Chapter Summaries

Umibouzu joined Harusame’s 5th Division to rescue his captured son and help defeat the World Government fleet, while Admiral Kizaru learned of his reputation and set out to confront him. The fleets clashed near Mandeville Point, and a golden flash shot from Sylph as the battle continued.

• Umibouzu told Kagura he had come to help Harusame and planned to strike the World Government flagship himself.
• Commander Yap explained that five Nim Tribe hackers were blocking Fan Jie’s intrusion into Harusame’s command system.
• Fan Jie identified Umibouzu as Kamui’s father and a legendary Xenomorph hunter, prompting Borsalino to go meet him.
• Harusame’s 5th Division and the Navy’s First Fleet began a fierce space battle near Mandeville Point.
• A golden flash flew out of Sylph’s open hatch.

Borsalino raced through Harusame's 5th Division fleet, using Observation Haki to search for Umibouzu but finding only weak presences. As Borsalino closed in on the flagship, Commander Xiangpu ordered nearby ships and drones to form a barrier, and Umibouzu warned that the attack had arrived.

• Borsalino crossed the battlefield as golden light, piercing ships and drones without slowing down.
• Borsalino used Observation Haki to scan the fleet and found no presence stronger than a likely Commodore-level target.
• Borsalino guessed that the strongest presence was Umibouzu and accelerated toward his ship to capture him alive.
• A Nim Tribesman warned Commander Xiangpu that a powerful energy signal was tracking the flagship and would reach it within minutes.
• Commander Xiangpu ordered nearby ships and more than a thousand drones to form a barrier in front of the flagship.
• Umibouzu announced that the incoming attack had arrived as the crew watched the barrier.

Borsalino pierced the Harusame flagship’s defenses and entered the ship, while the World Government Navy detected the arrival of the Altana Liberation Army. He left hundreds of Space Pirates dead and continued toward the command room.

• Borsalino melted through the Harusame fleet’s metal shield wall, shocking Commander Xiangpu and Umibouzu as they saw a man inside the golden beam.
• Sylph detected a large warp near the sixth planet, and Fan Jie ordered Vice Admiral Kesha to place the area under alert.
• The Altana Liberation Army arrived aboard the enormous Amatori, and Fan Jie identified its cause and goal of destroying Altana Central Towers.
• Navy officers debated whether the Altana Liberation Army could be an ally, then decided to remain on guard and wait for its intentions.
• Borsalino infiltrated the Harusame flagship, killed hundreds of Space Pirates who attacked him, and walked toward the command room.

Borsalino broke into the Harusame flagship’s command room and confronted Umibouzu, who stood between him and the others. The two men exchanged jokes and introductions, leaving their impending fight delayed by an unexpectedly casual conversation.

• Borsalino cut a doorway through the command room’s alloy hatch and entered with the Ama no Murakumo.
• Borsalino asked for Umibouzu and said he wanted to take him for tea or coffee.
• Umibouzu stepped forward to shield the others and admitted that he was the man Borsalino sought.
• Umibouzu joked about his age, hair loss, and former reputation, easing the room’s tense silence.
• Borsalino introduced himself as Admiral Kizaru and revealed that he was forty-four.
• Umibouzu remarked that Borsalino looked thirty and joked that even his wrinkles showed the superiority of a government job.

Borsalino chatted with Umibouzu before questioning why the legendary Xenomorph hunter seemed so weak. Umibouzu revealed his prosthetic arm and explained that he had come because Kamui and Kagura were being held by the Navy.

• Borsalino and Umibouzu discussed their diets, hobbies, work, and views on marriage.
• Umibouzu learned that Borsalino was forty-four, single, and had no children.
• Borsalino ended their casual conversation and asked why the supposedly strongest Xenomorph hunter was so weak.
• Umibouzu revealed his mechanical left arm and said his son had taken his hand as a coming-of-age gift.
• Umibouzu told Borsalino he had come to find Kamui, who had been captured, and Kagura, who was on the Earth occupied by the Navy.

Borsalino assured Umibouzu that Kamui and Kagura were safe and that the World Government might recruit the Yato Clan. When Borsalino moved to kill Captain Xiangpu, Umibouzu intervened and prepared to fight the admiral to honor his employment.

• Borsalino told Umibouzu that Kamui and Kagura had been captured but would not be harmed, and that the World Government might invite them and the Yato Clan to join its forces.
• Borsalino dismissed Harusame as a minor pirate crew and argued that Kamui would be better off leaving piracy behind.
• Borsalino aimed a laser at Captain Xiangpu, but Umibouzu blocked it with his umbrella.
• Umibouzu explained that he had accepted Xiangpu's money and would fight to uphold his professional integrity, even against Borsalino.
• Borsalino revealed that his monthly base salary was 150,000 Beli and challenged Umibouzu to attack; Umibouzu vanished from his position to begin the fight.

Borsalino effortlessly defeated Umibouzu and killed Captain Xiangpu, then reflected on how Homelander had inspired him to fire lasers from his eyes. He left Umibouzu alive and unconscious, promising he would see his children when he woke.

• Umibouzu charged Borsalino with his umbrella, hoping to measure himself against the Navy Admiral.
• Borsalino stopped Umibouzu with a controlled punch, broke his umbrella, and knocked him unconscious.
• Borsalino praised Umibouzu’s potential and said he would see his son and daughter when he woke.
• Borsalino targeted Captain Xiangpu with killing intent, leaving him too terrified to respond.
• Borsalino killed Captain Xiangpu with eye-fired lasers and recalled learning the technique from Homelander.

Borsalino left the captured Harusame 5th Division flagship after Sylph seized control of its fleet and warned him that the Altana Liberation Army had arrived with a weapon capable of destroying planets. On the Amatori, the resistance leaders considered Sylph’s claim that Earth belonged to the World Government and had been named Gintama Star.

• Sylph breached the Harusame 5th Division’s defenses after Borsalino frightened its Nim Clan members, then took control of the fleet’s command network.
• Sylph told Borsalino that the Altana Liberation Army had arrived at Mandeville Point with the Amatori, whose energy signature suggested it carried a planet-destroying weapon.
• Borsalino transformed himself and the unconscious Umibouzu into light and raced back toward his flagship, leaving Sylph to bring the captured fleet over.
• The Amatori’s leaders—Yuanxiang, Admiral Zique, Cangda, and Teacher Sun—heard Sylph declare that Earth belonged to the World Government and was called Gintama Star.

Prince Yuanxiang rejected Admiral Zique’s warnings and ordered the Altana Liberation Army to threaten Earth with destruction unless the World Government withdrew or joined them. He planned to test the Fire God Kagutsuchi System on Earth, leaving Zique horrified and the planet facing annihilation.

• Prince Yuanxiang dismissed Admiral Zique’s concerns about the World Government and the damage it had inflicted on Harusame.
• Admiral Zique proposed contacting the World Government to seek an alliance against the Galactic Empire, and Yuanxiang agreed to give them a chance.
• Prince Yuanxiang ordered the World Government to withdraw from Earth or become friends of the Altana Liberation Army, threatening to destroy the planet otherwise.
• Admiral Zique confronted Yuanxiang, who revealed he intended to test the Fire God Kagutsuchi System on Earth.
• Prince Yuanxiang defended destroying Earth and its residents as a way to strike the Galactic Empire.

Yuanxiang revealed that the Tendoshu were being kept alive in a laboratory as victims of endless suffering, and declared that he fought to bury his pain through war and destruction. With Cangda and Teacher Sun backing him, he told Zique that they no longer shared the same path.

• Zique urged Yuanxiang and the other leaders to spare their people on Earth, but Cangda killed several leaders who opposed Yuanxiang.
• Teacher Sun joined Cangda in supporting Yuanxiang, and the remaining leaders fell silent.
• Yuanxiang ordered an operator to show footage of a laboratory containing mutilated, immortal Tendoshu trapped in tanks.
• Yuanxiang dismissed Zique's question about who had summoned them to Earth and said that venting his hatred mattered more than the truth.
• Yuanxiang declared that he used war to forget pain and escape reality, while Cangda and Teacher Sun took their places at his sides.
• Yuanxiang told the furious, shocked Zique that the three of them were no longer walking the same path.

Yuanxiang imprisoned Admiral Zique and ordered the Altana Liberation Army to prepare its planet-destroying weapon against the Navy fleet. Kizaru gave Yuanxiang ten minutes to negotiate, but the Amatori began charging the Fire God Kagutsuchi and the two fleets opened fire.

• Yuanxiang had Admiral Zique dragged away and imprisoned, then ordered the Altana Liberation Army ships to enter combat readiness and charge the Fire God Kagutsuchi System.
• Kizaru returned to the Sylph with the unconscious Umibouzu and received Yuanxiang’s threat to destroy the Navy and Gintama Star unless they withdrew.
• Kizaru gave Yuanxiang ten minutes to send the Altana Liberation Army’s leaders to negotiate, or face the consequences.
• The Amatori began charging the Fire God Kagutsuchi, and the Altana Liberation Army ships took combat positions.
• Yuanxiang rejected the ultimatum and ordered an attack as the Altana fleet fired on the Navy and the Amatori’s planet-destroying weapon charged.

As the Amatori charged its planet-destroying Fire God Kagutsuchi cannon toward Gintama Star, Borsalino decided the fleet could not evade it and would have to absorb its attack. Meanwhile, Umibouzu woke aboard the Sylph and learned Doctor Dalton could restore his hair.

• Umibouzu woke in the Sylph's medical bay, where a priest and Doctor Dalton told him his injuries had been treated.
• The priest offered to have Doctor Dalton use alchemy to regrow Umibouzu's hair, and Umibouzu eagerly begged him to do it.
• Borsalino assessed the threat to Gintama Star, the fleet, and the Amatori, then decided they would have to eat the cannon's attack.
• The Amatori's green lightning collapsed into a vast sphere of light as its Fire God Kagutsuchi weapon reached full power.

As Yuanxiang’s threat to destroy Gintama Star spread panic across Earth, Gintoki’s group continued rushing to seal the Dragon Holes. In space, Borsalino awakened his Glint-Glint Fruit and formed a ten-thousand-meter Giant of Light to confront the growing sphere of energy beneath the Amatori.

• Yuanxiang’s broadcast threatened to bury Gintama Star along with the planet he called home, spreading terror across Earth.
• Gintoki, Shinpachi, Kagura, Sadaharu, Komako, Aine, and Momone headed toward another damaged Dragon Hole after pacifying one, while Gintoki joked about their promised reward.
• Borsalino appeared above the Sylph and faced the increasingly powerful white sphere of light.
• Borsalino used his Sun Goddess Freya glasses to deepen his understanding of light and declared his Second Awakening: Amaterasu Mikoto.
• Borsalino formed a ten-thousand-meter Giant of Light above the Warhammer Battleship, facing the sphere of light forming beneath the Amatori.

Borsalino manifested as a colossal divine avatar of light and stood between Gintama Star and the Fire God Kagutsuchi. Prince Yuanxiang ordered the weapon fired at the planet and the giant, and Borsalino raised his hand to meet the approaching beam.

• Borsalino formed a towering avatar of light that scattered the green clouds above Gintama Star and stunned people across the planet.
• Shogun Shige Shige, Momonga, Sakata Gintoki, and others looked up at Borsalino while crowds on the streets prayed for salvation.
• The Marines aboard the First Fleet cheered as Borsalino's appearance reassured them, while Prince Yuanxiang and the leaders aboard the Amatori reacted with disbelief.
• After the Fire God Kagutsuchi finished charging, Prince Yuanxiang ordered it fired at Borsalino and Gintama Star, disregarding Liberation Army ships in the beam's path.
• Borsalino calmly raised his palm toward the oncoming beam and released a purple-gold light that spread ahead of it.

Borsalino used Amaterasu to slow, capture, and compress Kagutsuchi’s devastating pillar of light, then immobilized the Altana Liberation Army and secured victory for the Navy. After the fleet began taking prisoners, Borsalino returned to normal and looked toward Gintama Star as civilians saw the word “Justice” on his coat.

• Borsalino slowed Kagutsuchi’s pillar of light with Amaterasu and drew it into his palm.
• Borsalino compressed the captured energy into a small, highly concentrated sphere of light.
• Borsalino spread his Slow-Slow Beam across the Altana Liberation Army fleet and the Amatori, leaving their crews unable to move normally.
• Sylph ordered the Navy’s First Fleet to suppress resistance and capture the enemy ships and personnel.
• The Navy boarded the immobilized vessels and took Altana Liberation Army soldiers prisoner.
• Borsalino dismissed Amaterasu, returned to normal, and looked toward Gintama Star as the word “Justice” appeared on screens across the planet.

After returning to the Sylph, Borsalino learned that the occupation of Amatori was proceeding smoothly under his Slow Field and ordered the captured Altana Liberation Army leaders imprisoned. Meanwhile, Umibouzu watched a World Government promotional film and was left stunned by the scale of its forces and the existence of eleven other admirals.

• Borsalino returned to the Sylph’s command room, where Freya praised his defeat of the planet-destroying beam and reported the battlefield’s status.
• Borsalino said his Slow Field could last at least two more hours as Decepticons advanced through Amatori’s slowed defenses.
• Borsalino ordered Yuanxiang, Cangda, Sun, Zique, and the other Altana Liberation Army leaders imprisoned for Cipher Pol.
• Freya told Borsalino that Umibouzu had awakened and showed footage of him watching the World Government’s military promotional film.
• Umibouzu was stunned by the film’s account of the government’s armies and fleets and learned that eleven admirals besides Kizaru existed.

Borsalino and his companions learned that the Galactic Empire’s Seventh Fleet had arrived in the Gintama Star System with overwhelming numbers and larger warships. Sylph outlined the First Fleet’s severe disadvantages, then began to explain that they still had some advantages.

• Borsalino noticed Umibouzu’s restored hair and learned that Doctor Dalton’s alchemy had improved his appearance.
• Sylph detected a massive spatial jump near the eighth planet and warned that the Galactic Empire’s Seventh Fleet might be arriving.
• The Seventh Fleet emerged under Admiral Frederick Morrison, and Sylph confirmed that it consisted of 1,526 vessels.
• Sylph compared the enemy fleet’s ships and numbers with the First Fleet, revealing a major gap in conventional strength.
• Sylph declared that the First Fleet still had advantages, but had not yet explained them.

Sylph proposed using captured and allied fleets as cannon fodder against the Galactic Empire's Seventh Fleet, but Borsalino rejected the plan to preserve the World Government's standing among Gintama Star's people. He ordered all officers ranked Major and above to gather aboard the Sylph, where the chapter leaves them assembling for his next move.

• Sylph recommended putting the Shogunate Self-Defense Fleet, the Harusame 5th Division Fleet remnants, and the captured Altana Liberation Army Fleet at the front to absorb enemy fire.
• Borsalino said those forces should instead assist in battle and guard the rear, while the World Government Navy fought the main battle and quickly took control of the Flying Bird space base.
• Borsalino ordered all personnel with the rank of Major and above to hand their duties to their adjutants and teleport to the Sylph within twenty minutes.
• Yamakaji entrusted the Shamash to his young adjutant, then led his officers to the ship's teleportation chamber.
• Yamakaji and other senior officers teleported to the Sylph, where more than a hundred officers had already gathered.

The World Government Navy's First Fleet prepared to confront the Galactic Empire's Seventh Fleet in the Gintama Star system. Admiral Frederick Morrison ordered an attack, unaware of the Navy's strength, as the fleets closed in and their first direct clash approached.

• Yamakaji watched the Navy's elite officers gather and predicted that Admiral Kizaru's plans would bring trouble for the Galactic Empire.
• Admiral Frederick Morrison dismissed the World Government fleet and ordered the Seventh Fleet to begin its offensive in twenty minutes.
• Colonel Adri told Morrison about rumors that the World Government's home system was rich in resources and that investigative ships had vanished there.
• Morrison decided to seize the rumored wealth and ordered his captains to move faster.
• The Seventh Fleet formed up and aimed its weapons at the World Government Navy's First Fleet as both forces moved toward battle.

Kuzan, Sengoku, and Tsuru discussed how the Navy could overcome its shortage of warships as it prepared for conflict with the Galactic Empire. Tsuru proposed asking Lord Imu for a solution, while Borsalino’s First Fleet faced the Empire’s Seventh Fleet in the Gintama Star system.

• The chapter described Sea Star’s five moons and the military installations on Sea Moon and Pluton Moon, as well as the Deviluke Fleet Chido had brought to deep space.
• Kuzan, Sengoku, and Tsuru watched Borsalino’s First Fleet face the much larger Galactic Empire Seventh Fleet in the Gintama Star system.
• Sengoku and Kuzan discussed how slowly Pluton Moon could produce new fleets and how long it would take to supply the Navy’s admirals.
• Tsuru suggested modifying captured warships, ordering a fleet from Chido’s Deviluke Kingdom, and asking Lord Imu for help.