Chapter Summaries

Duke fought BIG MOM while Kaido battled the Charlotte Family officers, and he eventually sent BIG MOM through a door so she fell onto Kaido. The two Emperors began grappling, leaving their fight at a stalemate that could last for days.

• Kaido overwhelmed the BIG MOM Pirates’ officers, killing one with a single blow, while Katakuri protected Amande from a death he had foreseen.
• BIG MOM attacked Duke with her Emperor Sword, but Duke escaped the flames and wounded her back with a surprise sword strike.
• Duke forced BIG MOM backward with a barrage of Rankyaku slashes, then cut Zeus in half and drove through her pillar of fire to kick her.
• Duke opened a door behind BIG MOM and another above Kaido, causing BIG MOM to fall from the sky onto him.
• BIG MOM and Kaido began fighting at close range, with Zeus returning to help BIG MOM hold Kaido to a draw.

As BIG MOM and Kaido battled, Duke watched from below Cake Castle while the Tamatebako fell into the hands of Du Feld and Stussy. Duke killed Stussy after sparing her briefly, then threatened Morgans, leaving the Tamatebako in his possession.

• BIG MOM and Kaido exchanged powerful blows, and Katakuri sent the other officers to search for Duke while he and Smoothie guarded BIG MOM.
• Duke hid beneath Cake Castle as the Tamatebako fell from the castle, and Du Feld picked it up before Stussy killed him and claimed the chest for the World Government.
• Stussy caught Morgans nearby and warned him to keep quiet, then allowed him to photograph the Tamatebako.
• Duke appeared, seized Stussy by the throat, and released her after telling her he did not kill women.
• Stussy fled, but Duke killed her with Finger Pistol: Shadow Dance and then warned Morgans that he did not kill birds.

Duke detonated the Tamatebako, severely damaging Whole Cake Island, and forced Morgans to witness the blast so he would report the coming struggle for supremacy. As the BIG MOM Pirates panicked, Kid and Hawkins used Duke’s Whitebeard-like figures to attack the island and destroy its communications.

• Duke kicked the Tamatebako through a door and detonated it in Whole Cake Island’s central plaza, leaving the island cracked and close to sinking.
• Duke told Morgans to report the destruction and the coming war, then left him to flee the island.
• BIG MOM Pirates officers rushed to the blast site and argued over the island’s collapse as they tried to alert their leaders.
• A giant resembling Whitebeard landed, killed an officer, and sent the pirates fleeing in terror.
• Kid and Hawkins moved to destroy Whole Cake Island’s communications, with Hawkins warning Kid not to jeopardize Duke’s plan.

The Beasts Pirates overwhelmed the BIG MOM Pirates across Whole Cake Island while a Whitebeard-led force and several Supernovas attacked the island’s communications center. The chapter ended with Kid ordering the four Whitebeards to kill everyone there.

• The Beasts Pirates fleet routed the BIG MOM Pirates’ ships, then split up to attack islands and destroy their defenses.
• Jack transformed into a mammoth and led a massacre on an island, while similar attacks set Whole Cake Island ablaze.
• The communications room received distress calls from several islands, including a report that fifty Whitebeard Pirates ships were attacking Cheese Island.
• A caller reported seeing many Whitebeards before the connection was cut off.
• Four Whitebeards entered the communications room with Kid, Hawkins, Apoo, and Killer, and Kid ordered them to leave no survivors.

The Whitebeard Pirates attacked Cheese Island while the BIG MOM Pirates struggled against their enemies on Whole Cake Island. As Perospero ordered the family to abandon distant territories and protect BIG MOM, Duke emerged behind her while she fought Kaido.

• Fifty Whitebeard replicas led an assault on Cheese Island, while Ace and Marco recalled how they had bought the replicas from Duke after recovering Whitebeard's body.
• Ace and Marco discussed Luffy's presence on Whole Cake Island and Ace's resolve to surpass his younger brother.
• With Whole Cake Island collapsing and communications disrupted, Perospero ordered the ministers to abandon vulnerable islands and gather near Jam Island.
• Perospero and Katakuri directed the remaining forces to draw the Straw Hat Pirates and Vinsmoke Family away, while prioritizing BIG MOM's safety.
• BIG MOM struck Kaido with Zeus's lightning and a fiery punch, leaving him motionless in the ruins.
• Duke emerged through a door behind BIG MOM and charged at the back of her neck with a blade in each hand.

Duke fought BIG MOM and used Kaido as a shield against her lightning and fire, forcing Kaido to join the battle. As Kaido and BIG MOM prepared to clash, Duke appeared behind Kaido and struck him with a fist wrapped in Conqueror's Haki.

• Duke failed to sneak up on BIG MOM, then struck her with a powerful kick that sent her crashing into the ruins.
• BIG MOM chased Duke with punches and summoned Zeus to unleash a vast storm of lightning, but Duke held Kaido overhead to shield himself.
• BIG MOM followed with a rain of fire, and Duke again used Kaido as a shield until Kaido finally roared in pain.
• Duke hurled Kaido toward BIG MOM, and Kaido attacked her as she revealed she was consuming her accumulated fat for greater power.
• BIG MOM hit Kaido with a powerful elbow, and Kaido demanded that Duke stop watching and help fight her.
• Kaido charged BIG MOM with his King of the Beasts attack, but Duke appeared behind him and struck him with a Conqueror's Haki-coated fist.

Duke used Dragon Fist to pierce Kaido and grievously wound BIG MOM, while Katakuri failed to prevent the attack. BIG MOM went berserk and fought Kaido as the island collapsed, and Kaido delivered a series of finishing blows to her.

• Duke unleashed Dragon Fist, piercing Kaido and Katakuri before blasting through BIG MOM's chest.
• Kaido knocked Katakuri away and attacked BIG MOM while Duke fought off the BIG MOM Pirates and avoided her soundwave attack by entering the world beyond the doors.
• BIG MOM's soundwaves shook Whole Cake Island and drove her children to the ground as the island sank and collapsed.
• BIG MOM lost control and burned through her life in a berserk assault, tearing Zeus and Prometheus apart as she fought Kaido.
• Kaido dodged BIG MOM's attacks, struck her face, and hammered her chest wound with a finishing blow.

Duke and Kaido killed BIG MOM, and Duke helped prevent the remnants of her crew from uniting by rescuing Katakuri. The chapter ended with Duke returning to Arms Island, then meeting two alternate versions of himself in Unknown Space as three Newbies arrived.

• Duke and Kaido killed BIG MOM, causing her Homies to collapse and confirming her death.
• Perospero ordered the wounded BIG MOM Pirates to retreat, while Duke rescued Katakuri from Kaido to prevent the family from uniting behind one leader.
• The narrator recounted how BIG MOM’s defeat reshaped the world, with the Beasts Pirates expanding, the Whitebeard Pirates regaining influence, and other powers moving into the resulting vacuum.
• On the warship to Arms Island, Duke gave Robin the road-marker rubbing, and Robin drew close to him.
• In Unknown Space, Saiyan Duke and Imperial Official Duke discussed how to rule, and three Newbies arrived.

A newly arrived Duke found himself in an absurd parallel world as a Shaolin novice and took Stephen Chow under his wing. He left Stephen Chow with several martial arts manuals, including a Boy Skill that supposedly did not require him to be a virgin.

• The Duke discovered that his world’s Shaolin Temple was in Dong-X City, its monks behaved like criminals, and China’s football team dominated the world.
• Master Jueyu introduced Stephen Chow as the Duke’s new junior brother before rushing off to treat a wealthy donor’s wife.
• Stephen Chow revealed that he had come from Hong Kong to study cooking, then decided he needed martial arts to escape Shaolin Temple.
• The Duke showed Stephen Chow the temple’s martial arts manuals, which were almost all Boy Skills, and claimed that virginity was not required to practice them.
• The Duke gave Stephen Chow the Northern Darkness Boy Skill and Mighty Vajra Leg to practice.

The Dukes watched the memories of two newcomers: one had survived increasingly dangerous disaster-movie livestreams, while the blond-haired Duke had found himself in a world full of absurdly powerful friends and suggestive school names. Just as Blond Duke prepared to reconnect with another old friend, the other Dukes reacted to his exploits and asked for an even more formidable figure to be invited.

• Saiyan Duke and Official Duke watched the Shaolin Temple Duke's memories, then merged memories with the second newbie, whose wilderness survival livestream system sent him into increasingly dangerous disaster movies.
• The Live Stream System Duke survived Anaconda and a shark-filled crossover stream, spending viewer donations on Hard Qigong and Iron Bones before facing The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day, and Godzilla.
• The Dukes watched Blond Duke discover that his old classmates included a cultivation expert, a former soldier king, a jade-gambling tycoon, and a God King.
• Blond Duke realized his blond hair and suggestively named school pointed toward a deeper meaning, then pursued the female teacher and students around him.
• Blond Duke received a call from his childhood friend Long Tao and postponed visiting the God King to meet him instead.
• Shaolin Temple Duke and Live Stream System Duke clung to Blond Duke's legs and demanded faster updates, while Official Duke urged them to invite Ura Ichiban Big Boss.

Batman investigated Arkham Asylum after sensing trouble and found the Joker playing cards with Duke and Quizzle instead of carrying out his usual schemes. When Duke beat the Joker after losing, Batman intervened, but the Joker’s plea for help left him wondering what had gone wrong.

• Batman felt uneasy about Arkham Asylum, restocked his gear, and drove there after paying a security guard fifteen dollars to park.
• Batman found that the Joker had escaped his cell, then hurried to the duty room to check on the staff.
• Batman discovered the Joker playing cards with Duke and Quizzle, who joined forces to beat him after he lost.
• Batman rushed in to stop Duke and hesitantly called the Joker innocent.
• The battered Joker asked Batman to save him, leaving Batman convinced that something was wrong.

Duke revealed that he had altered Joker and Quizzle’s personalities, then argued with Batman about justice, the law, and Batman’s refusal to kill. He proposed implanting Batman’s personality into Joker to create a crime-fighting antihero called Joker-Man.

• Duke recognized Batman as Bruce Wayne, and Joker quietly put Duke’s discarded tissue in the trash.
• Duke gave Batman his medical record and explained that he had implanted new primary personalities into Quizzle and Joker.
• Batman condemned Duke for overriding their minds, while Duke defended the changes as a way to protect the public.
• Duke challenged Batman’s claim to uphold the law by pointing out that Batman’s Batmobile violated traffic regulations.
• Duke argued that Batman’s no-killing rule allowed criminals to escape and cause further tragedies, and Batman admitted he had no intention of hurting him.
• Duke caught Batman’s Batarangs and proposed implanting Batman’s personality into Joker to create the antihero Joker-Man.

Duke defeated Batman, copied his personality into Joker, and then altered Batman with Joker’s personality and a potion that helped suppress it. After implanting another personality into Batman, Duke watched Joker—now calling himself Joker-Man—take the unconscious Batman and drive off to protect Gotham.

• Batman escaped Duke’s ice trap but was captured by Duke’s Black Coffin and Six Rods Light Prison.
• Duke copied Batman’s personality into Joker and implanted Joker’s personality into Batman, whose mind began to succumb to corruption.
• Duke injected Batman with a KW8-19 Enhancement Potion, which strengthened him and helped his righteous personality suppress Joker’s influence.
• Duke implanted a personality from the Gintama World into Batman, causing him to faint.
• Joker refused Duke’s cosmetic surgery, called himself Joker-Man, and carried Batman to the Batmobile.
• Joker drove off with Batman after forcing the security guard to accept a ten-dollar tip.

Wayne discovered that Joker’s influence had left him with superhuman abilities and strange urges, and he decided to investigate Gotham’s unusually quiet southern district. There, Joker began a game by trapping six wanted criminals in a sealed room and announcing that they needed redemption.

• Wayne awoke at Wayne Manor, ate a strawberry sundae, and showed Alfred odd habits he could not explain.
• Wayne tested his strength and healing in the Batcave, then read Alfred’s report confirming that his abilities had exceeded human limits.
• Wayne noticed his new cravings and strange speech, asked Alfred for psychological treatment, and learned that southern Gotham had been unusually quiet.
• Wayne decided to investigate the southern district while Joker remained missing.
• Six wanted criminals awoke chained to toilets in an abandoned factory bathroom, where Joker appeared on television and announced Joker-Man’s game.

The Joker forced six villains into a deadly game in which they had to solve a math problem, escape their restraints, or face Laughing Gas, then moved on to another group. Later that night in Gotham City, a young woman was chased by laughing thugs in a dark street.

• The Joker gave six villains ten minutes to escape a locked restroom by solving a ceiling math problem or sawing off their legs.
• The villains tried guessing the lockbox code, and an explosion blew off two men's hands while others panicked or began sawing their legs.
• The Black brute cut off his leg and tried to flee, but the door had been welded shut.
• The Joker admitted he had lied, and Laughing Gas filled the restroom, killing the trapped villains as they laughed.
• The Joker switched to footage of six newly awakened captives and welcomed them to his game of redemption.
• At night in Gotham City, a young woman dressed for work was chased by laughing thugs in a dark street.

Batman used increasingly brutal tactics while searching for Joker, whose videotape threatened Gotham’s criminals. His popularity surged despite police criticism, and the chapter left Gotham’s underworld terrified while the public celebrated him as a hero.

• Batman drove the Batmobile into a gang threatening a blonde woman, then took her to the police station after rescuing her.
• Batman continued searching for Joker and found a videotape in which Joker threatened to torture any criminal who fell into his hands.
• Batman began running down criminals and beating them severely, spreading fear through Gotham’s underworld and prompting some criminals to surrender to police.
• Gotham police condemned Batman at a press conference, but the public criticized the police and praised Batman as crime rates fell.
• A women’s magazine’s photos and a newspaper story boosted Batman’s popularity, while a hospitalized criminal learned that even his nurse admired Batman.

Batman investigated an invitation revealing Joker’s hideout, hoping to learn whether Joker had truly become an enemy of evil or was concealing a larger scheme. At the hideout, Joker faced a gang of bribed former followers and vanished as they opened fire.

• Batman worried about his increasingly ruthless behavior, his inability to find Joker, and the possibility that Joker was hiding his true intentions.
• Alfred gave Batman an unsigned invitation addressed to Batman that named Joker’s current hideout, and Batman drove there despite Alfred’s warning that it could be a trap.
• Batman suspected Duke had sent the invitation and considered Duke an even greater threat than Joker.
• Joker confronted more than thirty armed former underlings who accused him of driving up the danger and ruining their prospects.
• Joker realized someone had bribed the gang to kill him and guessed the person was not from Gotham.
• The gang opened fire, and Joker dodged out of sight, remarking that violence required no technical skill.

Joker interrogated a dying outsider before Batman arrived, and the two clashed before Batman left. Meanwhile, Ra's al Ghul prepared to destroy Gotham with poison gas, choosing Arkham Asylum as the starting point and deciding to lead the mission himself.

• Joker killed the men in the factory and failed to learn their boss's identity from the last survivor.
• Batman confronted Joker, who called himself Joker-Man, and warned him not to cause trouble.
• Batman chased and grabbed Joker, then left in the Batmobile after Joker mocked him.
• Joker used a remote display to track the Batmobile and wondered about its connection to the outsider.
• Ra's al Ghul ordered his Men in Black to begin the plan to destroy Gotham with poison gas at Arkham Asylum.
• Ra's al Ghul reconsidered and decided to lead the team himself because he had a bad feeling.

Duke outmaneuvered Ra's al Ghul at Arkham, exposing the League of Shadows’ plot to poison Gotham’s water with hallucinogens and driving Ra's into retreat. Batman arrived to confront his former teacher as the League prepared to attack.

• Ra's al Ghul went to Arkham to eliminate Crane, only to find Duke posing as the asylum’s acting director with Ms. Kwezel.
• Duke revealed that the League’s supposed hallucinogenic poison was apple-flavored Fanta and showed Ra's the operation on the surveillance monitor.
• Ms. Kwezel struck Ra's so hard that he flew through the office doorway, and he fled Arkham while ordering his men to retreat.
• Batman blocked the hospital entrance and identified Ra's as his former teacher, explaining that the black invitation had exposed his disguise.
• Ra's ordered the League to kill Batman, and the members drew their swords as Batman advanced with music playing from the Batmobile.

Batman defeated Duka and Duke implanted a new personality that persuaded him to abandon his plan to destroy Gotham City. As Gotham’s new mayor took power, Duke began preparing to imitate a powerful figure from Metropolis, declaring that only Kakarot could stop him.

• Batman defeated the League of Shadows warriors, and Duka surrendered after Batman blocked his escape.
• Duke implanted a personality combining traits from Naruto Uzumaki, Kiritsugu Emiya, and Zheng Zha, and Duka left to save Gotham City instead of destroying it.
• Gotham’s former mayor was ousted, and the newly installed Mayor Cardu purged officials and promised a crackdown on crime.
• Duke studied newspapers about Superman and Luthor, transformed his appearance, and began planning to build a Power Level detector, a bald cannon fodder, and two spacecraft.
• Duke declared that no one could stop him except Kakarot.