Chapter Summaries

Maud used the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to repel Kizaru and Fujitora, while Aokiji stepped in to keep the two Admirals from interfering with Maud’s attack on the Pacifistas. Maud began destroying the remaining Pacifistas with Shadow Slash, leaving the Marines’ chances of victory in serious danger.

• Maud dispersed Kizaru and Fujitora’s joint attack with a shock wave from the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
• Aokiji attacked Kizaru and Fujitora and told Maud to eliminate the Pacifistas while he held them back.
• Maud rushed toward the Pacifistas as Aokiji blocked Kizaru and Fujitora’s attempts to pursue him.
• Aokiji froze Fujitora and blocked Kizaru with an expanding ice wall, buying Maud time.
• Maud used Shadow Slash: Blade Wheel Slash to strike the Pacifistas’ shadows, causing them to turn to ash one after another.

Maud destroyed all seventy-eight Pacifistas and then faced Kizaru and Fujitora, who worked together to keep him from landing a decisive blow. After Beli woke and Maud prepared to attack Kizaru again, Festa regained consciousness in the broadcast room.

• Maud used Flying Shadow and Blade Wheel Slash to cut the shadows from seventy-eight Pacifistas, causing them to burn to ash.
• Aokiji left Maud to guard their companions, including the exhausted Luo, while Maud confronted Kizaru and Fujitora.
• Maud blocked Kizaru’s lasers, countered his attacks, and nearly crushed his ankle, but Fujitora intervened and let Kizaru escape.
• Maud knocked Fujitora back and slashed through the Marine formation, killing at least two hundred Marines.
• Beli woke up, and Maud prepared to deal with Kizaru quickly.
• Festa regained consciousness in the broadcast room and looked toward the control console.

After the broadcast resumed, the world watched Maud fight Admirals Kizaru and Fujitora on Water Seven Island. Maud’s accelerated gunfire and Shadow Shift left Kizaru gravely wounded, and Maud prepared to finish him.

• The live broadcast resumed and showed the Navy facing the Maud Pirates, with Maud confronting Kizaru and Fujitora.
• Maud used his shadow armor and accelerated gunfire to wound Kizaru and force him to evade a barrage.
• Fujitora tried to aid Kizaru, but Maud struck him with a hidden Shadow Slash that left a shallow cut across his chest.
• Maud used Shadow Shift to close in on Kizaru, striking him with a shockwave and then firing at him as he fell.
• Maud teleported into the smoke and slashed Kizaru, leaving him bleeding and severely injured while Fujitora reacted to the worsening situation.

After killing Kizaru and driving Fujitora back, Maud returned to the battlefield and used his newly awakened shadow ability to empower his companions. His shadow meteors reached the crew as the Marines continued to overwhelm the pirates by sheer numbers.

• Maud killed Kizaru while stopping Fujitora from protecting him, then forced Fujitora away with enlarged bullets.
• Festa's broadcast showed Kizaru's death to the world, shaking morale as the Marines still held a vast numerical advantage.
• Maud rejoined the battle and found his crew struggling, with several members injured or in danger.
• Maud gathered his original shadow and sent it flying to his companions to grant them its power.
• Aokiji let one shadow enter his own shadow and felt a transformation begin within him.

Maud shared parts of his shadow with his crew, restoring their stamina and greatly increasing their strength as the battle against the Marines intensified. Brook discovered that his enhanced senses let him see and extinguish souls, while Maud judged that his crew’s power might overcome the Marines’ numerical advantage.

• Aokiji, Urouge, Lafitte, Shiryu, Jinbe, and the other Maud Pirates felt their strength rise and their fatigue disappear after Maud merged parts of his shadow into theirs.
• The Maud Pirates renewed their assault, and the Marines struggled to withstand their enhanced attacks as Shiryu resumed his killing spree.
• Brook stopped attacking after his senses changed, then Jinbe protected him from incoming Marine attacks and warned him not to lose focus.
• Brook realized he could see souls and killed a Marine named Wenide by extinguishing his soul flame, then wondered whether his crewmates shared this ability.
• Maud watched his strengthened crew overwhelm the Marines and concluded that sharing his shadows could raise the team’s combat power enough to challenge their numerical advantage.

Maud’s shadows strengthened the Maud Pirates and tore through the Marines’ formation as he faced Fujitora. After Fujitora rejected Maud’s offer to join him, Maud overwhelmed him with control of the seawater-filled rocks and left viewers expecting another admiral to fall.

• Maud’s shadows boosted the Maud Pirates’ strength, letting them rip enormous gaps through the Marines’ formation.
• Maud urged Fujitora to surrender and offered him a better path, but Fujitora refused and attacked with a gravity-infused slash.
• Maud shattered Fujitora’s slash and learned that Fujitora planned to exploit the seawater scattered across Water Seven.
• Fujitora launched seawater-filled rocks at Maud, but Maud froze them with his shadows and fired enlarged bullets at Fujitora.
• While Fujitora defended against the bullets, Maud seized control of the rocks and seawater and sent them surging back at him.

Maud spared Fujitora after crushing him with a boulder and seawater, then declared that he would make the World Government disappear if CP0 threatened his family. As Fujitora fought on and the Maud Pirates gained the upper hand, Maud watched from his Shadow Throne, certain his crew would win the war.

• Maud held back after burying Fujitora under a boulder and seawater, leaving Fujitora drenched but alive.
• Maud told Fujitora that he would attack Mary Geoise again and make the World Government disappear if CP0 targeted his family.
• Fujitora resumed fighting, but Maud's Shock Slash broke through his defense and badly injured him.
• Fujitora used Endless Prison to suppress Maud's shadow soldiers as Maud's attack overwhelmed him.
• Maud watched the battlefield without helping the other pirates, then sat on his Shadow Throne and awaited the Maud Pirates' victory.

Maud secured the Marines’ retreat after Fujitora recognized their defeat, while the Whitebeard Pirates remained hostile toward Maud. A sudden tsunami erupted from Navigation Mountain, leaving the exhausted Marines and grounded pirates in immediate danger as the Maud Pirates watched from the air.

• Maud let the wounded Fujitora cross the battlefield, and Fujitora used gravity fields to divide the fighting and order the Marines to retreat.
• The Marines withdrew under Fujitora’s command while the pirates stopped fighting, and Maud recalled Lafitte and the other Maud Pirates.
• Fujitora led the Marines toward the coastline as Ace and the Whitebeard Pirates continued to glare at Maud.
• Navigation Mountain erupted with black smoke and enormous volumes of seawater, sending a tsunami across the island and causing its lakes to burst into towering water pillars.
• The Maud Pirates rose into the air, but the grounded pirates and retreating Marines could not escape easily, and the wounded Fujitora realized he lacked the strength to protect them.

Maud ordered Aokiji to freeze Festa’s man-made tsunami, saving the battlefield as the Marines retreated and the remaining pirates abandoned the fight. The Whitebeard Pirates stayed to reclaim Whitebeard’s body, but the Maud Pirates crushed them, leaving Ace frozen and defeated as the war ended in Maud’s complete victory.

• Maud ordered Aokiji to freeze the tsunami, and Aokiji stopped the wave before it could engulf the battlefield.
• Fujitora organized the Marines’ retreat, while the other pirates withdrew and the Whitebeard Pirates remained to face Maud’s crew.
• Ace demanded Whitebeard’s body and charged at Maud, but Aokiji intercepted him as Vista and the Whitebeard commanders tried to support him.
• The Maud Pirates defeated the Whitebeard Pirates, killing or incapacitating most of their remaining forces and freezing Ace after he exhausted himself.
• The livestream showed the war’s end, with the Maud Pirates victorious and no one among their crew injured or killed.

After the Maud Pirates won the Water Seven Island war, Maud arranged Ace’s treatment, shut down Festa’s broadcast, and agreed to Shanks’s request for dignified funerals. As the New World faced a power vacuum, Kid and Killer drifted into the path of the Marines and the Vinsmoke Family, while the Five Elders discussed their successful mission against Maud’s family.

• Maud had Philo and Luo treat Ace, then sent Lafitte and the others to collect the battlefield’s weapons and equipment.
• Maud found Festa dying, shut down the restored broadcast after Festa died, and failed to reach Sunny or Sabo.
• Shanks asked Maud to give Hawk Eyes, Bullet, and the other fallen fighters dignified funerals, and Maud agreed.
• Maud considered whether to claim the fallen Emperors’ territories, while Kid and Killer drifted between Fujitora’s Marine fleet and the Vinsmoke Family’s island ship.
• The Five Elders discussed Maud’s growing threat and said their mission concerning Bajia D. Maud’s family had succeeded.

The Five Elders captured Moyou to use him as leverage against Maud, while Maud prepared Water Seven Island to host funerals for the fallen and waited anxiously for news of Sunny. When a Five Elder called to threaten Maud about his family, Maud realized they meant his younger brother rather than Sunny.

• The Five Elders discussed using Moyou as a hostage to draw Maud out and eliminate him, while refusing to rely on Imu to act again.
• After the Water Seven battle, Maud assigned Lafitte to handle the weapons, visited the imprisoned Ace, and promised to give Ace's companions and Whitebeard dignified funerals at Navigation Mountain.
• Maud tasked Luo with repairing Navigation Mountain, then built a castle for the Maud Pirates to stay in.
• Maud tried unsuccessfully to reach Sabo and Sunny, then received a call from a Five Elder delivered by a Carrier Bat.
• The Five Elder began warning Maud that his family had been captured, prompting Maud to erupt with killing intent, but then clarified that he meant Maud's younger brother, Moyou.

Maud learned that the Five Elders claimed his younger brother Moyou was in their custody, but he refused to let their threat dictate his actions. After Sabo reported that Sunny was seriously injured and comatose, he also revealed Moyou’s connection to the Revolutionary Army, and Maud set out to find them.

• The Five Elders told Maud to come to Mary Geoise if he wanted to protect his younger brother, and Maud rejected their attempt to make him come alone.
• Aokiji warned Maud not to risk the Maud Pirates’ destruction as Whitebeard had, and Maud assured him he knew what he was doing.
• Maud decided he would go to Mary Geoise with enough power to destroy it rather than face the World Government alone.
• Sabo told Maud that Sunny had been seriously injured during a CP0 attack and had fallen into an unexplained coma.
• Sabo revealed that Moyou had joined the Revolutionary Army and had forbidden them from telling Maud they were brothers.
• Maud told Sabo that the Five Elders had already contacted him and said he was coming to find them.

Maud left Water Seven Island with Luo, Lafitte, Perona, and Jinbe to find the injured Sunny, while Aokiji stayed behind to prepare the funeral. Shanks arrived, freed Ace to attend, and discussed Maud’s position with Aokiji as the Red-Haired Pirates gathered for the burial.

• Maud took Luo and Lafitte to find Sunny, and Perona and Jinbe joined the voyage aboard the Netherworld.
• Aokiji remained on Water Seven Island with his companions to prepare the funeral and handle the many bodies.
• Shanks arrived with the Red-Haired Pirates, and Aokiji told him that Maud had left to visit family.
• Shanks visited Ace, offered him a place on his ship, and freed him from his cage so he could attend the funeral.
• Shanks asked Aokiji about his position, and Aokiji asked whether Shanks would become Maud’s enemy; Shanks gave an ambiguous answer.
• Judge abandoned his plan to exploit the aftermath at Water Seven Island after Fujitora’s fleet forced him into battle, while Caesar felt relieved to avoid Maud.

Maud reached the Revolutionary Army’s stronghold on Baldigo and learned that Sunny was unconscious despite having no detectable injuries or illness. Luo suspected lifespan loss had caused hibernation syndrome, and Maud considered Pure Gold as another possible remedy before Tesoro received his call.

• Maud stored the Netherworld in Shadow Box and led his companions across Baldigo’s sandstorm to the Revolutionary Army’s stronghold.
• Maud reunited with Sabo and Koala and hurried to Sunny’s bedside, where she remained unconscious.
• Luo scanned Sunny and found no physical cause for her condition, then proposed that she might have hibernation syndrome caused by a sudden loss of lifespan.
• Luo explained that Sunny might wake naturally or be treated with electric current, while Maud considered the lifespan-restoring Pure Gold.
• Tesoro faced a crowd of pirates who had refused to trade away the Pure Gold, and an incoming Den Den Mushi sounded as distant figures watched him.

Tesoro obtained Pure Gold and Maud urgently asked him to bring it over, hoping to use it to help Sunny. Surrounded by pirates seeking the metal, Tesoro wiped them out in five minutes and prepared to eliminate distant onlookers before returning to Maud.

• Maud called Tesoro, confirmed he had obtained Pure Gold, and urgently told him to bring it over for Sunny.
• Maud explained Pure Gold’s lifespan-extending and illness-preventing effects to Luo, Jinbe, Lafitte, and Perona.
• After ending the call, Tesoro unleashed his full strength and used his awakened ability to drown the encircling pirates in liquid gold.
• Tesoro killed the chain-wrapped treasure hunter with a golden spear and declared he would not let trash make Maud wait.
• Tesoro sensed people watching from afar with Observation Haki and turned his attention toward them.

Tesoro brought Pure Gold to White Soil Island, where Maud gave it to the unconscious Sunny and she woke up. As Sunny began recovering, Luo recognized that Pure Gold might counteract the dangerous side effects of the ES drug and become a tool for strengthening Maud’s rule.

• Tesoro killed the CP0 agents sent to seize Pure Gold and continued to White Soil Island, while a World Government official reported the failed mission to the Five Elders.
• The Five Elders blamed Maud for disrupting their plans and reaffirmed their intention to eliminate him as part of the coming Great Cleansing.
• After ten days, Tesoro arrived on White Soil Island with the Heart Pirates and handed Pure Gold to Maud, who carried it to Sunny’s ward.
• Maud placed Pure Gold in Sunny’s hands, and after several minutes her complexion improved and she woke up; Maud told her she had slept for more than half a month and urged her to recover.
• Luo examined Pure Gold and sensed its powerful life force, then considered whether it could neutralize the side effects of ES and support his plans for stable rule.

Maud and his allies prepared to use Pure Gold to protect their lives and support their plans, while Luo considered dangerous experiments with it. Maud gave Sunny a Pure Gold ring and asked her to leave the Revolutionary Army, promising to help her pursue her dream.

• Luo recognized Pure Gold's value and imagined combining it with the Rumble Drug to create an invincible army for Maud.
• Maud entrusted Sunny with the Pure Gold so she could recover her lost lifespan, then sent Lafitte and most of the Heart Pirates to Water Seven while Bepo stayed behind.
• Maud, Luo, and Tesoro tested whether Tesoro could separate Pure Gold into tiny pieces, and Tesoro successfully made a grain-sized piece and ten rings.
• Maud coated Pure Gold rings with shadows and gave them to Luo, Tesoro, and himself; Luo considered whether Pure Gold could offset the cost of the Immortality Operation.
• Maud brought Sunny a ring, which she happily put on, then asked her to leave the Revolutionary Army and promised to help her achieve her dream.

Maud urged Sunny to leave the Revolutionary Army, but she was angry that he had kept Saul’s fate from her and refused to see him. Maud agreed to ally with Dragon against the Celestial Dragons and World Government, then spent the night writing the Chinese character for “life” as Luo arrived.

• Maud asked Sunny to leave the Revolutionary Army, but she confronted him for not telling her about Saul and sent him away.
• Koala repeatedly stopped Maud from visiting Sunny, and Sabo warned him to let Sunny decide whether to leave; Maud said he would take her with him regardless.
• Dragon met with Maud in the cafeteria and explained that the Revolutionary Army’s real enemy was the Celestial Dragons.
• Maud agreed to cooperate with Dragon, and Sabo was shocked when Maud told him they had formed an alliance.
• Maud wrote the Chinese character for “life” at his desk, and Luo arrived and mistook it for an ancient script.

Maud prepared unique Chinese-character keepsakes for his companions and persuaded Sunny to leave the Revolutionary Army and return with him. As Maud's group departed for Thriller Bark, Dragon and the Revolutionary Army prepared to declare war on the Celestial Dragons.

• Maud gave Luo the character "life" for a Pure Gold ring and explained that he was preparing a different character for each companion.
• Beli visited Sunny with breakfast, and Sunny asked him to tell Maud she wanted to know when they were going home.
• Maud revealed that he had written "shadow" for Sunny, and three days later Sunny agreed to leave the Revolutionary Army and return with him.
• Maud and Sunny said farewell to Sabo and the others before boarding Polar Dive, while Dragon rallied the Revolutionary Army to declare war on the Celestial Dragons.
• During the voyage, Tesoro showed off his character "Gin" and learned Sunny had received "Shadow," which wiped away his smugness.

Maud returned to Sky City with Sunny and the others, reunited with his crew and elders, and gave Pure Gold rings to Rayleigh, Gaban, and Shakky. He then visited Princess Mansherry with Luo to begin arranging the plan to revive Saul, leaving Mansherry shyly staring at the oversized ring he offered her.

• Jaya used her Float-Float Fruit power to carry the Polar Dive up to Sky City, where Maud reunited with Sunny and the welcoming crew.
• Maud and Sunny visited Rayleigh, Gaban, and Shakky, and Sunny confirmed that she had left the Revolutionary Army but still intended to pursue her dream.
• Maud gave Pure Gold rings to Rayleigh, Gaban, and Shakky, and promised Buggy that he would receive one too.
• Maud revealed that he planned to give Mansherry Pure Gold because he needed her ability to help revive Saul.
• Maud and Luo visited Princess Mansherry, and Maud offered her a Pure Gold ring while Gancio watched.