Chapter Summaries

Gawain used Planetary Devastation to pursue and trap Shanks, who escaped by revealing a power that let him move through the air. On a distant island, Shanks disclosed that he had eaten the Figarland Family’s Mythical Zoan, the Cat-Cat Fruit, Mythical Zoan: Griffin Griffin, leaving Gawain wondering whether the Celestial Dragons possessed many other Mythical Zoan fruits.

• Gawain used lightning-guided Mantra to lock onto Shanks and unleashed Planetary Devastation, drawing earth, metal, and seawater toward him.
• Shanks’s future sight failed to find an escape as he fought the gathering material, and he suspected that Gawain’s lightning was tracking him.
• Shanks suddenly appeared before Gawain and demanded that he dispel the attack before they talked; Gawain instead released a massive wave of debris toward the battlefield.
• Gawain traveled to a primitive island more than a thousand kilometers away, but Shanks followed him through the air.
• Shanks spread wings from his back and revealed that he was a Devil Fruit user from the Figarland Family, wielding the Cat-Cat Fruit, Mythical Zoan: Griffin Griffin.
• Gawain wondered whether the Celestial Dragons, including the Five Elders and Imu, held the world’s other Mythical Zoan fruits.

Gawain learned from Shanks about Mary Geoise’s hidden powers, Imu’s connection to Nefertari D. Lily, and the true strength of God’s Knights. Despite Shanks warning that their forces could not defeat Mary Geoise, Gawain refused to change course, and they agreed to let their forces fight by the rules while sparing the pirates who might later oppose God’s Knights.

• Shanks explained the traditions of the Celestial Dragon families and revealed that Nefertari D. Lily had been part of the Nefertari Family.
• Shanks disclosed that Imu possessed the Mythical Zoan Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Nidhogg Form, and that his father commanded God’s Knights.
• Shanks told Gawain that Mary Geoise’s true strength lay with the Five Elders and God’s Knights, and urged him to preserve his powerful allies rather than pursue victory in their current war.
• Gawain rejected Shanks’s warning and asked him to honor their agreement by letting the Marines, Gawain’s subordinates, and the pirates fight without outside-the-rules tricks.
• Shanks agreed to stop using such tricks and asked Gawain not to hunt down the pirates, saying they could become a force against God’s Knights.

Gawain rejected Shanks’s belief that pirates could build a better future, but they reaffirmed their pact and agreed to let the battle decide their contest. Back on the battlefield, Shanks helped the pirate forces recover from Gawain’s meteor attack while Gawain surveyed the fight and considered turning his lack of an opponent into a display of strength.

• Gawain argued that he would not let pirates earn absolution through battlefield merit and insisted that even his own subordinates would answer for their crimes.
• Gawain and Shanks confirmed their pact: Shanks would put down the Dyna Stone, Gawain would not pursue pirates on a massive scale if they lost, and their remaining pacts would be saved for a future confrontation with the God's Knights and Imu.
• Gawain returned to the battlefield as Shanks drew Griffin and forced Sakazuki to stop pressuring Big Mom.
• The pirates struggled to stop Gawain's Heavenly Obstacle Quaking Star from crushing their fleet, and Whitebeard, Big Mom, Ochoku, and other fighters expended major effort breaking it apart.
• Shanks rushed between the battlefields to help the pirate powerhouses, while Gawain found himself without a suitable opponent and considered using the battle as training before facing Mary Geoise.
• Stussy filmed the clash between Garp and Whitebeard, prompting Marine and pirate supporters watching the broadcast to argue over which fighter was stronger.

Gawain sat down on the battlefield, drawing pirates away from the Red Line and toward himself. Teach attacked him but was stopped by Yamato and Borsalino before Sengoku crushed Teach beneath his Buddha Impact, prompting Whitebeard and Marco’s group to react.

• Gawain watched the battle from a chair, and his apparent exhaustion drew charging pirates away from the Red Line and toward him.
• Teach defeated Ace, then abandoned him to attack Gawain with Dark Water and Dark Hole.
• Yamato intercepted Teach’s Dark Water, and Borsalino arrived and fired Yasakani no Magatama at him.
• Sengoku transformed into his giant Buddha form and struck Teach with Buddha Impact, pinning him to the ground and breaking his bones.
• Whitebeard looked toward Teach in alarm, while Marco and the others realized Teach had carried out their planned injury act himself.

Whitebeard’s sons risked themselves to get Teach away from Sengoku and Borsalino, while Garp kept Whitebeard pinned down. To make a path for his sons, Whitebeard struck the Red Line with a massive quake, shaking Mary Geoise and drawing the attention of a man in Sabaody Castle.

• Whitebeard tried to reach Teach but Garp overpowered him, while Marco, Thatch, and Jozu intervened against Sengoku and Borsalino.
• Marco urged Teach to flee to Whitebeard, and Teach watched his brothers fight to protect him despite their overwhelming enemies.
• Borsalino battered Marco and Thatch, but they clung to him while Izo used his guns to help clear Teach’s escape route.
• Whitebeard endured Garp’s attack and unleashed Maximum Scale: Land Quake against the Red Line to create a chance for his sons to escape.
• Gawain noticed the quake and turned his attention toward Mary Geoise, where a seated man in Sabaody Castle remarked that the war had reached them.

Whitebeard fought Garp while trying to protect Teach and shake the Red Line, then acknowledged Weevil as his son and sent him to safety with Teach. As Weevil’s strength shocked Kizaru and Teach remembered the Whitebeard Pirates’ love for him, Teach awakened Conqueror’s Haki despite supposedly not possessing it.

• Whitebeard struck the Red Line with another Land Quake, but Garp broke through his defense and sent him flying as he tried to catch Teach.
• Weevil rose to defend Whitebeard from Garp, but Garp knocked him down twice, stirring Whitebeard’s grief and resolve.
• Whitebeard caught the injured Teach, acknowledged Weevil as his son, and sent Weevil to take Teach back to the Moby Dick.
• Kizaru attacked Whitebeard and pursued Weevil, but Weevil’s enormous strength sent Kizaru flying when he tried to stop him.
• Teach watched Whitebeard struggle against Garp and recalled his father and crewmates’ words before unleashing Conqueror’s Haki.

Teach awakened Conqueror's Haki and attacked Kizaru, but Kizaru overwhelmed him with speed and Armament Haki. As Smoothie returned Murakumogiri to Whitebeard and Katakuri moved to fight Kizaru, Whitebeard faced Garp again and launched a powerful strike.

• Teach spread his darkness and challenged Kizaru, whose lasers vanished when they met the shadows.
• Kizaru identified how Teach's darkness worked, then battered him with a series of lightning-fast kicks reinforced by Armament Haki.
• Garp explained to Whitebeard why Haki surpassed Devil Fruit powers and taunted him about his sons.
• Smoothie returned Murakumogiri to Whitebeard and announced that her crew would take the vanguard, while Katakuri left to confront Kizaru.
• Katakuri had defeated Doflamingo and charged toward Kizaru, while Smoothie ran back to face Hancock.
• Whitebeard thanked Garp for allowing Smoothie to return his weapon, then attacked Garp with Murakumogiri coated in Conqueror's Haki and Ryuo.

Gawain took over the fight against Whitebeard after Garp withdrew, and Whitebeard reflected on his long-held regret that he had never fought Garp in their primes. Whitebeard asked Gawain to defeat him and carry his ideals into a peaceful, unified age.

• Smoothie and Hancock resumed their fight, and Stussy gave them a separate Den Den Mushi broadcast that drew a surge of viewers.
• Gawain charged into the clash between Whitebeard and Garp and asked Garp to leave Whitebeard to him.
• Garp withdrew after Gawain said their goal was victory, while Whitebeard recalled his battles with Rocks, Redfield, Roger, and Sengoku and regretted never facing peak Garp.
• Whitebeard told Gawain to defeat him, take his title and life as support for a peaceful age, and keep his name from leading children astray.

Gelinggu overcame Figarland’s objections and ordered the God's Knights to covertly seize Gawain and Whitebeard during their battle. A mysterious force then transported both fighters away, leaving their followers furious and alarmed.

• Gawain and Whitebeard clashed with Haki and weapons as they prepared to continue their fight.
• Gelinggu insisted that Gawain be summoned for judgment, while Figarland warned that Gawain would resist and challenged Gelinggu’s authority.
• Gelinggu persuaded the knights to secretly transfer Gawain and Whitebeard to Mary Geoise without invoking the God's Knights’ name.
• An invisible force and fragrant haze seized Gawain and Whitebeard, transporting them to a flower-filled place.
• Gawain’s subordinates and Whitebeard’s sons went into a frenzy when the two fighters vanished from the battlefield.

Gawain and Whitebeard were taken to Mary Geoise and confronted by Gelinggu and God's Knights, who planned to punish them. Just as Gawain prepared to escape, the Five Elders arrived and challenged the knights' authority over his arrest and trial.

• Gawain and Whitebeard realized they had been transported to Mary Geoise, and Whitebeard recalled God's Knights attacking the Rocks Pirates at God Valley.
• Gelinggu appeared, accused them of grave crimes, and revealed a Seastone floor that weakened them as his men moved to seize Whitebeard and the knights advanced on Gawain.
• Whitebeard fought off the black-clad men with his strength and Haki while urging Gawain to protect his surviving sons if he died.
• Gawain rejected Gelinggu's demand to submit and prepared to use Yomotsu Hirasaka, but stopped after sensing familiar presences.
• The Five Elders entered the Autumn Moon Chamber, released their Conqueror's Haki, and accused Gelinggu of acting discourteously by arresting Gawain without consulting them.
• Gelinggu refused to yield, insisting that the trial and execution belonged to God's Knights rather than the Five Elders.

Gelinggu and the Five Elders clashed over Gawain’s judgment, but the Elders revealed that a higher authority wanted to meet Gawain and arranged to take him away. Gawain refused to leave Whitebeard behind, persuaded him to play the role of a loyal subordinate, and prepared to leave with him.

• Gelinggu and the God's Knights unleashed their Conqueror's Haki against the Five Elders, and Saint Shepherd Ju Peter transformed into Minotauros to fight Gelinggu in his Lycaon form.
• Marcus Mars proposed that Gelinggu judge Whitebeard instead of Gawain, then revealed that a higher authority wanted to meet Gawain and that Gelinggu had again been manipulated into opposing that authority's wishes.
• Gawain told the Five Elders that Whitebeard was his subordinate and had helped gather the New World's pirates, while Murakumogiri knocked away the Cipher Pol agents holding Whitebeard and carried him to Gawain.
• Gawain secretly urged Whitebeard to cooperate so his sons would not be left grieving over his unexplained disappearance, and Whitebeard knelt before Gawain while pretending to praise him.

Gawain secured Whitebeard’s temporary pledge as his subordinate before leaving Mary Geoise with the Five Elders, while Garling let them go because Imu wanted to meet Gawain. With Gawain and Whitebeard suddenly absent from the battlefield, Shanks rallied the pirates into three offensives against Dark Bird Base, and Gion and Hancock prepared to fight back.

• Gawain told Whitebeard to rise and keep their alliance secret outside the Autumn Moon Chamber, and Whitebeard moved behind him.
• Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro dismissed Garling’s objections and escorted Gawain and Whitebeard away, while Garling told Bartos that Imu had summoned Gawain.
• Gawain and Whitebeard vanished from the battlefield, leaving Gion to question her allies as the fighting stalled and Mihawk withdrew from the pirates surrounding him.
• Shanks rallied the pirates, splitting them into three forces led by himself, Charlotte Linlin, and Blackbeard to attack Dark Bird Base and advance toward Mary Geoise.
• Hancock urged Gion to stop the battle and kill the pirates as the renewed assault began.

Gawain met Imu in the Flower Room, where she stopped him and the Five Elders from kneeling and dismissed the elders so she could speak with him alone. After testing Gawain and showing him a mysterious flame, Imu said he was fortunate that it had vanished before she decided to extinguish it.

• Nusjuro sent Whitebeard away, while Saturn warned Gawain to show Imu respect and Ju Peter explained that the Five Elders would kneel before her.
• Gawain followed the Five Elders to the Flower Room, where they knelt and he began to do the same.
• Imu stopped them, sent the Five Elders away, and kept Gawain with her.
• Imu teased Gawain for looking at her from behind, then called him uninteresting for being neither fully respectful nor presumptuous.
• Imu invited Gawain to watch what she would show him, but the flame that appeared in his eyes faded on its own, and Imu said he was fortunate.

Imu examined Gawain and decided he was not a threat to extinguish, while warning him away from learning about a mysterious tree. Gawain rejoined Whitebeard and prepared to return to the battlefield, but Gelinggu blocked their exit to buy Shanks more time.

• Imu touched Gawain's head, told him she would tolerate his ambitions as long as he did not promote freedom or equality, and ordered him to leave when he asked about the tree.
• The Five Elders greeted Gawain outside the Flower Room and competed to persuade him to challenge one of them for a position among them.
• Whitebeard joked with Gawain in the lounge, and Gawain told a maid not to cater to his preferences beyond avoiding kneeling rituals.
• Whitebeard urged Gawain to return to the battlefield, warning that Gawain's subordinates might kill many of his sons if they stayed away too long.
• Gelinggu entered the lounge, pressed his sheathed sword against Whitebeard's thigh, and refused to let Whitebeard leave so Shanks could gain more time.

Gawain used his clones to evade Gelinggu and returned to his castle with Whitebeard, while Imu heard the clones’ crude remarks and resolved to treat Gawain as a potential threat. Gawain proposed sharing a drink before they returned to the battlefield, where he intended to decide who lived and died.

• Gawain created hundreds of convincing clones of himself and Whitebeard, leaving Gelinggu unable to distinguish them or safely stop them.
• Imu overheard the clones’ lewd comments and concluded that Gawain might become one of the lights she would need to extinguish.
• Gawain and Whitebeard reached Gawain’s castle, where the guards recognized him by his Rumble-Rumble Fruit power and eagerly praised his support for freeing slaves.
• Whitebeard worried about his sons and reflected on how Gawain’s disappearance had affected the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Gawain told Whitebeard the battlefield could wait and invited him to share a drink before they returned to decide who lived and died.

Gawain and Whitebeard returned to the battlefield after secretly leaving Mary Geoise, where Gawain’s Shadow Clones had caused chaos among the Celestial Dragons. Their return reignited the battle and left Gawain challenging Whitebeard to a fight to the death.

• Gawain discovered that his Shadow Clones had been drinking and molesting women in Mary Geoise, then dispelled them and fled with Whitebeard.
• Shalria and other female Celestial Dragons gathered at Gawain’s home and recounted how his clones had accosted them.
• Above the clouds, Gawain and Whitebeard shared wine and agreed to conceal why they had disappeared before returning to battle.
• Gawain and Whitebeard clashed their weapons and Haki, then Gawain used Yomotsu Hirasaka to bring them back above the battlefield.
• Shanks welcomed Whitebeard’s return as he fought Kuma and Mihawk, while Gawain and Whitebeard drew the attention of both armies and the broadcast audience.
• Gawain declared that one of them had to die and challenged Whitebeard over who would remain the strongest in the world.

Shanks tried to stop Gawain and Whitebeard from fighting, but Whitebeard insisted that their battle could save many lives, and the two began a fierce duel aboard the Moby Dick. Meanwhile, Shyarly worried over a peaceful future in which many powerful figures had vanished, while Imu learned that Gawain had created a new power system and considered why he was not a light that needed to be extinguished.

• Shanks urged his crew to stop Gawain, but Whitebeard blocked him and threw him aside, insisting that his battle with Gawain could prevent many deaths.
• Shanks called off his crew, and Whitebeard and Gawain clashed before landing on the Moby Dick and continuing their fight.
• Madame Shyarly watched the broadcast and worried that her vision of Gawain's peaceful future showed none of the powerful figures she knew.
• The Five Elders told Imu that Gawain had escaped Gelinggu and displayed a unique power unlike Haki or any recorded method of controlling physical strength.
• Imu acknowledged the danger of Gawain's new power but concluded that his body could not carry the world's spirit of resistance without the help of his Fruit ability.

After two days of fighting, Gawain and Whitebeard ended their battle as both sides were left exhausted and the battlefield was filled with dead and wounded. Garp was missing after being beaten into the sea, Ochoku had been killed, and the chapter left the war’s outcome resting on the surviving monsters.

• Gawain and Whitebeard fought for two days, while the surrounding forces left them space and the battle’s devastation sent seawater crashing against the coast.
• Smoothie defeated Hancock, then beat Ace before Kizaru rescued him; Garp later fought Big Mom, Shanks, Ochoku, and Yasopp before falling into the sea.
• Katakuri killed Gecko Moria, and Bon Kurei died saving Crocodile from Jozu and Cracker; Kuma arrived to help Crocodile escape.
• Yasopp killed Reiju and numerous Marine officers, while the Whitebeard Pirates lost Thatch, Izo, Vista, and most of their commanders and crew.
• Kizaru killed Ochoku, while Garp remained missing but was believed to be alive; Gawain and Whitebeard finally ran out of strength for large-scale attacks.

Dwayne died after fighting for two days and two nights, as the Marines and Dark Bird soldiers suffered catastrophic losses against the pirates. The chapter revealed that Shanks sought to ignite resistance among New World pirates, while Gawain sought public sympathy for the Marines and the Dark Bird Ship; with the Marine lines near collapse, the outcome remained uncertain.

• Dwayne remembered joining the Marines to avenge his family, then died exhausted after killing nearly twenty pirates.
• The narrator described how the Marines’ shared uniforms and comrades’ deaths bound them together, while successive pirate crews kept rushing into battle.
• Shanks had started the war to inspire resistance among New World pirates and build support for their future, even if the current forces lost.
• Gawain sought sympathy and support from people across the world for the Marines and the Dark Bird Ship.
• Sakazuki had killed nearly six million Marines while trying to stop desertions, but with losses near seventy percent, he could no longer force the soldiers to hold.

Sakazuki and Sengoku coordinated an attempt to kill Big Mom before the exhausted Marines collapsed, while Aramaki fought to keep Katakuri and Smoothie from reaching her. Big Mom broke free to save her children and charged Aramaki, who attacked her with Haki-coated wooden spikes.

• Big Mom hurled Hera’s flames at Sakazuki, but he seized and dispersed them before declaring he would use her death to rally the Marines.
• Sakazuki restrained Big Mom and called Sengoku to help; Sengoku switched places with Issho, who took on Beckman and the Roger Pirates’ navigator.
• Kuma fought Beckman after rejecting his accusation that Kuma served the World Government out of gratitude, while Jinbe sent the defeated Oven into the sea.
• Sengoku broke Big Mom’s arms, and Aramaki bound and drained Katakuri and Smoothie as they tried to reach her.
• Driven by thoughts of her children, Big Mom tore her arms free, broke Sengoku’s hold, and charged to rescue Katakuri and Smoothie.
• Aramaki released Katakuri and Smoothie, then attacked Big Mom with Haki-coated wooden spikes, vowing to kill her despite any condemnation.