Chapter Summaries

Gawain helped Yoriichi recover his resolve by reminding him that his life had not been meaningless. Yoriichi pledged to hunt Muzan Kibutsuji and set out immediately to confront his demon elder brother, Kokushibo.

• Gawain comforted Yoriichi, whose memories of the Kamado Family's kindness helped him regain hope.
• Yoriichi recalled the deaths of Uta and their child, his years fighting demons alongside Michikatsu Tsugikuni, and Michikatsu's betrayal of the Demon Slayer Corps.
• Yoriichi revealed that his elder brother had become a demon, murdered people, and sometimes waited for Yoriichi to find him.
• Yoriichi asked Gawain to let him pursue his brother at once, warning that demons might learn of their battle near Shinano and hide.
• Though Gawain questioned whether Yoriichi was strong enough to fight, Yoriichi insisted he could still kill his brother and named him Kokushibo.

Muzan recalled his rise as the progenitor of demons and explained why Yoriichi Tsugikuni had kept him hiding for ten years. After learning that Gawain had defeated Yoriichi, Muzan burrowed deeper into hiding while Kokushibo approached the city to investigate the two swordsmen.

• Muzan remembered how the doctor’s treatment transformed him into a demon, how he killed the doctor, and how he later sought the Blue Spider Lily to regain his humanity and sunlight.
• Muzan recounted how Yoriichi Tsugikuni had cut him apart ten years earlier, convincing him that neither he nor the demons he created could ever defeat Yoriichi.
• Muzan used a demonized farmer’s memories to witness Yoriichi’s battle with Gawain and saw that Gawain’s power exceeded even Yoriichi’s.
• Muzan panicked at the appearance of another powerful enemy, dug deeper underground, opened two escape routes, and severed contact with his demons.
• Kokushibo, torn between wanting to die by Yoriichi’s hand and wanting to live, traveled to the city to investigate Yoriichi and Gawain while Muzan watched through his eyes.

Gawain trained Yoriichi and forced him to confront his feelings about his demonized older brother, Kokushibo. He then let Kokushibo face Yoriichi, hoping the encounter would make both brothers confront their choices.

• Kokushibo found Gawain and Yoriichi training in a courtyard and was stunned to see Gawain strike Yoriichi with overwhelming force.
• Gawain criticized Yoriichi for lacking the resolve to master Armament Haki and challenged him to face the source of his inner conflict.
• Gawain spotted Kokushibo, stopped Yoriichi from pursuing him, and questioned whether Yoriichi saw his brother as Michikatsu Tsugikuni or as the demon Kokushibo.
• Kokushibo told Gawain that Muzan was hiding and would never be found, then raged that he wanted to see Gawain's disappointment before he died.
• Gawain spared Kokushibo for the moment, hurled him several kilometers, and dropped him in front of Yoriichi.

Yoriichi killed Kokushibo with a strike he had prepared for Muzan, but Kokushibo died in his human form as Michikatsu, leaving Yoriichi grieving over his brother’s hidden heart. Gawain helped Yoriichi to his feet and ordered the soldiers to withdraw, then asked them to summon Tokugawa Ieyasu.

• Kokushibo confronted Yoriichi, refused to regret becoming a demon, and attacked him with Moon Breathing while Muzan watched through Kokushibo’s eyes.
• Yoriichi struck Kokushibo down and declared that he could no longer call him brother, while Kokushibo recalled his childhood and the resentment he had carried toward Yoriichi.
• As Kokushibo died, he told Yoriichi that he had always believed Yoriichi pitied him, then revealed his final form as Michikatsu Tsugikuni.
• Yoriichi rushed to Michikatsu’s fading head and grieved, realizing his brother’s heart had remained within him until death.
• Gawain helped the kneeling Yoriichi stand, told the soldiers to withdraw, and ordered them to summon Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Tokugawa Ieyasu and his companions visited Gawain, where Yoriichi Tsugikuni reconciled with the Ubuyashiki Family head before Gawain revealed his true form. Ieyasu became an ecstatic devotee of the dragon, and Gawain told him to raise his head.

• Tokugawa Ieyasu arrived at the residence with Ii Naomasa and the Ubuyashiki Family head, while his soldiers waited outside town.
• Yoriichi Tsugikuni welcomed the Ubuyashiki Family head, told him he had slain Kokushibo, and received his forgiveness for past events.
• Yoriichi led Ieyasu, Ii Naomasa, and the Ubuyashiki Family head into the courtyard to meet Gawain.
• Gawain’s Conqueror’s Haki forced Ii Naomasa and the Ubuyashiki Family head into dogeza, while Ieyasu bowed deeply before him.
• Gawain transformed into an enormous Azure Dragon, destroying part of the town and leaving the witnesses awestruck.
• Ieyasu praised Gawain’s dragon form and imagined using its appearance to strengthen his claim to power, and Gawain told him to raise his head.

Gawain won Tokugawa Ieyasu’s devotion after destroying half of Okazaki Castle, then took Ieyasu and his companions to Mount Fuji to discuss eradicating demons. A misunderstanding about the Shinto deity led Ii Naomasa to conclude that Gawain was Susanoo and that the deity was an evil rival, leaving him to promise to remove its worship while warning that Ieyasu did not rule all Japan.

• Tokugawa Ieyasu accepted Gawain’s command, and Gawain returned to his three-meter form and made a seat from flame clouds.
• Ieyasu promised to rebuild Okazaki Castle and asked Gawain to rename it, so Gawain named it WC and Ieyasu celebrated the divine letters.
• Gawain carried Ieyasu, Ii Naomasa, Yoriichi Tsugikuni, and the head of the Ubuyashiki family to Mount Fuji and said he wanted demons eradicated.
• The head of the Ubuyashiki family admitted that Muzan Kibutsuji was his ancestor, while Ii Naomasa connected Gawain’s remarks to the Shinto deity’s rise.
• Gawain’s surprise at hearing of the Shinto deity made Ii Naomasa believe Gawain was Susanoo confronting an evil god, so Ii Naomasa vowed to end the deity’s worship and began to explain that Ieyasu did not control the whole realm.

Gawain rebuked Ieyasu and set Japan’s Demon Slayer Corps against the demons, while Yoriichi led the Corps to kill thousands and drive Muzan into hiding. After discovering every demon across Japan with thousands of shadow clones, Gawain focused the hunt on Muzan, who was still fleeing along the coast.

• Gawain warned Ieyasu to command Ii Naomasa properly, ordered Japan to expand the Demon Slayer Corps and search for demons, then sent both men away from Mount Fuji.
• Tokugawa Ieyasu and other daimyo expanded the Corps to 121,000 members, and Yoriichi trained them in breathing techniques, Rokushiki, and Haki.
• Yoriichi’s forces killed more than eight thousand demons, forced Muzan from his hiding place, and pursued him as he fled beneath the sea and along the coast.
• Gawain checked on Kaido, who refused to leave early and continued enduring the strain of the world’s will while practicing breathing techniques.
• Gawain created more than ten thousand shadow clones, used their Observation Haki to locate demons throughout Japan, and sent the Demon Slayer Corps to eliminate them.
• Gawain’s clones spread along the coastline to search for Muzan.

Gawain’s Shadow Clones dragged Muzan from the sea and brought him to Mount Fuji, where Gawain handed him over to Yoriichi Tsugikuni. Yoriichi confronted Muzan at a temple and killed him with a single sword stroke.

• Muzan hid beneath the sea, but Gawain’s Shadow Clones cleared the waters and captured him.
• The Shadow Clones carried Muzan and Yoriichi Tsugikuni to Mount Fuji before Gawain dispelled them.
• Gawain gave Yoriichi the stone sphere containing Muzan after Yoriichi confirmed he intended to enter Gawain’s divine kingdom once Muzan was dead.
• Yoriichi carried Muzan to a temple and challenged him to settle their long-standing grudge.
• Muzan argued that he was only one of the world’s many calamities and claimed that Yoriichi and he were both playthings of Gawain.
• Yoriichi cut Muzan down before he could finish speaking.

Luffy struggled with the choice between respecting pirates’ dreams and helping his family stop them from entering the Grand Line. After Ace and Vivi pushed him to act, Luffy joined the battle, but the pirates’ words left him questioning why pirates were hated.

• Luffy told Ace he could not accept the Reverse Mountain blockade destroying the dreams of every pirate who tried to cross.
• Ace urged Luffy to trust the judgment of their family and allies, then left to fight as a general assault began against the outpost.
• Luffy joined the battle, defeated a pirate crew with Gear Second, and apologized while insisting that pirates’ dreams would survive in the Four Blues.
• A wounded pirate argued that the sea belonged to everyone and tried to attack Luffy, but Vivi stopped him with her yo-yo and explained that a breakthrough could bring renewed plunder to Alabasta.
• Luffy watched Vivi return to battle, set aside his doubts for the moment, and charged into the fight with Gear Second.

After waking from a six-month coma, Gawain learned that the blockade had strained Dark Bird’s forces and workers, while powerful New World pirate crews were preparing to attack. He arrived at the Red Line as the Marines reported growing pressure from Mary Geoise, leaving the Five Elders’ response hanging.

• Hancock helped Gawain recover and told him about relentless pirate attacks on Reverse Mountain and the strain of expanding the Sea Train network.
• Gawain reassured Hancock that Issho and Rayleigh had been right to adapt their plans to changing conditions.
• Gion reported that the Whitebeard, Big Mom, and Red-Haired Pirates had gathered near the Red Line, and that Sakazuki expected a major assault by New World pirates.
• Gawain described the breathing technique, Transparent World, and dangerous physical mark he had mastered while unconscious.
• Sakazuki warned Gawain that Celestial Dragon families were pressuring the Five Elders over the pirate gathering, and began explaining their position on the blockade.

Gawain ordered a decisive war against the Grand Pirate Alliance within three days, and the Navy mobilized its forces to support him. As Marine Headquarters prepared for battle, Gawain and Mihawk arrived at Impel Down to meet potential allies.

• Sakazuki told Gawain the Five Elders had given him three days to end the standoff, and Gawain ordered him and Borsalino to rally the Navy for war.
• Gawain instructed Hancock and Gion to prepare Dark Bird's forces and set the mobilization for the third sunrise after that day's sunset, then left with Mihawk to recruit and train potential combatants.
• Sakazuki and Borsalino reported to Sengoku, where Sakazuki declared that Gawain had made war inevitable.
• Sengoku and Garp committed the Navy to battle, and Sengoku ordered the branch commanders and top officers to assemble at the Dark Bird stronghold within three days.
• Gawain and Mihawk arrived at Impel Down.

Gawain arrived at Impel Down and told Magellan he wanted to meet and pardon Bullet, a former member of Roger’s crew. Domino led Gawain, Mihawk, and Kaya to the sixth level, where the prisoners reacted to the Celestial Dragon’s arrival.

• Domino told Magellan that Gawain was arriving, and Magellan reluctantly left his office to greet him despite his urgent need to use the toilet.
• Hannibal welcomed Gawain at the Sea Train, but Gawain recognized that Magellan was suffering from diarrhea when the warden arrived.
• Magellan escorted Gawain, Mihawk, and Kaya into Impel Down and asked whether Gawain wanted to visit his office or go to the sixth level.
• Gawain said he had come to see and pardon Bullet, so Magellan sent Domino to guide the group while he hurried back to his office.
• Domino led the group through the prison to the sixth level, where Bullet and the other prisoners woke as the gate opened and recognized Mihawk and Gawain.

Gawain visited Impel Down’s sixth level and freed Bullet, whom he wanted to recruit. When Bullet attacked, Gawain used Yomotsu Hirasaka to send him and Mihawk away, then addressed the Red Count and left him to consider what he would say at their next meeting.

• Gawain ordered Domino to cut off the prisoners’ food for a week and said he intended to take one prisoner away.
• Domino warned that freeing a sixth-level prisoner normally required approval, but hinted that Impel Down could quietly lose someone.
• Gawain and Mihawk went to Bullet, and Gawain ordered Domino to remove all his restraints despite Bullet’s threat to kill him.
• Bullet attacked Gawain with Ultimate Horn, but Mihawk intercepted him and Gawain used Yomotsu Hirasaka to transport them away with the shockwave.
• Gawain approached the Red Count, said he might return, and warned him to think about what he would say then.

The narrator’s rhinitis had worsened as spring turned to summer, bringing sore, itchy eyes, so they took the day off.

• The narrator’s rhinitis got worse as spring turned to summer.
• The narrator developed sore, itchy eyes.
• The narrator took the day off.

Gawain left Bullet to fight Mihawk on the Red Line while he watched, and Bullet demanded that Gawain prove himself before he would consider joining him. The chapter ended with Gawain reminding Bullet that he was evaluating Bullet as well.

• Gawain sent Kaya back to the Dark Bird Ship, then followed Bullet and Mihawk to their battle on the Red Line.
• Bullet fought Mihawk and demanded to meet Gawain, while Mihawk revealed that Rayleigh had become Gawain's first mate.
• Bullet insulted Mihawk as a Celestial Dragon's dog, and the two fought fiercely, wounding each other.
• Bullet attacked Gawain with an assimilated finger, but Gawain turned his head into lightning and let it pass through.
• Bullet demanded that Gawain fight him, and Gawain replied that he was evaluating Bullet too.

Gawain overwhelmed Bullet with his chakra techniques, then defeated him after Bullet fused with the Red Line and attacked in giant form. Bullet accepted Gawain as his captain, while the woman in black in Mary Geoise realized Gawain’s power could threaten the world order.

• Gawain struck Bullet with thousands of shadow clones and Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, sending him crashing through the Red Line.
• Gawain entered Six Paths Mode, but Bullet fused with the Red Line and rose as an enormous stone giant.
• Gawain summoned the Thousand-Handed Buddha and used Top Transformed Buddha to defeat Bullet, damaging a long stretch of the Red Line.
• The woman in black in Mary Geoise sensed the clash and decided Gawain had become someone she and the world’s rulers must guard against.
• Bullet admitted Gawain was stronger, called him captain, and collapsed; Gawain caught him and told Mihawk that chakra could achieve even more.

Gawain brought Bullet to Reverse Mountain, where Bullet began slaughtering the pirates gathered there as the others chose whether to join the New World campaign. Meanwhile, Aramaki arrived at Marine Headquarters in response to Sakazuki’s summons and reached the training ground, where Sakazuki prepared him for a hard battle.

• Gawain arrived at Reverse Mountain with Bullet, who greeted Rayleigh and learned that the crew was preparing to fight the Three Emperors’ alliance in two days.
• Gawain let Bullet take the Reverse Mountain battlefield alone, and Bullet used his Fruit ability to grow over six thousand meters tall and attack the gathered pirates.
• Crocodile volunteered for the New World campaign, while Doflamingo chose to fight at Reverse Mountain and Ace stayed to guard the area and look after Luffy.
• Shiryu, Crocodile, Isuka, and others left Reverse Mountain with Gawain, while Rayleigh, Ace, and Doflamingo remained behind as Bullet continued fighting.
• Aramaki arrived at Marineford, impressed the Marines with his strength and laziness, and followed Sakazuki’s adjutant to the main training ground.
• Sakazuki greeted Aramaki at the training ground and asked whether he was ready for a hard battle.

Sakazuki brought Aramaki to Dark Bird Base to introduce him to Gawain, warning him to respect Gawain and the Navy admirals. Meanwhile, Gawain departed for the New World after encouraging Luffy to grow stronger, and his sudden arrival at the base left Aramaki sensing countless threats.

• Sakazuki told Aramaki he would not join the Navy and ordered him to serve under Gawain, whom he must respect even more than Sakazuki.
• Ace stopped Luffy from secretly following Gawain's group, and Gawain explained that he and Shanks had to fight over who would lead the next era.
• Gawain and the others left for the New World through a black hole, while Ace took Luffy away to eat and rest.
• Sakazuki and Aramaki reached Dark Bird Base, where Hancock told Sakazuki that Gawain was away at the Reverse Mountain Branch.
• A black hole appeared around Sakazuki and the others, and Aramaki sensed countless threats suddenly surrounding him.

Gawain accepted Aramaki into the Dark Bird Alliance, and Aramaki and Bullet immediately fought, drawing the attention of Whitebeard and Shanks. As the pirate leaders discussed the coming war and Gawain’s changes to the seas, the Big Mom Pirates arrived at the Moby Dick.

• Mihawk and Gion joined Gawain as Sakazuki introduced Aramaki and asked Gawain to take him on as a subordinate.
• Gawain accepted Aramaki into the Dark Bird Alliance, and Aramaki declared Gawain his captain before Sakazuki struck him for his unruly remarks.
• Bullet tried to befriend Aramaki, but Aramaki took offense when Bullet mocked Sakazuki, and the two launched into battle.
• Whitebeard and Shanks sensed Bullet and Aramaki fighting and discussed the coming conflict, the future of piracy, and Gawain’s efforts to make the seas safer.
• The Big Mom Pirates approached the Moby Dick, and Marco told Teach to receive them.

Teach welcomed Big Mom aboard the Moby Dick, where she, Whitebeard, and Shanks discussed the coming war against Gawain’s forces and toasted to the future of pirates. Whitebeard, Big Mom, and Shanks then sailed toward Gawain together, and Kaya reported their approach to him.

• Teach welcomed Big Mom aboard the Moby Dick and invited her to join Whitebeard and Shanks.
• Big Mom joked with Whitebeard and Shanks before explaining that the gathered pirates’ strength gave them an advantage, though the emperors might have to sacrifice themselves in the coming war.
• Whitebeard, Big Mom, and Shanks toasted to the future of pirates and agreed to meet Gawain before the battle.
• Big Mom told Katakuri to prepare their people for war, then joined Whitebeard and Shanks on a small boat.
• Shanks used his Haki to propel the boat toward Gawain’s base, where Kaya warned Gawain that the three Pirate Emperors were approaching.