Chapter Summaries

Gawain, Eto, and Arima Kishou confronted the CCG, where Eto attacked Washuu Kichimasa and Arima revealed the Washuu Clan’s secrets. The battle intensified as masked fighters emerged, and Arima called out Furuta Nimura.

• Kirishima Ayato questioned Yoshimura Kuzen’s plan to expand into neighboring wards, but Kuzen ordered him to obey as Anteiku and Aogiri Tree moved outward.
• Eto revealed herself as the One-Eyed Owl, apologized to the CCG, and then attacked Washuu Kichimasa while Arima Kishou blocked the investigators and Gawain immobilized most of them.
• Arima Kishou told the investigators he was a half-human and the first One-Eyed King, revealed that Yoshimura Kuzen and Eto were Washuu branch-family members, and declared that the Washuu Clan’s leaders were powerful ghouls.
• Washuu Kichimasa knocked Eto back, and more than a dozen masked fighters emerged from CCG headquarters to join the battle.
• Arima Kishou drove back Itsuki Marude and called out Furuta Nimura.

Furuta Nimura killed Washuu Kichimasa and submitted to Gawain, preserving the Washuu Clan’s secrets while offering Gawain a path to rule Tokyo with less human resistance. The Jokers revealed themselves and knelt before Gawain, forming an alliance with him.

• Furuta Nimura charged toward Washuu Kichimasa, then stabbed him and severed his head instead of helping him escape.
• Furuta Nimura carried Washuu Kichimasa’s head to Gawain, knelt, and explained why the Washuu Clan’s secrets should remain hidden.
• Gawain accepted Furuta Nimura’s approach and signaled Arima Kishou and Eto to lower their weapons.
• Furuta Nimura declared that destroying the Washuu main house had fulfilled Joker’s goal and pledged allegiance to Gawain.
• Uta, Itori, Nico, and Roma removed their masks and knelt with Furuta Nimura before Gawain.

Gawain dismantled the Washuu Clan’s defenses and confronted Tsuneyoshi Washuu at the clan’s main house. The Jokers left CCG under Furuta Nimura’s leadership, while Gawain carried Tsuneyoshi away, curious about the forces the old man had been waiting for.

• Gawain handed CCG’s future to Iwao Kuroiwa, Itsuki Marude, and the other investigators, then left with Arima and Eto.
• Furuta Nimura told the Jokers that Washuu Kichimasa’s death had bought them time, and led them toward Anteiku to join the group forming around Anteiku and Aogiri Tree.
• Arima warned Gawain about Furuta Nimura, and Eto explained how Uta’s mask-making had given the Jokers knowledge of many ghouls’ identities.
• At the Washuu main house, Washuu Masataka and three other Washuus attacked Arima and Eto, while Gawain killed Washuu Masataka with a single blow.
• Gawain entered the courtyard, confronted Tsuneyoshi Washuu, and seized him despite Tsuneyoshi’s attempt to stall for time.

Gawain defeated Washuu Tsuneyoshi, who killed himself, and the remaining Washuu Clan members followed suit. As Arima and Eto prepared for the Self-Defense Force’s arrival, Gawain went to face an approaching American aircraft carrier and its powerful occupants.

• Washuu Tsuneyoshi killed himself after reflecting on his clan’s history, and the other Washuu Clan members—including Washuu Kiyoura—also chose death.
• Eto returned to her human form, accepted Gawain’s coat, and joined him as he explained that the Washuu Clan had died to preserve Japan’s resolve and had summoned foreign support.
• Gawain left to meet a challenger at sea, while Arima and Eto realized an American aircraft carrier was approaching and went to confront the Self-Defense Force.
• Eto took a 918 from the Washuu estate, and Arima chose a Rolls-Royce before they headed out.
• An American carrier launched fighter jets as its occupants discussed Gawain; the tattooed bald Han asked to go home and feed his cat.

Gawain overwhelmed the American super ghouls aboard an aircraft carrier and demanded that the United States test his limits. After splitting the carrier and the sea with a sword strike, he faced a tsunami bearing down on the coastline and raised his hand to stop it.

• Gawain seized the four super ghouls, killed the captain and Hill, maimed the priest, and spared the bald man so he could carry Gawain’s challenge to the American leaders.
• Gawain told the bald man to protect his cats and warned that the aircraft carrier would be the stakes in a test of his strength; the bald man fled by boat with the cats, while the priest recorded the events.
• Arima and Eto led the ghouls through the Self-Defense Forces’ blockade as Gawain transformed into an Azure Dragon and then returned to human form beside them.
• Gawain’s delayed sword energy split the thunderclouds, aircraft carrier, and sea, triggering a massive tsunami that raced toward the coastline.
• Furuta Nimura and the clowns arrived to witness the disaster, while Whitebeard urged Gawain to use his quake power; Gawain raised his hand and called out, “Quake Shock!!!”

Gawain demonstrated the Tremor-Tremor Fruit’s power by shattering the air and raising a second, far larger tsunami, then recruited the bald cat-loving ghoul and confronted American officials. The chapter left Gawain inside the White House conference room, where the Secretary of Defense had knelt before him.

• Gawain struck the air, sending vibrations through the sea that divided it into enormous cubes and raised a tsunami nearly three hundred meters high.
• Whitebeard asked Hina and the others to persuade Gawain to protect people across the ocean from the destruction, and Hina wondered whether Kaido’s chains might come for her too.
• The bald strongman escaped the tsunami by carrying his boat ashore in Kakuja form, and Gawain recruited him to help communicate with people in America.
• America’s president privately panicked over Gawain’s power and criticized the intelligence agencies after finding almost no record of Gawain before the past two days.
• Gawain confronted American officials by video call, then followed the communications signals to appear instantly in their White House conference room.
• The Secretary of Defense knelt before Gawain while keeping his back and neck straight.

Gawain intimidated American leaders at the White House and invited them to test every weapon they had against him in three days. The Americans chose the Sahara Desert as the site, while Gawain remained in Japan and the Emperor continued overseeing the demolition of Yasukuni Shrine.

• Gawain forced the American officials to end their call with Japan and take him seriously after demonstrating his power to appear at the White House.
• Gawain told the American leaders not to threaten the people around him and challenged them to attack him with their strongest weapons in three days.
• Gawain vanished from the White House, then reconnected the officials to Japan and told them to relay their chosen location through Issho Koinu.
• The American leaders debated Gawain's motives and agreed to prepare their weapons for the challenge.
• The Emperor informed Gawain that America had selected the center of the Sahara Desert for Thursday's test, then returned to supervising the demolition of Yasukuni Shrine.

Gawain organized Tokyo’s ghoul and human leadership while preparing to face America’s weapons in the Sahara. As the United States began its attack, Gawain sat calmly in the desert, leaving Kaido and the other observers wondering what destructive weapons this world possessed.

• Gawain ordered Furuta Nimura to manage Tokyo’s political transition and assigned Eto and Arima Kishou to oversee ghoul and human forces.
• Gawain told Suzuya Juuzou he would train him at Mount Fuji, and directed Eto to take responsibility for hospitals and funeral homes.
• Gawain planned to visit the Emperor’s cabinet with the children and authorized private reports about people who deserved punishment.
• Three days later, the President and American officials prepared seventeen nuclear weapons, orbital weapons, and experimental plasma weapons to attack Gawain in the Sahara.
• Gawain traveled to the Sahara, reassured Yoshimura Kuzen that he could leave if necessary, and sat down to eat steak as America watched.
• Kaido explained that Gawain had activated his electromagnetic field, then wondered why such a weak world needed such dangerous weapons.

Whitebeard and Kaido debated whether human greed and the pursuit of power made lasting peace impossible while Gawain prepared to test himself against nuclear weapons. After surviving their explosions by transforming into plasma and lightning, Gawain faced the United States’ next weapon, an orbital strike.

• Whitebeard argued that destructive weapons came from greed, and Kaido admitted that even he sought greater power and could understand how people became corrupted by authority.
• In the Sahara, Gawain finished his meal and signaled that he was ready; the President and generals interpreted his gesture as approval to proceed.
• The President launched multiple nuclear missiles at Gawain, who waited calmly and further strengthened his Conqueror’s Haki.
• Gawain struck the first missile with Shusui, then transformed himself and his sword into plasma and lightning to withstand the nuclear heat and radiation.
• The White House officials believed Gawain had endured the blasts unharmed, and the President activated an orbital weapon.
• Gawain looked up at the approaching metal rod and anticipated its impact, comparing it to Garp’s fist.

Gawain abandoned his attempt to unify the Tokyo Ghoul world, left it under an imperfect automated system, and returned to managing the wider world from the Dark Bird Ship. Dragon confronted Sabo about the system’s lethal mistakes and asked him to join a rebellion against Gawain’s rule.

• Gawain blocked more than seven hundred orbital laser strikes, prompting the American president to announce friendly relations with him.
• Over eleven months, Gawain trained Suzuya Juuzou, Hinami Fueguchi, Touka Kirishima, and other students, then recruited talents and left Tokyo Ghoul in the hands of Arima Kishou, Eto Yoshimura, and his appointees.
• Gawain disappeared from public view and used an auxiliary brain to govern the world, but its excessive corrections caused deadly misjudgments and growing resentment.
• Sabo secretly met Dragon at Reverse Mountain, where Dragon used the Silence-Silence Fruit to conceal their conversation from Gawain.
• Dragon described how lightning killed two Revolutionary Army soldiers over a drunken market dispute and condemned Gawain’s unchecked authority.
• Dragon declared that he would resist Gawain and asked Sabo whether he would join him or report him.

After a year away from active rule, Gawain awoke aboard the Dark Bird Ship and heard his companions debate how to govern Japan and whether to attack the New World. He returned to action, quelled worldwide crimes through lightning avatars, and appeared before Issho as the Marine and Alliance factions awaited his direction.

• Whitebeard, Tokikake, Hina, and Kaido discussed the difficulty of governing Japan, while Whitebeard argued that Gawain should inherit the World Government rather than destroy it.
• Gawain surveyed the Dark Bird Ship and learned through Issho’s thoughts that the Marines and Dark Bird Alliance had divided into hawks favoring an assault on the New World and doves favoring caution.
• Gawain left the Golden Throne and was flooded with information, including reports of more than eight hundred criminal incidents.
• Gawain sent lightning avatars across the world to handle crimes, then traveled to the Sabaody Archipelago to meet Issho.
• Issho knelt before Gawain and welcomed his return from the throne.

After awakening, Gawain called a meeting with the world’s powerful figures and learned that Sakazuki and Kuzan were clashing over the Navy’s future and the Fleet Admiral position. The two admirals arrived together and immediately argued over whether the Navy should attack the resurgent pirates or rebuild first.

• Issho confessed that he and other Dark Bird Alliance members had argued with Rayleigh and Mihawk, but Gawain forgave them and announced a meeting.
• Gawain rested while Issho spread word of his awakening, and Kizaru arrived to describe the Navy’s hardships and the dispute between Sakazuki and Kuzan.
• Kizaru explained that Sakazuki favored attacking the New World while Kuzan wanted to consolidate the Four Blues, and Gawain promised to rein them in.
• Sakazuki and Kuzan arrived at the Dark Bird Ship separately, and Gawain rebuked them for acting like children while competing to succeed Sengoku.
• Sakazuki urged an attack on Red-Haired Shanks and Blackbeard Teach, but Kuzan objected that the Navy remained exhausted, indebted, and unprepared for another war.

Kuzan and Sakazuki each argued for a different strategy against the weakened pirates, then knelt before Gawain and asked him to choose. Gawain postponed his decision until he could hear the others’ views, as a pink figure raced toward him.

• Kuzan urged Gawain to prioritize rebuilding the Navy, extending public order, and winning civilian support rather than restarting the war.
• Sakazuki argued that the Navy should exploit the pirates’ weakness and pursue a swift, decisive victory, then knelt to request permission to fight.
• Kuzan knelt beside Sakazuki and argued that patient growth and containment could eventually defeat the pirates while preserving public support.
• Gawain weighed the political advantages and risks of both proposals but recognized that the Dark Bird Alliance could not prioritize war and peace at once.
• A small boat appeared on the horizon, and a pink figure leaped from it and raced toward Gawain.
• Gawain told Sakazuki and Kuzan he would consider their proposals after hearing from others, and invited them to a welcome banquet.

After waking, Gawain reunited with Hancock and the others aboard the Dark Bird Ship and decided to unite his divided followers by leading them against Mary Geoise. He left the crew preparing for a confrontation with the World Government as Kuma introduced his daughter Bonney.

• Sakazuki and Kuzan set aside their rivalry after realizing Gawain might seek the highest authority in the world.
• Hancock arrived at the Dark Bird Ship and complained that the ship’s radical and peace factions had made life difficult.
• Gawain assessed the divisions among his followers and decided to challenge Mary Geoise, including Imu, the Five Elders, the God's Knights, and CP0.
• Ace enthusiastically reunited with Gawain, while Sabo and Luffy seemed less cheerful; Gawain wondered whether Sabo was troubled by the Revolutionary Army’s plans.
• Kuma introduced his daughter, Bartholomew Bonney, who thanked Gawain, asked for food, and boasted about her Devil Fruit before Kuma struck her.

The Five Elders discussed Gawain’s power and whether they should support him if he could replace Imu, hoping a new ruler might let them retire and live more freely. Elsewhere, Kong and Sengoku prepared to attend Gawain’s banquet, with Kong expressing hope that Gawain would bring a new era.

• Saint Shepherd Ju Peter lamented that Gawain had awakened the Voice of All Things and chosen to oppose the Celestial Dragons.
• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro argued that Gawain might create a new order rather than follow Roger’s path, while Shepherd suggested Imu might tolerate him because Luffy possessed the Nika Fruit.
• Saint Saturn warned that Imu might not be certain she could defeat Gawain, citing the strange abilities Gawain’s allies and Kizaru had developed.
• Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro proposed that the Five Elders might serve Gawain if he defeated Imu, and the other Elders welcomed the possibility of retiring from their duties.
• Sengoku told Kong that Gawain had stepped down from the Golden Throne and summoned his allies and Navy leaders to a banquet, which Sengoku planned to attend.
• Kong encouraged Sengoku to go and said he believed Gawain could bring the change the world had long awaited.

After returning to the Dark Bird Ship, Gawain gathered his officers and confronted the growing divisions within his forces. He ordered them to set aside their disputes and prepare to attack Mary Geoise.

• Gawain returned to the ship and hosted a banquet where his officers and companions drank until many of them fell asleep.
• Isuka carried the sleeping Ace away, while Shakky stopped Prometheus from following and Rayleigh agreed to take Garp back to his room.
• Gawain summoned all officers for ten in the morning, then sat facing the Red Line with them in silence until sunset.
• Gawain rebuked Sakazuki and Kuzan, heard Zephyr accept responsibility for fueling division, and ordered everyone to listen to him.
• Gawain declared that the forces of Dark Bird and the Marines must set aside their disputes and prepare to descend upon Mary Geoise.

Gawain planned a limited raid on Mary Geoise to challenge the Five Elders, preserve friendly Celestial Dragon families, and secure a swift transfer of power. He went to Impel Down to recruit Redfield and privately tasked Shiryu with silencing dissenting Celestial Dragons.

• Bullet and Shiryu celebrated the coming attack on Mary Geoise, and Gawain explained that the raid would avoid needless slaughter while allowing Celestial Dragon casualties during wartime.
• Gawain told Gion to protect friendly families and assigned Garp, Mihawk, Sakazuki, Kuzan, and Borsalino to face the Five Elders.
• Gawain decided to recruit Redfield, whose regret over being left behind in Impel Down had grown as he aged.
• Gawain and Shiryu entered Impel Down, where Gawain said Redfield would cooperate because pirates would welcome a chance to attack Mary Geoise.
• Gawain privately ordered Shiryu to silence dissenting Celestial Dragons, sparing only the families Gawain had named.

Gawain visited Redfield in Impel Down and offered him a chance to join an upcoming war, promising the Vampire-Vampire Fruit as a reward for proving himself. Redfield accepted the prospect of serving Gawain but worried that his aged body would keep him from regaining his former strength.

• Shiryu resolved to become Gawain’s hidden instrument, taking responsibility for the dark deeds he believed his lord should not have to handle.
• Gawain brought Shiryu to Redfield’s cell, where Redfield eagerly asked what Gawain had accomplished since Bullet left prison.
• Gawain told Redfield that he had defeated Newgate, Charlotte Linlin, Shanks, and the other pirates who attacked beneath the Red Line, then asked him to hold off a powerful enemy in an upcoming war.
• Redfield questioned whether his aged body could meet Gawain’s expectations, while the prisoners nearby clamored to be recruited.
• Redfield unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki to silence the other prisoners, then agreed to serve Gawain if he could recover his sword and obtain the Vampire-Vampire Fruit.
• Gawain revealed that he already had the fruit but would grant it only if Redfield proved his worth, leaving Redfield hopeful yet distressed about his age.

Gawain tested Redfield’s temporarily restored youth and prepared a surprise attack on Mary Geoise while the Five Elders and God’s Knights grew wary. He returned alone to Mary Geoise, where the Five Elders sent Cipher Pol to meet him, God’s Knights prepared for battle, and Kong put the military on alert.

• Gawain used Bonney’s Time Fruit to restore Redfield’s youth temporarily and had him spar with Garp and the others to measure how long the effect lasted.
• After a week of quiet training aboard the Dark Bird Ship, Gawain decided the gathered forces were ready for a surprise attack on Mary Geoise.
• The Five Elders debated where their loyalties lay, while Saint Gelinggu’s efforts to divide the Navy and Dark Bird Alliance stalled after Gawain extinguished the growing tensions.
• Gawain left the Dark Bird Ship alone and returned to Mary Geoise by Bubble Gondola.
• The Five Elders sent Cipher Pol to greet Gawain, God’s Knights prepared for battle, and Kong placed the military on alert as he waited for Gawain.

Gawain arrived at Mary Geoise, where Imu declared him a threat and sent a God's Knight to attack him. After Gawain moved his household to safety and faced the Five Elders and God's Knights, he told Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro that they were no longer worthy of being his enemies.

• Gawain arrived at Mary Geoise and greeted Kong, while Imu sensed that Eve had found the warrior she sought and ordered Gawain's weapon placed before the Empty Throne.
• Imu launched a God's Knight at Gawain, but Gawain moved through the attack with such speed that the knight's sword only cut through Pangea Castle's main gate.
• Gawain embraced Brooke, sent lightning to transport her and the rest of his household away, and continued toward the castle.
• Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro and the other Five Elders gathered around Gawain, while Gelinggu and the God's Knights declared him a traitor and attacked.
• Gawain walked through the surrounding attacks and told Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro that the elders were no longer worthy of being his enemies.