Chapter Summaries

Jazz and his group faced relentless attacks as Cracker pursued them with a massive BIGMOM Pirates fleet, forcing them to flee toward the Ashil Kingdom. As Cracker prepared to surround them, Jazz spotted a ship that looked like the Starry and changed course toward it.

• After leaving the island, Jazz and his group were attacked by pursuers, but Shiryu crushed their opponents.
• Cracker assembled a large fleet and enlisted nearby forces to slow Jazz's escape while chasing him.
• Jazz contacted Star Alliance fleets for support and hurried toward the Ashil Kingdom as daily attacks wore him down.
• Cracker planned to surround and kill Jazz's group before reinforcements could arrive.
• A pirate lookout reported a ship that had suddenly appeared, and Jazz's target changed course toward it.

Ronglin learned that Jazz and the Straw Hat Pirates were being pursued by the BIGMOM Pirates and welcomed them aboard the Starry. After discovering Jazz was injured and hearing an exaggerated account of the battle, Ronglin faced the approaching fleet.

• Cracker spotted Jazz's ship and the Straw Hat Pirates heading toward a distant ship, then ordered his fleet to pursue faster.
• Jinbe alerted Ronglin that Jazz and the Straw Hat Pirates were approaching the Starry with a large fleet behind them.
• Ronglin used Observation Haki to identify the pursuers as members of the BIGMOM Pirates and suspected the encounter was a coincidence.
• Jazz and Shiryu came aboard the Starry, and Shiryu admitted he had failed to protect Jazz.
• Jazz told Ronglin Baron Tamago had ambushed him and left him injured, while the crew gave Ronglin an exaggerated account of the fight with Cracker.

Ronglin reunited with Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates after Jazz and Shiryu helped rescue them, then offered to celebrate at Star Alliance headquarters. When Cracker recognized Ronglin aboard the Starry, he ordered the BIGMOM Pirates fleet to retreat, but Ronglin flew after them.

• Ronglin praised Jazz for killing Baron Tamago and commended Shiryu for his fighting.
• Jinbe reunited with Luffy, and Ronglin invited the Straw Hat Pirates to a feast at Star Alliance headquarters.
• The BIGMOM Pirates lookout identified the Starry and confirmed that Ronglin and Jinbe were aboard.
• Cracker feared facing Ronglin and ordered his fleet to retreat.
• Ronglin transformed into a streak of aurora and flew toward the retreating BIGMOM Pirates fleet.

Ronglin confronted Cracker aboard the BIGMOM Pirates' warship after they pursued his Second Fleet, rejecting Cracker's attempt to make peace. He smashed through the surrounding pirates and struck Cracker down, while more BIGMOM Pirates rushed in to support their commander.

• Ronglin landed on Cracker's warship and reminded him that the BIGMOM Pirates had chased his Second Fleet for seven days and nights.
• Cracker tried to justify the attack and proposed that their forces put aside their hatred and join forces.
• Ronglin answered with a punch, declaring, "This is my attitude!"
• Cracker retreated behind biscuit armor as the BIGMOM Pirates attacked Ronglin in a group.
• Ronglin blasted through the pirates with one punch, then struck Cracker in the chest and shattered his armor.
• The BIGMOM Pirates' captains and officers rushed toward Ronglin to help Cracker.

Ronglin overwhelmed Cracker and the BIGMOM Pirates with Conqueror's Haki, then effortlessly blocked Cracker's sword strike and smashed an incoming cannonball. Cracker ordered the surrounding warships to fire on his own ship in an attempt to bring Ronglin down.

• Jinbe stopped Shiryu from going to help Ronglin, saying something major was about to happen.
• Ronglin unleashed Conqueror's Haki, knocking out or crippling hundreds of BIGMOM Pirates aboard Cracker's warship.
• Ronglin advanced on Cracker as the Straw Hat Pirates and the surrounding ships watched in shock.
• Cracker distracted Ronglin with taunts, then attacked with a curtain of sword energy and sprang back to retreat.
• Ronglin shattered Cracker's sword energy with one Haki-coated finger and smashed a cannonball aimed at his back.
• Cracker ordered dozens of warships to fire on his own vessel, alarming the BIGMOM Pirates whose comrades were still aboard.

Ronglin annihilated five BIGMOM Pirates warships with Haki: Starfall after their fleet opened fire on him. Cracker ordered the remaining ships to attack Ronglin and sent another squad toward the Starry, where Jinbe was positioned.

• The BIGMOM Pirates bombarded Ronglin’s ship, while Cracker fled to another warship.
• Ronglin rose into the air and unleashed Haki: Starfall, destroying five warships and their crews.
• The Straw Hat Pirates aboard the Starry watched Ronglin defeat the fleet and admired his strength.
• Cracker challenged Ronglin and ordered the remaining fleet to surround him and fire while a squad headed for Jinbe’s position.

Jinbe deployed the Phantom Group to defend the Starry while keeping Shirahoshi and the sea’s hidden power beneath the surface. Ronglin attacked an approaching warship and overwhelmed its survivors with his Conqueror’s Haki, leaving the remaining pirates incapacitated.

• Shirahoshi surfaced beside the Starry and offered help from the sea, but Jinbe told her to keep the underwater forces hidden.
• Jinbe ordered the Phantom Group to stop every enemy from boarding the Starry and threatened expulsion for anyone who failed.
• Ronglin spotted ships approaching and decided to use the newcomers to demonstrate his power at the Ten Thousand Nations Alliance Summit.
• Ronglin split a warship in half with one strike, and its survivors charged him while others fired their guns.
• Ronglin unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, knocking out most of the pirates aboard the broken ship.

Ronglin destroyed the BIGMOM Pirates’ warships while reinforcements approached, and Cracker tried to trick them into attacking him. The reinforcements recognized that Cracker had sent them against Ronglin and hesitated to face the feared Star Alliance leader.

• Ronglin abandoned a sinking ship and continued smashing BIGMOM Pirates’ warships as Shiryu watched, shaken by the gulf between their strength.
• Six fleets approached and realized that Ronglin was destroying Cracker’s ships, while a humanoid lion fought him until he knocked it unconscious and threw it into the sea.
• Cracker ordered his pirates to signal the approaching fleets that the Star Alliance leader was there and urge them to attack, hoping their assault would let him escape.
• The reinforcements understood that Cracker had tricked them into targeting Ronglin and grew afraid of attacking someone even the Marines avoided confronting without an Admiral.

Ronglin’s forces crushed the BIGMOM Pirates’ attack while Cracker’s attempt to escape failed. The Star Alliance’s reinforcements unexpectedly began shelling Cracker’s fleet, leaving Ronglin surprised by their intervention.

• Forty Zoan users from Ronglin’s forces destroyed the first warship and tore through the BIGMOM Pirates’ fighters, breaking their attack within minutes.
• The Phantom Group boarded the enemy ships as Cracker realized his forces sent to divert Ronglin had been defeated.
• Cracker saw that Ronglin had destroyed the surrounding warships while leaving many pirates stranded in the sea, and feared he would die unless he could kill Ronglin.
• Cracker urged the reinforcements to fire at Ronglin so he could escape, but their shells struck his own fleet and escape route.
• Cracker realized the reinforcements were helping the Star Alliance attack the BIGMOM Pirates, while Ronglin landed on a watchtower and knocked out its crew with Conqueror’s Haki.

Ronglin confronted Cracker after the BIGMOM Pirates’ supposed reinforcements switched sides and joined the Star Alliance. As the enemy fleet collapsed, Cracker explained Big Mom’s strategy of wearing down threats, while Ronglin remained confident about the coming Ten Thousand Nations Alliance Summit.

• The arriving forces declared themselves allies of the Star Alliance, and the BIGMOM Pirates’ ships turned their cannons on them.
• Ronglin left the other ships to the battle and flew to Cracker’s ship, where his Conqueror’s Haki knocked out over a hundred pirates.
• Cracker told Ronglin that Big Mom eliminated weaker enemies and slowly wore down powerful ones, and warned that Ronglin might not survive the Ten Thousand Nations Alliance Summit.
• Ronglin insisted that he had planned each step of his rise and asked why the BIGMOM Pirates kept hunting his subordinates.
• Cannon fire faded as warships closed in around Cracker’s ship.

Shiryu attacked the injured Cracker to settle their earlier score while Ronglin left the fight to him. As fleets from surrounding forces closed in to eliminate the BIGMOM Pirates, Shiryu and Cracker were still battling aboard the damaged ship.

• Shiryu sprang from behind Ronglin and struck Cracker, then pressed him with a fierce barrage of sword attacks.
• Ronglin left Shiryu to fight Cracker and spoke with Jazz, who said he wanted to become as strong as his boss.
• Fleets from surrounding forces arrived and finished off the BIGMOM Pirates floating at sea, while cannon fire sank distant warships that had attacked the Starry.
• Shiryu and Cracker continued their duel, and Shiryu charged again after driving Cracker back and wounding his shoulder.
• People aboard the surrounding warships watched the battle through telescopes and worried it might spread to them.

Ronglin gathered the commanders of more than twenty allied forces aboard the Starry after the battle with the BIGMOM Pirates was brought under control. He heard their excuse for attacking Jazz and suggested that they show sincerity for the trouble they caused, leaving the commanders to answer his demand.

• Ronglin told the surrounding fleets to retreat and invited their commanders aboard the Starry.
• Ronglin and Jazz used Moonwalk to return to the ship, where Jinbe greeted them as Shiryu and Cracker continued attacking the warship.
• More than a dozen groups boarded the Starry, and Ronglin thanked them for supposedly saving his life.
• Ronglin invited Jinbe, Jazz, Luffy, and Zoro to sit with the commanders and raised the earlier clash involving Jazz and Straw Hat.
• A commander claimed the forces had come to help the Star Alliance and blamed their clash with Jazz on a language barrier.
• Ronglin asked the commanders to show sincerity for disturbing Jazz, the Star Alliance's next Alliance Leader.

Ronglin negotiated with several powers whose leaders chose to defect from the Yonko Alliance and seek Star Alliance protection. He warned them that joining the Star Alliance would bring demanding rules and sacrifices, leaving their final decisions for the Ten Thousand Nations Alliance Summit.

• The lords decided to join the Star Alliance after Ronglin appeared and they weighed its reputation against the Four Emperors’ brutality.
• The various powers agreed to attend the Ten Thousand Nations Alliance Summit and offered to pay double the Star Alliance’s set taxes.
• Ronglin rejected their offer as insincere and said he wanted to give the people of the world a free sky, not take their money.
• Ronglin accepted their submission but warned that following his rules could cost them more than they expected.
• The lords considered the Star Alliance’s reforms and the risks of opposing the world’s powers, but deferred their final choices until the summit.

Ronglin watched Shiryu and Cracker fight while the factions agreed to coexist peacefully with the Star Alliance and then returned to their territories. Jazz rescued Shiryu from the sea, and Ronglin reflected that Jazz still had childish traits.

• The factions agreed to avoid further misunderstandings with the Star Alliance while Shiryu and Cracker continued fighting on a sinking ship.
• Ronglin told Zoro that he had the potential to become one of the strongest and offered to train him in the Star Alliance, but Zoro declined for now.
• Shiryu suppressed Cracker until the BIGMOM Pirates' ship sank, though neither fighter had won decisively.
• The factions left to return to their territories after recognizing that they had become enemies of the Four Emperors.
• Jazz leaped into the sea to rescue Shiryu despite his injuries, and Ronglin sighed that Jazz still had childish traits.

Jazz rescued Shiryu and Cracker from the sea, then proposed imprisoning Cracker to win prestige for the Star Alliance. Cracker suddenly attacked Jazz, targeting him as the Alliance’s next leader.

• Jazz dragged Shiryu through the water and threw him onto the Starry.
• Jazz hauled Cracker aboard and told Ronglin he wanted to capture and imprison the BIGMOM Pirates commander.
• Ronglin considered the prestige and danger of imprisoning one of Charlotte Linlin’s children.
• Cracker recovered enough to laugh off Jazz’s threat and tell the crew to kill him.
• Cracker sprang up and thrust an Armament Haki-coated finger toward Jazz’s throat.

Ronglin stopped Cracker’s attempt to ambush Jazz, broke his wrist, and had the Phantom Group capture him alive. Jazz and the others suspected Ronglin had used a Time-Time Technique, while Luffy and Zoro grew wary of his powers.

• Cracker froze just before reaching Jazz, and Ronglin twisted Cracker’s wrist before sending him crashing into the Starry’s railing.
• The Phantom Group pinned Cracker down as Ronglin mocked him and ordered him bound and locked away with Seastone.
• Ronglin kept Cracker alive because Jazz wanted him captured and threatened to make him regret attacking.
• Jazz asked how Ronglin had appeared beside Cracker, and Ronglin ruled out a Space-Space Technique.
• The others guessed Ronglin had used a Time-Time Technique, and Luffy and Zoro were shocked by the possibility.

Ronglin returned to the Ashil Kingdom with Shark Star and Princess Shirahoshi, drawing a huge crowd eager to see the mermaid princess. After restoring order at the harbor, he welcomed them ashore, where the people caught their first glimpse of Shirahoshi and her sea-beast escorts.

• Ronglin left the battle waters aboard the Starry as sea creatures devoured the corpses left behind.
• Ronglin returned to the Ashil Kingdom, where the Second and Fourth Fleets and a huge crowd gathered to welcome him and his guests.
• Ronglin used Princess Shirahoshi's visit to persuade the disorderly crowd to form orderly lines.
• King of Ashil ordered the band to play as the Starry entered the harbor.
• A gigantic octopus monster and the Bald Sea Monster surfaced beside the Starry, followed by Shark Star and Princess Shirahoshi.
• The crowd marveled at Princess Shirahoshi's beauty and cried out in excitement.

Princess Shirahoshi received a warm welcome in the Ashil Kingdom, while CP0 Commander-in-Chief Bony-Sen raged over the BIGMOM Pirates' losses and struggled to stop Kaido from obtaining the Road Poneglyph. Bony-Sen's forces continued chasing Kaido without knowing the Poneglyph's location.

• Princess Shirahoshi emerged from the sea and was greeted with applause and flower petals from the people of the Ashil Kingdom.
• Princess Shirahoshi and Prince Shark Star were moved by the welcome and realized that the people did not hate fish-men or merfolk.
• Bony-Sen learned that a BIGMOM Pirates fleet had been wiped out, Cracker had been captured, and sixteen forces had pledged allegiance to the Star Alliance.
• After Mary Geoise ordered Bony-Sen to stop Kaido from obtaining the Road Poneglyph, he sought Marine reinforcements and received three Admiral candidates and ten elite Vice Admirals.
• Kaido's forces defeated CP0 in an encounter, then withdrew before the Marines could surround them, leaving Bony-Sen still chasing Kaido without knowing where the Poneglyph was.

Bony-Sen urged Fujitora to obtain the exact location of the Road Poneglyph before Kaido could claim it, while insisting that the World Government also needed to stop the Star Alliance. Fujitora struggled with contacting Ronglin, and Bony-Sen demanded to oversee the effort, but Fujitora said he did not know how to reach his informant.

• Bony-Sen grew furious after learning that the Star Alliance had destroyed a BIGMOM Pirates fleet and gained the allegiance of more than a dozen faction fleets.
• Green Bull warned Bony-Sen that the Marines might be trapped in a stalemate with Kaido because they did not know where the Road Poneglyph was.
• Fujitora defended the Star Alliance’s governance and questioned why the World Government had to obstruct its growth, angering Bony-Sen.
• Bony-Sen ordered Fujitora to contact his informant again for the Poneglyph’s location, and Fujitora struggled with the prospect of asking Ronglin for help.
• Bony-Sen demanded to be present when Fujitora contacted his informant, but Fujitora said he did not know how to reach him and was only going to consult his colleagues.

Fujitora revealed that Kaido was searching for a Poneglyph, and Bony-Sen agreed to contact Ronglin for confirmation. When Fujitora reached Ronglin, Ronglin said the Poneglyph was in Wano Country, leaving the meeting room stunned.

• Fujitora told Bony-Sen that Ronglin had informed him Kaido was searching for the Poneglyph, and Momousagi confirmed Fujitora’s account.
• Bony-Sen chose to believe Fujitora and arranged to contact Ronglin.
• Ronglin accepted the secure call from Fujitora and joked with him about Kaido and the upcoming Ten Thousand Nations Alliance Summit.
• Ronglin said the people of Wano Country had the Poneglyph, prompting Green Bull and Momousagi to react.
• Bony-Sen demanded to know what Ronglin had said about Wano Country.