Chapter Summaries

Anrield learned that members of the Pirate Alliance’s First Fleet were on the island and that the Alliance viewed Ronglin as a threat. He avoided exposing himself and fled when the men noticed him, leaving him to find a chance to warn Ronglin.

• Anrield overheard Pirate Alliance members discuss the Alliance’s weakened state and Ronglin’s growing influence.
• The men revealed that Hawkins had joined Ronglin and was training Bilida’s Second Fleet, making Anrield regret losing Ronglin’s trust.
• Anrield learned that the group belonged to the Pirate Alliance’s First Fleet and suspected its main force was on the island.
• Anrield pretended to stop by the roadside so he could slip away and report the news to Ronglin.
• The Pirate Alliance members spotted Anrield and mocked him, so he acted frightened and ran from them.

Anrield tried to escape the Pirate Alliance members but bounty hunter Erid recognized him and exposed his identity. The two began fighting, with Anrield striking back against Erid’s attack.

• Anrield encountered a group of First Fleet members while fleeing, and they initially mistook him for a harmless, exhausted man.
• Erid identified Anrield as Charioteer Anrield, a 360-million-Beli bounty and subordinate of Superstar Ronglin, and the Pirate Alliance members surrounded him.
• Erid introduced himself as a bounty hunter who targeted criminals with bounties over a hundred million, and Anrield prepared to fight despite being injured and outnumbered.
• Erid attacked Anrield with an Armament Haki-coated claw strike, and Anrield dodged before punching upward at him.

Erid defeated and captured the wounded Anrield, ordering the First Fleet to take him back for interrogation about Ronglin. Meanwhile, Ronglin and Caesar boarded a train, where the pirates were too frightened of Ronglin to make a sound.

• Erid overpowered Anrield, pierced his chest with Hunter's Fang, and left him unable to fight.
• Members of the First Fleet bound Anrield, treated his wounds, and prepared to take him back for interrogation.
• Ronglin boarded an express train with Caesar and traveled toward a prosperous nearby city.
• Caesar wondered why the pirates near Whitebeard's territory were acting so meek, and Ronglin called them polite and civilized.

Ronglin tried to gather information from the pirates in his carriage, but his fearsome reputation made them too frightened to speak. After Caesar mocked their cowardice, Wilk pledged allegiance to Ronglin, who offered him the post of Vice Commander of the Third Fleet.

• Ronglin apologized for Caesar’s rudeness and tried to make conversation with the frightened passengers.
• When a passenger mentioned Ronglin’s attack on a World Government fleet, Ronglin pointed out that one warship had escaped.
• Caesar called the passengers cowards and said they were too insignificant to provide useful information.
• Ronglin compared the passengers unfavorably to Jazz, prompting one man to approach him before abruptly pledging allegiance.
• Wilk introduced himself as the captain of the Road Overlord Pirate Group and asked to join Ronglin’s forces.
• Ronglin assigned Wilk to serve as Vice Commander of the rebuilding Third Fleet under Anrield.

Ronglin learned that Celestial Dragon tax officers had arrived on the island and suspected the World Government was trying to establish a stronghold there. After he entered the city, a crowd of pirates suddenly decided to follow him, leaving Ronglin and Caesar wondering if they were hallucinating.

• Wilk told Ronglin that the island had once been under Whitebeard’s protection but was now lawless, and that the Celestial Dragons might be trying to establish a stronghold there.
• Caesar agreed that Wilk’s account was plausible, and Ronglin decided to investigate what the World Government was doing.
• Ronglin entered the city with Caesar and paid the carriage fare, prompting one passenger to decide to follow him.
• The other passengers rushed after Ronglin to join him, but scattered when he said anyone who had not paid the fare was unqualified.
• Ronglin quietly asked Caesar whether someone might have put a hallucinogenic drug in their food, and Caesar said he could not rule it out.

Ronglin accepted a crowd of new subordinates and took them to a newly opened auction house associated with the Celestial Dragons. After Wilk warned that Ronglin lacked the status to enter, Ronglin led the group there anyway, where the guards prepared to confront them.

• Ronglin accepted the newcomers provisionally and ordered them to line up by bounty before a final test aboard his ship.
• Ronglin chose the Sixth District auction house after Wilk identified it as one of the liveliest places.
• Wilk warned that the auction house was a Celestial Dragon stronghold and that Ronglin might lack the prestige to compete there.
• Ronglin rebuked the group’s timidity, then led them through the streets toward the auction house.
• The auction house’s guards went on alert as Ronglin and his subordinates arrived, and a lecherous middle-aged ticket checker approached them with a hostess.

Ronglin and his group arrived at the auction house, where a gatekeeper mocked them and attacked Ronglin. Ronglin disarmed him, entered the venue, and invited him to join, leaving the man undecided.

• The middle-aged man demanded tickets and mocked Wilk when he claimed Ronglin was his boss.
• Ronglin threw Wilk clear of danger and caught the middle-aged man's blades between two fingers, stopping his sneak attack.
• The middle-aged man let Ronglin's group enter and warned that monsters inside would devour them.
• Ronglin recognized that the middle-aged man did not seem to be from CP0 and invited him to join his group.
• The middle-aged man said he would think it over, and Ronglin entered the auction house.

Ronglin attended an auction, dismissed a Treasure Map, and sent his subordinates to investigate the venue and the missing Celestial Dragons. When the host accused his group of disrupting the auction, Ronglin openly declared his contempt for everyone there.

• Ronglin led his subordinates into the auction hall and watched the bidding on a Treasure Map offered by the Green Leaf Pirates.
• Ronglin refused to bid on the map, boasting that he had the resources of an entire Fish-Man Island.
• The Eight Treasures Navy won the Treasure Map, and Ronglin recognized Old Cai among the bidders.
• Ronglin used Observation Haki to assess the people in the venue, found no Celestial Dragons, and ordered Wilk and the others to investigate.
• The host accused Ronglin's group of disrupting the auction, and Ronglin told him that he held everyone there in contempt.

Ronglin provoked the auction host and offered Caesar for sale, drawing huge bids and attention from the crowd. An imposing old man tried to claim Caesar, but Caesar refused him and enraged him, leaving the old man raising three fingers in anger.

• Ronglin argued with the host, then lifted Caesar and announced that he was for sale.
• The crowd recognized Caesar and Ronglin, cleared space around Ronglin, and began bidding for Caesar.
• The bids rose to 1.4 billion Beli before an imposing old man in the VIP section offered to take Caesar.
• Caesar insulted the old man and declared his loyalty to Ronglin, provoking laughter from the crowd.
• The furious old man stamped his cane and raised three withered fingers.

Ronglin rejected the many bids for Caesar and revealed that he had no intention of selling the scientist. He announced that the real auction item was Caesar’s Artificial Devil Fruit, leaving the venue in an uproar.

• A middle-aged man offered two island nations for Caesar, but Ronglin rejected the offer and said Caesar was worth more.
• A noblewoman offered to marry Ronglin and give him thirty-six islands, but Caesar insulted her and revealed her secrets.
• After several New World figures bid for Caesar, Ronglin said he had never intended to sell him and dismissed the bidders as unimportant.
• Ronglin announced that he was selling the Artificial Devil Fruit developed by Caesar, shocking the crowd and Wilk’s group.

Ronglin used Conqueror’s Haki to subdue the auction crowd and revealed that he was recruiting fighters for a war against Kaido, not selling Devil Fruits. He offered free fruits to those who joined him and warned them against leaving after receiving one.

• The crowd rushed toward Ronglin to buy Devil Fruits, so he released Conqueror’s Haki and knocked most of the venue unconscious.
• Ronglin said only those who passed his test deserved Devil Fruits, while VIPs offered to reserve hundreds of them.
• Caesar worried that Ronglin was taking presales before his final step was complete, but Ronglin confidently reassured him.
• Ronglin announced that his Devil Fruits were not for public sale and that he was recruiting people for a war against Kaido.
• Ronglin offered free Devil Fruits to those who joined his ranks and warned that anyone who left after receiving one would face severe consequences.

Ronglin recruited Devil Fruit users into his army and refused to sell fruits to the VIPs. A sailor then reported that Anrield had been captured, while the chapter recounted how Anrield disappeared and Jazz went searching for him.

• Ronglin invited people to join his army, and many left the venue to enlist while others declined.
• Ronglin refused the VIPs' request to buy Devil Fruits and led Wilk and the others away.
• A sailor told Ronglin that Anrield had been captured and that Jazz had gone to the Pirate Alliance's First Fleet to rescue him.
• Anrield had followed a suspicious person to the Pirate Alliance, exposed himself, and been captured.
• Jazz learned that Anrield had left for the cliffs and took several people to look for him.
• Jazz and his group searched the increasingly remote roads but found no trace of Anrield.

Jazz learned that Fat An had been captured and taken toward the bay behind the mountain, then sent men to alert Jinbe while he investigated. He cautiously led four sailors along a mountain path and detected a hidden sentry.

• Jazz descended the cliff using his movement technique and asked the fishermen whether they had seen a bandaged fat man.
• The fishermen told Jazz that a group had captured Fat An alive and taken him toward the bay behind the mountain.
• Jazz returned to his subordinates, sent two sailors to inform Jinbe, and set out to investigate with four others.
• Jazz detected a hidden sentry in the forest and ordered two sailors to approach openly while he circled behind the sentry.

Jazz learned that Anrield had been taken by the Pirate Alliance's First Fleet and devised a plan to investigate their fleet. Disguised as a captured subordinate, he entered the heavily guarded bay with one of his men.

• Jazz's men captured a hidden sentry, who revealed he belonged to the Pirate Alliance's First Fleet and that Anrield had been taken to its ships.
• The sentry told Jazz that the fleet was anchored in a nearby bay and gave him details about its defenses.
• Jazz knocked the sentry unconscious, sent a subordinate to alert Jinbe, and ordered another man to wear the sentry's clothes.
• Jazz and the disguised subordinate passed several sentries by claiming Jazz was a captured subordinate of Ronglin.
• After surviving further questioning and a search, Jazz and his subordinate reached the bay and walked toward the First Fleet's warships.

Jazz was captured by Erid’s crew while infiltrating the fleet to rescue Anrield, then reunited with Anrield in the prisoner ship’s cells. After Jazz revealed he had come to save him, he checked Anrield’s serious wounds and asked whether he could swim.

• Erid recognized Jazz and allowed the sailor who had captured him to escort him to the prisoner ship.
• The sailor told the guards Jazz was one of Ronglin’s men and arranged for him to be locked up with Anrield.
• Jazz entered Anrield’s cell, and the sailor bribed the guards to leave them alone.
• Jazz snapped the loose rope binding his hands and told Anrield he had come to save him.
• Jazz examined Anrield’s wounds and asked whether he could swim.

Jazz led Anrield and a sailor in escaping their prison ship by setting it on fire and fleeing through the sea. As the Pirate Alliance’s First Fleet searched the burning ship, Jazz guided his companions toward shore.

• Jazz stopped Anrield from breaking his chains noisily and unlocked them with a piece of wire.
• The sailor lured two guards into the cell, and Jazz and Anrield subdued them before Jazz ordered the ship set on fire.
• Jazz, Anrield, and the sailor escaped onto the deck and jumped into the sea as the fire spread.
• Erid saw the prisoner-of-war ship burning and searched the chaotic bay for Jazz and the others.
• Jazz surfaced to orient himself, then led Anrield and the sailor underwater toward shore.

Jazz, Anrield, and their sailor escaped the bay and seized a warship, then attacked the Pirate Alliance’s First Fleet. They continued fighting off pirates and firing on nearby ships as the fleet closed in.

• Jazz and Anrield spent nearly an hour swimming out of the bay before a pirate hauled them aboard a warship.
• Erid spotted them climbing aboard and shouted that the arsonists were on the ship.
• Jazz knocked out the pirate who had helped them, and Anrield took control of the cannon platform.
• Anrield fired at Erid, who dodged the cannonball and was injured by the effort.
• Jazz ordered the crew to fire on the other warships’ cannon platforms, and the sailor took over the artillery.
• Jazz and Anrield fought the pirates charging toward the cannon platform while the sailor continued firing.

Jazz fought off the Pirate Alliance’s pirates while protecting Anrield and Pig Head, then cleared a path for them to escape into the sea. He followed them after unleashing a powerful Fish-Man Karate strike, while the Alliance Leader watched admiringly.

• Jazz defeated ordinary pirates and a squad captain with Fish-Man Karate as the Alliance Leader praised his skill.
• As cannon fire damaged the ship and more pirates closed in, Jazz told Anrield and Pig Head to jump into the sea.
• Anrield trusted Jazz, grabbed Pig Head, and leaped from the ship into the water.
• Jazz blasted the charging pirates with Fish-Man Karate: Three Thousand Tiles, disrupting their attack.
• Jazz jumped into the sea, and the Alliance Leader regretted letting him escape while his companion reminded him the defeated pirates were their own men.

The Pirate Alliance tried to pursue Jazz and his companions after they escaped, but Jinbe attacked the shore and forced the Alliance Leader to order a retreat. Jinbe learned that Jazz had escaped with Anrield, while the Alliance Leader planned to expose Ronglin’s location to Navy admiral candidates and exploit the clash between Fire Fist and Blackbeard.

• The Alliance Leader ordered swimmers to search for Jazz and the other escapees, then pirates on shore came under attack.
• The Alliance Leader recognized Jinbe and ordered the fleet to retreat in disguised, scattered ships rather than risk fighting Ronglin’s forces.
• Jinbe fought through the pirates on shore as the Pirate Alliance began boarding its ships.
• Jinbe asked where Jazz was, and a pirate told him that Jazz had escaped with Anrield after burning the prisoner ship.
• The Alliance Leader decided to leak Ronglin’s whereabouts to nearby Navy admiral candidates and seek profit from the battle between Fire Fist and Blackbeard.

Jinbe fought off the Pirate Alliance’s forces while searching its warships for Jazz, then confronted the Alliance Leader, who tried to recruit him. Jinbe refused and demanded Jazz’s release, leaving the standoff unresolved.

• Jinbe rejected the Pirate Alliance envoys’ offer and defeated them with Fish-Man Karate: Surfing.
• Jinbe repelled a charge by more than a hundred pirates with Fish-Man Jujutsu: Water Heart: Sea Current Shoulder Throw.
• The Pirate Alliance Leader stopped his Captains from engaging Jinbe and greeted him from a warship.
• Jinbe demanded that the Alliance Leader hand over Jazz and refused an offer to become a Fleet Commander.
• The Alliance Leader took offense at Jinbe’s refusal and challenged him over whether joining the Pirate Alliance was beneath him.