Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye decided to let the Marines witness his new order before judging whether they could join it, while Whitebeard celebrated the prospect of drinking freely after Bai Ye healed him. On Fish-Man Island, Neptune rejected CP0's demand to abandon Whitebeard and support the World Government, leaving the two sides at an impasse.

• Bai Ye told Gion and Dragon he would wait to see how the Marines responded to the New World before deciding whether to keep or punish them.
• Dragon agreed with Bai Ye's plan, and Gion understood why the Marines could not be expected to fight their former comrades.
• Whitebeard asked Bai Ye whether he could heal his body, then eagerly celebrated when Bai Ye said he could drink as much as he wanted.
• CP0 demanded that Neptune surrender Fish-Man Island and Shirahoshi, abandon Whitebeard, and join the World Government against Bai Ye.
• Neptune reminded CP0 that Whitebeard had protected Fish-Man Island more effectively than the World Government and refused to accept their blame-shifting.
• Neptune decided he would never join the World Government again, and the confrontation with CP0 remained deadlocked.

Neptune and Jinbe faced CP0’s demand to take Fish-Man Island’s residents and Shirahoshi, and Jinbe proposed seeking Bai Ye’s help instead of joining the World Government. Neptune agreed to contact Whitebeard while he stalled CP0 until Bai Ye arrived.

• Neptune demanded ten minutes to discuss CP0’s order, and CP0 agreed after he threatened war.
• Neptune gathered with Jinbe, Shark Star, and the others to decide whether Fish-Man Island should join the war.
• Jinbe suggested joining Bai Ye’s camp, while noting they should first inform Whitebeard, who protected Fish-Man Island.
• Jinbe proposed asking Bai Ye to move Fish-Man Island to Wano Country, and Shark Star questioned the risk.
• Neptune accepted Jinbe’s recommendation to seek Bai Ye’s help and told him to contact Whitebeard while Neptune stalled CP0.

Jinbe and Neptune stalled Cipher Pol while seeking Bai Ye’s help, and Fish-Man Island agreed to join his camp against the World Government. Bai Ye arrived, defeated the agents, and asked Jinbe whether Fish-Man Island was ready to leave with him.

• Jinbe asked Neptune to keep Cipher Pol occupied while he contacted Whitebeard and the others.
• Neptune tried to negotiate better terms, but Cipher Pol recognized the delay and prepared to attack.
• Bai Ye emerged from Kamui and revealed that Fish-Man Island had agreed to join his alliance.
• Cipher Pol agents tried to escape and send a report, but Bai Ye killed them before the intelligence reached the World Government.
• Bai Ye asked Jinbe whether they could take Fish-Man Island with them.

Neptune agreed to bring Fish-Man Island and its people to Wano Country with Bai Ye, hoping to end discrimination and fish-man slavery. He then confronted Bai Ye about whether Shirahoshi, who was Poseidon, would be forced to fight.

• Bai Ye invited Neptune to discuss Fish-Man Island's future, and Neptune agreed to hear his plans.
• Neptune asked for fish-men to live on the surface without discrimination or slavery, and Bai Ye promised to work toward those goals while asking fish-men to help change relations with humans.
• Neptune told Jinbe to announce that Fish-Man Island would follow Bai Ye to Wano Country and return to the surface.
• Neptune hesitated over Shirahoshi's role in the war, then asked Bai Ye what he thought about her after realizing he already knew she was Poseidon.

Bai Ye reassured Neptune that Shirahoshi would not be needed for the war, and Fish-Man Island relocated to the seas around Wano and joined his faction. As the allies celebrated, imprisoned Akainu admitted that Bai Ye ending the Celestial Dragons’ era would be a good thing, prompting Kizaru to tease him.

• Neptune asked Bai Ye to keep Shirahoshi out of the war, and Bai Ye confirmed that he had never intended to involve her.
• Neptune and Jinbe prepared Fish-Man Island to leave, and Bai Ye used his spatial ability to move it to the seas around Wano Country.
• Neptune announced that Fish-Man Island would join Bai Ye’s faction, and he reunited with Whitebeard and Jinbe as the allies began a banquet.
• In prison, Garp learned that Fish-Man Island had joined the opposition to the World Government, while Akainu said ending the Celestial Dragons’ era would be a good thing.
• Kizaru teased Akainu that his justice was beginning to waver.

Imprisoned Marines Akainu and Aokiji argued over their opposing ideas of justice, especially Akainu’s actions at Ohara and the failure of the Marines’ approach to stop piracy. The chapter ended with Aokiji unable to refute Akainu’s claim that none of their versions of justice had changed the world.

• Akainu admitted that Bai Ye might be able to change the world and questioned whether serving the World Government had made him an enforcer of the Celestial Dragons.
• Aokiji was surprised by Akainu’s changing views, while Kizaru tried to avoid their argument and Garp watched for entertainment.
• Aokiji confronted Akainu over the civilians he killed at Ohara, where nearly all the scholars survived because Bai Ye rescued them.
• Akainu defended his actions as part of the mission to eliminate the scholars, and Aokiji compared his killing of civilians to the acts of pirates.
• Akainu challenged Aokiji’s and Sengoku’s approaches, arguing that the Great Pirate Era had worsened and that none of their justice had changed anything.
• Aokiji recognized that he had no answer to Akainu’s criticism of their failures.

Kizaru, Garp, Aokiji, and Akainu debated whether the Marines had upheld justice or protected the Celestial Dragons, and whether Bai Ye could truly change the world. Kizaru argued they should let Bai Ye try, while Akainu worried the old cycle would eventually return; the others began considering what kind of world Bai Ye would create.

• Kizaru questioned whether Aokiji's and Akainu's versions of justice were both flawed, and Garp agreed that the Marines had helped the Celestial Dragons suppress people.
• Garp reflected that he had stayed in the Marines because his friends and comrades were there, though Bai Ye's words made him realize the Marines could not achieve everything he wanted.
• Kizaru pointed to Vegapunk's and Dragon's support for Bai Ye, as well as the Revolutionary Army's liberation of countries, as evidence that Bai Ye could change the world.
• Garp observed that this reasoning made the Marines supporters of the Celestial Dragons, while Akainu warned that a new ruler might repeat the same cycle.
• Kizaru accepted that the future might bring new problems but said Bai Ye's changes would improve the present, and he urged Akainu not to dwell on what might happen later.
• Aokiji told Kizaru he was taking the defeat well and considered waiting to see what kind of world Bai Ye would create.

Kizaru, Akainu, Aokiji, and the other imprisoned Marines discussed whether Bai Ye would win and what they would do if his New World eliminated pirates and made the Marines unnecessary. They considered possible jobs and wondered whether the Marines might instead continue serving ordinary people.

• Akainu recalled losing his family to pirates and wondered whether the world could truly change as Aokiji and Kizaru agreed to wait and see what happened.
• Kizaru said he wanted to see the New World Bai Ye might create, and Akainu considered that Bai Ye's victory could be better if he truly eliminated pirates.
• Momonga worried that the Marines would lose their jobs and asked Kizaru to take him along, prompting the other Marines to think about supporting their families afterward.
• Aokiji proposed making and selling popsicles, while Kizaru imagined using his Devil Fruit for deliveries and suggested Akainu could run a magma-heated hot spring.
• Aokiji argued that the Marines might still be needed to maintain order and could serve ordinary people instead of the World Government and Celestial Dragons.

Kizaru and the Marines considered working in factories if they could no longer serve as Marines, while the Five Elders reacted to Fish-Man Island joining Bai Ye and worried about his growing strength. The Five Elders debated recruiting Elbaf before Bai Ye could bring its Giants into his camp.

• Akainu told Kizaru, Garp, and the other Marines that civilians could earn money working in factories, and they considered it as a future option.
• The Five Elders learned that Fish-Man Island had joined Bai Ye, giving him access to Poseidon and strengthening his forces.
• The Five Elders discussed how to recruit more allies, noting that Whitebeard had likely joined Bai Ye alongside Dragon and Vegapunk.
• Saint Saturn urged the Five Elders to win Elbaf over, while Saint Mars doubted the Giants would cooperate with the World Government.
• Saint Saturn warned that Bai Ye might use force to bring Elbaf under his control and insisted they could not afford to let the Giants join him.

The Five Elders debated how to keep Elbaf from siding with Bai Ye, recognizing that force could backfire and that Bai Ye’s faction was too strong to undermine. They decided to pursue negotiations with the Giants, send Shamrock to approach Loki, and try to persuade Shanks, though none of these efforts seemed assured.

• Saint Nusjuro warned that an attack on Elbaf would likely fail and push the Giants toward Bai Ye.
• Saint Saturn argued that the World Government should offer benefits to win Elbaf over, and Saint Jaygarcia Saturn proposed approaching Loki and the Giant elders.
• The Five Elders decided to send Shamrock to contact Loki and gather intelligence through talks with the Giant elders.
• The Five Elders discussed persuading Shanks to return, acknowledging that he had refused before and might not be swayed.
• The Five Elders agreed to approach the Giants and Shanks rather than let the opportunity pass to Bai Ye.

The Five Elders prepared for war against Bai Ye, planning to use the Celestial Dragons and recruited pirates as expendable forces while seeking Shanks and Big Mom as allies. As the World Government contacted Shanks, he left the Den Den Mushi unanswered and asked Beckman to guess who was calling.

• The Five Elders decided they could not leave the Holy Land and accepted that many Celestial Dragons might die in the coming battle.
• The Five Elders agreed to keep pirates on the outskirts, place Marine soldiers behind them, and use the World Government's forces at the front.
• The Five Elders discussed winning over Big Mom, but worried she might side with Bai Ye if he agreed to her request for his genes.
• The Five Elders decided to contact Shanks themselves and also make arrangements with Elbaf.
• Shanks ignored the ringing Den Den Mushi, and Beckman guessed that Bai Ye was calling.

Shanks told his crew that the World Government might expose something about his identity, but he was surprised when Bai Ye called instead. Bai Ye urged Shanks to join the fight against the World Government, and the chapter ended with Shanks asking whether Bai Ye believed in the prophecies.

• Shanks admitted he had been hiding something about his identity and said the crew would learn more when he answered the call.
• Lucky Roux guessed that Shanks was the Son of the Dragon King, but Shanks dismissed the story as nonsense.
• Shanks answered the Den Den Mushi and discovered that Bai Ye was calling, prompting his crew to laugh at his mistaken guess.
• Shanks asked whether Bai Ye wanted him to fight the World Government, and Bai Ye explained that the war had already destroyed the world's balance.
• Bai Ye described the conflict as a battle between the old order and a new one, then asked Shanks whether he believed in prophecies.
• Shanks asked Bai Ye whether he truly believed in the prophecy.

Bai Ye told Shanks he intended to defy the prophecy and wage war against the World Government, while Shanks struggled to reconcile that plan with his years of maintaining balance. Bai Ye asked Shanks to choose whether to join the coming global war, and Shanks was left weighing his decision.

• Bai Ye said he believed he could break the prophecy and rejected the idea of living by the plans of someone who had failed.
• Shanks questioned how Bai Ye could possess Nika's ability, and Bai Ye said neither his power nor Shanks's was wrong.
• Shanks wondered whether Bai Ye's actions still fulfilled the prophecy and whether the appearance of two Nikas meant the prophecy or his efforts to maintain balance had gone wrong.
• Bai Ye recalled finding baby Shanks in a treasure chest but choosing to let Roger take him, and Shanks thanked Bai Ye for giving Roger a dignified death.
• Bai Ye invited Shanks to help mobilize the New World against the World Government, warning that the coming global war could not simply be avoided.
• Shanks fell silent as he faced the choice of joining Bai Ye or continuing to stand aside.

Bai Ye asked Shanks to join his campaign against the World Government and described plans to unite the islands and lift them above the rising sea. Shanks remained undecided, while Bai Ye turned his attention to the unstable Giant tribe on Elbaf.

• Shanks asked what Bai Ye would do after defeating the World Government, and Bai Ye said he wanted to establish relative equality.
• Shanks asked whether Bai Ye planned to connect the islands and feared they would be swallowed by the sea; Bai Ye said he could move them into the sky.
• Bai Ye told Shanks that Whitebeard, the Revolutionary Army, Vegapunk, and Fish-Man Island were already aligned with him, but Shanks asked for time to decide.
• Kaido complained that Shanks was hesitating, and Bai Ye explained that Shanks's choice was understandable and that Elbaf was the priority.
• The Red Hair Pirates mocked Shanks for previously insisting Bai Ye was not behind the events, then pressed him about Bai Ye's offer.

Shanks struggled to decide whether to support Bai Ye’s coming revolution or preserve the world’s balance, while the Five Elders demanded his help. The call ended with Saint Saturn revealing Shanks’s Celestial Dragon identity to the stunned members of his crew.

• Shanks’s crew mocked him for claiming Bai Ye had called him an indispensable fighting force, then Beckman asked what he planned to do next.
• Beckman asked what kind of New World Shanks wanted, but a call from the Five Elders interrupted before Shanks could decide.
• The Five Elders urged Shanks to bring his crew back and join the World Government against Bai Ye, but Shanks said the crisis was not aimed at him.
• Shanks weighed supporting Bai Ye against following the prophecy entrusted to him by his former captain and concluded that helping Bai Ye was the best choice.
• Saint Saturn reminded Shanks that he was a Celestial Dragon and demanded he act, shocking everyone in Shanks’s crew.

Shanks revealed that he was a Celestial Dragon and rejected the Five Elders’ attempt to bring him back, saying he would neither support the World Government nor necessarily join Bai Ye. He argued that Bai Ye’s plans offered a better path to a new world, while the Five Elders warned that Bai Ye or his allies might simply create new World Nobles.

• Shanks told the others that he was a Celestial Dragon, and they waited to hear whether he intended to return.
• Shanks calmly said he would not go back, confirming that he had rejected the Five Elders before.
• The Five Elders considered how Bai Ye had disrupted their plans for Nika and the prophecy, while Beckman understood that Shanks was waiting for a new world.
• Saint Saturn asked whether Bai Ye would spare Shanks despite his Celestial Dragon blood, and Shanks replied that the Five Elders already understood Bai Ye’s aims.
• Shanks declared that he would not join the World Government and would welcome the chance to create a new world.
• The Five Elders challenged Shanks’s confidence in Bai Ye, warning that Bai Ye’s followers could become new World Nobles.

The Five Elders failed to persuade Shanks to side with the World Government, so they considered recruiting Big Mom instead. After hearing the World Government’s proposed plan, Big Mom recognized that it intended to use her forces as cannon fodder, while Bai Ye had offered her no benefits either, leaving her unsure which side to approach.

• Shanks rejected the Five Elders’ appeal, saying he had already cut ties with the World Government.
• Saint Saturn ended the call, and the Five Elders worried that Shanks might eventually join Bai Ye.
• The Five Elders decided to contact Big Mom as another possible ally.
• Katakuri warned Big Mom that the World Government wanted her forces to fight Bai Ye along the coastline and might not honor its promises.
• Big Mom weighed the World Government’s offer against Bai Ye’s refusal to give her terms and felt uncertain about what to do.

Big Mom weighed the World Government’s promises against joining Bai Ye, worried about risking her family in the coming war without securing benefits or special status. She decided to visit Wano Country first, and Bai Ye agreed to move her there while the others discussed the World Government’s offer.

• Perospero warned Big Mom that the World Government’s promises might be no more trustworthy than Bai Ye, and Big Mom asked Katakuri for advice.
• Katakuri urged Big Mom to choose Bai Ye, arguing that he could help her realize her dream of a country where all races could coexist.
• Big Mom decided to visit Bai Ye before making a final choice, and Katakuri advised her to notify him so they would not be mistaken for enemies.
• Big Mom called Bai Ye, who agreed to bring her to Wano Country and offered to move Whole Cake Island as well.
• After the call, Kaido mocked Big Mom for deciding to come, while Bai Ye and Golden Lion discussed whether the World Government had truly offered her meaningful benefits.

Bai Ye explained that the World Government had likely offered Big Mom help establishing a country for many races, but she distrusted its promises and their talks fell apart. Shanks then asked to visit Wano Country to discuss Bai Ye’s plans, and Bai Ye agreed, leaving open whether Shanks would come alone or with his crew.

• Bai Ye rejected Kaido’s guess that the World Government had offered to help Big Mom become Pirate King and suggested it had promised support for her country instead.
• Bai Ye explained that Big Mom likely distrusted the World Government and feared being used as cannon fodder, and Kaido agreed that their side was safer.
• Bai Ye and the others remarked that Big Mom’s arrival was turning into a Rocks Pirates reunion.
• Shanks contacted Bai Ye and asked to visit Wano Country to see the situation and discuss Bai Ye’s plans.
• Bai Ye welcomed Shanks and asked whether he would come alone or bring his entire pirate crew.

Shanks and his crew agreed to travel to Bai Ye, while Bai Ye went to Whole Cake Island to meet Big Mom. Their reunion ended with them trading familiar insults as Big Mom's crew watched in surprise.

• Shanks asked his crew whether they wanted to go with him, and they agreed to follow their captain.
• Shanks told Bai Ye they were ready, and Bai Ye arranged to transfer them after getting their location.
• Bai Ye left Wano Country and appeared on Whole Cake Island, where Big Mom complained that he had kept her waiting.
• Bai Ye and Big Mom traded barbs, and Big Mom chose not to continue arguing with him.
• Big Mom's crew watched in astonishment as she calmly tolerated Bai Ye's insults and privately felt sad about how time had changed her.