Chapter Summaries

After his wilderness battle made him famous across Ashil Kingdom, Ronglin arrived in the capital with Caesar and Jazz, where he encountered Crocodile. Ronglin warned Crocodile that the mysterious man who fought him might be tied to the Blood Letter Conspiracy, and they moved somewhere private to discuss their findings.

• News of Ronglin's battle spread, and pirates along the road avoided him as he traveled toward the Ashil Capital with Caesar and Jazz.
• Ronglin entered the capital and discussed the suspicious coastal commoners near the Primordial Forest with Caesar.
• Crocodile and Mr. 1 confronted Ronglin, who invited Crocodile to join him and warned him about the mysterious man from the wilderness battle.
• Ronglin told Crocodile he suspected the mysterious man was connected to the Blood Letter Conspiracy, so they left the crowded street for a remote bar.
• The bar's bandits fled after seeing Crocodile and Ronglin, and Ronglin asked Crocodile what he had discovered.

Ronglin and Crocodile investigated why Agula Ashil had drawn powerful pirates to the Ashil Kingdom, suspecting he planned to seize the throne. They found no clear explanation for the conscripted stonemasons or the scale of the gathering, and agreed to stay alert as the conspiracy unfolded.

• Crocodile told Ronglin that many powerful pirates had come to the island after receiving the Blood Letter, and guessed that its mastermind wanted to assemble a strong team.
• Ronglin described the mysterious man who had tried to save Erid, and Crocodile and Caesar identified him as Agula Ashil, a royal exile and commander in the Pirate Alliance.
• Caesar explained that Marine records said Agula had repeatedly tried to overthrow the Ashil Kingdom, while Crocodile noted that the Pirate Alliance's destruction left no one to stop him.
• Ronglin questioned whether Agula needed so many recruits to seize a kingdom and pointed out that all the Ashil Kingdom's stonemasons had recently been conscripted.
• Ronglin and Crocodile suspected Agula planned to rebuild his power by taking Ashil, but could not explain the stonemasons' disappearance or why so many powerful people had been lured there.

Ronglin pieced together that Agula may have used the Blood Letter Conspiracy and a newly built structure to trap powerful figures gathered at the palace. The chapter ended with Ronglin learning that the Grand Banquet for All would take place the next day and laughing at what he saw as Agula’s petty trick.

• Crocodile refused Ronglin’s offer to partner against Agula and left, saying he would not get involved in Agula’s affairs.
• The bartender told Ronglin that martial law had been lifted after the Dressrosa incident and that people in the royal capital had since become strangely orderly.
• Ronglin suspected that Agula was controlling the capital’s people, then reasoned that the mobilized masons might be building a place to imprison powerful figures.
• Ronglin asked about major palace events, and the bartender said the palace would host the Grand Banquet for All the next day.
• Ronglin laughed and called Agula’s plan a petty trick.

Ronglin decided to stop Agula’s plot to seize the throne and headed for Ashil Imperial Palace with Jazz, while sending Caesar to seek Crocodile’s support. The bartender secretly reported Ronglin’s arrival, but was ordered to keep watch and avoid exposing his group unless Ronglin’s life was in danger.

• Ronglin kicked Caesar into a bar wall, then told Jazz he would disrupt Agula’s plans before the banquet.
• The bartender secretly contacted an unknown superior, who ordered him to withdraw planted agents and plans and keep watch without revealing their presence.
• Caesar caught up with Ronglin, who sent him to find Crocodile and request outside support in exchange for revealing what Crocodile wanted.
• Caesar wondered whether he could use the trip to escape Ronglin, then set off to find Crocodile.
• Ronglin told Jazz there was an eighty-to-ninety-percent chance they would fight at the palace, and reassured him when Jazz worried about being a burden.

Ronglin brought Jazz into the palace and demonstrated his speed while fighting the guards. Jazz briefly awakened Observation Haki, and Ronglin encouraged him to master it.

• Jazz asked Ronglin whether hard work could make him as strong as his boss, and Ronglin told him that a person's heart mattered most.
• Ronglin knocked out the palace gate guards with Conqueror's Haki and led Jazz inside.
• Ronglin told Jazz to watch as palace guards charged them, then vanished from Jazz's sight.
• Jazz sensed time slowing and saw Ronglin's movements as he knocked out the soldiers without injuring them.
• Ronglin realized Jazz had probably awakened Observation Haki and encouraged him to master it.

Ronglin and Jazz fought their way through the Ashil Imperial Palace while Ronglin used Haki to help Jazz develop Observation Haki. They found the hall apparently empty, but Ronglin discovered an Image Bug hidden behind a painting, revealing that their advance was being broadcast.

• Ronglin encouraged Jazz to keep training after judging that he had the potential to awaken Haki.
• Ronglin and Jazz headed for the palace hall, where Ronglin incapacitated the soldiers and used Conqueror’s Haki to knock out the maids.
• Ronglin taught Jazz about Haki as Jazz focused on sensing Ronglin’s movements during their advance.
• Ronglin sensed that the palace hall was empty of strong fighters and wondered why Agula had left it undefended.
• Ronglin recognized the empty palace as a possible ploy and destroyed the central painting, exposing an Image Bug hidden in the wall.

Ronglin realized Agula’s scheme had forced him into a trap, so he decided to destroy the imperial palace and the country. When Agula’s hidden men emerged to stop him, Ronglin wrecked the palace and killed two attackers, while the remaining enemies escaped his strike.

• Ronglin recognized that Agula had maneuvered him into a trap and resolved to destroy the imperial palace and the country.
• Ronglin’s rising power awakened Jazz’s Haki and shook the imperial palace.
• Agula’s men emerged from hidden compartments that concealed their presence from Haki and challenged Ronglin.
• Two attackers struck at Jazz, but Ronglin hurled him out of danger and smashed his fist into the palace floor.
• Ronglin’s attack split the ground and brought down buildings throughout the imperial palace.
• Ronglin protected Jazz in midair and killed two attackers with an enhanced Tempest Kick, while the others evaded it.

Ronglin killed the five New World experts who had tried to assassinate him, then surveyed the ruined palace and the injured people trapped beneath it. He noticed that the people he had freed looked at him with hatred, while Agula Ashil had still not appeared.

• Ronglin used Observation Haki and his attacks to kill three of the ambushers in moments.
• Ronglin mocked the remaining fighters as weak and killed another with a giant python formed from gray mist and Haki.
• The last ambusher begged Ronglin to spare him, but Ronglin killed him as well, wiping out all five attackers.
• Jazz watched the slaughter and kept his composure, which satisfied Ronglin.
• Ronglin landed on the palace rubble and saw hatred in the eyes of the injured people trapped beneath the ruins.

Agula Ashil revealed that he had lured powerful people to the Ashil Kingdom so a Beast Tide would weaken them for him to control, then attacked Ronglin with his Devil Fruit ability. Ronglin fought back as the beasts charged toward the capital.

• Agula Ashil returned to the ruined palace and identified himself as the former Commander-in-Chief of the Third Fleet, still seeking to become Alliance Leader.
• Ronglin sensed a huge Beast Tide approaching the capital and confronted Agula about bringing the beasts there.
• Agula explained that he planned to use the Beast Tide as a trial, then control the survivors after they were badly wounded.
• Agula unleashed his Myriad Arrow Cage technique against Ronglin.
• Ronglin blocked with one hand and attacked with Fire Release: Angry dragon East Expedition.

Ronglin defended Jazz from Agula’s attacks and showed that Agula’s strongest strike could not injure him. The battle continued as Agula used Thousand Thoughts in an Instant to remove Ronglin’s fire dragon from the fight.

• Ronglin’s fire dragon burned away Agula’s barrage of black arrows and defeated his waterfall-like attack.
• Ronglin blocked Agula’s black-light slash with Armament Haki and Iron Body, then took Agula’s strongest punch without injury while shielding Jazz from the shockwave.
• Ronglin sent the fire dragon to swallow Agula, but Agula retreated and used Thousand Thoughts in an Instant to make the dragon vanish from their battlefield.
• The uncontrolled fire dragon reappeared high in the distant sky and crashed to the ground, causing a massive explosion.

Ronglin fought Agula, who revealed that he had caused the beast horde’s rampage and was about to drive the people of the royal capital berserk. Ronglin gravely wounded Agula, but Agula activated a final attack as Ronglin prepared to finish him.

• Agula explained that his Spirit-Spirit Fruit let him control spiritual entities and use phase shifting to escape Ronglin’s attacks.
• Agula admitted he had made the beasts go berserk and sent black mist raining over the royal capital to make its people attack one another.
• Jazz entered his strange slowed-time state while Ronglin confronted Agula over the threat to the city.
• Ronglin struck Agula with Haki: City Crusher, shattering his shield and leaving him badly injured.
• Ronglin raised his palm to kill Agula, who pressed his hand to the ground and cried, “Let’s die together!”

Ronglin and Jazz fell into Agula’s sealed trap after Agula used his ability to drag Jazz downward. Elsewhere, Caesar was struck by the Black Rain’s neurotoxin and set out to counter its effects and stop whoever caused it.

• Agula made the ground collapse beneath Ronglin and Jazz, dropping them into a deep pit.
• Ronglin used Moonwalk to escape the falling ground, but Agula dragged Jazz down and forced Ronglin to catch him.
• Agula vanished as more than a thousand steel slabs sealed the pit’s exit.
• Caesar wandered the streets while thinking about the crew’s money, pirate flag, and alliance name.
• Black Rain touched Caesar and filled him with rage, while it drove people across the streets into violent rampages.
• Caesar recognized the effect as a likely neurotoxin and decided to counter it, save the affected people, and thwart its source.

Caesar fought to save civilians in the royal capital after Black Rain drove them into murderous violence. Exhausted beneath a shop’s eaves, he spotted Charioteer Anrield and another giant, violent man rampaging through the city.

• Caesar dispersed into gas to avoid the Black Rain, then stopped himself from killing civilians and chose to help them after recalling Ronglin, Jazz, and Jinbe’s words.
• Caesar entered the streets and knocked out groups of frenzied civilians, continuing despite his disgust and exhaustion.
• Caesar hid beneath a shop’s eaves after saving everyone he could in the streets he had crossed.
• Charioteer Anrield, a pirate with a 360-million-Beli bounty, rampaged through a crowd, and Caesar recognized him.
• A giant man wielding a warhammer charged through another crowd, beating people down.

Anrield and Bilida’s reckless fight devastated the surrounding homes and endangered civilians, prompting Caesar to intervene. Caesar’s attack only briefly disrupted the duel, and Anrield and Bilida resumed fighting while Caesar was left unsure what to do.

• Anrield and Bilida clashed with their chain and war hammer, destroying nearby houses and injuring civilians caught in the battle.
• Caesar prepared to save the injured, but Crocodile refused to help and said he would take what he wanted himself.
• Caesar attacked the fighters with Gas Cymbals, detonating them in a powerful explosion.
• Anrield emerged from the blast and lunged at Caesar, but Bilida struck Anrield from behind with his war hammer.
• Anrield got back up and attacked Bilida, who dodged his chain and returned to the fight, leaving Caesar standing awkwardly.

Caesar used his powers to knock out people driven berserk by the Black Rain and rescue the injured, but the widespread violence overwhelmed him. As he struggled to keep saving people, the seed of evil began taking root in his mind again.

• Bilida interrupted Anrield's attack on Caesar, then the two resumed their fierce battle and left Caesar to help the citizens.
• Caesar created a vacuum with his Gas-Gas Fruit to render the rampaging citizens unconscious, then freed injured people from the rubble.
• Crocodile rejected Mr. 1's suggestion to pursue what they wanted, suspecting Ronglin had persuaded Caesar to promise it in exchange for help.
• Caesar rushed between battles across the city to rescue the wounded, but the continuing violence made him feel powerless and out of place.
• As Caesar's consciousness grew hazy, the seed of evil took root again and began to change his mind.

Caesar watched the Beast Tide destroy Ashil Kingdom's royal capital after the city walls collapsed, wiping out the people he had saved. Convinced the Black Rain's culprit had driven the beasts mad, he flew off to find them.

• Caesar woke to the impacts shaking the capital and realized the Beast Tide was battering the city walls.
• The walls collapsed, and countless frenzied beasts flooded into the royal capital.
• Caesar watched the beasts trample the unconscious people he had rescued and devastate the city.
• Caesar concluded that someone had provoked the beasts with the same deliberate control behind the Black Rain.
• Caesar flew into the sky to hunt down the culprit.

Ronglin protected Jazz as they fell into a deep shaft sealed by Agula, then reassured him that they could escape. He blasted upward through the layers of stone with Haki: City Crusher, carrying Jazz toward the surface.

• Ronglin shielded Jazz as they fell and the shaft sealed above them with hundreds of stone slabs.
• Ronglin teased Jazz about being trapped, then encouraged him to overcome his doubts and become stronger.
• Ronglin gathered his Haki, picked up Jazz, and launched Haki: City Crusher at the slabs above.
• Ronglin shattered the slabs as he drove them upward, while his energy shield protected Jazz from debris.

Ronglin escaped Agula’s underground trap and discovered that Agula’s Rain of Chaos had plunged Ashil Capital into deadly violence as a beast horde invaded. Jinbe arrived after destroying Agula’s hidden fleet at Southwest Bay, leaving Agula’s plans in ruins as the confrontation continued.

• Ronglin broke through the underground trap with Jazz and confronted Agula on the surface.
• Ronglin sensed that Agula’s black rain had driven people across Ashil Capital to attack and kill one another while a beast horde stormed through the destroyed city walls.
• Caesar appeared and asked Ronglin to leave Agula’s head to him.
• Agula threatened Ronglin with the Third Fleet, but Jinbe arrived and revealed that he had destroyed the fleet at Southwest Bay.
• Jinbe said he had come ashore to kill Agula and stop his plan.

Ronglin, Jinbe, and Caesar cornered the wounded Agula as the Beast Tide raged, and Jinbe overwhelmed him with powerful Fish-Man Karate attacks. Two unknown Black Shadows then rushed toward the battlefield, leaving their intentions unclear.

• Jinbe arrived too late to stop the catastrophe and joined Ronglin and Caesar in surrounding Agula.
• Agula offered to share his grand plan, but Ronglin rejected it and resolved to kill him.
• Agula attacked Ronglin with black mist, but Jinbe countered it with Seven Thousand Tile Karate: Floating Whale and blasted Agula into a crater.
• Ronglin sensed two powerful presences approaching and ordered Agula captured.
• Jinbe struck the battered Agula with Fish-Man Karate: Shark Tile Fist, creating a mushroom cloud as the two Black Shadows plunged into the blast and Jinbe moved to intercept them.

Ronglin defeated Agula Ashil and ignored the warnings and threats meant to keep him alive. The chapter ended with Ronglin killing Agula despite the two mysterious men threatening Caesar and Jazz.

• Jinbe attacked the two mysterious men with Fish-Man Karate and fought them in midair while Ronglin approached the injured Agula.
• Caesar assessed that Agula would be crippled even if he survived, and Agula blamed his old wounds for his defeat while warning Ronglin that help had arrived.
• Ronglin seized Agula by the throat, but Agula claimed his death would leave the city in chaos and make Ronglin take the blame for the kingdom's destruction.
• The two mysterious men stopped fighting Jinbe and threatened Caesar and Jazz to make Ronglin spare Agula.
• Ronglin crushed Agula's neck and killed the pirate overlord.