Chapter Summaries

Golden Lion Shiki demonstrated how Armament Haki hardened his body and sword, then began teaching Ares the ability. Ares studied the technique intensely and appeared to grasp its use, surprising Shiki and Whitebeard.

• Golden Lion Shiki explained that strong Armament Haki could harden a sword into a Black Blade and keep it from breaking.
• Whitebeard and Shiki argued over where to teach Ares before Ares led them to his room in Skull Castle.
• Shiki hardened his arm with Armament Haki and invited Ares to feel its strength.
• Ares realized Armament Haki could provide the hardness he sought and replayed Shiki's demonstration in his mind.
• Whitebeard and Shiki compared how long it had taken them to master Haki before Ares interrupted to ask if he had used it correctly.

Ares revealed he could use Armament Haki, then instinctively transformed it into a red-hot, smoking state that greatly increased his strength. When Whitebeard asked whether he had eaten a Devil Fruit, Ares struggled to remember and collapsed into agonizing confusion.

• Shiki the Golden Lion and Whitebeard were shocked when Ares hardened his arm with Armament Haki, and Whitebeard praised him as a genius.
• Ares wondered why his body resisted Armament Haki, while Shiki and Whitebeard discussed his unusual persistence and behavior.
• Ares's fragmented memories returned, and he instinctively turned his blackened arm red-hot, making Whitebeard release it in pain.
• Whitebeard and Shiki asked about Ares's strange power, and Ares identified it as a more powerful, scorching form of Armament Haki.
• Whitebeard asked whether Ares had eaten a Devil Fruit, and Ares clutched his head in pain as he tried to remember, alarming Shiki.

Ares recovered from a strange Armament Haki episode that left him completely bald, then set off to train his new Haki while Whitebeard and Golden Lion followed to watch. On Hachinosu Island, Charlotte Linlin kept pushing Kaido through a brutal fight as he demanded a Devil Fruit that would help him defeat Ares.

• Ares regained his senses as his strange Armament Haki shifted across his body and burned Whitebeard and Golden Lion.
• Golden Lion noticed that Ares had lost all his hair, and Ares decided his bald head would be useful to train.
• Ares rejected Golden Lion's advice to stop using the unusual Haki and left to train, followed by Whitebeard and Golden Lion.
• On Hachinosu Island, Charlotte Linlin pressured Kaido to fight harder while he demanded the Devil Fruit she had promised him.
• Kaido endured Linlin's attacks while insisting he wanted power to defeat Ares, and their fight shattered a stone bed and cracked the floor.

Linlin defeated Kaido and challenged him to surpass Ares, while Rocks and Captain John planned the Rocks Pirates’ growth ahead of the Reverie. On Hachinosu, Golden Lion considered teaching Ares swordsmanship.

• Linlin defeated Kaido, called him weaker than Ares, and threatened to withhold the Devil Fruit unless he became stronger.
• Kaido vowed to surpass Ares and left the room in anger.
• Captain John told Rocks that Ares had gotten drunk and attacked Shiki, and Rocks decided to let Ares pursue his dream of becoming a Famous Sword.
• Rocks and John agreed to seek powerful Devil Fruits and prepare the Rocks Pirates for the Reverie in two years.
• Golden Lion watched Ares train and asked Newgate what might happen if he taught Ares swordsmanship.

Golden Lion and Whitebeard argued over who would teach Ares, and Ochoku proposed that they take turns. Golden Lion called Ares to begin swordsmanship training, but Ares refused, insisting that he wanted only to strengthen his body and surpass the Supreme Great Swords.

• Whitebeard judged that Ares had the strength and physique to become formidable but lacked technique, and Golden Lion decided he would teach him swordsmanship.
• Whitebeard insisted on teaching Ares Body Arts too, and he and Golden Lion nearly fought over who would train him.
• Ochoku suggested that Whitebeard and Golden Lion alternate teaching Ares, and they accepted the compromise.
• Whitebeard claimed the next day to teach Ares while Golden Lion took him that day to practice swordsmanship.
• Ares refused Golden Lion's offer, declaring that he only wanted to temper his body and surpass the Supreme Great Swords, but Golden Lion insisted that he would teach him anyway.

Golden Lion tried to recruit Ares as his swordsmanship student, but Ares insisted that building his body was more important. After Golden Lion demonstrated his power by cutting the top off a mountain, Ares decided he wanted to learn how to perform such an attack.

• Golden Lion praised Ares and urged him to learn swordsmanship, but Ares refused, saying he would focus on forging his body.
• Golden Lion took Ares out of the training room, and Ochoku told him about the swordsman Patrick Redfield, known as the Lone Red.
• Golden Lion led Ares and Ochoku to a remote valley and demonstrated his swordsmanship with Withered Tree, slicing the top off a mountain.
• Ares was amazed by the golden slash and declared that he had to learn how to use the same kind of attack.

Ares asked Shiki the Golden Lion to teach him swordsmanship and learned to unleash a Flying Slash within minutes. After seeing Ares rapidly improve, Shiki agreed to train him, and Ares vowed to become the strongest swordsman.

• Ares asked Shiki the Golden Lion to teach him swordsmanship after watching Shiki's slash cut off a mountaintop.
• Ares imitated Shiki's strike and unleashed a Flying Slash within minutes, astonishing Shiki and Ochoku.
• Ares repeatedly practiced with his arm, producing increasingly powerful but explosive slashes that Shiki said lacked sharpness and concentration.
• Ochoku praised Ares's talent, then left so Shiki could teach him.
• Shiki explained the physical and mental benefits of swordsmanship, and Ares vowed to become a swordsman stronger than everyone else.

Golden Lion began teaching Ares swordsmanship, and Ares adapted the basic techniques to his goal of making his body his weapon. After half a day of rapid progress, Ares returned to Skull Castle and devoured dinner while Shakky fumed over his growing appetite.

• Golden Lion offered Ares the sword Sakura Ten, but Ares refused and declared that his body would become his weapon and surpass the Supreme Great Sword.
• Golden Lion warned Ares not to block a great swordsman's slash before his Armament Haki grew strong enough, then began teaching him basic sword techniques.
• Ares practiced the movements with his arms and legs, quickly mastering the fundamentals and adjusting each technique to improve its power.
• Golden Lion praised Ares's talent, ended the training, and returned with him to Skull Castle for dinner.
• Ares ate stacks of food and drank liquor, while Shakky angrily demanded to know how much longer he would keep eating.

Ares ate a huge meal at the Rocks Pirates’ dining hall, then discussed his dream of becoming a Supreme Grade Sword with Golden Lion. The chapter left Ares training with renewed determination while Golden Lion believed Ares could help him surpass Rocks and rule the sea.

• Golden Lion told Shakky that Ares was fourteen or fifteen and still growing, while Shakky worried about how much food he consumed.
• Ares spent nearly an hour eating a mountain of food, then said he planned to eat the delicious cooking every day.
• Golden Lion invited Ares to stand beside him when he achieved his dream, but Ares asked what the dream was and spoke instead about becoming a sword beyond the Supreme Great Swords.
• Golden Lion left with renewed confidence in Ares, while Shakky reconsidered her opinion of the glutton.
• Ares went to the training room and repeatedly hammered his body, gradually toughening his skin and muscles and increasing his resistance to heat.

Ares trained with Golden Lion and Whitebeard, quickly learning a powerful sword slash and beginning Whitebeard’s Body Arts lessons. After days of visible progress, Ochoku took Ares aboard a ship for his first mission, which was expected to last about a month.

• Ares finished training, returned to Skull Castle, and later woke with his memories of the previous day’s combat and lessons sharpened.
• Whitebeard watched Ares cut down a tree with a sword slash and insisted that Ares’s rapid progress came from talent rather than Golden Lion’s teaching.
• Whitebeard began teaching Ares Body Arts, explaining how to control and unify the body’s strength and energy.
• Ares trained for seven or eight days, alternating between swordsmanship, Body Arts, and conditioning.
• Ochoku brought Ares to the port of Hachinosu Island and took him aboard a ship for an easy mission expected to last about a month.
• Ochoku ordered the crew to set sail after the ship’s supplies and preparations were checked.

Wang Zhi took Ares and his crew on a mission to collect protection fees, while urging Ares and the other pirates not to lose sight of their dreams. On the way to another island, they encountered the Byrnndi World Pirates, and Wang Zhi prepared the crew for battle.

• As the crew sailed from Hachinosu Island, Wang Zhi told Ares and the pirates to pursue their dreams without losing themselves, while Ares continued his punishing training.
• Wang Zhi’s crew spent twelve days collecting protection fees from islands, and Ares ate nearly half the ship’s food supplies.
• When the crew approached their next island, a lookout spotted the Byrnndi World Pirates sailing straight toward them.
• Wang Zhi ordered the helmsman to turn the ship around and the gunners to load ammunition as the pirates prepared for battle.
• Wang Zhi told Ares that Bundy World, the World Destroyer, had a bounty of two hundred million Berries and warned that they were in big trouble.

Bundy World ordered his crew to attack the Rocks Pirates for their supplies and treasure, while Ares swam alone toward the World Pirates’ ship. As Sebastian rushed to intercept him beneath the waves, Ochoku turned the Rocks ship around to fight, leaving the clash poised to begin.

• Bundy World identified the approaching vessel as a Rocks Pirates ship and ordered his officers to defeat its crew within three minutes.
• Ares plunged into the sea and swam toward the World Pirates’ ship, evading cannon fire as he eagerly sought battle.
• Ochoku failed to stop Ares and ordered the Rocks Pirates’ ship turned around and prepared for battle.
• Sebastian dived underwater and charged at Ares, confident that his Fish-Man abilities gave him the advantage.
• Bundy World called off the cannon fire and predicted Sebastian would defeat Ares within ten seconds.

Ares fought Fish-Man Sebastian underwater and used the clash to study Fish-Man swimming and martial arts. After sending Sebastian flying with a powerful punch, Ares surfaced for air and dove back in to keep learning, while Bundy World grew impatient at Sebastian’s delay.

• Sebastian attacked Ares with Fish-Man martial arts, firing water bullets with Great Flying Shark, but Ares dodged by kicking himself forward through the sea.
• Sebastian tried to punch Ares and was surprised when Ares moved quickly enough to evade him; Ares focused on learning Sebastian’s swimming technique and water-based attack.
• Ares and Sebastian’s fists collided evenly, despite the seawater slowing Ares’s punch.
• Sebastian used Fish-Man Karate—Water Shot, but Ares countered with Armament—Shatter Mountain Fist and blasted him backward, drawing blood.
• Ares surfaced for air, then dove back underwater to continue learning from Sebastian, recalling how he had treated the beasts on his home island as toys.
• Bundy World frowned and complained that Sebastian had not defeated Ares despite thirty seconds passing.

Bundy World and Ochoku clashed as their ships approached, while Ares gained the upper hand against Sebastian underwater. The chapter left Sebastian fleeing and Ares pursuing him to study his techniques.

• Binjack urged Bundy World to prepare for battle and check on Sebastian as the ships drew close.
• Bundy World hurled a bomb enlarged by his Munch-Munch Fruit, and Ochoku split it in two with a sword strike.
• Ochoku launched a powerful slash at Bundy World, who countered with an enlarged saber and shattered it.
• Sebastian realized Ares was faster and stronger underwater, then turned and fled from him.
• Ares pursued Sebastian, determined to learn his water-control ability and attack techniques.

Ares fought Sebastian and the Byrnndi World Pirates, learning from their combat techniques while facing Gai Ram’s Cube-Cube Fruit ability. As the pirates prepared to attack him together, one cadre used a secret medicine and announced his move.

• Ares followed Sebastian underwater and climbed aboard the ship after Sebastian failed to defeat him.
• Gai Ram used his Cube-Cube Fruit to turn part of the deck into cubes and hurl them at Ares, who punched them aside.
• Gai Ram compressed air into a cube and threw it at Ares, who countered with a slash from his arm.
• Ares realized how speed and strength could create powerful slashes and thanked the pirates for helping him learn.
• Sebastian and the other pirates grew wary of Ares, and a cadre took powdered medicine and shouted, “Herbal Fist--Secret Medicine--Korean Newcomer!!!”

Ares defeated Sebastian and Gai Ram aboard the Byrnndi World Pirates’ ship, then jumped into the sea after spotting a Marine warship. Nightin learned that Vice Admiral Garp was aboard and ordered the crew to retrieve the fallen commanders and flee.

• Nightin transformed after taking medicine and attacked Ares with poisonous mist, but Ares dodged and broke Sebastian’s hand with a powerful punch, sending him into the sea.
• Gai Ram struck Ares’s head with an iron hammer, but Ares remained unharmed and punched Gai Ram into the sea.
• The pirates were terrified by Ares’s strength, while Nightin backed away in fear.
• A cannonball hit the ship, and the pirates spotted a Marine warship approaching.
• Ares jumped into the sea, eager to face the Marines, while Nightin learned the ship belonged to Vice Admiral Garp and ordered her crew to retrieve Sebastian and Gai Ram and escape.

Ares boarded Vice Admiral Garp’s Marine warship and challenged its strongest fighter, then demonstrated his power by knocking Garp aside and defeating the young Dragon. Garp remained oblivious to the fight, and Dragon was left unconscious after being flung through the ship’s walls.

• Garp stopped thirteen-year-old Dragon from joining the fight against Byrnndi World and Ochoku, then sensed someone approaching the warship.
• Ares climbed aboard and refused Garp’s offer to join the Marines, demanding that the strongest person on the ship fight him.
• The Marines fired their muskets at Ares, but he deflected the bullets with his hardened arm.
• Ares punched the sleeping Garp into a cabin, and Dragon attacked Ares’s leg but burned his hand on it.
• Ares kicked Dragon in the face and sent him crashing through several wooden walls, while Garp emerged and wondered where Dragon had gone.

Garp knocked Ares into the sea with an Armament Haki punch, but Ares resurfaced and returned to the Marine warship. Ares challenged Garp to fight, while Dragon struggled to keep the shoe mark on his face from reddening.

• Garp learned that the pirate he had kicked was his son Dragon, then found him unconscious and handed him to a Marine.
• Garp introduced himself to Ares and struck him in the head with an Armament Haki fist, sending him into the sea.
• Ares surfaced memories of a kindergarten and someone named Li Yang, then swam back to the warship.
• Dragon woke and learned that anger made the shoe-sole mark on his cheek redden, so he tried to control his emotions.
• Garp and the Marines were shocked when Ares climbed onto the deck alive, and Ares challenged Garp to fight.

Ares fought Garp aboard the Marine warship, revealing a strange form of Armament Haki that let him withstand Garp’s blows. Meanwhile, Bundy World defeated Ochoku but ignored Binjack’s warning that Garp was nearby.

• Ares attacked Garp with a barrage of water droplets and a powerful punch, but Garp easily sent him flying.
• Ares hardened his arm with Armament Haki and charged Garp again, managing to withstand their clash without being knocked away.
• Ares struck the deck with his Bear’s Iron Hammer, and Garp dodged before kicking him away.
• A pirate told Ochoku that Ares had boarded Garp’s warship, distracting Ochoku and allowing Bundy World to punch him through his Golden Armor.
• Bundy World boasted after defeating Ochoku, while Binjack urged him to flee before Garp arrived.

Bundy World returned to his ship, learned that Ares had defeated his officers, and flew back to confront him while Binjack worried about his brother. On the Marine warship, Ares kept fighting Garp, whose admiration only made Dragon more uncomfortable.

• Binjack warned Bundy World that Ares might have attacked their ship, so World returned with him and found his officers injured.
• Nightin said Sebastian and Gai Ram were out of danger, while World berated his crew and then flew toward the Marine warship to fight Ares.
• Binjack watched World leave and mourned that illness had kept him from sharing their dream of traveling the world in search of freedom.
• Ochoku recovered from his injuries, ordered his ship to rescue Ares, and decided to retreat with him.
• Dragon counted Ares being knocked away thirty-five times and noticed that he seemed to grow stronger as he fought.
• Garp praised Ares's endurance and told Dragon he wished Ares were his son.