Chapter Summaries

Rodney attacked Mary Geoise to take revenge on the Celestial Dragons, fought a Justice Messenger and Marine Admiral Kizaru Borsalino, and escaped after Borsalino arrived. Rodney killed the white-clad pursuer, while the fires and slave escapes at Mary Geoise made him a wanted man with a two billion Beli bounty.

• Rodney dismissed the white-clad man’s questions and declared that he was an undead seeking revenge on the Celestial Dragons.
• Rodney defeated the Justice Messenger with a thrown blade, killing him despite his Shadow Clone ability.
• Kizaru Borsalino arrived as reinforcements and attacked Rodney, who escaped underground as Borsalino destroyed the white-clad man’s body.
• Rodney fled Mary Geoise with the white-clad man pursuing him, then trapped and killed him in a Water Prison Technique.
• The fire at Mary Geoise burned through the night, destroying treasures and allowing countless slaves to escape.
• News of the attack spread across the seas, and the world issued Rodney a wanted notice with a two billion Beli bounty.

The Five Elders ordered a campaign against Dressrosa and Aviledon, while Rodney prepared for a coming conflict and planned to attack BIG MOM. The chapter ended with Rodney and Ace agreeing to join forces against the BIG MOM Pirates despite Ace's concerns about expanding too quickly.

• The Five Elders decided to use the Navy, Air Force, and CP infiltration to destroy Dressrosa and Aviledon, then sent their orders to Kong.
• Kong contacted Sakazuki and the Air Force admiral and feared another war would change the world's balance.
• Rodney checked on Reiju's preparations, confirmed Dragon had arranged the former slaves' return, and decided to begin the second phase.
• Rodney accepted an S-rank mission to assassinate BIG MOM and considered its Rinnegan reward essential to his plans.
• Rodney asked Ace to help reclaim the Whitebeard Pirates' territory and proposed that they wipe out the BIG MOM Pirates together.
• Ace agreed but questioned whether Rodney was expanding too quickly, and Rodney insisted they needed to move faster because of his ominous premonition.

Rodney arranged for the Whitebeard Pirates to help restrain the BIG MOM Pirates while he attacked Cake Island alone. On his way there, he encountered a hungry blond girl and her strange dinosaur, while wondering about a golden light he had seen in the sea.

• Rodney and Ace agreed that the Whitebeard Pirates would help him by attacking the BIG MOM Pirates’ forces while he dealt with BIG MOM.
• Rodney escaped his paperwork in Aviledon and set off alone, leaving Izumi to find help from the others.
• Rodney stopped on an island for the night after flying through the New World.
• Rodney saw a golden light vanish beneath the sea, then watched a dinosaur race across the water with a blond girl on its back.
• The hungry girl asked Rodney for food, and he gave her ramen while considering the dinosaur as a late-night snack.

Rodney encountered Olga and her dinosaur Elizabeth, then stopped a CP0 agent who was trying to capture the girl. After controlling the agent with an illusion, Rodney learned that Olga was being hunted because she knew where Pure Gold was.

• Rodney questioned Olga about her name, her dinosaur Elizabeth, and her family before heading into the woods for fruit and firewood.
• A CP0 agent arrived by warship and quietly approached Olga and Elizabeth to capture her.
• Rodney's thrown fruit pit tripped the agent, waking Elizabeth and Olga; Olga recognized the agent and tried to flee with Elizabeth.
• Rodney stopped the agent from seizing Olga, controlled him with an illusion, and asked about his mission.
• The agent revealed that his orders were to capture Olga and use her knowledge of Pure Gold's whereabouts to find it.

Rodney learned that Olga was Achier’s two-hundred-year-old daughter, who had survived inside Lord Lanternfish after it swallowed Alchemi. He took Olga into the lanternfish’s stomach to search for the Pure Gold in Alchemi.

• Rodney recognized Olga as Achier’s daughter and learned how pirates, her mother’s death, and Lord Lanternfish had led to her living inside it for two hundred years.
• Rodney used genjutsu to make the CP0 agent kill himself and took Olga’s ring, revealing its embedded Pure Gold.
• Rodney pushed a Marine warship away with a water wave as Lord Lanternfish approached, then carried Olga toward it.
• Lord Lanternfish swallowed Rodney and Olga, along with the seawater, and ate the Pure Gold that had drawn it to them.
• Rodney used Scorch Release to light their way through the lanternfish’s stomach as they headed toward Alchemi.

Rodney brought Olga through Lord Lanternfish’s stomach to Alchemy, where they found her father Achier alive among the dinosaurs. Achier explained that he created Pure Gold to slow Olga’s fatal illness, and he agreed to help Rodney find some despite warning that it could bring disaster.

• Rodney and Olga reached Alchemy and set out to find Olga’s father.
• Rodney took control of several dinosaurs and followed them to their lairs.
• Rodney found Achier, who had survived for two hundred years by living among the dinosaurs, and Olga reunited with him.
• Achier explained that he had created Pure Gold in hopes of saving Olga from her illness, though it had also harmed her mother.
• Rodney asked Achier to help him reach Pure Gold, and Achier agreed after warning him of the danger.

Rodney secured Achier’s Pure Gold and learned that his daughter Olga’s South Sea Emperor Fever could be treated with medicine. Achier agreed to work for Rodney, who sent him and Olga toward Aviledon while departing for Cake Island.

• Achier showed Rodney the Pure Gold, and Rodney stored it in a Space Scroll before sending Big Slug Sister to carry it to Shikkotsu Forest.
• Rodney learned from Robin that the hospital had medicine for Olga’s South Sea Emperor Fever, and Achier agreed to join Rodney’s territory so Olga could receive treatment.
• Rodney used his Susanoo to punch his way out through Lord Lanternfish’s mouth and landed with Achier and Olga on a small island.
• Rodney left a clone to escort Achier and Olga to Aviledon, then flew toward Cake Island.
• The clone used the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique to carry Achier and Olga into the air, and Achier pointed the way with the Eternal Log Pose.

Rodney infiltrated Cake Island and learned that the Whitebeard Pirates were quickly reclaiming territory from BIG MOM. After discovering Ace had arrived and caused an explosion at a restaurant, Rodney rushed to help him, while Ace faced Perospero.

• Rodney reached Cake Island in disguise, checked into a hotel, and contacted Marco.
• Marco told Rodney that the Whitebeard Pirates were rapidly retaking their former territories and that Ace had gone to Cake Island.
• Rodney and Marco realized that Ace had likely caused an explosion after falling asleep while eating without paying.
• Rodney headed toward the explosion as Ace confronted the Homie soldiers and admitted he had come to find someone.
• Perospero blocked Ace's escape and asked whether he had come to deal with BIG MOM.

Ace attacked the weakened BIG MOM Pirates on Cake Island, where he fought Smoothie until Rodney appeared and threatened to destroy the island. Rodney confronted Perospero over a possible threat involving civilians, leaving Perospero terrified as the standoff continued.

• Perospero mocked the Whitebeard Pirates, prompting Ace to attack him and fight through the BIG MOM Pirates’ forces.
• Smoothie arrived and fought Ace, splitting his Sea of Fire attack with her greatsword.
• Rodney appeared beside Smoothie, startling her and revealing himself on Cake Island.
• Rodney blamed Ace for disrupting his supposed plan to blow up Cake Island, and Perospero tried to calm him down.
• Rodney warned Perospero that he knew about the idea of using civilians as leverage, then threatened to kill him.

Rodney fought BIG MOM on Cake Island after using a lightning clone to evade Smoothie and Perospero. He grounded BIG MOM by setting Zeus ablaze, and she tried to halt the fight by offering to work with him.

• Smoothie cut down Rodney's lightning clone, while Ace explained that Rodney's real body could be elsewhere.
• BIG MOM arrived and demanded to know where Rodney was, then Rodney emerged and clashed with her sword attacks.
• Rodney countered BIG MOM's fire with water and struck at her with lightning, but Zeus swallowed the attack.
• Rodney ignited Zeus with black flames, forcing BIG MOM to land and lose her aerial advantage.
• BIG MOM offered to stop fighting and work with Rodney, hoping to keep him calm.

BIG MOM tried to recruit Rodney by promising they could conquer the world together, but he rejected her and challenged her ideals. They resumed their battle, leaving Cake Island in ruins as its residents fled.

• BIG MOM proposed that she and Rodney join forces to conquer the world, with her becoming Pirate King and him ruling it.
• Rodney dismissed BIG MOM’s proposal, warned that the World Government was too powerful, and argued that strength mattered more than the Pirate King title.
• BIG MOM flew into a rage over Rodney rejecting her dream of creating a country where every race lived together, then attacked him.
• Rodney blocked BIG MOM’s punch with the Uchiha Flame Formation and launched Dragon Flame Song Technique, but Prometheus absorbed his flames.
• BIG MOM offered Rodney one last chance to join her, and he refused before they clashed again.
• Perospero and the others ordered Cake Island’s residents to flee as the battle’s shock waves devastated the island.

Rodney unleashed a succession of techniques against BIG MOM, trying to overwhelm and seal her, but she broke free of his sand pyramid and countered his attacks. The chapter left them fighting in the desert as BIG MOM leaped over Rodney’s sand wave and brought Napoleon down toward him.

• Rodney peppered BIG MOM with Tempest Kick attacks, then restrained her with Wood Release techniques and filled the forest with poisonous smoke and volcanic bombs.
• Rodney charged BIG MOM in Lava Style Chakra Mode, but she punched him away and endured the flames and poison.
• Rodney transformed the battlefield into a desert and buried BIG MOM in a sand pyramid, but she exploded out of it before his sealing chains could close.
• Rodney hurled Spears of Shukaku and blades at BIG MOM, while she animated the sand to swallow them and formed it into a gigantic sword.
• BIG MOM leaped over the sand wave, cut through the gigantic sword with Napoleon, and slashed toward Rodney, splitting the desert and opening a deep ravine.

Rodney fought BIG MOM with his wood, sealing, sand, and Sage techniques, eventually knocking her from the giant Buddha statue. Ace arrived as BIG MOM fell, and Rodney insisted they finish her off.

• BIG MOM searched for Rodney as he attacked her with Susanoo and sealed Zeus, then used quicksand to trap her and crush her arm.
• Rodney pinned BIG MOM with a torii gate, then summoned True Several Thousand Hands and armored it with Susanoo to batter her.
• BIG MOM endured the barrage, seized Rodney atop the Buddha, and squeezed him until he escaped with the Orochi Style Substitution Technique.
• Rodney struck BIG MOM with a Great Ball Rasengan, sending her tumbling from the Buddha statue.
• Ace helped Rodney up, and Rodney urged him to kill BIG MOM before they could rest easy.
• The chapter ended with an author’s note asking about Kaido having the Fish-Fish Fruit.

Rodney defeated BIG MOM and devastated the BIG MOM Pirates, but BIG MOM woke with Carmel, the former owner of the Soul-Soul Fruit, speaking through her body. Rodney recognized Carmel and exposed her history as a child trafficker.

• Rodney melted Perospero’s syrup restraint and used Lava Style to engulf the BIG MOM Pirates in lava, leaving most of them dead.
• Perospero and Smoothie rejoiced when BIG MOM regained consciousness, but she asked who they were and where she was.
• The woman in BIG MOM’s body announced that Linlin was dead and identified herself as Carmel.
• Rodney recognized Nun Carmel and revealed that she had posed as the Holy Mother while trafficking children for the World Government.
• Carmel acknowledged Rodney’s strength and tried to calm him while enduring the injuries inflicted on Linlin’s body.

Rodney explained that Carmel and the Sheep's House children were devoured by BIG MOM during a Food Craving Syndrome episode, leaving Carmel's soul inside her. With BIG MOM unconscious, Carmel controlled her body and admitted she had influenced BIG MOM's personality, leaving the BIG MOM Pirates shattered and uncertain whether their mother could ever return.

• Rodney told Ace and the others that Carmel had planned to sell BIG MOM to CP after adopting her, but the children and Carmel vanished during BIG MOM's food craving.
• Carmel confirmed that BIG MOM had devoured her and the Sheep's House children, and that her Soul-Soul Fruit power let her survive inside BIG MOM.
• Carmel said BIG MOM's consciousness was asleep and that she now controlled the body, making BIG MOM's return dependent on her.
• Rodney suggested Carmel's lingering influence had helped turn the kind child Linlin into the violent BIG MOM, alongside Streusen's influence and her environment.
• Perospero and Smoothie realized Carmel had treated them as tools, and Perospero declared the BIG MOM Pirates finished before urging Smoothie to leave.

Rodney defeated Carmel, restored part of Cake Island, and claimed the territory after BIG MOM’s death. Perospero pledged allegiance to Rodney and was ordered to keep the Charlotte Family in line as Cake Island became the Torrant Tourist Area.

• Smoothie recognized how deeply Perospero grieved for BIG MOM, while Carmel offered to love the Charlotte children in her place.
• Rodney restrained Carmel with Gates of the Great God, rejected her offer of loyalty, and killed her with a Super Tailed Beast Bomb Rasenshuriken.
• Rodney restored the damaged land with Wood Style, and the Homies collapsed as their souls returned to their original bodies and stolen lifespans were restored to survivors.
• Rodney claimed Cake Island and its surrounding waters, then demanded that Perospero choose submission or death.
• Perospero pledged allegiance to Rodney, who ordered him to manage the Charlotte children alongside Katakuri and renamed the territory the Torrant Tourist Area.

Rodney took control of Cake Island and seized Streusen’s Eat Eat Fruit, then appointed Katakuri to manage the island as a tourist district. Katakuri and Perospero were to oversee its security and keep the Charlotte siblings in line.

• News of BIG MOM’s death spread worldwide, and many people began wondering whether Rodney would become the next Pirate King.
• Katakuri returned to Cake Island, where Rodney had restored the Charlotte siblings’ limbs and rebuilt the castle.
• Rodney questioned Streusen about his Eat Eat Fruit, then killed him and took the fruit.
• Rodney told Katakuri to run Cake Island as a tourist district with Perospero and command a security force under Aviledon’s laws.

Rodney established his rule over the Torrant Kingdom, ordering Katakuri and Perospero to reform the territory and punish the former BIG MOM Pirates. He explained that he acted for tomorrow, leaving Perospero wondering what that meant.

• Katakuri agreed to enforce the law and put his younger siblings to work as punishment, while Rodney ordered explosive collars for them to prevent unauthorized escape.
• Rodney declared himself ruler of the Torrant Kingdom and told Katakuri to allow residents to leave or stay under his rule.
• Rodney told Perospero to list his crime-free younger siblings for enrollment in future schools and insisted that children deserved a normal childhood.
• Rodney said he controlled the New World’s seas and dismissed Perospero’s suggestion that he become Pirate King, calling many pirates hazardous garbage.
• Perospero asked what Rodney was working toward, and Rodney answered, “For tomorrow.”

The Navy assembled overwhelming forces at the new Marineford and set out to destroy Rodney and his stronghold, Aviledon. Tsuru warned that Rodney’s allies and destructive power could make the campaign disastrous as Sakazuki ordered the fleet to advance.

• Sakazuki rallied the assembled Marines to capture Rodney and shouted for the Navy to uphold justice.
• Tsuru, Sengoku, and Garp discussed the World Government’s urgency, Rodney’s strength, and his ties to Garp.
• Tsuru warned that Rodney’s unusual abilities and powerful allies made Aviledon difficult to conquer.
• Tsuru cautioned that Bullet, Kuzan, and Rodney’s reputation as the Destroyer could cause massive Marine casualties.
• Sakazuki ordered the Navy to move out, and its forces advanced toward Aviledon.

Rodney prepared Aviledon for the Navy’s attack by evacuating civilians and gathering his allies, then used a summoning technique to resurrect Mū. Mū learned about the new world and was told he could freely choose whether to help defend Aviledon.

• Rodney asked Dragon to keep the Revolutionary Army out of the coming battle, and Dragon agreed while wishing him success.
• Nagato told Rodney that the civilians had been evacuated under the protection of Konan, Yahiko, Izumi, Robin, Van Augur, Conner, Perona, and Lester.
• Rodney told Nagato that he and Shisui needed to coordinate a technique, then summoned Mū with a Summoning Jutsu.
• Mū realized he had been resurrected in a living body and questioned Rodney about his identity and the world.
• Rodney used genjutsu to give Mū information and explained that Mū was free to leave or choose to fight alongside them.