Chapter Summaries

Ronglin explained that he recruited people to help realize his ambitions, not to reform them, and invited Drake to join the Star Alliance. Drake accepted, leaving his dream of opposing Kaido behind for the safety of a powerful alliance.

• Drake asked whether Ronglin could truly set someone like him on the right path, and Ronglin said he had never intended to change anyone.
• Ronglin admitted that he wanted to conquer the world and said Shiryu had joined him to support that ambition.
• Drake asked whether rumors about Ronglin and Shiryu were true, prompting Ronglin to redirect the conversation and invite Drake to join the Star Alliance.
• Drake weighed the alliance’s protection against his own fading ambitions and clasped Ronglin’s hand.
• Ronglin welcomed Drake into the Star Alliance.

Drake joined the Star Alliance after Ronglin defeated him and offered him a path forward. Ronglin immediately tasked Drake with escorting a merchant ship safely, forcing the former pirate to adjust to protecting people he once would have robbed.

• Drake and his subordinates greeted Ronglin as they joined the Star Alliance, then helped rescue people from the sea alongside the merchant ship's crew.
• Ronglin asked Drake what he thought about joining the Star Alliance, and Drake said he would accept the uncertainty and follow Ronglin while he figured out his path.
• Ronglin assigned Drake to escort the merchant ship safely to its destination and bring any interested people to join the Star Alliance.
• Ronglin explained that protecting potential Star Alliance members meant protecting the Alliance's assets, and called the assignment a test of his trust in Drake.
• Drake told Ronglin that switching from robbing people to protecting them was difficult to adjust to.

Drake and his crew joined the Star Alliance after Ronglin persuaded him to abandon piracy. Ronglin revealed that the Alliance was already attacking Kaido and Charlotte Linlin’s forces while he waited to confront a powerful Navy fleet, leaving Drake alarmed by the scale of the conflict.

• Ronglin warned Drake to follow through on his decision to change, and Drake announced that he and his men would join the Star Alliance.
• Drake’s crew pledged loyalty, and Ronglin assigned them to escort a merchant ship; Drake’s men put away their pirate flag and changed out of their pirate clothes.
• Ronglin contacted his forces and revealed that the Alliance’s fleets were attacking strongholds belonging to Kaido and Charlotte Linlin while applying pressure on their forces.
• Drake learned that the Star Alliance was fighting two Four Emperors at once and questioned Ronglin’s strategy.
• Ronglin told Drake that he was waiting to confront a Navy fleet led by three Admiral candidates and ten elite Vice Admirals.

Charlotte Linlin responded to the Star Alliance’s raid on Cream Puff Island by planning a trap for its Third Fleet. Hawkins grew suspicious when Kaido sent troops to help the BIGMOM Pirates and warned Ronglin that the Beasts Pirates might be inviting an attack.

• Charlotte Linlin learned that the Star Alliance’s Fourth Fleet had devastated Cream Puff Island, and she killed an intelligence officer who reported the damage.
• Smoothie and the ministers explained the Star Alliance’s feints, while Kaido dispatched troops to support the BIGMOM Pirates.
• A tactical minister proposed luring the Third Fleet into a joint counterattack, and Charlotte Linlin ordered Cracker to feign pursuit while Smoothie guarded the front line.
• Hawkins heard that Kaido had sent troops from his inner territory and suspected the Beasts Pirates wanted the Second Fleet to attack.
• Hawkins contacted Ronglin and warned him about the suspicious troop movements.

Ronglin’s Star Alliance fleets withdrew after striking the BIGMOM Pirates, leaving the New World to speculate about their motives. While vacationing on a nearby island, Ronglin waited for intelligence about unrest in Kaido’s territory and wondered why pirates had become unusually quiet.

• Ronglin approved Hawkins’s judgment and ordered the fleets to retreat and harass the enemy alongside the Third Fleet.
• The Star Alliance’s Second and Third Fleets joined forces and frightened off the pursuing BIGMOM Pirates after the Fourth Fleet’s attack.
• Four days later, the Third Fleet returned to the Lodun Islands, the Second Fleet patrolled Alliance waters, and the Fourth Fleet gathered forces in the New World.
• Ronglin read the newspaper’s theories about the attack with Jazz and said the Alliance had only intended to strike the Four Emperors before returning to its usual business.
• Ronglin told Jazz they would remain on the island until intelligence arrived about the unrest in Kaido’s territory.
• Ronglin noticed that the prosperous island, near Blackbeard’s and Kaido’s spheres of influence, had unusually few pirates causing trouble.

Ronglin took Jazz shopping on the island, then entered an auction house after suspecting someone was tracking him. There, he confronted Ade, who revealed he had survived and transformed with his Devil Fruit before clashing with Ronglin.

• Ronglin sensed that someone was following him but could not locate them with Observation Haki, so he led Jazz through the streets and into an auction house.
• Ronglin controlled the entrance guards with genjutsu and watched the auction from a corner.
• A fight broke out backstage, and a blast of energy cut the host in half and sent the guests into a panic.
• Ade emerged from backstage, threatened the guests, and revealed that he knew Ronglin should have been with Shiryu during an ambush.
• Ronglin knocked the guests unconscious with his Observation Haki and charged Ade, who transformed into a white beast and attacked him.
• Ronglin and Ade collided fists, and Ade's arm burst apart under the impact.

Ronglin fought Adele Baiyu, whose awakened Bai Ze Devil Fruit let him recover from fatal injuries and spread destructive vibrations through the city. After Adele endangered civilians to amplify his power, Ronglin pursued him through the air as Adele launched White Nebula.

• Ronglin used Haki: City Crusher to kill the CP0 elites who attacked him, while Adele Baiyu crawled from the rubble with his broken arm healed.
• Ronglin learned that Adele had revived after his heart was crushed through his awakened Bai Ze Devil Fruit ability.
• Ronglin struck Adele and sent him through the auction hall walls, then pursued him outside.
• Adele expanded his vibrating power, collapsing buildings and killing nearby pedestrians, while mocking Ronglin for caring about them.
• Ronglin used Arc Wall to knock Adele back and caught up with him using Moonwalk and Shave.
• Adele raised his hands toward Ronglin and unleashed White Nebula.

Ronglin fought Ade, who used his awakened Devil Fruit and a triple dose of drugs to withstand Ronglin’s attacks. The fight continued in an uninhabited area, where Ade’s enhanced form began counterattacking.

• Ade trapped Ronglin inside an iceberg, but Ronglin broke free and struck Ade hard enough to send him flying away from the crowded city.
• Ade claimed that his awakened Devil Fruit made him difficult to kill, and Ronglin advanced on him despite the boast.
• Ade transformed into his beast form, but Ronglin’s Haki-coated punch only dented his chest after Ade used drugs and activated Fortified: White Castle.
• Ade revealed he had taken triple the dose, then charged Ronglin with a shockwave attack.
• Ronglin dodged the shockwave, but Ade anticipated his movement and swung a sweeping kick at him.

Ronglin defeated Ade and questioned him about Shiryu’s ambush, learning that the Pirate Alliance had leaked their location. Ade healed his injuries and warned that Ronglin had only five minutes to reach Shiryu.

• Ronglin broke Ade’s legs, knocked him down, and pinned him while demanding to know what had happened to Shiryu.
• Ade revealed that Den Den Mushi jammers had cut off Ronglin’s communications and that someone had provided Shiryu’s location.
• Ade escaped Ronglin’s hold and used his Devil Fruit ability to heal and reattach his severed leg.
• Ronglin deduced that the Pirate Alliance had supplied the intelligence, and Ade confirmed it.
• Ade said the attack had begun after the jammers were activated and claimed Ronglin had five minutes to kill him and reach Shiryu in time.

Ronglin killed Ade with his Overwhelming Body and Amaterasu, then searched for the reborn Devil Fruit. He found a Devil Fruit beneath a tree, though he did not know whether it was the Divine Beast Bai Ze fruit.

• Ronglin activated Overwhelming Body and cut Ade in half before Ade could react.
• Ronglin unleashed Black Flame from his eyes, burning Ade to ashes despite his regenerative Devil Fruit ability.
• Ronglin released his battle stance and searched the area for the Devil Fruit reborn after Ade's death.
• Ronglin found a Devil Fruit beneath an unknown fruit tree but could not identify it.

Ronglin returned to the auction house and found Jazz had stopped gangsters from looting it after its staff were murdered. Jazz confronted a man Ronglin recognized as one of Capone’s subordinates, who taunted him for being alone and away from the Alliance Leader.

• Ronglin rushed back to the auction house because he feared leaving Jazz there alone.
• Ronglin found Jazz standing among fallen men and learned that the auction house staff had been murdered and gangsters had tried to seize the goods.
• Jazz shot a gangster in the thigh, dodged gunfire with Observation Haki, and knocked him unconscious when he threatened the Star Alliance.
• A tall, thin man from Capone’s group appeared and praised Jazz, while the other gangsters surrendered and begged for mercy.
• Jazz repeatedly demanded to know whether the newcomer had ordered the attack, but the man mocked him for being alone without the Alliance Leader.

Jazz fought off an armed attack and protected the fleeing bystanders, while Ronglin watched and questioned whether Capone had ordered the assault. A Capone subordinate named Vite restrained the attacker, but someone in the crowd then shot and killed him.

• A man claiming Jazz had no right to become Star Alliance Leader fired at him, but Jazz dodged and deflected the bullets with Observation Haki and Armament Haki.
• The attacker urged his followers to silence the witnesses, prompting civilians to flee and armed men to turn on them.
• Jazz used Fish-Man Karate: Three Thousand Tiles to knock down the men attacking the bystanders.
• The attacker aimed his guns at Jazz, but Vite grabbed his weapon and slammed him into a crater while warning him not to endanger Capone.
• An unseen shooter fired an Armament Haki-coated bullet through the restrained attacker’s head, and the crowd parted to reveal the shooter.

After Jazz chose to punish the Star Alliance recruits who had attacked him, Ronglin stepped in to prevent their execution in public and ordered Capone to purge those who broke the rules. Capone refused Ronglin’s offer to put him in charge of criminal law, leaving the Alliance without an obvious candidate for the role.

• Capone arrived after Jazz subdued the recruits and offered to kill them, but said he would spare them if Jazz ordered it.
• Jazz ordered the recruits killed, deciding that the Star Alliance had to enforce its rules.
• Ronglin emerged from the crowd and ordered Capone to take the recruits elsewhere before dealing with them, away from civilians.
• Capone explained that the Alliance’s rapid growth had brought in unruly members, and Ronglin ordered a purge of anyone who broke the rules.
• Ronglin appointed Capone to lead the purge and offered him authority over punishment, but Capone declined and preferred to command the Fourth Fleet.

Ronglin appointed Capone Deputy Minister of Penal Law under Jazz’s protection, then learned that Shiryu’s force was under attack by powerful World Government fighters. He ordered Shiryu to retreat while suspecting an ambush awaited anyone who came to help.

• Ronglin appointed Capone Deputy Minister of Penal Law and made Jazz Chief Minister, declaring that Jazz would protect Capone.
• Capone accepted the post and pledged to handle the Star Alliance’s penal duties.
• Ronglin asked Capone why the Fourth Fleet was nearby, and Capone explained that his fleet had encountered Jazz after withdrawing from an attack on one of the Four Emperors.
• Ronglin contacted Shiryu, who reported that powerful opponents were besieging his force and that the World Government’s flag was present.
• Ronglin suspected a second force was waiting to ambush rescuers and ordered Shiryu to abandon what he could and retreat immediately.

Ronglin rushed with Capone and the Star Alliance’s Fourth Fleet to aid Shiryu, while suspecting that the World Government and Pirate Alliance had arranged a trap. He realized the Marines might be the real threat and sensed an unseen presence beneath the sea, but had no Fish-Men aboard to expose it.

• Ronglin ordered the Fourth Fleet to set out at full speed, leaving Capone in command as they hurried to catch up with Shiryu.
• Ronglin warned Capone that the Pirate Alliance might have brought in a powerful enemy to strike Shiryu and the Star Alliance.
• Ronglin realized the World Government could deploy Marines already stationed in the New World rather than send forces from Mary Geoise.
• Ronglin repeatedly used Observation Haki and Divine Sense to search the surrounding waters, but detected nothing despite sensing that someone was watching.
• Ronglin thought of Jinbe, who had exposed an underwater Marine pursuit before, but the fleet had no Fish-Men capable of forcing a hidden pursuer to surface.

Jazz dove into the sea to investigate Ronglin’s suspicion and discovered a hidden Marine warship after attacking the surrounding depths. He surfaced with proof that the ambush was real, while Tsuru’s forces had been exposed.

• Jazz leaped into the sea to investigate, and Ronglin stopped the sailors from following him.
• Jazz dove deeper, then used Fish-Man Karate to probe the dark waters for hidden enemies.
• Tsuru watched Jazz through a periscope and ordered her soldiers to ignore his attacks.
• Jazz unleashed a barrage of Finger Pistols, piercing the coating of a hidden warship.
• Jazz realized his attack had found the hidden force and swam rapidly toward the surface.

Jazz discovered a large Marine force waiting beneath the sea and returned to warn Ronglin’s fleet. The Marines emerged and revealed three Admiral candidates, while Tsuru tried to persuade Ronglin to join the World Government.

• Jazz evaded underwater cannon fire and warned Ronglin that more than ten huge warships were approaching.
• Ronglin praised Jazz, then ordered the Fourth Fleet to fire as the Marine warships emerged from the sea.
• The Star Alliance’s first barrage heavily damaged several warships, but Marine fighters knocked aside the fleet’s following cannonballs.
• Fujitora, Green Bull, and Momousagi identified themselves as Marine Admiral candidates, alarming the Pirate Alliance.
• Tsuru confronted Ronglin and asked why he opposed the World Government instead of joining it.

Tsuru tried to recruit Jazz to the Marines, but Jazz rejected her and declared that he would follow Ronglin to establish a new order. The Marines began attacking the Star Alliance, and Ronglin ordered his allies to retreat while he faced the Marine leaders.

• Tsuru confronted Ronglin and tried to persuade Jazz to join the Marines, promising him a future as an Admiral or Fleet Admiral.
• Jazz rejected Tsuru, defended the Star Alliance’s work, and said he would help Ronglin shatter the existing order and establish a new one.
• Ronglin told Tsuru to leave, but she declared that the Marines and Star Alliance would settle whose order was stronger.
• At Tsuru’s signal, the Marine fleet formed up and bombarded the Star Alliance as it advanced.
• Ronglin ordered Capone and the others to retreat, join Shiryu, evade the World Government’s pursuers, and head for the Ashil Kingdom while he fought the three Admiral candidates.

Ronglin intercepted the Marines pursuing the retreating Fourth Fleet and fought off five Vice Admirals. The battle left him surrounded by their attacks as he unleashed a massive Tempest Kick to sweep them back.

• Jazz offered to stay and fight beside Ronglin, but Ronglin refused and ordered him to wait until he was stronger.
• The Fourth Fleet retreated, and Tsuru sent Vice Admirals after it because Celestial Dragons were watching nearby.
• Ronglin rose to intercept the Marines and shattered a Vice Admiral's Tempest Kick with Haki before a blind swordsman crushed his strike with gravity.
• Onigumo and four other Vice Admirals surrounded Ronglin and attacked together.
• Ronglin scattered their attacks with Arc Wall, then unleashed over a hundred Tempest Kicks that formed a huge circular air blade and engulfed them.

Ronglin held off Tsuru’s Marines so Capone’s Fourth Fleet could escape, overpowering the Vice Admirals and stopping their pursuit. As Fujitora joined the fight with gravity and sword attacks, Ronglin activated Eternal Fortress to defend against his descending slash.

• Onigumo warned the Vice Admirals, but Ronglin’s Tempest Kick overwhelmed their defenses and severely wounded five of them.
• Tsuru ordered the Marines to scatter and pursue the departing Fourth Fleet, while Ronglin used Tempest Kick: Snow Scene to halt their advance.
• Tsuru sent Fujitora to attack Ronglin, who tore apart Fujitora’s gravity assault and dodged his Armament Haki sword strike.
• Fujitora surrounded Ronglin with gravity and brought down a powerful aerial slash, prompting Ronglin to activate Eternal Fortress.