Chapter Summaries

After Stussy left in grief, Imu focused on developing an emergency spatial escape device to protect the World Government’s powerful fighters. Meanwhile, the government’s reforms and investigations continued, as Dragon moved to arrest officials implicated in corruption.

• Stussy left Imu’s study without taking the Teigu, and Imu secretly put it in her coat pocket.
• Imu decided to research a Space Transfer Device that could automatically teleport its wearer to safety if they lost consciousness.
• Imu left gifts for Dragon and Borsalino: the Sun Goddess Sylph sunglasses and the Night Wind Goddess Ra gloves.
• Stussy returned, stored the gifts in Daikokuten, and resumed her duties after accepting Imu’s trust and position for her.
• The World Government pressed the Nuclear World to unify its currency and laws, transfer military forces, and surrender weapons for inspection and storage or recycling.
• Dragon reviewed CIPHER POL reports of official corruption, forwarded them for investigation, and ordered that proven offenders be arrested and sent to White Soil Prison.

Director Tianzheng told Dragon that cultists in Stornoway City worshipped Satan and might have summoned a demon before, prompting Dragon to seek help investigating. Dragon also received a Divine Tool made from Ra’s soul, sent by Imu to help him understand the laws of wind.

• Tianzheng reported that police had captured three Satan-worshipping cultists who wanted to summon a demon onto Sea Star and might have succeeded in summoning one before.
• Dragon agreed to report Tianzheng’s request for ninjas from the Yamanaka, Nara, and Aburame clans to help investigate the cultists.
• Dragon told Saint Jaygarcia Saturn about the possible demon on Sea Star, and Saturn agreed to speak with Saint Nusjuro about sending ninjas before deciding to consult Imu.
• A CP0 agent delivered Dragon a Divine Tool made by Imu from the soul of Ra, the Goddess of the Night Wind, explaining that it could help Dragon understand the laws of wind.
• Dragon put on the green-glowing gauntlets and vowed to protect Sea Star as its dangers continued to grow.

Borsalino arrived on Jupiter to establish a teleportation route to Sea Star, but he became fascinated by a nighttime battle between strange plants and hordes of zombies. After watching until dawn, he postponed placing the Flying Thunder God Kunai and decided to investigate where the plants went during the day.

• Borsalino reached Jupiter and entered its jungle at night, where his Observation Haki detected two groups fighting.
• Borsalino saw intelligent plants—including dirt balls, green beans, Sunflowers, and Melon-pults—battle zombie-like creatures emerging from the fog.
• Borsalino recorded the battle and watched thousands of zombies and plants fight throughout the night instead of placing the kunai.
• At dawn, the zombies stopped emerging and the plants cleared the battlefield before retreating into the jungle.
• Borsalino told the caller that he had not placed the kunai and would need another one or two hours, then turned his attention back to the jungle.

Borsalino helped establish the first transportation links between Jupiter and Sea Star, while discovering that the planet’s strange plants were fighting zombies. The World Government’s expedition began preparing to secure Jupiter, and Borsalino returned to Sea Star to rest.

• Borsalino met Minato Namikaze and Natara on Jupiter and watched Minato activate a Flying Thunder God guiding array.
• Suikazan Fuguki and twenty-four others teleported from Sea Star to Jupiter, where Borsalino warned them about the strange plants and showed officials footage of the zombies.
• Natara activated his Teigu, Shangri-La, creating a transportation channel between Jupiter and the Saturn camp.
• The strange plants refused to leave Jupiter because they wanted to keep resisting the zombies, and Borsalino told them the World Government would handle the threat.
• Borsalino returned to Sea Star through Natara’s glowing array, saying he preferred its appearance to Minato’s technique.

The World Government expanded its Jupiter operation and defined the ninjas’ role as intelligence gathering while researchers prepared to survey the planet. Imu supplied orbital parameters for several worlds and discovered that Jupiter was the Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare world, leaving him eager to explore it and collect plants.

• The World Government sent personnel, vehicles, and supplies to Jupiter, while officials assigned Suikazan Fuguki’s ninjas to investigate the zombies and report intelligence rather than lead frontal battles.
• After reviewing reports of Jupiter’s zombies and magical plants, the World Government considered the possibility that the planet had once supported a human civilization.
• Imu used the Star Map to obtain orbital parameters for several worlds and sent them through the Star Sea Den Den Mushi Network to Saint Marcus Mars for Vegapunk’s researchers to use in satellite projects.
• Imu watched a holographic battle between plants and zombies and recognized the plants as Garden Warfare varieties, including elemental Peashooters and multi-headed plants.
• Imu decided that he wanted his people to bring some plants back to Noah’s botanical garden and planned to explore Jupiter once the spatial transfer devices were ready.

After learning that Druid Rose had traveled from ancient times to prevent a zombie apocalypse, the Five Elders debated how the World Government should treat her, the other magical plants, and Jupiter’s zombies. They decided that intelligent beings who ate humans would not be accepted as people, and Jupiter’s zombie threat would be dealt with by force and research.

• Ninjas and drones mapped Jupiter, finding abandoned cities where zombies hid from sunlight and followed fog toward magical plants at night.
• Druid Rose told the ninjas she had come from ancient times through a spacetime passage thirty years earlier to avert a future ruled by zombies.
• Shepherd Ju Peter and the Five Elders debated whether to pursue contact with the future and whether the speaking rose witches qualified as people.
• Marcus Mars proposed searching for Dave, the vanished creator of the magical plants, while the Elders discussed who should oversee intelligence work on Jupiter.
• Nusjuro proposed eliminating most zombies and sending survivors to Reincarnation Paradise, while Topman Warcury ruled that human-eating creatures could only go to the Underworld, Reincarnation Paradise, or the Biochemical Research Institute.

Douglas Bullet reviewed Jupiter’s map with Leone and planned a raid on the Zombie Kingdom’s capital in the western desert. He refused Leone’s request to lead the raid and ordered her to choose another assignment or stay at headquarters.

• Leone showed Bullet a map detailing the Dark Age Zombies, Jurassic Island zombies, and Witch Zombies surrounding Druid Forest.
• Leone told Bullet that the Zombie Kingdom’s capital was in a western desert, and he ordered the ninjas to gather more intelligence before a raid.
• Leone asked to lead the ground raid, but Bullet refused because she was his adjutant.
• Bullet offered to let Leone fight Dinosaur Zombies in the east, but she insisted she wanted to attack the Zombie Kingdom’s main base and rise to lieutenant general or general.
• Bullet told Leone to follow his orders, and she angrily threatened to sleep in a separate room for the next year.

Pakura and Baba’s teams discovered that the desert Pyramid City was a decoy for the real Zombie King City hidden beneath it, prompting Douglas Bullet to arrange an air raid. As Arbel led an aviation wing toward Jupiter, his wife Shayna accompanied him, eager to visit another planet.

• Pakura and Baba led their teams into the desert using White Zetsu to evade detection and investigate the Zombie King City.
• Three days later, both teams reported that the Pyramid City was a decoy and the real Zombie King City lay underground.
• Douglas Bullet explained that intelligent zombies gained intelligence by eating human brains and requested an air raid on Pyramid Royal City.
• Zephyr ordered Kaido to coordinate the air mission, and Kaido assigned Arbel to lead an aviation wing toward Jupiter.
• Stussy left Noah to transport the space carrier and spacecraft, while Arbel brought his wife Shayna along to visit another planet.

Pakura’s team discovered that Jupiter’s zombies had built a vast underground civilization and were growing human bodies to use as food. After reporting their findings, Pakura prepared for a mission to locate and kill or capture the Zombie King, Gargantuar, during an attack on the Pyramid Royal City.

• Pakura surveyed the zombie city and learned that its schools taught science, magic, combat, and Death Studies.
• Pakura and the other ninjas discovered thousands of human bodies growing in chambers, which zombies harvested and processed into food.
• Pakura reported the discoveries to the Third Main Battle Legion’s command headquarters using a Den Den Mushi.
• Pakura returned to the safe house and told Tetsuji Yamanaka, Yoji Hyuga, and Reiko Hayashida to rest before the next day’s operation.
• Pakura’s team prepared to locate and kill or capture Gargantuar while air and ground forces attacked the Pyramid Royal City.

Arbel’s fleet destroyed the Zombie Kingdom’s Pyramid Royal City with a bombardment from its High-Energy Flash Explosion Ray. As the city was engulfed, Vice Admiral Capone Bege prepared to enter the field.

• Arbel ordered the fleet to bombard Pyramid Royal City at eleven using the High-Energy Flash Explosion Ray.
• The Egyptian Giant Zombie awoke to the attack alarm and saw the Lion-Faced Terminator launch a missile at the space carrier.
• The space carrier’s shield deflected the missile’s explosion, and Arbel’s fleet fired its golden beam at the Pyramid.
• The beam vaporized the Pyramid and engulfed the city and its million-plus zombies in light.
• Capone Bege watched from a transport ship and ordered his adjutant to prepare to enter the field.

The Main Battle Legion deployed to the crater of Pyramid Royal City to protect the surprise assault on the underground city, but its squads discovered a vast zombie army and were forced into battle. As the soldiers fought to hold their formations, air support began bombing the horde to cover Capone Bege’s forces as they withdrew.

• Two transport ships landed near the crater where Pyramid Royal City had stood, and Main Battle Legion squads spread out with CR-I Conquerors to hunt approaching zombies.
• Major Laze warned his squad about zombies buried beneath the sand, while the CR-I detected underground targets and then reported a horde of more than a thousand zombies approaching.
• Arbel and Shayna saw that the desert contained an unexpectedly large zombie army, and Arbel ordered the spacecraft carriers and bombing ships to attack the horde’s rear and cover Capone Bege’s retreat.
• The CR-Is fired beams into the zombie tide, destroying many Mummy Zombies, but the horde continued closing in.
• Major Laze ordered his squad to form around the CR-Is, fight in rotation, and retreat toward the other squads while maintaining formation.

Sanemi Shinazugawa and Zhu Tian led the Third Main Battle Legion in a devastating assault on a zombie horde, while Douglas Bullet considered using the desert battlefield for future training. The chapter left Bullet marveling at how Aramaki kept benefiting from events by coincidence.

• Sanemi Shinazugawa, now a colonel in Bullet's Third Main Battle Legion, tore through zombies while the air force and ground troops attacked across the battlefield.
• The narration described how the Legion's superhuman officers used Rokushiki, Breathing Techniques, Physical Arts, and Shingu to overwhelm the horde.
• Zhu Tian, another colonel, crushed waves of zombies with Hasshoken shockwaves as his unit fought and retreated.
• Douglas Bullet watched the battle transmissions and considered sealing off the desert as a live-combat training ground for his legion.
• Bullet wondered how Aramaki could keep getting so lucky, while the narration noted that it was an unintended coincidence.

Douglas Bullet watched Pakura and Baba capture the Zombie King, Gargantuar, and Leone decided to seek a Zoan Devil Fruit to improve her combat potential. Bullet promised to find her a powerful lion-type fruit and prepared to request an air squadron to help clear the continent’s zombies.

• A communications officer reported that Pakura and Baba had captured Gargantuar, and footage showed them fighting him inside the Four Violet Flames Formation.
• Baba wounded Gargantuar with Wind Release, but the zombie healed rapidly until Pakura’s Scorch Release caused him unbearable pain and enabled the capture.
• Leone reflected that other beings’ regenerative abilities made her Lionelle’s ultimate power seem less exceptional, then told Bullet she wanted to exchange for a Zoan Devil Fruit.
• Bullet supported Leone’s decision and promised to find her an Ancient Zoan, preferably one with a lion form.
• Bullet decided the continent needed a thorough zombie cleanup and prepared to contact High Command for an Aviation Squadron and a large-scale bombing campaign.

After the opening bombardment devastated the zombie hordes, Douglas Bullet launched the Second Main Battle Legion’s full assault on the regions around Druid Forest. Leone joined the fight against the dinosaur zombies, while Shiki arrived above Jupiter to bomb the spreading mummy horde.

• King Arbel ordered the fleet to bombard the desert with Dyna Stone cannons, plasma cannons, and Firestones, wiping out vast numbers of zombies before retreating after two rounds.
• Douglas Bullet deployed nearly sixty thousand soldiers in three forces against the Dark Age, Jurassic Island, and Fairy Tale Age zombies, and allowed the magical plants to join under his command.
• Leone led the western force into battle against the dinosaur and caveman zombies, then raced into the forest to find a zombie ruler and seek a greater challenge.
• After Douglas Bullet contacted him, Shiki brought his Aviation Squadron through a transfer portal to Jupiter to bomb the desert and other zombie regions.
• The uncontrolled mummy horde spread eastward, sweeping up modern, Wild West, and beach zombies and drawing the attention of the World Government’s leaders.

Tanjiro Kamado became a beloved figure in Goa Kingdom as the Demon Slayer manga spread across worlds, while the World Government demanded that Sea Star’s kings surrender their thrones and political power. The Goa King rejected the agreement and began rallying other rulers against the World Government.

• Tanjiro helped Windmill Town residents, spoke with children about the Demon Slayer Corps, and refused invitations from Goa Kingdom’s nobles.
• Tanjiro and Nezuko agreed to let the Publicity Department adapt their story into a manga, provided it did not detail their family’s deaths.
• World Government officials presented the Goa King with an agreement to give up his throne and kingdom in exchange for a noble title and other benefits.
• The Goa King tore up the agreement, rejected the demand, and warned that the other member countries would resist.
• The Goa King and rulers across the seas contacted one another to condemn the World Government’s demand, while major overseas kingdoms remained the central concern.

The World Government’s unification plan met mixed reactions from Sea Star’s kingdoms, with some rulers agreeing and others refusing and organizing resistance. Minister Molotov learned that King Neptune had ultimately agreed after Queen Otohime intervened, then asked about five major kingdoms whose responses remained unknown.

• Elizabello II refused to surrender the Prodence Kingdom, while King Riku and the king of Drum Kingdom agreed to the World Government’s demands.
• Several other kings refused, and some began contacting one another to resist the plan or prepare escape routes for their families.
• The Member Country Affairs Division reported the kingdoms’ decisions to Minister Molotov, including King Yumibing’s slogan, “Better to die standing than live kneeling.”
• The director reported that King Neptune had initially refused, but Queen Otohime persuaded him to take a night to consider the agreement, and he agreed the next day.
• Minister Molotov praised Queen Otohime for avoiding a revolt in Fish-Man Island, then asked how Elbaf, Amazon Lily, Totto Land, Whitebeard Kingdom, and Alabasta had responded.

After the World Government abolished Whitebeard's kingdom, Edward Newgate accepted the change and decided to join the Army as an official general. He left Peach Blossom Island in Thatch and Izo's care and looked toward serving in the World Government's future wars.

• Three World Government officials left Whitebeard's castle after Newgate signed the agreement dissolving his kingdom, which protected the castle and islanders from harsh treatment.
• Thatch and Izo discussed how the political unification would anger nobles, but Newgate said they could cause only minor trouble.
• Newgate reflected that the islanders' good lives had begun with Imu's arrival and decided he could no longer remain idle.
• Newgate told Thatch and Izo that he would officially join the Army and leave Peach Blossom Island in their care.
• Newgate said he expected to qualify for one of the three future general positions and accepted that he would have to follow orders.

Im received reports on kingdoms responding to the World Government’s agreement and ordered Elbaf to be pressured into signing. He granted Alabasta special concessions and rejected Amazon Lily’s request for autonomy, then ordered that a certain person there be erased from history.

• Im learned that King Harald and Elbaf’s elders had refused to sign the agreement, though they were willing to serve the World Government, and ordered Giant God Soldiers to persuade them before using force and imprisoning survivors.
• Saint Marcus Mars reported that Edward Newgate and King Cobra had signed the agreement and would read it at the Reverie.
• Im let the Nefertari family keep its palace and ancestral graves, gave Cobra the title of fourth-rank duke, and appointed him Alabasta’s first high official.
• Saint Marcus Mars reported that Toritoma had signed after Flame Flower persuaded her, but had requested autonomy for Amazon Lily.
• Im forbade Amazon Lily’s autonomy, ordered female officials to take over its government while giving Toritoma a suitable political post, and directed that a light on the island be erased from history.

King Harald refused to give up Elbaf’s royal authority and national title despite warnings that the World Government could destroy the kingdom. Surtr and Utgard arrived to urge him to accept Imu’s terms, but Harald rejected their appeal and threatened to resist by force.

• Elder Yaruru warned King Harald that refusing the World Government’s agreement could provoke it, but Harald insisted Elbaf would not surrender its royal authority or kingdom status.
• King Harald argued that the World Government would hesitate to attack because Elbaf could recall its Giants serving in the government’s forces.
• A guard announced that Surtr and Utgard had come to the palace, and King Harald expected them to support Elbaf’s independence.
• Surtr and Utgard urged King Harald to accept the World Government’s terms, warning that refusal would bring disaster to Elbaf.
• King Harald accused Surtr and Utgard of betraying Elbaf, raised the Elbaf Spear, and declared that the World Government would have to cross mountains of corpses and seas of blood to take the kingdom’s title.

Surtr and Utgard challenged King Harald and the elders who opposed cooperation with the World Government, hoping to secure Elbaf’s people and administration through duels. Utgard defeated Elder Efra by freezing him solid, while Harald prepared to face Surtr later.

• Surtr challenged King Harald to a duel, while Utgard invited any elders who supported Harald to fight him.
• Utgard and Surtr agreed to hold the duels on an uninhabited island, where the World Government broadcast the confrontation to Imu and other officials.
• Elder Efra charged Utgard with a Ryou-coated axe, but Utgard stopped the blade with one hand.
• Utgard used his enhanced Snow-Snow Fruit powers to freeze Efra completely, and Imu approved of his strength.