Chapter Summaries

Kuma reviewed the Religious Affairs Department’s new rules for regulating religions and Heroic Spirit summoning across the World Government’s territories. After Ginny reminded him not to keep Pope Enrico Maxwell waiting, Kuma prepared to discuss the conditions the Vatican would have to accept to become a legitimate religion.

• Kuma managed disputes among Sea Star’s religions and other extraordinary faiths while reviewing reports in his office.
• Kuma read a confidential directive establishing official procedures for summoning and registering Heroic Spirits such as Karna and Gawain.
• Kuma considered asking the World Government to summon Heroic Spirits suited to the Religious Affairs Department as well.
• Ginny told Kuma that Pope Enrico Maxwell was waiting in the reception room and reminded him not to act high and mighty.
• Kuma prepared to discuss the requirements that the Vatican acknowledge the Creator God, obtain approval for leadership changes, and accept the department’s authority.

Imu considered how the World Government could boost Karna and Gawain’s legendary status and reviewed Muzan Kibutsuji’s research and training progress. Stussy then reported that Empress Teresa had finished purifying the demon heart, and Imu went with Mu to see it.

• Imu ordered Kuma’s Religious Affairs Department and Tesoro’s Publicity Department to promote Karna and Gawain’s heroic images and legends.
• Tesoro and several Shichibukai received notices replacing them, while Enel begged Imu to let him remain his Divine Messenger; Imu instead told him to pursue an Admiral position in the Marines.
• Imu reviewed Muzan Kibutsuji’s serum research and learned that Muzan had begun training in Zephyr’s Current Driving, potentially allowing him to surpass his teacher.
• Stussy reported that Empress Teresa had completed the demon heart’s purification, and Imu opened Heaven’s Door to go inspect it with Mu.

Muzan Kibutsuji struggled to push Current Driving beyond fifty million volts, as his body repeatedly exploded at higher levels despite his fourth-stage Life Return. He called Zephyr for advice, and Zephyr asked whether he could use the seventh-form secret technique, Seven King Gun, or the Hasshoken technique Dragon Drill Nail.

• Muzan trained Current Driving in his private room, where his body burst into blood mist when he tried to sustain sixty million volts.
• Muzan wondered whether Zephyr's theory about Life Return and Armament Haki was wrong, since his fourth-stage Life Return could not take him past fifty million volts.
• Muzan asked Red Queen to clear the contaminated air from the training room.
• Muzan called Zephyr and explained his difficulty with Current Driving.
• Zephyr asked Muzan whether he could use Seven King Gun or the Hasshoken secret technique Dragon Drill Nail.

Muzan Kibutsuji declined to train in ultimate Physical Arts, choosing a comfortable life with Current Driving capped at fifty million volts. Imu and Stussy arrived at Teresa’s palace to claim the purified heart of Beelzebub, ready for Imu to consume it.

• Zephyr explained that mastering the Seven King Gun would let Muzan control Current Driving at fifty million volts and briefly exceed that power, while higher levels required an even greater Physical Arts realm.
• Muzan refused Zephyr’s offer to teach him ultimate Physical Arts, preferring to remain a scientist, Life Return teacher, and respected leader rather than endure arduous training.
• Imu brought Stussy through Heaven’s Door to the Heavenly Dragon Realm and described its levels and the souls destined to become holy angels or Justice Angels.
• Imu and Stussy reached Teresa’s Golden Palace, where they saw Beelzebub’s heart purified of its demonic power after a year and a half.
• Teresa reported that the purification had also improved her control of Rabona Divine Power and her Angel Fruit ability, and Imu eagerly prepared to consume the heart.

Imu absorbed one of Beelzebub’s hearts, awakening his Space Authority and causing the Heavenly Dragon Realm to expand. The Star Map updated with new powers, and Imu discovered a soul inside the heart as he prepared to return to Sea Star.

• Imu transformed Beelzebub’s heart into a Philosopher’s Stone and absorbed it, entering a spatial dimension where he learned to perceive and control the laws of space.
• Imu’s Space Fruit ability evolved into his own Space Authority, while his power caused the Heavenly Dragon Realm to expand into a larger world.
• The Star Map updated Star Authority, Star Shift, and Star Envoy, and told Imu to visit a world under Star Fate to complete the update.
• Imu prepared to return to Sea Star, then condensed a translucent figure from Beelzebub’s heart and realized it contained a soul bound by a demon contract.

After his second awakening, Imu absorbed more of the Star Map’s spatial functions and considered how to use his new planetary powers. He returned to Mary Geoise with his authority increased, a newly condensed Space Fruit in hand, and plans to use Star Envoys to prepare planets as weapons.

• Imu learned that Zenon Zogratis’s soul had passed into his possession, then told Stussy to rest with Teresa and returned to Mary Geoise.
• Imu sat on the Empty Throne and received the Star Map’s updated functions, which began transferring to him despite his limited spatial authority.
• After absorbing spatial laws from Sea Star, Giant World, Teigu World, and the Shinobi World, Imu’s spatial authority rose from 23% to 37%.
• Imu reasoned that future Star Fate worlds should have unusual spatial features, then used Star Authority to summon a newly condensed Space Fruit.
• Imu examined Star Shift’s ability to move planets and considered using Star Envoys to activate gates on uninhabited planets and bring them into the Sea Star System as ammunition.

Ten-year-old Trafalgar Law tended to the magical plants guarding his home before getting ready to walk to school with Penguin, Shachi, and Bepo. He showed off his yo-yo skills with his Shockwave, leaving his friends stunned by his highest-difficulty Heavenly Silver Dragon move.

• Law watered the Peashooters and Sunflowers and asked them to protect his home and his sister Lamy.
• Law’s mother explained that his father had rushed to the hospital to perform emergency surgery after a Night Demon attack.
• Law told his mother he and his friends would walk to school together, and she agreed.
• Penguin showed off the Ice Soul yo-yo and its Iron Tower move when Law met his friends outside.
• Law used his Shockwave to shatter Penguin’s Iron Tower and perform the Heavenly Silver Dragon.

Ten-year-old Law excelled at yo-yos and endured an exhausting school day before discovering and eating a Devil Fruit. Two days later, the Education Department offered to send him to the Medical Academy on Drum Island with his family and friends, leaving Law suspicious that his new Devil Fruit status was the reason.

• Law impressed Penguin, Shachi, and Bepo by performing the advanced Heavenly Silver Dragon yo-yo trick.
• Law attended a demanding school day filled with academic lessons and exhausting physical training.
• At home, the Peashooters and Sunflowers led Law to a Devil Fruit, which he picked up and ate before realizing he should have consulted his parents.
• Two days later, the Education Department offered Law specialized training at the Medical Academy on Drum Island, with relocation support for his family.
• The Department said Bepo, Shachi, and Penguin could attend with Law, prompting him to suspect that officials wanted him there because he had registered as a Devil Fruit User.

Robin, Lucci, Bruno, and Kuro prepared for a mission on Bouvet Island, where an expedition was heading to a buried pyramid. As the team traveled toward the site, Robin and Lucci kept watch over their assigned targets while knowing the expedition faced deadly danger.

• Robin admired the aurora before Lucci reminded her to stay alert in the unfamiliar environment.
• Kuro explained that the group were mercenaries hired by Weyland Industries and assigned each teammate one of the four people they had to protect.
• The Piper 9 reached Bouvet Island, and explorer Woods briefed the expedition team on safety rules before Robin joined her as a bodyguard.
• A convoy drove across the ice toward the excavation site, while Sebastian discussed the hunter’s moon with Woods and Lucci and Robin silently exchanged a glance.

The expedition found a newly appeared tunnel beneath an abandoned whaling town and descended to a hidden Pyramid. After entering it, the group discovered a sacrificial burial chamber, while Kuro, Lucci, Robin, and Bruno sensed danger ahead.

• Woods fired a flare to reveal the abandoned town, and satellite data pointed to a Pyramid beneath it.
• Miller and Bruno explored a building, then joined the expedition after it discovered a tunnel that had not appeared the night before.
• A sudden wind snapped Weyland’s cable, but Lucci caught him before he fell into the tunnel.
• The seventeen expedition members reached the cavern and saw a black Pyramid, then entered it under armed guard.
• Robin read an inscription aloud and explained her background in archaeology and linguistics.
• The group found a chamber filled with human skeletons and skulls, and Kuro, Lucci, Robin, and Bruno sensed that danger was near.

Robin and the others uncovered evidence of Facehuggers as Weyland’s team explored the Antarctic Pyramid. Sebastian opened a sarcophagus containing strange weapons, and removing them activated the Pyramid’s mechanisms, leaving the expedition trapped amid sudden changes.

• Robin identified that the corpses had been killed by something bursting out of their abdomens and warned Kuro, Lucci, and Bruno about Facehuggers.
• Deep underground, the Queen was forced to lay three giant eggs, while three tall figures emerged at the whaling station after a bloody attack.
• Weyland’s group split up, and Weyland, Woods, Sebastian, Miller, and their security escort continued to a lower chamber.
• Sebastian used the Maya and Aztec calendars to open a sarcophagus containing three unfamiliar weapons, which Kuro warned were dangerous.
• Maxwell Stafford took the weapons despite Woods’s objections, triggering the Pyramid’s doors and stairways to shift as Miller suspected its energy system had activated.

Kuro and the others encountered an invisible Predator inside the shifting pyramid, which split the group apart. Bruno and Miller discovered a Drone Xenomorph in their passage, and Bruno prepared to fight another creature after killing one.

• Kuro detected razor-thin wires and warned the group, then Lucci and Bruno opened fire on a Predator disguised as a statue.
• The corridor shifted and separated the group, leaving Bruno with Miller in a lower passage while Kuro, Lucci, Weyland, Woods, Robin, Sebastian, and "Max" regrouped elsewhere.
• Kuro explained that the Predators could turn invisible and set traps, while Sebastian guessed the pyramid changed its layout every ten minutes.
• Bruno smelled blood and a foul odor, then spotted Drone Xenomorphs charging through the passage.
• Bruno killed one Xenomorph with his assault rifle, told Miller to hide, and faced another in the cramped passage.

Bruno fought and killed a Xenomorph but was ambushed and killed by a Predator, while Miller also died. Kuro, Lucci, and Robin learned of their deaths before two Predators attacked their group in the underground palace.

• Bruno dodged the Xenomorph's attacks, then wounded it with a punch and endured serious injuries while fighting it head-on.
• Bruno stopped his bleeding, bandaged his wounds, and smashed the Xenomorph's skull with a rifle until it died.
• Bruno told Miller that Kuro, Lucci, and Robin were his teammates, but a Predator stabbed Bruno from behind and killed him, then Miller screamed and died.
• Kuro, Lucci, and Robin received notice that Bruno and Graham Miller had died, leaving only one more permitted death among their protected targets.
• A Predator net trapped a mercenary, while two Predators revealed themselves and attacked Kuro's group.

Kuro and Lucci broke off their fight with the Predators to reach Robin and the others, who returned to the Sacrificial Burial Chamber. Scar ambushed them, killed Maxwell, and attacked Robin, who used her Devil Fruit powers to restrain him.

• Stone was trapped and cut apart by a constricting net while Weyland, Woods, and Sebastian failed to free him.
• Kuro fought Chop Wave as Lucci evaded Celtic, kicked him into a wall, and took Kuro's spear.
• Lucci and Kuro used Soru to leave the Predators and xenomorphs behind and head for the protection target.
• Robin, Weyland, Woods, Sebastian, and Maxwell returned to the Sacrificial Burial Chamber, where Maxwell argued that they should leave the Pyramid.
• Scar emerged from invisibility, killed Maxwell with a throwing blade, and attacked Robin.
• Robin dodged Scar's blade and used Six Fleur: Anchor Flower to restrain him with arms that bloomed around his body.

Robin restrained Scar with her Flower-Flower Fruit and attacked him with Shigan, but she abandoned the fight when Kuro and Lucci warned her to flee the Pyramid. The group escaped outside as a swarm of Aliens and an escaped Queen pursued them, and Kuro stopped to confront the threat.

• Robin used sixteen arms to hold Scar in place, allowing Weyland, Woods, and Sebastian to flee the tomb chamber.
• Robin loosened her hold on Scar and used Shigan through the arms on his body to pierce his flesh, though his armor resisted her attacks.
• Kuro and Lucci arrived and warned Robin to retreat as more than a dozen Aliens chased them, along with another Predator.
• Robin released Scar and ran for the Pyramid exit, while Scar followed Celtic and learned that an escaped Alien Queen was also pursuing them.
• Kuro, Lucci, and Robin caught up with Weyland, Woods, and Sebastian outside, and Kuro stopped as the Predators and Aliens emerged from the Pyramid.

Robin’s group escaped while Kuro, Lucci, and two Predator warriors fought the Alien Queen. After the mission succeeded, Kuro revealed that Bruno’s corpse had produced a special Alien, making their mission world a future destination for other Reincarnators.

• Robin used her ability to carry Weyland and Sebastian toward the surface while Scar and Celtic took the abandoned weapons and covered Kuro and Lucci.
• Kuro and Lucci attacked the Alien swarm, killing more than ten Aliens and drawing the Alien Queen’s attention.
• Lucci used Dark Water to restrain the Alien Queen while Scar and Celtic blasted her with plasma weapons until she died.
• Kuro killed Scar and Celtic with Shigan, calling it revenge for Bruno.
• Kuro, Lucci, and Robin awoke with Melard, Gilbert, Cassandra, and Bruno nearby, and Kuro reported that the Main God had preserved their mission world because an Alien had emerged from Bruno’s corpse.

Imu reviewed the Main God Space’s closed-beta reports as the World Government prepared to expand the dream dimension for entertainment and military training. At Marine Headquarters, Kuzan told Sengoku he had hit a limit in developing his Devil Fruit, then learned Kaido had mastered Colorless Haki and that the Admirals would train in the Main God Space.

• Imu read reports describing closed-beta teams’ missions in worlds including Alien vs. Predator, Demon Slayer, and other settings, and anticipated the Main God Space’s wider launch.
• The World Government continued building Marine Headquarters into a vast lunar military base while preserving the crater as a reminder of the dangers posed by powerful beings from other worlds.
• Kuzan told Sengoku that his training on Mercury had gone well but that he could not advance his Devil Fruit powers further or see what lay beyond his current limit.
• Sengoku informed Kuzan that Kaido had mastered Colorless Haki, earned the title Battle Sacred Dragon Martial God, and would remain a Navy Admiral.
• Sengoku told Kuzan that Admirals would rotate back to headquarters for three months to train in the Main God Space, and Kuzan asked what it was.

Chopper studied hematology under Kureha, who asked him to assess the supposedly gifted Law when he arrived. Kureha prepared to lead a Medical Academy team to inspect blood banks in the State Religion World and determine how much blood could be collected for the World Government.

• Chopper finished a medical exam, and Kureha corrected four answers while asking why he had been studying blood diseases.
• Kureha told Chopper she would travel to the State Religion World and instructed him to observe Law, the boy who had eaten the Op-Op Fruit, when he arrived.
• Chopper left the office to run and eat after Kureha ordered him to take a break.
• Kureha read a Health Department mission notice directing the Medical Academy to inspect blood banks across the State Religion World.
• Kureha chose to lead the inspection team herself so she could travel to the Otherworld.

Alucard trained at the Magic Council in Tristain and learned to control his magical energy, turning his Vampire abilities into blood magic. Joseph told him that Cain Madhavies, president of the Patria Republic, was another powerful Bloodkin under the World Government.

• Joseph brought Alucard to the Magic Council after uneasy reactions to his presence led Alucard to leave Tristain.
• Alucard trained with the Little Pyramids and used Protego to deflect their magic bullets.
• Joseph praised Alucard for mastering magical energy, Apparition, and Protego, while Alucard thanked him for his guidance.
• Alucard explained that he had chosen to study Zero Magic World magic, which transformed his Vampire talents into blood magic.
• Joseph told Alucard that Cain Madhavies was recorded by the World Government as a Bloodkin and was the first of his kind under its rule.

Im sought a source for Sea Star’s bloodkin and went to the Teigu World’s Endless Blood Sea, learning that the Star Map had already recorded it and could take it away. He then entered Hell in the State Religion World and ordered Gaia to cooperate with his plan to merge the two realms into a River of Blood for Sea Star.

• Im decided Sea Star needed more true bloodkin and explained that he had sent troublesome artificial vampires to Reincarnation Paradise.
• Im entered the Teigu World’s Endless Blood Sea, where Truth explained that it was the Underworld’s terminal for discarded things and would replenish if removed.
• Im realized the Star Map had already recorded the Blood Sea, so he could take it away without analyzing its spatial structure himself.
• Im traveled to the State Religion World and entered its Hell, blocking the maddening wails with Colorless Haki.
• Im ordered Gaia to cooperate as he prepared to merge Hell with the Endless Blood Sea and create a River of Blood affiliated with Sea Star.