Chapter Summaries

Ronglin urged the Fish-Man Clan to pursue life on the surface, warning that he could not guarantee their safety but offering to fight alongside them through the Star Alliance. King Neptune weighed the cost of seeking freedom as Ronglin revealed the staggering losses his own forces had suffered.

• Ronglin invited the Fish-Man Clan to imagine life on the surface, but Princess Shirahoshi warned that humans captured and abused fish-men.
• Ronglin admitted the surface was dangerous and said the clan had to fight for its own freedom, while promising to join forces with them through the Star Alliance.
• Ronglin urged King Neptune to consider bringing the Mermaid Clan to an upcoming worldwide alliance summit to help bridge the divide between humans and merfolk.
• King Neptune asked whether many people would die, and Ronglin confirmed it, revealing that he had lost thirty thousand subordinates and hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Ronglin urged the fish-men to risk their lives for freedom rather than endure oppression, and Princess Shirahoshi and Prince Shark Star pledged to join the Star Alliance. King Neptune declared that Ryugu Palace would attend the Ten Thousand Nations Alliance Summit and fight for the fish-men’s future.

• Ronglin warned the fish-men that following him could cost them their lives, but remaining under oppression would leave them without freedom.
• Princess Shirahoshi said she would trust Ronglin and risk her life to see the surface world.
• King Neptune questioned whether Ryugu Palace should defy the World Government, which had promised to let them take Noah to the surface legally in a few years.
• Prince Shark Star condemned the World Government and announced that he and Shirahoshi would attend the summit and forge an alliance with the Star Alliance.
• Ronglin told the fish-men that waiting would never bring true freedom, and King Neptune declared that Ryugu Palace would join the summit and fight for its goals.
• The fish-men cheered and supported King Neptune’s decision.

Ronglin won support for the Star Alliance among the people of Fish-Man Island as Jazz and Shiryu sailed beyond Alliance territory to hunt for a Pirate Alliance commander. Jazz chose to investigate their target alone with Shiryu, trusting Ronglin’s judgment despite the danger.

• Ronglin praised Princess Shirahoshi’s courage and promised to clear the way ahead for her.
• Jinbe resolved to stand with the Mermaid Clan as the fish-men prepared to seek alliances with human kingdoms at the Ten Thousand Nations Alliance Summit.
• Jazz took Shiryu and members of the Phantom Group on a mission to find Wally Anderson, commander of the Pirate Alliance’s Fifth Fleet.
• Jazz ordered the Phantom Group to split up at the next island and insisted that he investigate the target with Shiryu alone.
• Shiryu asked whether Jazz feared he would betray him, and Jazz admitted he was afraid but trusted Ronglin’s judgment.

Jazz and Shiryu searched an information shop for clues about the Pirate Alliance’s missing Commander, while a group following them arrived to ask about the same person. The shopkeeper was about to name his price to the newcomers when the chapter ended.

• Jazz explained that Ronglin wanted Shiryu to show loyalty to the Star Alliance, but Shiryu said he did not care for that power.
• Jazz sensed an unfamiliar presence following him and Shiryu with Observation Haki as they entered town.
• Jazz showed the shopkeeper a drawing of the missing Commander, and the shopkeeper demanded ten million Beli for the information.
• Shiryu threatened the shopkeeper with his sword when he refused to give the information before payment.
• Baron Tamago and a tall humanoid lion entered, asked the shopkeeper about the same person, and heard him begin to name his price.

Jazz fought Baron Tamago and Pekoms after discovering that they were members of the BIGMOM Pirates. He escaped into the street and battled their group, with Pekoms protecting himself from Jazz’s final attack using his turtle shell.

• The shopkeeper told Baron Tamago that the person he sought was in the island’s southwest, then gave the BIGMOM Pirates free information.
• Baron Tamago suddenly kicked at Jazz, but Jazz dodged and counterattacked with Fish-Man Karate, blasting him through a wall.
• Pekoms charged at Jazz, who used Shave to escape outside as Pekoms accused him of being from Fish-Man Island.
• Jazz struck the surrounding attackers with Tempest Kick, tearing open the chests of those with weak defenses.
• Pekoms formed a turtle shell over his body and blocked Jazz’s attack.

Jazz defeated the BIGMOM Pirates’ squad and fought Baron Tamago after he transformed into Chicken Viscount. Jazz dodged Chicken Viscount’s air blades and launched an attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Jazz struck Pekoms with an Armament Haki Finger Pistol, but Pekoms’s turtle-shell defense sent him flying and hurt Jazz’s finger.
• Jazz used Observation Haki to evade the pirates’ attacks, turned one attacker into a shield against a gunshot, and knocked the remaining lackeys away with Fish-Man Karate - 4000 Brick Fist.
• Shiryu mocked the BIGMOM Pirates as Baron Tamago recovered and transformed into Chicken Viscount.
• Chicken Viscount attacked Jazz with hundreds of air blades, but Jazz evaded them with Six Powers - Kami-e and charged at him.
• Jazz used Haki: Imitation - City Destruction against Chicken Viscount.

Jazz and Shiryu fought BIGMOM Pirates members, and the pirates finally recognized Shiryu and identified Jazz as the rumored next Alliance Leader of the Star Alliance. Jazz fought Pekoms and gained the upper hand, but Pekoms launched another powerful attack as the fight continued.

• Jazz struck Chicken Viscount with an Armament Haki punch and sent him crashing into a distant street.
• Pekoms challenged Jazz, and onlookers recognized Shiryu as a former Chief Warden of the Great Prison who had joined the Star Alliance.
• Pekoms recognized Jazz as the rumored next Alliance Leader and charged at him in anger.
• Jazz dodged Pekoms's palm strike and counterpunched his turtle shell, hurting him despite its defense.
• Pekoms launched himself into the air and brought both palms down, while Jazz prepared to avoid meeting his attack head-on.

Jazz avoided Pekoms’s attacks and survived Rooster Count’s surprise strike, then killed him with a single counterattack. Injured but standing, Jazz left the surrounding crowd and BIGMOM Pirates wary of his strength.

• Jazz used Moon Walk to evade Pekoms and sought an opening to defeat him without relying on Shiryu.
• Jazz sensed an attack from the crowd and defended with Iron Body and Armament Haki Hardening.
• Rooster Count struck Jazz in the chest, but Jazz answered with Haki: Imitation: Stone Piercer and punched through his chest.
• Pekoms caught the mortally wounded Rooster Count as he fell, while Jazz descended to the street injured and coughing blood.
• Jazz steadied himself, and the crowd and BIGMOM Pirates kept their distance from him.

Shiryu intervened when Pekoms tried to retreat and asked Jazz for permission to kill the BIGMOM Pirates. After Shiryu slaughtered their attackers, Jazz offered Pekoms a chance to leave with the bodies if he explained why they were seeking Black Leg Sanji.

• Pekoms threatened Jazz and attempted to retreat while Shiryu watched.
• Shiryu stepped between Pekoms and Jazz, challenged the BIGMOM Pirates, and asked Jazz whether he could wipe them out.
• Jazz ordered Shiryu to kill the pirates quickly, and Shiryu killed more than twenty with one sword slash.
• Pekoms faced Shiryu and acknowledged his strength, but Jazz interrupted and asked why they were looking for Black Leg Sanji.
• Jazz offered to spare Pekoms and let him leave with his companions' bodies if he explained their reason for seeking Sanji.

Jazz persuaded Pekoms to reveal that the BIGMOM Pirates sought Sanji for a marriage alliance with the Vinsmoke Family, then let Pekoms leave with his comrades' bodies. The information shop owner told Jazz and Shiryu that the person they were searching for had gone into hiding.

• Jazz convinced Pekoms that leaving alive to collect his comrades' bodies would honor them, and Pekoms revealed the BIGMOM Pirates' marriage alliance plans for Sanji and the Vinsmoke Family.
• Shiryu suggested killing Pekoms to hinder the alliance, but Jazz refused and allowed him to go; Pekoms hired people to carry away the bodies.
• Jazz told Shiryu that he was learning to win people's loyalty in case he someday managed the Star Alliance.
• The information shop owner begged Jazz and Shiryu for mercy, then said the person they sought had contacted the shop and gone into hiding.

Jazz and Shiryu questioned an information broker and then searched the island for BIGMOM Pirates members. They ended up on the outskirts of the city, far from their ship.

• The shop owner told Jazz that Wally Anderson would decide whether to join the Star Alliance at the Ten Thousand Nations Alliance Summit.
• Jazz warned the shop owner to choose the Star Alliance’s side carefully, then left with Shiryu.
• Jazz changed clothes and told Shiryu he wanted to locate BIGMOM Pirates members who were searching for Black Leg to arrange a marriage alliance with the Vinsmoke Family.
• Jazz calculated where BIGMOM Pirates members might be, leading Shiryu through the city and out to its outskirts, opposite their ship.

Jazz and Shiryu found the Straw Hat Pirates battling a much larger group and watched as the fight shifted after Senju Cracker arrived. Jazz recognized Roronoa Zoro, whom Ronglin valued, and remembered that Jinbe had defeated Cracker.

• After hearing frightened people describe a battle nearby, Jazz and Shiryu followed their directions to the fight.
• Jazz spotted the Straw Hat Pirates, including Luffy and Roronoa Zoro, overpowering more than a hundred opponents.
• The retreating attackers regrouped and surrounded the Straw Hat Pirates as their morale rose.
• Senju Cracker, a Sweet Commander of the BIGMOM Pirates, arrived, and Shiryu explained that fear of him had driven his men back into the fight.
• Jazz remembered that Jinbe had defeated Cracker when their group traveled through the New World.

Shiryu intervened to save Zoro from Cracker, revealing that he had joined the Star Alliance and claimed the island. He warned the BIGMOM Pirates to leave or face death.

• Cracker overwhelmed Zoro with a massive sword slash, badly injuring him and sending him falling toward Jazz.
• Shiryu ignored Jazz’s plea at first, then attacked Cracker to prevent him from finishing off Zoro.
• Jazz caught the unconscious Zoro and carried him away from the fight.
• Cracker recognized Shiryu as a member of the Star Alliance and asked whether the alliance had come to the island.
• Shiryu said he had claimed the island and ordered the BIGMOM Pirates to leave or be slaughtered.

Jazz confronted Cracker’s BIGMOM Pirates group to keep them from taking Sanji, despite his injury from Rooster Count’s ambush. After Jazz killed one of Cracker’s men and retreated, Shiryu intervened and clashed with Cracker.

• Jazz told the BIGMOM Pirates that he had spared Pekoms but killed Rooster Count, and decided to hold off Cracker’s group while waiting for reinforcements.
• Jazz used Shave and Finger Pistol to kill a man who insulted him, prompting Luffy to mistake his Six Powers for Marine skills.
• Cracker pursued Jazz, who dodged his attack and fled through the air despite the pain from his unhealed wound.
• Shiryu intercepted Cracker with a sword strike, then met Cracker’s spiraling Roll-Pretzel attack with an Armament Haki blow.

Shiryu shattered the biscuit armor Cracker had used to fight him, only to learn that Cracker’s true body remained unharmed. Shiryu then charged into the BIGMOM Pirates and cut down their forces as Cracker summoned countless new suits of armor.

• Shiryu gained the upper hand in his duel with Cracker and seized one of his swords before striking him in the chest.
• Cracker’s body split into fourteen pieces, but he revealed that Shiryu had only destroyed an armor shell and that he could create hundreds or thousands more.
• Shiryu laughed and charged down the slope into the BIGMOM Pirates, cutting down more than a dozen of them with Star Hundred Fragmentation Slash.
• Cracker clapped his hands and formed countless biscuit armor suits around himself.

Jazz and Shiryu held off Cracker and the BIGMOM Pirates while urging the Straw Hat Pirates to retreat, revealing that the enemy was targeting Jazz rather than Nico Robin. When enemy reinforcements arrived, Jazz went back into the battle to retrieve Zoro.

• Shiryu slashed apart Cracker’s Biscuit Soldiers, but Cracker quickly repaired them and sent them back into the fight.
• Jazz reached the Straw Hat Pirates and urged them to retreat while he and Shiryu held back the attackers; Sanji refused to leave them behind.
• Jazz told Sanji that the BIGMOM Pirates were targeting him, then spotted more than a hundred enemy reinforcements charging onto the battlefield.
• Jazz pressed the Straw Hat Pirates to retreat and went to retrieve Zoro when they worried about leaving him behind.
• The BIGMOM Pirates surrounded Jazz and opened fire, but he dodged the bullets with Kami-e and knocked a group of attackers flying with Fish-Man Karate: Three Thousand Tiles.

Jazz helped the Straw Hat Pirates by bringing Zoro to Chopper and fighting off the BIGMOM Pirates, but Luffy refused to retreat without him and Shiryu. The chapter ended with the Straw Hats standing firm as Luffy proposed joining forces against their enemies.

• Jazz carried the injured Zoro through the battlefield and handed him to Chopper for emergency treatment.
• Charlotte Opera arrived with reinforcements and joined Cracker's forces in attacking the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Jazz urged the Straw Hats to retreat, then used Observation Haki, Armament Haki, and Finger Pistol Barrage to kill several enemies.
• Jazz used Kamui to sneak behind Charlotte Moscato and kill him with a punch through the chest.
• Luffy refused to abandon Jazz and Shiryu, and proposed that the Straw Hats join them to fight the enemy.

Jazz and the Straw Hat Pirates struggled to withstand successive waves of BIGMOM Pirates reinforcements, while Jazz's injuries and exhaustion left him close to death. The Phantom Group finally arrived, saved Jazz from a powerful attacker, and opened a path through the enemy.

• After Jazz killed Moscard, BIGMOM Pirates reinforcements charged the Straw Hat Pirates, and another troop arrived from the foot of the mountain.
• Jazz fought desperately, killing more than thirty enemies as his injuries worsened, while Shiryu tried to reach him and Cracker held Shiryu back.
• As the Straw Hat Pirates weakened, a powerful, obese BIGMOM Pirate attacked Jazz and pursued him through the air.
• Number Eighty-Eight struck aside the attack and saved Jazz, while more than a dozen Phantom Group members broke through the enemy ranks.
• Jazz collapsed from exhaustion as Number Eighty-Eight caught him, and he told the arriving Phantom Group that they had come too late.

The Phantom Group arrived to reinforce Jazz and the Straw Hat Pirates, forcing the BIGMOM Pirates to retreat after a chaotic battle. The survivors regrouped, and Sanji wondered why the enemy had targeted him.

• Number Eighty-Eight and the Phantom Group attacked the BIGMOM Pirates, breaking their encirclement of the Straw Hat Pirates.
• Jazz ordered the Phantom Group to protect him, split the battlefield, and help Shiryu overwhelm Cracker.
• Shiryu turned to slaughter ordinary pirates while the Phantom Group battered Cracker, and the BIGMOM Pirates eventually retreated with Cracker rescued by their officers.
• The battle ended with nearly a hundred BIGMOM Pirates dead, while Zoro remained unconscious and Jazz and Shiryu were injured.
• Luffy thanked Jazz for helping them, and Sanji asked why the BIGMOM Pirates had wanted to capture him.

Jazz invited Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates to the Star Alliance’s Ten Thousand Nations Alliance Summit after the BIGMOM Pirates targeted Sanji’s family. Jazz and Luffy sailed for the Ashil Kingdom as Cracker assembled a large fleet to pursue them, while Jazz’s victory made him famous across the New World.

• Jazz told Sanji that the BIGMOM Pirates wanted to arrange a marriage alliance with his family, prompting Sanji to urge the crew to leave the island.
• Jazz invited Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates to attend the Star Alliance’s Ten Thousand Nations Alliance Summit, and Luffy accepted.
• The Phantom Group explained that an unknown person had warned them about the BIGMOM Pirates’ ambush, though Jazz and Shiryu could not determine who had helped them.
• Jazz and Luffy sailed toward the Ashil Kingdom after the Phantom Group’s two contingents reunited.
• Cracker mobilized more than thirty warships to pursue Jazz, while reports of the Star Alliance’s victory and Jazz’s defeat of Baron Tamago spread throughout the New World.