Clown Buggy and earn a place in his crew.
• Ronglin sensed a concealed expert approaching and saw a handsome blond man join him to watch the battle.
• The blond man explained that he had planted the map and spread rumors so pirates would fight over treasure that had already been dug up.

Ronglin rejected Bony-Sen’s offer to join his command after learning that Bony-Sen was a powerful Celestial Dragon and CP0 Commander-in-Chief. As Bony-Sen threatened to destroy him, a giant leader arrived and warned that opposing the Beasts Pirates meant certain death.

• Ronglin condemned Bony-Sen’s scheme to pit pirates against one another, while Bony-Sen defended it as a way to preserve the world’s balance.
• The Flame Pirates defeated the Snow Sea Pirates and took the Treasure Map, then the island garrison captured the exhausted survivors.
• Bony-Sen offered to protect Ronglin from the Celestial Dragons and let him take Ade’s place, then revealed his royal lineage and CP0 position.
• Ronglin refused Bony-Sen’s offer, saying their ideals were irreconcilable, and challenged him to attack.
• A towering giant arrived with his group and threatened Ronglin for opposing the Beasts Pirates.