Chapter Summaries

Colonel Harrington showed Jinbe, Aladdin, and the Fish-Man Unit around Marineford, explaining their training and duties. The unit arrived at the enormous canteen, where Aladdin asked about learning human Swordsmanship and said he only knew Vice Admiral Aokiji.

• Colonel Harrington welcomed Jinbe and Aladdin, then led the Fish-Man Unit through Marineford and explained that Fish-Men could use the canteen without special restrictions.
• Harrington outlined the unit’s demanding daily training and explained that Fish-Man squads would support warships and other Marine operations.
• Jinbe promised to send capable Fish-Men when Harrington requested a squad for an upcoming mission.
• Jinbe, Aladdin, and the Fish-Men were astonished by the size and bustle of the Marine Headquarters Canteen.
• Aladdin asked Harrington about learning human Swordsmanship, and Harrington advised him to seek private instruction from a swordsman officer.
• Aladdin told Harrington that the only officer he knew was Vice Admiral Aokiji.

Newly appointed base commander Dragon planned a sweeping operation against Sabaody Archipelago’s slave trade and pirate activity, coordinating with the Neptune Army to seal off the island. As Marines began their crackdown, Dragon prepared to lead the assault on Area 20 himself.

• Dragon met with the Minister of the Right and arranged for the Neptune Army to blockade the island’s waters, prioritizing Areas 20 and 50 and rescuing slaves from escaping ships.
• Dragon decided to purge the lawless districts and target the slave businesses, while remaining cautious about the presence of Pluton Rayleigh in Area 50.
• Marine warships formed a visible outer encirclement as the Neptune Army secretly took positions underwater, concentrating beneath Areas 20 and 50.
• Colonel Eric led Marines toward Area 20, Lieutenant Colonel Cecil led the largest force into Areas 1 through 9, and Major General Ivan began inspecting Area 50 and detaining ships being coated.
• Dragon kept Major General Ivan away from the slave auction houses because of his steady temperament and set out to lead the operation in Area 20 himself.

Rayleigh, working under the alias Old Rayleigh, watched pirates flee a Marine raid on Sabaody while wondering whether the Marines had come for him. The Gors Pirates’ escape was halted when Neptune Army Fish-Men pierced their ship’s hull underwater.

• Rayleigh learned Bubble Coating from Master Faulkner at a workshop in Grove 53.
• Captain Gors and his crew rushed onto their partially coated ship and fled, followed by more than a dozen other pirate ships.
• Rear Admiral Ivan ordered Marines to search ships flying skull flags and detain their crews, leaving Rayleigh puzzled about the raid.
• The Gors Pirates discovered their ship was taking on water from numerous holes in its hull.
• Neptune Army Fish-Man soldiers revealed they had pierced the ship with tridents to stop the pirates underwater.

Tesoro abandoned his dishwashing shift after hearing that Marines were raiding the slave trade, and raced toward the shop where Stella was held. As the purge sparked fierce fighting across the Sabaody Archipelago, slave traders fled and Dulles insisted Dragon would be punished for the operation.

• Tesoro worked a long restaurant shift, driven by his determination to buy Stella out of slavery.
• A thug warned that Marines were attacking slave shops, companies, and markets throughout the lawless zone.
• Tesoro heard the warning in the kitchen, dropped a plate, and ran toward Stella's slave shop in Area 28.
• Colonel Eric's Marines met heavy armed resistance in the slave-trade districts as the purge spread across the archipelago.
• Dulles and other slave-trade figures boarded ships in Area 24, and Dulles blamed Dragon while claiming the Marines would be punished.

Gesor ordered the thugs to release the collared slaves as human shields while they tried to escape, but Monkey D. Dragon stopped the chaos with his wind ability. Tesoro and Stella were reunited and kissed as the Marines secured the slave market.

• Gesor learned that no reinforcements were coming and decided the thugs needed to escape.
• Gesor ordered Harun and the other thugs to release the slaves and drive them toward the Marines, and they forced the captives from their Cells.
• Colonel Eric and the Marines hesitated as crowds of collared slaves flooded Areas 27, 28, and 29.
• Monkey D. Dragon restrained the slaves with wind, swept the thugs aside, and ordered the Marines to detain the captives and remove their Collars.
• Tesoro ran to Stella, and Dragon withdrew the wind so they could embrace and kiss.

After the Navy freed Stella and the other former slaves, Stella chose to stay with Tesoro rather than return to South Blue. As Tesoro took her home, a government publicity official recruited him as a singer, setting the pair on a new path.

• A government official questioned Stella, and she chose to remain with Tesoro instead of returning to Strawberry Island.
• Tesoro promised to earn enough money to buy a ship and take Stella home, but a Navy captain warned them about the dangers of the sea.
• Tesoro took Stella toward his home on Grove 27 and told her that his mother had died two years earlier.
• Senior Director Beard approached Tesoro and offered him a place among the singers the Publicity Department planned to cultivate as stars.
• Tesoro asked Beard to verify his identity at a Navy branch and revealed that he had written songs himself.

After Dragon’s Marines dismantled the Sabaody Archipelago’s slave trade, he prepared to face the dark world’s backlash. At Pangaea Castle, Imu defeated Gion in tennis by suppressing her senses and learned that Crocodile had been taken to Impel Down, where he considered how to use him.

• Dragon’s forces completed their investigation of the Sabaody Archipelago, filled the base’s cells, and requested prison ships from Enies Lobby.
• News of the Marines’ crackdown enraged slave-trade leaders, who began gathering intelligence and sending subordinates after Dragon.
• Imu defeated Gion 6:0 by stripping away her senses, leaving Stussy to help her recover.
• Imu learned from a maid that CP0 had taken Crocodile to Level 6 of Impel Down and ordered him kept there while he considered his options.

Crocodile reflected on his search for Pluton and his arrival in Alabasta while enduring Impel Down’s boiling-water baptism without flinching. Seven days earlier, as he and his subordinates crossed the desert toward Alubarna, a masked man in white appeared to block their path.

• Crocodile sat calmly in the boiling baptism cauldron at Impel Down as guards identified him and discussed his reputation.
• Crocodile recalled how losing to Whitebeard had shaken his confidence and how rumors of Pluton rekindled his ambition to defeat him.
• Crocodile learned that Alabasta might hold clues to Pluton and traveled there with his subordinates to investigate.
• Crocodile and his group left Nanohana with supplies and camels, then crossed the desert toward Alubarna.
• Crocodile’s group spotted a masked man in white waiting in the desert and stopped their camels, wary that he intended to cause trouble.

A flashback showed Crocodile confronting a powerful CP0 Aegis agent, who easily killed his recruits and wounded him before questioning his weak Haki. The story returned to Crocodile imprisoned in boiling water, where a guard told him his time was up.

• Crocodile ordered his recruits to attack the white-clad agent, and the agent killed Ilan and more than ten others with bone spikes and pale swords.
• Crocodile dodged the agent's sword barrage, but the agent cut his chest despite his Logia transformation.
• The CP0 Aegis agent questioned why Crocodile's Haki was so weak, while Crocodile was shocked to find his strength had inexplicably declined.
• A prison guard told the shackled Crocodile that his time in the boiling water was over and ordered him to come out and get dressed.

Crocodile was brought to Level 6 Infinite Hell, where he encountered Douglas Bullet and learned that Golden Lion Shiki was imprisoned nearby. Crocodile and Bullet traded insults over their old stalemate, while Bullet kept hoping to leave prison and become stronger.

• Magellan escorted Crocodile through Level 6 Infinite Hell, where Shiki's overwhelming Conqueror's Haki silenced Bullet.
• Bullet and Shiki argued about Roger's defeat and Bullet's ambition to surpass the strongest people in the world.
• Crocodile entered his cell, which was next to Bullet's, after CP0's Aegis had demanded he be held on Level 6.
• Bullet recognized Crocodile from their fight two years earlier and mocked his weakened presence.
• Crocodile insisted that Bullet had weakened too, and the two renewed their rivalry from their neighboring cells.

Imu recorded ideas for accelerating the World Government’s technological development as he prepared to reveal the Star Gate to the Five Elders. He considered how to acquire useful research and recruit scientists, then concluded that Akainu’s awakened Magma-Magma Fruit could provide Baldimore with geothermal energy.

• Imu wrote down ideas for improving Marine ships and considered using animal cyborg and Lineage Factor technologies to strengthen the World Government.
• Imu decided to seize Vinsmoke Judge’s research and equipment when Judge’s sons were born, while taking Reiju and the others as recruits.
• Imu considered capturing Queen to obtain his viral weapons and human modification technology, and decided the experiments on children at Punk Hazard should stop.
• Imu weighed eliminating Elbaf’s Giants or supporting a World Government-friendly king to prevent them from becoming a threat.
• Imu planned to fund Vegapunk’s work on heating Baldimore and realized Akainu’s awakened Magma-Magma Fruit could create volcanoes and geothermal power.

Imu considered how Devil Fruit powers could supply clean energy and how to improve the World Government’s technology and military forces. He decided to focus on strengthening the Army and considered Douglas Bullet as its trainer.

• Imu realized that Akainu’s magma, Kizaru’s light, Dragon’s hurricanes, and Enel’s electricity could provide renewable energy, and he became more determined to visit Sky Island.
• Imu planned to send Vegapunk information about Devil Fruits, Pacifistas, and technologies from his previous life, while postponing whether to give him the Munch-Munch Fruit.
• Imu compared firearm development across the Four Seas and decided to have Doflamingo expand his North Blue weapons factories.
• Imu concluded that the Army would be vital in future land wars and considered transferring Zephyr, but rejected the idea because the Navy still needed him.
• Imu thought of Douglas Bullet, a former general of the Country of Endless War who was imprisoned in Impel Down, as a potential Army trainer.

Gion and Stussy discussed their lives in Pangaea Castle, where Gion longed to return to her family and wanted to spar with Imu. Meanwhile, Mihawk arrived at the Moon Chamber and asked Imu to teach him after his strength reached a bottleneck.

• Gion told Stussy she missed Tsuru and Rouge and felt uncomfortable living in the castle, though her training with Imu had improved her Haki.
• Gion said she wanted to cross swords with Imu, and Stussy warned her against challenging a Celestial Dragon.
• Stussy admitted she wanted to stay near Imu and wondered what kind of woman might attract him, while Gion teased her about pursuing him.
• Mihawk entered the Moon Chamber without being stopped, and Imu asked what he wanted.
• Mihawk told Imu that his strength had reached a bottleneck and asked to learn from him.

The World Government announced that it had found Roger’s treasure and planned to livestream its return, prompting Rayleigh, Big Mom, and Shanks to recognize the announcement’s political impact. After Shanks denounced the claim, a masked agent told him the Five Elders had summoned him back to Mary Geoise.

• A newspaper announced that the World Government had found One Piece and would publicly livestream its treasure’s return to Mary Geoise.
• Rayleigh told Shakky that Roger’s crew had left no treasure on Laugh Tale, and Shakky realized the World Government was using the display to suppress rumors.
• Big Mom ordered Perospero to find the Marines escorting the treasure and prevent them from returning easily.
• Shanks read the announcement and insisted Roger’s crew had never possessed that much treasure.
• A masked World Government agent identified Shanks as Figarland Shanks and ordered him to return to Mary Geoise at the Five Elders’ summons.

The Marines began escorting the supposed One Piece treasure from Laugh Tale toward Mary Geoise under heavy guard. When more than twenty pirate ships converged on the fleet, the battle for the treasure began in front of a worldwide broadcast.

• Garp dismissed Laugh Tale as uninteresting and recognized that the monument and treasure were fake because he sensed no trace of Roger's Haki.
• Sengoku led ten warships and two cargo ships toward Mary Geoise in a defensive formation, with Garp, Akainu, Shiryu, and Kizaru guarding the fleet.
• Akainu warned Shiryu to stay alert because the treasure's live broadcast would attract pirates, and Shiryu eagerly anticipated a fight.
• Sengoku and Garp sensed approaching enemies, and the marines spotted more than twenty pirate ships closing in from every direction.
• The marines identified several approaching pirate captains and their bounties as the naval battle over One Piece began.

Sengoku ordered the Marines to destroy the pirate fleet as nearly thirty crews encircled the Navy ships and charged. The Marines opened fire, and Akainu began to unleash his Great Eruption as the battle intensified.

• Sengoku ordered the cargo ships to slow down and the ten Warships to form defensive rings, then commanded the Marines to take no prisoners.
• Shiryu welcomed the coming battle while Vice Admiral Palmer warned that the storm would make the naval fight more dangerous.
• Nearly thirty pirate ships surrounded the Marine fleet and charged at once, aiming to close in and board the Warships.
• Sengoku ordered the Marines to fire, and the Warships bombarded the approaching pirates as the battle was broadcast around the world.
• Quiller ordered three White Knight Pirates to cut cannonballs from the sky, but Marine shells began striking pirate ships and causing casualties.
• Akainu began his Great Eruption as the opposing fleets closed in.

The Marines and pirates clashed in a storm as Sakazuki and Borsalino devastated the pirate fleet with their Devil Fruit powers. The battle was interrupted by ominous purple lightning that targeted the Marines, and Shiryu wondered whether another Logia user had arrived.

• Sakazuki overwhelmed Conrad with a massive magma fist, then faced the gorilla captain as he charged out of the flames.
• Samuel rampaged across a Marine warship until Borsalino kicked him away at the speed of light.
• Borsalino unleashed Yasakani no Magatama, crippling or sinking more than ten pirate ships with a storm of light beams.
• Sengoku said he and Garp were waiting for someone while Sakazuki and Borsalino handled the battle.
• Purple lightning descended from the storm clouds and targeted Marine ships and officers, leading Shiryu to wonder if another Logia user had arrived.

People across the world watched the Marines battle the pirates, while Imu and his companions followed the broadcast from Mary Geoise. The battle escalated when Big Mom arrived and unleashed lightning on the Marine forces.

• Doctor Kureha watched the broadcast at the Drum Kingdom Medical Academy before leaving to focus on researching Amber Lead Syndrome.
• King Neptune and Fish-Man Island officials watched the battle and discussed how powerful the Marines were, including Dragon, who guarded the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Imu introduced Mihawk to Gion and Stussy, then watched the broadcast with them after playing tennis with Mihawk.
• Big Mom's purple lightning struck warships and Marines, pursuing officers who tried to evade it.
• A reporter identified the arriving ship as the Big Mom Pirates' Queen Mama Chanter and announced that an Emperor of the Sea had joined the battle.

Pirates watched for opportunities as Big Mom arrived at the naval battle, where Sengoku blasted apart the thunderstorm she had summoned. As a massive tsunami approached, Garp charged to meet Whitebeard, while Big Mom remained at a distance.

• Nearby pirate crews rushed toward the battle after Big Mom arrived, while another captain planned to attack exhausted pirates after the fighting.
• Charlotte Linlin declared that she would end the Pirate King’s era and restore the era of Rocks, blaming Sengoku and Garp for destroying the rules of the game.
• Sengoku transformed into a golden Daibutsu and used Buddha’s Wrath: Shockwave to split the thunderclouds and clear the sky.
• Zeus returned to the Queen Mama Chanter in pain, and Katakuri asked Big Mom whether they should join the battle; she turned toward the distant sea instead.
• A colossal tsunami threatened the Navy fleet, and Garp charged toward it after recognizing Whitebeard’s arrival.

Garp destroyed the super tsunami with a punch, then clashed with Whitebeard as the Whitebeard Pirates arrived. Whitebeard baited Garp into revealing a reaction, and Kaido descended to join the battle for the One Piece.

• Garp struck the super tsunami with his Iron Fist, dispersing it and sending the remaining force toward the Moby Dick.
• Whitebeard blocked Garp’s punch with Murakumogiri and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, scattering its remaining power.
• Imu watched the clash and concluded that the world’s strongest fighters could readily overcome massive waves.
• Whitebeard questioned Garp about something, tricked him into reacting, and prompted Garp to deny telling him anything.
• Kaido descended in his Azure Dragon form and declared that the One Piece belonged to him.