Chapter Summaries

Blackbeard revealed that the Op-Op Fruit had altered his body, allowing him to eat multiple Devil Fruits, and deliberately stirred the pirates’ ambitions. As Ace confronted him, Blackbeard continued charging his ability and argued that Bai Ye—not he—was responsible for exposing the secret.

• Ace recognized Blackbeard’s strange condition and wondered whether the Op-Op Fruit had altered his body as Bai Ye had suggested.
• Blackbeard confirmed the Op-Op Fruit’s role and revealed that its modifications could let someone consume multiple Devil Fruits.
• The pirates present began imagining that they, too, could gain power through the Op-Op Fruit, while Ace realized Blackbeard had revealed the secret to provoke chaos.
• Ace called Blackbeard a madman and insisted he had to be killed, but Blackbeard dismissed his concerns and kept charging his ability.
• Blackbeard argued that Bai Ye had already exposed the truth and complained that people were blaming him for it.

Blackbeard unveiled a fusion technique combining the Dark-Dark Fruit and the Munch-Munch Fruit, forcing Ace to evade his devastating cannon attack. The battle left the onlookers considering the potential of combining Fruit abilities, while Evil Governor King resolved to escape and find an Op-Op Fruit user.

• Blackbeard ended his conversation with Ace and revealed that he had fused the Dark-Dark Fruit and the Munch-Munch Fruit.
• Blackbeard fired his Munch-Munch Dark Matter Cannon, but Ace escaped the attack with a pillar of fire and was thrown back by its shockwave.
• The cannon silently devoured everything in a wide crater, while Ace recognized how dangerous Blackbeard's fused ability was.
• The onlookers considered whether combining two complementary Fruit abilities could give them similar power, and Shiryu briefly longed to try it.
• Evil Governor King decided to escape, find an Op-Op Fruit user, and have them modify him so he could surpass Blackbeard and build his ideal nation.

Ace refused Whitebeard's offer to fight Blackbeard and insisted on facing him himself, while Blackbeard waited for his hidden plan to become possible. At the Holy Land, Shanks and the others prepared to move forward without Bai Ye, who chose not to join them.

• Ace survived Blackbeard's attack, and Marco checked that he was unharmed.
• Whitebeard offered to handle Blackbeard, but Ace refused and insisted that he could defeat Teach himself.
• Lafitte warned Blackbeard that their forces were collapsing, but Blackbeard told him to wait until the timing was right for their plan.
• Blackbeard sent Lafitte to prepare and turned to face Ace.
• Shanks and the others reached the Holy Land, where Bai Ye said he would not accompany them.

Bai Ye assigned the forces accompanying him to attack the Holy Land, leaving Im for him to face alone. After laying out the broader campaign, he departed and left the others to carry out his plans.

• Shanks accepted Bai Ye's decision to go alone and agreed to help deal with the Celestial Dragons and Knights of God.
• Bai Ye assigned the Haki masters to fight the Knights of God, directed the others to face ordinary Celestial Dragons, Marines, and World Government forces, and ordered slaves freed unless they had committed heinous crimes.
• Bai Ye named Kaido, Bullet, Mihawk, Golden Lion, Issho, Old John, Loki, Shanks, and Kuma to handle the Five Elders and Knights of God, while he reserved Im for himself.
• Golden Lion and Old John argued until Lilia questioned why Bai Ye was letting them bicker, and Bai Ye said they would not actually fight.
• Bai Ye told everyone to follow his arrangements, explained that the Revolutionary Army, Whitebeard Pirates, Marines, Big Mom, and Fish-Men would cover other fronts, then left as Beckman and Old John remarked on his casual command style.

The gathered allies argued over command and worried about Bai Ye, but Golden Lion revealed that Bai Ye had effortlessly defeated all of them before and could overpower everyone assembled. Bai Ye then confronted Kong Kong, who asked to pass so he could reach Sengoku while Bai Ye continued toward the Holy Land.

• Old John challenged Golden Lion to a fight over who would command everyone, and Lilia scolded them for arguing while enemies remained.
• Beckman asked whether they were worried about Bai Ye, and Golden Lion said none of them could match Bai Ye, including the allies who had recently joined.
• Shanks accepted that he should focus on his own role, while Loki and Beckman reacted with shock to Bai Ye's strength.
• Bai Ye found Kong Kong preparing to leave with CP agents and other troops, and Kong Kong realized Bai Ye had come alone after the forces outside failed to stop him.
• Kong Kong told Bai Ye he needed to reach Sengoku, and asked him to let him pass.

Bai Ye let Kong Kong leave for the battlefield but swallowed the World Government forces accompanying him, forcing Kong Kong to go alone. When Kong Kong arrived, Blackbeard questioned why the World Government had sent only one person, suspecting something had gone wrong.

• Kong Kong asked Bai Ye to let him take his forces to support Sengoku, but Bai Ye said Kong Kong could leave while the others could not.
• Bai Ye swallowed the group accompanying Kong Kong before they could fight their way through, leaving Kong Kong alone.
• Kong Kong left for the battlefield, warning Bai Ye that people there were waiting for him.
• Blackbeard saw Kong Kong arrive alone and questioned why the World Government had sent only one person.
• Blackbeard wondered whether Kong Kong had encountered an accident on the way.

Blackbeard realized the World Government had sent Kong Kong to support his forces, though Kong Kong had arrived alone after Bai Ye defeated his reinforcements. Kong Kong met Sengoku on the battlefield, where Sengoku questioned his loyalty and Kong Kong challenged the Marines to surrender or fight.

• Blackbeard guessed that Bai Ye had intercepted the reinforcements and hoped Kong Kong could delay the Marines while Lafitte worried about their worsening position.
• Kong Kong ignored Blackbeard and focused on his mission, while the World Government continued to rely on Blackbeard to hold the enemy perimeter.
• Sengoku and Kong Kong met again, and Sengoku affirmed that he did not regret leaving the World Government.
• Kong Kong explained that Bai Ye had attacked his group and killed the people traveling with him, leaving him to arrive alone.
• Sengoku asked Kong Kong why he still chose the World Government and whether they had to become enemies.
• Kong Kong angrily told Sengoku to surrender the Marines or prepare to fight.

Garp, Sengoku, and Tsuru faced Kong Kong as the Marines’ former allies stood on opposite sides, while Blackbeard’s forces watched the confrontation. Kong Kong struggled with his feelings but remained opposed to them, and Sengoku worried Garp’s taunts would provoke a fight.

• Garp laughed at Kong Kong and defended his capture by Bai Ye, prompting Kong Kong to accuse him of abandoning his duty as a Marine Hero.
• Sengoku recognized that Garp’s version of events was misleading, while Tsuru said the Marines had made the right choice in leaving the World Government.
• Blackbeard watched the argument, pleased that it kept three fighters occupied, while Kizaru and Aokiji speculated about whether the men would fight.
• Kong Kong reflected on how his former disciples had become enemies, but Garp broke the solemn mood by teasing him for acting sentimental.
• Sengoku shouted at Garp to stop provoking Kong Kong, fearing that his taunts would ruin the chance to avoid a fight.

Sengoku tried to persuade Kong Kong to abandon the World Government, but Kong Kong refused and insisted they settle things through battle. Sengoku accepted that fighting was unavoidable and prepared to face his former mentor while the Whitebeard Pirates handled the Blackbeard Pirates.

• Sengoku considered how Bai Ye’s appearance and what he had seen in Wano Country had changed his views, and hoped Kong Kong might reconsider.
• Garp argued that they should fight Kong Kong immediately, while Tsuru urged Sengoku to handle the conversation himself.
• Kong Kong agreed with Garp that they would have to fight and rejected Sengoku’s attempt to appeal to his understanding of the World Government.
• Kong Kong declared that either he would defeat everyone present or they would defeat him, then challenged Sengoku and his former disciples to show how much they had grown.
• Sengoku accepted the unavoidable battle, while the Whitebeard Pirates were left to deal with the Blackbeard Pirates.

Bai Ye entered the Room of Authority and realized Im had abandoned the outer defenses to concentrate his forces and trap him with Black Turn. He met Im and the Five Elders, who wondered whether he had found a way to resist the ability.

• Bai Ye reasoned that Im treated the Holy Land and its connected regions as a chessboard and was willing to sacrifice the Marines, pirates, Celestial Dragons, and other territories to focus on him.
• Bai Ye continued into the Room of Authority, expecting to find Im and possibly the Five Elders waiting there.
• Bai Ye sensed Im and the Five Elders, and Saint Saturn mocked him for coming alone.
• Bai Ye accused the Five Elders of abandoning the outer regions and relying on Black Turn to control him and settle the conflict.
• The Five Elders reconsidered their plan because Bai Ye knew about Black Turn yet had still walked into their trap.

Im questioned whether Bai Ye came from another world and whether the power of the Nika Fruit could counter his Black Turn ability. Bai Ye said he was probably not from this world and suggested the Drums of Liberation could free people from Im’s control, leaving the Five Elders to realize Black Turn might not work on him.

• The Five Elders considered why Bai Ye had come alone and concluded they could not threaten him or match his strength.
• Saint V. N. Uranus acknowledged that the World Government had lost its chance to attack Bai Ye after he defeated the Marines.
• Im asked Bai Ye whether he came from another world or another planet, worried that Black Turn might not control someone from outside this world.
• Bai Ye said he probably was not from this world and suggested his Nika Fruit powers could undo Im’s Black Turn.
• The Five Elders recognized that Bai Ye likely knew the Drums of Liberation could counter Im’s ability.

Bai Ye countered Im’s Black Turn and rejected Im’s offer to rule the world together, leaving the two sides with no choice but to fight. Im abandoned his attempt to bargain with Bai Ye and prepared to face him in the Flower Chamber.

• Bai Ye confirmed that the Drums of Liberation could counter Black Turn and asked Im about its reach and abilities.
• The Five Elders stayed silent as Bai Ye’s knowledge of Im’s powers and plans shattered their hopes of gaining an advantage through information.
• Im offered Bai Ye immortality and a chance to join him in ruling the world, even proposing that Bai Ye’s followers could become the new Celestial Dragons.
• Bai Ye rejected the offer, saying he could take everything by killing Im and the World Government’s leaders.
• Im ended the negotiations, and Saint Saturn acknowledged that a fight was imminent despite their poor odds against Bai Ye.

Bai Ye unleashed World Power fused with space to annihilate the Five Elders, leaving Im to face him alone. The other Bai Yes analyzed the attack and concluded that World Power was devastating but costly outside a world the user controlled.

• Bai Ye rejected Im’s demands and decided to begin the fight.
• The Five Elders attacked, but Bai Ye’s overwhelming presence left them unable to move.
• Bai Ye used World Power with spatial abilities to shatter and kill the Five Elders, bypassing their regeneration.
• Im realized the Five Elders’ marks had vanished and understood that they were dead.
• Bai Ye and the other versions of himself discussed the attack, concluding that its extreme cost made it a finishing move until he gained control of the One Piece World.

The Byakuyas discussed how World Power grew stronger as more worlds obtained it, and compared their progress resolving fused plotlines. Zombie Byakuya realized they might not need to complete every plotline, but he had not yet explained what to do instead.

• Hong Kong Ghost Byakuya asked how the group could strengthen their use of World Power, and Hokage Byakuya explained that it grew as more versions of Bai Ye acquired it.
• Demon Slayer Byakuya urged Slice of Life Byakuya to resolve his plotlines, but Slice of Life Byakuya said his fused world was too complicated and dangerous to handle yet.
• Slice of Life Byakuya asked Zombie Byakuya what he planned to do, and Zombie Byakuya listed the many plotlines he had already handled or still expected to encounter.
• Zombie Byakuya said they had mistakenly assumed they must complete every plotline to obtain what they wanted, then paused before explaining his conclusion.

The Byakuya variants reconsidered whether completing every storyline was necessary to obtain World Power and theorized that each world might have a separate main objective. Pirate Byakuya chose to defeat Im first, leaving the outcome and whether more threats remained unresolved.

• Zombie Byakuya explained that resolving storylines might be a side quest rather than the route to each world’s World Power.
• Hokage Byakuya wondered whether he had received only part of Naruto World’s World Power because his true objective remained incomplete.
• Zombie Byakuya proposed that reviving all nine Dragon Veins was his main objective and urged everyone to test for other ways of obtaining World Power.
• Pirate Byakuya returned to the group after dealing with the Five Elders and asked whether defeating Im would grant him all the World Power.
• Pirate Byakuya decided to defeat Im first, while Im faced the end of his nearly eight-hundred-year reign.

Bai Ye overwhelmed Im, who regretted not killing him at God Valley, while the allied fighters waited for the battle’s outcome. Whitebeard had defeated Blackbeard, leaving Teach helpless as the war neared its end.

• Bai Ye told Im that their battle was nearly over and that the forces below had been defeated; Im realized he had no way to resist.
• Bai Ye pointed out that Im should have killed him at God Valley, and Im admitted that he had missed his best chance.
• Kaido, Golden Lion, and Shanks waited with the others, arguing over whether Bai Ye could lose and whether they should go to his aid.
• Shanks reflected that the world might be changing because people had liberated themselves rather than waiting for Nika to do it.
• Whitebeard looked over the defeated Blackbeard and saw that Teach had failed despite all his schemes.

Blackbeard accepted that he had lost and would face punishment for killing Thatch, while explaining why he had seized the Dark-Dark Fruit. At the Holy Land, Bai Ye emerged from the Flower Chamber, and Golden Lion concluded that Bai Ye had won and the battle had been settled.

• Blackbeard reflected that he had no chance of surviving whether Bai Ye or Im won, but said he had acted because he could not let the Dark-Dark Fruit opportunity pass.
• Whitebeard told Blackbeard that his ending could not be changed, and Blackbeard explained that he would not regret taking the fruit from Thatch.
• Whitebeard recognized that Ace had been defeated and that Blackbeard had to answer for Thatch's death, then wondered who had won at the Holy Land.
• Bai Ye emerged from the Flower Chamber, and Golden Lion celebrated, believing Bai Ye had defeated his opponents and settled the battle.

After Bai Ye killed Im and the allied forces defeated the remaining World Government leaders, the global conflict rapidly ended. Bai Ye reaffirmed that he would not become a new Celestial Dragon, while Big Mom complained that she had been left guarding Wano Country for a threat that never came.

• Bai Ye returned to the group, described the battle as entering cleanup, and confirmed that the conflict around Whitebeard’s forces had also been settled.
• Bai Ye explained that Kong Kong had been defeated by Garp and Sengoku, while Blackbeard had been overwhelmed by the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Golden Lion asked whether Bai Ye would still follow through on his promise, and Bai Ye confirmed that he would not become a new World Noble.
• As news of Im’s defeat spread, the World Government’s remaining forces surrendered or were defeated, and Dragon reported that the Revolutionary Army had quickly overcome its opponents.
• In Wano Country, Big Mom complained that Bai Ye had made her guard the rear base even though nobody attacked it.

Big Mom struggled with being left behind while the World Government fell, but Daifuku persuaded her that her presence had protected the rear. As Dragon and the Revolutionary Army prepared people for Bai Ye’s plan to reunite the islands, Bai Ye completed the integration and gained World Power.

• Big Mom grew angry that she had been left to guard home while others fought, and Katakuri recognized her frustration.
• Daifuku argued that Big Mom’s crew had deterred a World Government attack on the rear, easing her anger.
• Dragon and Sabo discussed the World Government’s swift defeat and the future Bai Ye had promised to build.
• Dragon directed the Revolutionary Army to explain Bai Ye’s plans to the people and prepare them for the islands’ relocation.
• Bai Ye gathered the islands of the New World, including Sky Island, and received a reward for gaining complete control of the One Piece World.

After overthrowing the World Government, Bai Ye struggled to decide how to govern the One Piece World and build a new system that could address its many conflicts. He left the question unresolved and reported his situation to the Chat Group for advice.

• Bai Ye considered the World Government’s lingering problems and worried that failing to address them would leave the world in chaos.
• Shanks asked Bai Ye what they should do next and suggested retaining capable members of the old system.
• Bai Ye argued that restoring the old system would defeat the purpose of uniting the islands and explained the challenges of governing a world with many races, grudges, and supernatural powers.
• Shanks recognized that returning to the old order would not bring meaningful change, while Bai Ye said they could take their time and revise their plans as needed.
• Bai Ye reflected that the World Government’s defeat had ended his affairs in this world and told the Chat Group that governing was harder than conquering.