Chapter Summaries

Chaos and Tsuru fought to a standstill on Sabaody Archipelago as powerful crews and Morgans watched. Chaos then unleashed his Golden Rain, sending the island into chaos as people fled from the dust that could let him control them.

• Chaos and Tsuru clashed with Conqueror's Haki and powerful blows, shaking Grove 45 and flattening the surrounding area without either gaining the upper hand.
• Morgans photographed the battle while Charlotte Perospero and Charlotte Cracker arrived with Big Mom Pirates seeking to capture Chaos.
• Chameleon King Nero Dal and the Explosion Pirates watched the fight after confirming that Pure Gold, which could extend one's lifespan, was real and that they had a lead.
• Chaos sensed powerful presences across the archipelago and snapped his fingers, causing golden dust to rain down over Sabaody.
• People panicked and fled from the Golden Rain after learning that it could allow Chaos to control anyone it touched.

Tsuru received orders to protect the arriving Celestial Dragons and withdrew from her fight with Gild Tesoro, but Chaos took offense at being dismissed and summoned his hundred-meter Goddess of the Heavens. Tsuru asked what he wanted as the two appeared poised to resume their confrontation.

• Domir and the other Marines warned reinforcements to shield themselves from Chaos’s Golden Rain.
• Kong told Tsuru that Celestial Dragons were heading to Sabaody Archipelago for an auction and ordered her to protect them, noting that Sengoku was on his way and the Whitebeard Pirates and Flying Pirates might also arrive.
• Tsuru ended her fight with Chaos to attend to her new assignment, but Chaos insisted that only he could decide when their battle ended.
• Chaos gathered the Golden Rain into the Goddess of the Heavens, which transformed into armor and filled the sky with weapons.
• Tsuru faced the towering Goddess of the Heavens and asked Chaos what he wanted.

Chaos and Vice Admiral Tsuru fought a one-minute battle in Grove 45, each pushing the other to the limit. The fight ended without a clear winner, and Chaos left with Crocodile and Stussy after praising Tsuru.

• Chaos declared that he and Tsuru would fight for one minute and promised to let her go regardless of the outcome.
• Tsuru attacked Chaos with her Wash-Wash Fruit powers as Chaos summoned the Goddess of the Heavens and rained weapons down on her.
• Chaos and Tsuru exchanged powerful attacks, with the Goddess of the Heavens and the weapons disrupting Tsuru’s movements.
• Tsuru and Chaos traded a final blow, both suffering injuries as the battlefield was devastated.
• When the minute ended, Chaos and Tsuru stood bloodied inside the Birdcage, and neither had gained much ground.
• Chaos reassembled the Goddess of the Heavens, praised Tsuru, and walked toward Crocodile and Stussy as his Golden Armor fell away.

Chaos left Tsuru after their timed fight and prepared to relax, while CPO agents and the Explosion Pirates pursued the Pure Gold and the Golden Emperor on Sabaody Archipelago. When Charlotte Perospero and his companions blocked Chaos’s way, he insulted them and ordered his Golden Warriors to attack.

• Chaos ended his fight with Tsuru after exactly one minute, and Tsuru returned to the Marine base with her men.
• Stussy secretly acknowledged a signal from a CPO agent while Chaos noticed the nearby agents without revealing what he knew.
• Chameleon King Nirudall decided the Explosion Pirates could not capture Chaos alone and contacted Explosion Monarch Gotdi for help.
• Gotdi sent Koans and Ssubik to Sabaody Archipelago, then flew there himself to claim the Pure Gold and the Golden Emperor.
• Charlotte Perospero, Cracker, Conte, and their companions blocked Chaos, who called Perospero ugly and sent eighteen Golden Warriors to attack them.

Crocodile, Stussy, and the Golden Warrior fought Big Mom’s children while Chaos watched Cracker and reflected on Devil Fruit abilities. The battles continued as Chaos remained focused on Cracker.

• Crocodile charged at Perospero and the others, eager to fight.
• Stussy used Shave to confront Charlotte Effilee, and their weapons clashed in a powerful storm.
• Cracker created a Biscuit Warrior that collided with the Golden Warrior.
• Chaos watched Cracker and considered the potential and classifications of Devil Fruits.

Chaos overwhelmed Cracker and the Charlotte family with the Gate of Babylon, then stopped the fight to conserve his strength after facing Vice Admiral Tsuru. As Chaos left area 45, Perospero considered calling Mother and Katakuri to Sabaody Archipelago.

• Chaos summoned waves of Golden Warriors and sat back as they fought Cracker’s Biscuit Warriors.
• Chaos transformed the Golden Warriors into weapons and bombarded the area, while Cracker’s Biscuit Warriors shielded the Charlotte family and left them mostly unharmed.
• Chaos recalled his weapons and ended the fight, explaining that Cracker and the others were too weak to interest him.
• Stussy explained to Crocodile that Chaos had attacked the Big Mom Pirates to warn others, while preserving strength for their precarious situation.
• Perospero asked Cracker if he could defeat Chaos, and Cracker estimated their chances at fifty-fifty before considering calling Mother and Katakuri.

Tsuru welcomed Saint Roswald and Princess Idoria to Sabaody while Chaos and his crew settled into a hotel and monitored Stussy. Stussy met five CPO agents in a secluded park, where the octopus-masked agent questioned whether she had truly betrayed the World Government.

• Tsuru greeted Saint Roswald and Princess Idoria at the Marine base and told them Admiral Sengoku was on his way.
• Chaos, Crocodile, and Stussy bathed and then relaxed at a hotel on Grove 75.
• Chaos sent a tiny Golden Warrior with a surveillance Den Den Mushi to follow Stussy after she left to investigate the auction.
• Stussy entered a forest in Sabaody Park and met five CPO agents, including the octopus-masked agent.
• The octopus-masked CPO agent asked Stussy whether she had truly betrayed the World Government.

Stussy returned to Chaos and reported on an upcoming auction while he focused on the World Government’s plan to capture Gild Tesoro and the threat surrounding Pure Gold. Chaos questioned Stussy about the Underground World’s major figures, leaving her to consider whether she had overlooked anyone.

• Stussy told the CPO agents she would move against Gild Tesoro at seven that night, and they revealed their orders to eliminate Nero Dal and his crew because news of Pure Gold had leaked.
• Chaos recalled that Pure Gold could prolong life and decided he would not let the World Government or the Explosion Pirates take it from him.
• Stussy returned from the Red Light District uneasy that Chaos had recognized her possible betrayal, then reported that Umit would hold an auction the next day featuring a mermaid and a Devil Fruit.
• At Chaos’s prompting, Stussy described the Underground World’s major bosses and their businesses, including Umit, Sachit, Coridas Tolo, Medusa, Drago Packlo, Hider Kibson, Dufeld, Morgans, and her own Red Light District.
• Chaos asked Stussy to think again about whether anyone else mattered in the Underground World.

Chaos confronted Stussy over suspected betrayal, then questioned her about Pure Gold and the Explosion Pirates. After claiming he could predict the future, he left Stussy and Crocodile uncertain as Stussy began her report on the pirates.

• Chaos choked Stussy for hiding her connection to her superiors, then released her after she insisted she had not betrayed him.
• Stussy promised to lure the five CPO agents to Chaos and said she could kill them if he still distrusted her.
• Stussy explained that Pure Gold came from Alchemy Island, which had been swallowed by a giant Sea King Lanternfish, and that the scientist's daughter still looked like a child after more than a century.
• Chaos said he knew the Lantern Fish had three stomachs, each containing an island, and claimed he could predict the future.
• Chaos changed the subject and asked Stussy about the Explosion Pirates, so she began telling him what she knew.

Chaos and Stussy trapped five CPO agents who came to capture Chaos and Crocodile, and Stussy proved her loyalty by killing four of them. Chaos spared the Octopus CPO for now as the crew prepared for the growing conflict on Sabaody Archipelago.

• Stussy summoned the CPO agents and falsely told them she had drugged Chaos and Crocodile, who pretended to be unconscious.
• When two agents moved to seize them, Chaos sprung a trap using the Birdcage and Chains of Heaven, capturing all five agents in golden dust.
• Chaos used Divine Control on the agents while onlookers outside watched the Goddess of the Heavens seal off the hotel.
• Stussy killed four captured CPO agents, but Chaos stopped her from killing the Octopus CPO because he still had a use for him.
• The Octopus CPO warned that the World Government would send stronger agents after Stussy, and Crocodile welcomed the prospect of being hunted.

Chaos and his allies infiltrated the Marine base, planted Divine Control in Saint Roswald and Princess Idoria, and escaped as their plans for Sabaody Archipelago advanced. Zephyr and Katakuri headed toward the unfolding events, while Sengoku arrived at the Marine base ahead of the auction.

• Stussy, Chaos, and Crocodile impersonated CPO agents and entered the Celestial Dragons' residence, where Chaos secretly planted Divine Control in Saint Roswald and Princess Idoria.
• Chaos killed the controlled octopus CPO agent after the group left the base, then declared that they could act freely on Sabaody Archipelago.
• Zephyr reached the Red Line Continent aboard a warship after Kong summoned him as a precaution against Whitebeard and the Golden Lion.
• Charlotte Katakuri traveled above the New World as more pirates arrived on Sabaody Archipelago, while Chaos and his allies prepared for the next day's auction.
• Marine Admiral Buddha Sengoku arrived at the Marine base late that night.

A grand auction in Sabaody Archipelago drew notorious pirates, Marines, and Celestial Dragons, while Dragon watched the Celestial Dragons’ slaves and renewed his resolve to overthrow them. Chaos then arrived with an extravagant display and unleashed Conqueror’s Haki on the crowd.

• Reporters watched famous pirates, nobles, and other guests arrive at the auction house in Grove 1.
• Charlotte Perospero and Blue Trebol arrived with their crews, followed by Tsuru, Sengoku, Borsalino, and the Celestial Dragons Saint Roswald and Princess Idoria.
• Dragon watched Saint Roswald’s enslaved rider and clenched his fists, determined to overthrow the Celestial Dragons.
• Golden Warriors and eighteen Goddesses of the Heavens staged a ceremonial entrance for Crocodile, Stussy, and Chaos.
• Chaos released his Conqueror’s Haki, causing people throughout the crowd to collapse as Crocodile remained calm and Stussy showed her embarrassment.

Chaos arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago auction, provoked Sengoku, and entered with Crocodile and Stussy while humiliating the assembled pirates and nobles. He settled into a golden throne as the crowd’s anger mounted.

• Chaos’s Conqueror’s Haki swept over the gathering, but Sengoku shielded the Celestial Dragons and refused Saint Roswald’s order to capture Chaos.
• Chaos invited Borsalino to join him and urged Sengoku to leave the Marines, but Sengoku led the Celestial Dragons into the auction house instead.
• Chaos sent his Golden Warriors and mini Goddesses of the Heavens into the clouds, then entered the auction house with Crocodile and Stussy.
• Chaos knocked out people in the first three rows with his Conqueror’s Haki and called the pirates and nobles broke losers.
• Chaos summoned a golden throne, chairs, and table through the roof, sat down with Crocodile and Stussy, and asked for fruit and red wine as the crowd grew furious.

Chaos attended an auction and used lavish showers of gold coins to win two Devil Fruits, provoking Saint Roswald. The bidding for the second fruit continued as Saint Roswald raised his offer to 2.5 billion berries.

• Auctioneer Yis opened the auction with a Brown Bear-form Bear-Bear Fruit, and bidders drove its price to 210 million berries.
• Chaos showered the stage with gold coins, won the Bear-Bear Fruit, and sent it to the Goddess of the Heavens to absorb.
• Yis presented a Chinchilla-form Rat-Rat Fruit, and Saint Roswald bid 300 million berries, drawing attention to his rivalry with Chaos.
• Chaos answered with twice as many gold coins as before, and the auction staff verified that they were worth at least 2 billion berries.
• Saint Roswald remained undeterred and raised his bid to 2.5 billion berries.

Gild Tesoro outbid Saint Roswald at the auction and repeatedly taunted him and Sengoku, escalating tensions in the hall. The arrival of Lone Red, Patrick Redfield made Sengoku and Tsuru more cautious, leaving Chaos confident he could keep provoking them.

• Gild Tesoro won the Weasel-form Devil Fruit for five billion berries after Saint Roswald stopped bidding.
• Crocodile called Saint Roswald a broke-ass, and Chaos joined in, provoking the Celestial Dragon and Sengoku.
• Yis began the auction for the Inu Inu no Mi: Model: Weasel, and Gild Tesoro raised the bidding to three billion berries.
• Saint Roswald ordered Sengoku to capture Chaos, while Chaos taunted Sengoku and urged him to defy his superiors.
• Sengoku and Tsuru noticed Lone Red, Patrick Redfield watching from the back, and Chaos realized Sengoku would have to hold back.

Sengoku and Tsuru tried to keep the Celestial Dragons safe as threats gathered around the Sabaody Archipelago auction, while Gild Tesoro won two more Devil Fruits. After hours of bidding, the auction introduced its grand finale: the Logia Kumo Kumo no Mi.

• Sengoku refused Saint Roswald's demands, while Tsuru warned Princess Idoria that Lone Red, Whitebeard, and Golden Lion might be in the area.
• Princess Idoria agreed to leave, but Saint Roswald insisted on staying for the auction, and Sengoku warned him not to cause trouble.
• Gild Tesoro won the Inu Inu no Mi: Model: Weasel for three billion beli, then bought the Hitsu Hitsu no Mi: Model: Antelope for one billion beli.
• The auction continued for three hours, selling slaves and treasures while Chaos watched without bidding.
• Yis announced the Logia Kumo Kumo no Mi as the next item, opening its bidding at one billion beli.

Chaos bought the Kumo Kumo no Mi for seven billion berries and gave it to Stussy, adding another Logia user to his crew. The auction’s final item was revealed to be a mother mermaid and her daughter from Fish-Man Island.

• Perospero and other bidders drove up the price of the Kumo Kumo no Mi before Chaos bid seven billion berries and won it.
• Chaos gave the Kumo Kumo no Mi to Stussy, who ate it despite its foul taste.
• Yis closed the auction for the fruit after no one raised Chaos’s bid.
• Yis unveiled the final item, a mother mermaid and her frightened daughter, inside a fish tank.

At the auction, Whitebeard arrived with his crew and took the mother-and-daughter mermaids for a thousand berries, silencing the hall. He then turned his attention to Gaia Chaos, who remained seated on his Golden Throne.

• The nobles and tycoons bid more than 1.5 billion berries for the rare mother-and-daughter shortfin mako mermaids, and Yis asked whether Chaos would bid.
• Whitebeard and the Whitebeard Pirates burst into the auction house, startling the crowd and drawing greetings from Lone Red.
• Whitebeard exchanged words with Lone Red and Sengoku, saying he had come for a different purpose and would fight Sengoku when he did not have to hold back.
• Whitebeard offered Yis a thousand berries for the mermaids, and she agreed; Marco carried their tank away.
• The crowd watched as Whitebeard asked who Gaia Chaos was, and Chaos's Golden Throne turned to face him.

Chaos challenged Whitebeard to become his subordinate, then clashed with him in Conqueror’s Haki and combat on the Sabaody Archipelago. Whitebeard’s empowered strike broke Chaos’s armor and sent him flying.

• Chaos rejected Whitebeard’s offer to be his son and demanded that Whitebeard become his subordinate.
• Chaos unleashed Conqueror’s Haki at Whitebeard, and their wills darkened the sky and shook the Sabaody Archipelago.
• Sengoku ordered the area evacuated while Stussy, Crocodile, Jozu, and Lone Red watched the confrontation from a distance.
• Chaos donned his Golden Armor and held his ground despite losing the Conqueror’s Haki clash, calling Whitebeard a stepping stone.
• Whitebeard struck with Murakumogiri, and Chaos blocked it with his armored leg.
• Whitebeard coated Murakumogiri in Armament Haki and struck again, cracking Chaos’s armor and blasting him away while he spat blood.

Chaos fought Whitebeard in a desperate bid to improve his martial arts and Haki, but Whitebeard overwhelmingly outclassed him. Whitebeard again invited Chaos to become his son, and Chaos answered by charging back into the fight as Whitebeard began to take him seriously.

• Chaos attacked Whitebeard without using Goddess of the Heavens, hoping to sharpen his fighting skills against a powerful opponent.
• Whitebeard blocked Chaos's kicks and strikes with ease, repeatedly counterattacking and leaving Chaos badly injured.
• Chaos used Rokushiki Secret Technique: Emperor's Spear and a barrage of Tempest Kicks, but Whitebeard overwhelmed them with his strength and vibrations.
• Whitebeard invited Chaos to become his son, but Chaos refused to answer and attacked him again.
• Chaos kept rising and attacking despite spitting up blood, and Whitebeard's expression gradually grew serious.