Chapter Summaries

After hearing how Yamato inherited Kozuki Oden’s will, Gaban asked her for newspapers and learned that Maud had attacked Impel Down and Enies Lobby and belonged to the Clan of D. The chapter ended with Yamato agreeing to help Gaban contact Maud.

• Yamato told Gaban how Oden’s execution and logbook inspired her to inherit his will and become like him.
• Gaban accepted that Oden was dead after Yamato recounted what had happened in Wano Country since Oden’s return.
• Yamato offered to help Gaban escape, but her bomb collars prevented her from leaving Wano Country.
• Gaban asked to see recent newspapers, and Yamato showed him an article about Maud’s attacks on Impel Down and Enies Lobby.
• Gaban realized Maud was a member of the Clan of D and asked Yamato to help him contact Maud.
• Yamato agreed at once to find a Den Den Mushi, leaving Gaban stunned by her willingness to go against Kaido.

Yamato tried to get Gaban a Den Den Mushi so he could contact Maud, but King stopped her and forced her to delay the plan. At Whole Cake Island, news of Maud's victories and alliance with the Red-Haired Pirates enraged Charlotte Linlin and pushed her and Kaido toward an alliance.

• Yamato learned that Gaban knew Maud and hurried to get a Den Den Mushi so she could help him escape and contact Maud.
• Hiyori located Yamato and informed King, who confronted her on her way back from the communications room.
• Yamato used Thunder Bagua to flee from King, but could not shake him and returned to her room with the Den Den Mushi.
• At a banquet on Whole Cake Island, Perospero revealed that Maud and the Red-Haired Pirates had defeated the Marines at Impel Down and that Maud had destroyed Enies Lobby.
• Kaido urged Charlotte Linlin to form an alliance, and she faced the threat posed by Maud and his allies.

Marine leaders debated Maud’s unprecedented bounty increase after the defeat at Marine Headquarters and the destruction of Enies Lobby. As they finalized his 4.48-billion bounty, a report revealed that the Big Mom Pirates and the Beasts Pirates had formed an alliance.

• Marine generals argued over raising Maud’s bounty from 2.98 billion to 4.48 billion, with most agreeing that he could not be judged by common sense.
• The generals noted that Maud had replaced Whitebeard as the world’s focus of fear and agreed that Red-Haired’s bounty should also rise.
• A young Marine interrupted the meeting and reported that the Big Mom Pirates and the Beasts Pirates had formed an alliance.
• Akainu reacted with shock, and the young Marine collapsed under his gaze.

Douglas Bullet destroyed a pirate haven after reading news that excited him, while Maud declared that he would make the whole world fear his name to protect those around him. Maud left his crew and Shanks with a clear goal, as Bullet became interested in finding him.

• Douglas Bullet annihilated the ships, buildings, and pirates on Pegasus Island, then killed the tattooed pirate who asked why he had attacked.
• Bullet explained that the newspaper had excited him and that he had used the pirates to relieve his boredom.
• Bullet drank liquor among the ruins, crushed the bottle, and decided to find the person who had interested him.
• On Thriller Bark, Maud told Shanks and the others that he had discovered what he wanted and where he stood.
• Maud said the Marines had attacked Saul and the others because they did not fear him enough, and declared that he would make the whole world fear his name to protect those around him.

Maud declared that he would make the world fear him, and the news named him a Four Emperor after his bounty rose to 4.48 billion. He visited the recovering Jim and promised to help him slaughter the Celestial Dragons, leaving Jim encouraged by his captain’s support.

• Maud said he intended to make the World Government, the Marines, the Four Emperors, and the New World pirates fear him, while Shanks and the others believed in his potential.
• Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates left Thriller Bark, and two days later their newspaper reported Maud as a Four Emperor with a 4.48 billion bounty and Shanks with a 4.5489 billion bounty.
• Maud received the newspaper at Thriller Bark, while Luo and Perona reacted with shock and Cavendish complained that his own bounty had not risen.
• Maud visited Jim in the infirmary and noted that his severe injuries had brought his Devil Fruit ability close to awakening.
• Jim said he was too weak to keep up with Maud, and Maud promised to help him accomplish his goals and slaughter the Celestial Dragons.

After Maud’s bounty rose to 4.48 billion, Yamato struggled to evade surveillance while trying to deliver Gaban a Den Den Mushi, and Luo pursued research into dual-Devil-Fruit users. Cavendish ultimately disbanded the Beautiful Pirates and joined Maud’s crew.

• Yamato tried to leave her room to deliver a Den Den Mushi to Gaban, but Hiyori’s surveillance shikigami forced her to return without reaching him.
• Gaban waited in his prison cell, uncertain why Yamato had not arrived.
• Luo worked alone in Maud’s laboratory on chimera research, restarting after discarding his notes, and Jaya made him drink nutritional soup.
• Maud told Jaya that Luo was researching a way for people to eat a second Devil Fruit and discussed how the battle at Impel Down had pushed the crew to train harder.
• Maud asked Cavendish for his decision, and Cavendish disbanded the Beautiful Pirates and joined the Maud Pirates.

Maud sent Hancock back toward Amazon Lily while his crew remained in the Devil's Triangle, and he learned that Sunny had survived a dangerous mission. The chapter ended with Hancock misunderstanding Maud's description of Sunny as family and collapsing in despair.

• Maud decided to recruit more allies and resolved to make a trip to Fish-Man Island to recruit Jinbe.
• After Hancock recovered, Maud arranged for Jaya, Lafitte, Cavendish, Perona, Beli, and Brook to take her to Amazon Lily aboard the Netherworld.
• During the journey, Perona hit Beli with a Negativity Ghost after he overheard her thoughts, while Hancock grew jealous of Jaya's closeness to Maud.
• Sunny called Maud and told him that her group had escaped a World Government trap; Maud apologized for not telling her about the Impel Down attack and promised to help if she needed him.
• When Hancock asked who Sunny was, Maud called her family, and Hancock assumed Sunny was his romantic partner and collapsed, saying she did not want to live anymore.

Maud brought Hancock back to Amazon Lily, where her infatuation stunned the people and alarmed Gloriosa. As Maud departed, six Marine warships approached, and he destroyed the fleet before it could threaten the island, leaving the Marines in a bloody rout.

• Hancock learned that Sunny was Maud’s family but that he had not started a family, and the Netherworld continued toward Amazon Lily.
• Hancock welcomed Maud and his crew to Amazon Lily, while Gloriosa worried about the country’s connection to Maud and was repeatedly kicked away when she tried to intervene.
• After a meal and resupplying, Maud left Amazon Lily and gave Hancock a Den Den Mushi; Hancock chased the Netherworld to the coastline as the citizens followed.
• Gloriosa warned Hancock that six Marine warships had arrived, but Maud attacked them before they reached the coast.
• Maud cut the six warships in half, then rained black spikes on the Marines and warned the survivors to tell Akainu not to send more forces to Amazon Lily.

Maud arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago and, while disguised, rescued enslaved women by killing the pirates who had captured them. Jewelry Bonney was then discovered and attacked by masked pursuers who said her ability was important, leaving her cornered on the island.

• Maud diverted the Netherworld toward the Sabaody Archipelago, hoping to encounter a Celestial Dragon.
• Disguised, Maud stopped pirates transporting female slaves and killed them with his sword and fragments of broken blades.
• Jewelry Bonney watched Maud's fight, dismissed his rescue as pointless, and headed toward a restaurant.
• A masked pursuer shot Bonney with a small arrow, grazing her arm.
• The masked group identified Bonney and declared that they could not let her run around freely because her ability was important.

Bonney escaped CP0’s anesthetic by advancing her body’s time, but their pursuit drove her back to Maud, who intervened. Maud killed CP0’s captain and revealed himself to Bonney as Bega D. Maud, leaving her stunned.

• Bonney used her age-manipulation ability to outlast the anesthetic and flee from CP0, but the agents pursued her with Geppo.
• Bonney ran into Maud and the five rescued female slaves, then pretended to be a frightened child and asked Maud for help.
• Maud recognized Bonney and intercepted the descending CP0 agents with a Soaring Slash that split a Yoruean Red Tree.
• Maud refused the black-masked CP0 captain’s demand to stand aside and blocked the captain’s attack with his palm.
• Maud pierced the captain’s chest with a solid shadow and killed him, causing the other CP0 members to recognize him as Bega D. Maud.
• Bonney recognized Maud and realized that the man she had mistaken for a kindhearted stranger was someone who had nearly killed her before.

Maud revealed his identity and overwhelmed the CP0 team while rescuing Bonney. After he approached her, Bonney reflexively attacked him with her Rewind ability.

• The spectators recognized Maud and fled, while the five female slaves and CP0 remained at the scene.
• Maud used his Shadow ability to engulf the area and launched repeated spear attacks against the CP0 members.
• Maud emerged from the shadows and cut down the CP0 team, leaving only the wounded Copper-Copper Fruit user and the crossbow woman alive.
• Maud evaded the crossbow woman's poisoned bolts, killed her, knocked out the horned-mask man, and carried him to Bonney.
• Bonney recognized Maud's overwhelming strength, then attacked him with Rewind when he called her by name.

Maud stopped Bonney from attacking him and offered her protection, then told her he knew where Kuma was and led her away. Meanwhile, Brook found a female Celestial Dragon on Sabaody, killed her guards and captured her after revealing he was with the Maud Pirates.

• Bonney attacked Maud, but he caught her wrist and subdued her with his aura.
• Maud offered Bonney protection because Kuma had once helped him, and Bonney followed after he said he knew where Kuma was.
• Brook searched the Sabaody Archipelago for a Celestial Dragon and found one threatening a little girl after her wolf killed the girl's father.
• Brook intervened, endured the Celestial Dragon's gunfire, and killed all twenty-six guards with his Soul Reaping Sword.
• Brook incapacitated the giant wolf, announced he was Humming Brook of the Maud Pirates, and told the frightened Celestial Dragon she would become his prisoner.

Brook captured a female Celestial Dragon and reunited with Maud, who gathered the crew and escaped Sabaody aboard the Netherworld. On the ship, Maud introduced Jewelry Bonney and learned that the World Government wanted her ability to accelerate reproduction, which she demonstrated by hatching a bird egg.

• Brook attacked the female Celestial Dragon, picked up the unconscious woman, and left the grieving little girl behind.
• Brook found Lafitte, and they reunited with Maud, who had captured a wounded CP0 agent and met Bonney.
• Maud gathered the crew and fled Sabaody aboard Jaya’s floating stone slab as the Marines were expected to arrive.
• Aboard the Netherworld, Maud introduced Bonney and explained that she could change people’s ages.
• Bonney said the World Government wanted her ability to speed up reproduction, then demonstrated it by hatching Beli’s bird egg.

Maud and the Maud Pirates fled Sabaody aboard the Netherworld while Kizaru and Fujitora pursued them. Maud’s precise Haki-coated shots and his crew’s attacks kept the two Admirals at bay, and the Netherworld escaped with Bonney aboard.

• Maud spotted Kizaru and Fujitora approaching Sabaody with three warships after Bonney demonstrated that her ability could affect other life-forms.
• Maud turned Beli into a sniper rifle and used Haki-coated bullets to stop Kizaru from reaching the Netherworld as Jaya piloted the ship away.
• Kizaru pursued Maud through Yata no Kagami while Fujitora summoned three meteors to attack the Netherworld.
• Jaya, Lafitte, Cavendish, and Brook destroyed the meteors while Maud continued to obstruct both Admirals.
• The Netherworld escaped after more than a dozen exchanges, and Beli smugly reminded Bonney that the Admirals had been unable to stop them.

Maud escaped the joint pursuit of Kizaru and Fujitora after attacking the Celestial Dragons again, and news of the incident spread worldwide. Meanwhile, Tesoro sailed Gran Tesoro toward a chance meeting with Maud, but his ship approached a collision with Germa 66 as a flying ship appeared above the fleet.

• Maud's Conqueror's Haki-coated sniper fire suppressed Kizaru long enough for the Netherworld to escape, while Fujitora recognized how much Maud had improved.
• Kizaru accepted the blame for failing to stop the Netherworld, and news of Maud's latest attack and kidnapping spread around the world.
• Gloriosa read the report on Amazon Lily and guessed that Hancock had collapsed after hearing about Maud.
• Tesoro relied on Baccarat to store guests' luck so he could meet Maud by chance, but Tanaka reported that Gran Tesoro was about to collide with Germa 66.
• Tesoro ordered Gran Tesoro to keep its course and crush the ships in its way, while Judge learned that a flying ship had appeared above the Germa 66 fleet.

Judge tried to steer the Germa Kingdom away from Maud's Netherworld, but Tesoro attacked the assembled island ship and Judge sent his children to fight him. Maud watched from above, surprised to find Gild Tesoro and Germa in Paradise, while Lafitte recognized Tesoro as the man they had been seeking.

• Judge confirmed that the ship in the sky was the Maud Pirates' Netherworld and ordered Germa's fleet to avoid it and assemble.
• Tesoro reached the Gran Tesoro's bow, saw Germa's island ship retreating, and fired a storm of golden spears at it.
• Judge's modified soldiers intercepted the spears with their bodies, and Judge ordered Ichiji, Niji, Yonji, and Reiju to attack Tesoro.
• Tesoro formed a forest of golden spikes as the four Vinsmoke siblings flew toward him.
• Maud watched the confrontation from the Netherworld, and Lafitte pointed out that Tesoro was the man they had been looking for.

Maud decided to seize the chance to take Tesoro’s gold and sent Perona and Cavendish to fight alongside the Vinsmoke siblings. Tesoro overwhelmed the siblings and Cavendish with his awakened gold powers, then reacted to Perona’s Negativity Ghosts as the chapter ended.

• Maud agreed to let Perona and Cavendish join the fight while Jaya brought Thriller Bark alongside the Gran Tesoro.
• Ichiji, Niji, Yonji, and Reiju attacked Tesoro, but his golden axe and spikes easily sent them flying.
• Tesoro bound Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji with golden vines after they charged him again, while Reiju warned them to stop being reckless.
• Cavendish attacked Tesoro with a sword strike, but Tesoro’s Golden Fireworks knocked him to the ground; Cavendish got back up and compared the technique to Maud’s.
• Perona sent three Negativity Ghosts at Tesoro, who dodged them and addressed her as Ghost Princess Perona.

Tesoro welcomed Maud with a challenge, but Maud shattered his golden greatsword with one slash. Tesoro then knelt before Maud, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Perona mistook Tesoro’s trembling for fear of her reputation, but Tesoro soon revealed he was excited to see Maud.
• Tesoro released Ichiji, Yonji, and Niji, allowing Reiju to carry them back toward Germa’s island ship.
• Judge saw Bonney aboard the Netherworld and coveted her ability, but realized he could not seize her from Maud’s crew.
• Tesoro summoned a massive golden greatsword and launched it at Maud as a test of his strength.
• Maud destroyed the greatsword with one slash and descended to Tesoro, who knelt and welcomed him as an honored guest.

Tesoro explained that he had once been a Celestial Dragon slave and revealed Baccarat’s luck-manipulating ability to Maud as he tried to earn his trust. Their conversation was interrupted when Lafitte reported that Gaban was on Onigashima, in the Beasts Pirates’ territory.

• Tesoro knelt before Maud because Maud had killed a Celestial Dragon, and Maud agreed to hear his story in private.
• Tesoro told Baccarat that her ability had not disappointed him, then explained to Maud that she had eaten the Lucky-Lucky Fruit.
• Reiju returned to Germa with her brothers, while Judge noted that Jewelry Bonney had boarded the Maud Pirates’ ship and warned that the world might soon change.
• Tesoro told Maud that he had once been a slave of the Celestial Dragons.
• Lafitte called Maud and reported that Gaban was on Onigashima in Wano Country, the territory of the Beasts Pirates.

After learning that Gaban was imprisoned on Onigashima, Maud decided to rescue him and recruited Tesoro by giving him a Celestial Dragon to kill. Maud invited Tesoro to join him in slaying a dragon.

• Lafitte told Maud that Yamato had reported Gaban was imprisoned with broken limbs on Onigashima, and Maud decided not to call her back after the connection ended.
• Maud asked Tesoro what he still wanted, and Tesoro said he wanted to kill every Celestial Dragon and offered to submit to Maud.
• Lafitte and the others brought in the captured female Celestial Dragon, and Maud gave her to Tesoro instead of using her to bargain with the Marines.
• Tesoro killed the Celestial Dragon by pouring gold into her nose, mouth, and ears, then affirmed his loyalty to Maud.
• Maud invited Tesoro to accompany him to slay a dragon.