Chapter Summaries

Oboro ambushed the Red Hair Pirates with Prometheus and Zeus, then hunted down their officers with overwhelming speed and strength. As Shanks watched his crew fall, the chapter left him facing Oboro’s attack.

• Rayleigh broke free of Oboro’s restraint long enough to shout for Shanks to run, and Shanks realized Oboro was using the chaos to attack the crew.
• Prometheus and Zeus unleashed fire and lightning on the Red Hair Pirates’ flagship as Oboro killed Benn Beckman with a strike through the chest.
• Oboro reappeared aboard the burning ship and killed Hongo and Snake with a single hand chop.
• Lucky Roux tried to stop Oboro, but Oboro broke his arm and blasted a hole through his body with God Fist, Double Strike.
• Yasopp shot Oboro in the temple, but the bullet left only a mark; Oboro then killed Yasopp with an attack that struck his mind.

Shanks fought Oboro as the Red Hair Pirates were killed around him, but even his strongest Haki-powered slash failed to stop the God Slayer. The chapter left Shanks facing despair as Oboro declared that he was the only one left and taunted him about how quickly he would die.

• Shanks unleashed his Conqueror's Haki, extinguishing the soul flames in Oboro's corpses and injuring Zeus and Prometheus.
• Oboro killed Bonk Punch, Monster, Limejuice, and Gab while Shanks rushed toward him.
• Shanks struck Oboro with his full strength, cutting into his shoulder but failing to drive Gryphon deeper than a few centimeters.
• Oboro snapped Gryphon, healed his wound, and told Shanks that he had let him land the blow to test whether it could hurt him again.
• Shanks realized no one could stop Oboro from turning the world into his plaything, and Oboro told him all his officers were dead and asked how long it would take to kill him.

Oboro defeated Shanks and rejected Rayleigh’s plea to spare him, explaining that Shanks had chosen to become his enemy. Shanks warned that the world would unite against the Hell Pirates, but Oboro revealed that overthrowing the world—not just the Celestial Dragons—was their goal, and Dom prepared to hang Shanks on an empty cross.

• Oboro defeated Shanks in a brutal fight and carried his badly injured, still-conscious body back to the beach.
• Shanks saw the corpses of Luffy, Garp, Boa Hancock, Amazon Lily’s warriors, and Revolutionary Army commanders hanging from crosses.
• Rayleigh pleaded for Oboro to spare Shanks, but Oboro refused, saying Shanks had joined forces with his enemies and that he had already repaid Rayleigh’s favor.
• Shanks warned Oboro that his actions would turn the world against the Hell Pirates, but Oboro said overthrowing the world was their goal.
• Dom grabbed Shanks by the hair and told him to choose a spot among the empty crosses.

After the Hell Pirates killed Shanks, Luffy, Garp, and the Red Hair officers on Rusukaina, Oboro split his forces between taking Shanks’ territory and attacking Egghead. He left alone for Mary Geoise to test the World Government as his crew prepared for the coming war.

• Oboro left Rayleigh alive on Rusukaina, warned him not to interfere, and departed with the Hell Pirates.
• Rayleigh took Luffy’s bloodstained straw hat and lamented that he and Roger had been wrong about the world.
• Oboro ordered Bullet to take over Shanks’ territory and lead an assault on Egghead to kill Vegapunk and retrieve the Mother Flame.
• Oboro told his crew that the Five Elders would be drawn toward Egghead but that he would keep them from intervening.
• Oboro left for Mary Geoise alone while ordering the crew to gather its forces and prepare to shock the world.

Oboro reached Mary Geoise and considered killing Imu, but decided that destroying the World Government through the actions of lawless pirates would better transform the world and yield its resources. He severed his connection with the world’s will as news of Shanks’s and Garp’s deaths spread, leaving the world braced for upheaval.

• Oboro concealed his presence above Mary Geoise and judged that Imu could not defeat him in a one-on-one fight.
• Oboro considered killing Imu, felt the Will Tree recoil, and concluded that Imu’s death would not be enough to destroy the world’s existing order.
• Oboro resolved to use pirates to destroy the Celestial Dragons and the World Government, then severed his connection with the world’s will.
• News spread that Shanks had fallen and Garp had died, while Morgans reported the events at Rusukaina and identified the God Slayer as responsible.
• The world reacted to the Hell Pirates’ return and the deaths, sensing that major changes were coming.

Oboro reached Mary Geoise as the Five Elders discussed the Hell Pirates and learned that they had attacked Egghead. The Elders prepared to act, but an unseen visitor knocked at their conference-room door.

• Dom called Oboro and reported that Vegapunk had discovered the Hell Pirates near Egghead, where mechanical sea beasts were attacking them.
• The Five Elders discussed Garp and Shanks's deaths, the God Slayer's strength, and plans to dismantle the Hell Pirates.
• Saint Saturn said the Seraphim would soon be ready, while Saint Peter proposed warning Vegapunk about his lack of cooperation.
• Saint Nusjuro learned that Bullet and Doflamingo's family had appeared on Egghead, prompting the Five Elders to prepare to intervene.
• Someone knocked on the conference-room door, but the Five Elders could sense no one outside.

Oboro entered the Five Elders’ meeting in Pangaea Castle and demanded they stay out of the events on Egghead, warning that he intended for his crew to bring about their deaths. When they attacked him, Oboro killed Saint Saturn with one blow and unleashed a power that left the remaining Elders terrified.

• Oboro appeared inside the Five Elders’ secret meeting and explained that he wanted them to leave Egghead alone.
• The Five Elders secretly planned to attack Oboro, summon help, and capture his body, but Oboro sensed their intentions.
• Saint Saturn activated Evil Eye as the Elders transformed, but Oboro struck first and smashed Saturn’s head, killing him.
• Oboro warned the four surviving Elders that they had refused his offer and unleashed an immense power as Pangaea Castle collapsed around them.
• Saint Nusjuro shouted for the others to run as the Elders felt overwhelmed by Oboro’s soul fluctuations.

Oboro attacked Pangaea Castle, killed three of the Five Elders, and spared Saint Nusjuro to carry a warning to Imu. He then confronted the World Government’s forces and wiped out the army around Saint Garling and Steel Bone with the pressure of his soul.

• Oboro drained Saint Mars’s soul into Thresh’s Lantern Prison, then killed Saint Warcury and left Saint Nusjuro alive with a warning for Imu and Shepherd Ju Peter.
• Oboro reflected on the lost ancient technology that once made the One Piece world comparable to Hunter x Hunter before heading through Pangaea Castle.
• Saint Garling, Steel Bone, CP0, and the World Government’s army blocked Oboro’s path and declared that he would not leave Mary Geoise.
• Oboro unleashed his soul pressure, killing the gathered members of God’s Knights and the army while leaving the leaders standing.
• Oboro appeared before Saint Garling and coldly demanded that he repeat his threat.

Oboro overwhelmed Mary Geoise with his soul-based power after defeating the Holy Land’s defenders, while Dom reported that Egghead and Punk Records had been destroyed. Oboro waited in the emptied city and ordered the Hell Pirates to return.

• Oboro left Saint Garling and Steel Bone frozen with fear, and Saint Garling concluded that the God Slayer had appeared in this era through an awakening.
• Oboro killed a group of Celestial Dragons who confronted him, then eliminated agents and other attackers throughout Mary Geoise with his soul perception.
• Oboro found Mary Geoise deserted as its residents fled or hid in Pangaea Castle, then waited beside a fountain as night fell.
• Dom told Oboro that Vegapunk and his satellites were dead, Punk Records was destroyed, and Egghead had sunk into the sea.
• Dom reported that government and Marine reinforcements had turned back, and Oboro told him the mission was complete and ordered the crew to return.

After Vegapunk's death, the world feared the Hell Pirates as the World Government lost its hold. In Totto Land, Doflamingo told Oboro that Imu had offered him a place as a Celestial Dragon, and Oboro said identity was determined by strength.

• Imu and the World Government recognized that the God Slayer had left Mary Geoise intact only to prepare for changing the era.
• News spread that Vegapunk had died at the hands of the Hell Pirates, deepening the world's fear and doubts about the World Government's ability to protect its members.
• A month later, Oboro arrived in Totto Land while the Hell Pirates' officers seized Shanks' territories.
• Oboro examined the Mother Flame and judged that the ancient civilization's power could still pose a danger, though Imu no longer possessed the flame.
• Doflamingo told Oboro that Imu had offered to make him a Celestial Dragon and let him sit on the Empty Throne, then vented his anger over the rejection he had suffered as a child.
• Oboro told Doflamingo that identity in the real world was determined by one's own fists.

After Doflamingo rejected the offer to become a Five Elder, Mary Geoise tried to rally the world against Oboro and the Hell Pirates. Oboro learned that the Celestial Dragons had fled the Holy Land and asked Morgans to track them down.

• Doflamingo told Oboro that becoming a Celestial Dragon or a Five Elder would not change the coming fall of Mary Geoise and the World Government.
• Mary Geoise convened a Reverie and publicized its claims about the God Slayer, but pirates refused to join forces against the Hell Pirates.
• Morgans called Oboro and reported that the Celestial Dragons had abandoned Mary Geoise, leaving World Government personnel behind.
• Oboro inferred that Imu and the Five Elders were hiding while preserving their power and roots, then asked Morgans to find where they had gone.

As the World Government weakened and the world descended into chaos, Oboro gathered the Hell Pirates’ officers in their Prodence Kingdom base and prepared to begin the final plan. Before attacking Mary Geoise, he ordered them to destroy every nation and civilization so a new world could rise from the ruins.

• The Hell Pirates became a Yonko crew as Teach and Kaido kept quiet, while Zoro and the other Straw Hat Pirates declared they would avenge Luffy and face Oboro.
• The Hell Pirates hunted down Celestial Dragons, prompting more than a hundred nations to break from the World Government as it used executions and military force to suppress resistance.
• Oboro made the ruined Prodence Kingdom a Hell Pirates base, where his officers discussed the Celestial Dragon hunts, the Navy’s absence, and the Revolutionary Army’s efforts to protect civilians.
• Tesoro reported that the new warship was nearly complete, and Crocodile said the Hell Pirates had gathered one hundred thousand people while refusing offers from nations seeking their protection.
• Oboro told his officers to destroy every nation and civilization before the final war, leaving the world in scorched ruins for a new order to be built.

Oboro’s Hell Pirates launched a campaign to annihilate civilization across the seas while the World Government, the Blackbeard Pirates, and the Beasts Pirates gathered strength. After years of devastation, Oboro advanced his cultivation and prepared to erase the world’s history, while Tesoro’s City of Giant Ships sheltered refugees under contract.

• Oboro distributed most resource cards among qualified Hell Pirates, building a force of nearly a hundred thousand while keeping the strongest cards for himself.
• As pirates and rebel factions ravaged the seas, the Hell Pirates began destroying countries across the Four Blues and then advanced into the Grand Line, leaving ruins and driving survivors to seek protection from powerful factions.
• The World Government withdrew its Marines to the Red Line and recruited strong newcomers as the major forces prepared for a future final battle.
• Oboro examined the collected Poneglyphs and pulverized one with a touch, then revealed that years of cultivation had allowed him to form his core and reach minor mastery.
• Dom reported that Tesoro’s City of Giant Ships was packed with refugees who had contracted for Oboro’s protection, and estimated that the campaign would take several more years.

Oboro accelerated the collapse of civilization, turning Gran Tesoro into a place that rewarded murder and destroying Fish-Man Island and Zou Country himself. As the remaining righteous forces gathered with the World Government on the Red Line, Kaido destroyed Wano Country and the world awaited the final battle.

• Oboro withdrew Dom, reached the dying Will Tree, and welcomed the living hell he had created.
• Gran Tesoro opened as a refuge where people had to kill others to earn chips, spreading violence throughout the world.
• Oboro destroyed Fish-Man Island after Neptune tried to evacuate its people to the Red Line, and Shirahoshi's Sea Kings could not stop him.
• Oboro killed Zunesha with one punch and destroyed Zou Country, removing the Mink Tribe's hope of survival.
• Kaido destroyed Wano Country, while the remaining Akazaya Nine and Kurozumi Orochi failed to stop him.
• Humanity's righteous forces gathered with the World Government on the Red Line as Oboro ruled the New World and the final battle approached.

Half a year after the Hell Pirates erased the nations across the seas, the World Government’s remaining forces gathered on the Red Line to face the approaching final battle. As the pirate fleet neared Mary Geoise, Sengoku and Tsuru reflected on their slim hopes and promised not to die before one another.

• The World Government assembled a 500,000-strong army on the Red Line, including the Navy, Revolutionary Army, and two of the Five Elders, while Imu watched from Mary Geoise.
• Sengoku and Tsuru discussed Garp’s past choices, Imu’s indifference, and the overwhelming strength of the Hell Pirates.
• Saint Nusjuro spotted a vast fleet of pirate ships approaching the Red Line.
• Sengoku asked Tsuru not to die before him, and Tsuru refused to let him have his way.

The Hell Pirates began their assault on the Red Line, and Oboro sent thousands of ships flying through the air to bypass the World Government’s defensive terrain. The resistance forces struck back, but Bullet and the Hell Pirates’ officers launched a counterattack that left the defenders facing an even larger force than they had expected.

• Bullet and Shiryu approached the Red Line with the Hell Pirates and recognized that the World Government planned to defend its high ground.
• Oboro lifted thousands of pirate ships into the sky, sending them toward the Red Line as the pirates roared their defiance.
• Monkey D. Dragon changed the weather, while Kizaru, Emporio Ivankov, Belo Betty, Fujitora, and Sengoku attacked the airborne ships and destroyed the vanguard.
• Bullet struck Kizaru and charged the resistance forces as Shiryu’s sword slash shattered part of the Red Line and sent people falling into a canyon.
• The Hell Pirates’ officers unleashed lightning, sandstorms, and quicksand while more pirates charged up the Red Line, overwhelming the resistance forces’ expectations.

Oboro watched the final battle devastate the Red Line as the Hell Pirates and the World Government's Resistance Army fought to the death. He counted the deaths of Resistance Army leaders, including Tsuru and Zephyr, while Blackbeard Teach and Kaido observed the battle from afar.

• Aokiji, Sengoku, Dragon, Bullet, and other fighters unleashed their powers as the Hell Pirates battled the Resistance Army across the Red Line.
• Oboro linked his consciousness to the Pirate Will Tree and explained that he intended the war to destroy the people and memories that could preserve the old civilization.
• Blackbeard Teach and Doc Q watched the battle from Zhuangzhuang, while Kaido and King judged that the Resistance Army could not win.
• A Hell Pirates officer with Doma's abilities froze and shattered Tsuru, and Oboro counted her as the eighth key death.
• Gild Tesoro crushed Zephyr beneath golden pillars, and Oboro counted him as the ninth key death.

Imu’s hidden weapons briefly eased the resistance’s disadvantage, but Oboro remained confident that the Hell Pirates’ strongest fighters would decide the war. As the battle dragged on for ten days, major figures on both sides died and the Red Line became a slaughterhouse.

• The World Government deployed new XS Pacifistas, artillery, and laser weapons from New Mariejois, temporarily improving the resistance army’s position.
• Vergo betrayed Sengoku during the fighting, leaving the former Fleet Admiral badly injured as Pica, Diamante, and other pirates attacked him.
• Oboro collected resources from fallen enemies while the battle continued through the first five days and claimed fighters from both sides.
• By the fifth day, Tsuru, Sengoku, Zephyr, Ryokugyu, Kizaru, Revolutionary Army commanders, and numerous other fighters had fallen.
• Shiryu’s attack on the Five Elders accidentally killed Dorans, and Aokiji killed World on the fourth day.
• By the tenth day, the fighting had become a relentless slaughter driven by survival, destruction, and the fighters’ thirst for battle.

After more than half a month of devastating war, Oboro decided to end the battle as the Hell Pirates closed in on Pangaea Castle. Dead fighters began rising to join the assault, while Blackbeard and Kaido left, and the Celestial Dragons’ centuries-old world order approached its collapse.

• The war ravaged the Red Line, leaving only tens of thousands alive, while Aokiji and Monkey D. Dragon remained among the opposing forces and Kizaru, Saint Nusjuro, and Saint Peter had died.
• Oboro told the injured Dom that there was no need to continue fighting, signaling that he intended to end the war himself.
• Teach saw fresh corpses rise and surge toward Pangaea Castle, then left with Doc Q after deciding he had obtained what he wanted.
• Kaido and King realized Blackbeard had already achieved his goal and departed as the Hell Pirates’ forces gained the upper hand.

Oboro confronted Imu in Pangaea Castle, learned of his lingering obsession with Nefertari Lily, and destroyed his soul as the final battle ended. Days later, Morgans spread news of the world’s devastation, while people gradually realized Oboro had no intention of governing the new world, which grew even more chaotic.

• Imu told Oboro that the Will Tree had revealed he did not belong to this world, then asked why Nefertari Lily had chosen Joy Boy instead of him.
• Oboro told Imu that Lily had abandoned him because he deceived her, and said neither of them owed the other anything.
• Imu asked Oboro to spare his body, but Oboro said that decision belonged to the arriving Hell Pirates.
• Oboro destroyed Imu’s soul with a gesture and vanished before the Hell Pirates entered the Room of Flowers.
• The World Government and Celestial Dragons became relics of the past as the survivors faced the task of rebuilding a devastated world.
• Morgans used surviving media channels and messenger birds to report the aftermath, while people discovered that Oboro would not govern and that the new world was becoming more chaotic.