Chapter Summaries

Sakazuki overwhelmed 'Blue Heart' and its Jet Black Giant with a magma attack, forcing it to abandon its damaged body. Tsuru then subdued 'Blue Heart' and washed a mass of purple-black smoke—the evil from its soul—into a bubble.

• 'Blue Heart' unleashed a storm of purple energy blasts, but Sakazuki's Great Eruption pushed through them and hurled the Jet Black Giant into a hill outside the base.
• Magma and flames set buildings around the base ablaze, while Marshal Raymond and the others headed out to inspect the fight.
• The injured Jet Black Giant writhed in pain until 'Blue Heart' shed its outer body and emerged, only to find Sakazuki waiting in the air.
• Tsuru appeared behind 'Blue Heart' and used a wave of water vapor to wash away nearby Kabane, magma, and flames.
• 'Blue Heart' lunged at Tsuru, who transformed it into a garment and washed purple-black smoke from its soul into a bubble.

Doflamingo gathered the Donquixote Family officers and announced that he would enter the maritime shipping business and challenge the King of Shipping. He planned to seize the shipping trade in North Blue and find the current Deep Ocean Current, ending with his declaration that he would become the King of Shipping.

• Doflamingo watched Soul King perform Believer in a livestream and decided he wanted to save the song.
• Doflamingo met with the Donquixote Family officers, with Pica absent because Doflamingo had sent him away.
• Doflamingo announced plans to establish a maritime delivery company handling weapons, soldiers, materials, and other cargo.
• Trebol warned that the established King of Shipping, Umit, controlled most maritime trade and would be difficult to challenge.
• Doflamingo ordered the Family to locate and seize the shipping strongholds in North Blue while searching for the current Deep Ocean Current.
• Doflamingo declared that he would become the King of Shipping and asked who would approve or object.

The Five Elders discussed the World Government’s plan to designate every kingdom as an affiliated nation and identified Wano Country and Elbaf as obstacles. They considered Wano’s defenses and lack of intelligence, ending with Saint Shepherd Ju Peter questioning why Kozuki Oden had allowed Kaido to leave after returning home.

• Saint Topman Warcury said Kabane World posed no military threat and discussed preparations to occupy Kongokaku and reach Iwato Station.
• Saint Topman Warcury announced that Lord Imu wanted every kingdom designated as an affiliated nation, but Wano Country and Elbaf stood in the way.
• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro proposed handling the two countries one at a time, and Saint Shepherd Ju Peter agreed to examine Wano Country first.
• Saint Shepherd Ju Peter said CIPHER POL could not infiltrate Wano Country without help from someone among its upper ranks.
• Saint Shepherd Ju Peter wondered why Kozuki Oden had not fought Kaido after returning to Wano Country and had allowed him to leave.

The Five Elders discussed using Kaido and Taklama’s awakened Pet-Pet Fruit to subjugate Wano Country, then sought Imu’s approval. Imu said he had already chosen who would lead the operation, leaving the Five Elders to prepare.

• Saint Jaygarcia Saturn and Saint Shepherd Ju Peter speculated that Kozuki Oden might already be defeated and Wano Country left without a top-tier fighter.
• Saint Topman Warcury proposed forcing their way into Wano Country, while Saint Marcus Mars and Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro questioned who could lead the invasion.
• Saint Jaygarcia Saturn suggested using Taklama’s collars to control Kaido, sending him to Wano, and having him make the fleet fly.
• Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro argued that Taklama should be transferred to the Army, but Saint Jaygarcia Saturn insisted that his ability belonged in Impel Down.
• Saint Topman Warcury called Imu and explained the plan; Imu said he had already chosen the leader for the subjugation of Wano Country.

Imu considered how the World Government should take control of Wano Country and eliminate the Kozuki Clan without letting Kozuki Oden become Shogun. He also approved Garp’s plan to move Noah and ordered the preparation of Giant God Soldiers for his journey.

• Imu decided Wano Country must join the World Government under near-direct control, with Kurozumi Orochi and the Kozuki Clan removed while Kozuki Oden was kept from ruling.
• Imu weighed the risks of the Kozuki Clan’s Poneglyph craft, ancient-script knowledge, Internal Destruction technique, and Kozuki Toki’s time-travel ability.
• Stussy told Imu that Garp wanted to push Noah from the seafloor to the surface, and Imu let Garp proceed.
• Saint Topman Warcury reported that the Giant Guard were ready, and Imu ordered two additional armor and weapon sets in specified sizes.
• Imu renamed his giant guards the Giant God Soldiers.

Keisuke Amatori learned that Ayame Yomogawa had captured Biba Amatori after Iwato Station fell, and agreed to receive the survivors heading to Kongokaku. Meanwhile, Tsuru enjoyed swimming in Kabane World’s seawater while Blue Heart and Horobi watched from shore.

• Makino Michito confirmed that Biba Amatori and the Hunters had led Kabane into Iwato Station and shot civilians and soldiers trying to flee.
• Keisuke Amatori ordered the Shogunate to distribute its stored Muskets and set up its Large-caliber Cannons.
• A messenger reported that Ayame Yomogawa had captured Biba Amatori and the Hunters, though Iwato Station had fallen, and that she was bringing its civilians to Kongokaku aboard the Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress.
• Keisuke Amatori agreed to receive Ayame Yomogawa and the civilians, while privately resenting that Biba had been captured by a woman.
• Tsuru swam in the sea near Star Gate Base as Blue Heart admired her and Horobi warned Blue Heart that the Nue needed to remain and fight the Kabane.
• Tsuru delighted in being able to swim freely in another world’s seawater despite having eaten the Wash-Wash Fruit.

Ikoma agreed to join the Academy of Sciences and develop special ammunition, while Hozumi chose to remain a Kabaneri so she could accompany him to Blue Star. Senior Director Addison then prepared for officials and technical personnel to arrive as the conquest of the world began.

• Ikoma agreed to develop special ammunition for Senior Director Addison, asking that Hozumi be kept safe and cared for.
• Senior Director Addison explained that White Blood Plasma could restore one of them to ordinary humanity, but that Hozumi might be separated from Ikoma if she took it.
• Hozumi refused the injection and chose to remain a Kabaneri so she could accompany Ikoma to Blue Star.
• Senior Director Addison revealed that more doses of White Blood Plasma might become available, and Ikoma and Hozumi left for the Biochemical Research Institute hopeful they could both eventually receive one.
• Senior Director Addison arranged a reception for arriving officials and technical personnel and declared that the conquest of the world was beginning.

Douglas Bullet used the Kabane-infested wilderness to train Army soldiers, then led them to storm Tamazukuri Station. As the soldiers climbed the walls under covering fire, a bullet struck Chengyama Superintendent.

• Black-clad soldiers divided into three fronts, used guns and bombs to thin more than ten thousand Kabane, then fought the survivors with swords.
• Chengyama Superintendent suspected the army belonged to Biba Amatori’s Hunters, but the officials refused to open Tamazukuri Station’s gates.
• The soldiers swam across the moat and began climbing the walls with grappling hooks while their comrades fired covering shots.
• Douglas Bullet watched from his Heavy Motorcycle and called the Kabane World a perfect training ground for his rotating batches of recruits.
• The Samurai ordered the defenders to fire, and a bullet pierced Chengyama Superintendent’s forehead.

Ayame Yomogawa brought Biba Amatori to Kongokaku, where the Shogunate accepted them and began inspecting the Iron Fortress survivors. The Army soldiers revealed their ambush and attacked the city as Crocodile charged toward its gates aboard the Kokujo.

• Keisuke Amatori ordered Kongokaku’s gates opened for the Iron Fortress and prepared soldiers after the Samurai Superintendent voiced his suspicions.
• Ayame Yomogawa presented the bound Biba Amatori to Makino Michito, explained how they had captured him, and asked Kongokaku to shelter the exhausted survivors.
• Keisuke Amatori met Biba Amatori in the council hall while Kongokaku soldiers escorted the Iron Fortress’s people to inspection.
• An Army Headquarters colonel ordered an attack after his soldiers killed a samurai, and the Army used pistols, grenades, and swift officers to overwhelm Kongokaku’s defenders.
• Crocodile raced toward Kongokaku’s open gates aboard the Kokujo and declared his intention to surpass and defeat Whitebeard.

Biba Amatori exposed Keisuke Amatori as a Kabane and used the revelation to ignite panic and violence throughout Kongokaku. As the city descended into chaos, Crocodile prepared for the Army to arrive as its supposed saviors.

• Keisuke Amatori tried to execute Biba Amatori with a childhood gift, but the blade wounded him and revealed that he was turning into a Kabane.
• Biba Amatori warned the hall that Kabane could hide among the population, and soldiers shot Keisuke Amatori before Biba killed him with the Kabane-coated blade.
• A Samurai reported that the Iron Fortress soldiers had rebelled and that Lord Samurai Okudo had fallen in battle.
• Biba Amatori broadcast warnings that Kabane were hiding in Kongokaku, prompting civilians and soldiers to accuse and attack one another.
• Crocodile watched the city collapse into violence and turned his attention to the Army soldiers arriving by train.

Magellan escorted three black-clad World Government men to Kaido in Impel Down’s Level 6 and offered him a chance to leave prison by fighting for the World Government in other worlds. Kaido watched footage of Bullet and Crocodile battling Kabane and heard the offer’s condition: he had to bear the name of the World Government’s justice.

• Shiki demanded that Magellan release him, but Magellan told him to behave and continued deeper into Level 6.
• Magellan and the three black-clad men reached Kaido’s cell, where one man enclosed it in a barrier and entered to speak with him.
• The black-clad man asked Kaido whether he wanted to get out and said the World Government wanted him to fight across countless worlds.
• The man showed Kaido footage of Bullet and Crocodile leading Army forces against Kabane and of Blue Heart fighting Sakazuki.
• The black-clad man told Kaido Devil Fruit users could swim in the other world and offered him endless battles if he fought under the World Government’s justice.

Kaido negotiated with a Black-Clad Man over joining the World Government, agreeing to help it take Wano Country in exchange for a future military role. The chapter ended as the Black-Clad Man contacted his superiors about Kaido’s demand to keep Onigashima and visit Yamato in Wano each year.

• Kaido initially laughed at the demand that he bear the World Government’s name of justice, then stopped the Black-Clad Man from leaving and asked for the terms.
• The Black-Clad Man said Kaido must help take Wano Country by dealing with Kozuki Oden, disband the Beasts Pirates, and accept a lieutenant general rank before fighting in the Otherworld.
• Kaido was tempted by the prospect of leading huge armies in wars across other worlds, then asked what would happen to Yamato and King.
• The Black-Clad Man said Yamato would likely be sent to Marine Headquarters for education and gave Kaido a pardon for Arbel’s Lunarian race, ending the World Government’s persecution of them.
• Kaido agreed to help take Wano Country on the condition that he could keep Onigashima and bring Yamato to Wano for the Fire Festival each year.
• The Black-Clad Man called his superiors to ask whether Kaido’s condition could be accepted.

The Army attacked Kongokaku with overwhelming firepower while Biba Amatori drove the Shogunate Council Hall into a violent mutiny. Ayame Yomogawa confronted Biba and helped expose his deception, but he escaped by leaping from the hall.

• The Army deployed from the Kokujo at Kongokaku’s No. 4 gate and swept into the city, overpowering Shogunate troops with heavy assault rifles.
• Biba Amatori’s provocations triggered a mutiny in the Council Hall, and Ayame Yomogawa failed to calm the panicked soldiers.
• Biba killed Kota Nii when he attacked, then Ayame challenged him with a katana and blocked his strikes.
• Ayame’s fight drew the hall’s attention, allowing Makino Michito to point out that there were no Kabane among them.
• The soldiers realized Biba had deceived them and rushed to protect Ayame, but Biba kicked her down the steps and leaped from the nearly hundred-meter-high hall.

Ayame Yomogawa announced that the World Government would take control of Kongokaku and explained its presence to the Shogunate officials. With the Shogun dead and the Amatori Family discredited, Makino Michito proposed that Ayame temporarily become Shogun and negotiate with the World Government.

• Ayame declared Biba Amatori dead, ordered the soldiers to disarm, and announced that the World Government would take control of Kongokaku.
• Crocodile rescued Biba Amatori from his fall, and Biba agreed to return to Kokujo to provide intelligence and advice.
• Ayame told the officials that the World Government was an overseas organization that had come to bring Hinomoto into its alliance and help end the rebellion.
• The officials realized they needed a Shogun to negotiate with the World Government and debated whether the Amatori Family should remain in power.
• Makino Michito proposed that Ayame temporarily assume the position of Shogun, citing her actions to stop the violence and her status as the only governor present.

Ranode reported that Kongokaku was under control and sent Addison maps and blueprints found in its archives. After examining Hinomoto’s resources and the Kabane World map, the Five Elders planned its development and proposed a government-wide conference to prepare for future Star Gate Worlds.

• Ranode told Addison that Kongokaku was under control, Ayame Yomogawa had been nominated as Shogun, and valuable blueprints, resource maps, and a world map had been found.
• Ranode faxed the maps to Addison and arranged for the original blueprints to be sent to the homeland.
• The Five Elders examined the Kabane World map and identified Hinomoto’s mineral deposits, including iron, gold, and silver mines.
• The Five Elders discussed clearing Kabane, governing Hinomoto, organizing labor, and building ships before beginning large-scale mining.
• Warcury proposed convening senior government officials to create a comprehensive development plan and prepare for a possible second Star Gate World.

Dragon struggled to establish police stations across the Sabaody Archipelago and other kingdoms while the World Government’s reforms spread. When a massive tsunami rushed toward Sabaody, he unleashed the Hurricane Fruit’s power to meet it with a wall of wind.

• The World Government’s reforms continued across the seas, including the Sea Train project, Fish-Man Island’s new ties, prisoner resettlement, and worldwide broadcasts.
• Dragon spoke with Bartholomew Kuma, who declined to leave Sorbet Kingdom until he had watched its recovery for four years, and Dragon agreed to keep a police position open for him.
• Dragon found that kings resisted establishing police stations, leaving him and the Judiciary to expand the new force with limited support.
• Three-Legged Cat warned Dragon that a huge tsunami was approaching Sabaody, and Dragon rushed above the base to confront it.
• Dragon summoned a powerful wall of green wind with the Hurricane Fruit, and it collided with the tsunami.

Dragon stopped the tsunami caused by Garp pushing Noah up from Fish-Man Island, then met Garp and the government officials aboard the ship. Stussy shrank Noah with her Mini-Mini Fruit and asked Dragon to help with it.

• Dragon used his wind ability to divert the tsunami away from the Sabaody Archipelago and flew out to investigate its cause.
• Garp appeared on Noah after pushing the enormous ship up from the seafloor, and Dragon learned what his father had done.
• Stussy and the government officials arrived, and Garp handed Noah over to them before preparing to visit Dragon’s place.
• Stussy used her Mini-Mini Fruit ability to shrink Noah first to the size of a large wooden ship and then to a model under thirty centimeters long.
• Stussy, exhausted after shrinking Noah, told Dragon it was his turn to help.

Imu reviewed reports on the World Government’s expansion and reluctantly approved a plan to turn people into Kabane to replenish their dwindling numbers. He later faced Saul’s questions about Ohara’s scholars and persuaded him that their forbidden research broke the law, leaving Saul unable to argue.

• Imu read the Five Elders’ Kabane Resource Regeneration Plan and, after nearly three hours of hesitation, signed it as approved.
• Imu approved an internal government conference to reveal the Star Gate, noted advances in Seastone ship hulls and a Devil Fruit-eating sword, and questioned whether Kaido could defeat Kozuki Oden.
• Stussy told Imu that Vice Admiral Garp had pushed Noah to the surface, and Imu summoned the Giant God Soldiers to the plaza.
• Saul arrived at Pangaea Castle with Oimo and Kashi, and Imu’s intimidating gaze made Oimo and Kashi fall onto the grass.
• Saul challenged Imu over the World Government’s pursuit of Ohara’s scholars, but Imu argued that their Poneglyph research violated the law after repeated warnings.
• Saul accepted that the scholars had knowingly broken the law and was left staring at the sky, unable to rebut Imu’s reasoning.

Douglas Bullet oversaw the conquest of Tamazukuri Station before learning that Akainu had been promoted to Army General and summoned him to a meeting. Enraged that a former Navy Vice Admiral had become his superior, Bullet ordered the captured officials executed and vowed to attend.

• Army soldiers forced Tamazukuri Station's civilians to kneel while they cleared out the city's defenders and arrested its officials.
• An Army Colonel reported that the remaining Samurai and soldiers had been executed, Shiroyama Masakata was dead, and the Army had suffered 123 killed and 376 wounded.
• Bullet praised the lower casualty count and ordered future sieges made harder by forcing defenders to use artillery.
• Senior Director Addison informed Bullet that Akainu had transferred from the Navy to the Army as an Army General and wanted to meet him and Vice Admiral Crocodile.
• Bullet angrily questioned why Akainu had been promoted over him, promised to attend the meeting, and ordered all the captured officials executed.

Crocodile confronted Douglas Bullet on the plains, and their fierce battle ended with Bullet overpowering him and blasting him into the ground. Biba Amatori watched as the fight left Crocodile buried beneath a cloud of dust.

• Douglas Bullet ordered every Army soldier except Crocodile to return to base, while Biba Amatori stayed behind to watch.
• Crocodile and Bullet charged at each other and began a brutal fight, shaking and cracking the ground with their blows.
• Bullet punched Crocodile into the sky and pursued him through a series of high-speed clashes.
• Crocodile unleashed Sables, but Bullet tore apart the sandstorm with his Conqueror's Haki.
• Crocodile's Desert Spada cut through Bullet's Rock Giant's Armament Haki, but Bullet crushed the sand blade and knocked Crocodile into the ground.