Chapter Summaries

Chaos and Crocodile escaped after Chaos broke off his attack on Borsalino, while the World Government reacted to Chaos’s raids on Heavenly Gold by ordering his capture. Sengoku received orders to return from the New World, leaving Garp and Zephyr to manage the region.

• Chaos kicked Borsalino away and attacked him alongside the Goddess of the Heavens, but retreated with Crocodile when he sensed a powerful Navy figure approaching.
• Tsuru arrived and found Borsalino after Chaos and Crocodile had escaped.
• Chaos told Crocodile that a powerful figure had arrived, then mocked Crocodile for failing to defeat his opponent.
• The Five Elders learned that Chaos had stolen the Gilgamesh Kingdom’s Heavenly Gold and ordered Sengoku to capture him and raised his bounty.
• Chaos seized ten more merchant ships carrying Heavenly Gold, spreading news of his raids across the seas.
• Kong ordered Sengoku back from the New World, and Sengoku departed after leaving Garp and Zephyr to handle the region.

Whitebeard read reports about Golden Emperor Gaia Chaos and impulsively set sail for the Grand Line to recruit him, while Golden Lion sent Annie and Spand after the Golden Emperor. The Whitebeard Pirates began their journey as Annie and Spand prepared to compete over who would lead the mission.

• Newspapers reported that Gaia Chaos had robbed Heavenly Gold, announced his 1.098 billion bounty, and publicized Crocodile's 560 million bounty.
• Marco, Thatch, and Vista discussed recruiting the Golden Emperor to ease the Whitebeard Pirates' financial troubles.
• Whitebeard decided to head for the Grand Line, and his crew cheered as they set sail.
• Spand promised Golden Lion he would bring back the Golden Emperor, while Annie declared her interest in the mission.
• Spand demanded to lead the operation, but Annie threatened him with her ability until others told him to stand down.

At a Marine base, Sengoku and Tsuru assessed Gild Tesoro’s strength and disappearance after he stole the Heavenly Gold. On Post Island, Gild Tesoro and Crocodile were confronted by pirates who wanted Tesoro’s gold coat, and Tesoro became enraged when they failed to recognize him.

• Sengoku asked Tsuru whether the Navy had found Gild Tesoro, and she reported that he had vanished after robbing the Kakartia Kingdom’s tribute.
• Sengoku asked Borsalino about Tesoro’s strength, and Borsalino admitted that Tesoro had landed a hit on him.
• Tsuru warned Sengoku that Tesoro was talented and clever, citing how quickly he had learned the Six Powers and Life Return.
• On Post Island, Crocodile questioned whether it was wise for him and Gild Tesoro to walk openly, and Tesoro told him to act more brazenly.
• A dozen members of the Bucktooth Pirate Crew blocked Gild Tesoro and demanded his Golden Goose Down Coat, while nearby onlookers watched.
• Gild Tesoro furiously demanded to know how the pirates could fail to recognize him, and Crocodile stepped away, pitying them.

Chaos revealed himself as the Golden Emperor on a town street, then fought off a surprise attack from the invisible pirate hunter Goyatrans. After identifying Goyatrans as a Transparent Fruit user, Chaos offered him a choice between becoming his subordinate or dying.

• Chaos summoned the towering Goddess of the Heavens, terrifying the town and revealing his identity as the Golden Emperor while Crocodile found his spectacle embarrassing.
• An unseen attacker slashed Chaos's neck, but Chaos blocked the strike and counterattacked toward the attacker's suspected position.
• Chaos pinned the Bucktooth Pirate Crew to the street with weapons, then unleashed a barrage that wrecked nearby buildings as the attacker moved away.
• Golden dust revealed the masked assassin Goyatrans, whom Chaos recognized as a pirate hunter and likely Transparent Fruit user.
• Chaos told Goyatrans to submit or die while casually trimming his nails with a golden nail clipper.

Chaos defeated the invisible Goyatrans with his Gold-Gold Fruit and left him dying after rejecting his offer to serve. He then asked Crocodile to bring him several kinds of fruit so he could test an idea involving the Transparent Fruit.

• Goyatrans dismissed Chaos and tried to flee using the Transparent Fruit, but Chaos tracked him with a golden tornado.
• Chaos struck Goyatrans repeatedly and hurled him into the tornado, where Goyatrans begged to serve him.
• Chaos stopped the tornado, but found Goyatrans nearly dead and decided he was not worth keeping as a subordinate.
• Chaos asked Crocodile to fetch apples, bananas, pineapples, grapes, and other fruit for an experiment.

Chaos tried to make Goyatrans’s Devil Fruit transfer into ordinary fruit inside a sealed gold sphere, but the experiment failed. He went to a tavern with Crocodile, expecting powerful forces to come after him, and began surveying the island with Observation Haki.

• Chaos sealed Goyatrans and a pile of ordinary fruit inside a gold sphere, then killed Goyatrans with a golden spike.
• Crocodile and the watching pirates waited as Chaos sensed the sphere, while Admiral Sengoku set out after learning that Chaos had appeared on Post Island.
• After half an hour, Chaos opened the sphere and found Goyatrans dead and the fruit unchanged, confirming that his attempt had failed.
• Chaos and Crocodile left for a tavern in the eastern district, where Chaos paid for food and drinks for everyone with gold coins bearing his portrait.
• Chaos spread Observation Haki across most of the island and began surveying it.

Buffalo Aquit and his crew confronted Chaos in a tavern after hearing the Golden Emperor was on Post Island. Aquit attacked Chaos, who easily stopped his blow and summoned a Golden Warrior to fight him.

• Buffalo Aquit's crew learned the Golden Emperor was on Post Island and went to the tavern to ask whether he was a bad guy.
• Little Six accused Chaos of killing people, and Aquit attacked him with an Armament Haki-coated spiked club.
• Chaos caught Aquit's club without leaving his seat, then shoved Aquit back.
• Chaos summoned a six-meter-tall Golden Warrior and ordered Aquit to defeat it to earn forgiveness.
• Aquit met the Golden Warrior's club with his own, and their clash shook the ruined tavern.

Chaos tested the Golden Warrior against Aquite, a Zoan fruit user whose stubborn refusal to dodge turned their fight into a brutal exchange of blows. The Golden Warrior ultimately knocked Aquite down with a punch to the stomach.

• Chaos had the boss set up a golden table and watched the Golden Warrior fight Aquite while Crocodile offered to join in.
• The Golden Warrior coated himself in Armament Haki and overpowered Aquite, sending him crashing through buildings.
• Aquite transformed into his Water Buffalo hybrid form and fought the Golden Warrior head-on, trading blows that shattered the street.
• After their clubs were lost, the fighters continued punching each other; Aquite endured repeated hits but was finally hurled down by a punch to the stomach.

Aquite lost his grueling fight against Gild Tesoro’s Golden Warrior, but the puppet protected him when Paper Man Ilango tried to claim his bounty. Chaos watched as the Golden Warrior confronted Ilango, then revealed ten more Golden Warriors surrounding him.

• Aquite and the Golden Warrior traded punches until Aquite could no longer stand and admitted defeat.
• Paper Man Ilango appeared and planned to collect Aquite’s 220-million-Berry bounty before going after Gild Tesoro.
• Crocodile identified Ilango as a dangerous pirate hunter who wielded the Paper-Paper Fruit.
• Ilango tried to cut off Aquite’s head, but the Golden Warrior blocked his sword and warned him not to interfere.
• Ten Golden Warriors emerged from the crater, forming weapons from gold as they confronted Ilango.

Chaos used the Golden Warriors to capture the Paper Person and spare Buffalo Aquit, then continued experimenting with ways to kill Devil Fruit users inside the golden lotus. The pirates watched in confusion as the Golden Emperor’s actions seemed to suggest a ritual.

• The Paper Person attacked a Golden Warrior, but the Warriors transformed into gold and trapped him in a golden pillar topped with a lotus.
• The Golden Warrior left the Paper Person imprisoned and brought fruit and black cloth from the restaurant to the golden lotus.
• Chaos gave Aquit a golden spiked club engraved with Gild Tesoro and let him and his crew leave alive.
• Aquit promised to repay the kindness, while pirates nearby eyed the valuable club.
• Inside the lotus, the Paper Person was pierced by fruit and surrounded by black cloth as Chaos considered trying Seastone or Armament Haki next.
• The pirates speculated that the Golden Emperor was performing a ritual, recalling that he had smothered Goyatrans to death.

Chaos took Crocodile to a lavish night out in Post Island’s red-light district, drawing the attention of pirates and other forces eager to capture him. After the courtesans drugged Chaos and reported his capture to the madam, she said Lady Stussy would reward them.

• Chaos refused to explain his failed attempts to Crocodile and warned him that the next day might be dangerous.
• Chaos and Crocodile walked around Post Island as ships, including a warship, converged on the island.
• Chaos brought Crocodile to a brothel and showered the staff with gold coins as tips.
• Chaos enjoyed the brothel’s hot springs, wine, courtesans, and performances while watchers outside focused on him.
• The courtesans drugged Chaos, and the madam emerged with henchmen to claim him for Lady Stussy.

Chaos took control of the room where the madam and geisha had captured him, woke Crocodile, and prepared for Stussy’s arrival. Overnight, he made the Goddess of the Heavens rain pure gold powder over Post Island, sending its residents into a frenzy.

• Stella and the other geisha urged the madam to keep the Golden Emperor and escape their work, but the madam revealed she had already informed Stussy.
• Chaos woke and ordered Stella and the oiran to continue tending to him while the madam and her bodyguards stood down.
• Chaos used a Golden Warrior to retrieve the unconscious Crocodile, then had the madam’s people revive him and leave the room.
• Chaos warned the madam and her people not to send messages or leave the building, then told Crocodile to rest before Stussy arrived.
• The Goddess of the Heavens exploded above Post Island, scattering pure gold powder over the island.
• Pirates, criminals, and other residents rushed into the streets to collect the gold.

Gild Tesoro’s Golden Rain made the islanders and arriving pirates scramble for gold, only for the collected dust to vanish into the sky. As ships approached Post Island, the Golden Warriors repeatedly showered them with gold dust, and the pirates came ashore furious and eager to find out whether Gild Tesoro was still there.

• The madam warned Stella and the others not to touch the Golden Rain, contact outsiders, or leave the brothel, suspecting Gild Tesoro was monitoring them.
• By morning, pirates and thugs discovered that the gold dust they had collected had shot into the sky and disappeared, while clearheaded pirates suspected Gild Tesoro was behind it.
• Thousands of meters above Post Island, the gold dust reformed into the Goddess of the Heavens, which split into Golden Warriors and spread out over the surrounding sea.
• When the Rat Pirates entered the Golden Warriors’ range, the warriors became gold dust and showered the ship, then reclaimed the pirates’ collected dust and returned to the sky.
• Other ships approaching Post Island experienced the same Golden Rain, and the surviving pirates eventually came ashore asking whether Gild Tesoro had left.

Chaos used the Golden Rain to force pirates who approached his brothel to kneel, then confronted Stussy when she arrived. He tried to recruit her away from the World Government, promising a life of excitement, while Crocodile doubted Chaos’s idea of truly living.

• Stussy and Lombart noticed that the Golden Rain was unusual as their boat approached the western port.
• Pirates charging into Chaos’s brothel were forced to kneel, including the Giant Blade Pirates and their captain.
• Stussy entered the brothel unharmed, and Chaos greeted her upstairs while the pirates outside watched.
• Chaos told Stussy he had taken a liking to her and urged her to leave the World Government for a more exciting life.
• Crocodile privately interpreted Chaos’s promises as a life of constant trouble and near-death danger.

Gild Tesoro revealed that Stussy was a CPO agent and used the Gate of Babylon to overwhelm her in battle. Stussy remained unable to reach Chaos as the fight wore on and her chances of victory dwindled.

• Chaos identified Stussy as a CPO agent, and Crocodile fought Lombart after Chaos gave him permission to kill him.
• Stussy attacked Chaos, but he dodged her thrust and unleashed golden weapons against her.
• Stussy evaded the Gate of Babylon's weapons and counterattacked, while Chaos blocked her strikes and trapped her with Chains of Heaven.
• Stussy broke through the roof and fought off the weapon storm, but a gigantic iron hammer struck her down and destroyed the brothel.
• Stussy repeatedly charged Chaos and was driven back as the watching pirates saw her struggle against his ranged attacks.

Chaos defeated Stussy and forced her to join him by trapping her in a Birdcage and planting golden powder inside her body. He and Crocodile stayed on Post Island to await approaching enemies, leaving Stussy alarmed by their appetite for danger.

• Chaos trapped Stussy in a Haki-coated Birdcage, bound her with Chains of Heaven, and demanded that she choose whether to cooperate or die.
• Stussy agreed to live, and Chaos coated her with golden powder that he could detonate if she tried to expel it.
• Crocodile killed Lombart by draining the moisture from his body, then joined Chaos and Stussy in golden chairs.
• Stussy urged Chaos to leave Post Island as pirate crews and Marine Admiral Buddha Sengoku approached, but Chaos said he was waiting for unsavory characters.
• Crocodile said they were staying for the thrill, and Chaos praised Stussy for understanding his desire to face danger.

Delis, Exploding Bear Trusia, and other pirate captains arrived at Post Island, where the Golden Rain had already affected many crews. Monkey D. Dragon met the Golden Emperor Gaia Chaos in the sky, while Jelly Queen Annie and her allies approached the island to pursue the Golden Emperor.

• Delis landed on Post Island with the Slime Pirates and rejected Exploding Bear Trusia's offer to make her his woman.
• Exploding Bear Trusia decided to seize the Golden Emperor first so he could expand his crew and pursue Delis afterward.
• More pirate crews arrived at Post Island, and most of their members had silently fallen victim to the Golden Rain.
• Monkey D. Dragon approached the infant Golden Warrior, identified himself, and suggested meeting Gaia Chaos in person.
• Gaia Chaos suspected Dragon wanted to recruit him, resolved not to submit, and considered using Dragon while preparing another escape route.
• Jelly Queen Annie neared Post Island with Kexia, Amans, and Lone Wolf Spand's crew, and ordered someone to wake Spand.

Chaos faced five pirate factions gathered at Yoshiwara Street and effortlessly subdued their first attacker, Exploding Bear Trusia. He kept Trusia alive as part of a backup plan for dealing with trouble and covering his retreat.

• Chaos waited on his golden platform as Slime Person Delice, Exploding Bear Trusia, Maker Kakart, Obsidian King Mojeta, and Leopard King Tischer arrived with their crews.
• Trusia transformed into a giant black bear and led his pirates in a charge, but they all fell to their knees before reaching Chaos.
• Trusia attacked Chaos with a Haki-coated cleaver, but Chaos knocked him into a crater with one finger.
• Chaos repeatedly slammed Trusia into the ground and lifted him helplessly into the air, leaving the other faction leaders alarmed by his unknown power.
• Chaos kept Trusia alive because he and the gold dust inside the pirates were part of Chaos's backup plan, especially for covering his retreat.

Gild Tesoro used the golden rain to control most of the pirates, while Chaos confronted Slime Person Delice, whose power let attacks slide off her body. Chaos trapped Delice in a shrinking Armament Haki-coated cage of needles, leaving her with no room to evade.

• Exploding Bear Trusia surrendered to Gild Tesoro, and Maker Kakart and Leopard King Tischer realized the golden rain had left most of the pirates vulnerable to Tesoro’s control.
• Maker Kakart identified Slime Person Delice and Obsidian King Mojeta as apparently unaffected by the golden rain and considered defeating Tesoro or retreating.
• Delice entered the arena, seeking Gild Tesoro and pursuing her ambitions against Big Mom, while Stussy questioned whether Chaos was tempted by her beauty.
• Chaos attacked Delice with weapons, but her Slime Fruit power made them slide off her body.
• Chaos transformed the weapons into a shrinking, Haki-coated birdcage lined with needles, trapping Delice and restricting her movement.

Kaus subdued Delis and stopped the pirate captains from withdrawing, then fought Obsidian King Majeta when he tried to escape. The chapter left Majeta wounded and still facing Kaus’s attack.

• Kaus trapped Delis in the Birdcage, rejected her as a potential subordinate, and made her kneel beside Exploding Bear Trusia.
• Obsidian King Majeta decided to withdraw, while Maker Kakart and Leopard King Tischer also chose to leave.
• Kaus stopped the retreating pirates and dragged Maker Kakart and Leopard King Tischer to kneel beside Delis and Trusia.
• Obsidian King Majeta hardened his body into obsidian and used Armament Haki to withstand Kaus’s weapons before charging at him.
• Kaus coated his weapons with Armament Haki and forced Majeta back, piercing his skin with a halberd.