Chapter Summaries

Fleet Admiral Kong considered Zephyr’s report on Ares and decided to propose that the Navy cooperate with the CP Organization against the Rocks Pirates. After their devastating battle, Roger decided to withdraw from the New World while his crew recovered.

• Kong read Zephyr’s detailed report and recognized Ares as a rapidly improving, fifteen-year-old combat monster.
• Kong concluded that the Navy lacked enough top-tier fighters to defeat the Rocks Pirates alone and resolved to propose cooperation with the CP Organization.
• Roger learned from Gaban that Rayleigh was out of danger but would need months to recover, and that their ship’s doctor had died.
• Roger said Ares could become the greatest obstacle to his dream, while Gaban warned that Ares’s Mythical Zoan power was extraordinary.
• Roger decided to temporarily withdraw from the New World because his crew was too weakened to face the Rocks Pirates.

Roger decided that the Roger Pirates needed to leave the New World and grow stronger before challenging the Rocks Pirates again. Meanwhile, Kaido begged for help saving the unconscious Ares, who eventually woke on Hachinosu Island and learned that his survival depended on his companion.

• Roger told Gaban that the Roger Pirates should leave the New World, find a sturdier ship and stronger companions, and learn what the stone stele recorded.
• Kaido carried the unconscious Ares to an island and pleaded with the wary crowd to save him.
• A local who knew medicine agreed to treat Ares, and Kaido followed him with Ares.
• Ares woke six or seven days later in a hospital on Hachinosu Island and met the goat-faced doctor Sanyang.
• Sanyang told Ares that his rare blood type and severe blood loss made his survival unlikely, and Ares asked whether Kaido had given him a transfusion.

Ares woke in the Mink Kingdom after Kaido brought him there for treatment, and learned his injuries would take at least half a year to heal. While recovering, Ares reviewed his battle with Rayleigh and studied his swordsmanship, then promised Kaido they would become brothers and show the world their strength.

• Sanyang told Ares he had been rescued in the Mink Kingdom after Zunesha carried him there with the rain, and that Kaido was working in town.
• Sanyang explained that Ares was severely malnourished from his injuries and would need at least half a year to recover.
• Ares reviewed his mistakes in the battle and studied Rayleigh's slash, deciding to investigate how Armament Haki could strengthen his attacks.
• Kaido rushed to Ares's bedside after learning he had awakened, and Ares thanked him for kneeling to secure his treatment.
• Ares called Kaido his brother and promised to help him find a powerful Devil Fruit so they could make the world witness their strength.

Ares and Kaido shared their dreams and promised to grow stronger together while Ares recovered from his injuries. Meanwhile, back on Hachinosu Island, Whitebeard attacked Shiki for failing to protect Ares, and their fight threw the port into chaos.

• Ares promised Kaido he would find him a powerful Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit, and Kaido described his dream of controlling his own fate and living freely.
• Ares told Kaido they would train together and become strong enough to live freely, then Kaido went to prepare him food.
• Several days earlier, Whitebeard confronted Shiki at Hachinosu Island’s port and attacked him, accusing him of failing to protect Ares.
• Shiki dodged Whitebeard’s blow, which split the sea and sent the port into a panic.
• Whitebeard demanded to know why Shiki had returned, and Shiki protested that he had wanted to protect Ares.

After Ares disappeared, the Rocks Pirates suspended their plans and began searching for him while Whitebeard and Golden Lion clashed over who was responsible. More than ten days later, Ares had recovered in the Mink Kingdom, where Kaido told him that the Mink Tribe were natural-born warriors who could generate paralyzing electricity.

• Golden Lion promised Whitebeard he would find Ares and make the Navy pay, while Whitebeard threatened him before leaving the port.
• Ochoku and Silver Axe urged Whitebeard and Golden Lion to avoid fighting until they learned Ares's fate.
• Rocks ordered the Rocks Pirates to halt their plans and search for Ares, then assigned Shakky to lead the search after Golden Lion and Whitebeard objected to Linlin's offer.
• Rocks announced plans to recruit affiliated pirate crews while the Navy and World Government watched the Rocks Pirates more closely.
• After more than ten days of recovery in the Mink Kingdom, Ares heard Kaido describe the Minks' fighting skill and their ability to produce paralyzing electricity.

Ares realized that learning to control lightning could strengthen him and Kaido, and he planned to ask Doctor Sanyang about the Mink Tribe’s electric abilities. When Sanyang failed to arrive, Ares went looking for him and found him at the palace during the celebration of the king’s newborn sons, Inuarashi and Nekomamushi.

• Ares told Kaido that mastering lightning might improve his strength and help toughen both their bodies, and Kaido eagerly agreed to become stronger.
• Ares and Kaido decided to ask Doctor Sanyang about the Mink Tribe’s electric powers the next day.
• When Doctor Sanyang failed to arrive by noon, Ares left a note and went to town to find him.
• A guard told Ares that Doctor Sanyang had gone to the palace to deliver a baby, so Ares headed there and waited outside the gates.
• Ares called out to Doctor Sanyang as the king’s party emerged with two newborns, and Sanyang explained that both of the king’s wives had given birth.
• The king announced that his sons were named Inuarashi and Nekomamushi and ordered the country to celebrate.

Ares celebrated the births of Inuarashi and Nekomamushi with the Mink Tribe, then asked Doctor Sanyang how they controlled electricity. After learning that friction between their fur generated static, Ares realized how he could control lightning and decided to stay with Kaido to grow stronger before returning to the Rocks Pirates.

• Ares approached the newborn Inuarashi and Nekomamushi, who stopped crying to stare at him, and the king invited him to join the celebration.
• Ares and Kaido feasted at the banquet, where members of the Mink Tribe welcomed Ares warmly.
• After the banquet, Ares asked Doctor Sanyang how the Mink Tribe produced and controlled electricity, and Doctor Sanyang demonstrated static electricity from his fur.
• Kaido decided to ask Ares to teach him slashing attacks so he could use his spiked club to achieve a similar effect.
• Ares deduced that lightning clouds generated electricity through collision and contact, then told Kaido they should stay and become stronger before returning to the Rocks Pirates.

Ares trained to control the lightning of his Azure Dragon Form while Kaido practiced with his kanabo, and Ares’s command over lightning steadily improved. Meanwhile, Rocks regretted believing Ares might be dead, discussed the Roger Pirates’ departure, and asked Ochoku about a treasure map.

• Ares agreed to teach Kaido swordsmanship so he could incorporate slashing techniques into his kanabo.
• Ares transformed into his Azure Dragon Form and practiced gathering thunderclouds and directing lightning while Kaido trained with his kanabo.
• After repeated attempts, Ares learned to direct lightning where he wanted during more than ten days of training.
• On Hachinosu Island, John told Rocks that the search for Ares had found no news, and Rocks regretted that Ares might have died.
• John told Rocks that the Roger Pirates had left the New World, and Rocks asked Ochoku whether he had deciphered the treasure map.

Rocks ordered Captain John to pursue the treasure map while tightening control of the Rocks Pirates and provoking the World Government. On Zou Island, Ares began painful fire-based body training, and Kaido injured himself with his spiked club to grow stronger.

• Captain John told Rocks the treasure map pointed to a Devil Fruit and treasure, but its location remained uncertain.
• Rocks ordered Captain John to keep investigating the map and to punish pirates who deserted the Rocks Pirates.
• Rocks planned to recruit more crews, attack the Marines, and arm people who hated the World Government.
• On Zou Island, Ares used the flames from his Flame Cloud to forge his body while Kaido watched in alarm.
• Kaido smashed his chest with his spiked club, and Ares extinguished his flames and rushed to stop him.
• Kaido insisted that he would risk his life to become stronger, just as Ares did.

Ares and Kaido continued their brutal training, leaving both of them grotesquely injured and terrifying Doctor Sanyang when they returned. After treating them, Doctor Sanyang examined Ares and warned that his rapid cellular growth required a massive, steady supply of energy.

• Ares encouraged Kaido to pursue his dream of becoming an immortal monster, while Kaido told Ares to continue his own training.
• Ares and Kaido endured another round of punishing training that left Ares withered and Kaido badly mangled.
• Doctor Sanyang mistook the injured Ares and Kaido for monsters until they identified themselves and asked him to treat Kaido.
• Ares told Doctor Sanyang that he wanted to forge his body into a Famous Sword stronger than the Twelve Kizuki Supreme Great Swords.
• Doctor Sanyang examined Ares and discovered that his cells grew at an extraordinary rate, requiring a massive supply of energy.

After Doctor Sanyang treated Ares and Kaido, Ares developed his body-tempering training and spent a month training with Kaido. Their spar showed that Ares’s fiery training had made his body tough enough to crush Kaido’s Club Aura barehanded, and Ares planned to temper himself with lightning next.

• Doctor Sanyang treated Ares and Kaido, explained how their powerful vitality aided recovery, and advised Ares to replenish his energy with food.
• Ares considered storing food in his body and wondered whether he could learn to control his internal organs as he controlled his muscles.
• Ares and Kaido stocked up on food and trained for more than a month before sparring to test their progress.
• Kaido fired a powerful Club Aura at Ares, who crushed it with his bare palm without being injured.
• Ares declared that fiery body tempering was only the beginning and planned to use lightning next, while Kaido resolved to seek a powerful Devil Fruit.

Ares and Kaido continued training on the island, where Kaido improved rapidly and learned that Ares perceived the world differently. Meanwhile, Whitebeard worried over Ares’s disappearance until Ochoku summoned him to a meeting about the Reverie.

• Ares praised Kaido’s growth after beating him in a long spar, and Kaido thanked Ares for his guidance.
• Ares explained that he could observe events in extreme slow motion, while Kaido asked when they would return to Hachinosu Island.
• Kaido proposed that he and Ares become Rocks Pirates officers and recruit Mink warriors, but Ares chose not to disturb the Minks’ peaceful lives.
• Ares and Kaido clasped hands and agreed to turn the world upside down together.
• Two months after Ares disappeared, Whitebeard still worried about him, while the Rocks Pirates shifted their focus to the Reverie.
• Ochoku told Whitebeard that Captain Rocks had summoned the officers, and Whitebeard recognized that the meeting concerned the Reverie.

As the Rocks Pirates’ attacks plunged the New World into war, seven-year-old Douglas Bullet fought as a child soldier, while Roger searched Ohara for answers about the Poneglyphs. A year later, Ares finished his training on Zou as Kaido told him they would leave the next day.

• Whitebeard and Ochoku hurried to the meeting room, where Rocks briefed the officers on plans to counter the World Government during the Reverie.
• The Rocks Pirates launched attacks on World Government member nations, spreading war and chaos throughout the New World.
• Douglas Bullet joined a child suicide squad tasked with destroying enemy cannons in exchange for military merit and freedom.
• Roger and Rayleigh visited Ohara, met Olvia, and left a rubbing of a Poneglyph for the scholars to decipher.
• In July of 1483, Ares completed his year of training on Zou, and Kaido told him they would leave the island the next day.

After a year with the Mink Tribe, Ares and Kaido said goodbye to Inuarashi and Nekomamushi and left to resume their pirate journey. Lost at sea, they spotted a World Government ship and decided to seize it for directions before its crew could call for reinforcements.

• Ares told Inuarashi and Nekomamushi that he and Kaido had to leave, encouraged them to train, and promised they would meet again at sea.
• Inuarashi and Nekomamushi argued over who would defeat powerful foes and said they wanted to become pirates like Ares and Kaido.
• The next day, Inuarashi and Nekomamushi cried as Ares and Kaido departed, while Sanyang wished Ares success in surpassing the Supreme Great Sword with his body.
• Ares and Kaido flew away on an orange Flame Cloud but realized they did not know where they were or how to get back to Hachinosu.
• Kaido spotted a ship bearing the World Government symbol, and Ares chose to approach it to get directions.
• Kaido warned Ares to stop the crew from contacting the World Government or Marines, and Ares agreed to take control of the ship quickly.

Ares and Kaido landed on a World Government ship and confronted Saint Charlos, whose guards Ares knocked unconscious with Conqueror's Haki. Two powerful figures emerged, including a man Ares recognized as one of the Five Elders, and a masked fighter attacked Ares, who blocked his blows.

• Ares and Kaido crashed onto the ship's deck, where Saint Charlos ordered his guards to kill them.
• Ares released Conqueror's Haki, knocking out the guards and terrifying Charlos.
• Ares sensed two dangerous survivors, and Kaido feared they were protecting the Celestial Dragon.
• A bald swordsman and a masked man appeared; Ares recognized the swordsman as one of the Five Elders.
• The masked man identified Ares and Kaido as Rocks Pirates and attacked Ares with Finger Pistol—Tenfold Rapid Fire.
• Ares blocked the attack with Blood-colored Armament—Red Scales and rejected the masked man's offer to spare him in exchange for his Haki knowledge.

Ares and Kaido confronted CP0 Chief Cloud and a bald World Government agent, who ordered Cloud to capture Ares alive. Cloud revealed overwhelming Armament Haki, and Ares and Kaido attacked him together, but he dodged their strikes and countered at incredible speed.

• The bald agent identified Ares as a 220-million-Berry pirate and asked why Ares had called him one of the Five Elders.
• The bald agent ordered Cloud to keep Ares alive and allowed him to do as he wished with Kaido.
• Cloud attacked with a powerful Tempest Kick, but Kaido blocked it with his club and challenged him to fight.
• Cloud covered himself in Armament Haki marked with purple spiral patterns, and Ares recognized it as an advanced level of Haki.
• Ares used Mudo Style—Pluto's Sorrow while Kaido launched Thunder Bagua at Cloud.
• Cloud dodged both attacks and vanished using Soru in midair, shocking Ares.

Ares survived being thrown into the sea and revealed that seawater did not restrain him, drawing the attention of CP0 Chief Cloud and Saint Christine. After Cloud attacked again, Ares struck him down, leaving Saint Christine wary of Ares’s Admiral-level combat power.

• Ares sent Ares flying into the sea, while Cloud blocked Kaido’s club and threw Kaido onto the deck.
• Cloud and Saint Christine believed Ares would die in the sea, but Ares emerged and stood on a flame.
• Ares refused to explain how he escaped seawater’s restraint and challenged Cloud to fight.
• Cloud used Shave—Voidless Art to attack Ares, who smashed Cloud’s mask and knocked him unconscious with a punch.
• Saint Christine caught Cloud and warned that the Navy and World Government had outdated information about Blood Hand - Ares’s strength.

Ares battled Saint Christine and CP0 Chief Cloud as both revealed formidable abilities. Cloud attacked with his Cloud-Cloud Fruit, but Ares evaded the lightning before Kaido threatened to kill a Celestial Dragon.

• Saint Christine set the unconscious Cloud down and attacked Ares with a hidden sword slash, cutting his cheek.
• Ares counterattacked, but Saint Christine dodged before Ares’s dragon-scaled tail struck him and sent him crashing into the ship’s cabin.
• CP0 Chief Cloud appeared in the thunderclouds and revealed that he possessed the Logia Cloud-Cloud Fruit.
• Cloud sent down dozens of lightning bolts, but Ares dodged them all, leading Cloud to suspect that Ares could see the future.
• Kaido shouted at Cloud to stop and threatened to kill a Celestial Dragon, prompting Cloud to plead with him not to act rashly.

Kaido held Saint Charlos hostage and forced CP0 Chief Cloud to choose between obeying the Celestial Dragon and falling into the sea. Ares saved Cloud so he could fight him at full strength, and Kaido reaffirmed his loyalty to Ares.

• Saint Charlos begged Kaido and ordered Cloud to jump into the sea in exchange for his life.
• Cloud dispelled the clouds beneath his feet and fell toward the sea, choosing to obey Saint Charlos.
• Saint Christine caught Cloud before he hit the water, while Ares explained that he wanted to defeat Cloud in a proper fight.
• Cloud asked Saint Christine not to interfere, and Ares challenged Cloud to use all his strength.
• Kaido recognized Ares's love of battle and declared that he would follow his big brother without hesitation.

Ares fought Cloud, the CP0 Chief, who used the Cloud-Cloud Fruit to vanish, misdirect attacks, and shape clouds into weapons. Ares countered Cloud’s barrage of Haki-coated spears with his Swordless Style, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Kaido killed Saint Charlos and threw his body onto the deck.
• Cloud declared he would defeat Ares and take him to Mary Geoise, then vanished using his Cloud-Cloud Fruit.
• Ares misread Cloud’s position, but wrapped his tail around Cloud’s steel spear and flung him away.
• Cloud bound Ares’s wrist with a cloud and summoned thousands of Haki-coated spears around him.
• Cloud launched the spears from every direction, and Ares countered with slashes from his claws, tail, and feet using Swordless Style.