Chapter Summaries

Gawain met Whitebeard, Shanks, and Big Mom before the coming battle, where Big Mom proposed having his child and their subordinates argued over the spectacle. More pirate legends arrived, including Miss Bakkin and Weevil, as Bakkin claimed Weevil was Whitebeard’s true heir.

• Gawain reassured Gion, then used his Thunder transformation to meet Whitebeard, Shanks, and Big Mom at their boat.
• Big Mom offered to withdraw from the coming battle if Gawain fathered her child, prompting Whitebeard and Shanks to restrain her.
• Gawain mocked the three Emperors, while their crews reacted and Smoothie and Teach argued with Katakuri and Marco.
• Ochoku, Rowan, and Elio arrived among the pirates, and Miss Bakkin complained that the crowd had overlooked her.
• Miss Bakkin brought Weevil forward and declared that he was Whitebeard’s only true heir, dismissing Marco, Jozu, and Teach.

Big Mom, Newgate, and Shanks met with Gawain to discuss the coming war, which was set for the second sunrise. Newgate asked Gawain to make his death end the conflict and warned him to weaken piracy gradually rather than destroy it too quickly.

• Big Mom reflected on her regrets and the demon within her, then challenged Gawain to fight at the sea where they met before the second sunrise.
• Big Mom promised to protect Gawain's wives if he died and asked him to let her children live if she died, then departed.
• Newgate explained that he had delayed the decisive battle for seven and a half months and that pirates opposed Gawain's blockade because it threatened their lives and freedom.
• Newgate asked Gawain to let him die in the battle two days later and to end the war afterward, protecting Newgate's sons from further conflict.
• Newgate warned Gawain that piracy had to be weakened gradually and urged him not to seize its lifeline after breaking its spine.

Gawain explained that he intended to bring the pirates under political control rather than destroy them, while Shanks revealed a plan to use stolen Dyna Stone and a united pirate assault to force Gawain and Mary Geoise into negotiation. The chapter ended with Gawain recognizing the danger of Shanks's leverage and the limits imposed on him by his position within the World Government.

• Gawain told Newgate he wanted to unite the pirates under outside pressure and eventually bring the seas under his control, though he could not wipe out the gathered pirate crews.
• Shanks insisted the pirates could not lose and revealed that his crew and Linlin's had sent a navigator, musician, and mirror-traveling girl to steal Dyna Stone.
• Shanks explained that the pirates would target Gawain together in the coming war, using Dyna Stone as leverage to make Mary Geoise intervene and secure a secret route into the New World.
• Shanks asked Gawain to open a discreet escape route for pirates, arguing that it would reduce pressure and give the sea enough stability for him to pursue Laugh Tale.
• Gawain acknowledged that Dyna Stone could threaten his plans, but reflected that his standing as a rising Celestial Dragon prevented him from claiming or guarding the weapon.

Gawain weighed Newgate’s proposal to join forces with Shanks and use Dyna Stone to destroy Mary Geoise, but rejected it despite its strong chance of success. He insisted he would fight the World Government without relying on pirates, leaving the alliance plan refused.

• Shanks explained that Dyna Stone could destroy an island and revealed why he was delaying Gawain before the battle in two days.
• Newgate proposed that he, Shanks, and Gawain use Dyna Stone and their combined forces to destroy Mary Geoise, then let Gawain control the Grand Line.
• Gawain considered the plan’s strategic advantages and the possibility that eliminating Mary Geoise would let him bring order to the ensuing chaos.
• Newgate urged Gawain not to miss the rare chance to unite their forces and create a peaceful future for the next generation.
• Gawain admitted the plan could succeed but rejected it, saying he would not build the new era with pirates’ help or become dependent on them.

Gawain refused Whitebeard’s plan to join forces against Mary Geoise, while Shanks revealed that his crew had stolen Dyna Stone and that Kuzan would miss the coming battle. Gawain welcomed Aramaki and Bullet to the Dark Bird Ship and kept the battlefield beneath the Red Line, confident that Shanks would not use the weapon recklessly.

• Gawain rejected Whitebeard’s proposal to attack Mary Geoise with the pirates, and Whitebeard and Shanks departed after discussing the coming battle.
• Sakazuki told Gawain that Shanks’s crew had stolen Dyna Stone, forcing Kuzan to guard its production facility and leaving him unavailable for the battle in two days.
• Gawain called Aramaki and Bullet over, learned their fight had ended without a winner, and welcomed both men as new crew members.
• Sakazuki urged Gawain to move the battlefield away from the Red Line because the pirates possessed Dyna Stone, but Gawain refused, saying they could counter it more effectively nearby.
• Gawain told Sakazuki that he hoped Shanks would use Dyna Stone, since a weapon’s threat would disappear once it had been deployed.

As the Dark Bird Alliance and the pirate Emperors prepared for a live-broadcast assault on Mary Geoise, civilians and soldiers around the world anticipated the coming war. The chapter ended with Garp and Tsuru transporting the Marine’s final two batches of recruits to the New World as Shanks’s Red Force approached the surrounded base.

• Capone Family gangsters prepared a viewing hall for the live broadcast of the coming war, learning that three pirate Emperors would attack the Red Line and Mary Geoise.
• Civilians across the Grand Line prayed for Gawain, while people in pirate-ravaged areas cursed both the Dark Bird Ship and the pirates.
• The Marines rushed more than 6.8 million soldiers into New World Base Number One, while the Dark Bird Ship had over 800,000 troops and more than 80,000 pirate ships surrounded the base.
• Garp worried about sending inexperienced Marines into battle and exchanged teasing memories with Vice Admiral Tsuru as they traveled to the New World.
• Tsuru told Garp that Shanks’s Red Force was closing in, while Whitebeard’s Moby Dick had not yet appeared.

Shanks joined the pirate fleet while Whitebeard and Gawain prepared their forces for battle. As the pirates charged, Gawain summoned a colossal Buddha that eclipsed the sun above the Red Line.

• Shanks sailed through the fleet to cheers, and Whitebeard ordered his captains to respect him as a comrade and prepare to fight the Marines.
• Whitebeard learned that Shanks had held up Kuzan, then led Marco, Jozu, Thatch, and Teach to the Moby Dick's bow and raised Murakumogiri.
• Gawain appeared before the assembled Marines with Hancock, Gion, and Stussy, while the Dark Bird Ship soldiers stomped in unison and inspired Bullet.
• Aramaki teased Mihawk about Gion, and Mihawk asked Gawain to hand Aramaki over to him after the battle.
• Gawain called on his forces to charge as Whitebeard rallied the pirates, and both sides surged into battle.
• Gawain used Sage Art: Six Paths: Top Transformed Buddha, summoning a colossal Buddha that blocked the sun and drew the Five Elders' attention.

Gawain’s enormous Top Transformed Buddha attacked the pirates, but Whitebeard tore apart the sea to make it miss, and Shanks led a coordinated assault on Gawain. Shanks outmaneuvered Gawain and tore open his palm with Gryphon, while Charlotte Linlin prepared to strike the tsunami.

• Gawain summoned his Sage Arts- and Six Paths-powered Top Transformed Buddha, terrifying the pirates as its thousand hands came down.
• Whitebeard unleashed Sea Quake, splitting the sea and dropping the Buddha thousands of meters so its attack struck underwater instead of the ships.
• Shanks assigned Big Mom to handle the tsunami, then rushed Gawain with Beckman, Lucky Roux, Yasopp, and Ochoku supporting his plan.
• Shanks used future sight and his unpredictable fighting style to strike Gawain, who transformed into lightning to escape but found Shanks waiting with Gryphon.
• Shanks reclaimed Gryphon and cut through Gawain’s palm with Haki as Charlotte Linlin raised the Emperor’s Sword against the tsunami.

The pirates launched a massive landing assault on Gawain’s defensive line while the Marines and Dark Bird Ship forces fought to hold the coast. In the sky, Gawain struggled against Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates, then teleported far out over the sea to prepare a long-range attack.

• Big Mom split the rising countercurrent, allowing the pirate ships to ride the waves and crash onto Gawain’s land.
• Tokikake raised a wall of shattered rock to stop more than a hundred ships, while Marine vice admirals and rear admirals advanced to contain the pirates’ lower-tier forces.
• Onigumo fought Black Bird Arous and a dozen pirate captains, rejecting Arous’s defense of piracy and fighting desperately to break free of their encirclement.
• The first charge killed more than eight rear admirals, two vice admirals, three Dark Bird Ship officers, and nearly seven thousand defenders along the coast.
• Shanks used future sight to pressure Gawain, while Beckman, Lucky Roux, and Yasopp joined the attack and forced him to evade their strikes.
• Gawain used Yomotsu Hirasaka to teleport away, but another slash drove him farther off; he hovered 120 kilometers away and raised a coin in his hand.

Shanks countered Gawain’s long-range attacks with future sight and struck him as he returned to the battlefield, while both sides sent fighters to support their leaders. Gion, Mihawk, Issho, and Aramaki gathered around Gawain, leaving him ready to begin his fight with Shanks in earnest.

• Shanks explained that Gawain’s disappearance weakened his troops’ morale, then sent Ochoku to hold off Bullet while he prepared to counter Gawain’s next attack.
• Gawain fired an Electromagnetic Cannon from nearly four hundred kilometers away, but Shanks blocked it and ordered Beckman, Yasopp, and Lucky Roux to support Whitebeard, Linlin, and the other fighters.
• Shanks used future sight to strike Gawain with Divine Departure as he returned, sending him plunging toward the sea.
• Linlin attacked Gawain with Ikoku Sovereignty, Whitebeard scattered its waves into Seastone-filled droplets, and Gawain cleared the water and vapor with fire and wind techniques.
• Ochoku struck at Gawain, then Beckman and Yasopp fired on him as Rowan charged; Gawain identified Yasopp’s Observation Haki interference before Gion blocked Rowan’s rapier.
• Mihawk, Issho, and Aramaki joined Gion around Gawain, who declared that Shanks’s time attacking without restraint was over.

The war intensified as Mihawk challenged Shanks and the Marines struggled against the pirates’ overwhelming forces. Garp joined Whitebeard’s battle with Sakazuki, and their attacks collided as Whitebeard fought back at the limit of his strength.

• Mihawk charged toward Shanks with his left hand behind his back, while Zoro watched and waited for his chance to enter the war.
• Millions of pirates overwhelmed the front lines, prompting Sengoku to warn Garp that the Marines would suffer devastating losses and that he might lose his position as Fleet Admiral.
• Garp rejected the World Government’s attempts to make him compromise and launched himself toward Whitebeard and Sakazuki.
• Sengoku ordered Sakazuki to join Borsalino in fighting Charlotte Linlin, and Sakazuki left Whitebeard to face Garp.
• Garp struck Whitebeard with Sea Fall, Whitebeard countered with Airquake, and their clash produced a massive Conqueror’s Haki Emission.
• Whitebeard resisted Garp’s force and answered with Fist Bone Collision as his heart pounded near its limit.

Garp gained the upper hand against Whitebeard, prompting Weevil and Miss Bakkin to enter the battle. Miss Bakkin revealed her past with Whitebeard and claimed Weevil was their son, but Whitebeard insisted their child had died at seven and that the Weevil before him was not their son.

• Garp suppressed Whitebeard's attack and struck him with a knee, while Marines rallied behind Garp and the pirates' morale faltered.
• Miss Bakkin urged Weevil to prove himself, and he charged into Garp and Whitebeard's fight with his naginata.
• Garp knocked Weevil's naginata away, and Whitebeard shielded Weevil and Miss Bakkin before telling them to find safer opponents.
• Whitebeard remembered falling in love with the young Buckingham Stussy, and Miss Bakkin admitted she had loved him and borne his child.
• Miss Bakkin demanded that Whitebeard pass his pirate crew to Weevil, but Whitebeard said their son had died at seven and rejected the present Weevil as their child.

Whitebeard confronted Miss Bakkin about their dead son and the stitched-together Weevil, then threw Weevil into the battle and returned to fight Garp. Across the battlefield, Kizaru and Sakazuki attacked Big Mom while Gawain and Ace sent Zeus and Prometheus into the clash, and Gawain strengthened Zeus with a storm of lightning and Conqueror's Haki.

• Whitebeard remembered that his and Miss Bakkin's son had died at seven, and told her not to treat Weevil as a tool or expect the Whitebeard Pirates to survive his death.
• Whitebeard hurled Weevil away and attacked Garp, while Weevil praised his father's strength and began rampaging until Yamato challenged him.
• Kizaru unleashed Yasakani no Magatama as Sakazuki interrupted Big Mom with Meigo, and Big Mom sent Hera and Pronoa to block the light swords.
• Gawain ordered Zeus to confront Hera, while Ace urged Prometheus to fight Pronoa and sent him toward Zeus instead.
• Gawain kicked Beckman away and filled the sky with lightning and Conqueror's Haki, empowering Zeus for his fight against Hera.

Zeus and Hera fought over lightning while Prometheus occupied Pronos, giving Borsalino a chance to devastate the pirate ranks with Yasakani no Magatama. Rowan confronted Borsalino and explained why he had returned to battle, leaving the two poised to fight over the pirates’ cause and the people’s safety.

• Zeus mocked Hera, then fed her Rumble-Rumble Fruit lightning until the two began sharing it instead of fighting.
• Prometheus was overwhelmed by Pronos but kept her occupied while Borsalino unleashed Yasakani no Magatama, disabling more than forty thousand pirates.
• Rowan rushed Borsalino, who questioned why the retired Roger Pirate had returned to battle and challenged the value of his sacrifice.
• Rowan said he had come to reclaim his youth, contribute to the pirate cause, and help the people with potential hidden among pirates.
• Borsalino removed his sunglasses and argued that ordinary people needed safety more than freedom, setting up his confrontation with Rowan.

Rowan and Borsalino argued over freedom and order, then resumed fighting as Borsalino revealed his plan to back someone he had chosen for the world’s highest position. Borsalino used his light abilities to attack pirates across the battlefield, leaving Rowan facing him while hundreds of thousands of pirates were thrown back.

• Rowan told Borsalino that Navy corruption and injustice had driven him to seek freedom after a lieutenant colonel framed him over a white tiger.
• Borsalino explained that pirates had killed his family and argued that Marine institutions restrained wrongdoing more reliably than pirate freedom.
• Borsalino declared that he would stake everything on the person he had chosen and defeated Rowan’s defense with a gigantic light sword.
• Borsalino used Yata Mirror to move through reflected light and strike nearly eight hundred thousand pirates across a thirty-kilometer area.
• Borsalino struck the pirates again, causing nearly one-tenth of them to cough up blood, while he continued facing Rowan.

Borsalino used the Yata Mirror to land millions of punches, knocking hundreds of thousands of pirates out of his sector before turning to restraining Rowan and Izo. Shanks’s plan kept Gawain occupied while Sakazuki and Big Mom fought to a stalemate, and the chapter ended as Sakazuki considered which monsters ranked just below Whitebeard, Garp, and Red Count.

• Borsalino used the Yata Mirror three times to strike nearly 2.4 million punches and put hundreds of thousands of pirates down.
• Borsalino stopped his large-scale attack and used his speed to restrain Rowan and Izo.
• Shanks watched possible futures and kept Gawain tied down with Beckman and Yasopp so Gawain could not support the Marines across the battlefield.
• Sakazuki caught Big Mom’s Emperor’s Sword and held her to a stalemate as they both regretted not having more strength available.
• Sakazuki ranked Rocks above Whitebeard, Garp, and Red Count, then wondered who came closest to those three.

Sakazuki fought Big Mom, awakened his Devil Fruit, and turned the battlefield around them into a field of magma. After Big Mom recalled the God’s Knights and mocked the Navy casualties, Sakazuki tried to rally the surviving Marines by claiming the dead had been unworthy, leaving his forces’ morale uncertain.

• The narrator ranked Kong among the strongest fighters and described the other powerhouses beneath Garp and his peers, including Sakazuki and Monkey D. Dragon.
• Big Mom noticed Sakazuki’s dissatisfaction, challenged him, and unleashed Ikoku Sovereignty.
• Sakazuki countered Big Mom’s attack, awakened his Devil Fruit, and spread magma across the battlefield, killing or injuring nearby Navy soldiers.
• Big Mom summoned Hera and Pronos, then recalled how eight God’s Knights had attacked her, Whitebeard, Wang Zhi, John, and Kaido around the time Rocks died.
• Sakazuki realized his awakening had devastated Borsalino’s nearby troops and attempted to restore morale by calling the dead Marines unworthy and the survivors elites.

Sakazuki and Big Mom unleashed powerful attacks that locked them into a battle no one else could interrupt, while Ace confronted Teach over the heavy losses Teach had caused. Their Devil Fruit powers collided and divided the battlefield into darkness and flame, as Beckman predicted Ace would lose and Gawain continued fighting Yasopp.

• Sakazuki dismissed the Marines killed by his awakening and charged Big Mom with magma dogs and Armament Haki-coated fists.
• Big Mom used Hera and Pronos to counter Sakazuki, then attacked him with Mother's Blade Flame as he answered with Great Eruption, leaving them locked in battle.
• Ace told Teach that their shared godfathers connected them, then revealed his anger over the casualties among his men.
• Teach swallowed Ace's flames with the Yami Yami no Mi, taunted him about his heritage and allegiance, and met Ace's Flame Emperor with Dark Hole.
• Ace's flames and Teach's darkness collided, forming a divided battlefield that no one could enter.
• Gawain evaded Yasopp's attack and threw him away while Beckman observed the clash between Ace and Teach and said Ace would lose.

Gawain defended his plan to eliminate piracy and impose his vision of fairness, while Shanks argued that Gawain’s hierarchy could never create true equality. After Shanks saved Beckman from Gawain’s lightning projectile, the two continued their ideological confrontation as they prepared to fight.

• Gawain told Beckman he would not use piracy as a tool and insisted that he was right to pursue absolute fairness, even at the cost of allies and advantages.
• Gawain launched a lightning-wrapped projectile at Beckman, whose Observation Haki warned him that the attack could kill him if he took it directly.
• Yasopp fired at Gawain, and Shanks rushed in to intercept the projectile with Griffin, suffering bleeding hands before being thrown more than two hundred meters back.
• Shanks acknowledged Gawain’s attack but challenged his belief that a world ruled by him could be fair, arguing that hierarchy and dependence on one ruler would reproduce injustice.
• Shanks argued that a new future should give people possibilities they had never had before, even if that future harmed the present age.

Gawain used a metal bell and a Wood Release Buddha to unleash a devastating sound-wave attack, which Whitebeard countered with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit at great physical cost. As Whitebeard weakened, Marco and Thatch resolved to follow Teach’s plan to force him off the battlefield, while Gawain prepared another attack against Shanks.

• Gawain stripped weapons and metal belongings from more than a million pirates, then formed a giant metal bell and sent the Wood Release Buddha’s thousand hands to strike it.
• Whitebeard intercepted the bell’s sound waves with a vibration field, bleeding from his eyes and nose as he struggled to contain the attack.
• Teach watched Whitebeard and hoped his father would survive long enough for Teach to grow powerful and take over the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Marco told Thatch to coordinate with Jozu and Teach, and the brothers agreed to take serious injuries so Whitebeard would withdraw from the battle.
• Gawain praised Whitebeard for blocking the sound waves, then launched Sage Art: Magnet Release: Fake Planetary Devastation at Shanks, who raised all his Haki.