Chapter Summaries

Gawain welcomed Uta aboard the Dark Bird Ship and celebrated with a lively banquet while the crew finished coating the ship. After Shiryu reported completing his crackdown on the Fishman Five Islands, Gawain sent Spandam to confiscate the dead lawbreakers’ property on Sabaody.

• Gawain welcomed Uta as the ship’s musician and playfully tossed her into the pool, where she called him Dad and asked about their destination.
• Gawain told Uta they would leave Water 7 for the East Blue after Whitebeard finished coating the ship, and Hancock unsuccessfully tried to get Uta to call her Mommy.
• Issho caught a giant tuna with Jinbe, and the crew held a banquet with Uta singing and Shirahoshi dancing.
• Franky and Spandam finished building a hot spring aboard the Moby Dick and returned to the Dark Bird Ship for the banquet.
• Shiryu reported killing 4,322 lawbreakers and capturing 86 on the Fishman Five Islands, and Gawain ordered Spandam to confiscate the dead men’s property on Sabaody.
• Shirahoshi and Uta clung to each other when they heard Shiryu’s laugh.

Gawain and his crew discussed training and the advanced paths of Observation Haki, with Issho agreeing to help Gawain pursue the Voice of All Things. Gawain then introduced a unified German-style military uniform for the Dark Bird Ship as the crew prepared to establish a distinct public image.

• Shiryu frightened Shirahoshi with his laughter, while Uta was startled by Shirahoshi’s scream.
• Kizaru demonstrated his singing talent, then left the Dark Bird Ship at exactly five o’clock and returned toward Sabaody Island.
• Rayleigh and Gion arranged Gawain’s training schedule, and Issho offered to train his Observation Haki in the evenings.
• Issho explained the Voice and Form paths of Observation Haki, and Gawain chose to pursue the Voice of All Things.
• Gawain presented uniform designs that Kalifa had helped prepare, proposing German-style military clothing as the Dark Bird Ship’s distinct look.

Gawain introduced the Gawain Pirates’ new uniforms before meeting Whitebeard and Garp at Fishman Five Islands, where Whitebeard prepared to return to the New World. Whitebeard and Gawain parted on the understanding that they would likely fight to the death when they met again.

• Gawain’s crew approved their new uniforms, with Shiryu praising the design, Jinbe requesting a looser belt, and the men demanding coats.
• The Five Elders debated whether Whitebeard should die at the Navy’s hands and decided to wait, noting that Gawain seemed to have a purpose for him.
• Gawain’s group arrived at Fishman Five Islands in their new uniforms, drawing crowds and reporters’ attention.
• Gawain joined Garp and Whitebeard at the docks as their forces faced one another, while Blackbeard stood among Whitebeard’s sixteen division commanders.
• Whitebeard declared that he would return to the New World without harming civilians, then warned Gawain that their next meeting would likely end in a fight to the death.
• Gawain’s ranks opened an orderly path for Whitebeard and his crew to depart.

After Whitebeard and Garp departed Sabaody, Gawain’s crew urged him to grow stronger quickly, and he revealed that he had a plan involving a nearby Devil Fruit. As the Dark Bird Ship prepared to sail toward Water 7 and Long Ring Long Land, Gion asked Gawain to stop at Marineford so she could retrieve a sword for him.

• Whitebeard left Sabaody with his sons after exchanging a respectful farewell with Gawain, and Garp, Aokiji, and Kizaru headed back to Marineford.
• Gawain ordered Kalifa to resupply the Dark Bird Ship and prepared to leave, while Rayleigh asked whether he would eat a Devil Fruit.
• Rayleigh, Issho, and Gion urged Gawain to become stronger so the crew could protect him and their shared ideals; Gawain promised to improve as quickly as possible.
• Gawain planned to sail to Water 7 and then Long Ring Long Land, where he intended to establish a Hydrological Observation Station and Reserve Train Station and pursue a nearby Devil Fruit.
• After the crew’s worries eased, Gion asked Gawain to visit Marineford first so she could retrieve a Great Grade 21 Sword from her collection and give it to him.

Gawain and his companions arrived at Marineford so Gion could retrieve her belongings, and Gawain presented Sengoku with valuable supplies for the Marines. As Sengoku led the group through Headquarters, he told Rayleigh how Shiki’s attack nineteen years earlier had devastated Marineford and killed countless Marine families.

• Sengoku welcomed Gawain and Gion at the docks, where Gion left with Tsuru to retrieve her belongings.
• Gawain, Rayleigh, Jinbe, and the others brought crates of treasures worth roughly ten billion to Marineford as compensation for Marines who had suffered heatstroke.
• Sengoku thanked Gawain and led the group toward his office, while Rayleigh reflected on his past and Shirahoshi and Uta excitedly explored the Headquarters grounds.
• Rayleigh asked Sengoku where he had fought Shiki, and Sengoku pointed out Debris Town, formerly a settlement for Marine families.
• Sengoku recounted how Shiki’s attack had killed countless people while Marine leaders were away, explaining that the tragedy led the Navy to keep a powerful fighter at Headquarters.

Sengoku welcomed Gawain’s group to his office, while Gion reunited with Tsuru and gathered belongings from her old room. Gion prepared to leave with her swords and planned to give her treasured Great Grade Sword, Rokumei Kotetsu, to Gawain.

• Rayleigh blamed himself for the bloodshed since Roger’s death, but Sengoku invited him to share tea and led the group to his office.
• Shirahoshi spotted Sengoku’s goat Masha eating papers, and Sengoku discovered that his financial report had been ruined.
• Tsuru asked Gion whether Gawain was worth following, and Gion affirmed that she believed in his justice and intended to serve the people beyond the Marines.
• Tsuru teased Gion about her feelings for Gawain and warned her against drinking heavily, while Gion denied that they had become intimate.
• Gion took a four-billion bank draft from her safe and decided to secretly give it to Kalifa to help with Gawain’s debts.
• Gion cleaned her three swords and decided that Rokumei Kotetsu, the first sword Tsuru had given her, would suit Gawain as his first proper sword.

Gawain and his companions visited Marine Headquarters, where Gion gave him the Great Grade 21 Sword Rokumei Kotetsu before they departed for Water 7. On the voyage, Rayleigh and Gion explained how sword grades differed and why Supreme Grade Swords were uniquely forged for their wielders.

• Shirahoshi and Uta played with Sengoku's sheep, Masha, while Gawain and the others chatted with Sengoku at Marine Headquarters.
• Gion presented Rokumei Kotetsu to Gawain, who tested the blade and embraced her before his party left Marineford.
• Sengoku and Tsuru watched Gawain's ship depart, and Tsuru told Sengoku that Gion had become a lovestruck young woman devoted to Gawain.
• Rayleigh explained to Gawain how Skillful Grade and Great Grade Swords handled sword aura and Armament Haki differently.
• Gion explained that Supreme Grade Swords were each forged through a swordsman's bond with a master swordsmith and could not be mass-produced.

Gion explained to Gawain how Supreme Grade Swords and Black Blades were forged and why Black Blades were so powerful, before dragging him off for extra training. Elsewhere, Crocus and the Red-Haired Pirates read the newspaper coverage of Gawain’s battle with Whitebeard, and Shanks learned that Gawain was a Celestial Dragon with Conqueror’s Haki.

• Gion told Gawain that Supreme Grade Swords were tailored to their wielders, while Black Blades were exceptionally rare and might depend on a swordsman’s spiritual devotion.
• Gion demonstrated how Black Blades amplified sword techniques and conserved Armament Haki, then took Gawain to train with her that night.
• Crocus treated Laboon, bought the latest newspaper, and read its coverage of Gawain’s clash with Whitebeard before saving a photograph of Rayleigh in his album.
• The Red-Haired Pirates finished their battle and cleared a place for the newspaper seagull to land.
• Shanks read the report and recognized Gawain as a Celestial Dragon who possessed Conqueror’s Haki.

Shanks learned Uta was aboard Gawain’s ship and ordered the Red Hair Pirates to head for the Grand Line in secret. Aboard the Dark Bird Ship, Gawain and the crew enjoyed a giant-snowflake snowball fight that became a training session.

• Shanks and Benn Beckman discussed Gawain’s powerful crew, and the Red Hair Pirates cheered their captain’s strength while planning to visit Uta.
• Lucky Roux received a magazine introducing Gawain’s crew, and Shanks and Benn Beckman erupted in Conqueror’s Haki when they saw Uta featured in it.
• Shanks ordered the crew to conceal their ship and travel underwater through Big Mom’s and Kaido’s territories because he considered Uta his daughter.
• Gawain stepped into enormous falling snowflakes aboard the Dark Bird Ship and joined Shirahoshi, Uta, Franky, Spandam, and Rayleigh in the snow.
• Shirahoshi hit Gawain with a giant snowball, and Gawain began a snowball fight by throwing one at Rayleigh, who chased him and struck him with more than thirty snowballs.

Gawain and the Dark Bird Ship sailed from Water 7 toward Long Ring Long Land as he considered speeding up Sea Train construction and learned that Aqua Laguna was approaching. Rayleigh proposed charging through the tsunami to collect Sea God Salt, and Franky assured Gawain the ship could take it—though repairs would cost about eighty million Beli.

• Gawain trained Tekkai and Conqueror's Haki while the crew played in the snow, and Jinbe caught a salmon when Gawain's Haki stunned the fish.
• The Dark Bird Ship passed Enies Lobby, resupplied at Water 7, and continued toward Long Ring Long Land as Franky recorded the station's location for future Sea Train tracks.
• Gawain asked Franky about slow Sea Train construction, then proposed that Franky use the Munch-Munch Fruit to accelerate the project after they reached Drum Kingdom.
• Kalifa reported that Aqua Laguna was forming, and Gawain gathered the officers to watch the approaching tsunami.
• Rayleigh urged the crew to sail through Aqua Laguna to collect Sea God Salt, and Franky said the Dark Bird Ship could withstand the wave but would need about eighty million Beli in repairs.

Gawain and the crew prepared the Dark Bird Ship to face the seven-thousand-meter Aqua Laguna, and Shirahoshi cleared Sea Kings from its path. The ship crossed the tsunami with Gawain standing at the bow, and emerged into sunlight with his confidence in the future renewed.

• Franky explained the cost and potential profit of taking the Dark Bird Ship through Aqua Laguna, and Gawain ordered the crew to secure the deck.
• Kuma estimated the approaching tsunami at seven thousand meters, while Issho explained that it had not yet weakened on its way to Water 7.
• Gawain chose to face the impact on deck, and Rayleigh sent Devil Fruit users into the cabins while Shirahoshi put Uta in her mouth for safety.
• Shirahoshi called the Sea Kings away from the ship, accidentally blowing Uta into the sky, where Issho caught her with his gravity.
• Franky fired Coup de Vent as Rayleigh, Jinbe, and Shiryu forced the bow down, and the Dark Bird Ship plunged into Aqua Laguna.
• Gawain braced himself against the wave with Rokumei Kotetsu as Gion protected him, and the ship burst through the tsunami two minutes and forty seconds later.

After surviving a megatsunami, Gawain’s group encountered a Water Monkey and continued to Long Ring Long Land, where they began exploring the vast, apparently uninhabited grassland. The chapter leaves them astonished by a dachshund with an ordinary-sized head and an impossibly long body.

• Gawain’s group spotted Water Monkeys riding small tsunamis, and Jinbe caught a three-hundred-meter one for them to inspect.
• Shirahoshi learned that the Water Monkey considered humans delicious and broke down crying, so Gawain had Shiryu take it away.
• Eight days later, Gawain’s group reached Long Ring Long Land, and Shirahoshi joyfully rolled in the grassland.
• Kuma estimated the island was about 170 kilometers in diameter, while Lucci sent out more than a thousand pigeons to search for its rumored nomadic tribe.
• Shirahoshi found an unfamiliar purple animal, then the group watched an over-eight-hundred-meter dachshund collapse beside them.

Gawain reached Long Ring Long Land, befriended its nomadic herdsmen, and ordered Shiryu to hunt down the pirate crews operating nearby. Rayleigh learned that the tribe had stopped receiving newspapers because they had eaten the newspaper-carrying seagulls, while Gawain prepared to pursue a captured Devil Fruit user for Vegapunk to study.

• Gawain and his companions sailed to a nearby island after Lucci's pigeons found a nomadic tribe there.
• Chief Sivins welcomed Gawain's party and explained that Long Ring Long Land's ten mountains formed a connected island revealed during the great ebb tide.
• Kalifa reported that Golden Snake Ambro and Silver Fox Foxy were the strongest pirate crews nearby, and Gawain sent Shiryu to track them down and capture any Devil Fruit users alive.
• Gawain planned to have Lucci take a captured Devil Fruit user to Vegapunk to investigate whether Devil Fruits could be extracted.
• Uta began building a temporary stage while Franky started work on a hydrological observation station.
• Rayleigh asked Sivins why the tribe no longer received newspapers, and Sivins confessed that his people had eaten more than a dozen newspaper-carrying seagulls without paying them.

Rayleigh promised Sivins that newspapers would be delivered to his tribe again, while Franky gained Gawain’s approval to build a Sky Train linking Long Ring Long Land’s ten islands. Shiryu sank the Golden Snake, then captured Silver Fox Foxy after Foxy’s Slow-Slow Beam failed, and eyed the rest of his crew.

• Rayleigh reassured Sivins that he would explain the tribe’s situation to a newspaper-delivering seagull so it would resume deliveries.
• Franky proposed a circular Sky Train supported by steel structures across Long Ring Long Land’s ten islands, and Gawain approved the plan.
• Shiryu and Kaku pursued the Golden Snake, and Shiryu split the pirate ship in half with a slash.
• Shiryu’s crew recovered around two hundred pirates, but none proved to be Devil Fruit users; Kaku learned that Foxy had the Slow-Slow Fruit.
• Shiryu found Foxy’s ship and captured Foxy after dodging his attempted Slow-Slow Beam attack.
• Shiryu knocked Foxy unconscious and looked eagerly at the remaining Foxy Pirates.

Shiryu returned to Long Ring Long Land with Silver Fox Foxy, and Gawain considered the Slow-Slow Fruit for his officers while sending Foxy to Vegapunk. The next morning, Chief Sivins asked Gawain to find Tonjit, a tribesman stranded on a distant mountain, and Gawain turned the search into a race among his officers.

• Shiryu reported that he had killed Golden Snake Ambro and captured Foxy, whose treasure held roughly two hundred million Beli.
• Gawain discussed Foxy's Slow-Slow Fruit with Shiryu, Kaku, and Kalifa, then sent Kaku to take Foxy to Vegapunk for Devil Fruit experiments.
• Chief Sivins told Gawain that Tonjit had been stranded on a Long Ring Mountain for seven years and asked him to help find him.
• Gawain organized a contest among his officers to find Tonjit first, with the winner allowed to choose their opponent in the next fight.
• Shirahoshi, Rayleigh, and Fujitora raced toward the mountain after Sivins pointed out its direction.

Gawain’s group found Tonjit and reunited him with the Sivins tribe, then completed ten lighthouses across Long Ring Long Land and prepared to leave. The nomads agreed to work on Gawain’s railway project, and the Dark Bird Ship departed with Uta tearfully saying goodbye.

• Gawain’s group bet on how quickly Issho and the others would find Tonjit while Hancock and Gion fought, and Chief Sivins ran home to tell his tribe he had seen people fly.
• Issho, Rayleigh, Shirahoshi, Jinbe, and Shiryu searched different islands, and Rayleigh and Shirahoshi found Tonjit atop the stilts on the third island.
• Rayleigh brought Tonjit down, and Gawain woke him; Tonjit explained that his fear of heights had trapped him on the growing stilts, then begged to retrieve his horse Shelly.
• Gawain’s group stayed seventeen days while the Sivins tribe helped complete lighthouses on ten islands, and the nomads agreed to work on the planned railway in exchange for Beli and supplies.
• Uta sang two new songs at the farewell banquet, then cried as the Dark Bird Ship departed Long Ring Long Land; Gawain’s flag flew above the lighthouses.

Vice Admiral Jonathan received Sakazuki’s request to persuade Gawain to make Rayleigh a Shichibukai, while Gawain’s ship approached Navarone Fortress. Gawain then spoke with Vegapunk, who agreed to extract the Slow-Slow Fruit from Silver Fox, and Vegapunk ended by asking to discuss his compensation.

• Sakazuki told Jonathan to welcome Gawain at Navarone Fortress, assess his character, and try to persuade him to make Rayleigh a Shichibukai.
• Jonathan agreed to make the Shichibukai suggestion if he judged Gawain safe to approach, but rejected Sakazuki’s idea of proposing Rayleigh’s execution.
• Gawain learned that the Dark Bird Ship would reach G-8 Branch in four hours and comforted Uta while she ate, before answering Vegapunk’s call.
• Vegapunk told Gawain that removing a Devil Fruit ability would almost certainly kill its current user, and Gawain approved the procedure for Silver Fox.
• Vegapunk said he would extract the Slow-Slow Fruit from Silver Fox within three days and asked Gawain to discuss compensation.

Gawain agreed to maintain Vegapunk’s abandoned laboratories, then learned from Rayleigh that a Sky Island lay above Jaya and decided the crew would visit it after resupplying. The Gawain Pirates arrived near Navarone Fortress, where Jonathan prepared to welcome them while Jessica scolded him for his lax attitude.

• Vegapunk asked Gawain to maintain his two old laboratories in the Future Kingdom, and Gawain agreed while planning to relocate them onto his ship.
• Gawain ordered Kalifa to investigate the laboratories and plan their relocation, while Uta persuaded him to keep feeding her after she spilled soup on her hand.
• A ship fell from the sky, and Rayleigh explained that it came from near Jaya, where he and Roger had once visited a Sky Island containing a Poneglyph and a vast Golden City.
• Rayleigh proposed taking the crew to Sky Island for its gold, and Gawain agreed to go after the crew resupplied at Navarone Fortress.
• The Gawain Pirates arrived near Navarone Fortress, and Jonathan ordered his men to welcome Gawain before Jessica dragged him away from his fish and ordered him to join the reception.

Gawain’s group arrived at the G-8 Branch, where Jonathan managed the welcome while navigating tensions over his subordinates and the pirates among Gawain’s companions. After Uta’s concert was announced and the group gathered for a banquet, Jonathan apologized to Rayleigh and Shakky for his prejudice, leaving Rayleigh pondering the effects of his reputation on Gawain’s group.

• Jonathan arrived late to the dockside welcome, and Shepherd threatened to report him before Jonathan presented the scene as friendly banter.
• Gawain greeted the marines and promised them a concert starring Uta, whose performance preparations began while Gawain went to the branch cafeteria with Jonathan.
• Jonathan welcomed Gawain’s companions, praised them, and briefly omitted Rayleigh and Shakky until Rayleigh called him out.
• Gawain defended Rayleigh and Shakky as elders whose pasts should not define their present, prompting Jonathan to apologize to them for his prejudice.
• Rayleigh considered whether his pirate reputation would burden Gawain’s group, while Shakky inferred that Jonathan’s pointed distinction between pirates and Shichibukai carried a deeper message.

Gawain attended a feast at the G-8 branch and discovered that the dishes were part of a rare Celestial Dragon Banquet prepared by Jessica. After tasting her cooking, he mistakenly invited her to join his ship, then apologized when he learned she was Jonathan’s wife, leaving the gathering laughing at the misunderstanding.

• Uta and Shirahoshi arrived, and Gawain agreed to begin the banquet after everyone had gathered.
• Doctor Kobato explained that the Celestial Dragon Banquet traditionally comprised 108 dishes, though the branch had prepared fewer because ingredients were missing.
• Gawain and the others tasted Jessica’s cooking, and Gawain asked Jonathan to bring the chef so he could thank her and learn about the dishes.
• Jessica went to the banquet hall after hearing Gawain had requested her, expecting praise for her cooking.
• Gawain invited Jessica to serve as a chef aboard his ship, but Gion revealed that she was Jonathan’s wife.
• Gawain apologized for the misunderstanding, and Jessica scolded Jonathan for failing to explain who she was as the officers laughed.