Chapter Summaries

Maud used his shadow techniques and Conqueror’s Haki to overwhelm Sengoku, accepting Kizaru’s lasers piercing his chest so he could land a potentially fatal attack. The chapter ended with Maud pulling his blades from Sengoku and turning a cold smile toward Kizaru.

• Maud fired a Conqueror’s Haki-coated bullet at Sengoku, then narrowly missed a shadow-targeting strike when Sengoku withdrew from his Buddha form.
• Sengoku resumed his Buddha form, but Maud used Demon Seal: Absolute Shadow Slash to cut across his chest and launch him into the air.
• Maud repeatedly shifted through the Shadow Screen to wound Sengoku’s back and chest, while Sengoku broke free of shadow restraints at the cost of injuring Maud.
• Maud charged Sengoku with Execution as Kizaru fired three laser beams, and Maud let them pierce his chest to stab Sengoku through the back.
• Maud pulled his blades from Sengoku as his vitality faded, then turned toward Kizaru with a cold smile.

Maud killed Sengoku after overpowering him, then gained enough experience from Weevil to condense his tenth Star Frame and heal his wounds. He checked his new attributes and unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki across the battlefield.

• Maud overwhelmed Sengoku, explained that his revenge for Saul and his family had only begun, and killed the former Marine Fleet Admiral.
• Kizaru fired an anger-fueled laser at Maud, but Maud crushed it and mocked him.
• Maud absorbed the rewards from Sengoku’s defeat but remained just short of condensing his tenth Star Frame.
• Kizaru prepared to attack Maud’s laser wounds, but Maud claimed Weevil’s shadow and completed his tenth Star Frame, restoring his stamina, Haki, and body.
• Maud inspected his attributes and released his Conqueror’s Haki across the battlefield.

Modo killed Sengoku and used his Conqueror's Haki to shake the battlefield, then drove the Marines away from Impel Down. Kizaru recognized that the Marines could no longer stop Modo and the others from escaping.

• Modo's Conqueror's Haki swept across the battlefield, and the Marines saw Sengoku's corpse at his feet.
• Jinbe, Urouge, Jaya, Hancock, and the others reacted to Modo's victory, while Aokiji worried that the battle might change Modo.
• Modo looked toward Fujitora, recognizing that he would need to restrain Fujitora before Jaya could escape using the Float-Float Fruit.
• Modo told Kizaru the Marines had already lost, then transformed the ground into shadows and flung away the Marines and Pacifistas attacking Impel Down.
• Kizaru accepted that the Marines could no longer prevent Modo and the others from leaving.

Maud protected the Maud Pirates’ escape from Impel Down, holding off Kizaru while carrying the badly injured Hancock to safety. Jinbe stayed behind to block Kizaru as Maud flew toward the prison’s summit with Hancock.

• Maud formed a shadow staircase and ordered the Straw Hat Pirates and Cavendish to climb toward the top of Impel Down, while Jinbe remained behind to protect the Maud Pirates.
• Kizaru attacked the escaping group with Yasakani no Magatama, but Maud’s shadows formed a shield that absorbed the bombardment.
• Maud used shadows to intercept Kizaru’s renewed attacks and went to rescue the severely injured Hancock.
• Maud carried Hancock toward the top of Impel Down, leaving Jinbe to stop Kizaru from pursuing them.
• Jinbe declared that Kizaru would not pass while he still had breath and prepared to fight him.

Maud reached the battlefield to ask Fujitora to release his hold on Thriller Bark so his crew could escape, while Jim remained critically injured despite Luo’s treatment. The chapter ended with Fujitora understanding why Maud had crossed the battlefield and falling silent.

• Maud arrived at the treatment area, reassured Philo that Jim had followed his rule to protect his comrades, and learned from Luo that Jim’s condition was dire.
• Maud asked Jaya to bring Thriller Bark over for Jim’s treatment and said he would deal with Fujitora; he then flew toward the battlefield.
• Maud’s Shadow Clone joined Jinbe in holding Kizaru back after Kizaru broke free from their fight.
• Fujitora increased his gravitational control over Thriller Bark while battling the Red-Haired Pirates, but Maud struck him with Shusui and forced him back.
• Maud asked Fujitora to let go of Thriller Bark, and Fujitora understood why Maud had crossed the battlefield.

Maud fought Fujitora to keep him from restraining Thriller Bark and let Jaya guide it toward Impel Down. Maud gained the upper hand, leaving Fujitora unable to stop their escape as the battle continued.

• Maud attacked Fujitora with Hakuoku, and the two forces collided in a blast that shook the battlefield.
• Maud and Fujitora clashed swords, and Fujitora's gravity pressure pushed back Maud's Shusui.
• Maud used Shadow Sever, but Fujitora crushed the shadow hands with gravity while the Red-Haired Pirates kept Marines from interfering.
• Maud relentlessly attacked with Conqueror's Haki, forcing Fujitora to retreat and preventing him from restraining Jaya's control of Thriller Bark.
• Thriller Bark floated toward Impel Down, and Yasopp marveled at how much Conqueror's Haki Maud seemed to have.

Maud helped the Red-Haired Pirates and his allies break through the Marines as Thriller Bark landed atop Impel Down to evacuate the wounded. The battle continued as Maud headed toward Brook, leaving a rain of blood and terrified Marines in his wake.

• Yasopp shot Fujitora during Maud's assault, and Maud used the opening to send the admiral flying, though he chose not to fire at him while he was airborne.
• Maud told Yasopp that Saul was gone, then ordered the Red-Haired Pirates to prepare to withdraw before heading back to his comrades.
• Thriller Bark landed on Impel Down, and the crews began carrying the wounded aboard; Luo and Urouge rushed Jim toward the Operating Room while Shakky went to help Jinbe and the Shadow Clones fight Kizaru.
• Maud rescued Hawkins and the badly injured Arthur from a Marine encirclement by turning the ground into shadows and sweeping more than two hundred Marines, including Onigumo, into the air.
• Maud walked toward Brook while crushing Marines caught in his Shadow Tendrils, and blood and fragments rained down as Onigumo and the other Marines watched in terror.

Maud cut through the Marines and defeated Onigumo before joining Lafitte against Chaton and a group of Pacifistas. As the crew moved toward Impel Down, Jaya began lifting the prison into the air, starting their escape.

• Perona arrived to help Hawkins and Arthur evade eight Marines, while Brook broke away from the Marines pursuing him and headed to Maud.
• Onigumo attacked Maud with Eight Claws, but Maud blocked the strike with one finger and fatally slashed him.
• Maud ordered Brook to help Hawkins and Arthur reach Impel Down, then defeated the Marines chasing Brook and continued toward Lafitte.
• Maud restrained a new-model Pacifista with his shadows and faced Chaton as Marines and thirteen Pacifistas gathered nearby.
• Jaya used the Float-Float Fruit to lift Impel Down out of the sea while Lafitte and the others made their way toward it.

Impel Down rose from the seabed as the Maud Pirates prepared to escape, while the Marines concentrated their forces on stopping them. Maud reached the prison after holding off Akainu’s assault, then descended to face the pursuing Marines as the battle approached its finale.

• Jaya lifted Impel Down while Shakky, Jinbe, and Maud's Shadow Clone kept Kizaru occupied, and Shiryu returned after killing the prisoners he had been ordered to eliminate.
• The Marines launched a desperate push toward Impel Down as the Red-Haired Pirates began withdrawing; Akainu broke away from Shanks and charged toward Maud.
• Maud repelled Chaton and the Marine attacks, then used shadow tendrils and Conqueror's Haki to kill Marine elites while buying time for Lafitte and the others to board Impel Down.
• Maud countered Akainu's Great Eruption with a shadow attack, then exchanged places with his Shadow Mark and appeared aboard the rising prison.
• Aokiji arrived beside Maud, who leaped back down to the battlefield and beckoned the Marines to come fight him.

As Impel Down rose, Maud stayed behind to cover the Maud Pirates’ retreat and freed Jinbe and Shakky from Kizaru. With Fujitora’s gravity halting the prison’s ascent, Maud unleashed his awakened Shadow Flow and turned the battlefield beneath the Marines into shadows, leaving them without footholds above the sea.

• Maud jumped down from Impel Down, drew the Marines’ attention, and forced Kizaru away from Jinbe and Shakky so they could retreat.
• Jinbe refused Maud’s order to leave, but Maud later told him to take the Fish-Men and escape before charging the Marines alone.
• Aokiji blocked Akainu’s Meteor Volcano with Ice Thorn Spears, but Fujitora pinned Impel Down in place with gravity.
• Maud awakened Shadow Flow, All Things Imitation, and turned the battlefield’s ground into shadows, stripping the Marines and nearby Shichibukai of their footholds.
• Maud took to the air above the spreading black tide as Fujitora halted his gravity ability and looked up at him.

Maud used a vast shadow tide to disrupt the Marines and keep Fujitora from stopping Impel Down’s escape. As the Maud Pirates retreated aboard Thriller Bark, Maud destroyed Impel Down, declaring that it would become history.

• Maud sent endlessly reforming ghost shadows against the Marines while directing the shadow tide at Fujitora, forcing him to focus on suppressing it instead of Impel Down.
• Maud returned to Impel Down as it rose from the seabed, ordered the crew to retreat aboard Thriller Bark, and had Jaya lift the ship into the sky.
• Maud had Impel Down float toward the Marines, drawing Fujitora’s gravity back onto the prison and Thriller Bark.
• Maud spread shadows through Impel Down’s stone walls and declared that it would become history.
• Maud’s shadows contracted and tore Impel Down apart, sending shattered buildings crashing toward the Marines.

Maud destroyed Impel Down and rescued Ivankov, leaving Ivankov’s Newkama subordinates to fall. As Thriller Bark departed, Fujitora turned his attention to the remaining Shichibukai and prepared to fight them.

• Maud finished reducing Impel Down to ruins and vowed to destroy it again whenever the Marines rebuilt it.
• Ivankov and the Newkama fell with the collapsing prison, and Maud used a shadow thread to pull Ivankov to safety.
• Ivankov begged Maud to save his subordinates, but Maud carried him toward Thriller Bark, leaving them behind; Inazuma emerged from Ivankov’s afro.
• Fujitora suspended the falling debris and acknowledged the Marines’ defeat by the Maud Pirates.
• Fujitora declared that the Shichibukai’s journey would end there and readied his cane sword to fight them.

After escaping the Marines, Maud worried about Jinbe and the Fish-Man warriors while Ivankov learned Maud could connect him with Sabo. The crew then rushed to Jim’s side when Urouge reported he was near death, and Ivankov offered to save him with his Healing Hormones at the cost of shortening his lifespan.

• The Marines turned on Chinjao and the other Shichibukai after the battle, beginning a postwar purge.
• Maud and the Maud Pirates reached safety aboard Thriller Bark, and Maud worried about Jinbe and the Fish-Man warriors left behind.
• Maud told Ivankov he knew Sabo and could provide a Den Den Mushi to contact him.
• Urouge reported that Jim was in critical condition, prompting Maud and the others to rush to the medical room.
• Ivankov arrived and offered to save Jim with his Healing Hormones, warning that the treatment would shorten Jim’s lifespan.

After Ivankov revived Jim enough for Luo to continue surgery, Maud and the others gathered around Saul’s frozen body. Maud then announced that the crew would counterattack the Navy by sinking Enies Lobby.

• Ivankov injected Jim with hormones, restoring his vitality while warning that the treatment would cost him years of his life.
• Luo confirmed Jim was recovering, sent everyone out of the medical room, and continued the surgery.
• Aokiji showed Maud and the others Saul’s body in the freezer, where Rayleigh joined them and silently mourned his friend.
• Shiryu asked Maud what the crew would do next, prompting Maud to say they would stop at Enies Lobby and sink it.

Maud diverted Thriller Bark to Enies Lobby after Impel Down, rejecting Shiryu’s proposal to attack Marine branches and prioritizing the search for Gaban and restoring Rayleigh’s limbs. He then attacked Enies Lobby alone and sank it, while Ivankov learned that Sabo and the Revolutionary Army had been schemed against by the World Government.

• Maud said there was no need to attack Marine branches and named finding Gaban and restoring Rayleigh’s limbs as more important priorities.
• Ivankov called Sabo, who said the World Government had schemed against them and described Maud as “one of us.”
• Thriller Bark arrived above Enies Lobby, where Maud found around ten thousand troops and descended alone to attack.
• Maud used his Haoshoku Haki and shadow tsunami to overwhelm the garrison troops and sink Enies Lobby.
• Akainu received the news of Enies Lobby’s destruction and reacted furiously.

Maud destroyed Enies Lobby and arranged for the attack to be publicized, leaving Akainu to face the World Government’s anger over the Marines’ devastating losses. Thriller Bark moved away from the battlefield, and Maud visited the injured Hancock, whose feelings for him left him unsure how to respond.

• Akainu learned that Maud had sunk Enies Lobby and angrily melted the Den Den Mushi in his hand.
• A Marine delivered a call from one of the Five Elders, and Akainu prepared to answer for the Marines’ defeat.
• Maud used the Shadow Tide to destroy Enies Lobby’s bridges and send the entire site into the oceanic abyss.
• Perona gave Maud the Den Den Camera, and he handed it to Lafitte to contact Dada and publicize the destruction.
• Maud led his companions back to the castle aboard Thriller Bark, which later changed course toward the Thriller Bark region.
• Maud checked on the injured and visited Hancock, realizing she loved him but not knowing how to respond.

Maud reassured the injured Hancock that he would protect her and her country after she lost her Shichibukai title, then declared his intention to destroy Mary Geoise. The chapter ended with Morgans and Dada screaming excitedly together, while an author’s note described worsening illness despite taking medicine.

• Maud visited Hancock and learned that she needed at least half a month to recover from her injuries.
• Maud warned Hancock that the Navy might attack Amazon Lily after she lost her Shichibukai title, and promised to help her whenever she needed him.
• Hancock asked whether Maud still planned to strike at the Celestial Dragons, and Maud said he intended to erase Mary Geoise.
• Maud regarded Hancock and his other battlefield allies as his own and resolved to remember their help.
• Morgans rushed into Dada’s room at night, and moments later the two were screaming excitedly together as newspaper employees looked on.

Morgans killed a CP agent who tried to stop him from publishing news about Bagar D. Maud, and the next day the World Economy News Paper announced Maud’s destruction of Impel Down and Enies Lobby. The reports shocked people across the world, including the wounded Revolutionary Army, who had just suffered a devastating defeat at the World Government’s hands.

• Morgans’s employees prepared a double-page spread after Dada brought him explosive news about Maud, but a CP agent drew a gun and demanded that the story remain secret.
• Morgans struck the agent, rejected his threats, and shot him dead after declaring that he alone decided what the paper published.
• The next morning, newspapers reported that the Maud and Red-Haired Pirates had destroyed Impel Down and that Maud had sunk Enies Lobby.
• People around the world panicked over Maud’s power and questioned whether the Marines could still protect them after their defeat.
• Sabo and the Revolutionary Army’s survivors read the newspaper in their snowy recovery base and reacted with shock to the news about Maud.

The Revolutionary Army reacted to Maud’s destruction of Impel Down and Enies Lobby, while Sunny wondered why he had not asked her for help. Meanwhile, CP0’s elite unit withdrew from a Devil Fruit search as a blizzard approached, foreshadowing its growing role.

• Sabo and the Revolutionary Army officers read about Maud and the Red-Haired Pirates defeating the Marines and destroying Impel Down and Enies Lobby.
• Betty speculated that the Marines had lured Maud to Impel Down by capturing someone important, while Sunny grew upset that Maud had not asked her to help.
• Sabo denied that Maud had told him about the operation, and Koala noticed that he was lying.
• CP0’s elite unit halted its search for powerful Devil Fruits because a blizzard was approaching and prepared to return through the Door-Door Fruit user’s ability.
• The CP0 leader and his masked agents left the snowy area, as the narration suggested the organization’s strongest spear was nearing its moment to act.

Yamato visited the imprisoned Jaba, fed him, and revealed that she identified with Kozuki Oden. She promised to free him, leaving Jaba bewildered.

• King asked the guards whether they had seen Yamato, but neither had.
• Yamato entered Jaba’s cell carrying food and sake, while Jaba watched her in silence.
• Yamato mentioned Roger’s right-hand men and Oden, and Jaba reacted to Oden’s name.
• Jaba told Yamato that he could not eat without hands, so she fed him the meal and sake.
• Yamato called herself Kozuki Oden and promised to get Jaba out of the prison.