Chapter Summaries

The Hell Pirates arrived at Marineford, and Oboro confronted Teach over Whitebeard’s corpse. Teach backed down and withdrew, while Oboro made clear he had hoped for a chance to kill him.

• The Hell Pirates appeared at Marineford, and Sengoku realized his bad feeling had come true.
• Teach asked Oboro whether he wanted Whitebeard’s corpse, then tried to bargain for time.
• Oboro killed two of Teach’s new companions with casual flicks, frightening the Blackbeard Pirates into retreating.
• Teach ordered his crew away from Whitebeard’s corpse to avoid fighting Oboro.
• Oboro told Teach he had hoped to kill him, and Teach laughed awkwardly before leaving with a dark expression.

Oboro converted Whitebeard and obtained his combat abilities as resource cards, while Shanks arrived with the Red Hair Pirates to stop the war. Oboro rejected Shanks’ attempt to end the fighting and prepared to face him, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Oboro used the system on Whitebeard’s body and successfully obtained three resource cards, including his combat abilities.
• Lafitte realized that Oboro could take the abilities and combat experience of the dead, and Blackbeard understood that his plan to claim the Tremor-Tremor Fruit had failed.
• Koby tried to stop Akainu, but Shanks arrived with the Red Hair Pirates and stopped Akainu’s attack before declaring that he would end the war.
• Oboro mocked Shanks by calling him a Celestial Dragon and refused to leave the battlefield when Shanks offered the Marines and pirates a chance to stop fighting.
• Oboro gathered the Hell Pirates and challenged Shanks to continue the battle.

Oboro and the Hell Pirates faced off against Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates at Marineford, while Marco prepared the Whitebeard Pirates to withdraw. Bullet intercepted Shanks and began fighting him, leaving Sengoku to wonder what Oboro was planning.

• Marco ordered the Whitebeard Pirates to join forces with the Red Hair Pirates, but Shanks told them to withdraw and leave the battle to him.
• Shanks unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki and charged Oboro with a powerful slash.
• Bullet appeared before Oboro, deflected Shanks’s slash, and caught Gryphon barehanded.
• Shanks cut off part of Bullet’s hand, but Bullet regenerated it and launched a massive multi-limbed Haki attack.
• The Red Hair Pirates and Hell Pirates began fighting as Sengoku ordered the Marines to evacuate the central area.
• Sengoku realized Oboro had left Bullet to hold Shanks back and searched Marineford for the God Slayer.

Oboro exploited Akainu’s injuries to ambush and kill the Marine Admiral, despite Garp arriving in time to intervene. Kizaru struck Oboro away afterward, leaving the battlefield stunned by Akainu’s death.

• Oboro raced toward the badly wounded Akainu while Garp pursued him and Sengoku shouted a warning.
• Akainu’s Hell Hound failed to stop Oboro, who tore through his defenses and seized him by the throat.
• Oboro delayed Garp by invoking Ace and Luffy, then told Garp he would do what Garp could not.
• Oboro restrained Akainu’s magma ability, pierced his chest, crushed his heart, and dropped his corpse at Garp’s feet.
• Kizaru kicked Oboro through a wall as Sengoku, Tsuru, and the gathered fighters reacted in shock to Akainu’s death.
• Doflamingo laughed and declared that justice belonged to the victors as he welcomed the chaos.

The Red Hair Pirates' Grand Fleet landed at Marineford and joined the battle between the Marines and the Hell Pirates. As Sengoku ordered the Marines to contain the pirate forces, he and Garp prepared to target Oboro.

• Benn Beckman fought Shiryu, wounded him with a Haki-coated shot, and was caught in Shiryu's Float-Float Fruit attack and crimson slash.
• Sengoku recognized Shiryu's new ability as the Float-Float Fruit and saw Crocodile and Bendix Snake sweep fighters into the air with sand.
• Judge Enel and Lucky Roux sent lightning through the Marine ranks, killing many soldiers.
• Sengoku ordered lower-ranking Marines to block escape routes and officers to form squads against both pirate crews.
• Sengoku left Tsuru to direct the battle and joined Garp in targeting Oboro, while Kizaru, Aokiji, and the Shichibukai focused on containing the pirate forces.

Oboro fought Garp and Sengoku at Marineford but could not overcome their coordinated attacks. As he tried to escape, Shanks and Benn Beckman intercepted him, and Shanks unleashed Divine Departure.

• Oboro dodged Garp's opening punch, but Sengoku struck him with a Buddha palm and Garp followed with another attack.
• Oboro tried to use debris and airflow to distract the Marines, briefly restraining Garp before targeting Sengoku, but Sengoku's shockwave knocked him back.
• Garp broke free, struck Oboro through a golden bell barrier, and sent him hurtling toward the coast.
• Benn Beckman aimed his gun at Oboro while Shanks confronted him with Gryphon drawn.
• Shanks recognized that Oboro had never intended to fight the crew to the end and unleashed Divine Departure.

Oboro appeared to be killed by Shanks’s Divine Departure, but his severed body began rising again as he levitated above Marineford. He declared that everyone and everything should perish, leaving the battlefield terrified.

• Shanks struck Oboro with Divine Departure, cutting his body in half and apparently killing him.
• Dom blamed Bullet and charged toward him, while Yurivich attacked Shiryu to avenge Oboro.
• Shanks called for the fighting to end, and the battlefield fell silent as the surviving fighters accepted his demand.
• Bullet’s mocking smile alerted Shanks and the others that something was wrong when Oboro’s severed upper half began rising.
• Oboro and the Hell Pirates ascended into the sky, and Oboro raised his hand and vowed to destroy everything.

Oboro unleashed a vacuum domain and a devastating strike that destroyed Marineford and killed countless Marines and pirates. Shanks concluded that the threat now required the Five Elders, Kaido, and Charlotte Linlin to face, as the entire sea faced an unprecedented calamity.

• Oboro regenerated his body, drained the air from Marineford, and trapped its inhabitants in a deadly vacuum domain.
• Doflamingo protected himself with a Birdcage, while Marshall D. Teach called for Sanjuan Wolf, who could not hear him.
• Oboro brought down a vast sphere of compressed energy as Shanks, Aokiji, Sengoku, and other powerful fighters counterattacked.
• Aokiji froze the resulting tsunamis, but Marineford had been shattered, its headquarters erased, and most people caught beyond the fighters' protection killed.
• Shanks learned that the Hell Pirates had disappeared and that Whitebeard Edward Newgate's corpse was gone; he said he needed to meet the Five Elders, Kaido, and Charlotte Linlin.

Oboro and the Hell Pirates escaped Marineford after Shanks’s attack, having inflicted heavy losses on the Marines but exposing their strength to the world. Oboro set course for the New World, where the crew faced the possibility of the World Government and the Yonko forming an alliance against them.

• Oboro ordered Dom and Yurivich to stop blaming Bullet and Shiryu, then explained that Shanks’s attack had disrupted his plan and left him weakened.
• Oboro told the crew that they had gathered the key resources despite falling short of their target, and that the Marine losses would weaken the World Government’s control for a time.
• The officers described their fights with the Red Hair Pirates, and Oboro judged that the Hell Pirates’ top fighters were no weaker than their opponents, though the Yonko had larger forces.
• Crocodile warned Oboro that the World Government might secretly ally with the Yonko, but Oboro replied that the Hell Pirates could form alliances of their own.
• Oboro ordered the Blood Pluton to head for the New World before the Marines recovered.

The Hell Pirates became the world’s most feared crew after the Summit War, with Oboro’s bounty rising above five billion and the crew recognized as the new Yonko. At Mary Geoise, Shanks met with the Five Elders and warned that events had gone beyond their control.

• The World Government announced massive new bounties for Oboro and the Hell Pirates, making their crew’s total bounty the highest on the seas.
• The Hell Pirates were publicly recognized as the new Yonko, replacing the Whitebeard Pirates, while the crew disappeared from view after Marineford.
• An agent escorted a hooded visitor into a guarded council building at Mary Geoise.
• Shanks revealed himself to the Five Elders and said he had come because the situation had exceeded their expectations and control.

CP0 visited Big Mom in Whole Cake Island and tried to persuade her that the Hell Pirates planned to attack Totto Land. After CP0 played a recording of the God Slayer and Crocodile discussing Big Mom as a target, the Charlotte Family faced the prospect of a coming clash.

• Big Mom received CP0 in Cake Castle and threatened the agents rather than agree to cooperate with the World Government.
• The CP0 captain warned that the God Slayer might seek to seize the New World and make Big Mom his next target.
• Spero dismissed the warning, while Big Mom declared that Totto Land could repel the Hell Pirates on its home ground.
• Katakuri questioned CP0's evidence, and an agent played a recording of the God Slayer and Crocodile discussing an attack on Big Mom.
• The CP0 captain urged Big Mom to consider an alliance, leaving the Charlotte Family unsettled by proof that the Hell Pirates intended to move against them.

Oboro discussed the World Government’s plans and the New World’s shifting power balance with Doflamingo in Dressrosa. He explained how he would use evidence against Rob Lucci and revealed that he intended to rely on Doflamingo for the Hell Pirates’ next plan.

• Doflamingo told Oboro that the Government had sent people to Totto Land to discuss killing him.
• Oboro and Doflamingo discussed how a photograph of Rob Lucci executing Celestial Dragons could undermine the Government’s plans and deepen its suspicions of Lucci.
• Oboro kept the Hell Pirates hidden in Dressrosa while Doflamingo’s subordinates watched Lucci and blocked information from reaching the Government.
• Doflamingo described how Kaido, Big Mom, Shanks, and Marco’s forces were dividing Whitebeard’s former territories and said Marshall D. Teach had expanded rapidly by hunting Whitebeard’s remnants.
• Oboro said he had no interest in Whitebeard’s inheritance because he could take the territory and resources whenever he wanted.
• Doflamingo agreed to let Oboro use him because he was interested in Oboro’s goal, despite having little leverage to negotiate.

Oboro and Doflamingo discussed the World Government, the Yonko vacancies, and their plans to make Doflamingo a Yonko. After Oboro left, Doflamingo laughed as he imagined gaining enough power to force the Celestial Dragons to recognize him again.

• Oboro explained that he wanted to preserve some Yonko as threats and avoid driving Red-Hair toward the Celestial Dragons.
• Doflamingo declared that he wanted absolute power as a Celestial Dragon, recalling how the nobles had rejected and humiliated his family.
• Oboro confirmed that Doflamingo could take Big Mom's vacant Yonko seat and said Blackbeard could fill another.
• Oboro warned Doflamingo that Teach was dangerous and told him to prepare for the next crucial step.
• Oboro and Doflamingo resolved to contain Rob Lucci for now, since his Celestial Dragon identity still had value.
• After Oboro left, Doflamingo laughed at the prospect of gaining the power to negotiate with the Five Elders.

At a meal in the royal palace, Oboro and the Hell Pirates discussed their plans with Doflamingo before leaving Dressrosa to begin the next stage. Afterward, the Donquixote Family prepared to follow them, while Gladius questioned why Oboro had left Rob Lucci alive.

• Doflamingo showed Oboro a newspaper image of Luffy honoring the dead at the former Marineford and asked why Oboro had spared him.
• Oboro told Doflamingo that the time to kill Luffy had not come and defended Dragon’s commitment to the Revolutionary Army.
• After receiving a call that everyone was ready, Oboro left Dressrosa with the Hell Pirates, having confirmed that Doflamingo had settled his end of their arrangement.
• Pica asked whether Doflamingo could trust Oboro, and Doflamingo said their cooperation would last as long as he remained useful and the Celestial Dragons retained power.
• After the Blood Pluton departed, Gladius complained that Oboro had not killed Rob Lucci, while Diamante told him to prepare for the Hell Pirates’ major move.

Doflamingo tried to persuade Gild Tesoro to finance the Hell Pirates’ bid to become a Yonko, promising an alliance with the God Slayer. Tesoro questioned the offer and Doflamingo’s motives, leaving the deal unresolved.

• Doflamingo arrived at Gran Tesoro with Trebol, Lao G, and Diamante to meet Tesoro about a business deal.
• Dice blocked Doflamingo from approaching Tesoro until Tesoro ordered him to stand down.
• Tesoro said the Celestial Dragons’ patronage made funding the Hell Pirates risky and asked why the God Slayer had not claimed Whitebeard’s territory.
• Doflamingo promised Tesoro an alliance with the Hell Pirates in exchange for funding their rise to Yonko status.
• Tesoro accused Doflamingo of asking him to pay for a mere connection and questioned whether he was being played.

Gild Tesoro rejected the Hell Pirates’ proposed cooperation and demanded they submit to him. Doflamingo revealed that the Hell Pirates had already begun attacking Gran Tesoro, putting the visiting Celestial Dragons and World Government officials in danger.

• Tesoro dismissed the Hell Pirates as a threat and told Doflamingo he would only help them if they showed sincerity and accepted his terms.
• Doflamingo told Tesoro he had only come to warn him and that the Hell Pirates were already robbing him.
• The Golden City shook as the attack began, and Tesoro attacked Doflamingo with liquid gold while the Donquixote Family prepared to fight.
• Doflamingo revealed that Tesoro’s grand performance had drawn Celestial Dragons and high-ranking World Government officials to Gran Tesoro, and warned that their deaths would turn the World Government against him.
• Tesoro realized the danger and shouted Doflamingo’s name.

Oboro launched the Hell Pirates’ assault on Gran Tesoro, ordering his crew to kill Celestial Dragons and seize the city’s wealth. He appeared at Gild Tesoro’s grand performance and announced that the massacre would be the night’s finale.

• Oboro told the Hell Pirates to kill Celestial Dragons and target World Government officials, while allowing them to kill anyone else they pleased.
• Bullet, Enel, and the other officers left the Blood Pluton to begin the attack, and the pirate crews descended on Gran Tesoro.
• The Hell Pirates’ arrival and slaughter sent the city’s residents and tourists into panic.
• At the performance venue, Carina introduced Gild Tesoro, but Oboro emerged onstage instead.
• Oboro identified himself as the God Slayer and declared that he and the Hell Pirates would perform hell, with the Celestial Dragons as participants.

Oboro announced that the show was about to begin as the Hell Pirates attacked Gran Tesoro and hunted the Celestial Dragons. The Celestial Dragons were killed, and Shiryu expected the World Government’s forces to arrive soon.

• The Celestial Dragons recognized Oboro as the God Slayer and panicked, trying to contact the World Government and escape.
• Enel located the Celestial Dragons in the audience stands and killed them with a web of lightning.
• Shiryu entered a VIP casino, announced he had come to take the Celestial Dragons’ lives, and killed two of them.
• Shiryu left carrying a Celestial Dragon’s severed head while World destroyed Gran Tesoro’s most luxurious hotel with a gigantic boulder.
• Shiryu surveyed the area and anticipated the nearby World Government forces would soon begin their rescue.

Oboro and the Hell Pirates carried out a devastating massacre across Gran Tesoro, killing the Celestial Dragons and leaving the World Government's forces overwhelmed. As a Cipher Pol agent sought reinforcements and orders to find Hattori, Dom revealed Hattori was Rob Lucci and attacked the agent.

• Oboro used his power to crush the stands while the Hell Pirates slaughtered visitors across Gran Tesoro.
• Yurivich fought back against pirate forces, but the Golden City was left in ruins and its streets descended into chaos.
• A Cipher Pol agent contacted Mary Geoise, reported that the Celestial Dragons had died, and received orders to protect them and locate Hattori.
• Dom ambushed the agent and identified Hattori as Rob Lucci, an undercover CP9 captain aboard the Hell Pirates' ship.
• Dom lunged at the agent after telling him he would not get to see Rob Lucci.

Doflamingo battled Tesoro with his awakened String-String Fruit while concealing his true purpose: stalling until Bullet arrived. As Tesoro weakened, Bullet took over the fight and Doflamingo withdrew with his people.

• Tesoro attacked Doflamingo with his awakened Golden Hellfire, but Doflamingo's enhanced red threads restrained the molten-gold fist.
• Tesoro liquefied the gold across the threads, then blasted Doflamingo with lasers, burning his cloak and legs.
• Doflamingo awakened his String-String Fruit and battered Tesoro's golden giant with a vast tide of Haki-coated red spears.
• Tesoro released intense heat that melted much of the red tide, but his golden giant slowed as he began to tire.
• Bullet arrived, told Doflamingo to take his people and leave, and approached Tesoro while Doflamingo withdrew.