Chapter Summaries

Mihawk traveled to meet Shanks while Maud prepared to attack Impel Down to rescue Saul and find Gaban. After explaining what had happened, Maud asked Shanks for help, and Shanks agreed on the condition that Maud restore his arm.

• Mihawk left Kuraigana Island and sailed to meet Shanks, killing a Sea King along the way.
• Maud left Thriller Bark with Beli after telling the Straw Hat Pirates he would be gone and arranging for Rayleigh to teach Zoro swordsmanship.
• Mihawk arrived at Shanks's island, where Maud also landed and said he had come to restore Shanks's arm and discuss a matter with him.
• Maud told Shanks, Beckman, and Yasopp about Rayleigh, Saul, Gaban, and the Marines' actions, then declared he would attack Impel Down to rescue Saul.
• Shanks agreed to help Maud after asking him to restore his arm, while Mihawk realized the Marines' emergency summons concerned Maud.

Maud restored Shanks's arm and secured the Red-Haired Pirates' aid for the coming attack on Impel Down. As the Shichibukai gathered at Marine Headquarters, Maud reached Fish-Man Island and asked Hachi to assemble the Sun Pirates for a possible rescue of Jinbe.

• Maud restored Shanks's severed arm with his Shadow ability, and Shanks agreed to help him attack Impel Down.
• Hawk Eyes left Shanks's island, and Maud departed after leaving a Vivre Card and setting course for Fish-Man Island.
• The Shichibukai gathered at Marine Headquarters, where Weevil attacked Hancock and Cavendish briefly blocked him before Hancock kicked them both away.
• Maud met Hachi in Fish-Man District and offered a chance to rescue Jinbe if the Sun Pirates could gather enough fighting power.

Maud gathered Fish-Man warriors and allied forces to rescue Jinbe from Impel Down after the prison announced executions in a week. On the eve of the operation, Marine warships surrounded the prison as enormous floating islands appeared in the sky.

• Maud asked Neptune for a Fish-Man army, and Neptune agreed to send troops to support the rescue of Jinbe.
• Hachi gathered more than a thousand Fish-Man warriors, including the Sun Pirates, while Maud left Fish-Man Island and assembled his allies.
• Maud read Impel Down’s announcement that prisoners would be executed in a week and recognized it as a warning from the Marines.
• Maud contacted his allies and Cavendish, who confirmed the Marines were massing forces but vowed to stand with Maud.
• On the eve of the prison operation, Marine warships surrounded Impel Down, and lookouts spotted enormous floating islands approaching through the sky.

The Marines and Shichibukai prepared to defend Impel Down as Maud’s fleet arrived, and Fujitora stopped the five islands Jaya sent crashing toward them. Maud then used his shadow ability to move one island despite Fujitora’s power, sending it plunging toward Impel Down again.

• The Marines sounded the alarm as Maud’s forces approached, and Tsuru, Sengoku, Akainu, Kizaru, and Fujitora prepared to defend Impel Down.
• Maud ordered Jaya to drop the five floating islands, but Fujitora stopped them with his gravity power.
• Maud’s crew considered how to disrupt the Marine fleet, and Luo offered to move an island with his Room at the cost of his stamina and lifespan.
• Maud refused Luo’s offer and descended from Thriller Bark on a staircase of shadows.
• Maud pulled on an island’s shadow, causing the island to move again and plunge toward Impel Down despite Fujitora’s ability.

Maud used his Shadow ability to make five islands fall toward Impel Down and the Marine fleet, overcoming Fujitora’s gravity. The Marines and Shichibukai destroyed the islands together and sent their wreckage toward Maud, who calmly descended to face them.

• Maud sent five shadow-controlled islands crashing toward Impel Down and the nearly hundred warships below.
• Fujitora failed to stop the islands and urged the Marines to destroy them to limit casualties.
• Akainu, Kizaru, Hawk Eyes, Fujitora, the Marines, and the Pacifistas attacked the islands, with Hawk Eyes’s slash cutting one apart first.
• The assembled forces destroyed all five islands and used their attacks to drive the wreckage toward Maud.
• Maud calmly descended through the sky as island fragments rushed toward him.

Maud used his shadow powers to turn the Navy’s barrage of island debris against nearly a hundred warships, then moved to Impel Down’s entrance to face the assembled Marine and Shichibukai forces. The chapter ends with Maud arriving alone within arm’s reach of the fortress’s defenders.

• Aokiji prepared to help Maud, but Maud signaled him to stop and froze the incoming island remnants with his Shadow Kingdom.
• Maud dragged the suspended debris toward the Navy fleet, crushing more than half its warships and causing heavy casualties.
• The Marines broke holes through Maud’s shadow barrier to rescue those in the sea while a fish-man army waited below to attack them.
• Maud flew toward Impel Down aboard Thriller Bark, fired shadow bullets through the entrance, and exchanged places with one to reach the gate.
• Maud appeared alone before Akainu, the Shichibukai, and the elite vice admirals, who stared at him in shock.

Maud arrived at Impel Down’s main gate and faced the assembled Marine forces and Shichibukai. He evaded their coordinated attack, wounded Kizaru, and remained poised in the sky above the prison.

• Maud teleported to the entrance, drawing the attention of the assembled forces, while Weevil threatened him and Hancock kicked Weevil away.
• Sentomaru ordered the twenty Pacifista to target Maud, and Kizaru attacked him with a light-speed kick.
• Maud caught Kizaru’s kick, crushed the light around his foot, and marked Kizaru with a shadow before kicking him into the sky.
• Fujitora used Gravity Ring to pin Maud as Garp and Akainu launched attacks, but Maud escaped with Shadow Shift.
• Maud exchanged places with his Shadow Mark on Kizaru, struck him in the back, and sent him crashing into the forest.

Maud fought off Weevil while Marines and his allies converged around Impel Down. The Red-Haired Pirates arrived by coated ship, leaving Akainu facing another major threat.

• Weevil charged Maud to avenge Whitebeard, but Maud blocked his sword with Beli and slashed him down onto an island fragment.
• Fujitora's gravity field forced Maud to the ground as Marines aimed more than a hundred cannons at him.
• Lafitte and the others attacked the Marine formation, while Aokiji froze several ships and faced his former comrades.
• Aokiji sensed the Red-Haired Pirates approaching, and their coated ship surfaced before the stunned Marines.
• Akainu grimly watched Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates arrive, while Rayleigh looked on from Thriller Bark.

As the Red-Haired Pirates arrived, the Marines advanced while Maud used his Shadow ability to block their cannon fire. Before he could head for Impel Down, Maud defeated Weevil with a shadow-based slash that resembled Roger’s Divine Departure, leaving Garp, Rayleigh, and Shanks stunned.

• The Red-Haired Pirates’ arrival prompted Akainu to order the Marines to stop them without abandoning their goal of eliminating the Maud Pirates and the summoned Shichibukai.
• Garp led the Marines’ top fighters toward Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates, while the Marines continued their attack on Maud.
• Maud raised the Shadow Screen to catch and detonate the Marines’ cannonballs, allowing trapped swimmers to surface as Fish-Men attacked the Marines underwater.
• Maud prepared to head for Impel Down and leave the advancing Marine forces to Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates.
• Weevil charged Maud, but Maud used Shadow Evasion to send a crescent-shaped shadow slash through Weevil’s sword and crash him through Impel Down’s walls.
• Garp, Rayleigh, and Shanks recognized how closely Maud’s technique resembled Roger’s Divine Departure.

Maud vanished from the battlefield after drawing the Marines’ cannon fire and reappeared inside Impel Down, while Aokiji openly turned against the Marines to delay the advancing fighters. The chapter left Aokiji facing Akainu as Maud began his search on Crimson Hell.

• Maud sheathed Shusui, turned his back to the cannons, and signaled Shanks before the Marines blasted him with over a hundred shells.
• Maud disappeared from the battlefield and reappeared inside Impel Down’s first underground level, Crimson Hell.
• Kizaru, Fujitora, and Garp sensed Maud inside the prison, while the Marines prepared to execute the Maud Pirates after his search failed.
• Aokiji raised an enormous ice wall to block the Marines’ view of Impel Down and refused to yield to Smoker’s accusations.
• Kizaru shot Aokiji, but Aokiji regenerated; Akainu then attacked with Great Eruption, and Aokiji moved to hold him back.
• Maud arrived on Crimson Hell’s stone floor beside a bullet hole containing a Shadow Mark.

Maud entered Impel Down’s first level using Shadow Shift and fought his way toward the elevator to reach Saul on the Sixth Floor. He encountered Buggy in a cell, where Buggy begged him for help.

• Maud used a Shadow Mark and Shadow Shift to arrive on Impel Down’s first underground level, then set out to find the elevator to the Sixth Floor.
• The prisoners watched Maud pass, while Buggy recognized him and wondered why he was in Impel Down.
• Blue Gorillas attacked Maud, but he dodged their axes and pierced them with shadow spikes.
• Buggy shouted for Maud, who flashed to his cell and asked why he was there.
• Buggy grabbed Maud’s thigh through the bars and begged him to save him.

Maud broke into Impel Down to rescue Saul, freed Buggy from his cell, and headed for the Sixth Floor while the prison staff watched him advance. The chapter ended with Jinbe sensing the battle’s tremors in Infinite Hell and recalling his conversation with Saul.

• Buggy remembered rejecting Maud’s offer to join him and asked to join now, but Maud cut open Buggy’s cell bars instead.
• When the freed prisoners rushed out, Maud killed them with black spikes and ordered Buggy to lead him to the elevator.
• Hannibal, Tomino, and Sadie monitored Maud’s progress and chose to delay him rather than send jailers to their deaths.
• Buggy learned that Maud had come to rescue Saul and offered to accompany him, while Maud found the elevator sabotaged and jumped down its shaft.
• Jinbe felt the tremors from his cell in Infinite Hell and wondered whether a fierce battle had erupted outside.

Saul told Jinbe how Maud had transformed his life and warned that Maud would come to Impel Down if he learned Saul was imprisoned there. After Saul was taken away, Jinbe felt the effects of a battle aboveground and suspected Maud had arrived.

• Saul recounted how Maud quickly mastered Armament Haki, injured Garp, and became famous, saying meeting him had made Saul reluctant to die.
• Saul told Jinbe he expected to die and feared Maud would attack Impel Down to rescue him, asking Jinbe to deliver a message if he escaped.
• Jinbe promised to pass Saul’s message on.
• Several days later, jailers took Saul away, and Jinbe remembered Saul’s relieved expression as the cell door closed.
• Jinbe felt battle tremors and wondered if Maud had come while Sengoku confronted Shiryu aboveground.
• Shiryu struck Sengoku’s Buddha-form fist with the Rainstorm Saber, and the clash shook the ground.

Shiryu fought Sengoku at the entrance to Impel Down so he could reach Maud, while the Maud Pirates battled the vastly larger Navy force. Hancock ignored the Navy’s orders and entered Impel Down herself, leaving Shiryu frustrated as their fight continued.

• Shiryu charged through the Navy’s formation toward Impel Down, but Sengoku blasted him away with a shockwave.
• Shiryu engulfed Sengoku in venom, but Sengoku’s Great Buddha form kept the poison from penetrating his skin.
• Shiryu and Sengoku resumed their fierce battle, with Shiryu planning to cut into Sengoku’s body to let the venom reach him.
• Hancock turned a Navy officer to stone when he tried to stop her, then headed for Impel Down.
• Hancock told Sengoku that the target was inside Impel Down and entered, while Shiryu was left unable to go in first.

Maud fought his way through Impel Down’s Sixth Floor while Hancock and Weevil entered the prison separately. After finding Jinbe instead of Saul, Maud learned Saul had been taken away and heard his final message, which ended with a plea for Maud to avenge him.

• Hancock charged into Impel Down, while Weevil crushed through the first floor’s Needle Forest and jumped toward the lower levels.
• Hannibal monitored Maud and Hancock through the surveillance system, claiming he needed to watch Hancock to protect the prisoners while secretly admiring her.
• Maud controlled Buggy with Shadow Puppet Play, killed five attackers in a cell, and defeated nearly a hundred prisoners wearing explosive collars without killing them.
• Maud reached a cell and found Jinbe, then cut through the bars to free him after confirming Saul was not there.
• Jinbe told Maud that Saul had been taken away and recited Saul’s message: he urged Maud not to seek revenge, then told him to get even for him.

Maud freed Jinbe and brought him and Buggy to Impel Down’s control room, determined to learn what happened to Saul. Meanwhile, Weevil fought the prison beasts and clashed with Hancock on the Second Floor, as the guards discovered Maud’s prisoners and then found him at their door.

• Maud reacted to the news about Saul, freed Jinbe by cutting his chains, and set out to question someone from Impel Down.
• Maud carried Jinbe and Buggy up the elevator shaft after learning Jinbe did not know Geppo.
• Weevil killed rare beasts on the Second Floor and fought the four recovering Prisoner Beasts.
• Hancock arrived, ignored Weevil, and fought him after he charged at her; a Prisoner Beast struck Weevil from behind, breaking its mace against his head.
• Hannibal ordered the guards to locate Maud after seeing the prisoners he had knocked unconscious, but Maud, Jinbe, and Buggy appeared at the control-room entrance.

Maud found Saul’s frozen corpse in Blazing Hell, killed Hannibal, and set out to gather shadows for his revenge on Impel Down. Meanwhile, Hancock remained locked in a stalemate with Weevil in Beast Hell.

• Maud used Conqueror’s Haki to incapacitate the prison workers, tortured Hannibal for Saul’s location, and forced him to lead the way to Blazing Hell.
• Maud discovered Saul’s frozen corpse and, after killing Hannibal, declared that he would have all of Impel Down buried with Saul.
• Maud asked Jinbe to watch over Saul’s body, then left to find shadows among the prisoners in Extreme Cold Hell.
• Hancock dodged Weevil’s powerful attacks but could neither damage him nor escape their fight in Beast Hell.
• Weevil vowed to destroy Hancock as their battle continued.

Hancock fought Weevil while trying to reach Maud, but their clash was interrupted when Maud arrived and collected the Prisoner Beasts' shadows. Maud then struck Weevil with a Conqueror's Haki-coated Shadow Evasion: Revised, leaving Weevil badly injured and confused.

• Weevil attacked Hancock after she tried to disengage, and their fight left a cut across her neck before they resumed clashing.
• The Prisoner Beasts charged at Weevil, then stopped when they sensed Maud's terrifying aura approaching.
• Maud arrived with nearly three hundred prisoner shadows in a sphere and used Shadow Slash to take the shadows of all four Prisoner Beasts.
• Maud told Weevil he was next, and Weevil charged with Tremor Slash.
• Maud coated Shadow Evasion: Revised with Conqueror's Haki, blasted Weevil through a cell, and explained that he had coated the attack with Conqueror's Haki.

Maud defeated Weevil and took his shadow, then recruited Hancock as an ally after she mistook his offer for a romantic confession. As Maud’s group prepared to leave Impel Down, the battle outside intensified, with Shanks facing Akainu and Kizaru preparing to target the Maud Pirates.

• Maud used a Conqueror’s Haki-coated Shadow Avoidance to severely injure Weevil, then severed and collected Weevil’s shadow.
• Hancock admired Maud for attacking the Celestial Dragons, and Maud asked her to become his ally; she misheard him and believed he had confessed his love.
• Jinbe and Buggy arrived, and Maud said Hancock was one of them before leading the group to leave Impel Down.
• Outside, Shanks fought Akainu, while Beckman and a braided swordsman stopped Hawk Eyes from reaching their duel.
• Kizaru observed the battle and prepared to hunt the suppressed members of the Maud Pirates.

The Maud Pirates’ fighters battled the Navy across the island fragments as Lafitte faced Chaton, Jaya fought Smoker and Hina, and Luo was surrounded by Sentomaru and Pacifistas. After a distant laser pierced Luo’s sword arm, the fight’s source remained unknown.

• Chaton knocked Lafitte from the sky, countered his attacks, and forced him to activate his Siren Hybrid Form.
• Jaya used her rock-controlling ability against Smoker and Hina, wounding both before Vice Admiral Tsuru intervened and drained some of Jaya’s stamina and Haki.
• Sentomaru revealed that the Navy had orders to capture Luo alive, and Luo teleported Bepo out of the fight before engaging the Pacifistas.
• Luo’s abilities sliced one Pacifista in half and made Sentomaru’s attack destroy another when Luo switched places with it.
• A laser from an unknown source pierced the arm Luo was using to hold his sword.